cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sociobabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From socio- + babble.
Senses: examples: text: This urge to be "scientific" — demonstrating again the divine power of that word — is creating a whole new language paralleling English: sociobabble.
ref: 1987, George Charles Roche, A world without heroes: the modern tragedy:
text: Although he seemed less introspective than the rest and his run-on sociobabble was a bit more aimless, he conveyed the same aura of perpetual distraction.
ref: 1991, Martin Oppenheimer, Radical Sociologists, page 54:
text: For those with a Pollyanna view of the world, gift-giving is (if you can take the sociobabble) the “feminized ideology of love”, motivated by emotions of “nurturant-dependence”.
ref: 2005, Adrian Furnham, The People Business: Psychological Reflections on Management, page 33:
glosses: The jargon used by sociologists.
neurobabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + babble.
Senses: glosses: A neuroscientist jargon employed in an attempt to make tangential broader claims of lesser verisimilitude appear acceptable.
Related terms: neurotrash
neurobollocks
neurononsense
neuroflapdoodle
neurogibberish
neurobunk
neurobaloney
neurofallacy
nonsimplicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + simplicial.
Senses: glosses: Not simplicial.
nonhomotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + homotopic.
Senses: glosses: Not homotopic.
dimensionwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dimension + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: dimensionwise application of the integral group ring functor
ref: 1989, Simon Salamon, Brian Steer, Wilson Alexander Sutherland, Advances in Homotopy Theory, page 57:
text: Then a dimensionwise heuristic and a vectorwise heuristic are applied sequentially.
ref: 2009, Marina Lipshteyn, Vadim E. Levit, Ross McConnell, Graph Theory, Computational Intelligence and Thought, page 104:
glosses: In terms of dimensions.
vectorwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vector + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Then a dimensionwise heuristic and a vectorwise heuristic are applied sequentially.
ref: 2009, Marina Lipshteyn, Vadim E. Levit, Ross McConnell, Graph Theory, Computational Intelligence and Thought, page 104:
glosses: In terms of vectors.
precautionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precautionary
Cash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: Cashes
Etymology: Variant of Case. In the US adopted by German immigrants named Kirch and Kirsch.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
examples: text: This ill-chosen subplot also means that Kingsolver must make Cash Stillwater (named for his mother's favorite singer, Johnny Cash) more than just a returning widower.
ref: 2014, Linda Wagner-Martin, Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Craighead County, Arkansas; a corruption of Cache River.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia, named after a sign "Cash or nothing".
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hart County, Kentucky, named after a postmaster.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A locale in Watertown Township, Sanilac County, Michigan, named after Edward Cash.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, named after Col. E. B. Cash.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, named Cash after the name 'Money' was rejected by the Post Office.
teetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetees
Senses: examples: text: "[…] She was layin' up under that shade tree with her hand in 'er panties, a ticklin' her teetee so hard she was fair tremblin' all over."
ref: 2006, Tom Skelton, The Human Element:
text: Camon, sir, nerd, turd, shithead. . . . Plees. Mees . . . lemme look at your teetees. Camon leddy.
ref: 2003, Tom Miller, Writing on the edge: a borderlands reader:
text: There were two ladies from my own Federation there, beeg, fat, sitting on the beach with their beeg teetees just hanging there
ref: 1995, Mel Kernahan, White Savages in the South Seas:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of titty.
teetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetees
Senses: examples: text: The principal kinds of American monkeys are the howlers, sakis, uakaris, teetees, squirrel-monkeys, spider-monkeys, barrigudos, and sapajous.
ref: 1907, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 13:
glosses: Archaic form of titi.
teetee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tee-tee (“urine”).
teetee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teetees
form: teeteeing
form: teeteed
form: teeteed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tee-tee (“urinate”).
teetees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teetee
Garfunkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garfunkels
form: Garfinkel
Etymology: From Yiddish גאָרפֿינקל (gorfinkl, “carbuncle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Morganfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morganfields
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A home rule city, the county seat of Union County, Kentucky, United States.
Gaye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: Gayes
Etymology: Spelling variant of Gay.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A female given name from English.
glosses: A male given name from English.
