cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cross-kick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-kicks
form: cross-kicking
form: cross-kicked
form: cross-kicked
Etymology: From cross- + kick.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crosskick.
awner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːnɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːnɚ
Forms: form: awners
Etymology: From awn + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device for cutting the awns from grain.
evacuchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evacuchairs
Etymology: From evacuate and chair.
Senses: examples: text: What should a wheelchaired person do if he waits by the stairwell for assistance in a fire but help never comes in time to carry him down with an evacuchair?
text: With three of the five stairwells dedicated to stretcher cases and Evacuchairs for those needing wheelchairs, more than two hundred ambulatory patients and visitors were channeled to the remaining two, making progress down to the lobby […]
ref: 2011, Linda Reid, Deborah Shlian, Devil Wind: A Sammy Greene Thriller:
glosses: A rudimentary stairchair used to transport handicapped people, and others in need, up and down stairs in an emergency usually attached to stairwells.
evacuchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evacuchair
take one's tongue out of someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's tongue out of someone's ass
form: taking one's tongue out of someone's ass
form: took one's tongue out of someone's ass
form: taken one's tongue out of someone's ass
Etymology: An extension of the idiom lick someone's ass.
Senses: glosses: To stop flattering someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner and supporting their every opinion.
Related terms: asslicker
brownnose
kiss someone's ass
lick someone's ass
lick someone's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks someone's ass
form: licking someone's ass
form: licked someone's ass
form: licked someone's ass
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lick, someone, ass.
glosses: To flatter someone (especially a superior) in an obsequious manner, and to support their every opinion.
Synonyms: brownnose
suck up
agrégé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrégés
Etymology: From French agrégé.
Senses: glosses: In France, a civil servant who teaches as a professor.
merby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of men + derby
Senses: examples: text: Men's roller derby, known as "merby", is an emerging version of the ladies' roller derby, which has taken south-east Queensland by storm in recent years.
ref: 2011 August 21, Ellen Lutton, Sydney Morning Herald:
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: men's roller derby
rebaptise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebaptises
form: rebaptising
form: rebaptised
form: rebaptised
Etymology: From re- + baptise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rebaptize.
rebaptises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebaptise
titillant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more titillant
form: most titillant
Senses: glosses: Titillating.
flanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flanch
reclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclass
infectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɛk.tɨ.bəl/
Forms: form: more infectible
form: most infectible
Etymology: From infect + -ible.
Senses: synonyms: infectable
glosses: Able to be infected; capable of infection.
Derived terms: uninfectible
patible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patible
form: most patible
Senses: glosses: Able to suffer; passible
glosses: Capable of being suffered; tolerable, endurable
Derived terms: impatible
patible cross
aërodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No account of what has been done in connection with the navigation of the air would be complete, if even fully comprehensible, without further reference to the remarkable experiments in the field of aërodynamics devised and carried out by Prof. Langley.
ref: 1894, Johannes Gerardus Wybo Fijnje van Salverda, Aërial Navigation, page 167:
glosses: Dated form of aerodynamics.
naked singularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naked singularities
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: An as yet theoretical gravitational singularity with no event horizon, making it observable, unlike a black hole whose event horizon prevents light from reaching an observer situated outside the event horizon.
Related terms: cosmic censorship
naked singularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naked singularity
gravitational singularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravitational singularities
Senses: examples: text: Seen as a central metaphor, a gravitational singularity is a (theoretical) point at the centre of black holes at which quantities that are otherwise meaningful (e.g., density and spacetime curvature) become infinite, or rather meaningless.
ref: 2013, Amnon H. Eden, James H. Moor, Johnny H. Soraker, Eric Steinhart, chapter 1, in Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system.
Synonyms: spacetime singularity
Related terms: technological singularity
gravitational singularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravitational singularity
donatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dōnātrix. By surface analysis, donate + -trix.
Senses: glosses: Female donator.
Synonyms: donatress
donoress
empress regnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empresses regnant
Senses: glosses: a female monarch who reigns in her own right over an empire, in contrast to an empress consort, who is the wife of a reigning emperor.
Related terms: queen regnant
extreamest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of extream: most extream
indeavouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of indeavour
sphinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfɪnd͡ʒiːz/
rhymes: -ɪndʒiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of sphinx
bottom of the table
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Finishing in last place in the standings in a league or tournament.
