cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: duckies
form: duckie
Etymology: From duck (“aquatic bird”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Do little things for your Inner Child, like taking bubble baths. Invite a rubber ducky to play with you...
ref: 1990, Donna LeBlanc, You can't quit until you know what's eating you:
glosses: A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck.
Derived terms: rubber ducky
ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: duckies
form: duckie
Etymology: From duck (term of endearment) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "Morning, ducky!" said Roderick, as he gave his partner a quick peck on the cheek and sat down to breakfast.
synonyms: darling
hon
glosses: An affectionate pet name.
glosses: A woman's breast.
ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: more ducky
form: most ducky
Etymology: From duck (term of endearment) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Darling, charming, cute.
examples: text: Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was ducky on Wall Street.
text: 1930, Mickey Mouse newspaper comic
Isn't this the duckiest little leather skirt you ever saw?
text: Fortunately, she had bragged to everybody about her ducky first-floor apartment in the perfectly darling three-story red-brick.
ref: 1942, James Thurber, The Catbird Seat:
synonyms: fine
just ducky
peachy
swell
glosses: Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: shucky ducky
lomcevaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lomcevak
barrel roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel rolls
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aerobatic flying maneuver in which the pilot causes the airplane to complete one loop in the same time that the airplane completes one roll, creating the appearance that the airplane is riding on the inside of a cylinder.
glosses: A movement (usually during a car crash) where a car flips on its roof, then falls back on its wheels after doing at least one full 360° horizontal rotation.
Coordinate terms: aileron roll
rudder roll
snap roll
cannon roll
barrel roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barrel rolls
form: barrel rolling
form: barrel rolled
form: barrel rolled
form: barrel-roll
Senses: glosses: To perform a barrel roll.
barrel rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel roll
barrel rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barrel roll
neurasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnʊɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more neurasthenic
form: most neurasthenic
Etymology: From neurasthenia + -ic or neur- + asthenia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence.
text: Middle-class parents’ self-medication has long been recreationalized, even romanticized in America (so long as they were white); think of sitcom dads pouring a drink and sinking into the BarcaLounger after a long day with Bob in accounting, or neurasthenic moms popping pink capsules while the casserole browns.
ref: 2020 October 3, Jessica Grose, “Mother’s Little Helper Is Back, and Daddy’s Partaking Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to neurasthenia; that is, tendencies of a person who has suffered a nervous breakdown.
Derived terms: neurasthenically
neurasthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnʊɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: neurasthenics
Etymology: From neurasthenia + -ic or neur- + asthenia + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person who has neurasthenia.
mkay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of m'kay.
donee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donees
Etymology: From donor + -ee (attested since 1523).
Senses: examples: text: John became the donee of the bone marrow donated by his brother.
text: But this donee or this purchasoure shall take to their profyte all the vesture standyng vpon or beyng with in the sayd groūde
ref: 1523, John Fitzherbert, Book of surveying, page 15:
glosses: Someone who receives a gift from a donor.
Synonyms: donatee
Related terms: donation
donor
affiliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.
ref: 1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11:
glosses: tending to promote social cohesion
raw_tags: of behaviour
Derived terms: affiliatively
disaffiliative
unaffiliative
despisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzəl
Forms: form: despisals
Etymology: From despise + -al.
Senses: glosses: Contempt; scornful hatred.
grimy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: grimier
form: grimiest
form: grimey
Etymology: From grime + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Stained or covered with grime.
examples: text: Riffs from older songs seem to be more popular, as only two from the past decade made it into the top 20. They were Muse's Plug In Baby, at 11, and The White Stripes' grimy Seven Nation Army at 15.
ref: 2009 November 27, “Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff'”, in BBC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: From the urban musical genre called grime.
examples: text: When I was 18 I was grimy af. I wouldn't share my food with you even if you were starving and about to die.
glosses: Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.
examples: text: Pro Era are a group of young rappers (and artists) straight from the streets of Brooklyn, New York. They're headed by Joey Bada$$ who is definitely the most well known figure but as a group they stand alone as some of the top emcees and producers coming through. They've been hailed as the return of hip hop, especially the gritty, grimey New York hip hop we all know and love
ref: 2014 June 6, Scott Miller, “A Few Thoughts on Pro Era's 'The Shift'”, in The Niche Cache, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2024:
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a beat or song, darkly atmospheric; having affinities with the style of the East Coast hip hop of the 90s, especially that of New York.
