cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypercorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hypercorrects
form: hypercorrecting
form: hypercorrected
form: hypercorrected
form: hyper-correct
Etymology: Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
Senses: examples: text: I use reduplicate to mean "redouble," though both words should mean "quadruple," but English is funny that way, so hold off on the hypercorrecting "gotcha!"
ref: 2007 October 28, William Safire, “And Now This”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
examples: text: Likewise, both the chapcha that accompanies the modern Hebrew handshake and the explicit demand to shake hands like a "male" stem from the need to overcompensate (or hypercorrect) for the effeminacy, passivity, feebleness, and bodily unfitness so often ascribed to Jews by other Europeans (especially by Germans) in the nineteenth century.
ref: 2012, Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, Paul Lerner, editors, Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History, Bloomington, I.N.; Indianapolis, I.N.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 163:
text: But their different life stages also provide the writers with much-needed fuel for conflict. It would be tempting to hypercorrect for the negative media representation of bisexuals by making Darryl infallible, but it's more helpful for the show to simply treat him as human. And that's exactly what McKenna and crew have been so careful to do.
ref: 2016 March 7, Samantha Allen, “'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Is Smashing Stereotypes of Male Bisexuality, One '80s Jam at a Time”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
text: Let everything stand as it was tweeted or posted. We're not fooling anyone by pretending that people don't make typos, that they always know how to spell things correctly, or that they care about standard capitalization rules, and a reader will always be able to find the original tweet (if not least because it's been linked or embedded in the post in which it was quoted), and efforts to hypercorrect can appear silly or stodgy.
ref: 2017, Emmy J. Favilla, A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age, London […]: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: To correct excessively.
hubristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞o'-brĭsʹ-tĭk
ipa: /ˌhjuːˈbɹɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more hubristic
form: most hubristic
form: hybristic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑβριστικός (hubristikós), equivalent to hubris + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to hubris; overly arrogant.
examples: text: Musk is easily cast as a hubristic supervillain, lumped in with the tech bros and space playboys, for whom money is scorekeeping and rockets are the ultimate toy. But he’s different: he’s a manufacturing magnate—moving metal, not bytes.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: Displaying hubris (as a personality characteristic).
Derived terms: hubristically
unhubristic
hymnographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnographers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑμνογράφος (humnográphos) + -er. By surface analysis, hymnography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A writer whose subject is hymns.
glosses: A person who composes hymns.
Derived terms: hymnography
hymnodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnodists
Etymology: From hymnody + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A composer of hymns.
glosses: A person who studies hymnody.
Synonyms: hymnist
hymnody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪm.nə.di/
Forms: form: hymnodies
Etymology: From Old French hymnodie, from Latin hymnodia, from Ancient Greek ὑμνῳδία (humnōidía), from ὑμνῳδέω (humnōidéō, “I sing a hymn”), from ὕμνος (húmnos, “song of praise”) + ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”).
Senses: examples: text: Primeval Worſhip, Lord, retrieve, / For whoſe Decays the Faithful grieve, / For as thy Temple-Off'rings fall or riſe, / Hymnody chills or fires, Religion lives or dies.
ref: 1721, Thomas Ken, edited by J. Wyat, The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious, Thomas Ken, D.D., volume IV, Vrania: or, the Spouſe's Garden, page 448:
glosses: The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
examples: text: Therefore do we recite this Seraphick Theology delivered to us, that in that cæleſtial Hymnody we may communicate with the Heavenly Hoſt …
ref: 1718, William Gordon, edited by J. Bettenham, An Apology for the Use of the English Liturgy and Worship, page 56:
glosses: The hymns of a particular church or of a particular time.
Related terms: hymn
hymnal
hymnally
hymnary
hymnbook
hymnic
hymnical
hymnically
hymnodic
hymnodical
hymnodist
hymnologic
hymnological
hymnologically
hymnologist
hymnology
hymnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnists
Etymology: From hymn + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A writer of hymns.
helepolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helepolises
form: helepoleis
form: helepole
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑλέπολις (helépolis, “taker of cities”).
