cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ingush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ingush
form: most Ingush
Etymology: From Russian Ингуши (Inguši), from Ангушт (Angušt), a former important settlement of the people.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the Ingush people.
glosses: Of or related to the Ingush language.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of Ingushetian: of or related to Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the northeastern Caucasus.
synonyms: word: Ingushetian
extra: of or related to Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the northeastern Caucasus
Derived terms: Checheno-Ingush
Related terms: Ingush Autonomous Oblast
halmote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːlməʊt/
ipa: /ˈhɔlmoʊt/
Forms: form: halmotes
form: hallmote
Etymology: From Old English *heallġemōt (unattested), from heall (“hall”) + ġemōt (“meeting”).
Senses: examples: text: At Easington, the next centre for the halmote, things were even worse. The steward offered to make payment of rent contingent on the tenant's survival of the plague but even this could not tempt the nervous peasants into taking on any new responsibility.
ref: 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2006, page 161:
glosses: A court held by the lord of a manor within his hall.
Kalmyk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Kalmyck
form: Kalmuck
form: Calmuck
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian калмы́к m anim sg (kalmýk, noun), itself a Turkic exonym ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kāl-mak (“to stay behind”, literally “those who stayed behind”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia.
Kalmyk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kalmyks
form: Kalmyck
form: Kalmuck
form: Calmuck
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian калмы́к m anim sg (kalmýk, noun), itself a Turkic exonym ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kāl-mak (“to stay behind”, literally “those who stayed behind”).
Senses: examples: text: Kalmyks are unique, being Europeans who traditionally practiced Buddhism.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Republic of Kalmykia, Russia.
Kalmyk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalmyck
form: Kalmuck
form: Calmuck
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian калмы́к m anim sg (kalmýk, noun), itself a Turkic exonym ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kāl-mak (“to stay behind”, literally “those who stayed behind”).
Senses: glosses: A Mongolic language, spoken in and around Kalmykia in Russia.
high schooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high schoolers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highschooler.
highschooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highschoolers
form: high schooler
form: high-schooler
Etymology: From high school + -er.
Senses: glosses: high school student
facist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fascist.
nuque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: nuques
Etymology: From Middle French nuque, nuche, from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ). Doublet of nucha.
Senses: examples: text: He had buried his mouth in Ada's nuque, when she stiffened and raised a warning finger.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 158:
glosses: The nape of the neck.
astrakan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrakans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of astrakhan.
Tanaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tanakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 田(た)中(なか) (tanaka).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
brachycephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: brăk'ĭ-sə-fălʹĭk
enpr: brăk'ĭ-kĕ-fălʹĭk
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪ.səˈfæl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪ.kɛˈfæl.ɪk/
enpr: brăk'ĭ-sĕfʹə-lĭk
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪˈsɛf.ə.lɪk/
Forms: form: brachykephalic
Etymology: From brachy- + cephalic, literally “short-headed”, via New Latin brachycephalus, from Ancient Greek βραχυκέφαλος (brakhuképhalos), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Senses: examples: text: "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Just how cosmopolitan the town was is clear from the fact that two different races are found buried in the graves: the dolichocephalic Eurafrican, and the brachycephalic Proto-Mediterranean.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 153:
text: Also a subject of extensive investigation was the cephalic index, a measurement of the general shape of the skull, defined as the ratio of its breadth to its length multiplied by one hundred to eliminate the decimal point. Ratios below seventy-five indicated skulls that were long and narrow, termed “dolichocephalic”; those between seventy-five and eight, slightly broader or “mesocephalic”; and even rounder heads with ratios above eighty were called “brachycephalic.”
ref: 1996, William H. Tucker, The Science and Politics of Racial Research, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: brachycephalous
brachycranial
brachycranic
brachykephalous
broad-headed
roundheaded
short-headed
antonyms: dolichocephalic
dolichocephalous
long-headed
coordinate_terms: mesaticephalic
mesocephalic
mesocranial
glosses: Having a head that is short from front to back (relative to its width from left to right); having a broad skull with a cephalic index over 80.
