cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chrysanthemaxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular carotenoid.
siphonoxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of siphonaxanthin.
Asclepiades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asklēpiádēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A child of Asclepius and Epione (or Aristodama).
Hyponyms: english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Aceso
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Aglaea
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Hygieia
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Hygiea
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Iaso
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Meditrina
english: daughter
translation: daughter
word: Panacea
english: son
translation: son
word: Machaon
english: son
translation: son
word: Podaleirios
english: son
translation: son
word: Telesphoros
english: son
translation: son
word: Aratus
Asclepiades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asclepiades
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asklēpiádēs).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A member of one of the families that claimed descent from Asclepius, known as physicians or healers.
Synonyms: Asclepiad
antisolicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisolicitation
form: most antisolicitation
Etymology: From anti- + solicitation.
Senses: glosses: Opposing or preventing solicitation.
cybersport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybersports
Etymology: From cyber- + sport.
Senses: glosses: electronic sport
cybersports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybersport
macadaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of macadam
macadamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of macadam
macadammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of macadam
macadamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of macadam
e-sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-sports
Etymology: From e- + sport.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of electronic sport.
Downtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Downtonians
Etymology: From Downton + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: (As all Downtonians know, this, too, turns out to be felicitous when after much travail, cousin Matthew and Lady Mary happily wed at the beginning of season three.)
ref: 2013 March, Georgette Gouveia, “Getting Down With 'Downton'”, in Wag, page 24:
text: From coast to coast, "Downtonians" will be at the edge of their chesterfields, keen to see what's next for the Crawleys in 1920 after the unexpected deaths of two beloved young members of the patrician family.
ref: 2014 January 5, “Americans rekindle its 'Downton Abbey' affair”, in Kuwait Times, page 39:
text: For all Downtonians, perk your ears up: Elizabeth McGovern (Lady Cora) will be losing her corset this February in favour of leathers and a mic stand to play her husky, country-esque vocals with her band Sadie and the Hotheads.
ref: 2014, "Music Listings", One & Other, Issue #12, January/February 2014, page 64
glosses: A fan of the television series Downton Abbey.
examples: text: The stage names of the Lower Devonian (Downtonian, Dittonian and Breconian) and of the Upper Devonian (Farlovian) are all derived from localities in Shropshire or Breconshire.
ref: 2015, T. R. Owen., The Geological Evolution of the British Isles, page 65:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stage of strata at the base of the Devonian period.
Downtonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Downtonian
diagnosticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagnosticities
Etymology: From diagnostic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Diagnostic expectations correspond to the following belief structure […] where #92;theta#95;i is a parameter controlling the degree of diagnosticity.
ref: 2025 April, Saki Bigio, Dejanir Silva, Eduardo Zilberman, “Heterogeneous beliefs, asset prices, and business cycles”, in NBER Working Papers, number 33672, page 11:
glosses: The quality of being diagnostic.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The quality of being diagnostic.
The quality of serving to give somebody information about themselves.
Twisp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Okanagan word for wasp or yellowjacket.
Senses: glosses: A town and river in Washington.
Tonasket
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Washington.
Coplay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kolapechka, name of the son of a local Native American chief.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Coplay Creek
Cherry Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Riverside County, California; named for cherry trees in the area.
glosses: A village in Illinois; named for the town in New York.
glosses: A town in New York, and a village within that town.
glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A borough of Pennsylvania.
glosses: A community in Prince Edward Island.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for nearby Cherry Valley Creek.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
Farrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
enpr: fărʹəl
ipa: /ˈfæɹəl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
enpr: fĕrʹəl
ipa: /ˈfɛɹəl/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
homophone: feral
homophone: ferrule
homophone: ferryl
homophone: Ferrell stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æɹəl
Forms: form: Farrells
form: Ferrall
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A census-designated place in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A city in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: Farrel
Farrelly
Ferrel
Ferrell
Greenville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːn.vɪl/
Etymology: From green + -ville or Green + -ville (from the surname), depending on the place.
Senses: glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Butler County, Alabama.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A small city, the county seat of Meriwether County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Bond County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A small city, the county seat of Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A community in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A town and hamlet in Greene County, New York, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Darke County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A city, the county seat of Hunt County, Texas, United States.
glosses: The name of many cities and towns in the United States and Canada, including:
A village and unincorporated community therein, in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Greenville County
Greenvillian
Related terms: Grenville
Greensville
goshwowboyoboy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goshwowboyoboy
form: most goshwowboyoboy
Etymology: Blend of gosh + wow + boy + oh boy. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.