Senses: glosses: an ancient Greek siege engine consisting of a wheeled tower containing machines for throwing stones and spears
Hijra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪd͡ʒɹə/
Forms: form: Hijrah
form: Hidjra
form: Hegira
form: Hejira
form: hijra
Etymology: From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “departure, exodus”), used in reference to Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE, from the verb هَجَرَ (hajara, “emigrate, to abandon”). Doublet of Hegira, which went through Latin.
Senses: glosses: The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1).
examples: text: Since the Muslim lunar year contains only 354 days, the year 2005 is approximately equivalent to Hijra 1426.
glosses: AH: the Islamic era, dated from the Hijra.
glosses: The Islamic calendar, dated from the Hijra.
Related terms: word: anno Hegirae
english: A.H., AH
translation: A.H., AH
word: Anno Hegirae
hypofrontality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: reduced activation in the frontal (and especially prefrontal) cortex; One of the common neurological correlates for schizophrenics and schizoid.
dagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of degen.
Oblation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French oblacion, from Latin oblātus, passive perfect participle of offerō (“I offer, present”).
Senses: glosses: The offering of bread and wine at the Eucharist
antiscriptural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æntɪˈskɹɪptʃəɹəl/
Forms: form: more antiscriptural
form: most antiscriptural
Etymology: From anti- + scriptural.
Senses: glosses: that contradicts scripture
Derived terms: antiscripturally
urceolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɜː(ɹ)sɪəleɪt/
Forms: form: more urceolate
form: most urceolate
Etymology: From the Latin urceolatus, from urceolus, diminutive of urceus.
Senses: examples: an urceolate corolla
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an urn.
examples: an urceolate rotifer
glosses: Having an urceolus.
Briana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Breana
form: Breann
form: Breanna
form: Breanne
form: Brianna
form: Brianne
form: Bryana
form: Bryanna
form: Bryanne
Senses: examples: text: Sayd then that Squire: The Lady which doth owne
This Castle, is by name Briana hight.
Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: A female given name from Irish, masculine equivalent Brian, in regular use since the 1970s.
Derived terms: word: Bria
brian
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brians
form: brianing
form: brianed
form: brianed
Etymology: From dialectal English, probably variant of brine (“to burn”), from brine (“a burning”), from Middle English brüne (“a burn, a burning”), from Old English bryne (“a burning, conflagration, fire, flame, heat, inflammation, burn, scald, torch, fervor, passion”), from Proto-Germanic *bruniz (“fire, burning”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“burn, fire”). Cognate with Scots brin (“a flash”), Scots brin, bryne (“to be on fire, be inflamed, burn”), Old Norse bruni (“fire, burning”). More at burn.
Senses: glosses: To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
Related terms: brand
brimstone
honky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋki
Forms: form: honkies
form: honkey
form: honkie
Etymology: Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.
Most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men.
As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.
synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A white (Caucasian) person.
glosses: A factory hand or general unskilled worker.
Derived terms: honkiness
honkitude
honklet
honkydom
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: honky tonk
MetroCard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MetroCards
Etymology: From metro + card.
Senses: glosses: A thin card with a magnetic stripe used to pay fares on New York City mass transit.
Related terms: english: similar technology in the UK
translation: similar technology in the UK
word: Oyster card
nuit blanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuits blanches
form: Nuit Blanche
Etymology: From French nuit blanche (“white night”).
Senses: glosses: An all-night celebration or festival.
Synonyms: white night
White Night
nonpermeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + permeable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of impermeable.
synonyms: word: impermeable
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same magnetic permeability as that of free space, so that the material in question has a magnetic permeability μ=μ₀ (where μ₀ = 4π×10⁻⁷ N A⁻² exactly in SI units).
tante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑn.tə/
Forms: form: tantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish aunt.
raw_tags: in forms of address
Related terms: aunt
NWS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Many NWS forecast offices have ceased launching their twice-a-day weather balloons, which provide critical data that can alert forecasters to the potential for flooding and other hazardous weather.
ref: 2025 July 5, Andrew Freedman, Emma Tucker, Mary Gilbert, “Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Weather Service.
glosses: Initialism of nuclear weapons state.
glosses: Initialism of North-West Semitic.