raw_tags: of a person or animal
Derived terms: brachycephalize
hyperbrachycephalic
subbrachycephalic
ultrabrachycephalic
brachycephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brăk'ĭ-sə-fălʹĭk
enpr: brăk'ĭ-kĕ-fălʹĭk
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪ.səˈfæl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪ.kɛˈfæl.ɪk/
enpr: brăk'ĭ-sĕfʹə-lĭk
ipa: /ˌbɹæk.ɪˈsɛf.ə.lɪk/
Forms: form: brachycephalics
form: brachycephali
form: brachykephalic
Etymology: From brachy- + cephalic, literally “short-headed”, via New Latin brachycephalus, from Ancient Greek βραχυκέφαλος (brakhuképhalos), from βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Senses: glosses: A brachycephalic person or creature; someone with a short, broad skull, typically indicated by a cephalic index over 80.
Derived terms: brachy
Related terms: brachycephali
brachycephalism
brachycephalous
brachycephaly
brachycephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brachycephalous
form: most brachycephalous
Etymology: From brachy- + -cephalous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to brachycephaly; brachycephalic.
operationalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more operationalizable
form: most operationalizable
form: operationalisable
Etymology: From operationalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Possible to operationalize; subject to operationalization.
Derived terms: operationalizability
operationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operationalizations
form: operationalisation
Etymology: From operationalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of operationalizing.
parietooccipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: parieto-occipital
Etymology: From parieto- + occipital.
Senses: examples: text: The MRI scan showed a brain lesion in the parietooccipital area.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the parietal and occipital lobes or bones.
Derived terms: parietooccipital fissure
temporoparietooccipital
soul searching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soul searchings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soul-searching.
soul searching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soul searching
form: most soul searching
Senses: examples: text: While these questions are important and demand an intelligent response, don't allow the issues of the day to distract you from daily asking yourself the toughest, most soul searching questions of all:
ref: 1997, Joey O'Connor, Excuse Me!: I'll Take My Piece of the Planet Now, →ISBN:
text: He raised some very soul searching and gut wrenching questions in his commentary.
ref: 1999, House of Commons Debates, page 15893:
text: It must have been very soul searching for you.
ref: 2012, Joan C. Curtis, Hire Smart and Keep 'Em: How to Interview Strategically Using POINT, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Alternative spelling of soul-searching.
soul searching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soul search
sartorius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɑː(ɹ)ˈtɔːɹ.i.əs/
Forms: form: sartorii
Etymology: From Latin sartor (“tailor, mender”) + -ius. The connection with this occupation follows from the fact that tailors typically worked in a seated position with fabric spread out in their lap, resting the ankle of one lower leg on the opposite knee for support. The sartorius muscle is important to maintaining this posture.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A long, slender muscle that runs from the iliac crest along the anterior and medial aspects of the thigh to the proximal tibia, superficial to the quadriceps musculature; the longest muscle in the human body.
Derived terms: sartorial
sartorious
liassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liassic
form: most liassic
Senses: examples: text: Although in lithological characters almost every variety of rock seems to exist in the central axis of that chain, yet in fact it is composed of Jurassic and liassic deposits, lifted up ten thousand feet […].
ref: 1856, Edward Hitchcock, Outline of the Geology of the Globe and of the United States in Particular, page 52:
text: Parallel to this, on the north and south, are synclinal axes – the northern one allowing the liassic rocks to appear on the coast […].
ref: 1876, John van Voorst, The Yorkshire Lias, page 195:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Liassic.
examples: text: The top of a liassic stone wall/foundation, probed to a depth of 1.5 m, was recorded from 50 cm deep.
ref: 1996, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (113-114), page 196
text: A totally different liassic stone is Blue Lias, a whitish-grey stone obtainable only in relatively small pieces and difficult to dress.
ref: 2000, R. J. Brown, The English Village Church, page 57:
glosses: Consisting of or pertaining to lias (blue limestone).
