cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
goosegogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goosegog
basic cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tier of pay television which has neither the broad audience of terrestrial channels nor the cachet of premium channels.
geolocations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geolocation
rosebay rhododendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosebay rhododendrons
Senses: glosses: Rhododendron maximium
Synonyms: sense: Rhododendron maximum
word: great laurel
river birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river birches
Senses: glosses: black birch (Betula nigra)
glosses: red birch (Betula occidentalis)
sour gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sour gums
Senses: glosses: black tupelo, black gum, pepperidge (Nyssa sylvatica).
glosses: water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica).
swamp white oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp white oaks
Senses: examples: text: 1990, Robert Rogers, Quercus bicolor Willd: Swamp White Oak, Russell M. Burns, Barbara H. Honkala, Silvics of North America, Volume 2: Hardwoods, Agriculure Handbook 654, US Department of Agriculture, page 616,
Because the seed of swamp white oak is not dormant, it germinates soon after falling.
text: Recendy I found several swamp white oaks growing at Ruth Zimmerman Natural Area, Berks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania.
ref: 2002, Charles Fergus, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, page 123:
text: Swamp white oak is commonly mistaken for bur oak because of similarities in their habitat and mature bark.
ref: 2010, Sally S. Weeks; Harmon P. Weeks, Jr.; George R. Parker, Native Trees of the Midwest, 2nd edition, page 182:
text: A long-lived tree, swamp white oaks can last 350 years.
ref: 2011, Leslie Day, Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City, page 210:
glosses: The tree Quercus bicolor.
cinnabar moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinnabar moths
Senses: glosses: Tyria jacobaeae, a Eurasian moth with brilliant red and black wings
pin oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin oaks
Senses: glosses: The tree Quercus palustris.
glosses: The tree Quercus ellipsoidalis.
northern red oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern red oaks
Senses: glosses: the red oak, Quercus rubra.
scarlet oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet oaks
Etymology: From the colour of its leaves in autumn.
Senses: examples: text: One of the finest scarlet oaks in England is at the Duke of Wellington's seat at Strathfieldsaye.
ref: 1834, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 40, page 122:
text: Seed production in scarlet oaks varies greatly from year to year; occasionally the trees produce bumper crops. Scarlet oak is a member of the red oak group, all of whose acorns are invested with bitter-tasting tannin compounds, likely evolved to deter mammals from eating too many of them.
ref: 2002, Charles Fergus, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, page 118:
text: Whereas numbers of trees and basal areas of all species increased between 1957 and 1972, the 1972—1977 timber harvest reduced the number of large black and scarlet oaks proportionately more than other species.
ref: 2009, Paul S. Johnson, Stephen R. Shifley, Robert Rogers, The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks, 2nd edition, page 245:
glosses: The tree Quercus coccinea.
ballas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballases
Senses: examples: text: Ballases with smooth even surface yield X-ray patterns of rings only, without noticeable spots or with very small spots, which is an evidence of a fine-ray radial structure of these spherulites.
ref: 1987, L. F. Vereshchagin, Synthetic Diamonds and Hydrostatic Extrusion, Selected Papers, page 89:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spherical aggregate of small diamond grains that have a radial or granular structure.
ballas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balla
white pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white pines
Senses: glosses: Any species of the subgenus Pinus subg. Strobus
glosses: Any species of the subgenus Pinus subg. Strobus
especially Pinus strobus
glosses: kahikatea
Synonyms: sense: Pinus strobus
word: eastern white pine
sense: Pinus strobus
word: northern white pine
sense: Pinus strobus
word: soft pine
Derived terms: White Pine County
Canadian hemlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Canadian hemlocks
Senses: glosses: Tsuga canadensis
Synonyms: sense: Tsuga canadensis
word: eastern hemlock
sense: Tsuga canadensis
word: hemlock spruce
white spruce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white spruces
form: white spruce
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of spruce (Picea)
especially, Picea glauca
synonyms: Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, Porsild spruce
glosses: Any of several species of spruce (Picea)
Picea engelmannii (Engelmann spruce)
glosses: Any of several species of spruce (Picea)
Picea pungens (blue spruce)
outwarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outward
outwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outward
red chokeberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red chokeberries
Senses: glosses: Aronia arbutifolia
Synonyms: sense: Photinia pyrifolia
word: Photinia pyrifolia
Abidjanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Abidjan + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Abidjani
glosses: Of or pertaining to Abidjan, the largest city of Côte d'Ivoire.
Abidjanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abidjanians
Etymology: From Abidjan + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Abidjani
glosses: A person from Abidjan or of Abidjanian descent.
denial-of-service attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denial-of-service attack
smurf attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smurf attacks
Etymology: In reference to the Smurf cartoon characters, suggesting a large number of small attackers overwhelming a larger opponent.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: A largely obsolete form of denial-of-service attack, involving broadcasting ICMP packets with the intended victim's IP address to a large computer network, causing the victim's computer to be overwhelmed by the response packets from the network.
wikipedia: The Smurfs
Related terms: smurfable
smurf attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smurf attack
pygalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pygo- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in the buttocks
glosses: pain in the ass
if the shoe fits, wear it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "Do you mean to insult me by that?" he roared.
"If the shoe fits, you can wear it."
"I'll knock you down for the insult."
ref: 1901, Horatio Alger, chapter 18, in Young Captain Jack:
glosses: If a description fits, it is probably the case; if an insult accurately describes you, you must bear it; if you take offence at an insult that was only implicitly directed at you, you admit the insult is true enough to be recognizable.
glosses: If it works, there is not a problem using it. Often a response to being judged when using an incorrect tool.
Synonyms: word: if the cap fits, wear it
word: if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
Related terms: if it works, it works
it takes one to know one
ladyboner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladyboners
form: lady-boner
form: lady boner
Etymology: From lady + boner.
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing that kills my ladyboner more than the prospect of marriage.
ref: 2009, "Dr. Nasty", The Bull (University of Sydney Union), Edition 18, Week 5, Semester 2, 24 August - 30 August 2009, page 14
text: I gave myself a mental shakedown, tried to suppress my ladyboner and pushed past him.
ref: 2011, Lindsey Kelk, Jenny Lopez Has a Bad Week, Harper, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: “Like you don't have a huge ladyboner for me right now. Take your clothes off.”
ref: 2012, Dryden Delphine, Tell Me No Lies, Ellora's Cave Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: An erect clitoris; (by extension) a state of arousal or sexual desire in a woman.
ladyboners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ladyboner
lady-boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady-boners
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, the ridiculousness of being rubbed up against by buff dudes in a back room killed whatever lady-boner I could have had that evening.
ref: 2010, Nicole Finkbiner, “Cave Men”, in Philadelphia Weekly, 20 October -26 October 2010, page 25:
text: As some of you may know, I have a serious lady-boner for certain man – a man that I’ve been not-dating for the past two and a half months, but whom I think about often – usually horizontally.
ref: 2011 January 12, Claire Brosseau, “Love alone”, in Now, Toronto:
text: “And then he was all over me...right in the foyer. I had on a plaid skirt—"
“How very Catholic schoolgirl of you.”
“Episcopal actually.”
“Don't kill my lady-boner. I'm pretending it was Catholic. Go on. He was all over you how?”
ref: 2013, Tiffany Reisz, The Mistress Files, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of ladyboner.
lady-boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady-boner
investment banker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investment bankers
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A banker who works for an investment bank.
private investment banker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private investment bankers
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment banker who manages the portfolio of a private individual.
lady boner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady boners
Senses: examples: text: Total lady boner right now.
ref: 2011, Kazerad, ==>, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), July 28 2011
text: “Why, Jessica,” Melody teased, “I didn't know you cared so much for Paul. You got a lady boner for him? You're not really his type are you?”
ref: 2012, Amanda Gorsche Miller, Celebrity Blind, →ISBN:
text: “Oh come on, baby, you drive me wild with desire every minute, so can’t you just at least admit that every once in a while, the sight of me gives you a lady boner?”
ref: 2013, Katie Ashley, Music of the Heart, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 237:
text: My lips still against his, I whisper, “Your kisses give me a lady boner.”
ref: 2013, Belle Aurora, Love Thy Neighbor, Smashwords:
glosses: Alternative form of ladyboner.
lady boners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lady boner
fragrant azalea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fragrant azaleas
Senses: glosses: An azalea of species Rhododendron arborescens, of the eastern seaboard of the US.