NWS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of not work safe.
NWS
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no worries.
temeritous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/
ipa: /-ətəs/
ipa: /təˈmɛɹətəs/
ipa: /-ɪtəs/
Forms: form: more temeritous
form: most temeritous
Etymology: From temerity + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The most temeritous follower of Sangrado can scarcely propose to bleed so as to subdue the local disease, for there are parts indeed of that disease, which never can be removed by venesection.
ref: 1831, John Burns, “Of Inflammation” (chapter II), in The Principles of Surgery, […] , volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, →OCLC, page 211:
text: It would be temeritous to absolutely condemn the opinion of observers upon such vague theories and ideas as we possess upon the subject.
ref: 1872, Smithsonian Institution; M. Marley, […] , “Lectures on the Phenomena of Flight in the Animal Kingdom”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, […] , Washington: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 260:
text: Not afraid of the extent of hope of which you are capable, but that you—the frail web of bone and flesh snaring that fragile temeritous boundless aspirant sleepless with dream and hope—cannot match it; […]
ref: 1957, William Faulkner, “Gavin Stevens”, in The Town (The Snopes Trilogy), New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Such suppression may involve either sympathy or else disillusion with the ethic of predestination, or it may involve a refusal to acknowledge anything so temeritous as an opinion on the subject.
ref: 2002, Brian Cummings, “Literature and the English Reformations 1580-1640”, in The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 314:
synonyms: temerarious
reckless
audacious
glosses: Having temerity; displaying disdain or contempt for danger.
Related terms: temerarious
temerity
regifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She was simply regifting to me the same present I gave her last year.
glosses: present participle and gerund of regift
permeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɝmi.əˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌpɜːmi.əˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: permeabilities
Etymology: From French perméabilité, equivalent to permeable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being permeable.
examples: text: The sulfite cake is usually blended with fly ash (and possibly lime) to produce a landfillable byproduct of low permeability.
ref: 1997, Arthur L. Kohl, Richard B. Nielsen, Gas purification, page 536:
text: McNamara et al. (1991) suggested that neurofactors located within the thoracic ganglion may alter the apparent ionic permeabilities of this freshwater prawn.
ref: 2008, Michael Bernard New, Wagner Cotroni Valenti, Freshwater Prawn Culture, page 33:
glosses: The rate of flow of a fluid through a porous material.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A measure of the ability of a rock to transmit fluids (such as oil or water).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantitative measure of the degree of magnetization of a material in the presence of an applied magnetic field (measured in newtons per ampere squared in SI units).
Derived terms: antipermeability
dynamic permeability
hyperpermeability
hypopermeability
impermeability
magnetic permeability
micropermeability
semipermeability
space permeability
superpermeability
transpermeability
vasculopermeability
vasopermeability
Related terms: impermeable
nonpermeable
permeameter
conductivity
penetrability
porosity
porousness
thegn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thegns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thane.
isomerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: isomerisations
form: isomerization
Etymology: From isomer + -isation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the conversion of a compound into a different isomeric form
Related terms: isomer
isomerise
isomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: isomerizations
form: isomerisation
Etymology: From isomer + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the conversion of a compound into a different isomeric form
Derived terms: cycloisomerization
hydroisomerization
photoisomerization
reisomerization
stereoisomerization
Related terms: isomer
isomerize
isomerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: isomerises
form: isomerising
form: isomerised
form: isomerised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of isomerize.
isomerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈsɒməˌɹaɪz/
ipa: /aɪˈsɑməˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: isomerizes
form: isomerizing
form: isomerized
form: isomerized
Etymology: From isomer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: to convert a compound into a different isomeric form
Derived terms: cycloisomerize
hydroisomerize
photoisomerize
reisomerize
Related terms: isomer
isomerization
IAST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration.
in back of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: By analogy with in front of.
