cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
e-relationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-relationships
Etymology: From e- + relationship.
Senses: glosses: A personal or business relationship mediated through computer communication.
Related terms: cyberrelationship
e-relationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-relationship
unobscurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + obscurable.
Senses: synonyms: inobscurable
glosses: Not obscurable; which cannot be obscured.
obscurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From obscure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Which can be obscured.
Derived terms: inobscurable
obfuscatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From obfuscate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Which can be obfuscated.
unobfuscatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + obfuscatable.
Senses: examples: text: This may seem surprising in light of the negative results of [2], who showed that there exist (contrived) families of unobfuscatable functions for which the VBB definition is impossible to achieve in the plain model.
ref: 2014, Phong Q. Nguyen, Elisabeth Oswald, Advances in Cryptology - 33rd International Conference of the Theories and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, International Association for Cyrptologic Research - Springer, page 224
glosses: Not obfuscatable; which cannot be obfuscated.
freeingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more freeingly
form: most freeingly
Etymology: From freeing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is freeing.
vernacularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vernacularises
form: vernacularising
form: vernacularised
form: vernacularised
Senses: examples: text: Vernacularise your knowledge, and it is no longer an exotic plant, dependent on man and chance.
ref: 1859, Calcutta Review, volumes 32-33, page 283:
text: Indeed the embryo of much nineteenth century reform had already appeared in the curious provision of the ancient Statutes of the Guild (chapter 10), whereby a penalty is incurred "gif ony stal (minxerit — a word which Skene vernacularises with excessive bluntness!) in the yet of the gilde or upon the wall of the gild."
ref: 1891, The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports, page 339:
text: The Indonesians were able to vernacularise their legal system because the degree of sociopolitical dislocation was so much more, and the amount of law so much less, than in common law Malaysia.
ref: 2009, Thomas Hoffmann, World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects:
glosses: Alternative form of vernacularize.
vernacularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vernacularise
vernacularises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vernacularise
vernacularising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vernacularise
undescriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undescriptive
form: most undescriptive
Etymology: From un- + descriptive.
Senses: synonyms: non-descriptive
glosses: Not descriptive.
meatheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meatheaded
form: most meatheaded
Etymology: From meat + headed.
Senses: synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: stubbornly stupid, especially in an aggressive masculine way
Related terms: meathead
overpolluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpolluted
form: most overpolluted
Etymology: From over- + polluted.
Senses: glosses: Having too much pollution.
underpolluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underpolluted
form: most underpolluted
Etymology: From under- + polluted.
Senses: examples: an underpolluted country
glosses: Having relatively low pollution.
Friedmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Friedmanian
form: most Friedmanian
Etymology: From Friedman + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Milton Friedman (1912–2006), American economist, statistician, and writer, known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy.
Related terms: Friedmannian
Toll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tole
form: Toles
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Towle, Tole.
* As a German surname, from the adjective toll, meaning both "wonderful" and "crazy, mad." Also shortened from Bartholomäus.
* As a Dutch surname, variant of Tol, sometimes shortened from Van Toll.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Congo bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congo bars
Senses: glosses: A blondie (baked snack) with chocolate chips and either walnuts or coconut.
Congo bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Congo bar
overpollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + pollution.
Senses: glosses: Excessive pollution.
Sang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sangs
Etymology: As a surname, from:
*Khmer សង (sɑɑng)
*Korean 상 (sang)
*Chinese 桑 (sāng)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
glosses: A surname from Korean.
glosses: A surname from Khmer.
oversharer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversharers
Etymology: From overshare + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After a roughly six-hour outage, popular blogging platform Tumblr was back up Friday afternoon, bringing sweet relief to hipster bloggers, budding photographers and oversharers everywhere.
ref: 2012 October 26, Doug Gross, “Rejoice, ye bloggers: Tumblr is back up”, in CNN:
text: More often than not, the person does know the “offending” parent and has been pushed to the edge. If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission. But most of the time, that’s not the case. Once a poop picture oversharer, always a poop picture oversharer.
ref: 2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN:
text: “I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously.
ref: 2025 January 15, Kashmir Hill, “She Is in Love With ChatGPT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But she had no misgivings about putting the story in print. “I’m an oversharer – I tell my friends these things all the time, and it helps,” Case says. “It doesn’t necessarily make anything better, per se, but it feels good to have somebody hear you.”
ref: 2025 January 31, Elle Hunt, “‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who overshares.
oversharers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oversharer
Smitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Smitts
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
thaneland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thanelands
form: thane-land
form: thane land
form: thegnland
Etymology: From thane + land.