Derived terms: grimily
griminess
grisly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
rhymes: -ɪzli
homophone: grizzly
Forms: form: grislies
Etymology: From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in āgrīsan) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’).
The word may also be an aphetic form of Old English ongrislic, agrisenliċ, the past participle of agrīsan (“to agrise”).
Compare Danish grusom, Swedish gräslig, Middle Dutch grezelijc (modern Dutch griezelig), Middle High German grisenlich (modern German grässlich, grausen).
Senses: examples: ref: 1893, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches:
glosses: Obsolete form of grizzly (“type of bear”).
grisly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
rhymes: -ɪzli
homophone: grizzly
Forms: form: more grisly
form: most grisly
Etymology: From grisle (“horror, terror”) + -ly; compare Middle Dutch griselike, Middle Low German grislike.
Senses: examples: text: [A] very fair young gentlewoman [Sir Roger Wentworth's daughter], of twelve years of age, in marvellous manner vexed and tormented by our ghostly enemy, the devil, her mind alienated and raving, with despising and blaspheming of God, and hatred of all hallowed things, […] finally being brought and laid before the image of our blessed lady, was there, in the sight of many worshipful people, so grievously tormented, and in face, eyes, look, and countenance, so grisly changed, with her mouth drawn aside, and her eyes laid out upon her cheeks, that it was a terrible sight to behold. And after many marvellous things, […] restored to their good state, perfectly cured and suddenly.
ref: 1850, William Tyndale, quoting Thomas More, “[The Solutions and Answers unto M. More’s First Book.] The Sixteenth Chapter”, in Henry Walter, editor, An Answer to Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue, The Supper of the Lord after the True Meaning of John VI. and 1 Cor. XI. and Wm. Tracy’s Testament Expounded. By William Tyndale, Martyr, 1536. Edited for the Parker Society, by the Rev. Henry Walter, B.D. F.R.S. [...], Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, →OCLC, page 90, footnote:
text: A valiant Captain of great prowess, as fierce as a fox assaulting a goose, was so hardy to give the first stroke: then got they so grisly together, that great was the activity that day to be seen there on both sides: the one very eager for purchase of prey, the other utterly stout for redemption of liberty: thus, quarrel enflamed the fury on both sides: twice the Danes had the better, but at the last conflict, beaten down, overcome, and many led captive for triumph by our English women.
ref: 1870, George Adlard, “A Letter: Whearin Part of the Entertainment unto the Queen’s Majesty at Killingworth Castl in Warwiksheer in this Somers Progress—1575 is Signified: From a Freend Officer Attendant in the Court unto His Freend a Citizen and Merchaunt of London. [...] With Explanatory Notes.”, in Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester; a Critical Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Various Statements in Relation to the Death of Amye Robsart, and of the Libels on the Earl of Leycester, with a Vindication of the Earl by His Nephew Sir Philip Sydney. And a History of Kenilworth Castle, including an Account of the Splendid Entertainment Given to Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of Leycester, in 1575, from the Works of Robert Laneham and George Gascoigne; together with Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir Robert Dudley, Son of the Earl of Leycester, London: John Russell Smith, 36 Soho Square, →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: In a horrible or terrible manner; in a terrifying way.
Synonyms: grimly
horribly
terribly
knockkneed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knock-kneed.
knock knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock knees
Senses: glosses: The medical condition genu valgum.
Related terms: knock-kneed
genu valgum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genu valgums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin genū valgum (“knockkneed”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: knock knee
tibia valga
glosses: The condition in which the knees are abnormally close together and the ankles far apart.
ciruela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Spondias purpurea.
E10
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: petrol/gasoline blended with 10 per cent ethanol.
Coordinate terms: B10
B100
B15
B5
B85
E100
E15
E5
E85
M10
M100
M15
M5
M85
Navid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naveed
Etymology: From Persian نوید (navid, novid, literally “good news”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).
suprasternal notch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suprasternal notches
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: jugular notch
glosses: The conspicuous dip visible at the top of the human chest where the neck joins the sternum.
suprasternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpɹəˈstɜːnəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: more suprasternal
form: most suprasternal
Etymology: From supra- + sternal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated or occurring higher than, or above, the sternum.