Senses: examples: There is a tool shed (in) back of the house.
glosses: behind, back of
Related terms: on the back of
ideally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɪə.li/
ipa: /aɪˈdi.ə.li/
Forms: form: more ideally
form: most ideally
Etymology: From ideal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The summit of Mauna Kea is considered the ideal place to mount an astronomical observatory, for above the clouds there is only the stars and the skies are ideally transparent.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 46:
glosses: In an ideal way; perfectly.
examples: text: Ideally, we would have one textbook per student, but unfortunately some of you will have to share.
synonyms: in an ideal world
glosses: Given ideal circumstances; preferably.
inactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: inactivations
Etymology: From in- + activation or inactive + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of rendering something inactive.
Derived terms: autoinactivation
bioinactivation
deinactivation
phosphoinactivation
photoinactivation
pre-inactivation
thermoinactivation
X-inactivation
Related terms: deactivation
Industrial Age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the time of the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Industrial Revolution
Senses: examples: text: The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
ref: 1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future:
glosses: The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.
Derived terms: Fourth Industrial Revolution
shaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑːmən/
other: /ˈʃæmən/
rhymes: -ɑːmən
rhymes: -æmən
ipa: /ˈʃɑːmən/
other: /ˈʃeɪmən/
other: /ʃəˈmɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːmən
rhymes: -eɪmən
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: shamans
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schamane, from Russian шама́н (šamán), from Evenki шама̄н (şamān), сама̄н (samān), from Proto-Tungusic *samān. The Evenki word is possibly derived from the root ша- (şa-, “to know”); or else a loanword from Tocharian B ṣamāne (“monk”) or Chinese 沙門 /沙门 (shāmén, “Buddhist monk”), from Pali samaṇa from Sanskrit श्रमण (śramaṇa, “ascetic, monk, devotee”), from श्रम (śrama, “weariness, exhaustion; labor, toil; etc.”), which would make this a doublet of sramana.
Senses: synonyms: witch doctor
glosses: A traditional faith healer.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: medicine man, medicine woman, priest-doctor, witch doctor
text: Shepard: What rites did you go through to become chief shaman?
Shaman: Becoming the shaman is excruciating. I passed through rites that made me wish to die. I carry the scars on my soul.
Shaman: I must perform rites each dawn and dusk to keep me bound into our krogan nature. Our spirit is one of violence and death. I must be attuned to that.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
glosses: A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a spiritual or religious medium between the concrete and spirit worlds; sometimes also a healer.
Derived terms: word: plastic shaman
word: shamaness
word: shamanism
word: shamanistic
word: shamanize
word: shamen
word: technoshaman
forn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English forn, from Old English foran (“before, in front, forward, to the front”). More at fore.
Senses: examples: 1598-1602, [author unknown], The Parnassus plays
Stories of love, where forne the wondring bench, / The lisping gallant might injoy his wench.
glosses: Fore, before; in front of; forward; previously.
Derived terms: forncast
Amrita Nadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Literally, “river of immortality”, from Sanskrit अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal”) + नदी (nadī́, “river”).
Senses: examples: text: The top is connected with the heart by a mystic Nadi called Amrita Nadi.
ref: 1970, Cuttān̲anta Pāratiyār, Secrets of Sama Yoga;: An Elaborate Treatise on the Yoga of Vedic Seers, page 113:
text: 1978, G. Krishna, Guṇṭūru Lakṣmīkāntamu, Nayana: Kavyakantha Vasishtha Ganapati Muni : Biography, page 97,
...(the nerve-knot behind the centre of the eyebrows) leading the aspirant to the heart centre through the Amrita Nadi.
text: Nadi or Amrita Nadi.
ref: 1979, G. V. Subbaramayya, Sri Ramana Reminiscences, page 101:
text: It is called Amrita Nadi, the "immortal channel," or Atma Nadi, "the channel of the Self."
ref: 1996, David Frawley, Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses: spiritual secrets of Ayurda, page 173:
text: From the nasal cavity the white elixer passes down a secret channel called amrita-nadi and is then distributed throughout the body, with the majority ending up in the brain.
ref: 2005, Christian Von Nidda, Our Secret Planet, page 90:
glosses: In yogic belief, a metaphysical channel that connects certain vital areas of the human body.
elding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eilding
form: eldin
form: elden
Etymology: From Middle English elding, eyldyng, of North Germanic origin, akin to Icelandic elding (“fuel”), Danish ild (“fire”). More at anneal.