Synonyms: sense: Rhododendron arborescens
word: smooth azalea
sense: Rhododendron arborescens
word: sweet azalea
pinxterbloom azalea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinxterbloom azaleas
Senses: glosses: Rhododendron canescens
Synonyms: sense: Rhododendron canescens
word: Azalea nudiflora
sense: Rhododendron canescens
word: Rhododendron nudiflora
sense: Rhododendron canescens
word: sweet mountain azalea
sense: Rhododendron canescens
word: pink honeysuckle
swamp azalea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp azaleas
Senses: synonyms: clammy azalea
white honeysuckle
swamp honeysuckle
glosses: Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern US.
waste bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waste bins
form: wastebin
Senses: glosses: A container for waste, whether a larger outdoor one or a smaller indoor one.
Synonyms: word: waste bin
word: wastebin
Hypernyms: word: container
Hyponyms: word: ashcan
word: barrel
word: bin
word: dumpster
word: dustbin
word: file 13
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: garbage can
word: litter bin
word: litter receptacle
word: recycle bin
word: rubbish bin
word: skip
word: trash barrel
word: trash bin
word: trash can
word: wastebasket
word: waste container
word: wastepaper basket
word: waste receptacle
word: wheelie bin
Related terms: word: ashtray
common buttonbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common buttonbushes
Senses: glosses: Cephalanthus occidentalis
Synonyms: sense: Cephalanthus occidentalis
word: button-willow
sense: Cephalanthus occidentalis
word: honey-bells
Mexican buttonbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cephalanthus salicifolius
Synonyms: sense: Cephalanthus salicifolius
word: mimbre
sense: Cephalanthus salicifolius
word: botoncillo
sense: Cephalanthus salicifolius
word: jazmin blanco
eastern redbud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern redbuds
Senses: glosses: Cercis canadensis, a tree native to the southeastern, midwestern, and south central United States and parts of northern Mexico.
autochtonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of autochthonous.
New Englander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnuː ˈɪŋɡləndə(ɹ)/
/ˌnjuː ˈɪŋɡləndə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: New Englanders
Etymology: From New England + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from New England
Derived terms: New Englandress
Chione
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khione
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Χιόνη (Khiónē), derived from χιών (khiṓn, “snow”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia, sister to Zetes, Calais and Cleopatra.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph.
redemption fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redemption + fatigue.
Senses: examples: text: Like many Americans, Mr. Condit, I have Redemption Fatigue. I'm too tired to forgive any more gray-haired-blow-dried-elected scoundrels trying to sin 'n' spin.
ref: 26 August 2001, Maureen Dowd, Liberties; My Condit Interview, The New York Times
text: New polls detect "redemption fatigue" among Weiner supporters.
ref: 27 July 2013, Anthony Weiner sext scandal reveals the almighty power of the internet, The Guardian
coordinate_terms: compassion fatigue
donor fatigue
menu fatigue
glosses: The exhaustion of the capacity to forgive another owing to their repeated transgressions.
compassion fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compassion fatigues
Etymology: From compassion + fatigue.
Senses: examples: text: But we must beware of the creeping "compassion fatigues,” and we must fight to counter the tendency.
ref: 1992, The Second Annual Refugee Day: October 30, 1991, Office of the U. S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, page 34:
text: Events come to be significant as instances above all of something that can be named: generation gaps, compassion fatigues, capitalist greed, welfare cheating, road rage, and so on.
ref: 1997, Kenneth R. Minogue, The Silencing of Society: The True Cost of the Lust for News, page 28:
text: 2002, J. Eric Gentry, Compassion Fatigue: A Crucible of Transformation, Steven N Gold, Jan Faust, Trauma Practice in the Wake of September 11, 2001, 2013, page 47,
A common thread we have found with sufferers of compassion fatigue symptoms has been the progressive loss in their sense of connection and community.
text: Recently, researchers have focused on another disturbing consequence of negative news—compassion fatigue.
ref: 2005, Karen S. Johnson-Cartee, News Narratives and News Framing: Constructing Political Reality, page 298:
text: When people talk about “compassion fatigue” it means having difficulty tending to other peoples' needs. The following article comments on what compassion fatigue is and how to overcome it so that you are not permanently burned out.
ref: 2013, Katherine Tapley-Milton, Devotions With Your Cat: For Those Who are Struggling, page 60:
text: • Personal variables: perfectionism and overinvolvement with patients, compassion fatigues, burnout […] .
ref: 2014, Karen Saucier Lundy, Sharyn Janes, Community Health Nursing, page 1113, In the nursing profession, the following stressors can affect our health
coordinate_terms: donor fatigue
menu fatigue
redemption fatigue
Black fatigue
glosses: The exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to their previous misfortunes.