Related terms: dead last
repicture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repictures
form: repicturing
form: repictured
form: repictured
Etymology: From re- + picture.
Senses: glosses: To picture again or anew.
repicturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repicture
repictures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repicture
repictured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repicture
protonmotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proton + motive.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ability to transport protons.
chemiosmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemi- + osmotic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chemiosmosis.
tribulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tribulate
threesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threesies
Etymology: From three + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round.
ref: 1999, Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Crossing boundaries, page 239:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where three actions must be performed.
glosses: The sharing of something between three people.
Caligulan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caligulan
form: most Caligulan
form: Caligulian
form: Caligulean
Etymology: From Caligula + -an, named after Roman Emperor Caligula (12 CE–41 CE).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Caligula (AD 12–41), Roman Emperor.
examples: text: The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation to power.
ref: 2016, George F. Will, “The ‘big price’ Paul Ryan has paid for supporting Donald Trump”, in The Washington Post:
text: In many ways, the company’s four-week tailspin has been a one-of-a-kind spectacle. Documents filed in anticipation of its public offering revealed a pattern of behavior from its founder and chief executive, Adam Neumann, that fits somewhere on the spectrum between highly eccentric and vaguely Caligulan.
ref: 2019 September 20, Derek Thompson, “WeWork and the Great Unicorn Delusion”, in The Atlantic:
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Brutally cruel and tyrannical.
calimochos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calimocho
foxy boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sports entertainment in which female boxers fight in skimpy outfits.
loadbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of load-bearing.
foursies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foursies
Etymology: From four + -sies.
Senses: glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where four actions must be performed.
half sovereigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half sovereign
surrendring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surrendre
square inches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square inch
surrendre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: surrendres
form: surrendring
form: surrendred
form: surrendred
Etymology: From Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“give back”), from Latin reddō (“I give back”), from re- + dō (“I give”).
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of surrender.
pumping lemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumping lemmas
form: pumping lemmata
Senses: examples: text: There is a pumping lemma for CFLs similar to the one for regular sets. It can be used in the same way to show that certain sets are not context-free.
ref: 1997, Dexter Kozen, Automata and computability, page 148:
text: In the literature one finds many pumping lemmas which describe the ability to repeat (pump) certain words repeatedly in some languages, under different circumstances.
ref: 2002, Alejandro Maass, Servet Martínez, Jaime San Martín, Dynamics and randomness, page 174:
text: String-language hierarchies are usually proven using formalism-specific pumping lemmata.
ref: 2010, Marco Kuhlmann, Dependency Structures and Lexicalized Grammars: An Algebraic Approach, page 107:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A lemma which states that for a language to be a member of a language class any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section that can be removed or repeated any number of times with the resulting string remaining in the language, used to determine if a particular language is in a given language class (e.g. not regular).
neyghbour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neyghbours
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of neighbour.
neyghbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neyghbours
form: neyghbouring
form: neyghboured
form: neyghboured
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of neighbour.
impowring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impowre
mole runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mole run
milk substitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milk substitute
impowre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impowres
form: impowring
form: impowred
form: impowred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of empower.
downdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downdraws
Etymology: From down- + draw.
Senses: glosses: A downdraft.
downdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downdraws
form: downdrawing
form: downdrew
form: downdrawn
Etymology: From down- + draw.
Senses: glosses: To draw downward or down.
dowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dowless
form: most dowless
form: doless
Etymology: From dow + -less.
Senses: glosses: Feeble; lacking spirit or activity; shiftless.
Related terms: dow
River Plate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the River Plate
form: River Platte
Etymology: Calque of Spanish Río de la Plata, using the obsolete English term plate (“silver”).
Senses: examples: text: “We, ladies and gentlemen, are taking our countries back. Together our nations – America and Argentina – will inspire the world,” Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee’s co-chair, told delegates who had flooded the basement of a five-star hotel by the River Plate.
ref: 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Facundo Iglesia, “Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: Río de la Plata
Plate
glosses: A river in South America.
Derived terms: Platine
Related terms: Rioplatense
bathroom singer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathroom singers
Etymology: Acoustically, bathrooms tend to give a false impression that one's singing voice sounds good, when in a more ordinary, drier acoustic environment it would be less pleasing.
