cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-oyl
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊɪl/
Etymology: From -o- + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming the names of acyl radicals from the names of corresponding carboxylic acids.
sub-licensable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sublicensable.
DITA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of direct injected turbocharged aftercooled.
DITA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML data model for authoring and publishing.
Related terms: DITA-OT
DTD
woolly hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly hats
Senses: glosses: an item of knitted headwear, without a brim or peak, made from wool or other fabrics.
Synonyms: sense: see
word: knit cap
AJAJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of asynchronous JavaScript and JSON, a data model for authoring and publishing that followed AJAX.
Related terms: AJAX
horror flicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horror flick
Bugun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Asian tribe found in India and listed under the Scheduled Tribes of India. They speak Bugunish.
Synonyms: Khowa
Derived terms: Bugun liocichla
cheesepare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheesepares
form: cheeseparing
form: cheesepared
form: cheesepared
Etymology: From cheese + pare.
Senses: examples: text: None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.
ref: 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters:
glosses: To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
Related terms: cheeseparing
cheesepared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheesepare
cheesepares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cheesepare
jiboia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jiboias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jiboya.
muttonbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muttonbirds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutton bird.
muttonbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muttonbird
Nazcan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nazcan
form: most Nazcan
Etymology: From Nazca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nazca in Peru.
Nazcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazcans
Etymology: From Nazca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Nazca.
Nazcans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nazcan
Nazca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nasca
form: Naska
form: Nazka
Senses: glosses: A province on the south coast of Peru.
glosses: The capital city of Nazca province and the surrounding district.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A culture that flourished from 100 BC to 800 AD in southern Peru.
Derived terms: Nazca booby
Nazca Desert
Nazca Lines
Nazcan
Nazca Plate
Nazca Ridge
myrmecophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to myrmecophily.
Amandebele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Ndebele people.
nantos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanto
nasus externus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "external nose".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The visible part of the human nose.
narcomedusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcomedusae
Senses: examples: text: Some narcomedusae develop as parasitic stolons in or on other jellyfish species; young medusae are budded from these stolons.
ref: 2016, Lisa-Ann Gershwin, “Battering ram jellies”, in Jellyfish: A Natural History, page 84:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Narcomedusae, an order of hydrozoans in the subclass Trachylinae.
Related terms: narcomedusan
mycoplasmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycoplasmoses
Etymology: Mycoplasma + -osis
Senses: glosses: infection by Mycoplasma bacteria
Nayak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nayaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati નાયક (nāyak).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Muslim Rajput community in the state of Gujarat in India.
glosses: A member of a Hindu caste found in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in India.
Nayak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nayaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati નાયક (nāyak).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Gujarati.
Nayaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nayak
Bankok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This was done, the repairs finished, cargo re-shipped; a new crew came on board, and we went out—for Bankok.
ref: 1898, Joseph Conrad, Youth:
glosses: Archaic form of Bangkok.
celery cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celery cabbages
Senses: glosses: napa (type of Chinese cabbage)
mysost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: primost (Scandinavian cheese)
mygalomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mygalomorphs
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Mygalomorphae
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the infraorder Mygalomorphae of spiders with parallel, downward-running fangs.
mygalomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mygalomorph
mythopoetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoetics
Senses: examples: text: In Noces and subsequently L'Homme révolté he constructs a mythopoetics of the Mediterranean which mythologizes Algeria's history and transcends the darkness of European politics. Almost all of his works celebrate this mythopoetics.
ref: 2000, Azzedine Haddour, Colonial Myths: History and Narrative:
glosses: A mythopoetic system or construction.
mycetophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mycophagy.
Derived terms: copromycetophagy
sapromycetophagy
xylomycetophagy
zoomycetophagy
mycetismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mycetism.
Petrarchanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɹɑːkənɪzəm/
enpr: pĭ-trärʹkə-nĭ-zəm
ipa: /pɛˈtɹɑɹkənɪzəm/
ipa: /piˈtɹɑɹkənɪzəm/
enpr: pĕ-trärʹkə-nĭ-zəm
enpr: pē-trärʹkə-nĭ-zəm
Etymology: From Petrarchan + -ism.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
synonyms: Petrarchism
glosses: The influential style of Petrarch.
perpendicular pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perpendicular pronouns
Etymology: From its shape when written.
Senses: examples: 1982, Yes Minister, "The Skeleton in the Cupboard"
Sir Humphrey: The identity of the official whose alleged responsibility for this hypothetical oversight has been the subject of recent discussion is not shrouded in quite such impenetrable obscurity as certain previous disclosures may have led you to assume; but not to put too fine a point on it, the individual in question is, it may surprise you to learn, one whom your present interlocutor is in the habit of defining by means of the perpendicular pronoun.
Hacker: I beg your pardon?
Sir Humphrey: It was... I.
glosses: The first-person singular pronoun "I".
perpendicular pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perpendicular pronoun
bethrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bethrusts
form: bethrusting
form: bethrusted
form: bethrusted
form: bethrust
form: bethrust
Etymology: From be- (“at, over, across”) + thrust.
Senses: examples: text: The early twilight descended in mercy over the half-crazed inmates of the household, who offered up their truest thanksgiving when Mrs. Duncan and her brood stowed themselves once more into the cutter of which it might have been wondered how it contrived to hold them all, and with a parting hoot from some slily bethrust member of the young fraternity, they started homeward.
ref: 1864, Mrs. J. R. Beckwith, The Winthrops:
text: Bright, radiant, glad eyed, clean souled seraphim, Whose genius would at once from heaven bethrust, Dared they to purity unfaithful prove.
ref: 1881, Biographical and Miscellaneous Sonnets - Page 77
glosses: To thrust forth or about; thrust forward, toward, or out.
Petzval lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Petzval lenses
Etymology: Developed in 1840 by Joseph Petzval.
Senses: glosses: A photographic lens consisting of two doublet lenses with an aperture stop in between.
Related terms: Petzval condition
Petzval sum
Cooke triplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cooke triplets
Etymology: Named after the company T. Cooke & Sons of York, whose chief engineer Dennis Taylor designed it in 1893.
Senses: glosses: A photographic lens comprising a negative flint glass element in the centre with a crown glass element on each side.
permatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permatans
form: perma-tan
Etymology: From perma- + tan.
Senses: examples: text: His permatan, and his vanity, were his weakness. I needed a picture of him, and it needed to be as unflattering as possible. Moving my train of thought on a bit, I reasoned that he must also be a lover of natural sunbathing.
ref: 2008, Alex Cole, Resistance:
text: Shirley Bassey's culture seemed to be that of international showbiz, and her natural skin tone not that far different from the permatan of a Sacha Distel or Cliff Richard.
ref: 2010, John Williams, Miss Shirley Bassey:
text: Her hair was short and white-blonde, to set off her aggressive permatan, and she had soft cheeks and large grey eyes.
ref: 2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A perpetual tan.
Related terms: permatanned
permatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permatan
pertechnate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertechnates
Etymology: From pertechnic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of pertechnic acid.
pertechnates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pertechnate
permatanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: perma-tanned
Etymology: From perma- + tanned.
Senses: glosses: Having a perpetual tan.
Related terms: permatan
pegassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pegassy
form: most pegassy
Etymology: From pegasse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is recommended that each Estate should lay down 100 acres under the system as soon as the necessary equipment is available, and that the trial areas should include frontland, pegassy and riverside soils.
ref: 1947, P.E. Turner, Yields of plant cane and sugar in cultivation experiments, page 25:
synonyms: peaty
qualifier: soil science
glosses: Characterised by the presence of pegasse; peaty.
pecker checker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pecker checkers
Etymology: In reference to medical tests for sexually-transmitted diseases. See pecker (“penis”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A medical doctor, especially a urologist.
pecker checkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecker checker
carbarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbarns
Etymology: From car + barn.