Senses: glosses: Land held by a thane.
glosses: The district over which the jurisdiction of a thane extended.
discouragings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discouraging
fosteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fosteringly
form: most fosteringly
Etymology: From fostering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that fosters or encourages.
encirclings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encircling
intermediums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermedium
myocardiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myocardium
stinkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinking
dischargings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discharging
subordinancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subordinancies
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of subordinacy.
arcsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcsin
arctans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arctan
arctangential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the arctangent.
bullbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bull bar.
bullbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullbar
copesettic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of copacetic.
jetplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetplanes
Senses: examples: text: We are supplying jetplanes to other countries to assist in our own defense. Yet, here, we cannot spend $10 million, the cost of one jetplane, to help to bring peace to the world.
ref: 1972, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:
glosses: Alternative form of jet plane.
jetplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetplane
fleamarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleamarkets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flea market.
fleamarket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fleamarkets
form: fleamarketing
form: fleamarketed
form: fleamarketed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flea-market.
fleamarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleamarket
fleamarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fleamarket
coaltar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaltars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coal tar.
jawbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jawbreaking
form: most jawbreaking
Etymology: From jaw + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Cockburn, whose forte was not the civil law, affected to listen attentively and take ample notes, when, at last, on Mr Brodie citing some German civilian with a jawbreaking name, his lordship interrupting him asked, […]
ref: 1867, Hugh Barclay, I. S. H. Laidlaw, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 11, page 131:
text: If he had, he would probably write and talk in a jawbreaking technical language that we ordinary mortals could not more understand readily than we can work a cross-word puzzle without resorting to the dictionary.
ref: 1934, Kansas Teacher and Western School Journal:
glosses: Very difficult to pronounce.
Derived terms: jawbreakingly
Related terms: unpronounceable
pink fairy armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink fairy armadillos
form: pink fairy armadilloes
Senses: glosses: Chlamyphorus truncatus, a species of armadillo native to Argentina.
Synonyms: pichiciego
teloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telos
tiddleywink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiddleywinks
Senses: examples: text: And then you feel all round your pocket and fish out that absurd little thing, all by itself, sticking on the end of your finger like a tiddleywink. The shop-girl sniffs. She spots immediately that it's your last threepence in the world.
ref: 2004, Anthony Stewart, George Orwell, Doubleness and the Value of Decency, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of tiddlywink.
tiddleywinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiddleywink
bloodheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blood + heat.
Senses: examples: text: From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable […]
ref: 1825, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 137, page 5:
text: Warmth, if less than bloodheat would cool the body quickly, by dilating the superficial capillaries, and allowing rapid conduction, while, at the same time, there is further heat abstraction in the consequent increase of more than one secretion.
ref: 1870, British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, volume 46, page 147:
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: The temperature of the body of a living mammal.
cantharidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cantharidin.
chromophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromo- + -phonic.
Senses: examples: text: Here is chromophonic montage at its most skillful, as Minnelli orchestrates camera movement, music, and lighting in a crescendo of sound and color which red comes to dominate in the climactic moment of violent explosion.
ref: 1980, Film/psychology Review, volume 4, page 80:
glosses: Of or relating to an art style combining music with coloured light.
compings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comping
hematohidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematidrosis.
hemidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: haematidrosis
haematohidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haematidrosis.
haemidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: haematidrosis
gnocchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnocchi
eugarie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eugarie
form: eugaries
Senses: examples: text: The occupants fished, flaked stone for artefacts and built fires but did not gather many shellfish locally (most of the few fragments found in this phase are identifiable as Eugarie from the east coast).
ref: 1989, J[ay] Hall, G. Bowen, “An Excavation of a Midden Complex at the Toulkerrie Oystermens Lease, Moreton Island, S.E. Queensland”, in Queensland Archaeological Research, volume 6, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld.: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 May 2020, page 24:
text: In front of him were great piles of blackened eugarie shells, relics of past aboriginal feasts. But the fires that had burned here among the dunes were long dead, and there was no sign of recent use of the site.
ref: 2009, Doris Gray-Woods, “The Coastal Survey of 1840”, in With Compass, Chain & Courage, Salisbury, Qld.: Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ugari.
mismarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismarriages
Etymology: From mis- + marriage.
Senses: glosses: Bad or unsuitable marriage.
Hyponyms: mésalliance
mismarriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismarriage
eugaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eugarie
rearchive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rearchives
form: rearchiving
form: rearchived
form: rearchived
Etymology: From re- + archive.