Derived terms: suprasternal notch
Naveed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naveeds
Etymology: Variant spelling of Navid.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name نوید (navid, novid).
glosses: A surname from Persian.
taxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The plural form of taxon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern.
Senses: examples: text: Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: plural of taxon
raphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.fi/
rhymes: -eɪfi
Forms: form: raphae
form: raphes
form: rhaphe
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin raphē, from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhăphḗ, “seam; suture”).
Senses: examples: text: They are inserted into the midline raphae or the anococcygeal raphae and the coccyx.
ref: 2004, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, V. Sivanesaratnam, Pratap Kumar, Alokendu Chatterjee, Essential of Obstetrics, page 28:
text: It shows three symmetrical raphes (asterisk) radiating from the centre of the aortic root, but in fetuses there is often asymmetry between the raphes with the one between the left and noncoronary sinuses being larger than the others (red asterisk in Figure 2.14b).
ref: 2005, Robert H. Anderson, Marco Pozzi, Suzie Hutchinson, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, page 29:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.
The connecting ridge between the two halves of the medulla oblongata or the tegmentum of the midbrain.
examples: text: The vast majority of the raphes do not bifurcate (123 genera), but the raphes of 7 genera do.
ref: 2003, Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.; Charles R. Gunn; Anna L. Weitzman, Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the Subfamily Faboideae (Fabaceae), page 24:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of the stalk of an anatropous ovary that is united in growth to the outside covering and forms a ridge along the body of the ovule.
examples: text: The invariant occurrence of adhesive EPS at both the driving and the non-driving raphes supports a model for constitutive, rather than induced, secretion of the raphe adhesive.
ref: 2007, Andrew M. Smith, James A. Callow, Biological Adhesives, page 87:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A longitudinal median groove in the valve of many diatoms.
Derived terms: araphid
biraphid
dysraphia
dysraphism
monoraphid
perineal raphe
pseudoraphe
pterygomandibular raphe
rapheless
raphe nucleus
raphe pallidus
raphespinal
raphae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪfiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of raphe
fourche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fourchee
form: fourchée
form: fourché
form: fourchy
form: furché
form: furchy
Etymology: Borrowed from French fourché. Doublet of furcate and fork.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.
loose box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose boxes
Senses: examples: text: Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
glosses: A separate compartment of a building in which livestock are free to move about; especially a form of stable for horses.
glosses: A brougham or other vehicle kept for the use of a dame de compagnie.
loose-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose-boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loose box.
midsection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdˌsɛkʃən/
Forms: form: midsections
Etymology: From mid- + section.
Senses: glosses: The middle section of something.
examples: text: That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
ref: 2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The midriff; the section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist.
Derived terms: midsectional
miserably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more miserably
form: most miserably
Etymology: From Middle English myserablie; equivalent to miserable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: fail miserably
text: "Well, sorcerer?" growled the Norman. "Nay, not well," replied Catweazle shivering miserably, "I have the bone-ache."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7:
text: I just need you miserably
Broken man come to me
I just need you desperately
Just want to change your mind
ref: 1999, “Stately Lover”, performed by Lacuna Coil:
glosses: In a miserable manner.
Indian elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian elephants
Senses: examples: text: The Indian Elephant is endemic to the region of interest, using both the Ganges and the Mekong Rivers as resources for water and bathing.
ref: 2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 22:
glosses: A subspecies of the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, distributed across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Laos, southern China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and formerly Pakistan.
Asian elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian elephants
Senses: synonyms: Asiatic elephant
hyponyms: Indian elephant
coordinate_terms: African elephant
glosses: An elephant, Elephas maximus, found in Asia.
mob-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mob-handed
form: most mob-handed
form: mobhanded
form: mob handed
Senses: examples: text: 'I didn't expect to see you today,' he went on, 'especially not mob-handed. Mind you, I don't remember a great deal about seeing you yesterday.'
ref: 2005, Quintin Jardine, Lethal Intent:
text: It was 2-0 on 40 minutes, the goal coming after another mob-handed attack against a defence that just seemed to be sinking backwards.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Being a member of a group, especially one with violent or threatening intent.