Senses: examples: text: I am one of the few fans that still have a copy of Spacewarp, No. 1, Vol. 1. As a first issue it was about as sickly a mag as you could ask for, and the fellow that was editing it sounded like the ultimate in "goshwowoboyoboy" new fans. I frankly expected it to be the last issue, and didn't subscribe.
ref: 1950 September, Rick Sneary, “The Editorial”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 6 (whole number 42), page 2:
text: The names you cite are as familiar to me as they are to you, and as fondly remembered. But I also remember the crap, and the naive goshwowboyoboy attitude of fellow neo-phans. I remember it well because I suffered from it.
ref: 1999 September 18, Reed Andrus, “Re: *New Online Literary Journal! (In which Pelan invokes Sturgeon's Law...)”, in rec.arts.horror.written (Usenet), message-ID <37E2E6DD.E4B68042@home.com>:
text: I'm letting one of the plot kittens out of the bag, but the book is such a delight that it'll do no serious harm if I tell you that it concerns a pulp science fiction editor who finds himself in a rip-roaring alien-plagued super-hero naked-heroine universe that exists in the mind of one of his goshwowboyoboy teen-aged readers.
ref: 2003, Mike Resnick, “Forgotten Treasures”, in Resnick at Large, →ISBN, page 56:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.
Synonyms: goshwow
Bidens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Biden
untaintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untaintable
form: most untaintable
Etymology: From un- + taintable.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in the front seats of the bus staring at the storm burying the highway and the sagebrush and the antelope, Mike and I were trembling from an untaintable, undauntable expectancy.
ref: 1997, Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu, page 14:
text: How untaintable and sanctimonious are your morals and ethics?
ref: 2007, Neale Sourna, Hobble, page 230:
text: This was rare for a successful Mexican politician, and his supporters held this up as proof that he was not only untainted, but untaintable.
ref: 2012, Jo Tuckman, Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, page 254:
glosses: Not able to be tainted, incorruptible.
Spidey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪdi/
Etymology: From spider + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Seven months later he reappeared in his own comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man. In the 16 years since, Spidey (as his fans call him) has become the country's most popular superhero, appearing in 300 daily newspapers.
ref: 1978, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 79, page 8:
text: In the closet Marvin found his sea shell collection, baseball cards, a stack of Spidey comic books, a jar of dead flies he had forgotten about, a paper bag filled with pine cones, and five cans of mud from Lake Washington.
ref: 1981 Oct, Ebony Jr., volume 9, number 4, page 25:
text: Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!
ref: 1983 Jan, Boys' Life, volume 73, number 1, page 21:
text: [H]e's also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005).
ref: 2013, Gerry Conway, Leah Wilson, Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, page 32:
glosses: The fictional superhero Spider-Man.
Derived terms: Spidey-sense
spidey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spideys
Etymology: Clipping of spider + -ey.
Senses: glosses: A spider.
Asclepiads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asclepiad
kiviaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiviak.
TAI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trifluoromethylaminoindane.
glosses: Initialism of technical analysis indicator.
TAI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fr:temps atomique international (“International Atomic Time”), a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Toshiba America, Inc..
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Turkish Aerospace Industries.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Thai Airways International.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux, a now defunct French airline.
igunaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᒍᓇᖅ (iconaq).
Senses: glosses: An Inuit delicacy made by burying meat and fat which decompose for consumption the following year.
Arb.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of arbitrator.
appeasably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appeasably
form: most appeasably
Etymology: From appeasable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Boccard responded appeasably, the way one speaks to a sick person.
ref: 1976, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, page 69:
text: “My lady, I bring the young elf girl and her companions,” he answered appeasably.
ref: 2012, Bob Spark, The Kingdom of Men: Book Two in the Twins of Prophecy Trilogy, page 125:
glosses: In an appeasable manner; in a manner intended to appease.