Senses: glosses: To archive again.
rearchived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearchive
rearchiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rearchive
rearchives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rearchive
Stir-up Sunday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the opening words of the collect for the 25th Sunday after Trinity in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (a translation of the Roman Missal's collect "Excita, quæsumus"): "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people..."
Senses: qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: The last Sunday before the season of Advent, on which families traditionally gather in their kitchens to prepare Christmas pudding.
one-pot synthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-pot syntheses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A strategy to improve the efficiency of a chemical reaction, whereby a reactant is subjected to successive chemical reactions in a single reactor, avoiding a lengthy separation and purification process.
Synonyms: one-pot reaction
antilatitudinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antilatitudinarian
form: most antilatitudinarian
Etymology: From anti- + latitudinarian.
Senses: glosses: Opposing a latitudinarian stance.
unretrievable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + retrievable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be retrieved.
linkfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkfests
Etymology: From link + -fest.
Senses: glosses: A situation where there are many hyperlinks.
linkfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linkfest
metaconversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaconversations
Etymology: From meta- + conversation.
Senses: glosses: A conversation about conversations.
metaconversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaconversation
rice balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rice ball
SyAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SyAMs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of synthetic antibody mimic.
SyAMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SyAM
don't keep a dog and bark yourself
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Don't do anything you are paying a more qualified person to do.
spalacolestine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Spalacolestes + -ine, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́λᾰξ (spắlăx, “Spalax microphthalmus”) + λῃστής (lēistḗs, “pirate”).
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the genus Spalacolestes
ghu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ghu.
FooFoo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Foo.
to the nth degree
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Simultaneously stunned and utterly smitten, the Moevitian fell in love with the vision before him that night: a goddess, a new-age angel, an artist in possession of perfect pitch, a two-plus-octave range, and vocal gorgeosities to the nth degree.
ref: 2000, Judith Fitzgerald, Sarah McLachlan: Building a Mystery, New Millennium edition, Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Music Books, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Asnicar said forensic officers were examining the Murray Street house, an operation he said which could take “several days” ... This will be done to the nth degree and we will cover every angle.
ref: 2014 December 18, The Guardian (US):
text: His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.
ref: 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: As much as possible, to the greatest extent.
u/c
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of upper-case.
Mary Ann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maryann
form: Mary Anne
Etymology: From Mary + Ann.
Senses: examples: text: She doesn't like being called after Mother Hubbard, who is an old woman in a baby bonnet, even more than she doesn't like to be called Honoria. "That name practically ruined mah entire childhood," she said once. "Ah wanted to make darn sure Ah gave mah little girl a name nobody in creation could make fun of."
But she hasn't. 'Mary Ann, Mary Ann, washed her face in a frying pan,' they sang at her on the playground at recess. Soon as she grows up she is going to change it to another one, sort of like it, but nicer, more like books: Marian, or Marianne. Or maybe Miranda.
ref: 1979, Alison Lurie, Only Children, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:
text: The entire family fell in love with Mary Ann, holding her, playing peek-a-boo until she would laugh so loudly. The snow had been falling for several days, and it was blistering cold. Our family didn't own an automobile, but Daddy sat […]
ref: 2013 June 17, Victoria Rose, The Princess and the Devil, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: An imaginary character to whom the Sheffield Outrages were attributed.
Mary Anne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mary Ann
form: Maryann
Etymology: From Mary + Anne.
Senses: examples: text: "We've been making up the most glamorous names for you, Marguerite and Marlene and Madeleine―"
"And Melanie and Marianne and Marietta," put in Jane.
"And Mary Anne," said Matthew.
"Mary Anne's not glamorous," said Jane.
ref: 1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?
ref: 2012, Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
disconcur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disconcurs
form: disconcurring
form: disconcurred
form: disconcurred
Etymology: From dis- + concur.
Senses: glosses: to disagree with a statement or action
morine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of morin (“organic compound”).
synonyms: word: morin
extra: organic compound
lightning talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning talks
Senses: glosses: A very short verbal presentation given at a conference etc., usually one of a series delivered by different speakers.
lightning talks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightning talk
phone banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phone bank
assaultively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assaultively
form: most assaultively
Etymology: From assaultive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] if we can train “naturally” antagonistic animals, such as dogs and cats or cats and mice, to live together peacefully—which we definitely can—we can also encourage “naturally” antagonistic humans to behave much less assaultively.
ref: 1977, Albert Ellis, chapter 12, in Anger: How to Live With and Without It, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, published 1997, page 211:
text: Driving back to the city, through the assaultively scenic and demographically uniform little towns, they were silent.
ref: 2006, Deborah Eisenberg, “Some Other, Better Otto”, in Twilight of the Superheroes, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 53:
glosses: In an assaultive manner.
assaultiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assaultive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being assaultive.
unwanting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wanting.