Achuar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of the Americas belonging to the Jivaroan family.
Achuar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Achuar-Shiwiar (“a Jivaroan language”).
synonyms: word: Achuar-Shiwiar
extra: a Jivaroan language
lobby card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobby cards
Senses: examples: text: Some lobby card sets contain as many as 16 or more different cards. One of the purposes of lobby cards was to give a pictorial synopsis of the subject movie.
ref: 1997, Edwin E. Poole, Susan T. Poole, Collecting Movie Posters, McFarland, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: A small poster (often one of a small set) for a film or play, displayed in the front of house of a cinema or theatre.
keep one's head down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's head down
form: keeping one's head down
form: kept one's head down
form: kept one's head down
Senses: examples: text: I had to keep my head down so my ex wouldn't recognize me as I walked by.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keep, one, head, down.
examples: text: He's keeping his head down after being blasted for his offensive tweets.
glosses: To avoid trouble or attention.
Related terms: keep a low profile
private investment bankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private investment banker
polyarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyarchy
beghadhkephath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of begadkefat.
mediumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From medium + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I enjoyed the farm on weekends during the school year and was very good academically at school and mediumly good in sports.
ref: 1979, Alfred Baker Lewis, A Political Odyssey, Alone and Together: Memoirs, page 16:
glosses: To a medium extent.
Synonyms: medium
one liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one liners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-liner.
one liners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one liner
soundbyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Marketing analysts may say these in-depth articles are too complex, but this is the kind of journalism we need in an era of sound-byte politics.
ref: 1991 August 24, Steve Rose, “GCN: Post-Modern and Maahvelouss”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 4:
glosses: Misspelling of soundbite.
globaloney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glō′bə-lō′nē
ipa: /ˌɡləʊ.bəˈləʊ.niː/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.bəˈloʊ.ni/
ipa: /ˌɡləʉ.bəˈləʉ.niː/
ipa: /ˌɡlɐʉ.bəˈlɐʉ.niː/
ipa: /ˌɡlo.bəˈlo.ni/
ipa: /ˌɡloː.baˈloː.niː/
rhymes: -əʊni
Etymology: Blend of global + baloney. Coined by American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist Clare Boothe Luce in 1943 to disparage the recommendation of then-Vice President Henry Agard Wallace that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.
Senses: examples: text: But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.
ref: 1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761:
text: We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.
ref: 1950, Joseph S. Davis, “Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, number 251, page 346:
text: –an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”
ref: 1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, page 142:
text: Stop supporting bums abroad. Stop all foreign aid, which is aid to banksters and their bonds and their export industries. Stop gloabaloney^([sic]), and let's solve our problems at home.
ref: 1992 January, Murray Rothbard, “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement”, in Rothbard-Rockwell Report, page 9:
text: Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.
ref: 1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, Harvard University Press, page 197:
text: The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.
ref: 2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 19:
text: Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.
ref: 2007 May 8, Patrick Buchanan, “Jamestown as It Never Was”, in RealClearPolitics, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:
text: In fact, this is all a bunch of “globaloney” says Pankaj Ghemawat, professor of strategic management and Anselmo Rubiralta Chair of Global Strategy at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, in his new book World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).
ref: 2011 August 1, Michael Shermer, “Globaloney: Why the World Is Not Flat...Yet”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2024:
text: And policies rooted in overestimating globalization — “globaloney” — could harm the people they purport to protect.
ref: 2017 February 3, Pankaj Ghemawat, Steven A. Altman, “Is America enriching the world at its own expense? That’s globaloney.”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2022:
glosses: Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.
wikipedia: Henry A. Wallace
boober
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːbə/
ipa: /ˈbubɚ/
rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boobers
Senses: examples: text: My daughter walked in on my mom getting dressed a while back and asked what her bra is for. Before Mom could answer my daughter added, "Oh, it's to hold up your boobers. Why do they hang down?" My mom is now seriously thinking of plastic "reconstructive surgery" and my father is having fits!
ref: 1999 July 6, Marie (quoting my girls mom), “Re: Saggy old bag I am”, in alt.parenting.solutions (Usenet):
text: yeah, damn the women in that game had big boobers
ref: 2001 October 19, Invader Zim [username], “Re: PS:T sales”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):
text: Steve Buscemi and Liv Tyler's bra-clad boobers are the only reason to watch Armageddon.
ref: 2004 May 12, Lots42 The Library Avenger [username], “Re: Ugliest Hollywood star?”, in alt.fan.tom-servo (Usenet):
glosses: A woman's breast.
boobers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boober
zigsaw puzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zigsaw puzzle
zigsaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zigsaw
mitsumata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitsumata
Etymology: From Japanese 三椏(みつまた) (mitsumata, “paperbush”).