Kangiryuarmiutun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit people.
deism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈdeɪ-/
Forms: form: deisms
form: Deism
Etymology: From French déisme, from Latin deus (“god, deity”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: If my supposition be true, then the consequence which I have assumed in my Poem may be also true; namely, that Deism, or the principles of natural worship, are only the faint remnants or dying flames of reveal'd religion in the posterity of Noah.
ref: 1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici, Or A Layman's Faith:
text: As the Epicureans had a Deism without a God, so the Unitarians have a Christianity without a Christ, and a Jesus but no Saviour.
ref: 1847, Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Guesses at Truth, page 39:
text: In place of the idea which runs through the Tanakh and New Testament of a God intimately involved with his creation and providentially repeatedly intervening in it, there was the concept of a God who had certainly created the world and set up its laws in structures understandable by human reason, but who after that allowed it to go its own way, precisely because reason was one of his chief gifts to humanity, and order a gift to his creation. This was the approach to divinity known as deism.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 786:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
hypernyms: theism
glosses: A philosophical belief in the existence of a god (or goddess) knowable through human reason; especially, a belief in a creator god unaccompanied by any belief in supernatural phenomena or specific religious doctrines.
glosses: Belief in a god who ceased to intervene with existence after acting as the cause of the cosmos.
Derived terms: deist
deistic
deistical
deistically
deists
moralistic therapeutic deism
pandeism
panendeism
polydeism
Related terms: clockwork universe
clockmaker
watchmaker
Phila.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Philadelphia.
bee beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of the scarab beetles of the subfamily Trichiinae.
froginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He quoted a student who had passed through such an experience and complained that "for him, zoology had too much froginess."
ref: 1902, School Science and Mathematics, volume 1, page 281:
text: And yes, a life will grow there — everywhere — but some mutant successor species whose sages will preach that the human species was put on earth to prepare the way for their holy froginess or fungoidicity, or whatever the new holiness becomes.
ref: 1987, Vince Clemente, John Ciardi: Measure of the Man, page 223:
text: After his first two outings, Flip the Frog's froginess was quickly toned down, and he become species-ambiguous, with his white-gloved hands, white-shoed feet and upright posture.
ref: 2004, Jerry Beck, Animation art: from pencil to pixel, the history of cartoon, animé & CGI, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of frogginess.
Related terms: frogness
Balt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of Baltimore.
lifetable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifetables
form: life table
Etymology: From life + table.
Senses: synonyms: mortality table
glosses: A statistical table showing, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before his or her next birthday.
lifetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifetable
life school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life schools
Senses: glosses: A school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models.
life car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life cars
form: lifecar
form: life-car
Senses: examples: text: From this hawser the breeches-buoy or life-car is suspended and drawn between the ship and shore of the endless whip-line. The life-car can also be drawn like a boat between ship and shore without the use of a hawser. The breeches-buoy is a cork life-buoy to which is attached a pair of short canvas breeches, the whole suspended from a traveller block by suitable lanyards. It usually carries one person at a time, although two have frequently been brought ashore together. The life-car, first introduced in 1848, is a boat of corrugated iron with a convex iron cover, having a hatch in the top for the admission of passengers, which can be fastened either from within or without, and a few perforations to admit air, with raised edges to exclude water.
ref: 1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service:
text: This was no explanation to the girls until Tom Cameron came running back from the house and announced that the crew were going to try to reach the schooner with a line.
"They'll try to save them with the breeches buoy," he said. "They've got a life-car here; but they never use that thing nowadays if they can help. Too many castaways have been near smothered in it, they say. If they can get a line over the wreck they'll haul the crew in, one at a time."
ref: 1913, Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, Chapter 9:
glosses: A watertight boat or box, travelling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore, used to haul people through the waves in a rescue.
Related terms: life raft
lifeboat
life everlasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum).
glosses: Hylotelephium telephium, a succulent perennial ground cover native to Eurasia.
sumbulic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sumbul + -ic + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid obtainable from an oleoresin found in sumbul, or muskroot.
umbelliferon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of umbelliferone.
musk rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk roses
Senses: glosses: Rosa moschata, a species of rose.
musk seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musk seeds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abelmosk: the plant or its aromatic seeds.
synonyms: word: abelmosk
extra: the plant or its aromatic seeds
lizardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lizarddom
Etymology: From lizard + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: His pose has also advanced one step at least towards lizardom: his legs and one of his arms seem to be glued together as if expecting to coalesce into a long body and tail; his right hand looks like a hind paw; and the sway of his body suggests reptilian flexibility.
ref: 1991, Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Ernst Gall, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Volume 54, Issues 1-4, page 211
text: So there were recognizable things such as lizards and squares, and realists argued that the abstracta of lizardom and squareness also had a real independent existence.
ref: 1999, Donald G. Ellis, Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory, page 71:
text: Like the rest of lizardom, the animals spend much time basking in the sun, heating themselves in the morning to a body temperature that ranges from 90°F (32.2°C) in the dry season to 97°F (36°C) in the wet season.
ref: 2006, John C. Kricher, Galápagos: A Natural History, page 93:
glosses: The state of being a lizard, or of belonging to the world of lizards; lizards, collectively.