Senses: glosses: Not wanting something.
undesiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + desiring.
Senses: glosses: Not desiring something.
color pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colored pencil.
coloring pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coloring pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colored pencil.
coloured pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnsəl
Forms: form: coloured pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colored pencil (US)
colour pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colored pencil (US)
unauditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + auditioned.
Senses: glosses: Not having gone through an audition.
colouring pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colouring pencils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colored pencil.
Synonyms: coloring pencil
undeniedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undenied + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without being denied.
deniably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deniable + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: unconfirmably, untraceably, unprovably
antonyms: undeniably#Adverb
;
confirmably#Adverb
verifiably#Adverb
traceably#Adverb
provably#Adverb
glosses: In a deniable manner.
Related terms: plausible deniability
schizophrenigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schizophrenogenic.
Viking disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dupuytren's contracture
palmar fibromatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dupuytren's contracture
morbus Dupuytren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Dupuytren's contracture
chargerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From charger + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a battery charger.
chargelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chargeless + -ness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Lack of charge.
Aspergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aspergic
form: most Aspergic
Etymology: From Asperger + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or affected by Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergian
word: spergy
Aspergic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aspergics
Etymology: From Asperger + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergian
word: Aspie
word: sperg
word: sperglord
Hypernyms: word: autie
Aspergics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aspergic
Scheper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schepers
Etymology: From Low German Schaap + -er, related to High German Schäfer, meaning shepherd, or from Dutch schipper, related to English Skipper, meaning a ship's captain.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
backprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backprint
backprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backprint
freakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiːkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of freaking
once in a way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: For the greater part of the time we were considerably above the sea, that took on a more vivid hue, more peacock freakings, for every yard we hung above it. Once in a way we got down to sea level, but only to mount again.
ref: 1926, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Corsica, the Surprising Island, page 216:
glosses: Once in a while; occasionally; every now and then.
AI-complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By analogy with terms like NP-complete.
Senses: examples: text: Problems like solving crosswords from clues are reputed as AI-complete [7]. This enormous complexity is due to its semantics and the large amount of encyclopaedic knowledge required.
ref: 2006, M.Gori, M.Ernandes, G.Angelini, “Cracking Crosswords: The Computer Challenge”, in Oliviero Stock, Marco Schaerf, editors, Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 266:
text: Just as concept kernels are not AI-complete, sequiturs and resonances are not AI-complete. Sequiturs and resonances also may not need to be human- equivalent to minimally support deliberation; it is acceptable for an early AI to miss out on many humanly obvious thoughts, so long as those thoughts which are successfully generated sum to fully general deliberation.
ref: 2007, Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Artificial General Intelligence, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 452:
text: ... Now imagine a remote descendant of such a system that has acquired the ability to read with as much understanding as a human ten-year-old but with a reading speed similar to that of TextRunner. (This is probably an AI-complete problem.)
ref: 2014, Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 71:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Of a problem: such that a solution presupposes or entails solving the problem of constructing a general artificial intelligence ("strong AI").
Wicker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in Brazos County, Texas, United States, recorded by the USGS as a populated place.
die-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪn
Forms: form: die-ins
Etymology: From die + -in; modelled on lie-in and sit-in.
Senses: examples: text: By reclaiming the streets through such actions as spontaneous (unpermitted) marches, critical mass bicycle convergences, or staged theatrics (such as the die-ins protesting the Iraq war), activists literally and rhetorically transform corporate space into public, autonomous zones.
ref: 2010, Christina R. Foust, Transgression as a Mode of Resistance: Rethinking Social Movement in and Era of Corporate Globalization:
text: The current die-ins are part of a movement to end police brutality against and the mass incarceration of black and brown people, and have drawn allies from different races, generations and faiths. When non-black participants join black people in die-ins, they affirm the need for institutional change – but they also visibly highlight the remaining disparities facing black and brown people.
ref: 2014 December 19, Paul M Farber, “Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next”, in The Guardian Online:
text: The funeral is the culmination of Extinction Rebellion’s actions at London fashion week. They also staged a die-in outside one of the show venues on Friday and a swarm outside Victoria Beckham’s show on Sunday, with protesters holding placards reading “fashion = ecocide” and “the ugly truth about fashion”.
ref: 2019 September 17, Lauren Cochrane, “Extinction Rebellion stage funeral at London fashion week finale”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: lie-in
coordinate_terms: sit-in
glosses: A form of protest where a group of people in a public area lie on the ground to simulate being dead.
die-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of die-in
schticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schticky
form: most schticky
Etymology: From schtick + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shticky.
cryptofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: The fauna that exist in protected or concealed microhabitats
Related terms: cryptofaunal
cryptoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + flora.