ULA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULAs
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of uncommitted logic array.
ULA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: SpaceX is expected to handle 40% of all national security satellites slated to go up over the next five to seven years, while ULA will handle the other 60%.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jackie Wattles, “SpaceX and ULA win military launch competition worth $653 million – and that’s just the start”, in CNN Business:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of United Launch Alliance.
nn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of NN (“noon”).
Aphrodité
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Aphrodite.
mortarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːˈtɛːɹɪəm/
Forms: form: mortaria
Etymology: From Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortar.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of mortar used by ancient Romans for grinding.
softphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softphones
Etymology: Blend of software + phone.
Senses: glosses: A software program for making telephone calls over the Internet, typically using protocols such as SIP.
engrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engross
findspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: findspots
form: find-spot
Etymology: From find + spot.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A location at which items, or a specific item, have been found.
Chuvashia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃuːˈvɑːʃɪə/
Etymology: From Russian Чува́шия (Čuvášija).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia, located in Eastern Europe. Capital: Cheboksary.
Related terms: Chuvash
Mordovia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of southwestern Russia. Official name: Republic of Mordovia. Capital: Saransk.
Synonyms: Mordva
Mordvinia
Related terms: Mordovian
Mordvinia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A republic of Russia. Capital: Saransk.
Synonyms: Mordovia
Related terms: Mordvinian
Mordovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mordvian
Etymology: From Mordovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to, Mordovia
Synonyms: Mordvin
Mordvinian
Mordovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mordovians
form: Mordvian
Etymology: From Mordovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Mordovia.
Synonyms: Mordvin
Mordvinian
abyssi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abyssus
take a page out of someone's book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a page out of someone's book
form: taking a page out of someone's book
form: took a page out of someone's book
form: taken a page out of someone's book
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take a leaf out of someone's book.
Kalmykia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject in southwestern Russia. Capital: Elista.
Related terms: Kalmyk
Ingushetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪŋɡʊˈʃɛtiə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ингуше́тия (Ingušétija, “[place] of the Ingush”), itself from Georgian ინგუშეთი (ingušeti).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia in the Caucasus. Capital: Magas.
Derived terms: Ingushetian
Related terms: Ingush
Udmurtia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Udmurtiya
Senses: synonyms: Udmurt Republic
glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia, on a plain to the west of the Ural Mountains. Capital: Izhevsk.
Related terms: Udmurt
Udmurtian
Buryatia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Buriatia
form: Buryatiya
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia, bordering Mongolia to the south and Lake Baikal to the west. Capital: Ulan-Ude.
Related terms: Buryat
Buryatian
Adygea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːdɪˈɡeɪ.ə/
Forms: form: Adigea
form: Adygeya
form: Adyghea
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Адыге́я (Adygéja).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of south-west Russia. Official name: Republic of Adygea. Capital: Maykop.
Related terms: Adyghe
Adygean
Bashkortostan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæʃˈkɔːtəʊˌstæn
ipa: -ˌstɑːn/
ipa: [baʃˈko̞ː(ɹ)təʉ̯ˌstæn
ipa: -ˌstɑːn]
ipa: /bɑːʃˈkɔːɹtoʊˌstæn
ipa: -ˌstɑːn/
ipa: [bɑʃˈkɔɹtoə̯ˌstɛə̯n
ipa: -ˌstɑn]
Forms: form: Bashkurdistan
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Башкортоста́н (Baškortostán), from Bashkir Башҡортостан (Başqortostan).
Senses: synonyms: Bashkiria
glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia. Official name: Republic of Bashkortostan. Capital: Ufa.