Derived terms: mob-handedly
mob-handedness
mob-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mob-handed
form: most mob-handed
form: mobhanded
form: mob handed
Senses: examples: text: The forces of the law waded in mob-handed when, it seems, they ought to have applied a lighter, more consensual touch.
ref: 2014 September 5, Boyd Tonkin, “Ashya King showed we still don’t know the limits of liberty”, in The Independent:
glosses: As a member of a group, especially one with violent or threatening intent.
African elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African elephants
Senses: coordinate_terms: Asian elephant
glosses: Either of two species of elephant, Loxodonta africana or Loxodonta cyclotis, found in Africa.
Hyponyms: sense: African Loxodonta species
word: African bush elephant
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: bush elephant
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: savanna elephant
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: African savannah elephant
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: Loxodonta africana
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: African forest elephant
sense: African Loxodonta species
word: Loxodonta cyclotis
neogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Neogene + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of, or relating to the Neogene period
Derived terms: glyconeogenic
Related terms: paleogenic
Paleogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Paleogene + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of, or relating to the Paleogene period
Related terms: neogenic
nerveway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerveways
Etymology: From nerve + way.
Senses: examples: text: He sutured the pieces together like a microsurgeon reattaching a severed nerveway.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Even though it was something the painter didn't think about (with words) she recalled the metallic flavor of minerals (how the stars must taste) scratching at the root of her tongue, which led to nerveways of the bones where the imprint of all symbols surfaces to the fingers, where spirits ride horses through the colors needed to form any coherent universe.
ref: 2005, Jack Elliott Myers, Roger Weingarten, New American Poets, page 128:
text: I can't even say I saw the thing. It was more of a peripheral flickering, a twitch along the nerveways, a barely perceptible awareness of something over by the parking garage.
ref: 2011, Richard Sanders, Dead Heat:
text: His lips moved, and he looked at her as if the time inside his head had slowed to a crawl, as if the nerveways in his brain were clogged with too much information.
ref: 2012, Daniel Pearlman, And Baby Makes Five:
glosses: An axon.
nigger-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigger-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of niggerhead.
niggerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggerheads
form: nigger head
Etymology: From nigger + head, reflecting a supposed resemblance to a black person's head.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bollard made from an old cannon.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geode.
glosses: A coneflower.
examples: text: We were sailing swiftly along on a calm and glassy sea, past beautiful headlands and bits of scenery clothed with vivid and luxuriant green down to the water's edge; past glistening coral islands, on whose outer edges pale green billows broke on the white sandy beaches, boiling and seething as they dashed against a row of ugly "nigger heads," as the rocks were called, dotted here and there.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 35:
text: Landward is the almost unbroken wall of submerged reefs where the big niggerhead corals send their solid bulks up to within a fathom or two of the surface.
ref: 1989, Rachel Louise Carson, Jeffrey S. Levinton, The Sea Around Us, page 135:
glosses: A coral or stone outcrop that stands above the surface of the water.
examples: text: These plants fill the interstices between the grasses and tiny shrubs that make the outer, fuller form of the niggerhead.
ref: 1912, Appalachia, volume 12, page 51:
text: Responsible in large part for the difficulties of movement to which the geologists referred were tussocks, still known as “niggerheads” in the 1930s. The “niggerhead,” according to Bob Marshall, “among the gifts of nature, ranks as the most cursed.[…]”
ref: 1991, Peter A. Coates, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy, page 108:
text: Much of the land is tundra, a mass of spongy, waterlogged clumps of sphagnum moss called tussock, muskeg, hummock, or in the vernacular of old-time Alaskans “niggerheads.”
ref: 2004, James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness, page 65:
text: From the air, the bright green grassy floor of the tundra looks as smooth as a golf course fairway, but a closer inspection reveals peaty tussocks of crabgrass called niggerheads spaced just far enough apart for a foot to twist clumsily between. Walking on the frost-formed niggerheads is very much akin to walking across a gymnasium floor covered by thousands of glued-in-place softballs.
ref: 2006, Kit Cain, Flying The Yukon's Bush, page 30:
text: This sloshing was compounded by the fact we were unable to keep in step with each other due to the many and various sized niggerheads (hard tussocks in tundra) that would attempt to roll from under us as if one was stepping on balls ranging in size from softballs to basketballs, with each step if unable (most of the time we could not) to avoid.
ref: 2012, Otis Hammonds, As the Hawks... Free of Earth's Bounds, Xlibris, unnumbered page:
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: A tussock (clump of plant material), found on the tundra.
synonyms: nigger tobacco
glosses: A strong black variety of chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form.
glosses: A term of abuse for a black person.