Senses: glosses: The flora that exist in protected or concealed microhabitats.
tonomorphemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonomorpheme
Turing-complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Turing complete.
amarantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæm.əˈɹæn.tɪn/
/-taɪn/
Etymology: From Latin amarantinus, from Ancient Greek ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amaranthine.
amarantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæm.əˈɹæn.tɪn/
/-taɪn/
Forms: form: more amarantine
form: most amarantine
Etymology: From Latin amarantinus, from Ancient Greek ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amaranthine.
police violence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 19 December 2014, Paul M Farber in The Guardian Online, Die-ins demand that we bear witness to black people's fears that they'll be next
Convened largely by black youth activists, well-attended marches against police violence in dozens of US cities are convincing displays of growing dissent – but the related acts of urgent public mourning are tools of moral indictment, not just protest. Activists are staging their own deaths because speaking out against systemic racism no longer feels like enough.
glosses: police brutality
polynucleosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + nucleo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of cells with multiple nuclei, especially in the blood.
Synonyms: multinucleosis
Related terms: polynucleolar
multinucleosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + nucleo- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of polynucleosis.
synonyms: word: polynucleosis
year 2038 problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
Related terms: year 2000 problem
Flach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from German flach.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dutch concerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch concert
Dutch nightingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch nightingales
Etymology: Dutch (“imitation, poor substitute”) + nightingale.
Senses: glosses: A frog.
Dutch nightingales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch nightingale
control city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪti
Forms: form: control cities
Senses: glosses: A city listed as a destination on highway signs.
it's the thought that counts
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: I know the gift he gave you for your wedding is not worth much, but I hope you'll understand it's the thought that counts.
glosses: When giving someone a present or doing a favour for someone, the kindness behind the act is more important than any other consideration.
XMPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The app uses XMPP to communicate, a long-established protocol for sending instant messages. On top of that, Anom wrapped messages in a layer of encryption. XMPP works by having each contact use a handle that in some way looks like an email address. For Anom, these included an XMPP account for the customer support channel that Anom users could contact. Another of these was bot.
ref: 2022 July 7, Joseph Cox, “This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World”, in VICE:
glosses: Initialism of extensible messaging and presence protocol, a communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML.
exam papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exam paper
alphabet soups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alphabet soup
kokoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A raw fish salad in Fijian cuisine.
service dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service dog
character amnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon whereby experienced speakers of some East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well known to them.
Londonshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From London + -shire.
Senses: glosses: London, England
snatchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snatch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a snatch
prezzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prez
air punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air punches
form: air-punch
Senses: examples: text: I have been trying hard to shrug off my old-life competitiveness, but I admit to you that the first time I saw sparrows swooping around my one humble feeder, I did an air punch that would have befitted a winning contestant on MasterChef.
ref: 2022 January 8, Debora Robertson, “Why I’m letting go of London perfectionism for laid-back life in Languedoc”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A celebratory gesture in which the fist is directed upward.
Related terms: punch the air
fist pump
air punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air punch
rebujito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebujitos
Etymology: From Spanish rebujito.
Senses: glosses: A drink made from manzanilla sherry and lemonade.
rebujitos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebujito
ikurriña
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ikurriñas
Etymology: From Spanish ikurriña, in turn from Basque ikurrin.
Senses: glosses: The flag of the Basque Country.
ikurriñas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ikurriña
Deep Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Deep Web
form: deep Web
form: deep web
form: deep-web
Etymology: Coined by American web scientist Michael K. Bergman in 2001.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]
ref: 2012, Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Deep Net
Invisible Web
Hidden Web
antonyms: Surface Web
visible Web
Clear Net
Indexed Web
Indexable Web
glosses: The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Dark Web
glosses: The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).
Meronyms: Dark Web
Related terms: darknet
Deepnet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Deep Net.
Invisible Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Invisible Web
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Deep Web
Hidden Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛb
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Deep Web
txapela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃəˈpɛl.ə/
Forms: form: txapelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque txapela, the absolutive singular of Basque txapel.