Related terms: lizardness
reptiledom
unfaulty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaulty
form: most unfaulty
Etymology: From un- + faulty.
Senses: examples: text: But, aunt, she must have had some kind of education, her accent was so pure, her English so unfaulty. The other girl dropped her h's by handfuls, and made some very wild confusion in her native etymology.
ref: 1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “Ivy Cottage”, in Sir Julian’s Wife, London: Virtue Brothers and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 89–90:
glosses: Not faulty.
cash poor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cash poor
form: most cash poor
Senses: examples: text: Marc Spector: It turns out that I am what you call "cash poor" (Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1, June 1, 1989.)
topics: business
finance
glosses: Possessing considerable economic assets, but unable to quickly or easily liquidate them for monetary transactions.
Related terms: time-poor
cash rich
judgedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From judge + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Earl Gullikson, a familiar and well loved figure in the Basenji ring for twenty years, was introduced and given an ovation at the news of his plans to enter the Olympian heights of judgedom.
ref: 1969, American Kennel Club, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, page 52:
text: Little quirk there in my particular branch of judgedom, he said.
ref: 2004, Rob Laughner, Our Nun, page 125:
text: She had practiced law in a small town enough years to know that to ask a judge to recuse himself was like declaring war on the entire Kingdom of judgedom itself.
ref: 2008, Cathy Holton, The Secret Lives of the Kudzu Debutantes, page 205:
glosses: The realm or sphere of judges.
Related terms: lawyerdom
judgeship
gas water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
The tar and ammoniacal liquor or gas water are collected in the tar cistern, in which the tar occupies the lowest position.
glosses: Water through which gas has been passed for purification, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac, carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue.
Synonyms: ammoniacal water
gas liquor
frogness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frog + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than empathy with what I might imagine a snake or frog might feel, I was sufficiently absorbed in snakeness and frogness as to wonder how the humans around me might feel.
ref: 1988, Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, page 58:
text: I am obligated to explain frogness at this point, but I will let it go for now, lest we be led into a discussion regarding instinct and into speculations on nature you might have felt lurking in the original question the minute you saw it.
ref: 1998, Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Penelope Hanstein, Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry, page 198:
text: Just as in Roux's case, it takes work to learn to use a frog, and more work still to strip it of its frogness and transform it into a standard organism that works the same as all other species.
ref: 2012, Charlotte Sleigh, Frog, page 127:
glosses: the state, quality, or condition of a frog.
Related terms: frogginess
frogdom
strawberry tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry tomatoes
Senses: glosses: physalis
eyetracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪtɹæks/
rhymes: -æks
Etymology: From eye + tracks.
Senses: examples: text: When you read a new book you get eyetracks all over it. Then it isn't mint any more.
ref: 1952, Arthur Rapp, Lee Hoffman, Redd Boggs, Fanspeak, page 5:
text: "You look good in that," he said. "Especially wet."
I'd noticed the difference. "Feel like an ad for a Broadway parlor. I'll be scraping off eyetracks all night."
ref: 1955, Joe Haldeman, “Try calling on the World for peace of mind”, in Worlds, page 150:
text: "The only good thing in Readerville," said the Lion, "is their library, where they keep copies of science fiction magazines. But all those copies are terribly worn out from being read so much. They have all sorts of unsanitary eyetracks all over them, and the spines are broken because the readers fold their magazines over when they read."
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “Readerville”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Imaginary marks left by looking at things, especially by reading books.
pre-Qur'anic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Quranic.
Senses: examples: pre-Quranic traditions
glosses: Before the publication of the Qur'an.
postquranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + quranic.
Senses: examples: postquranic literature
glosses: After the publication of the Quran.
gum butea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gum yielded by Indian plants in the genus Butea, used in tanning and in precipitating indigo.
suedey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suedey
form: most suedey
Etymology: From suede + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of suede.
mesochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + chronic.