Derived terms: Nigger Head
niggerhead last
ebon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛbən/
Forms: form: ebons
form: hebene
Etymology: From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos, “ebony tree”).
Senses: glosses: Ebony; an ebony tree.
Derived terms: ebontree
ebon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛbən/
Forms: form: more ebon
form: most ebon
form: hebene
Etymology: From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos, “ebony tree”).
Senses: examples: text: “A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
ref: 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, section I:
glosses: Made of ebony.
examples: text: ...flowers stood beside, in an alabaster vase—exotics, that say, "our growth has been precious." A lute leant against the ebon stand; but the face of the lady wore the expression of deep and touching sorrow.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 238:
glosses: Black in colour.
examples: text: Woona had silently and swiftly backed away; and her ebon face, Ursula saw, had changed into leaden flabbiness with some horrible fear.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 279:
text: With the quickness of thought his spear arm flew back, and then shot forward with all the force of the sinewy muscles that rolled beneath the shimmering ebon hide. True to its mark the iron-shod weapon flew, transfixing Numa’s sleek carcass from the right groin to beneath the left shoulder.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 124:
glosses: Having dark skin; black.
Derived terms: ebonly
Geddies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic originating from Peeblesshire.
Related terms: Geddas
Geddes
Geddis
peri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “about, around”). Cognate to for via Proto-Indo-European.
Senses: examples: text: peri- + meter → perimeter
glosses: around or surrounding
examples: text: peri- + helion → perihelion
glosses: near
examples: text: peri- + apocalyptic → peri-apocalyptic
text: peri- + natal → perinatal
glosses: during
Synonyms: sense: surrounding
word: circum-
sense: surrounding
word: para-
sense: near
word: para-
sense: during
word: intra-
sense: during
word: mid-
Related terms: peripatetic
peripherad
periphery
restricting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restrict
restricting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restricting
form: most restricting
Senses: glosses: Serving to restrict.
nonlubricated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lubricated.
Senses: glosses: not lubricated
lubricated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lubricate
osteology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteologies
Etymology: From osteo- + -logy.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the morphology and pathology of bones.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bone structure of a particular individual, or species.
Derived terms: osteologer
paleo-osteology
Related terms: osteological
osteologically
osteologist
orthopedics
osteological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to osteology.
Derived terms: osteologically
osteologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From osteological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Concerning only the osteological aspects.
osteologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteologists
Etymology: From osteo- + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis. It is suggested this unusual position means he could have been murdered or executed. [...] We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.
ref: 2020 July 29, “Neolithic skeleton among finds unearthed at HS2 site”, in Rail, page 17:
glosses: A scientist or physician whose speciality is osteology.
Related terms: orthopedist
osteohistological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + histological.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to osteohistology
Derived terms: osteohistologically
osteohistology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + histology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of bone
osteohistologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From osteohistological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Concerning only the osteohistological aspects.
osteon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteons
form: ostea
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”). Doublet of os.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the central canals, and surrounding bony layers, found in compact bone.
Synonyms: Haversian system
osteone
Derived terms: osteonal
otosteon
pleurosteon
osteone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of osteon.
Haversian system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haversian systems
Etymology: From Clopton Havers, English anatomist.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The system of osteons in compact bone
wikipedia: Clopton Havers
only just
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I've only just cleaned the floor, and you've made muddy tracks!
glosses: recently; just now
examples: text: I got 51%, so I only just passed the exam.
glosses: barely; by only a small margin
Synonyms: sense: barely
word: barely
sense: barely
word: just
sense: barely
word: hardly
sense: barely
word: scarcely
pallets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallet
VO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Victorian Order.
VO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of voiceover.
examples: text: Visiting a busy prison like Holloway can at first be intimidating to the uninitiated, especially as everyone else seems familiar with the procedure. A convicted prisoner must send a VO to anyone wishing to visit her.
ref: 1998, Angela Devlin, Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons?, page 82:
glosses: Initialism of visiting order.
glosses: Initialism of video operator.
glosses: Initialism of vegetable oil.
rowdier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rowdy: more rowdy
running speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences.
shadchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑdxən/
Forms: form: shadchens
form: schatchen
form: shadchan
form: shadkan
form: shadkn
Etymology: From Yiddish שדכן (shadkhn), from Hebrew שַׁדְכָן.