Senses: glosses: A Basque-style beret
txapelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of txapela
Visible Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of visible Web.
surface Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the surface Web
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: visible Web
Light Net
Clear Web
Light Web
Clear Net
Indexed Web
Indexable Web
holonyms: Web
World Wide Web
coordinate_terms: Deep Web
Deep Net
Invisible Web
Hidden Web
glosses: The portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed by conventional search engines.
mimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mimable
form: most mimable
Etymology: From mime + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be mimed
derepressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derepress
slendro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ (sléndro). In Javanese the term is said to derive either from "Sailendra", the name of the ruling family in the eighth and ninth centuries when Borobudur was built, or from its earlier being given by the god Sang Hyang Hendra.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pelog.
unjargonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjargonized
form: most unjargonized
Etymology: From un- + jargonized.
Senses: glosses: Not jargonized.
dejargonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dejargonizes
form: dejargonizing
form: dejargonized
form: dejargonized
Etymology: From de- + jargon + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To free from obscure technical language.
Related terms: dejargonization
steampunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steampunky
form: most steampunky
Etymology: From steampunk + -y.
Senses: examples: a steampunky outfit
glosses: Reminiscent of the steampunk genre.
dejargonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dejargonize
dejargonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dejargonize
dejargonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dejargonize
dejargonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + jargon + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The removal of obscure technical language.
Related terms: dejargonize
jargon
culturomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to culturomics.
subroute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subroutes
Etymology: From sub- + route.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary route.
subroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subroute
Baily's beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In honour of Francis Baily, who first fully explained the phenomenon in 1836.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.
Kobon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in Madang Province and Western Highlands Province, north of Mount Hagen.
black as night
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I wanna see it painted / painted black / black as night / black as coal
ref: 1966, The Rolling Stones, “Paint It, Black”, in Aftermath:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Utterly black; pitch-black.
Synonyms: black
uninsertable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + insert + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that, because of some locational feature on the part, it can be fed with the proper surfaces uppermost, with a consistent but uninsertable radial orientation.
ref: 1996, Frank J. Riley, Assembly Automation: A Management Handbook, page 133:
glosses: Not insertable.
Related terms: reinsertion
uninserted
indexable
unindexable
insertables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insertable
teenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenies
Etymology: From sixteen + -ie.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A sixteenth of a dollar, a unit in which stocks could formerly be traded.
teenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teenie
anomaloscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anomaloscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to anomaloscopy.
anomaloscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The measurement of color blindness using an anomaloscope.
Derived terms: anomaloscopic
bedights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedight
bedighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedight
bedighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedight
Ravennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ravennate
form: most Ravennate
Etymology: From Ravenna + -ate (adjective-forming suffix); an anglicized form of Italian ravennate and Latin Ravennās through incorrectly associated endings (see Latin -ās).
Senses: examples: text: He held at first that this work had originated from a Ravennate workshop.
ref: 1958, Pieter Singelenberg, “The Iconography of the Etschmiadzin Diptych and the Healing of the Blind Man at Siloe”, in Art Bulletin:
glosses: Of, from, or concerning Ravenna, a major city in Italy.
Synonyms: Ravennese
Ravennan
Ravennate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ravennates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Ravenna + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ...shortly after he arrived in his adopted city the signore Guido II da Polenta appointed Giovanni as one of the Ravennates who served as foreign notaries at the podesla's court in Florence.
ref: 1980, Dragmalogia of Giovanni da Ravenna on the Preferable Way of Life, volume 7:
glosses: One of the Ravennese: a native or inhabitant of Ravenna in Italy.
Ravennese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ravennese
form: most Ravennese
Etymology: Either Ravenna + -ese or an anglicized form of Latin Ravennātēnsis.
Senses: examples: text: Consider Raphael's Donna Velata, the Ravennese mosaic of Justinian and His Court, and Picasso's still-life The Pigeon.
ref: 1930, Helen Knight, “Sense-form in pictorial art”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society:
glosses: Ravennate; of Ravenna.
Ravennese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Either Ravenna + -ese or an anglicized form of Latin Ravennātēnsis.
Senses: examples: text: ...the Ravennese had found a fresh field for their activity on the eastern side of the Adriatic.
ref: 1903, Reginald Bloomfield, Art. IV., “Byzantium or Ravenna?”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 197, number 394, page 417:
glosses: The natives or inhabitants of Ravenna in Italy.
Ravennates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ravennate