Gallagher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləɡə/
ipa: /ˈɡæləɡɚ/
Forms: form: Gallaghers
form: Gallager
form: Gallaher
form: Galleher
form: Galligher
form: Galliher
form: Gollaher
form: Golliher
Etymology: From Irish Ó Gallachóir, from Old Irish Ó Gallchobhair, Ó Gallchobhoir, a surname meaning "descendants of Gallchobair".
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
Cobain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈbeɪn/
ipa: /kəˈbeɪn/
ipa: /koʊˈbeɪn/
Forms: form: Cobains
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Cobainesque
Cobainiac
Grohl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grohls
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
impresas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impresa
impreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imprese
algebraic closure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algebraic closures
Senses: examples: text: The calculation of these various Galois groups leads to a determination of the algebraic closures of the ground fields in the splitting fields of the corresponding vectorial polynomials.
ref: 1999, Shreeram S. Abhyankar, “Galois Theory of Semilinear Transformations”, in Helmut Voelklein, David Harbater, J. G. Thompson, Peter Müller, editors, Aspects of Galois Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
text: It turns out that the algebraic closure #92;mathbf#123;Q#125;#92;mathrm#123;a#125;#95;p is not complete, so we shall consider its completion #92;mathbf#123;C#125;#95;p: This field turns out to be algebraically closed and is a natural domain for the study of "analytic functions."
ref: 2000, Alain M. Robert, A Course in p-adic Analysis, Springer, page 127:
text: While #92;Complex contains an algebraic closure of #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, it is by no means the only algebraically closed field containing an algebraic closure of #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;. We denote by #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;#92;mathrm#123;alg#125; the algebraic closure of #92;mathbb#123;Q#125; in #92;Complex; this field is simply the subfield of #92;Complex consisting of algebraic numbers. The field #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;#92;mathrm#123;alg#125; is isomorphic, then, to any algebraic closure of #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, but even knowing that it is unique up to isomorphism very likely leaves us no more familiar with #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;#92;mathrm#123;alg#125; than we were.
ref: 2004, John Swallow, Exploratory Galois Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 179:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: A field G such that every polynomial over F splits completely over G (i.e., every element of G is a root of some polynomial over F and every root of every polynomial over F is an element of G).
raw_tags: of a field F
Related terms: algebraically closed
personal organizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal organizers
Senses: glosses: A small portable book, containing e.g. an appointment diary (appointment book), address book, notepad etc.
glosses: A portable electronic device performing similar functions.
Related terms: personal digital assistant
personal assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal assistants
Senses: examples: text: Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA. / Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA! / Jen: It means "personal assistant". / Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve? / Jen: Oh, you know, picking up his mail, going to the supermarket for him, getting his washing. I have to say, Moss, it's a real step up.
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
synonyms: word: man Friday
word: PA
glosses: Someone whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks.
personal identification number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal identification numbers
Senses: glosses: A number used to confirm an individual's identity, e.g. when using an ATM or a mobile phone, or when making payment using a credit card or debit card.
Synonyms: PIN
petiolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From petiole + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a petiole.
Synonyms: petiolary
Derived terms: interpetiolar
intrapetiolar
subpetiolar
petiolules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petiolule
petnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: petnaps
form: petnapping
form: petnaping
form: petnapped
form: petnapped
form: petnaped
form: petnaped
Etymology: From pet + -nap.
Senses: glosses: To steal or abduct a pet
petnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petnappings
Senses: glosses: The abduction of a pet
petnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of petnap
petnappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petnapping
dognaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dognap
dognapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dognap
petrolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petrol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to petroleum
-phagous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-fəɡəs/
Etymology: From Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek -φάγος (-phágos, “-eating”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).
Senses: synonyms: -vorous
glosses: Used to form adjectives meaning "eating" or "feeding on".
