cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thickheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thickheaded
form: most thickheaded
Etymology: From thick + headed.
Senses: synonyms: word: thick-skulled
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: stupid, obtuse or dumb.
Related terms: thickhead
axes of rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axis of rotation
thickset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkˌsɛt/
Forms: form: thicksets
form: thick-set
Etymology: From thick + set.
Senses: examples: 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294,
Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.
glosses: A thick hedge.
examples: 1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73,
When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue,
Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;
1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12,
His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;
glosses: A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
examples: text: […] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;
ref: 1785, John Trusler, chapter 17, in Modern Times: or the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast, volume 2, London: for the author, page 27:
text: I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Bride of Lammermoor:
glosses: A piece of clothing made from this fabric.
thievish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thievish
form: most thievish
Etymology: From Middle English thevysch, equivalent to thief + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian däifsk (“thievish”), Dutch diefs (“thievish”), German Low German deevsk (“thievish”), German diebisch (“thievish”).
Senses: examples: text: I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath,
On this ſame theeuish villain Tamburlain.
And of that false Coſroe, my traiterous brother,
Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?
And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: Having a tendency to steal.
examples: text: What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,
Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce
A thievish living on the common road?
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], lines 675-77:
glosses: Having the manner of a thief; furtive; stealthy.
thistledown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistledowns
Etymology: From thistle + down.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere.
ref: 1850, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales:
glosses: The soft, feathery pappus attached to the seeds of a thistle.
tho'
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: […] I again conveyed his Key into his Pocket, and counterfeiting Sleep, tho’ I never once cloſed my Eyes, lay in Bed till after he aroſe and went to Prayers, an Exerciſe to which I had long been unaccuſtomed.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 244:
glosses: Though.
tho'
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Though.
thoraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoraxes
Senses: glosses: plural of thorax
thought-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thought-out
form: most thought-out
form: thought out
Etymology: From thought + out.
Senses: glosses: planned
Derived terms: well-thought-out
thrasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrashers
Etymology: Originally a variant of thresher; equivalent to thrash + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who thrashes.
glosses: Any of several New World passerine songbirds, of the genera Toxostoma, Allenia, Margarops, Oreoscoptes and Ramphocinclus in the family Mimidae, that have a long, downward-curved beak.
glosses: A thresher shark.
glosses: A fan of thrash metal music.
Derived terms: brown thrasher
Cozumel thrasher
crissal thrasher
curve-billed thrasher
pearly-eyed thrasher
sage thrasher
bovver boots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bovver (“trouble”) + boots.
Senses: examples: text: Their byword is Aggro (Aggravation) and their crucial enemies are hippies, homosexuals and Pakis (Pakistanis or Indians). When they catch one, they use their shaven skulls for butting, their Bovverboots for caving in ribs.
ref: 1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: 1991, Rupert Loydell, review of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, in December 1991-January 1992, ThirdWay, page 41,
I remember a punk friend - cockerel haircut, leather trousers, bovver boots, and ripped jumper - being shocked at the TV retrospective of the mid-eighties where long-haired oiks in flared trousers stared desultorily at some screaming youths on stage.
text: The various youth subcultures have been identified by their possessions and objects: the boot-lace tie and velvet-colourd drape jacket of the Ted, the close crop, parker^([sic]) coats and scooter of the Mod, the stained jeans, swastikas and ornamented motorcycles of the bike-boys, the bovver boots and skinned-head of the Skinhead, the Chicago suits or glitter costumes of the Bowieites, etc.
ref: 2006, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain, 2nd edition, page 42:
text: Their image of racism was not what our political culture has come to expect – that is, the Nazi, the shaven-headed skinhead with bovver boots. Rather, they were stylishly dressed in suits and wearing Ben Sherman shirts and Armani sunglasses.
ref: 2011, Christine Barter, David Berridge, Children Behaving Badly: Peer Violence Between Children and Young People, page 96:
qualifier: 1970s British slang
glosses: Stout lace-up boots, especially Dr. Martens, perceived to be worn for the purpose of kicking people in fights, and popular with skinheads or other troublemakers out looking for bovver.
threader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threaders
Etymology: From thread + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device used to thread needles.
glosses: A device used to machine a screw thread.