Senses: glosses: firewood; fuel
glosses: rubbish
transondent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French onde (“wave”), possibly modeled on transparent.
Senses: examples: text: If the display system is not transondent, the loudspeakers may be placed on either side and beneath the video surface.
ref: 2014, Marshall Lang, Architectural Acoustics, page 856:
glosses: Acoustically transparent; able to freely transmit sound.
droppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropping
gaikokujin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaikokujins
form: gaikokujin
Etymology: From Japanese 外国人.
Senses: glosses: A foreigner in or from the perspective of Japan
romper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmpə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑmpɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rompers
Etymology: From romp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For a brief spell in 1974, Polly was singing in blackface as Sarah Leone with a British reggae romper named Tony Jackson.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: Someone who romps or frolics.
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: straggler
glosses: A ship that has moved far ahead of a convoy.
romper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmpə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑmpɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rompers
Etymology: Ellipsis of romper suit.
Senses: examples: text: Prompted to pose on her bed, [Tavi Gevinson] dressed in a skimpy romper, “pouting,” she recalled, “with heavily lined eyes and straightened blonde hair.”
ref: 2021 May 4, Ruth La Ferla, “On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A onesie.
Derived terms: bubble romper
romper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmpə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑmpɚ/
rhymes: -ɒmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rompers
form: rompering
form: rompered
form: rompered
Etymology: From romper room.
Senses: examples: text: James McCartan was about to be ‘rompered’, but not before those present poured themselves drinks.
ref: 2003, Martin Dillon, The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict:
glosses: To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered; associated with the Ulster Defence Association.
Derived terms: romper room
lese majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liz ˈmædʒəsti/
Forms: form: leze majesty
form: lese-majesty
form: lèse majesté
form: lèse-majesté
Etymology: From French lèse-majesté, from Latin laesa maiestās (“injured majesty”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…]I allow neither perduellion nor lese-majesty against my sovereign authority.”
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 332:
text: His father was what you call an agitator, and his father was in jail for lese majesty—what you call speaking the truth about the Emperor.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
Related terms: lesion
now, now
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: now now
Senses: examples: text: Now, now. Don't be rude.
glosses: A gentle reproach or admonition.
examples: text: Now, now, there's nothing to worry about.
glosses: A reassurance.
Related terms: come come, come now, come then
there, there
hijra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːd͡ʒɹə/
ipa: /ˈhɪd͡ʒɹə/
ipa: /ɦɪd͡ʒ.ɽɑː/
ipa: [ɦɪd͡ʒ.ɽäː]
ipa: /ɦiːd͡ʒ.ɽɑː/
ipa: [ɦiːd͡ʒ.ɽäː]
Forms: form: hijras
form: hejra
form: hijada
form: hijara
form: hijrah
Etymology: From Hindi हीजड़ा (hījṛā).
Senses: examples: text: When the Mughal court was disbanded, Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other, Hindu, tradition of eunuchry.
ref: 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 172:
glosses: A eunuch in South Asia, especially one who dresses as a woman.
examples: text: The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane.
ref: 1995, Gayatri Reddy, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture) https://web.archive.org/web/20070529055321/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16479.ctl
text: Even more surprisingly, there are female hijras, women who were born women, who are drawn into the gharanas by the attraction and apparent safety of the hierarchies' substitute for family life.
ref: 2011, AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India, →ISBN, page 111:
text: While videographers were shooting him as he sat on the floor among a group of male and female sex workers, two transgender (male-to-female) hijras came to sit next to him, one on either side.
ref: 2013, Raymond A. Smith, Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Nanda profiles […] an uncastrated hijra who is married to a man and has an adopted son; and a hermaphrodite hijra […]
ref: 2013, Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.