Related terms: -phagia
-phagy
-phage
phage
shumac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shumacs
Senses: examples: text: In dying a Cotton Gown Black. [...] For a gown, take half a pint of ground shumac and put it into a sieve, and place it in a pan; then pour boiling water on it, and let the shumac water run into the pan; then put in your gown, and let it steep for six hours; [...]
ref: 1817, William Tucker, “On Dying Cottons, Dresses, Bed-furniture, &c. &c.”, in The Family Dyer and Scourer; being a Complete Treatise on the Whole Art of Cleaning and Dying: […], London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], →OCLC, pages 102–103:
text: Often, on descending into the narrow valleys, we found a little spot of cultivation, a garden, or a field hedged round with shumacs, rhododendrons, and azalias, and a cottage covered with roses.
ref: 1832, [Frances Milton] Trollope, chapter XVIII, in Domestic Manners of the Americans. […], London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.; […], →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: Dated spelling of sumac.
shumac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shumacs
form: shumacing
form: shumacking
form: shumaced
form: shumaced
form: shumacked
form: shumacked
Senses: examples: text: Then lot 1 will be shumacked first time; that is, passed through a decoction of shumac, then through copperas, and then washed off, and if the decoction of shumac is kept up strong, after being all of them once shumacked they may be dried. [...] If the black liquor and the shumacking were powerful, some of them will shew themselves finished when dry.
ref: 1816, Thomas Packer, “On Dying Silk Black, According to M. [Pierre] Macquer”, in The Dyer’s Guide; being an Introduction to the Art of Dying […], London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], →OCLC, page 90:
text: Harness backs, previous to currying are wetted back in cold or tepid water for skiving; they are then thoroughly scoured, grain well cleaned, and re-shaved, or "flatted" on the flesh if necessary. They are then shumaced to brighten the color. Some makers shumac before flatting in drum tumblers.
ref: 1905 July, “Tanning Heavy Leather: Specimen Answers to the Questions Supplied by Dr. J. Gordon Parker of Harold’s Institute, London”, in The Leather Manufacturer: A Technological Journal, volume XVI, part 7, Boston, Mass.: Deming & Rogers, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sumac.
cephalalgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalalgy
cephalalgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalalgies
Etymology: From cephal- + -algy.
From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of cephalalgia.
life cots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life cot
Phagwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hindi फगुआ (phaguā).
Senses: glosses: Holi
picarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /pɪˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the Picariae, an obsolete bird classification.
picarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈkɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /pɪˈkɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: picarians
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Picariae.
show the cloven foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows the cloven foot
form: showing the cloven foot
form: showed the cloven foot
form: shown the cloven foot
Etymology: Satan is depicted as having cloven feet.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I went over to the Squire's, pretty well satisfied in my own mind; so, after flattering and crowing about her a little while, I up and shew the cloven foot.
ref: 1852, “The Marriage of Johnny Beedle”, in Traits of American humour, by native authors, ed. and adapted by the author of 'Sam Slick'., page 77:
synonyms: show the cloven hoof
glosses: To reveal a devilish character or an evil purpose, despite attempts to disguise it.
Related terms: show one's true colours
show the cloven hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows the cloven hoof
form: showing the cloven hoof
form: showed the cloven hoof
form: shown the cloven hoof
Senses: glosses: show the cloven foot
Shagaluf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of shag + Magaluf. So called because it is a popular holiday destination for British tourists looking for casual sex.
Senses: examples: text: "When you go into Shagaluf on Wednesday," explain the jolly 18-30 reps, "you'll see a big red erection. No, it's not Steve with his trousers down. It's BCM's."
ref: 1995 August 20, Anna Blundy, “Lust and vomit”, in Scotland on Sunday, page 16:
text: Perhaps Sky will bring slappers Sarah and Louise back for a Spanish tour series, called Are You Being Serviced? They could be man-on in Mahon, shameless in Shagaluf – sorry Magaluf.
ref: 1997 August 27, Garry Bushell, “Bushell on the Box: Why does big big talent get very little chance?”, in The Sun, page 11:
glosses: The Majorcan resort town of Magaluf.
imparl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imparls
form: imparling
form: imparled
form: imparled
Etymology: Ultimately from Old French emparler.