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the fibres of Ganpi and Mitsumata are not strong enough singly, yet they are extensively used with other coarse raw materials in order to give the tenderness, smoothness, and lustre to paper of low quality.
ref: 1893, Bureau of Commerce and Industry, Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Japan, Details of the Industrial Specimens Exposed at the World’s Colombian Exposition, page 80:
text: Mitsumata has been used for paper since about 1600 CE. It is one of three main fiber types used for making Japanese paper.
ref: 2016 May 1, “Mitsumata”, in CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online, retrieved 04 Mar 2020:
glosses: Paperbush, any of various species of shrubs in the genus Edgeworthia native to Asia that may be used to make paper.
Ossining
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑsɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɒsɪnɪŋ/
Etymology: From earlier Ossingsing, named for the nearby Sing Sing Kill, borrowed from Dutch Sintsing, Sintsinck, from Munsee *ăsúnchung (*ăsə́nčəng), *ăshúnshung (*ăšə́nšəng, “at the small stone”), ăsún (ăsə́n, “stone”) + -ush (-əš, diminutive suffix) + -ung (-əng, locative suffix), from Proto-Algonquian *aʔsenya. The prison located on the site retains the older form of the name, Sing Sing.
Senses: glosses: A town in Westchester County, New York.
glosses: A village, within this town; the site of Sing Sing prison.
Montauk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowing from Mohegan-Pequot Montaukett, the name of the tribe, which roughly translates to "the fort country".
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in East Hampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
glosses: The easternmost part of Long Island, New York, site of a lighthouse.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri.
Chappaqua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shapiqua
form: Shapaqua
form: Shapequa
form: Shappaqua
Etymology: From Algonquin shah-pah-ka.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Westchester County, New York.
Taconic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taghkanic
Etymology: From Tacony (a certain river) + -ic. The river's name is borrowed from Unami tèkhane (literally “cold river”), from tè inan (“cold”) + -hàne (“river”).
Other early spellings include Taughkannuc.
Senses: synonyms: Taconic Mountains
glosses: A mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
glosses: A town in New York, United States.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: Taconic orogeny
glosses: The geological process that resulted in the precursor to the modern Taconic mountain range and shaped much of the Appalachian range, or the time period in the early Silurian during which this occurred
Derived terms: Taconic Mountains
Taconic orogeny
taconite
Taconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Taghkanic
Etymology: From Tacony (a certain river) + -ic. The river's name is borrowed from Unami tèkhane (literally “cold river”), from tè inan (“cold”) + -hàne (“river”).
Other early spellings include Taughkannuc.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the geological process which created the Taconic mountain range.
Rockaway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See rockaway.
Senses: glosses: A sandy peninsula in Queens County, New York, extending west from Nassau County, dividing Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: A borough of Morris County, New Jersey.
glosses: A river in New Jersey, a tributary of the Passaic.
Rockaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rockaways
Etymology: See rockaway.
Senses: glosses: A Native American inhabiting this region.
morphoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphoplasms
Etymology: From morpho- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: kinoplasm, trophoplasm
Derived terms: morphoplasmic
morphoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morphoplasm
kinoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinoplasms
Etymology: From kino-, alternative form of kine- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: an active protoplasm used to make filaments and mobile structures.
Derived terms: kinoplasmic
Related terms: trophoplasm
morphoplasm
kinoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinoplasm
morphoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From morphoplasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or related to morphoplasm.
kinoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From kinoplasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or related to kinoplasm
trophoplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophoplasms
Etymology: From tropho- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: an undifferentiated protoplasm that used to be nutritive in use
Derived terms: trophoplasmic
Related terms: kinoplasm
morphoplasm
trophoplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophoplasm
trophoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From trophoplasm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or related to trophoplasm
downfell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of downfall
seemlihed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seemlihead.
seemlihood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seemlyhood
Etymology: From Middle English semlyhode, variant of semlyhede (modern English seemlihead); equivalent to seemly + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: And flowers have made confessions unto me At which I marvel; for they rail at thee And call thee heartless in thy seemlihood, Though queen-elect of all the flowers that be.