Related terms: Bashkortostani
Bashkir
Bashkiria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Башки́рия (Baškírija), from башки́р (baškír) + -ия (-ija); equivalent to Bashkir + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bashkortostan.
synonyms: word: Bashkortostan
Khakassia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Khakasia
form: Khakasiya
form: Khakassiya
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Хака́сия (Xakásija).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of central south Russia. Official name: Republic of Khakassia. Capital: Abakan.
Related terms: Khakass
Khakas
Khakassian
take something as it comes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes something as it comes
form: taking something as it comes
form: took something as it came
form: taken something as it came
Senses: examples: text: take life as it comes
text: There are really no hardships if you take things as they come and make the best of them.
ref: 1899 February 5, “Klondike Reminiscences”, in New York Times, page 15:
text: He also urges Louie: “Take things as they come and keep smiling. Keep your spirits up, my dear. Be of good cheer and all will be well.”
ref: 2002 December 27, Sam Lister, “Lost love story of the valiant rifleman”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 25 Jul 2008:
glosses: To accept and deal with something (an event, etc.) as it occurs, with a composed state of mind.
Related terms: equanimity
go with the flow
let the chips fall where they may
take something in stride
cross that bridge when one comes to it
ride with the punches
roll with the punches
acetabula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetabulums
Senses: glosses: plural of acetabulum
chiliasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiliast
gynaecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡaɪ.nəˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌɡaɪ.nəˈkɑː.lə.dʒɪst/
Forms: form: gynaecologists
form: gynæcologist
form: gynecologist
Etymology: From gynaecology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.
ref: 1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:
text: Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.
ref: 1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report, page 8287:
text: During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).
ref: 1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:
text: According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.
ref: 1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), page 345:
text: Mr Shikuku: […]Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.
ref: 1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:
text: 2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,
With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.
glosses: Alternative spelling of gynecologist.
Synonyms: word: gynie
tyrannicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyrannicide
Crist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crists
Etymology: Apparently from Old English Crīst, Crist (the vowel may originally have been long in early OE, with subsequent shortening in late OE, see Notes for Christmas on the OED.com website), possibly applied as a nickname for someone who played the part of Christ in a pageant, or alternatively a pet form of the personal names Christian or Christopher.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
tough case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tough cases
Senses: examples: text: Due to Mary's ignorance, she was a tough case.
glosses: A person who is difficult to work with.
genetic fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic fallacies
Senses: glosses: A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.
back office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back offices
Senses: antonyms: front office
hypernyms: office
coordinate_terms: middle office
glosses: The IT and infrastructure support services for a company, separate from the public face of the business.
Related terms: back of house
backroom
back room
backroom boy
backroom staff
barback
toadlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadlets
Etymology: From toad + -let.
Senses: glosses: A juvenile toad.
glosses: Any of certain myobatrachid frogs, comprising: most in genus Pseudophryne, all in genus Uperoleia and the single species (Metacrinia nichollsi) in genus Metacrinia.
Synonyms: sense: juvenile toad
word: toadling
Derived terms: flood plain toadlet
pumpkin toadlet
ratcheting toadlet
East African
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to East Africa, its people, or its culture.
East African
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Africans
Senses: glosses: An East African person; one who comes from or lives in East Africa.
Gaullism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaullisms
Etymology: French gaullisme, from Charles de Gaulle.
Senses: glosses: A French political ideology based on Charles de Gaulle's thoughts and actions.
Derived terms: Gaullist
Neo-Gaullist
Related terms: word: Gallic
english: not cognate with each other nor with Gaullism, despite seeming so
translation: not cognate with each other nor with Gaullism, despite seeming so
word: Gaulish
East German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to East Germany, its people, or its culture.
East German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Germans
Senses: glosses: An East German person; one who comes from or lives in East Germany.
Derived terms: the East German judge
Gaullist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaullists
Senses: glosses: One who believes in or follows the ideals of Gaullism.
Izhorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Izhorians
Etymology: Ultimately from Ingrian ižorat (“Izhorians”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of Ingria.