Derived terms: needle threader
thready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛdi
Forms: form: threadier
form: threadiest
Etymology: From Middle English *thredi, *thredy (suggested by derivative Middle English thredines, þredinez (“fibrousness, stringiness”, literally “threadiness”)), equivalent to thread + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The roote is threddy, like the roote of the ſecond kinde of Scrophularia, and is euer[-]laſting, putting forth yearely new ſprings, as alſo doth the rootes of the other two Scrophularies.
ref: 1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Water Betony⸝ or Broune-wurte”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Sundry Sortes of Herbes and Plantes), page 44:
glosses: Of, resembling, or capable of forming a thread; filamentous.
examples: text: A pulse throbbed beneath her fingers, thready but present.
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 329:
glosses: weak.
raw_tags: of a pulse
Related terms: english: made of thread
translation: made of thread
word: threaden
three-decker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-deckers
Senses: examples: text: I planned to splurge on a three-decker cone. All the flavors looked so good that I couldn't decide which three to have.
ref: 1972, Emily Coleman, Making friends with the opposite sex, page 198:
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of sandwich”).
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of bus”).
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of apartment building”).
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
Alternative form of triple-decker (“type of headline”).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
A sailing warship that had guns on each of three decks.
glosses: Anything with three layers or levels.
An old-fashioned pulpit.
three-ply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The vestibule ceilings are of three-ply, in removable sections to give access to the air-conditioning units, filters, and Pullman gangway control springs situated above.
ref: 1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
text: It has been found that although the two-ply moquette used in L.T. train upholstery was of equal weight to the three-ply fabric used in L.T. buses, the bus fabric had 50 per cent longer life, and accordingly it is now being used also for trains.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: New L.T. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 77:
glosses: Having three strands or layers
three-ply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Yarn having three strands
thrombotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrombotic
form: most thrombotic
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or caused by thrombosis
Derived terms: antithrombotic
arteriothrombotic
dethrombotic
hyperthrombotic
intrathrombotic
microthrombotic
nonthrombotic
photothrombotic
postthrombotic
prethrombotic
prothrombotic
thrombotically
thrombotic thrombocytopenia
thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
venothrombotic
half-arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more half-arsed
form: most half-arsed
Senses: qualifier: sometimes considered
glosses: Alternative spelling of half-assed.
throttler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throttlers
Etymology: From throttle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade.
ref: Missionary Review of the World; 1878-1939 (volume 20, part 2, page 723)
text: Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler.
ref: 1996, James J. Townsend, Web Development with Microsoft Resources, page 191:
glosses: One who or that which throttles.
thumbscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmskɹuː/
Forms: form: thumbscrews
form: thumb-screw
form: thumb screw
Etymology: From thumb + screw.
Senses: examples: text: Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood. Nor did he acknowledge their presence till he had finished a section of the pattern, gingerly released the saw from its upper thumbscrew, and drawn it out of the wood.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
glosses: A screw that can be turned with the thumb and fingers.
glosses: An instrument of torture used to crush the fingers.
examples: text: Law 33: Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
glosses: A weakness that can be taken advantage of.
Synonyms: sense: torture instrument
word: pilliwinks
thunderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderers
Etymology: From thunder + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Thor, Odin's son, is the thunderer.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 3:
glosses: One who thunders.
Thunderer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From thunderer.
Senses: glosses: The Times newspaper.
thwacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thwackers
Etymology: From thwack + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who strikes a resounding blow with an object.
glosses: A club, rod, stick, etc., used to thwack.
Related terms: thwack
thyroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From thyroid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The organification of iodide in the thyroid gland was described using a second order rate constant (KthybindC, /nmol/L*hr/kg thyroid weight) fitted to provide thyroidal iodide stores near the maximal value, which increased with age.
ref: 2016 March 2, “Dietary Iodine Sufficiency and Moderate Insufficiency in the Lactating Mother and Nursing Infant: A Computational Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting the thyroid.
Derived terms: antithyroidal
extrathyroidal
intrathyroidal
nonthyroidal
perithyroidal
thyroidally
blee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bliː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Associated with Smash Hits magazine, where it may have originated.