Derived terms: Hijra Farsi
Related terms: zenana
hijra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːd͡ʒɹə/
ipa: /ˈhɪd͡ʒɹə/
ipa: /ɦɪd͡ʒ.ɽɑː/
ipa: [ɦɪd͡ʒ.ɽäː]
ipa: /ɦiːd͡ʒ.ɽɑː/
ipa: [ɦiːd͡ʒ.ɽäː]
Forms: form: hijras
form: hijrah
Etymology: From Arabic هِجْرَة (hijra, “departure, exodus”). Doublet of hegira.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hijra.
glosses: Any similar flight or emigration to a better place.
examples: text: Hijrah means Moving from a land of Shirk to a land of Islaam.
ref: 2007, Abu Maryam Isma’eel Alarcon, transl., The Three Fundamental Principles of Imaam Muhammad bin ‘Abdil-Wahhaab, Al-Ibaanah E-Books, page 17:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Emigration from a non-Muslim country to a Muslim one.
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: morae
form: moras
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A delay in bringing a claim.
examples: text: In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.
ref: 1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
examples: text: Instead of syllables, Japanese is supported by mora. (Tokyo is To-o-kyo-o, a four-mora word.) The word Nihongo consists of four morae, ni-ho-n-go, pronounced with four rhythmical units of sound.
ref: 2011, Senko K. Maynard, Learning Japanese for Real, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 32:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
Derived terms: bimoraic
bimoric
dimoraic
dimoric
heptamoric
hexamoric
monomoraic
monomoric
moraic
moric
moraically
morically
moraify
moratorium
nonmoraic
nonmoric
pentamoraic
pentamoric
quadrimoraic
quadrimoric
submoraic
tetramoraic
tetramoric
trimoraic
trimoric
Related terms: in mora
syllable
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: moras
Etymology: From New Latin from a botanical name, from Tupi moira-tinga and/or Arawak mora.
Senses: examples: text: At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.
ref: 1904, W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: moras
Senses: glosses: The common mora (Mora moro).
Synonyms: sense: common mora
word: ribaldo
sense: common mora
word: goodly-eyed cod
sense: common mora
word: googly-eyed cod
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morra (“finger-counting game”).
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: morai
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μόρᾱ (mórā).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
mora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: moras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of morah (“stool”).
morae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɹi/
Senses: glosses: plural of mora
moras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːɹəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mora
monomoraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + moraic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Containing one mora.
raw_tags: of a syllable
Derived terms: monomoraicity
bimoraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bimoric
Etymology: From bi- + moraic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: dimoraic
glosses: Having two morae, i.e. being composed of either two short vowels, or one long vowel, or a diphthong.
raw_tags: of a syllable
Derived terms: bimoraicity
instituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstɪt(j)uːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of institute
Derived terms: uninstituted
hagiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡioʊˌɡɹæfɪk/
Forms: form: more hagiographic
form: most hagiographic
Etymology: From hagiography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: But the stakes are clearly higher than in the hagiographic viewpoint expressed in [Girard, 1971] and a change of syntax (as the one coming from linear logic) may occur from disturbing semantics.
ref: 1987, Jean-Yves Girard, “Linear Logic”, in Theoretical Computer Science, 50, p.15:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hagiography.
examples: text: “Chairman Xi is a world leader. His book on governance has sold out in many countries across the world,” Zhong gushed, parroting the unashamedly hagiographic bulletins in which the party news agency Xinhua excels.
ref: 2017 October 14, Tom Phillips, “Chairman Xi crushes dissent but poor believe he’s making China great”, in The Observer:
glosses: Uncritically reverent; adulating.
Derived terms: hagiographically
nonhagiographic
counterbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəˈbæləns/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntɚˈbæləns/
Forms: form: counterbalances
Etymology: From counter- + balance.