ref: 1890, Eric Mackay, A lover's litanies: and other poems - Page 47:
text: Proclaimed himself her loyal knight, and swore Glynne to coerce to decent seemlihood, Begged her to cease her tears, lest ravaged cheek And sunken eyes unfitted her for all Engagements of the evening, [...]
ref: 1896, Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, This then is the story of Glynne's wife told in numbers - Page 14:
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness.
pheer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheers
form: feer
form: fere
Senses: examples: text: This paragon should queen Armida wed, / A goodly swain to be a princess' pheer, // A lovely partner of a lady's bed, / A noble head a golden crown to wear!
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlvii
glosses: Alternative spelling of fere (“companion, friend, mate”).
hickory nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hickory nuts
Senses: examples: text: To break the shell of a hickory nut, you needed a hammer and an act of Congress, and even then you needed a screwdriver to get at the meat, which was about as tasty as a clod of limestone.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 270:
glosses: One of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.
hickory nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hickory nut
comedy of errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedies of errors
Senses: examples: text: "[I]t's the poor Le Bretons who have brought us two thus together. And yet, they were both once our dearest rivals. You were in love with Edie Le Breton: I was half in love with Ernest Le Breton: and now—why, now, Arthur, I do believe we're both utterly in love with one another. What a curious little comedy of errors!"
ref: 1884, Grant Allen, chapter 37, in Philistia:
text: [T]hose who had remained so long began to view the game as what it really was, a comedy of errors, and got lots of fun out of it.
ref: 1914, Ralph Henry Barbour, chapter 13, in Left End Edwards:
text: Reference to Flamborough brings to mind an amusing comedy of errors, which although not strictly a matter of station-naming, at least concerns station names. The actual name was Marton for Flamborough, and, by some error, it appeared in Bradshaw, at the end of 1858, as Marton from Flamborough. After two or three months, this was evidently noticed, and instructions given to correct it, but unfortunately the correction appeared as Marton or Flamborough, which remained undetected for several months more.
ref: 1951 March, M. D. Greville, “The Nomenclature of Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 192:
text: What follows is a painful comedy of errors. Almost from her arrival she is pursued by a bellhop who interprets her every rebuff as a coy invitation.
ref: 1965 June 3, Eliot Fremont-Smith, "A Way Back to Life" (book review of August is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien), New York Times (retrieved 28 July 2013)
text: Though Lalita and Darcy's budding romance nearly falls prey to assumptions, back-biting gossip, and various coincidences and comedies of errors, pride and prejudice are both overcome so that love may conquer all in the end.
ref: 2005 Feb. 11, "Bride and Prejudice" (film review), boxofficeprophets.com (retrieved 28 July 2013)
text: Initially, despite this comedy of errors by the Italian command structure, the battle seemed to be going badly for the Austrians.
ref: 2018 September 26, Drachinifel, 6:12 from the start, in The Battle of Lissa - Special, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2023:
text: In what can only be described as a comedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, “one of the most important writers in the English language” had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine.
ref: 2021 May 28, Sam Jones, Uki Goñi, “Bard timing: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A set of amusing or farcical events involving a series of awkward missteps or other mistakes.
unprotested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprotested
form: most unprotested
Etymology: From un- + protested.
Senses: examples: text: His planning application was unprotested and passed by the committee.
glosses: not protested against, not complained about
unappealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappealed
form: most unappealed
Etymology: From un- + appealed.
Senses: examples: text: He accepted his guilt and the conviction was unappealed.
text: The bad line call against Murray remained unappealed.
glosses: uncontested, not appealed against
black oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black oaks
Senses: glosses: A deciduous oak tree, Quercus velutina, native to eastern North America.
glosses: A related oak tree native to western North America, Quercus kelloggii, often considered the best oak for acorn mush by American Indians in its native range
black oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black oak
northern red oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern red oak
burr oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burr oaks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bur oak.
bur oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bur oaks
form: burr oak
Senses: synonyms: blue oak
mossycup oak
mossycup white oak
scrub oak
glosses: Quercus macrocarpa.
Derived terms: bur oak blight
blackjack oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackjack oaks
Senses: glosses: An oak tree of species Quercus marilandica.
post oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post oaks
Senses: glosses: A tree of the species Quercus stellata (family Fagaceae), native to North America.