Senses: examples: text: Bikers […] tend to appear at the edges of the road and then zoom in front of your car. […] As you have probably found out already, one touch of these and it's time to order the wooden box. (Blee!)
ref: 1988, Sinclair User, number 79:
text: It's a boring life being a cave man. No telly, no video and not even a Spectrum! Blee! All you can do is eat, but Brontosaurus steaks can be very tough.
ref: 1991, Nick Roberts, Cavemania (video game review) in Crash (issue 87, page 47)
glosses: Expressing disgust or trepidation.
capi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capo
genitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitories
Etymology: From Old French genitoire.
Senses: examples: text: Pasicles the philosopher, brother unto Crates, comming to salute one, whereas he should have carried his hand to his knee, carried the same unto his genitories [translating genitoires]: The partie saluted having rudely pusht him away. What, quoth he, is not that part yours as well as the other?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 48, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A testicle.
examples: text: When the lady heard his verses she came up out of the basin and, seating herself upon his lap and knees, pointed to her genitory and said, "O my lordling, what be the name of this?"
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1:
glosses: The sex organs, genitals.
condensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of condenser.
ITK
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in the know.
in the twinkling of an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Middle English in the twynklyng of an iȝe, in þe twynklynk of an eiȝe, from the Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52: We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
Senses: examples: text: Father, come, ile take my leaue of the Iew in the twinkling of an eye.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: All my dreams for him have been cut short in the twinkling of an eye. Why was my son murdered?
ref: 2007 April 28, Hugh Muir, The Guardian:
glosses: Immediately; instantaneously.
Synonyms: in the wink of an eye
in the blink of an eye
choreographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choreography
custodiam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custodiams
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A kind of lease in which property seized by the Crown is put into the custody of some agent.
Caledonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæləˈdoʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈdəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Caledonian
form: most Caledonian
Etymology: From Caledonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: In or from Caledonia; (jocularly) Scottish.
glosses: In or from New Caledonia.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to a mountain-forming period (orogeny) in Europe.
Derived terms: Caledonian Canal
Caledonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæləˈdoʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈdəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Caledonians
Etymology: From Caledonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I congratulate the Caledonians on the acquiſition of this new Saint, but wonder if the German crows were ſo civil to refrain from ſo ſavoury a Scotch haggiſs.
ref: 1717 January 16 (Old Style), Lady Mary W. Montague [i.e. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu], “Original Letter of Lady Mary W. Montague, Never before Published. Found Lately amongst the Papers of a Lady Deceased.”, in The Scots Magazine; or General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics, volume LXI (volume VI, New Series), Edinburgh: [Printed by Alex[ander] Chapman and Co.] Sold by James Watson, No. 40. South Bridge, and by the principal booksellers in Town and Country and by T. Kay, Strand, London, published February 1799, →OCLC, pages 101–102:
text: In the early 1770s the bogey figure for opposition politicians was arguably not so much North in the Commons as Mansfield behind the curtain, the country's greatest lawyer (and another Caledonian to gratify the Scotophobes) keeping an irresolute Cabinet committed to waging war in America.
ref: 2004, Barry Coward, Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe: From the Waldensians to the French Revolution:
text: In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.
ref: 2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Caledonia; a Scot.
glosses: Someone from the ancient Celtic tribe (or group of tribes) called Caledonians, in Scotland
tubae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuba (in certain senses)
essent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: essents
Etymology: Coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein), on the basis of essens, a faux-Latin present participle of sum.
Senses: examples: text: Why are there essents rather than nothing? That is the question. Clearly it is no ordinary question. “Why are there essents, why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?”—obviously this is the first of all questions, though not in a chronological sense.
ref: 1959, Martin Heidegger, translated by Ralph Manheim, An Introduction to Metaphysics, page 1:
text: As against this, the non-conceptual creative word, instead of enabling us to grasp and lay hold of what is already there before us, instead of serving merely as a means to describing what is present, calls into being. It is evocative of Being; it invokes that presence (Anwesenheit), i.e., Being, within which (in the light of which) anything can appear before us as an essent.