Senses: examples: text: These requests and persuasions by Hersilia, and other the Sabine women being heard, both the armies stayed, and held every body his hand, and straight the two generals imparled together, during which parle they brought their husbands and their children, to their fathers and their bretheren.
ref: 1579-1603, Thomas North, Plutarch's Lives:
glosses: To hold discourse; to parley.
examples: text: c. 1767, George Cooke, quoted in William Blackstone, The Oxford Edition of Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the right of things, edited by Simon Stern, Oxford University Press (2016), →ISBN, page 368 (appendix).
And the aforesaid Francis thereupon craveth leave to imparl; and he hath it.
topics: law
glosses: To have time before pleading; to obtain a delay for mutual adjustment.
Related terms: imparlance
imparled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imparl
imparling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imparl
imparls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imparl
sociabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociability
natural log
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural logs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: natural logarithm
sectorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sectorial
phasedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phasedowns
Etymology: Deverbal from phase down.
Senses: coordinate_terms: phaseout#Noun
glosses: A gradual reduction in size or scale.
Magalluf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Magaluf.
phase down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phases down
form: phasing down
form: phased down
form: phased down
Senses: examples: text: We have also, for the first time, adopted text to scale up clean power and phase down dirty coal.
ref: 2021 November 13, Alok Sharma, “Alok Sharma’s remarks at the COP26 Closing Plenary”, in 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Government of the United Kingdom, retrieved 13 Nov 2021:
text: The most significant step in that direction came in last year’s Glasgow pact, which reached a pained consensus supporting a “phase down of unabated coal power”. It did not land on that language until the final moments, when China and India demanded “phase out” be watered down to “phase down”. It was an ambush that drove the exhausted Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, to tears.
ref: 2022 November 17, Adam Morton, “Getting rid of fossil fuels at a climate summit is harder than you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: phase in#Verb
phase out#Verb
scale down#Verb
scale up#Verb
glosses: To gradually reduce the size or scale of.
Derived terms: word: phasedown
phasedowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasedown
Philippine Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After refueling and taking on supplies in New Guinea, we steamed north and east to support the landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok and the thrusts against the island of Truk. We participated in the famous "Turkey Shoot" in the Marianas, during which we decimated the enemy's forces. Then we joined the task force gearing up for the battle of the Philippine Sea.
ref: 1979, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, published 1980, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 57:
glosses: A marginal sea in the Pacific Ocean to the north and east of the Philippines.
Philippine Trench
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A deep-sea trench in the Pacific Ocean to east of the Philippines.
meaking iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meaking irons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tool for picking old oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
meaking irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meaking iron
Spratlys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Taiwan, like mainland China, lays claim to 53 rocks, shoals and reefs in the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands. The Spratlys are also claimed by Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Vietnam. The claims wouldn’t be taken too seriously except that there is possibly oil under these islands, which has led to the area becoming heavily fortified. The largest islet in the Spratly chain is occupied by Taiwan’s military.
ref: 1994 July, Robert Storey, “Facts about Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13:
glosses: The Spratly Islands
Spratlies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Spratlys.
Samiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Samiots
form: Samiote
Etymology: From Samos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: A Samian; an inhabitant of Samos.
Samiot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Samiote
Etymology: From Samos + -iot.
Senses: glosses: Samian
Samiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Samiot
Challenger Deep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872–1876 made the first recordings of its depth.
Senses: examples: text: The deepest sounding in the Pacific is 31,614 feet, known as the Challenger deep, sometimes called the Nero deep, south of the Ladrone Islands, and lacks only 66 feet of being 6 miles in depth.
ref: 1909 June, Oscar C. S. Carter, “Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, volume CLXVII, number 6, Philadelphia, →OCLC, pages 459–460:
glosses: A deep in Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean; a point in the Mariana Trench, known as the deepest point in the world's oceans.
Coordinate terms: HMRG Deep
Sirena Deep
Horizon Deep
Wuhanese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Wuhan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Wuhan, China.
Synonyms: Wuhanian
Wuhanic
Wuhanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wuhanese
Etymology: From Wuhan + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Within China, Wuhanese have become feared and discriminated against because of the epidemic. Yet the vast majority of people in Wuhan as well as the rest of China stick to meals of grains, tofu, pork and veg.
ref: 2020 May 15, Yuan Yang, “Letter from China: Sichuan goes with the flow”, in Financial Times:
glosses: A person from Wuhan, China.