Senses: glosses: A building housing a streetcar when it is not in use.
carbarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbarn
car clout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car clouts
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday's pleasant weather should have brought an increase in certain felonies — purse snatches, street holdups, car clouts, convenience-store stickups, ATM rips. There was no logical reason why crime should be down […]
ref: 2006, Michael A. Graham, The Snow Angel:
text: From there they went over the Little River Ranger Station about a mile away to complete a car clout report. The ranger was taking information on the car clout from Pam when I walked into the ranger station.
ref: 2010, Richard E. Brown, Ranger Up!:
glosses: The crime of breaking into an automobile.
Related terms: car clouting
car clouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car clout
small-ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: inexpensive; having a low price
pegassey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pegassey
form: most pegassey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pegassy.
water icing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water icings
Senses: glosses: A form of icing made from powdered sugar and water.
thioformaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thioformaldehyde
thianes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiane
neurular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neurula + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a neurula.
receptoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From receptor + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The foregoing comparative discussion of colour space has been confined to the receptoral level, and so two important qualifications are in order.
ref: 2003, Evan Thompson, Colour Vision:
glosses: Relating to receptors.
rechip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechips
form: rechipping
form: rechipped
form: rechipped
Etymology: From re- + chip.
Senses: examples: text: Many times was it necessary to rechip the blade, and thus resharpen it, before he had cut down through the thick hide and blubber and thus into the firm muscles where the steel harpoon head was firmly embedded; but at last he drew it forth.
ref: 1927, Munsey's Magazine:
text: The necessity for sandblasting a concrete area after chipping is questionable. If contamination of a chipped area does occur and cannot be cleaned by an air-water blast it is better to rechip the area […]
ref: 1961, Journal of the American Concrete Institute:
glosses: To chip again.
rechips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechip
rechipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechip
rechippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rechipping
recomember
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recomembers
form: recomembering
form: recomembered
form: recomembered
Etymology: Blend of recollect + remember?
Senses: glosses: To remember.
recomembering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recomember
recomembers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recomember
recomembered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recomember
Chitpavan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chitpavans
form: Chitpavan
form: Chitpawan
Senses: examples: text: Chitpavan derives from the Sanskrit ‘chit’ for mind, and ‘pavan’ for purified by fire.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 61:
glosses: A member of a Brahmin community of Konkan in western India.
Chitpavans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chitpavan
Chitpawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chitpawans
form: Chitpawan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitpavan.
Chitpawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chitpawan
relamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relamps
form: relamping
form: relamped
form: relamped
Etymology: From re- + lamp.
Senses: glosses: To replace the lamp(s) in (a light fitting).
relamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relamp
relamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relamp
relamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relamp
relamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relampings
Senses: examples: text: The average number of spot relampings between bulk relampings is equal to the number of lamps in the installation multiplied by the loss in LSF over the bulk relamping interval, […]
ref: 1992, The Lighting Journal: Official Journal of the Institution of Lighting Engineers:
glosses: The replacement of the lamp(s) in a light fitting.
relampings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relamping
reclampings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reclamping
remend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnd
Forms: form: remends
form: remending
form: remended
form: remended
Etymology: From re- + mend.
Senses: glosses: To mend or repair again.
remends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remend
remending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remend
remended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remend
EBKAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of error between keyboard and chair.
Synonyms: PEBCAK
fritlag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fritlags
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: A rag.
synonyms: word: absolute zero
word: asswipe
word: badling
word: blatherskite
word: bugger
word: carrion
word: cipher
word: cockstain
word: crumb
word: custron
word: dandiprat
word: doink
word: fellow
word: fritlag
word: geek
word: good-for-naught
word: good-for-nothing
word: hoon
word: lidderon
word: losel
word: loser
word: louse
word: maggot
word: nonce
word: nowmun
word: ne'er-do-well
word: no-good
word: no-mark
word: nonentity
word: pelf
word: pig dog
word: pile of shit
word: pissant
word: punk
word: puny
word: quat
word: ramp
word: rinky-dink
word: roly-poly
word: scullion
word: slubberdegullion
word: sparrow-fart
word: streak of piss
word: toerag
word: truant
word: twerp
word: wankstain
word: waste of space
word: underperson
word: unworthy
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: A worthless person.
fritlags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fritlag
poleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polemen
Etymology: From pole + -man.