ref: 1992, Jarava Lal Mehta, edited by William J. Jackson, J.L. Mehta on Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Indian Tradition, page 51:
text: The essent can be things at our disposal; things at hand such as tools, or vehicles. The land, the sea, the mountains, rivers, woods are also essents. Trees, birds, insects, grasses and stones are essents.
ref: 2007, Marko Zlomislić, Jacques Derrida’s Aporetic Ethics, page 116:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: that which is; an entity, a being, an existent
wikipedia: Martin Heidegger
Ralph Manheim
casis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casises
Etymology: From Spanish caciz or Portuguese caxis, which was from a dialectal pronunciation of Arabic قَاضٍ (qāḍin, “judge”). Doublet of qadi and alcalde.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of qadi.
glosses: a Muslim holy man or a saint.
make-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɪkˈɐp/
Forms: form: make-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from make up.
Senses: examples: text: From Whitemoor, left at 6.45 p.m., the train's make-up usually includes also some Continental ferry wagons, originating from Harwich.
ref: 1961 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 760:
glosses: Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there.
Derived terms: make-up artist
make-up remover
make-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɪkˈɐp/
Etymology: Deverbal from make up.
Senses: glosses: Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.
examples: text: Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.
glosses: Of or relating to a reconciliation.
Derived terms: make-up friend
make-up kiss
make-up sex
make-up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɪkˈɐp/
Forms: form: make-ups
form: make-upping
form: make-upped
form: make-upped
Etymology: Deverbal from make up.
Senses: examples: text: Orange, mauve, and cobalt blue are three favorite shades now employed by the woman who desires to “make-up” her face, according to the approved beauty standards.
ref: 1922 March 22, “Belles Tint Faces to Match Gown Colors”, in The China Press, volume XII, number 3261, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:
text: And shame at what you thought was fard! It’s only make-upping your face.
ref: 1999, Steve Rideout, “Tiddlywinks”, in Don’t Go Up a Windmill: Poems, Blue Springs, Mo.: Blue Windmill Books, →ISBN, page 84:
text: The make-up artist stops make-upping.
ref: 2005 February, Allison Rushby, Hating Valentine’s Day, Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 305:
text: As we’re in the bathroom side-by-side, silently make-upping, Sophie turns to me.
ref: 2011, Gemma Burgess, chapter 10, in A Girl Like You, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Like Carnelle in The Miss Firecracker Contest, Teddy will attempt to transform herself on the outside by shaving, plucking, dressing, make-uping, and acting like a lady.
ref: 2013 July, Kelly Younger, “The Debutante Ball & The Lucky Spot”, in Henley in an Hour, Hanover, N.H.: In an Hour Books, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Rare form of make up (“to put makeup on”).
PIT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: PITT
form: Pitt.
form: Pit.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Pittsburgh.
PIT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PITs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of personal income tax.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of programmable interval timer.
glosses: Initialism of precision immobilization technique: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin.
glosses: Initialism of pursuit intervention technique: the same method for ending car chases.
glosses: Initialism of parallel immobilization technique: the same method for ending car chases.
Derived terms: PIT maneuver
sat-nav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sat-navs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of satellite navigation system.
sat nav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sat navs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of satnav.
sat nav
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sat navs
form: sat navving
form: sat navved
form: sat navved
Senses: glosses: To navigate using satellite navigation system.
satnav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæt.næv/
Forms: form: satnavs
form: sat nav
Etymology: Blend of satellite + navigation.
Senses: glosses: A satellite navigation system.
glosses: A satellite navigation system receiver.
glosses: A civilian GPS receiver (“Navstar receiver”).
estrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈstɹɑːd/
Forms: form: estrades
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French estrade, from Spanish estrado. Doublet of stratum.
Senses: examples: text: Then she made the Kalandars sit upon a sofa at the side of the estrade, and seated the Caliph and Ja'afar and Masrur on the other side of the saloon
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 1:
glosses: A dais or raised platform.
gravitationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gravitational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As a result of the force of gravity.