Senses: glosses: A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
glosses: A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
Synonyms: counterpoise
counterweigh
equipoise
handcuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌkʌf/
Forms: form: handcuffs
Etymology: From hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”). Possibly an adaptation of Middle English handcops (“shackles for the hand, handcuffs”), from Old English handcops, from hand + cops, cosp (“fetter, chains”), but due to a lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and the modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention. Nominal form first appears c. 1591 in the publications of John Florio. Verbal form first appears c. 1649.
Senses: synonyms: manacle
wristlet
glosses: One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.
Hypernyms: fetter
shackle
Derived terms: handcuff artist
handcuff knot
unhandcuff
handcuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌkʌf/
Forms: form: handcuffs
form: handcuffing
form: handcuffed
form: handcuffed
Etymology: From hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”). Possibly an adaptation of Middle English handcops (“shackles for the hand, handcuffs”), from Old English handcops, from hand + cops, cosp (“fetter, chains”), but due to a lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and the modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention. Nominal form first appears c. 1591 in the publications of John Florio. Verbal form first appears c. 1649.
Senses: examples: text: The sheriff had brought along all the handcuffs necessary, and in a few seconds he had handcuffed Koswell. He threw a pair of the steel bracelets to Dick and another pair to Tom, and the Rovers had the satisfaction of handcuffing Josiah Crabtree and Tad Sobber. Then the sheriff made prisoners of the rest of the crowd[…]
ref: 1912, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys in the Air:
text: The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.
ref: 2024 September 30, Chelsea Bailey, “‘Take his pulse, he’s blue’: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders”, in CNN:
text: Conservative influencer Nick Sortor is handcuffed Thursday night by a police officer outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, a bystander video shows; the video does not show events leading up to the arrest.
ref: 2025 October 3, Andy Rose, “Arrest of conservative influencer Nick Sortor outside Portland ICE building now under federal investigation”, in CNN:
glosses: To apply handcuffs to someone.
examples: text: Dang, I’m handcuffed by these regulations. I’d like to help but it’d be illegal.
text: After all, since our marriage has proved a childless one, the only reason for our submitting to be handcuffed to one another, now that our hearts are no longer in the arrangement, is gone.
ref: 1880, George Bernard Shaw, chapter XVII, in The Irrational Knot:
text: If he were a king, as his swagger and opera-singing occasionally suggested, he would stretch the constitution any way he wanted. In fact, as he admitted with a grin, it handcuffed him.
ref: 2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always right”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2020:
glosses: to restrain or restrict.
Synonyms: sense: apply handcuffs to
word: manacle
logolept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logolepts
Etymology: From logo- + Ancient Greek ληπτός (lēptós, “taken, seized”), after earlier nympholept, narcolept, etc. Compare logolepsy, -lepsy.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes a keen interest in words.
Related terms: logolepsy
apple dumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple dumplings
Senses: glosses: A baked dessert made from apples.
glosses: The flowering plant Billardiera mutabilis.
Derived terms: apple dumpling shop
apple-sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of applesauce.
table of contents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tables of contents
Senses: glosses: A list of titles of the parts of a book or document, organized in the order in which the parts appear.
glosses: A region of data on a compact disc that describes the contents that follow.
Synonyms: word: TOC
Derived terms: analytical table of contents
Related terms: index
artichokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artichoke
artichoke bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artichoke bottoms
Senses: glosses: The edible fleshy receptacle at the bottom of an artichoke flower.
Synonyms: sense: more commonly
word: artichoke heart
berates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of berate
blanketed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blanket
blazoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blazon
blazoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Adorned with a blazon.
Derived terms: unblazoned
midriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdɹɪf/
Forms: form: midriffs
Etymology: From Middle English midref, mydrif, from Old English midrif, midhrif (“the midriff; diaphragm”), from Proto-West Germanic *middjahrif. Equivalent to mid- + riff.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: midsection
text: I stuck it out for about an hour and then, apprised by a hollow feeling in the midriff that the dinner hour was approaching, laid a course for home.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: But by Season 3, she said her patience had fizzled like bad Champagne after Emily grossly mispronounced “bien sûr” (“of course!”), flashed her midriff at the office and mistook George Sand, the French romantic writer, as a man.
ref: 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist; the abdomen and its back part.