Senses: synonyms: poler
polesman
glosses: One who propels a boat using a pole.
glosses: One who tests the depth of the water using a pole, while aboard a vessel.
polemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poleman
phœbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phœbes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of phoebe.
Denjoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 2 Years: DenJoe Lee Townsend
ref: 1919, Arkansas. Office of the Attorney General, Biennial Report of the Attorney General, page 618:
text: ...black hole radiance and inflation as exponential scaling was explored with Yuhong Zhang [16, 40, 41] partly based on work on critical phenomena done earlier with Denjoe O'Connor [42].
ref: 2012, Norma G. Sànchez, Antonino Zichichi, String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Deeply regretted by his sister Sheila (O' Donovan), Brothers-in-law P.J and Denjoe, Sister-in-law Norma,Nephew's and Nieces (Richard, Liz, Kate and Michael 0' Donovan, Bernard, Michael, Sheila and Liz Moynihan and Michael Firth) grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandniece, great-grandnephew, Paddy and Margaret Lane, cousins and exceptionally kind neighbours and friends.
ref: 2016 October 11, “Obituaries (Johnny Cronin)”, in The Corkman:
glosses: A diminutive name for someone named Denis Joseph.
adjunct treatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjunct treatments
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An additional treatment (e.g. a drug or procedure) used to increase the efficacy or safety of a primary treatment.
besmirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besmirks
form: besmirking
form: besmirked
form: besmirked
Etymology: Variant of besmirch, as if be- + smirk.
Senses: examples: text: A mighty people, strong, reliant, free, / With souls sustained by foulest sorcery / Of noxious demagogues whose wiles disguise / Their sanguine lusts, and whose polluted lies / Besmirk the fairest form of Liberty!
ref: 1907, J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish, The Canadian Magazine - Volume 30 - Page 584:
text: ESPN or some high-wattage radio station, they wouldn't besmirk their own hands, they'd sub it out to lowlifes.
ref: 2011, Libby Sternberg, Gary Alexander, Lunch Reads Volume 2:
glosses: To besmirch; sully; befoul.
appriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: apprisers
Etymology: From apprise + -er.
Senses: qualifier: Scots law
glosses: One who carries out an apprising.
apprisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appriser
apprisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprising
appraisings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpɹeɪzɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of appraising
anomalistic years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anomalistic year
hail down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hails down
form: hailing down
form: hailed down
form: hailed down
Senses: glosses: to fall from the sky, as hail
examples: text: Criticism hailed down on them.
glosses: to beat down suddenly and harshly
Alcalá de Henares
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌalkaˈlɑː deɪ ɛˈnɑːɹɛs/
ipa: /ˌɑlkəˈlɑ deɪ həˈnɑɹeɪs/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Alcalá de Henares.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Community of Madrid, Spain.
Coordinate terms: english: ancient name of the town
translation: ancient name of the town
word: Complute
Related terms: San Fernando de Henares
Fuenlabrada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city of Spain, in the autonomous community of Madrid, southwest of Madrid.
Castellón de la Plana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the province of Castellón, in the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
Getafe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain, in the south of the autonomous community of Madrid.
Marbella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.jə/
ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ə/
Senses: synonyms: word: Marbs
glosses: A city in Andalusia, in southern Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
Lérida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Lleida
Lleida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in western Catalonia, Spain.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
Synonyms: Lérida
Alija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Алија (Alija).
Related terms: Alijeska
Alijeski
Alijev
Alijeva
Alijevska
Alijevski
Alijoska
Alijoski
Alijov
Alijova
Alijovska
Alijovski
take a nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a nap
form: taking a nap
form: took a nap
form: taken a nap
form: have a nap
Senses: glosses: To sleep briefly.