Senses: glosses: a person with mediocre or amateur singing capabilities.
Related terms: amateur hour
amateur night
karaoke
KTV
open mic
bathroom singers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathroom singer
dowf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊf/
Forms: form: more dowf
form: most dowf
form: douf
form: dolf
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse daufr (“deaf”) (whence also Icelandic daufur (“deaf, dull”)), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰūbʰ-, *dʰūp- (“to smoke”). Doublet of daff, deaf, and dof. Compare dove ("to slumber"). More at deaf.
Senses: glosses: Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
glosses: Dull; hollow.
raw_tags: of a sound
Derived terms: dowfness
presider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presiders
Etymology: From preside + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who presides; a leader, an overseer, a president.
sin binned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sin bin
umiat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umiak
umiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umiac
oomiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oomiac
kyak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyaks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of kayak.
kyaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyak
rewardest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reward + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of reward
taniwha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtanɪfə/
ipa: /ˈtʌnifə/
Forms: form: taniwha
form: taniwhas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori taniwha.
Senses: examples: text: Doom! doom! the taniwha hath come!
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 168:
glosses: A spirit or monster in Maori mythology, especially one that dwells in the water.
glosses: A person who embodies the spirit of a taniwha.
swagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swag
hether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hethers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heather.
hether
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hither.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of helder.
crik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of creak.
crik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criks
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of creek.
woundy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: wounʹdĭ
ipa: /ˈwaʊndɪ/
Forms: form: more woundy
form: most woundy
form: waundy
Etymology: First attested ante 1639: wounds (interjection) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Very, extremely, excessively.
woundy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wounʹdĭ
ipa: /ˈwaʊndɪ/
Forms: form: more woundy
form: most woundy
form: waundy
Etymology: First attested ante 1639: wounds (interjection) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Such a world of holidays, that 'tis a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labour.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Very great, extreme, excessive.
woundy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wounʹdĭ
ipa: /ˈwaʊndɪ/
enpr: wo͞onʹdĭ
ipa: /ˈwuːndɪ/
enpr: wounʹdĭ
ipa: /ˈwaʊndɪ/
Forms: form: more woundy
form: most woundy
Etymology: First attested in 1660: wound (noun) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Causing wounds.
glendoveer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glendoveers
Senses: glosses: A mythical sprite.
glendoveers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glendoveer
Ústí nad Labem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Usti nad Labem
Senses: synonyms: Aussig
glosses: A city in the Czech Republic.
Rautio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rautios
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Rautio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Tammi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæmi/
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a spelling variant of Tammy.
properispomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of properispomenon
beech snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
business
forestry
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: The breakage in wind at a height of about 5 meters of the trunk of a mature beech tree (Fagus grandifolia) weakened by disease, such as beech bark disease.
noncontractually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noncontractual + -ly or non- + contractually.
Senses: examples: text: The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.
ref: 1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202:
glosses: In a noncontractual manner.
couponing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couponning
Etymology: From coupon + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Direct mail couponing delivers a redemption rate 3 times greater than that of newspapers, magazines or even preprinted inserts.
ref: 1985 January, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 18, number 4, page 105:
text: In addition, couponing is being used in industries not traditionally associated with the practice. Breweries, for example, are experimenting with it in the 14 states in which couponing for alcoholic beverages is legal.
ref: 1985, William M. Kincaid, Promotion—products, services, and ideas:
text: 2011?, Lisa DeGirolamo, How to Use Coupons to Save Big Money at the Grocery Store
Before I mastered the art of couponing I was spending $1200 a month at the grocery store to feed my family of four.
glosses: The use or distribution of money-saving coupons.
ongoings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ongoing
kipper tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipper ties
Senses: glosses: A very broad necktie, often with garish colours and patterns.
kipper ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kipper tie
fivesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fivesies
Etymology: From five + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round.
ref: 1999, Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Crossing boundaries, page 239:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where five actions must be performed.
sixies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixie
sixies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixies
Etymology: From six + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: She missed on sixies, and then it was my turn, my last chance to beat her and claim the championship. I selected my spot, tossed the jacks.
ref: 1999, Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Crossing boundaries:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where six actions must be performed.