Derived terms: midriffed
Related terms: diaphragm
beanfeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanfeasts
form: bean feast
form: bean-feast
Etymology: From bean + feast.
Senses: glosses: A dinner party given to the employees of a firm.
glosses: Any similar social occasion.
Derived terms: beano
Related terms: beanfeaster
bean feast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean feasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beanfeast.
bureaucratisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: bureaucratisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bureaucratization.
barbel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːbəl/
ipa: /ˈbɑːɹbəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: barbels
form: barble
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbel, from Old French barbel, from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus.
Senses: examples: text: The Barble fishes, if one of them chance to be engaged, will set the line against their backes, and with a fin they have, toothed like a sharp saw, presently saw and fret the same asunder.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A freshwater fish of the genus Barbus or other closely related genera.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark.
glosses: A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
Derived terms: barbel steed
bureaucratization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bureaucratizations
form: bureaucratisation
Etymology: From bureaucrat + -ization or bureaucratize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The concern of Kosmetatos was not how affected individuals would manage to organize their lives taking the effects of Daltonism as given; rather, using the specific case of Daltonism, he suggested the bureaucratization and surveillance of humans by recording their health condition over long periods.
ref: 2013, Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s), page 109:
glosses: The formation of, or the conversion of something into, a bureaucracy.
Derived terms: debureaucratization
overbureaucratization
Related terms: bureaucratize
bunko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkos
form: bunkoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bunco.
bunko
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bunkos
form: bunkoing
form: bunkoed
form: bunkoed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bunco.
bunco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋkəʊ/
rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
Forms: form: buncos
form: buncoes
form: bunko
Etymology: Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.
Senses: glosses: A swindle or confidence trick.
glosses: A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
examples: text: When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.
ref: 1891, “Buncoed”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, W & R Chambers, page 781:
text: Furthermore, he knew of the O.M. and of how the O.M. was the smoking gun and his outrageous guilt was the key to bringing down every one of the underhanded and dishonest buncoes that were running extreme and eopidemic in Edmonton back then.
ref: 2014, Gary Tetterington, edited by Rebecca Faith Grossman, Condition Other Than Normal: Finding Peace in a World Gone Mad, eBookIt.com, →ISBN:
glosses: A brigand.
Derived terms: bunco artist
bunco squad
bunco-steerer
bunco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌŋkəʊ/
rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
Forms: form: buncos
form: buncoing
form: buncoed
form: buncoed
form: bunko
Etymology: Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.
Senses: examples: text: They felt very sorry (so they said) for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.
ref: 1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
text: "They want a man who will bunko the ignorant patients and get the money."
ref: 1930, Jefferis & Nichols, Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics, page 275:
glosses: To swindle (someone).
back-slang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-slangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backslang.
bastard sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard sugars
Senses: glosses: An impure light brown sugar containing molasses.
backbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌbɹeɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: backbreakers
Etymology: From back + breaker.
Senses: glosses: A strenuous and exhausting task, typically involving physical effort.
Related terms: backbreaking
back boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back boilers
Senses: glosses: a boiler that supplies a central heating and hot water system and is fitted into a fireplace recess, normally behind a gas fire
glosses: a similar boiler, that just supplies hot water, fitted behind an open fire or in a range.
backbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backbeats
form: back beat
Etymology: From back + beat.
Senses: examples: text: Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music / Any old way you choose it / It's got a back beat, you can't lose it, / Any old time you use it
ref: 1957, “Rock and Roll Music”, performed by Chuck Berry:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.
buffeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buffeted
form: most buffeted
Etymology: From buffet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Battered, especially by strong wind.
Derived terms: unbuffeted
buffeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From buffet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buffet