Synonyms: Wuhanian
Wuhanite
Wuhanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Wuhan + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Wuhan, Tianmen and surrounding areas in Hubei.
glosses: The people of Wuhan, Hubei, China
Synonyms: word: Wuhan dialect
word: Wuhan Mandarin
word: Wuhan-speak
word: Wuhan speech
pigfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigfishes
form: pigfish
Etymology: From pig + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also hogfish.
A golden-spot hogfish (Bodianus perditio)
glosses: Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also hogfish.
A redmouth grunt (Orthopristis chrysoptera)
glosses: Any one of several species of salt-water grunts, called also hogfish.
A red pigfish (Bodianus unimaculatus)
glosses: Any of several other fishes thought to resemble pigs, including
A sculpin, family Cottidae
glosses: Any of several other fishes thought to resemble pigs, including
Fishes in the family Congiopodidae
pigfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigfish
shrimpfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrimpfishes
form: shrimpfish
Etymology: From shrimp + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the fish in the subfamily Centriscinae that swim with their heads pointed downward.
turfs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turf out
re-call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-calls
form: re-calling
form: re-called
form: re-called
Etymology: From re- + call, with hyphen to avoid confusion with recall (“remember”).
Senses: examples: text: In 1792 the troubles in Poland re-called him to arms.
ref: 1817, Edward Baines, History of the Wars of the French Revolution: Volume 2, page 303:
text: animationTick calls _tickAnimation on all of the chart elements, calls the main _render method of the chart to render it out to the canvas, and finally, if any of the elements were still in progress, requests a new animation frame that will re-call animationTick when the new frame is ready.
ref: 2015, Jon J. Raasch, Graham Murray, Vadim Ogievetsky, Joseph Lowery, “Exploring Charting Tools”, in JavaScript® and jQuery® for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wrox, →ISBN, →LCCN, section “Creating HTML5 Canvas Charts”, page 189:
glosses: Alternative form of recall (“To call again.”).
re-called
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-call
Abung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lect of the Indonesian province of Lampung, considered by some an independent language and by others a dialect of Lampung.
steady-as-she-goes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the nautical phrase steady as she goes.
Senses: examples: text: Graham James, the bishop of Norwich, is favourite everywhere of the steady-as-she-goes party. He is widely experienced – he worked in Lambeth Palace under the previous archbishop, Lord Carey – and widely trusted, as well as scholarly.
ref: 2012 September 20, Andrew Brown, “Archbishop of Canterbury succession race begins in earnest”, in The Guardian (online):
text: He looked to be in fine shape, sitting glassy-eyed behind the wheel, staring straight at the narrow two-lane highway, holding a steady-as-she-goes course of fifty miles an hour.
ref: 2000, Matthew V. Schofield, When Reason Fails:
glosses: steady; careful; avoiding sudden change
steady as she goes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cry to a helmsman to keep on the current course.
Related terms: steady the ship
crystallogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crystallogenic
form: most crystallogenic
Etymology: From crystallo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Producing crystals
glosses: Relating to the production of crystals
glosses: Relating to the crystallogens
skinflute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skinflutes
Senses: examples: text: Repressing the urge to say, "I play the skinflute," I tell him I'm not in the band.
ref: 2001, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 30:
text: Each time since then I've felt a little worried that she'd feel my erect skinflute (slang for “penis”) against her body.
ref: 2004, Joshua Braff, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green: A Novel, page 145:
glosses: Alternative form of skin flute.
skinflutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skinflute
mailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mail + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The question of sedition and mailability of Negro newspapers cannot be considered apart from the Negro problem.
ref: 2006, Patrick Scott Washburn, The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom, page 164:
glosses: The characteristic of being mailable; the ability to be mailed.
postliminious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəʊstlɪˈmɪniəs/
/pəʊstlɪˈmɪnjəs/
Etymology: See postliminium.