Senses: glosses: marriage broker, matchmaker
matchmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃˌmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: matchmakers
form: match-maker
Etymology: From match + maker.
Senses: examples: text: As singles are stuck at home and social distancing makes traditional dating all but impossible, the coaching skills of matchmakers, now imparted online, are becoming more valuable.
ref: 2020 May 9, Tammy La Gorce, “Singles Have to Think Outside the Screen”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: marriage broker
word: shadchen
antonyms: matchbreaker
glosses: Someone who finds suitable dates or marriage partners for other people.
glosses: Someone who arranges professional boxing matches.
glosses: Someone who makes matchsticks.
Related terms: matchmaking
matchmake
shechinah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃ(ə)ˈxiːnə/
/ʃ(ə)χiˈnɑː/
Forms: form: shechinahs
form: schechina
form: schechinah
form: shechina
form: shekhinah
form: shekinah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שְׁכִינָה (shkhiná, literally “act of dwelling”).
Senses: examples: text: The Sh'khinah suffers with Israel in exile and will return with it at the time of redemption.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 837:
glosses: the presence of God.
Related terms: shekinah
something's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Something's going wrong.
glosses: Contraction of something is.
examples: text: Something's just fallen off the shelf.
glosses: Contraction of something has.
something's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Belonging to something.
hurting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurt
hurting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurtings
Senses: examples: text: Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way […]
ref: 1997, Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness:
glosses: A sensation that hurts.
Derived terms: unhurting
nobody's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: From nobody + -'s.
Senses: glosses: Possessive case of nobody. (This entry is a translation hub.)
nobody's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From nobody + -'s.
Senses: glosses: That which belongs to nobody; the possessive case of nobody, used without a following noun.
nobody's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: nobody + 's
Senses: glosses: Contraction of nobody is.
glosses: Contraction of nobody has.
everybody's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: possessive form of everybody
everybody's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Everybody's going to the party.
glosses: Contraction of everybody is.
examples: text: Almost everybody's read that book.
glosses: Contraction of everybody has.
somebody's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From somebody + -'s.
Senses: synonyms: someone's
glosses: Possessive case of somebody. (This entry is a translation hub.)
somebody's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From somebody + -'s.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of somebody is.
glosses: Contraction of somebody has.
offences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offence
pacified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pacify
Derived terms: unpacified
recollected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recollect
oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oak + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of oak
oaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Epsom Oaks horse race.
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.
monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monster
monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monster
siddur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪdʊə/
Forms: form: siddurs
form: siddurim
Etymology: From Hebrew סִידּוּר.
Senses: examples: text: because of the holy books that occupied their bookshelves instead of encyclopaedia and romances, the torn siddurim they took out to read from on Friday nights
ref: 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 54:
glosses: A prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.
Related terms: mahzor
machzor
suspensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspensors
Senses: glosses: An athletic support; a jockstrap
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cord which suspends the embryo, and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
Zippergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From zipper + -gate, referring to the fastening on a man's trousers.
Senses: glosses: The Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Synonyms: Fornigate
Monicagate
Fornigate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of fornicate + -gate.
Senses: glosses: the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Synonyms: Monicagate
Zippergate
Asianisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asianisations
Etymology: From Asian + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Asianization.
Asianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asianizations
form: Asianisation
Etymology: From Asian + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming Asian in character or culture
glosses: The conversion of something (such as the plot of a film) so as to use Asian characters and settings
big beat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo.
breakbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakbeats
Etymology: From break + beat.
Senses: examples: text: A cornucopia of hyped-up breakbeats, keyboard squiggles, surf grooves, dancehall stylee, dumb loops and much atonal shouting along, Far In dares you not to smile.
ref: 2001, CMJ New Music Monthly:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms.
Derived terms: breakbeaty
Related terms: breakcore
bigorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of big + anorexia.