Derived terms: gravitationally challenged
gravitationally-challenged
gravitationally interacting massive particle
maligne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maligne
form: most maligne
Senses: examples: text: He was a kyng, full worthy and condigne / That let not, for his eaſe nor his laboure / To ſearche and ſee defautes, that were maligne / And theim correcte, he was a gouernoure / God ſet neuer kyng, to be a ryotoure / To trippe on tapettes, and lyue in ydelneſſe / But for to rule, with all kyndes of buſyneſſe
ref: 1543 January, The Chronicle of Jhon Hardyng in Metre, frõ the First Begynnyng of Englãde, vnto yͤ Reigne of Edwarde yͤ Fourth Where He Made an End of His Chronicle. […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni, folio L.xvi., verso:
text: As who ſhuld ſay for ſuch maner of perſõs as do maligne ⁊ diſquiet honeſt ⁊ quiet mẽ which wold faine liue in reſt ⁊ cannot.
ref: 1549 August 23, Henry Bullynger [i.e., Heinrich Bullinger], translated by [unknown], A Treatise or Sermon of Henry Bullynger, Much Fruitfull and Necessarye for This Tyme, Concernynge Magistrates and Obedience of Subiectes. […], London: […] [W. Powell?] for Gwalter Lynne […]:
text: Quoth th'other, haue thy ſtarres maligne been ſuch, / That their predominations ſvvay ſo much / Ouer the reſt, that vvith a milde aſpect / The Liues and loues of Shepherds doe affect?
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of malign.
maligne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malignes
form: maligning
form: maligned
form: maligned
Senses: examples: text: For if that I ſpake it, in ſome audience, / Some men wolde maligne, and take it for offence.
ref: 1548, […] [T]he Egloges of Alexander Barclay, Priest, Whereof the First Thre Conteineth the Miseries of Courters and Courtes, of All Princes in Generall. […], London: […] Humfrey Powell:
text: But if the heauens did his dayes enuie, / And my ſhort blis maligne, yet mote they well / Thus much afford me, ere that he did die / That the dim eies of my deare Marinell / I mote haue cloſed, and him bed farewell, / Sith other offices for mother meet / They would not graunt.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 455:
text: Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling. Si aut fiſcellam iunco texerem, aut palmarũ folia complicarem, aut ſudore vultus panem comederem; were I a Basket-maker, or a garland winder, or of any baſe trade that ſhould make mee ſweat for the bread I eate, ſaith S. Hierom, Nemo me morderet, nemo inuideret, No man would maligne me, no man would traduce me; but now, that I giue my ſelfe to the ſtudie and interpretation of the Scriptures, I am a Diuine, a Writer, a Preacher, Me obeleſcis notant, I am ſcortcht coleblack with their obliſques, & obloquies.
ref: 1607, William [Barlow], A Brand, Titio Erepta. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Mathew Law:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of malign.
truchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌt͡ʃmən/
Forms: form: truchmen
form: trouchman
form: truceman
form: truch-man
form: trudgeman
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin turchemannus or French trucheman, from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān). Doublet of dragoman.
Senses: examples: text: 1604, Edward Grimston (translator), The Natural and Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1590), edited by Clements Markham, London: Hakluyt Society, 1853, Volume II, Book 7, Chapter 25, p. 519,
He laboured to make them all understand this discourse, using his interpreters and truchmen. The which being understoode by the King and the other Mexicane Lords, they were wonderfully well satisfied, and shewed great signes of love to Cortes and his company.
text: 1640, William Habington, The Queen of Arragon, Act II, Scene 1, in A Selection of Collection of Old Plays, Volume 9, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825,
[…] And now I have with labour
Attain’d thy language, I’ll thy truchman be.
Interpret for thee to those smaller souls,
Who wonder when they understand not: souls!
text: 1716, William Davenant, “The Philosopher’s Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian” stanza 31 in John Dryden, editor, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, Volume 6, p. 289,
Since justly Clients pay that Judge an awe,
Who Law’s lost Sense interprets and restores;
(Yet Judges are no more above the Law
Then Truchmen are above Ambassadors.)
text: An I hire a truchman to tell my tale
The lover’s plaint is not told for pay:
ref: 1885, Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, page 100:
glosses: Synonym of interpreter.
synonyms: word: interpreter
wiffleball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiffleballs
form: wiffle-ball
form: wiffle ball
form: whiffleball
form: whiffle-ball
form: whiffle ball
Etymology: From (onomatopoeia) whiff (“to strike, to strikeout”) + ball.