sevensies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sevensies
Etymology: From seven + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: That was all the jacks. I threw them out again and went for sevensies. I heard Jenny saying, "What? I cain't hear you. Who?" I missed sevensies and went in the house.
ref: 1995, James Pinckney Miller, Surviving Joy:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where seven actions must be performed.
horsecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsecars
form: horse car
Etymology: From horse + car.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A streetcar or tram drawn by a horse.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
hypernyms: livestock car
glosses: A freight car designed for transporting horses.
horsecars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsecar
nonconstitutionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + constitutionality.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The status of being nonconstitutional, of not being in accord with the provisions of a constitution.
precellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: The precellular phase would involve astrophysical and geochemical activities at a time before the presence of biological cells.
ref: 2011, Larry L. Barton, Diana E. Northup, Microbial Ecology, page 9:
glosses: Before the formation of biological cells.
glosses: Of or pertaining to precells.
precell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precells
Etymology: From pre- + cell.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical ancestral entity percursing complete cells.
precells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precell
uncredible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncredible
form: most uncredible
Etymology: From Middle English uncredible, equivalent to un- + credible.
Senses: examples: text: a parade of uncredible witnesses
text: The Soile for the moſt part is lifted vp into many hilles, parted aſunder vvith narrovv and ſhort vallies, and a ſhallovv earth doth couer their out-ſide, vvhich by a Sea-vveede called Orevvood, and a certaine kinde of fruitfull Sea-ſand, they make ſo ranke and batten, as is vncredible.
ref: 1627, John Speed, “Cornwall”, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Described and Abridged. […], London: […] Georg Humble […], →OCLC, signature [D6], verso, paragraph 3:
glosses: Not credible; that cannot be believed.
Related terms: noncredible
bleeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleezes
Senses: examples: text: I'd got a fair bleeze going the night before so's to keep midges at bay.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, page 72:
glosses: A blaze.
bleeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleezes
form: bleezing
form: bleezed
form: bleezed
Senses: examples: text: […] I arose to a bleezing fire and a boiling kettle […]
ref: 1824, The Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine; and Annals of Philosophy, page 173:
glosses: To blaze.
bleezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bleeze
bleezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bleeze
bleezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bleeze
soile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soiles
Senses: examples: 1589–1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation
The frutefulnesse of the soile is excedyng […]
glosses: Obsolete form of soil.
septembral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more septembral
form: most septembral
form: Septembral
Etymology: From September + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I will terminate my first book here because my head aches a bit , and I think that the registers of my brain have been somewhat blurred by this septembral vintage...
ref: 1966, François Rabelais, Floyd Gray, Gargantua and Pantagruel: Selections, page 101:
text: ...and roam from one tavern to another , with haut-bois, flutes, and trumpets, drinking healths, breaking glasses, tossing pots, whitling themselves with septembral juice...
ref: 1822, Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine: Volume 6, page 196:
text: Of which race there were few that looked the ptisane, but all of them were perfect lovers of the pure Septembral juice.
ref: 1904, Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel:
glosses: Characteristic of September
recoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoyles
form: recoyling
form: recoyled
form: recoyled
Senses: examples: text: Thus vvhen this Courtly Gentleman vvith toyle / Himſelfe hath vvearied, he doth recoyle / Vnto his reſt, and there vvith ſvveete delight / Of Muſicks skill reuiues his toyled ſpright, […]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature O2, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of recoil (“to retire, withdraw”).
recoyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoyle
recoyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recoyle
recoyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recoyle
swelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlp
Senses: examples: "Don't interrupt or swelp me, I won't talk." - from "—All You Zombies—", a short story by Robert Heinlein.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of so help.
janizar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janizars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of janissary.
janizars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of janizar
jacksmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacksmiths
Etymology: From jack + smith.
Senses: examples: August 1696, John Dryden, letter to Jacob Tonson
The celebrated watchmaker who was originally a jacksmith
glosses: A smith who makes jacks.
coachsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachsmiths
Etymology: From coach + smith.
Senses: glosses: A builder of coaches.
coachsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachsmith
jaborine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jaborandi + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in jaborandi leaves, resembling atropine.
Related terms: pilocarpine
Japhetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japhetite
Japhethite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japhethites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Japhetite.
Japhethites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japhethite
Sixsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 'Mr Grimaldi,' fills in Smoke, 'what I believe Fay has too much tact to spit out and say is this: the Rey woman might be imagining we rubbed out Dr Sixsmith.'