Izhorian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Ingrian ižorat (“Izhorians”).
Senses: glosses: The Ingrian language
Izhorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Izhorian
self-critical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɛlfˈkɹɪtɪkəl/
Forms: form: more self-critical
form: most self-critical
Etymology: From self- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Capable of criticizing oneself; able to find mistakes and possibilities for improvement in one's own work.
Related terms: self-criticism
silkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlki/
rhymes: -ɪlki
Forms: form: silkies
form: silky
Senses: examples: text: Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four).
glosses: Alternative spelling of selkie.
Gaullists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaullist
East Germans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of East German
East Africans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of East African
paddywagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddywagon
hæsitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And so great and laudable Progresse both of men and women, young and old, chiefe ones, middle sort, and meane ones made therein ; that every one of them could not only rehearse without hæsitating acurately the chiefe Heads or Principles of true Religion, but also were able to Answer wisely and solidly to most Questions about Religion that one would propound or put forth to them.
ref: 1889 C.E., William Campbell Jr. and Casper Sibelius, An Account of Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa, page 35 (1996 republication, SMC Pub.
glosses: present participle and gerund of hæsitate
Related terms: hæsitancy
fire engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire engine
verge-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verge-staffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of verge staff.
hæsitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæsitancies
Senses: examples: text: He and his men were at breakfast under their shelter, their guns being without, they saw the English coming, but continued eating, & M: Winsl: telling their businesse, Alex: freely & readily, without the least hæsitancy consented to goe, giving this reason why he came not to the court before, viz., because he waited for Capt Willet’s returne from the Dutch, being desirous to speake with him first: They brought him to Mʳ Collier’s that day, & Govʳ Prince then living remote at Eastham…
ref: 1868: The Minisink Valley Historical Society and the Connecticut Historical Society, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, page 234 (The Society)
text: And though I had allwaies an hæsitancy, and coldness that way, I have of late contracted a greater habit of it, by finding the strange confidence that severall men have, in their different, and contrary expositions.
ref: 1955, The Northamptonshire Record Society, The Correspondence of Bishop Brian Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham, 1650–1660, page 37:
glosses: Archaic spelling of hesitancy.
Related terms: hæsitating
verge staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verge staffs
Etymology: Originally just verge (from Latin virga (“staff, rod”)); it acquired the extra staff for clarity.
Senses: qualifier: clock making
glosses: The metal bar with two pallets that drive the crown wheel in a verge escapement.
verge staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verge staffs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A flag pole that protrudes from a low deck off the back of a ship.
flag pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag poles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flagpole.
green energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green energies
Senses: glosses: A nonpolluting source of energy.
old days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the old days
Senses: examples: text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter 1, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: Nevertheless, there were many passengers on the recent special trains to whom the immaculate little 80-year-old "Terrier," No. 32636, formerly Fenchurch, and its two L.B.S.C.R. coaches, recalled nostalgic memories of the old days on the line, when the trains were always spick and span; and days when the Kemp Town branch train was packed to capacity.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:
text: Fist: So I get friendly with the whores in my off hours. So what? That's all I got left of the old days, thanks.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Afterlife Club, Omega:
text: In the old days, hopping onto the platform from a not-yet-stopped train was a commonplace stunt for daily commuters in a hurry.
ref: 2025 July 9, Frank Mueller, “Protecting the railway from new and existing dangers”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 62:
glosses: A period that was a relatively long time ago; the distant past.
Synonyms: days of yore
yestertide
the past
Hyponyms: bad old days
good old days
hæsitancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæsitancy
flag poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag pole; alternative spelling of flagpoles.
verge staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verge staff
wrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrines
form: wry
Etymology: Alteration (due to wrinkle) of earlier rine (“ditch, trench”), from Middle English rune, rone, from Old English ryne (“a watercourse, flow”), from rinnan (“to run”). More at run, runnel.