Not derived from whiffle, though both derive from same onomatopoeic sources, namely a sound of wind.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas.
glosses: The ball used in that game.
bestie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛsti/
rhymes: -ɛsti
Forms: form: besties
Etymology: From best + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: You're supposed to be my bestie, Mel. We used to tell each other everything. So what's this Toby secret you can't tell me?
ref: 2007, Brigid Lowry, Things You Either Hate Or Love:
text: Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames.
ref: 2008, Julie Kraut, Shallon Lester, Hot Mess: Summer in the City:
text: On the way home, I got a joke text from my bestie.
ref: 2009, Keleigh Crigler Hadley, Preacher:
text: Gave me a cryptic, mostly frustrated-seeming look. Went upstairs with her bestie. To re-up, probably.
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
text: After an oddly-placed sponsored All State commercial starring the Please Don’t Destroy boys, a group of gal pals surprise their pregnant bestie Kelsie (Chloe Fineman) and her long-suffering husband Matt (Andrew Dismukes) at their baby shower […]
ref: 2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A best friend.
glosses: A term of address for someone, usually used to instruct, to make a statement, or to draw attention.
glosses: A friend (any in general).
emergency response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency responses
Senses: glosses: An effort by public safety personnel and citizens to mitigate the impact of an incident on human life and property.
Related terms: emergency medical services
emergency response team
emergency response technician
EMT
fire department
police
en-masse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of en masse.
scaglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scaglia (“a scale, a shell, a chip of marble”). Doublet of scale and shell.
Senses: glosses: A reddish variety of limestone.
moquettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moquette
concurrencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concurrency
gonopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonopodia
Etymology: From gono- + -podium (“part resembling a foot”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A modified extremity, such as an anal fin, of certain types of livebearing fish and arthropods (most notably crustaceans and myriapods), which is used for reproduction.
Related terms: andropodium
gonopodial
henbanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henbane
pit lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit lanes
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A lane adjacent (usually on the inner curve) to a racetrack where the competing teams' garages are situated.
cephalocarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalocarids
Senses: glosses: An animal in the class Cephalocarida of crustaceans.
trilobitomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trilobitomorphs
Senses: glosses: An animal in the subphylum Trilobitomorpha; a trilobite
proetid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proetids
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any trilobite of the order Proetida.
kinaesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinaesthesias
Etymology: From kin- + -aesthesia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kinesthesia.
paraesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraesthesias
Etymology: From par- + -aesthesia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paresthesia.
Derived terms: acroparaesthesia
child safety seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child safety seats
Senses: examples: text: DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"...
 LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.
ref: 2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447:
glosses: A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.
Synonyms: baby seat
infant safety seat
car seat
child seat
child car seat
safety seat
Hyponyms: booster seat
incomunicado
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of incommunicado.
precompress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precompresses
form: precompressing
form: precompressed
form: precompressed
Etymology: From pre- + compress.
Senses: glosses: To subject to precompression
conde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conn.
examples: text: The officer of the deck has the conde of the vessel.
text: The captain took the conde when he reached the bridge.
glosses: The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
conde
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: condes
form: conding
form: conded
form: conded
Senses: examples: text: The pilot conded the ship safely into the harbor.
glosses: To direct a ship.
formicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formica
fenestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenestra
linguae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingua
remorselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remorseless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of lacking remorse
rambunctiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rambunctious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting.
ref: 1896, C., “The Hypophosphites”, in The Medical Gleaner, volume VII, Cincinnati, Oh.: Sullivan Printing Works, pages 61–62:
glosses: The characteristic of being rambunctious.
tantalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tantalizers
Etymology: From tantalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tantalizes; a tease; a tempter.
tantalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tantalizer
pass-remarkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pass-remarkable
form: most pass-remarkable
Etymology: From the phrase pass remark on, i.e. make a comment about, + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Those are gallant shoes, sir, if you'll excuse me being so pass-remarkable. Hand-made jobs.
ref: 1980, Benedict Kiely, The state of Ireland:
glosses: Of a person, making belittling or snide remarks.
chocker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chocker
form: most chocker
form: chocka
form: chockers
Etymology: Shortened from chock-a-block.