Synonyms: iron oak
Derived terms: post oak bluff
Jerusalem oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerusalem oaks
Senses: glosses: The weed Dysphania botrys, native to the Mediterranean region and naturalized in North America.
glosses: The herb epazote, Dysphania ambrosioides, native to the Americas.
Synonyms: sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: wormseed
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: Jesuit's tea
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: Mexican tea
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: epazote
sense: Dysphania ambrosoides
word: drug wormseed
Zargari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian زرگری (zargari, literally “of or pertaining to goldsmiths”), compound of زرگر (zargar, “goldsmith”) + ـی (-i).
Senses: glosses: a secret language and sociolect based on Persian used by goldsmiths and some minorities of Iran, including Persian Jews
Synonyms: Morghuli
Zargari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian زرگری (zargari, literally “of or pertaining to Zargar”), compound of زرگر (zargar) + ـی (-i).
Senses: glosses: a Balkan Romani dialect spoken primarily in the Zargar region of the Qazvin province of Iran
glosses: A speaker of the Zargari language
pecan pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pecan pies
Senses: glosses: A sweet pie made from corn syrup and pecans, considered a specialty of Southern United States cuisine.
Königsberger Klopse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Königsberger Klopse (literally “Königsbergian meatballs”).
Senses: glosses: An East Prussian dish of meatballs in a white sauce with capers.
Related terms: Königsberg
Béchamel sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Béchamel sauces
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of béchamel sauce.
giust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giusts
Senses: examples: text: Full iolly knight he ſeemd, and faire did ſitt, / As one for knightly giuſts and fierce encounters fitt.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of joust.
coaptation suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaptation sutures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A superficial suture of the skin only
spiall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiall
form: spyale
form: spial
Senses: examples: text: For he by faithful spiall was assur'd, / That Egypt's king was forward on his way.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxvii
glosses: A spy; spies.
glosses: The act of spying; espionage.
eathest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Who thinks him most secure is eathest shamed; / I hope the best, yet fear inconstant Mart.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xlii
glosses: superlative form of eath: most eath
malfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malfeatures
Etymology: From mal- + feature.
Senses: examples: text: One major malfeature of many present day trimarans is too much exposed window area.
ref: 1971 February, Robert B. Harris, “Are Trimarans Seaworthy?”, in Motor Boating & Sailing, page 61:
text: Questionable feature for af.
Of interest to gps users on various Unix flavors.
ref: 1986 July 15, Kaare Christian <kc@rna.UUCP>, "gps af malfeature", message-ID <518@rna.UUCP>, net.bugs, Usenet //groups.google.com/d/msg/net.bugs/6cTwhiUXI5Q/drZPNVjG1iEJ
text: This work is far from complete, and contains a number of malfeatures that are unfortunately hard-wired into the model.
ref: 1991, Alan Jeffrey, "Abstract timed observation and process algebra", in, 1991, Jos C.M. Baeten and Jan Frisco Groote, editors, CONCUR '91 (proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, 1991), Springer, page 333 //books.google.com/books?id=DFKJDVM_OgAC&lpg=PA333&dq=%22malfeatures%22&pg=PA333
glosses: A bad feature (cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing).
malfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malfeature
largemouth bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: largemouth bass
form: largemouth basses
Senses: glosses: A black bass of species Micropterus salmoides, found from northeastern Mexico to southeastern Canada.
Synonyms: sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: American black bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: brown bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: widemouth bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: bigmouth bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: black bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: bucketmouth
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: Potter's fish
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: Florida bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: Florida largemouth
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: green bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: green trout
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: gilsdorf bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: linesides
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: mossback
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: Oswego bass
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: southern largemouth
sense: Micropterus salmoides
word: northern largemouth
rock bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock bass
form: rock basses
Senses: glosses: A rock bass of the genus Ambloplites, especially of the species Ambloplites rupestris and Ambloplites constellatus.
glosses: A spotted grouper (Epinephelus analogus)
glosses: A starry grouper (Epinephelus labriformis)
glosses: A rivulated mutton hamlet (Alphestes multiguttatus)
rock basses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock bass
technomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: A form of magical ability that either affects technology, is used through technology, or is gained through the use of technology.
glosses: The combination of magic and technology.