Senses: glosses: A deep wrinkle.
wrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrine
meat wagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat wagon
welfares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of welfare
welfares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of welfare
woefare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wofare
Etymology: From Middle English wofare, equivalent to woe + fare.
Senses: examples: text: [...] alone thy food was laughing delight, for feeling's blind and fathomless bliss thy lips were deep in the drink of love — while mine winced at the gall mixed with the woefare of gods? — Thy fooling thought freely then follow ; aloof thou hast left me far.
ref: 1884, Henry Theophilus Finck, Wagner Handbook for the Festival Concerts Given in 1884:
text: Quoth Abd al-Rahman, "I fear strangerhood for him, inasmuch as wayfare is the worst of woefare;" but she said, "There is no harm in strangerhood for him when it leadeth to gaining good; [...]
ref: 1886, Lady Isabel Burton, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Lady Burton's Edition of Her Husband's Arabian Nights:
synonyms: word: evilfare
word: illfare
word: misery
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
word: welfare
glosses: Discontentment; sorrow; unhappiness.
discontentments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discontentment
whingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whingles
form: whingling
form: whingled
form: whingled
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from whinge + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […], this is the last place to post this sort of whingling rubbish.
ref: 13 October 1996, Steve Kellett, “Re: Drunk Kids in an ALL AGES VENUE”, in alt.drunken.bastards (Usenet):
text: So don't whingle like an idiot and play the fecking game for fun.
ref: 13 October 2002, Heckler ²ºº², “Re: We need team-players FAST”, in alt.games.wolfenstein (Usenet):
text: "They don't give us comps here," he whingles, "What was I supposed to do?"
ref: 2006, Eliza Blair, Friends in Need:
glosses: to complain; whinge.
wedfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedfellows
Senses: glosses: A male or female spouse.
spuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: spuddles
Etymology: Possibly from the Middle English term for a short knife, by extension, leading to the shallow plow, and from there to other more metaphoric meanings. Related to spud.
Senses: examples: text: There you go again, making spuddle of whatever I say.
ref: 1987, William Lehr, Shrinking: A Novel, page 13:
text: All we utter thus when bakelite spuddle Steamified and scorchy Make of our tongue a fat Q.
ref: 2007, David Ashbee, Loss Adjuster, page 127:
text: Better to break out and seek progression. You don't want to be a spuddle.
ref: 2022, John Glynn, Twofold:
glosses: A mess or confusion.
examples: text: They had a right spuddle together — poor maid was crying, like, and then ' e made off.
ref: 1996, Elizabeth Forrest, The Garbage Boy, page 118:
text: Tis you they fear for spinshine and for spuddle
ref: 2000, New Statesman - Volume 129, Issues 4481-4492, page 29:
text: Us'll have a proper spuddle bevore us is done, you see if I baint right, sir!'
ref: 2011, R. F. Delderfield, Long Summer Day:
glosses: An argument or dispute.
spuddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: spuddles
Etymology: Related to puddle
Senses: examples: text: 'Twuz tit fer tat sure, in a spuddle uv mud , And everything plastered all over with blood.
ref: 1920, Lindley Grant Long, Farmer Hiram on the World's War, page 177:
text: In puddle and spuddle They staggered.
ref: 1989, Edna O'Brien, On the Bone, page 6:
glosses: A patch of wet mud or similar substance, more viscous than a puddle.
examples: text: A steady stream rather than a mist may be projected onto the wafer, or dispense may occur without rotation to form a “puddle." There is also a combination puddle and spray technique called “spuddle” developing.
ref: 1987, Walter Scot Ruska, Microelectronic Processing, page 140:
text: First, a screening trial using the same develop and etch times and half the reagent volumes of the established "spuddle" process performed on an APT model 9145 machine which serves as a reference method.
ref: 1994, Advances in Resist Technology and Processing, page 776:
glosses: A process combining spraying and puddling.
condensator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensators
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A capacitor.
sloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: slooms
form: sloum
Etymology: From Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Old English sluma (“sleep, slumber”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”). Compare slumber and Dutch sloom.