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a person who made sickles.
Jacob's ladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacob's ladder
scammonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scammonic acids
Etymology: From scammony + -ic + acid.
Senses: glosses: jalapic acid
jagua palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagua palms
Etymology: From Spanish jagua, the fruit of the jagua palm.
Senses: glosses: Attalea maripa, a large palm of tropical South America.
propylaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹəʊpɪˈliːəm/
Forms: form: propylaea
form: propylaeums
form: propylaeon
Etymology: From Latin propylaeum, from Ancient Greek προπύλαιον (propúlaion), from προ- (pro-, “before”, “in front of”) + πύλη (púlē, “gate”).
Senses: examples: text: On either side of the road young girls stood with pitchers at the fountains which bubbled there, and behind the houses forming the propylaea of the rock rose the massive forehead of the Isle — crested at this part with its enormous ramparts as with a mural crown.
ref: 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved:
qualifier: especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
glosses: A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.
gang-fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gang-fucks
form: gang-fucking
form: gang-fucked
form: gang-fucked
Etymology: From gang + fuck.
Senses: glosses: To engage in group sex.
examples: text: Then they rigged up a harness under his arms and hoisted him up off the floor to a beam and gang-fucked him—[…]
ref: 1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 15:
glosses: To take turns having sex with someone or something.
Related terms: gang bang
group sex
orgy
gang-fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gang-fuck
gang-fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gang-fuck
gang-fucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gang-fuck
thrummingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thrummingly
form: most thrummingly
Etymology: From thrumming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […]thrummingly dashing off a Mozart concerto on the tablecloth.
ref: 1996 May 6, New York Magazine, volume 29, number 18, page 38:
text: Had he just finished running a dozen miles at full speed, he would have felt precisely as he did just now: exhausted, dry-mouthed, and also wholly awake, thrummingly alive, his every vein invigorated by a fresh current of rushing blood.
ref: 2010, Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You, page 172:
glosses: With a thrumming sound or vibration.
thringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thring
jalapic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two glycosidic acids obtained from the glycoside jalapin.
Synonyms: scammonic acid
Derived terms: jalapate
glycosidic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosidic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any acid derived from a glycoside
jamdanee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jamdanees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jamdani.
jamdanees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jamdanee
propylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From propyl + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: propyl (attributive)
jerkinhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jerkinheads
Etymology: From jerkin + head.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.
jerkinheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jerkinhead
jogtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jogtrots
Etymology: From jog + trot.
Senses: glosses: A slow, regular, jolting gait.
jogtrot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jogtrots
form: jogtrotting
form: jogtrotted
form: jogtrotted
Etymology: From jog + trot.
Senses: glosses: To move with a slow, regular, jolting gait.
jogtrotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jogtrot
jogtrotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jogtrot
jogtrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jogtrot
jogtrots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jogtrot
joysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: joi'səm
ipa: /ˈdʒɔɪsəm/
rhymes: -ɔɪsəm
Forms: form: more joysome
form: most joysome
Etymology: From joy + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Such and thousands more are the joysome architectures of nature in contrast to the hurtsome ones of man, but in the last instance they bring us back to the reality that much can be done by combining the forces of nature and those of man.
ref: 1972, Nicholas Polunin, The Environmental Future:
text: But it is a grievous error to see self-sacrificing love in Jesus without remembering that what makes the self-giving of Jesus saving and joysome is the love that restores men to the joy of humanity by the recognition of man by man.
ref: 1991, Joseph Haroutunian, Jean or Dikran Hadidian, God With Us: A Theology of Transpersonal Life:
text: There is yet a fourth color, the color of gold, which is common to Binah and Gevurah in the mystery of the joysome wine which proceeds to Gevurah from Binah.
ref: 1994, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Ira Robinson, Moses Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbalah:
text: From then on, when speaking to other passengers, she referred to him as 'the Doctor', spoke rather disparagingly about the poor people travelling in steerage and warned Jackie, a joysome, pretty six-year-old, still unaware that her stumbling was caused by myopic vision, not to go into that section of the ship for fear that she might become infested with lice.
ref: 2003, Anne Edwards, Maria Callas:
text: Oh, this is a fair place to spend eternity. The air smells like honeysuckle. The wind in the pine trees makes a joysome sound.