Related terms: technomagic
technomancer
technopaganism
heremite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heremites
form: eremite
form: hermit
form: heremit
Senses: examples: text: Next morn the bishops twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the middest of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, iv
glosses: A hermit; an eremite.
anchress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchresses
Senses: examples: text: And hermits good and anchresses that dwell / Mew'd up in walls, and mumble on their beads.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix
glosses: Alternative form of anchoress (“female anchorite”).
shootress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shootresses
Etymology: From shooter + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Her mighty bow Clorinda often drew, / And many a sharp and deadly arrow shot; // And from her bow no steeled shaft there flew, / But that some blood the cursed engine got, // Blood of some valiant knight or man of fame, / For that proud shootress scorned weaker game.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xli
glosses: A female shooter; a markswoman; an archeress.
Synonyms: archeress
markswoman
northern wild rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wild rice of the species Zizania palustris, native to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Canada north and west of the Great Lakes.
Synonyms: sense: Zizania palustris
word: Indian rice
sense: Zizania palustris
word: Canada rice
sense: Zizania palustris
word: manoomin
sense: Zizania palustris
word: mnomen
vermile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermile
form: most vermile
form: vermeil
Senses: examples: text: The bleeding staunch'd, no vermile drop out-ran; / The leg again wax'd strong, with vigor new.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, lxxiv
glosses: Bright red in color; vermilion.
Related terms: vermeil
vermilion
pretious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretious
form: most pretious
Etymology: From Latin pretiōsus.
Senses: examples: text: In pretious cloths his leg the chieftain ties, / Naught could the man from blood and fight debar.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, lxxv
text: How vain therfore is it, and how preposterous in the Canon Law, to have made such carefull provision against the impediment of carnall performance, and to have had no care about the unconversing inability of mind, so defective to the purest and most sacred end of matrimony: and that the vessell of voluptuous enjoyment must be made good to him that has tak’n it upon trust without any caution, when as the mind from whence must flow the acts of peace and love, a far more pretious mixture then the quintessence of an excrement, though it be found never so deficient and unable to performe the best duty of marriage in a cheerfull and agreeable conversation, shall be thought good anough, how ever flat and melancholious it be, and must serve though to the eternall disturbance and languishing of him that complains him.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
glosses: Obsolete form of precious.
knob-and-tube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: knob and tube
Senses: examples: text: If living in a house with antiquated knob-and-tube wiring—individual wires, not cables, passing through porcelain insulators—live wiring can be detected with a magnetic compass whose needle deflects
ref: 1993 September 5, John Warde, “Home Clinic: Tips From Professionals To Handle Pesky Tasks”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2013:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a type of electrical wiring consisting of insulated conductive copper wire affixed by porcelain hardware and protected in vulnerable areas by insulated cloth sleeving. Widely used in North America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
knob and tube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knob-and-tube.
agoraphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agoraphobe
non-verbal leak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-verbal leaks
form: Non-Verbal Leak
form: NVL
Senses: examples: text: (2) more able to control affective expression and inhibit non-verbal leaks;
ref: 1988, Richard W. Byrne, Andrew Whiten, Machiavellian intelligence: social expertise and the evolution of intellect in monkeys, apes, and humans, Clarendon Press, page 247:
text: Such “non-verbal leaks” give away a person’s real attitude.
ref: 1989, Walburga Von Raffler-Engel, Doctor-patient Interaction, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 32:
text: The Goodfield Method is based on the non-verbal leak (NVL), which is a repetitive, patterned head-and-neck movement that reflects an individual’s unresolved, perceived trauma.
ref: Summer 2007, Barry Austin Goodfield, Saddam Hussein: The Unconscious Mind of The Butcher of Baghdad—New Tools Reveal What the World Does Not Know in The Forensic Examiner, page 39
text: Check out The Summer 2006 and Summer 2007 issues of The Forensic Examiner to read about Dr. Goodfield's analysis of the Non-Verbal Leaks of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.
ref: Winter 2007, Leann Long, The Goodfield Method: An Interview with Dr. Barry Goodfield in The Forensic Examiner, page 62
text: Jeffrey Krivis, a prominent California mediator, has reviewed the literature on “Interpersonal Deception Theory” and compiled this list of non-verbal leaks that may help reveal when a speaker is lying.
ref: 2008, Barry Goldman, The Science of Settlement: Ideas for Negotiators, Aliaba, page 65:
glosses: A repetitive, patterned movement from the shoulders up, reflecting an unresolved perceived trauma and manifesting an old decision or strategy from the past.
evocable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: evokable
Senses: glosses: That can be evoked.
Related terms: invocable
invokable
revocable
revokable