Synonyms: nap
artifactitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: artifactual
Derived terms: artifactitiously
backround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of background.
neopaganistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neopaganistic
form: most neopaganistic
Etymology: From neo- + paganistic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to neopaganism
Cainite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cainites
Etymology: From Cain + -ite.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A descendant of Cain.
topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An adherent of Cainism, a member of a Gnostic sect that honored Cain and Judas.
Synonyms: Cainian
Derived terms: Cainitic
Cainites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cainite
please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Ultimately from PEMDAS.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order.
Synonyms: PEDMAS
BODMAS
BOMDAS
BEDMAS
Norwegianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norwegianisations
Etymology: From Norwegian + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Norwegianization.
thermohalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermohaline
thermohaline circulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermohaline circulation
grade point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grade points
Senses: glosses: A numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course at a college or university, multiplied by the number of credits awarded for the course.
Derived terms: grade point average
keratein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerateins
Etymology: From kerat- + -ein.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The easily digested reduction product of keratin, in which the disulfide links are reduced to SH groups, the individual peptide chains having been separated.
kench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: kenches
Senses: examples: text: And while Harvey was taking in knowledge of new things at each pore and hard health with every gulp of the good air, the We're Here went her ways and did her business on the Bank, and the silvery-gray kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
text: In the former process, the fish are thoroughly salted and placed in regular piles on top of each other, called kenches.
ref: 1911, Raymond McFarland, A History of the New England Fisheries: With Maps, page 304:
glosses: A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
euhymenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + hymenium.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Hymenium in which the basidia are among the first elements formed.
endism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endisms
Etymology: From end + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The belief that something of significant scope and duration, particularly something negative, is coming to an end.
'lo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: When Spade entered, Wise was buting a fingernail and staring at the window. He took his hand from his mouth, screwed his chair around to face Spade, and said: " 'Lo. Push a chair up."
ref: 1929, Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New Yock: Vintage Books (Random House, published 1992, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Alternative form of lo (“hello”).
reign check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sound-alike words are also difficult to find since they confuse the person with a limited vocabulary, as witness these errors taken from dictation: "May I have a reign check on our luncheon date?" "Please ship by partial post."
ref: 1965, Consumers' Research Magazine^([14]), volume 48:
text: I told her I’d take a reign check until I’m a little farther along.
ref: 2008, April Bostic, A Rose to the Fallen: True Love and Eternity are Bound^([391]):
glosses: Misspelling of rain check.
Caribbean English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dialects of the English language spoken in the Caribbean islands, and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America, and South America, including Belize and Guyana.
Bantuization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bantu + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of a language becoming more like a Bantu language.
glosses: The process of a geographical area coming to be dominated by Bantu people.
seabream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabreams
form: seabream
form: sea bream
Etymology: From sea + bream.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the World.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Spondyliosoma cantharus
word: black seabream
taxonomic: Pagellus bogaraveo
word: blackspot seabream
taxonomic: Pagellus bogaraveo
word: blackspot sea bream
taxonomic: Sparus aurata
word: gilthead seabream
taxonomic: Rhabdosargus sarba
word: goldlined seabream
taxonomic: Pagellus bogaraveo
word: red seabream
taxonomic: Oblada melanura
word: saddled seabream
taxonomic: Lithognathus aureti
word: west coast seabream
taxonomic: Archosargus rhomboidalis
word: Western Atlantic seabream
taxonomic: Diplodus sargus
word: white seabream
taxonomic: Acanthopagrus spp.
word: yellowfin seabream
seabreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabream
Chaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chauses
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chaus.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chaus; obsolete spelling of chiaus.
transmanche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French transmanche (“cross-Channel”).