Senses: glosses: Based upon time averages of observed phenomena
hashab gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A high-quality gum arabic from Senegalia senegal, superior to that from the red acacia (Vachellia seyal).
cistuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cistus
gum cistus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum cistuses
Senses: examples: text: The plain where he was riding was one immense thicket of the gum cistus, whose frail white leaves, just veined with the faintest pink, fell in showers at the least movement of the passer-by. What a prodigality of blossom!—for the gum cistus, born and withered in an hour, is the most ephemeral of flowers.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 339:
glosses: Any of those flowering plants in the genus Cistus that yield resin, especially Cistus ladanifer.
gum cistuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gum cistus
monophoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophotons
Etymology: From mono- + photon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A single photon (rather than a group)
parametron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parametrons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of resonant logic element that may be used to represent a binary digit.
selfadjointness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From selfadjoint + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being selfadjoint
heretoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌheɹəˈtəʊɡə/
Forms: form: heretogas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English heretoga (“army leader, commander, general”). Doublet of heretog and herzog.
Senses: examples: text: Like the old heretogas, they possessed no authority but such as was accorded them by their fellow-tribesmen, though when once constituted they had a power co-ordinate with that of the folk-moot.
ref: 1890, James Kendall Hosmer, A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom:
glosses: An Anglo-Saxon army leader or commander; a general; a duke.
superdialect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdialects
Etymology: From super- + dialect.
Senses: glosses: A form of language that contains all the words in two or more different dialects
superdialects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superdialect
chactid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chactids
Senses: examples: text: This character persisted in the literature despite the knowledge of chactids that do not have two pairs of lateral eyes and of vaejovids that do not have three pairs.
ref: 1990, Gary A. Polis, The Biology of Scorpions, page 103:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any scorpion in the family Chactidae.
chactids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chactid
tricriterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricriteria
Etymology: From tri- + criterion.
Senses: glosses: Any of three criteria in the same system
Related terms: multicriterion
vanbraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanbrace
varminters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varminter
unphysically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unphysical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unphysical manner.
webometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to webometrics
Unangans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Unangan
webometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Web + -o- + metrics.
Senses: glosses: The measurement and subsequent analysis of links on the World Wide Web.
Derived terms: webometric
unprofane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprofane
form: most unprofane
Etymology: From un- + profane.
Senses: glosses: Not profane.
ununderstood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + understood.
Senses: glosses: Not understood.
ziofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziofascist
kalimotxos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalimotxo
zoom boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoom box
zorkhaneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorkhanehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zurkhaneh.
zoorkhaneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoorkhanehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zurkhaneh.
zourkhaneh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zourkhanehs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zurkhaneh.
zorkhanehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zorkhaneh
zourkhanehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zourkhaneh
zoorkhanehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoorkhaneh
davul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: davuls
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish طاول (davul).
Senses: glosses: A large Turkish double-headed drum, played with mallets.
davuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of davul
tupans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tupan
grolar bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grolar bears
Etymology: Blend of grizzly + polar + bear.
Senses: synonyms: grolar
pizzly
pizzly bear
prizzly
glosses: A hybrid of the grizzly bear and the polar bear.
Dodger blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A blue color, resembling the color of Dodger Stadium.
Dodger blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the blue color of Dodger Stadium.
butterfly pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly peas
Senses: glosses: Any of genus Centrosema of American vines.
glosses: Any of species Clitoria ternatea of vines of tropical Asia.
beach pea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach peas
Senses: glosses: Various plants in family Fabaceae:
Vigna marina (notched cowpea, nanea).
glosses: Various plants in family Fabaceae:
Lathyrus japonicus (sea pea, circumpolar pea, sea vetchling), a legume native to temperate coastal areas of Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
glosses: Various plants in family Fabaceae:
Lathyrus littoralis (silky beach pea).
glosses: Various plants in family Fabaceae:
Galactia (milk pea, wild pea).
nanea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The vine Vigna marina.
jeweller's gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper.