ref: 2005, James E. Person, Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow:
text: Try to keep the testing time to a joysome minimum so that the people these holes are purportedly being designed for can play, too.
ref: 2007, Melvin L. Silberman, The Handbook of Experiential Learning:
text: Children in bubbling charm / Said "Freedom is joysome / For we play it in a rhythm"!
ref: 2010, Mavalli G. Ramu, Love of Life:
text: The house still exudes a joysome, wholesome feeling.
ref: 2011, Anne Punton, The House That Jack Built:
glosses: Marked by joy; joyful; joyous.
Derived terms: joysomeness
Jupiter's staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: torchwort
hag-taper
common mullein
great mullein
Adam's flannel
Jacob's staff
Aaron's rod
cow's lungwort
glosses: common mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
juggleress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juggleresses
Etymology: From juggler + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female juggler.
juggleresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juggleress
juniperin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From juniper + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The unusually bitter taste of aqueous juniperin solutions is not in accord with a mixture of only sugars and tannin.
ref: 1940, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, volume 29:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance extracted from juniper berries.
Proserpina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /prəʊˈsɜːpɪnə/
ipa: /proʊˈsɝpɪnə/
Etymology: From Latin Prōserpina from Ancient Greek Περσεφόνη (Persephónē) by metathesis perhaps first in Magna Graecia via a Sicilian Doric Greek Προσερπίνα (Proserpína) or Ionic Greek Προσερπίνη (Proserpínē), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pers-o- (“sheaf of corn, grain, seed”) and *gʷʰn̥-t- (“to strike”), meaning 'grain-thresher' or 'She-who-threshes-the-grain'.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art more than the Gods who number the days of our temporal breath; / For these give labour and slumber; but thou, Proserpina, death.
ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Hymn to Proserpine”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 84:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
related: word: Proserpine
glosses: The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld and the wife of Pluto; the Roman equivalent of Persephone.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 26 Proserpina, a main-belt asteroid.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fictitious planet beyond Pluto.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 26 Proserpina
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㉖
topics: astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ⯘
juncous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juncous
form: most juncous
Etymology: Latin juncosus
Senses: examples: text: In the quarries near Brislington are abundance of shells and juncous bodies[…]
ref: 1819, Abraham Hawkins, Kingsbridge and Salcombe, page 54:
glosses: Full of rushes; resembling rushes; juncaceous.
rushlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushlight
jurisdictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jurisdict(ion) + -ive, on analogy of administration, administrative, and the like. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that adjectives in -ive are properly formed on verbs and that there is no Latin *jūrisdīcere.
Senses: examples: text: to ecclesiastical censure no jurisdictive power can be added, without a childish and dangerous oversight in policy
ref: 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: jurisdictional
wikipedia: Oxford English Dictionary
justificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justificators
Etymology: Latin; compare French justificateur
Senses: glosses: One who justifies or vindicates.
Synonyms: justifier
justificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justificator
junkerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Junkerism
Etymology: From junker + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Junkerism is the very opposite of democracy. The essence of junkerism is privileged land ownership; that is, the ownership of large estates not adequately taxed, and not open to change of ownership[…]
ref: 1918, Charles Fremont Taylor, Equity, volume 20:
glosses: The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
juntoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junto
blood work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: John's blood work is now in the normal range, except for his T cells, which are still low.
ref: 1989 April 8, John Dooley, “Syphilis and AIDS: What's the Connection?”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: Some medications require blood work to monitor for possible side effects.
ref: 2012, William Marchand, Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Your Guide to Recovery, page 275:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood test.
jumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumblers
Etymology: From jumble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They are jumblers, who never succeed in effecting obvious relations between their conclusions and their premises.
ref: 1864, Transactions of the Vermont Medical Society, page 329:
glosses: One who jumbles, muddles, or confuses.
jumblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbler
jumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jumblingly
form: most jumblingly
Etymology: From jumbling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Disjointed thoughts ran jumblingly through her head.
glosses: So as to jumble or confuse.
blood tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood test
blood tests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blood test
humoursome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humoursome
form: most humoursome
Etymology: From humour + -some.