Senses: glosses: A gentle sleep; slumber.
Derived terms: sloomy
sloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: slooms
form: slooming
form: sloomed
form: sloomed
form: sloum
form: sleam
Etymology: From Middle English slumen, slummen, from Old English *slūmian (“to slumber, sleep gently”), from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“to be slack, loose, or limp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“limp, flabby”).
Senses: examples: text: The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.
ref: 1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance:
text: To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!
ref: a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:
text: Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
ref: 1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:
text: The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
ref: 1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66
text: He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
ref: 2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), page 205
glosses: To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
examples: text: He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]
ref: a. 1807, unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540
text: […] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
ref: 1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329
text: It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]
ref: c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17
glosses: To soften or rot with damp. (of plants or soil)
janglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more janglesome
form: most janglesome
Etymology: From jangle + -some.
Senses: glosses: quarrelsome
wedfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedfellow
trichoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek τρίχωμα (tríkhōma), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) + -μα (-ma). Doublet of trichome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ingrown eyelash; trichiasis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A trichomatose condition of the hair; plica.
trichiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichiases
Etymology: From tricho- + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: trichoma
glosses: Ingrown eyelash.
Related terms: trichiatic
blows off steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow off steam
blowing off steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow off steam
blew off steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow off steam
blown off steam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow off steam
speedfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more speedfully
form: most speedfully
Etymology: From speedful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a speedful manner.
iota subscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iotas subscript
form: iota subscripts
form: iota subscripta
form: iota subscriptum
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: iota adscript
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: A small iota written below an alpha, eta or omega – e.g. in ᾠδή (ōidḗ) – representing a vocalic offglide that was pronounced in early Ancient Greek, but later became silent; invented in the Middle Ages in order to mark those vowels which would originally have had such an offglide.
garden path sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garden path sentence
better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
form: better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness
form: better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
Etymology: Often claimed to be an ancient Chinese proverb. Also often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. Earliest known usage is a 1907 sermon by English preacher William Lonsdale Watkinson.
Senses: glosses: Even in the face of hopelessness and discontent, it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response, than to complain about the situation.
false dilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false dilemmas
Senses: synonyms: false dichotomy
glosses: A situation in which two opposing options are presented as the only possibilities, when others are available.
emperor's new clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After The Emperor's New Clothes, a tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
Senses: examples: text: Marks & Spencer announced a 19% fall in annual profits on Tuesday.
ref: 2005 May 26, “Is an M&S suit the emperor's new clothes?”, in The Guardian, UK:
ref: 2005 July 31, Jeff Sabatini, “2006 Lexus RX 400h: The hybrid emperor's new clothes”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something obvious and embarrassing that is politely ignored or that goes unacknowledged.
wikipedia: Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor's New Clothes
Synonyms: elephant in the room
figurativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From figurative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being figurative.
pasigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasigraphies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: He spent his spare time on the weekend perfecting his very own pasigraphy.
text: M. Alexander Kis, of Pest in Hungary, has recently invented an universal alphabet, or species of pasigraphy applicable to all languages.
ref: 1813, “[untitled]”, in Alexander Tilloch, editor, The Philosophical Magazine, volume XLI, number 182, Richard Taylor and Co., page 158:
text: People call any written universal language a "pasigraphy" ; thus the international code of maritime signals is a "pasigraphy."
ref: 1912, Couturat, “For Logistics”, in Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain, transl., The Monist, volume XXII, number 4, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 488:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.