ꝑ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: Ꝑ
Senses: examples: text: parliament → ꝑliament
text: Over all this, hee ware a certeyne Mantell of like ſtuffe, made in ſuche maner, that coming vnder his righte arme, and covering moſte ꝑte of that ſyde, yt tuched not the lefte ſyde, […]
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, pages 23–24
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
glosses: Scribal abbreviation of ⟨par⟩.
examples: text: ⸿Here begynneth a deuout treatyſe in Englyſſhe / called the Pylgrimage of perfection: very ꝓfitable foꝛ all chꝛiſten people to rede: and in eſpeciall / to all relygious ꝑſons moche neceſſary.
ref: 1526, [William Bonde], […] [T]he Pylgrimage of Perfection: […], London: […] Richarde Pynson […], →OCLC, title page:
text: He that hathe not this fayth, is but an vnpꝛofytable babler of fayth and woꝛkes / and wotteth nother what he bableth noꝛ what he meaneth, oꝛ whereunto his woꝛdes ꝑtayne.
ref: 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wycked Mammõ […], [London]: [s.n.], published [1537?], →OCLC, folio vii, verso:
text: [T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme: […]
ref: Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 17
english: The Old Arcadia
translation: The Old Arcadia
glosses: Scribal abbreviation of ⟨per⟩.
daboecia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daboecias
Etymology: From the genus name, from Dabheog, the name of a late antique Irish saint.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Daboecia of evergreen shrubs related to heather.
wikipedia: Dabheog
daboecias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daboecia
radiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiosity
Majorana particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Majorana particle
set up one's staff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets up one's staff
form: setting up one's staff
form: set up one's staff
form: set up one's staff
form: put down one's staff
form: put up one's staff
form: set down one's staff
Senses: glosses: To take up one's residence; to start to live in a certain place
tulumba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulumbas
Etymology: From modern Turkish tulumba, from Ottoman Turkish طولومبه (tulumba), from Italian tromba. Doublet of trump and tromp.
Senses: examples: text: The cafés selling baklava and tulumba on Sweet Corner are shuttered and padlocked.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 149:
glosses: A dessert in Turkey, the Middle East and eastern Europe, consisting of fried batter soaked in syrup, similar to a churro.
tulumbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulumba
lavender scare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavender scares
Etymology: Lavender is considered a feminine colour, and some male homosexuals act in a feminine manner.
Senses: topics: government
lifestyle
politics
sexuality
glosses: The fear and persecution of homosexuals in the 1950s in the United States.
Related terms: lavender
lavender lad
red scare
pink triangle
purple triangle
yellow menace
yellow star
cicada killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicada killers
Senses: glosses: Sphecius speciosus, a large digger wasp that hunts cicadas.
glosses: Any wasp in the genus Sphecius, which also hunt cicadas.
Synonyms: cicada hawk
sand hornet
cicada hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicada hawks
Senses: glosses: cicada killer
sand hornet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand hornets
Senses: glosses: cicada killer (not a true hornet)
make little of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes little of
form: making little of
form: made little of
form: made little of
Senses: glosses: To belittle.
glosses: To accomplish easily.
Theos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Theo
Tobys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Toby
Jordans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jordan
glosses: Basketball shoes on the Air Jordan brand.
Land of Steady Habits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Land of Steady Habits
Etymology: Allusion to the moral character of its inhabitants, implied by the rigid laws of the early period.
Senses: examples: text: Sharp is the contrast between Connecticut and New York City. With a population scarcely one-fourth the millions of souls clustering around New York harbor, yet this “Land of Steady Habits” has always made the deeper impress among the character and policy of this country. The guiding hands and ingenious brains ruling New York business affairs are largely transplants from Connecticut and New England.
ref: 1889, Joel Cook, An Eastern Tour at Home:
glosses: Nickname for Connecticut: a state of the United States.
feathergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathergrasses
form: feather-grass
Etymology: From feather + grass.
Senses: glosses: Any of various perennial hermaphroditic grasses of the genus Stipa.
Derived terms: Mexican feathergrass
feathergrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feathergrass
bristleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bristle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without bristles.
work double tides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works double tides
form: working double tides
form: worked double tides
form: worked double tides
Etymology: Alluding to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To perform the labour of three days in two.
plum gouger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plum gougers
Etymology: So-called as it makes round holes in the pulp of a plum in which it lays its eggs. The larvae bore into the stone and eat the kernel.
Senses: glosses: A weevil or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris or Coccotorus pruniphilus)
plum gougers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plum gouger
fall home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls home
form: falling home
form: fell home
form: fallen home
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: To curve inward; said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular.