Senses: examples: text: The Reaſon vvhy Men are ſo ſhort and vveak in Governing is, becauſe moſt Things fall out to them accidentally, and come not into any Compliance vvith their pre-conceiv'd Ends, but they are forced to comply ſubſequently, and to ſtrike in vvith Things as they fall out, by poſtliminious After-Applications of them to their Purpoſes, or by framing their Purpoſes to them.
ref: 1685 March 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22, 1684–5”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet, […], →OCLC, pages 300–301:
synonyms: postliminiar
postliminary
glosses: Contrived, done, or existing afterwards.
wizardcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wizard + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: translating the newly-discovered book by the popular wizardcraft of looking through peep-stones
ref: 1854, Benjamin G. Ferris, Utah and the Mormons, page 276:
text: But, reader, I claim responsible government in the Colonies as endowed with witchcraft or wizardcraft on this particular ground.
ref: 1860, Daniel Henry Deniehy, Pen-and-Ink Cartoons:
glosses: witchcraft, carried out by a wizard
Related terms: hexcraft
sorcery
spellcasting
spellcraft
warlockry
witchcraft
wizardry
luggageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From luggage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without luggage.
lodgingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lodging + -less.
Senses: examples: text: August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer
We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers […]
text: Dora Fane wondered what the woman meant , and she felt decidedly afraid , but she was bound to go in. It was just on midnight . She couldn't have returned and wandered lodgingless about
ref: 1900, George Robert Sims, Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life as it is:
glosses: Without lodging; having no place to stay.
clueing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkluːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clue
Shudras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shudra
stickit minister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickit ministers
Etymology: See stickit (“stuck, spoiled”).
Senses: glosses: A candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetency or immorality.
stickit ministers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickit minister
telpochcallis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telpochcalli
bzz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bzzz
Etymology: Imitative. Compare buzz.
Senses: glosses: The buzzing sound of a bee, wasp, etc.
bzz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bzzes
form: bzzing
form: bzzed
form: bzzed
form: bzzz
Etymology: Imitative. Compare buzz.
Senses: glosses: To make a buzzing sound like that of a bee or wasp.
pitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪt͡ʃɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pitching
pitching piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitching pieces
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.
pitching pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitching piece
tuberculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuberculated
form: most tuberculated
Senses: glosses: tuberculate
cyclographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyclograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the cyclograph, or arcograph.
cymographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a cymographic tracing
glosses: Of or relating to the cymograph.
cymograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymographs
Etymology: From cymo- + -graph. Compare also cyma and cymatium.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for obtaining drawings from the mouldings of Gothic architecture.
Related terms: cymographic
cymographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cymograph
fewl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fewls
Etymology: Phonetic respelling, probably influenced by kewl for cool.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fool (“foolish person”).
wikipedia: Sensational spelling
fewls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fewl
bodystocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodystockings
form: body stocking
Etymology: From body + stocking.
Senses: examples: text: Bodystockings may be worn by as undergarments by exotic dancers.
glosses: A one-piece article of lingerie, resembling stockings or pantyhose but covering the torso, legs and sometimes the arms.
bodystockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodystocking
zentai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ゼンタイ, a portmanteau of 全身タイツ (zenshin taitsu, “full-body tights”).
Senses: examples: text: Saturday morning Tori was due over so we could go shopping. I thought I'd surprise her... so I set up the TENS unit, then locked on a zentai suit over it, then put a corset on over that, and locked a belt over that! Finally I chained myself to the bed so I couldn't do anything about it.
ref: 2007, Stephen Harris, “Chastity, corsets, TENS, zentai and bondage...”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
text: Laid out on the cot was a single piece of dark clothing that looked like someone's deflated shadow. "This is a zentai outfit." She held up the costume.
ref: 2011, Donovan Rush, Obsession:
text: The Viruses were reaching the front door. Other women dressed in leather zentai suits dropped in on hoverbikes, dispersing of^([sic]) the Viruses. Van recognized the symbols on their clothing.
ref: 2011, Daniel Mega, Infrastrata:
glosses: skintight garments that cover the entire body
suiciders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicider
mixy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪksi/
rhymes: -ɪksi
Forms: form: mixier
form: mixiest
Etymology: From mix + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "That's a mixy noise. The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part? Yer-yer-yer and ah! Ya!"
ref: 1912, Rudyard Kipling, How the Alphabet was Made:
glosses: mixed; various
examples: text: My Bettina rather held back. She isn't one of the mixy kind.
ref: 1899, Abby Morton Diaz, The William Henry letters:
glosses: Tending to mix with others.