Senses: examples: text: The place was absolutely packed. It was chocker.
ref: 1947, Charles Brasch, Landfall, Caxton Press, Page 492
text: The largest of these service chains in Italy is Agip, and these mini-cities in the middle of nowhere are always absolutely chocker with people. Half of Italy must be in these places at any one time.
ref: 2001, Brian Thacker, Rule No.5 - No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a tour leader, Allen & Unwin, Page 143
text: He briskly flicked through the catalogue. "And this seemingly innocent museum is chocker with old airplane parts!"
ref: 2003, Phillip Scott, Gay Resort Murder Shock, Alyson Publishing, Page 155
text: Australia is chocker with beaches strait from paradise, and Terrigal is a beach holiday mecca? I'm gobsmacked.
ref: 2005, Rachael Weiss and Julie Adams, Are We There Yet?: Rach and Jules take to the open road, Allen & Unwin, Page 209
glosses: Tightly packed, especially with people.
pinchbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinchbecks
Etymology: Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry.
pinchbeck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinchbeck
form: most pinchbeck
Etymology: Named after Christopher Pinchbeck, an 18th century London watchmaker who developed the alloy.
Senses: examples: text: on the inside were suspended a variety of watches, pinchbeck, silver, and one or two of gold
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Artist of the Beautiful”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: Made of pinchbeck.
examples: text: Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity?
ref: 1860, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
text: Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.
ref: 1912, Esther Willard Bates, Pageants and Pageantry, page 237:
text: The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence (in the novel) of a person named Schomberg.
That I believe him to be true goes without saying. I am not likely to offer pinchbeck wares to my public consciously.
ref: 1915, Joseph Conrad, Victory, Note to the First Edition:
text: Coming at a time when Alexander was trying desperately to halt Napoleon's advance, the British response to his call for help appeared even more pinchbeck than it was.
ref: 1996, John M. Sherwig, Guineas and Gunpowder: British Foreign Aid In the Wars with France, 1793-1815, page 180:
text: Anyway, at least I had created the pinchbeck crown in which Dai could place his jewel.
ref: 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 183:
glosses: Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive.
dracaenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dracaena
horis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hori
horas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hora
glorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloria
dolefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English doolfulnes, dolfulnesse, equivalent to doleful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: misery
word: unhappiness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
doubter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doubters
Etymology: From doubt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275:
glosses: One who doubts.
Related terms: no-doubter
doubters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doubter
multidisciplinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltiˈdɪsəplɪnɛri/
Forms: form: more multidisciplinary
form: most multidisciplinary
Etymology: From multi- + disciplinary.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
text: A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and researchers was assigned to work full time on AIDS.
ref: 2007 May 21, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis”, in Workers World:
text: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
ref: 2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
coordinate_terms: crossfunctional
glosses: Relating to multiple areas of study or work.
Derived terms: multidisciplinariness
multidisciplinary team
Related terms: multidisciplinarian
multidisciplinarianism
multidisciplinarity
quangocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quangocracy
active dry yeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active dry yeasts
Senses: glosses: Powdered dehydrated yeast organisms that are alive but dormant because of the lack of moisture, used to leaven bread.
cytomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + morphology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the structure of cells.
Lōmāfānu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: anthropology
archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Copperplates on which inscriptions of Old Maldivian are found.
-pathy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-pəθi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”) + -y.
Senses: examples: sympathy, antipathy, empathy
glosses: suffering, feeling, emotion
examples: neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy
glosses: damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality
examples: hydropathy, homeopathy, naturopathy
glosses: therapy, treatment, method, cure, curative treatment
Related terms: -path
-pathic
scrumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: scrumbles
Senses: glosses: A small piece of freeform crochet or knitting that can be joined to make a larger piece of freeform work.
scrumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: scrumbles
form: scrumbling
form: scrumbled
form: scrumbled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scumble (“to apply opaque glaze to a painting”).
unclean hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A doctrine of equity under which a court of law will not provide equitable relief to a party whose own conduct has been improper.