Related terms: tumble home
hand running
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He won ten times hand running.
text: He had been playing keeps with Gaston and won seventeen taws. Then he had played tiddledywinks with the Sultan of Turkey and had beaten him forty-seven times, hand-running.
ref: 1923, Robert Ervin Howard, The Sheik:
text: Well, Schultz is around after me again that night to take me to the house in the grove, and in fact every night for a month hand-running I play the captain and it is not long before I am beating him like breaking sticks.
ref: 1944, Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid:
glosses: Consecutively; in a row.
augh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of argh.
sandbox tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbox trees
Senses: synonyms: assacu
dynamite tree
jabillo
monkey's dinner bell
monkey's pistol
monkey-no-climb
possumwood
glosses: Hura crepitans, an evergreen tree of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical regions of North and South America.
monkey-no-climb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sandbox tree.
synonyms: word: sandbox tree
jabillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabillos
Senses: glosses: sandbox tree
possumwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From possum + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of tree of a few species or the wood of such trees:
Diospyros virginiana (American persimmon) native to warm-temperate North America.
glosses: Any of tree of a few species or the wood of such trees:
Hura crepitans (sandbox tree), native to the tropical Americas;
glosses: Any of tree of a few species or the wood of such trees:
Quintinia sieberi, a rainforest tree native to eastern Australia.
make default
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes default
form: making default
form: made default
form: made default
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To fail to appear or answer.
dishmop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishmops
Etymology: From dish + mop.
Senses: glosses: A small mop used for washing dishes.
dishmops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishmop
Darbys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Darby
Courtneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Courtney
Daras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dara
Jessies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jessie
Jessies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jessie
glosses: plural of Jessy
muzrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzrats
Etymology: Blend of muzzie + rat.
Senses: examples: text: But it would be better if we avoided them dirty turbans and muzrats and invaded Jamaica instead.
ref: 2014, Reynolds Alexander, Convict Land: Undercover in America's Jails, →ISBN:
text: Don't forget China, which is Hell on Earth for muzrats.
ref: 2015 November 18, Marti van Lin, “Terror attacks in Paris”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: its time as a nation we made a stand and stop this madness before our country is taken over by these extremist rats if we was^([sic]) over there country building curchs^([sic]) and reading the bible we would be dead we need to stop these muzrat towl^([sic]) heads before its to late and at the same time get rid of this bullshit goverment^([sic]) THIS ENGLAND THIS OUR STREETS WE NEED TO TAKE THEM BACK. (Facebook user 21) Here we can identify the customary threat frame, whereby the “other,” regarded as inherently violent, was perceived to be moving closer to the precipice of taking over the nation. The user utilises the notion of “muzrat,” a not-uncommon expression within the networking sites.
ref: 2016, Graham Edward Geddes, Keyboard Warriors: The Production of Islamophobic Identity and an Extreme Worldview within an Online Political Community:
text: “If this plan involves smacking some fucking muzrats up, I'm well up for it” Joe called out from the sofa.
ref: 2018, Qoor Rema, Animosity Avenue:
glosses: A Muslim.
Darcys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Darcy
Tracys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tracy
Vaughns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vaughnses
Etymology: Variant of Vaughan.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vaughns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Vaughn
Tegans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tegan
Teagans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Teagan
Paiges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paige
Sashas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sasha
Vals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Val
Taylors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Taylor
Taylors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
Tylers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tyler
Merediths
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Meredith
Ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ash
examples: text: The superlatives have been 'wrung dry to describe' that tumultuous heart-warming welcome in Sydney and beyond, the kind of picture we needed to stir us from such melancholy contemplations as our cricketers' fall from Ashes glory in the West Indies.
ref: 1954 March 1, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, page 2, column 4:
text: My Ashes experiences have led to lifelong friendships with numerous Australians as well as England team-mates.
ref: 2015, Steven Lynch, Wisden on the Ashes:
glosses: the Ashes
Related terms: the Ashes
Alexes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Alex
Alexes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name
Jewels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jewel
chamoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamoe
form: chamoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 참외 (chamoe).
Senses: glosses: any melon of species Cucumis melo, primarily grown in Korea, Japan, and northern China.
Synonyms: Korean melon
oriental melon
chamoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chamoe
Ashleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ashley