Senses: examples: text: The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.
ref: 2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mental disorder in which the sufferer perceives himself to have inadequate musculature; most common among bodybuilders
Synonyms: muscle dysmorphia
Derived terms: bigorexic
biopiracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + piracy, coined by Canadian environmentalist Pat Roy Mooney in the early 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Capital now has to look for new colonies to invade and exploit for its further accumulation. These new colonies are, in my view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Resistance to biopiracy is a resistance to the ultimate colonization of life itself—of the future of evolution as well as the future of non-Western traditions of relating to and knowing nature.
ref: 1997, Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: the plunder of nature and knowledge, South End Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: […] Although most of the public demonstrations during that meeting were aimed at globalization in general (and labor and biopiracy issues in particular), they also focused on trade issues related to genetically modified foods.
ref: 2003, Marion Nestle, Safe Food, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 237:
text: Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances.
Related terms: bioprospecting
bimini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪmɪniː/
Forms: form: biminis
Etymology: Named after the Bimini islands
Senses: glosses: A lightweight cover, usually made of fabric stretched on a metal frame which is readily removable, for the cockpit or deck of a speedboat or sailboat.
wythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪθ/
ipa: /wɪθ/
ipa: /wɪð/
rhymes: -aɪθ
Forms: form: wythes
Etymology: Uncertain.
* Perhaps an alteration of width.
* Perhaps related to withe (“flexible twig; band of twigs”), from Old English wiþþe (“tie, band”).
The chimney-partition sense may derive from the fact that a single wythe or thickness of brick has often been used for such partitions.
Senses: examples: text: That wall has to be at least three wythes of brick to support your load.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A continuous vertical section of masonry, one unit in thickness.
examples: text: A chimney runs from the base of the first flue liner to the top of the last flue liner, or to any rain cap above it. Attach single-wythe chimneys to the house.
ref: 1986, Jack Payne Jones, Handbook of Construction Contracting: Plans, specs, building, Craftsman Book Company, →ISBN, page 373:
text: […] Where there is more than one flue, there is usually a single wythe of masonry separating the flues. Particularly on older chimneys with poor or missing caps, this wythe of brick dividing the flues may be[…]
ref: 2003, Carson Dunlop, Principles of Home Inspection: Chimneys & wood heating, Dearborn Real Estate, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: architecture
glosses: A partition between flues in a chimney.
pigsny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigsnies
form: pigsnie
form: pigsney
form: piggesnye
Senses: examples: text: To mine own dear coney bird, sweetheart and pigsny
ref: c. 1540, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister:
glosses: An Elizabethan term of endearment.
commandments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commandment
convictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conviction
nonproprietary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + proprietary.
Senses: glosses: Lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
glosses: Lacking proprietary value; not private or privileged information; not owned by anyone (not anyone's property, whether intellectual property or otherwise).
Not protected by trademark, patent, or trade secret and thus open to commercial use without license; said of drugs (medications) and of various kinds of goods and materials.
synonyms: generic
Derived terms: international nonproprietary name
nonproprietary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonproprietaries
Etymology: From non- + proprietary.
Senses: synonyms: generic
glosses: A drug that is not proprietary.
unenforceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + enforceability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unenforceable.
enforceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enforceable
form: most enforceable
Etymology: From enforce + -able.
Senses: examples: text: President Biden is seriously considering legislative proposals that would dramatically alter the Supreme Court, including imposing term limits and an enforceable code of ethics on the justices, according to a person familiar with the ongoing discussions.
ref: 2024 July 16, Michael D. Shear, “Biden Considers Pushing for Major Changes to the Supreme Court”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being enforced.
Derived terms: enforceably
nonenforceable
Related terms: enforceability
unenforceability
contemporaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contemporary
Schrödinger's wave equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A three-dimensional partial differential equation which determines the evolution of a quantum mechanical wave function
wikipedia: Erwin Schrödinger
Schuler pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schuler pendulums
Etymology: From Max Schuler, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any pendulum having a period equal to that of a hypothetical pendulum whose length is equal to the Earth's radius (84.4 minutes); its arm will remain locally vertical when the pivot is moved and is therefore the basis of navigational instruments
Related terms: Schuler period
scintillation counter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scintillation counters
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A detector of particles and ionizing radiation which uses a photomultiplier to generate flashes of light
Derived terms: liquid scintillation counter
screening smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screening smokes
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Smoke clouds used by the military for blinding, cover and deception
Related terms: smoke screen
seamount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamounts
Etymology: From sea + mount.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
coordinate_terms: knoll
glosses: An underwater mountain with a prominence of more than 1,000 meters, which does not breach the surface of the water.
Derived terms: seamount chain
Related terms: guyot