Senses: examples: text: Brussels lies at the intersection of the transmanche route via Lille to London and there will be further links to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne.
ref: 1994, Alan Harding, European Cities Towards 2000:
text: However, the people who live there remain to their transmanche neighbours an enigma wrapped up in Gauloise smoke, a tribe more mysterious than the Hottentots.
ref: 2008 July 21, David Cox, “If these are the sticks, I'll take a forest”, in The Guardian:
text: Unfortunately, as the conference drew near, some speakers found that they were unable to attend; though this freed up some time to allow some very valuable alternative contributions, it meant that some critical topics were not addressed, notably, the ceramic and metalwork evidence in the transmanche region.
ref: 2009, Peter Clark, Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe:
text: The leader PNRCMO has come together with the Kent Downs AONB to develop a programme of enhancement and conservation of various natural habitats of the transmanche areas.
ref: 2011 December, Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Compilation of Anglo-French chalk grassland management:
glosses: cross-channel; pertaining to coastal areas of both southern England and northern France.
queefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queefers
Etymology: From queef + -er.
Senses: examples: re: so how does al qaeda in yemen get their funding? by ransoms paid by the iran, china and ... Group: alt.politics.democrats
i have been saying since day one that you are a fucking moron, queefer.
2002 TR Re: Opie & Anthony Group: alt.fan.howard-stern
I know that Howard's had more than his share of farters/queefers on the air, but he just handles it better, if that makes any sense (not that it's "A" material when he does it, either).
1995 my name is Re: Suck my dick Group: misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.cards.video
You are nothing but a bunch of anal queefers
glosses: Someone who queefs.
varts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vart
queefers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queefer
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; the co-capital of the Canary Islands, along with Las Palmas.
glosses: A province of the Canary Islands.
Synonyms: Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de Santiago de Tenerife
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in northern Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands
Synonyms: La Laguna
La Laguna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: San Cristóbal de La Laguna
glosses: A town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
Dos Hermanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, meaning "two sisters". The name dates from its founding in 1248 by Ferdinand III of Castile and honours the sisters of Gonzalo Nazareno, one of the king's principal military commanders.
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia about fifteen kilometres south of Seville.
wikipedia: Ferdinand III of Castile
Torrejón de Ardoz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain, in the autonomous community of Madrid, 20 kilometres from the centre.
Parla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Madrid.
prideworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prideworthy
form: most prideworthy
form: pride-worthy
Etymology: From pride + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Many adolescents go through a crisis when this kind of simple pride in a cherished group collides with appraisal-based evidence that the actions of the group are not all that pride-worthy (for me, it was the Boy Scouts).
ref: 2013, Roger Giner-Sorolla, Judging Passions: Moral Emotions in Persons and Groups:
glosses: Worthy of pride or of being proud.
Related terms: pridesome
proud
Mataró
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona.
priceworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priceworthy
form: most priceworthy
Etymology: From price + -worthy.
Senses: synonyms: costworthy
spendworthy
glosses: Worth the cost.
jump queue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps queue
form: jumping queue
form: jumped queue
form: jumped queue
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jump the queue.
kicked around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick around
kick arounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kick around
kicks around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick around
kicking around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick around
land up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lands up
form: landing up
form: landed up
form: landed up
Etymology: Idiom derived from "to land."
Senses: glosses: To end up; to arrive or result, especially if it is not planned.
lay eyes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays eyes on
form: laying eyes on
form: laid eyes on
form: laid eyes on
form: lay one's eyes on
Senses: examples: text: Had he seen her once? He debated that a moment. No. The habits of long service years had made him note and remember people. He knew that if ever he had laid eyes on her lovely face, he would never have forgotten.
ref: 1927, William Byron Mowery, Pirates Of The Muskeg:
text: I remember back in school / When I first laid my eyes on you / I saw your smile and knew right then and there
ref: 1980, Teena Marie, “Young Love”, in Irons in the Fire:
text: Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:
text: We can show the kids the tape and say, ‘Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.’
ref: 2018 February 5, Samantha Masters, quoting Edie Brickell, “Paul Simon tour 2018: Who is the Simon & Garfunkel star’s wife?”, in Express.co.uk:
glosses: To see; look at; glimpse.
lightning fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lightning-fast
Senses: synonyms: fulgurant
lightning-quick
quick as a flash
in a flash
glosses: Extremely fast, fast as lightning.
lightning fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: lightning-fast
Senses: synonyms: quick as a flash
in a flash
lightningly
glosses: Extremely quickly.
matter of life and death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matters of life and death
form: matter of life or death
Senses: glosses: Something whose outcome could result in either someone's survival or their death
glosses: An extremely urgent matter.
nerves of steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Great bravery, courage, or composure.