Derived terms: pasigraphic
grounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊndə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)z
Senses: examples: text: "It's so cool," Nolan, a Grade 5 student at Dalhousie said, adding that he was looking forward to the first game of grounders. "It has three slides and I like the colours. They're really nice."
ref: 2016 May 16, “Dalhousie ready to play”, in Winnipeg Free Press, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2023:
text: Apparently, kids like to climb, swing and slide. Who knew? And they like playground games. Two favourites (ask a kid if you don't know) are grounders (it combines tag and hide-and-seek) and gaga ball (a kinder, gentler version of dodge ball).
ref: 2017 April 5, Jeff Outhit, “UW students building the perfect playground”, in Waterloo Region Record, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2023:
text: The games they learn to play — like the tag game "grounders" or "cops-and-robbers" — are things that show up on many school playgrounds.
ref: 2019 July 16, Clare Hennig, “Future of summer camp for refugee children uncertain as student founders graduate”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2021:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A playground game in which one person is chosen to be "it" (and must keep their eyes shut) and tries to tag others, who become "it" instead, either by touching them or by calling out "grounders" while they are on the ground (rather than on a climber).
grounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊndə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of grounder
under-grounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: under-grounders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of undergrounder.
under-grounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of under-grounder; alternative spelling of undergrounder.
butyric acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyric acid
gamma-hydroxybutyric acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid
wille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of will.
wille
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of will.
hypohydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + hydration.
Senses: glosses: Dehydration.
hypohydrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypohydration
flitter-mice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flitter-mouse
flittermice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flittermouse; alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
Wonder Women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wonder Woman
Wonderwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wonderwomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wonder Woman.
Wonderwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wonderwoman
hortensia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɔː(ɹ).tɛn.ziə/
Forms: form: hortensias
Etymology: From the genus name, New Latin Hortensia, from hortēnsius (“of the garden”), from hortēnsis.
Senses: glosses: A hydrangea (Hydrangea spp.).
film crew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film crews
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: movie crew
glosses: The group of people, excluding the cast and producers, who are hired by a film company to produce a film.
'bots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'bot
'prentices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'prentice
object oriented programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of object-oriented programming.
suck it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks it up
form: sucking it up
form: sucked it up
form: sucked it up
Etymology: Probably a variation of the expression suck up your chest, meaning roughly compose yourself, bear your troubles, stand tall, and proceed.
Senses: examples: text: Some students suck it up and meet the challenge. Others look around wildly for someone to blame.
ref: 2001 January 8, Ben Marcus, “Graded By My Students”, in Time:
glosses: To put up with something; to deal with something, such as pain or misfortune, without complaining.
Synonyms: english: about something
translation: about something
word: be a man
word: deal with it
word: grin and bear it
word: lump it
word: man up
word: push through it
word: save the drama for your mama
word: take it like a man
Imma
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪmə/
ipa: [ˈaːmə]
rhymes: -aɪmə
Forms: form: I'mma
form: imma
form: I'ma
form: i'ma
form: Ima
form: ima
form: Ima'
form: I'm a
form: I'm a'
form: i'm a'
form: I'm'a
form: i'm'a
form: I'm-a
Etymology: Written form of a relaxed pronunciation of I'm gonna. Includes a reduction of /mn/ to /m/ (see reduction of /mb/ and /mn/ on Wikipedia). Common in and possibly originated in African-American Vernacular English, but is used more broadly today. According to m'Cheaux, it originated in Gullah, where "a-" replaces "-ing" and indicates immediate future tense.
Senses: examples: text: so Imma say 16 or 17, cool
text: Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!
ref: 2009, Kanye West, MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West (actor):
text: I told you we should have gone with the mermaid costume. I'mma put this on -- 'cause I'm going to the race cause I feel better.
ref: 2017, Frankie Pamplemousse, “The No-Kart Race”, in The ZhuZhus:
glosses: Contraction of I'm gonna.
footrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footrots
form: foot rot
Etymology: From foot + rot.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A hoof infection, infectious pododermatitis, that is commonly found in sheep, goat, and cattle.
Synonyms: interdigital necrobacillosis