Senses: glosses: Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
Derived terms: humoursomely
humoursomeness
juglandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Juglans (“taxonomic name”) + -ine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in walnut leaves.
alteratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alterative
juglandin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin juglans, + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An extract of green walnut shells, formerly used in medicine and as a dye.
Related terms: juglandine
jail fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒeɪl fiːvə/
ipa: /ˈdʒeɪl ˌfivər/
Senses: examples: text: A'LTHO this Fever neither arose in a Jail, nor a Hospital, yet it so exactly re-sembles the Jail Fever, both in the symptoms, causes, and method of cure, that I have not scrupled to treat of it under that name.
ref: 1782, John Haysham, An Account of the Jail Fever - Or Typhus Carcerum: as it Appeared at Carlisle in the Year 1781, page 1:
text: I have now the satisfaction to see this opinion confirmed, in so far at least as relates to the dysentery, a putrid disease, equally contagious with the jail fever, and in military hospitals, at least, still more fatal.
ref: 1803, James Carmichael Smyth, A Description of the Jail Distemper, as it appeared amongst the Spanish prisoners, at Winchester, page 105:
glosses: typhus spread in jails.
examples: text: John Pringle’s army service in the 1740s convinced him that an assortment of illnesses attributed to an unhealthy environment—“jail fever,” “camp fever,” “ship fever” and “putrid fever” —were in fact the same disease, generated by crowding but transmitted by contagion.
ref: 2017, Margaret DeLacy, Contagionism after 1750: John Pringle and James Lind, →DOI, page 55:
glosses: any infectious disease spread in cramped and unhygienic conditions.
justicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: justicers
Etymology: From justice + -er.
Senses: synonyms: justiciary
justiciar
glosses: One who administers justice, particularly a judge.
justicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justicer
juristical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juristical
form: most juristical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of juristic.
juratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin iūrātōrius; compare French juratoire.
Senses: examples: juratory caution
glosses: Relating to or comprising an oath.
Jura-Triassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In which the characteristics of the Jurassic and Triassic periods appear to be blended.
Related terms: Jura-Trias
jointworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jointworms
Etymology: From joint + worm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a hymenopterous insect, Tetramesa tritici, found in gall-like swellings on wheatstalks, usually around the first joint.
jointworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jointworm
wheatstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatstalks
Etymology: From wheat + stalk.
Senses: glosses: A stalk of wheat.
wheatstalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatstalk
jointuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jointure
Jonesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jonesian
form: most Jonesian
Etymology: From Jones + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Jones (1746-1794), inventor of a transliteration system for Indic scripts.
glosses: Of or relating to Mary Cover Jones (1897–1987), American psychologist.
Hunterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hunterian
form: most Hunterian
Etymology: From Hunter + -ian.
Senses: examples: the Hunterian museum at the University of Glasgow
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Hunter (1718–1783), anatomist.
glosses: Of or pertaining to John Hunter (1728–1793), surgeon.
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Wilson Hunter (1840–1900), historian and statistician.
indeavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indeavour
Indology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɑləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From Indo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The academic study of the history, culture, and languages of the Indian subcontinent.
Synonyms: Indian studies
South Asian studies
Related terms: Indologian
Indological
Indologist
Indological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Indology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Indology.
Indologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indologists
Etymology: From Indology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: Indologian
Indologue
glosses: One who studies Indology.
Indologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indologist
Jonah crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jonah crabs
Senses: glosses: Cancer borealis, a strong-clawed crab found on the Atlantic coast of North America.
Jonah crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jonah crab
indeavour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indeavours
form: indeavouring
form: indeavoured
form: indeavoured
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endeavour.
indeavour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeavours
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of endeavour.
indeavoureth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: indeavour + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indeavour
affectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affectees
Etymology: From affect + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, is affected.
affectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affectee
shiftee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftees
Etymology: From shift + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is relocated or evacuated.
shiftees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shiftee
negligeed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From negligee + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: "The same place I've been going for years," he said against her satin-negligeed breast. "Up the canal to paradise."
ref: 1970, Gwen Davis, The Pretenders:
text: A black plumber working under the sink in coveralls was being pestered by a negligeed housewife. He was only trying to do his job, but she just wouldn't leave him be.
ref: 2010, David Walton, Evening Out, page 119:
glosses: Wearing a negligee.
Aroras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arora