Related terms: steely-nerved
price out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prices out
form: pricing out
form: priced out
form: priced out
Senses: examples: text: He agrees it would be quite difficult to price out the costs of many of the services provided. Obviously some of the costs, like travel expenses, can be computed in advance, but he has no price tag that he could quickly give to you...
ref: 1970, Daily Proceedings and Reports, Annual Convention of the Communications Workers of America:
glosses: To compute the total price of something.
examples: text: High rents are pricing people out.
text: “All my friends have moved to Kent. They’re being priced out,” she says.
ref: 2023 December 17, Richard Partington, “‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: To exclude by means of a high price.
carbophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carbophilic
form: most carbophilic
Etymology: From carbo- + -philic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an affinity for carbon atoms in a molecule (especially an unsaturated one)
Related terms: carbophobic
carbophobe
carbophobia
protogenoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protogenos
country gentleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country gentlemen
Senses: glosses: A rich man of good social standing who owns and lives in a large rural property.
Northern England English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Northern English
glosses: A group of dialects of the English language found in Northern England.
Meronyms: Cumbrian
Geordie
Mackem
Mancunian
Pitmatic
Scouse
Tyke
Yorkshire
construction soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: construction soldiers
Etymology: Possibly translated from German Bausoldat.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In the German Democratic Republic, a person who did not bear arms but instead did construction work.
Northern English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened from Northern England English.
Senses: synonyms: Northern England English
glosses: A group of dialects of the English language found in Northern England.
customer support
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
Synonyms: customer service
vegeculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegecultures
Etymology: Blend of vegetable + agriculture.
Senses: glosses: The practice of cultivating vegetables
glosses: A society that practices vegeculture
Related terms: vegecultural
vegeculturalist
vegecultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegeculture
vegecultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vegeculture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or practicing vegeculture.
Derived terms: vegeculturally
without fear or favour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: without fear or favor
Senses: examples: text: The judge made his decision without fear or favour.
synonyms: impartially
dispassionately
in the cold light of day
glosses: In an equal and fair manner.
as the next guy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as the next girl
form: as the next person
Senses: examples: text: I like reading as much as the next guy.
text: I'm as friendly as the next guy.
glosses: To a reasonable degree; as much as a typical person or man.
as the next girl
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: as the next guy
form: as the next person
Senses: examples: text: I like reading as much as the next girl.
text: I'm as friendly as the next girl.
glosses: To a reasonable degree; as much as a typical woman.
drain fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drain flies
Senses: synonyms: shower fly
glosses: A fly whose larvae live in decaying organic matter underwater, most notably on the inside of drains, Clogmia albipunctata and similar species.
synonyms: moth fly
glosses: Any species in the subfamily Psychodinae of the family Psychodidae.
tonologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonology
null sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of null set
shareworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shareworthy
form: most shareworthy
Etymology: From share + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Worthy or able to be shared; shareable.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Worthy of a share.
incestophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incestophiles
Etymology: From incest + -o- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: You of course might be a bit jealous of any family at all, since you are an orphan after all. SO you finally admit it. You are an incestophile. Where in the Hell do I admit that, you silly little bitch?? Show me. Besides, you're the one who continually makes references and direct remarks about incest
ref: 2001, Alex Cain, Re: Alex Cain is..............exposed Group: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
text: So you'd say that paedophilia is "normal" to a Paedophile and incest is normal to an incestophile? Murder is normal for a murderer, too, I suppose? So in the end, words have no meaning. For someone who has just produced "incestophyle" to then whine that words have no meaning is grotesque without being funny.
ref: 2002 Ward Stewart, Re: Christophobia Group: alt.atheism
text: That's how you think it should be, but that is not the way it is. Gays are a recognized minority class. Polygamists and Incestophiles (??) aren't.