Related terms: mixy-matchy
shab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: shabs
Etymology: From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.
Senses: glosses: Scabies.
glosses: A scab.
shab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: shabs
form: shabbing
form: shabbed
form: shabbed
Etymology: From Middle English shabbe, schabbe, from Old English sċeabb, from Proto-West Germanic *skabb, from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz. Doublet of scab.
Senses: examples: text: I have shabbed him off purely
ref: 1698, George Farquhar, Love and a Bottle:
glosses: To scratch; to rub.
shab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: shabs
form: shabbing
form: shabbed
form: shabbed
Etymology: See scab.
Senses: glosses: To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
examples: text: Certain Nipnets intended to have sheltred themselves under Vncas; but he perceiving it would be distastful to the English, soon shab'd them off.
ref: 1677, W. Howard, Narrative, postscript, T 3 b
text: I have shabb'd him off purely.
ref: 1698 Farquhar, Love & Bottle, iv. iii
text: They shab'd […] Thomas aff to hell.
ref: ante 1824, in Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 347
text: […] but when that [money] was gone, and he had not as much ground, that he could call his own, as would sod a lark, they soon shabbed him off.
ref: 1828, Thomas Crofton Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, page 212:
text: I hold the people in too much esteem, to shab them off with any thing of a secondary quality, whilst Providence has blessed me with the means of providing them the best.
ref: 1840, John Pendleton Kennedy, Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof ..., page 61:
glosses: To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off.
examples: text: […] and so the fat Parson shabb'd off,[…]
ref: 1731, The Windsor Medley: Being a Choice Collection of Several Curious and Valuable Pieces in Prose and Verse: that Were Handed about in Print and Manuscript, During the Stay of the Court at Windsor-Castle Last Summer. ..., page 24:
text: We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.
ref: 2017 February 23, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree, Sceptre, →ISBN:
qualifier: obsolete outside historical fiction
glosses: To skulk or sneak away.
stercorianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrine or belief of the stercoranists.
Lima bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lima beans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of lima bean.
Lima beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lima bean
soroche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorochi
form: sorocho
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish soroche.
Senses: examples: text: Men, horses, and mules occasionally perish under soroche while on the Andes; and yet some persons who never were 3,000 feet above the level of the ocean, or if so, have only been sitting in a balloon in a state of muscular quiescence, have ridiculed statements of facts such as those here noted.
ref: 1860, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, volume 4:
text: I should treat soroche on the plainest principles of hydraulics.
ref: 1876, H. C. Cochrane, “The Misti, and travels in Peru and Chili”, in Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, volume 6, page 219:
text: The soroche attacks different persons in different ways.
ref: 1913, Frank O. Carpenter, “Americans of the high Andes”, in Moderator-topics, volume 34, page 693:
glosses: altitude sickness, mountain sickness
semievergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-evergreen
Etymology: From semi- + evergreen.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: half-evergreen
glosses: Losing all of the leaves in winter only if it is cold enough.
semievergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semievergreens
form: semi-evergreen
Etymology: From semi- + evergreen.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: half-evergreen
glosses: A plant of this kind.
staminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: staminate
exercisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exercise + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being exercisable.
cardiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardiac
imaginationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imaginationless
form: most imaginationless
Etymology: From imagination + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking imagination; unimaginative; dull.
hypodicrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypodicrotic
form: most hypodicrotic
Etymology: From hypo- + dicrotic.
Senses: examples: text: a hypodicrotic pulse curve'
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting retarded dicrotism.
half-assedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more half-assedly
form: most half-assedly
Etymology: From half-assed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.
ref: 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: In a half-assed manner; poorly or incompetently.
Related terms: halfheartedly
wholeheartedly
potelot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: molybdenum sulphide
pseudotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudotechnical
form: most pseudotechnical
Etymology: From pseudo- + technical.
Senses: examples: a science-fiction novel full of pseudotechnical jargon
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, technical.
base station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base stations
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A GPS receiver at known fixed location, used to derive correction information for nearby portable GPS receivers.
examples: text: Used from mobile network operators' (MNOs) usual base stations, these waves work well in open country, which gives passengers a decent service. But DfT's report says that MNO base stations are not optimised for railways.
ref: 2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Wireless coverage leaves us hanging on our telephones”, in RAIL, number 965, page 42:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A radio receiver/transmitter that serves as the hub of the local wireless network, and may also be the gateway between a wired network and the wireless network.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
coordinate_terms: mobile station
glosses: A radio transceiver permanently or semipermanently installed in a fixed location on land, typically used to communicate with mobile stations and/or other base stations
base stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base station
solivagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin solivagus.
Senses: glosses: solivagant; wandering alone
ficlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ficlets
Etymology: From fic + -let.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A short fic; a short piece of fan fiction or (less commonly) original fiction.
ficlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ficlet
significates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of significate
Wallacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wallacean
form: most Wallacean
Etymology: From Wallace + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Wallacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wallacean
form: most Wallacean
Etymology: From Wallacea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: While the Philippines have a large Sundaland biotic component, there is a significant Wallacean, New Guinea and Australian element in the biota. The evolutuonary relationships of some of the iconic taxa suggest a Wallacean and Gondwanan origin.
ref: 2011, Dmitry Telnov, Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea:
text: This species is essentially Wallacean, but it is known from two areas in Sundaic Indonesia as we define it.
ref: 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
glosses: Of or relating to Wallacea (a group of Indonesian islands).
Derived terms: Wallacean cuckooshrike
Wallacean drongo
Wallacean whistler
longtitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longtitudinal
form: most longtitudinal
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of longitudinal.
longtitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longtitudes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of longitude.
orthopnoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthopnoea
orthopny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of orthopnoea.
chibouques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chibouque
penk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛŋk/
Forms: form: penks
Senses: examples: text: Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river,[…].
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, “The Compleat Angler”, in James Rennie, editor, The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, published 1833, page 98:
glosses: A minnow.
penks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penk
sleepsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepsacks
Etymology: From sleep + sack.
Senses: glosses: A kind of wearable blanket for a baby.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A device resembling a sleeping bag, often fastened with a zipper, that tightly immobilizes the occupant.
Coordinate terms: sense: baby clothing
word: bunting
sense: baby clothing
word: sleeper
sleepsacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleepsack
zellij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zellijes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zellige.
zillij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zillijes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zellige.
zellijes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zellij
God only knows
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: God only knows what I'd be without you.
ref: 1966, Brian Wilson et al., “God Only Knows”, in Pet Sounds:
glosses: Alternative form of God knows (“it is unknown to people”).
subleaflet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subleaflets
Etymology: From sub- + leaflet.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaflet making up part of a subdivided (e.g. bipinnate) leaflet.
subleaflets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subleaflet
Zanj
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زَنْج (zanj, “The East African coastlands”), from Persian زنگ (zang, “East Africa”) or its Middle Persian etymon; see the Persian entry for more.
Senses: glosses: A certain portion of the coast of East Africa.
Zanj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zanjs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زَنْج (zanj, “The East African coastlands”), from Persian زنگ (zang, “East Africa”) or its Middle Persian etymon; see the Persian entry for more.
Senses: glosses: One of the Bantu-speaking inhabitants of this part of East Africa.
Related terms: Zanzibar
Zanjs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zanj
aboveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From above + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because this evangile does in fact give us a continuum of gods below and above joined by a vibrating cord, it supports my point that metaphors operate upon continua — in this case belowness and aboveness — moving people and things aptly about on the continua.
ref: 1986, James. W. Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being above.
belowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From below + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because this evangile does in fact give us a continuum of gods below and above joined by a vibrating cord, it supports my point that metaphors operate upon continua — in this case belowness and aboveness — moving people and things aptly about on the continua.
ref: 1986, James. W. Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being below.
zillijes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zillij