ref: 2004 Odinn, Re: End Of Debate! (yeah, right... ;) Group: rec.motorcycles
text: Romer applied a "tougher" rational basis standard (what O'Connor called "a more searching form of rational basis."). Assuming that standard applies to gays, but not to polygamists or incestophiles (??), the state easily withstands challenges to bans on group marriage on consanquinity because of the lower standard.
ref: 2005 Josh Rosenbluth, Re: Gay "marriage" is not a "right" Group: alt.politics.homosexuality
text: Are you an incestophile? Hoping that a more permissive gov't stance on gay issues will lead to more freedoms for you in matters of incest? If so, you should be out there building your base and trying to gain public acceptance for your cause.
ref: 2005 Obwan, Re: Tell your kids to bend over and spread their cheeks! Group: or.politics
glosses: A person who is fond of incest.
Related terms: incestophilia
incestophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incestophile
eats cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eat cunt
eating cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eat cunt
ate cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of eat cunt
eaten cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat cunt
Micawber threshold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Dickens character Wilkins Micawber, known for his inability to work his way out of poverty.
Senses: examples: text: As for the moderate poverty line, the existence of positive expected net savings capacity is in a sense a Micawber threshold [Dickens 1849-50, ch. 14], separating accumulation from decumulation of the present value of a person's human and physical capital stock.
ref: 1994, Philip L. Martin, Mexican Maquiladoras: Origins, Operations and Outlook (International Institute for Labour Studies, 1994) p. 9
text: If drawing down such assets pushes the household below the Micawber threshold, then the estimated poverty-trap asset dynamics again predict that the temporary shock will have permanent, long-run effects.
ref: 2006, Vishnu Padayachee, The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994-2004, HSRC Press, page 132:
text: The key point for lessons for conservation in general, and that of felids in particular, is that there exists a poverty line, or a variant of it that Carter and Barrett call the Micawber threshold (a charmingly Dickensian allusion to perpetually insolvent debtors) below which the poor are economically incapable of bettering their situation without significant outside help; people in this situation have no incentive to save or preserve anything, including wildlife and especially big cats, which are damaging and dangerous.
ref: 2010, David Macdonald, Andrew Loveridge, The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids, Oxford University Press, page 631:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A level of income, above the poverty line, but not high enough to cope with economic shocks.
wikipedia: Wilkins Micawber
Related terms: Micawber frontier
stasiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stasiarch
masturbationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masturbationists
Etymology: From masturbation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He grew gradually worse and entered the hospital, where he died completely demented, a confirmed masturbationist until the last. In most cases the patients are conscious in the beginning of the evil effects of self-abuse, and make feeble and ineffectual efforts at reform.
ref: 1881, The Ohio Medical Recorder:
text: […] diseased conditions in which no milder means are effective. For example, the rapist, the confirmed masturbationist and pervert.
ref: 1913, Medical Herald:
glosses: One who masturbates.
masturbationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masturbationist
multilectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lectal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to more than one lect.
Norwegianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Norwegianizes
form: Norwegianizing
form: Norwegianized
form: Norwegianized
form: Norwegianise
Etymology: From Norwegian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make Norwegian.
Norwegianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Norwegianize
Norwegianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Norwegianize
Norwegianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Norwegianize
shamla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamlas
Senses: glosses: A girdle for the waist, worn in India.
shamlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shamla
anarchoprimitivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anarcho- + primitivism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anarcho-primitivism.
fortamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aminocyclitol found in astromicin.
valienamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aminocyclitol found as a substructure of pseudooligosaccharides such as acarbose and validamycins.
validamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: validamycins
Etymology: Possibly valid or validate + -a- + -mycin
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic and fungicide produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus, used as an inhibitor of trehalase.
validamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of validamycin
aminocyclitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminocyclitols
Etymology: From amino + cyclitol.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of chemical compounds related to cyclitols and used in aminoglycoside antibiotics.
aminocyclitols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminocyclitol