cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
KSAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
yawpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: now largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative form of yaupon.
yopon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yopons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yaupon.
yopons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yopon
meetin' seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meetin' seeds
form: meeting seed
Senses: examples: text: Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.
ref: 1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134:
text: […] fennel, dill, and caraway furnished meeting seed fresh from June to October, and dry from October to June again.
ref: 1916, Catharine Melinda North, History of Berlin, Connecticut, page 43:
text: Puritans tucked dill “meetin' seeds” into their Bibles to appease their appetite during long services. Dill perfumes soap and occasionally goes into perfume. The seeds make a good breath freshener.
ref: 2016 April 27, Kathi Keville, The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A seed from any of various herb plants (especially fennel, but sometimes caraway, dill, or anise), formerly eaten during church meetings to foster wakefulness, freshen the breath, or keep hunger pangs at bay.
meeting seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meeting seeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meetin' seed.
yokeag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊkiːɡ/
ipa: /ˈjoʊˌkiɡ/
Etymology: From Mohegan-Pequot yoakheage, yok'hig, shortening of yok'higan (“(that which is) made soft”), related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”) (see nocake) and Quiripi *rōhkhīk (see rokeag).
Senses: examples: text: Tables were arranged inside and the festival was held Wednesday and Thursday and many visitors appeared for the midday meal, clam chowder, oyster stew, succotash and the famous traveling food—yokeag, made of mortars of pepperidge wood. Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors. It was light to carry and nourishing. We have been told that a small quantity was placed in a deerskin sack to be placed at the waist of the warrior or hunter and with water served as a meal.
ref: 1995, Melissa Jayne Fawcett [Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel], The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, The Story of the Wolf People, Uncasville, Conn.: Mohegan Tribe, →OCLC, page 55:
text: She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.
ref: 2006, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 235:
text: The Mohegan were farmers and fishermen and they provided vegetables (mostly corn), meat and fish for the [Annual Brush Arbor or Wigwam] Festival. One ceremonial food was "Yokeag." One year old yellow corn kernels were parched and ground to fine meal. Every family had a wooden mortar and stone pestle and the men worked long hours in preparing this. Traditionally it was known as "Traveling Food" and was carried by hunters and warriors.
ref: 2014, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, “An Affectionate Portrait of Frank Speck”, in Siobhan Senier, editor, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 584:
glosses: Synonym of nocake.
synonyms: word: nocake
trispast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trispasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐ́σπαστος (trĭ́spastos, “drawn threefold”).
Senses: synonyms: trispaston
glosses: A machine with three pulleys which act together to raise great weights.
trispasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trispast
triandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Triandria + -an
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the former Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
Synonyms: triandrous
shabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shabbles
Etymology: Compare Dutch sabel.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bent sword or hanger (weapon).
shabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shabble
sea-laces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: sea-catgut
sea twine
glosses: A kind of seaweed (Chorda filum) with long blackish cord-like fronds.
murexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murex
salisburia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salisburias
Etymology: From the junior synonym for the genus name Ginkgo.
Senses: glosses: The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba).
salisburias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salisburia
philologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French philologique.
Senses: glosses: philological
chakral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chakral
form: most chakral
Etymology: From chakra + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a chakra or chakras.
escalop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈskæləp/
/ɪˈskɒləp/
Forms: form: escalops
Etymology: Old French escalope (“shell”), French escalope (“a sort of cut of meat”).
Senses: glosses: A scallop.
examples: text: So many jags or escalops.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bearing or charge consisting of an escalop shell, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Derived terms: escaloped
escalop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈskæləp/
/ɪˈskɒləp/
Forms: form: escalops
form: escaloping
form: escaloped
form: escaloped
Etymology: Old French escalope (“shell”), French escalope (“a sort of cut of meat”).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of scallop (“bake in a casserole”).
Related terms: escalope
escallop
scallop
escalops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escalop
yellow bird's-nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow bird's-nests
Senses: glosses: An epiparasitic plant, Monotropa hypopitys.
yellow bird's-nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow bird's-nest
bird's nest pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird's nest puddings
Etymology: From the resemblance to eggs in a nest.
Senses: glosses: A pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.
decandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: decandrous
gliddery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gliddery
form: most gliddery
Etymology: From glidder + -y. Compare Low German glidderig and Middle Dutch gliderich.
Senses: examples: text: Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.
ref: 1864, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan:
text: […]at last we bump alongside the little quay, and climb out on the wet, gliddery stones.
ref: 1908, Henry van Dyke Jr., Out-of-Doors in The Holy Land:
glosses: Slippery; smooth.
helvite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin helvus (“of a light bay colour”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish mineral consisting chiefly of silica, beryllium, manganese, iron, and sulfur. Its chemical formula is Mn₄Be₃(SiO₄)₃S.
Synonyms: helvine
helvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Helvite.
chitterling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitterlings
Etymology: From Middle English chiterling, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Low German kǖtel (“entrails, tripe”), German Kuttel (“tripe”), West Flemish kiet, kijte (“milt, fish roe”), Scots kyte (“belly, stomach”).
Senses: examples: text: And some wear lattice caps with three horns, three corners I should say, like the forked caps of popish priests, with their periwinkles, chitterlings, and the like apish toys of infinite variety
ref: a. 1621, John Harland, Shuttleworth Family, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October 1621:
glosses: The frill to the breast of a shirt.
glosses: A single piece of chitterlings (intestine used as food).
croggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒɡi/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑɡi/
Forms: form: croggies
Etymology: Possibly from croggan, a limpet.
Senses: examples: text: "I could give you a croggy on me bike, Tam. I know a real quick route between Goldwell and Whitehorse."
ref: 2004, Helen Cross, My Summer of Love, page 142:
text: I was always with me dad. He'd give us a croggy down there.
ref: 2005, Richard Bean, Harvest, Royal Court Theatre, page 126:
text: And we went to a school where some girls would shag you for a bag of chips and a croggy home.
ref: 2012, Adele Parks, Young Wives' Tales:
glosses: A ride on the handlebars or crossbar of a bicycle.
croggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croggy
graning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grane
graned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grane
didrachma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didrachmas
form: didrachmae
form: didrachmai
form: didrachm
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek silver coin worth two drachmas.
didrachmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didrachma
didrachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didrachms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of didrachma.
didrachms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didrachm
cryptobranchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptobranchids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Cryptobranchidae of giant salamanders.
cryptobranchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptobranchid
suadible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suadible
form: most suadible
Etymology: From Latin suadibilis.
Senses: glosses: persuadible
nonlucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lucid.
Senses: examples: text: In the same study, they characterized electrophysiological signals made by the brain during lucid and nonlucid dreams.
ref: 2012, Deirdre Barrett, Patrick McNamara, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams:
glosses: Not being or relating to a lucid dream.
Gheber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghebers
Senses: examples: text: the fierce struggle so long maintained between the Ghebers, or ancient Fire-worshippers of Persia, and their haughty Moslem masters.
ref: 1817, Thomas Moore, “Preface”, in Lalla Rookh […] , London: Longman […] :
glosses: Alternative form of Guebre.
Ghebers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gheber
PDW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PDWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of personal defense weapon.
PDWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PDW
croggan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croggans
Senses: examples: text: Then she saw Tom sitting on the chimney-stool, and his wife taking on the tip of her finger from a croggan (limpet-shell) what appeared to be salve, which she rubbed over her husband's eyes.
ref: 1873, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, page 155:
text: Conjurors and parsons were brought in, who for a time bound the troublesome ghost to emptying Dozmary Pool on Bodmin with a "croggan" or limpet shell.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Westwood, Jacqueline Simpson, The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys, page 117:
glosses: A limpet shell.
examples: text: From time immemorial "croggans" and "bollachans" or milk basins were made out of clay by the people in the district for their domestic use, but besides these there is no record of any other utensils having been manufactured.
ref: 1901, Windsor and Kenfield, Brick and Clay Record, volumes 14-15, page 265:
text: He had sent the ground officer with a "croggan of tar" with which he marked the ears of all the stock.
ref: 1982, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, volume 53, page 72:
text: In the Western Isles a native tradition of building pots, known as croggans, by hand, survived into the 20th century.
ref: 1989, National Museums of Scotland, The Wealth of a Nation, page 139:
glosses: A clay urn made by hand in the Outer Hebrides.
raff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹæf/
Forms: form: raffs
Etymology: From Middle English raf, from Old French raffer, of Germanic origin; compare German raffen, akin to rap (“to snatch”). Compare riffraff, rip (“to tear”).
Senses: examples: text: A raff of errors.
ref: 1680, Isaac Barrow, A Discourse Concerning The Unity Of The Church:
glosses: A disorderly heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
examples: text: Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along […]
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
glosses: The common rabble or mob; riffraff.
glosses: A low fellow; a churl.
Derived terms: raff merchant
raff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹæf/
Forms: form: raffs
form: raffing
form: raffed
form: raffed
Etymology: From Middle English raf, from Old French raffer, of Germanic origin; compare German raffen, akin to rap (“to snatch”). Compare riffraff, rip (“to tear”).
Senses: examples: text: Causes and effects which I thus raffe up together.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
raff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹæf/
Forms: form: raffs
form: raffe
form: raffie
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A three-cornered sail set on a schooner when before the wind.
personal defense weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal defense weapons
form: personal defence weapon
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A compact fully-automatic or semi-automatic firearm similar to a submachine gun but firing a rifle round.
Synonyms: PDW
Derived terms: PDW
personal defence weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal defence weapons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of personal defense weapon.
personal defense weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal defense weapon
personal defence weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal defence weapon
Betawis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Betawi
SAWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAW
wears out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wear out
wearing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wear out
wore out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of wear out
smokos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoko
mock object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock objects
Senses: examples: text: Mock objects (mocks, for short) are perfectly suited for testing a portion of code logic in isolation from the rest of the code.
ref: 2020, Cătălin Tudose, JUnit in Action, 3rd edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
synonyms: mock
hypernyms: fake
test double
coordinate_terms: stub
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An object that mimics the behavior of a real object in a controlled way, often used as part of unit testing.
mock objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mock object
test-driven development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: TDD
glosses: A software development process that relies on the repetition of a minimal development cycle where the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired function, then produces minimal code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards.
contemptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛmp.tɪv/
Forms: form: more contemptive
form: most contemptive
Etymology: From contempt + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: One of the most striking features of the vocabulary of Nishnaabemwin is the frequency that contemptive endings appear on basic (LEXICAL) noun forms, in other words, on noun stems that never occur without the contemptive suffix and which do not have salient contemptive force.
ref: 2001, J. Randolph Valentine, Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form denoting the negative attitude of the speaker.
examples: text: A contemptive epithet applied to any place. “Sich a smuce!” a teetotaler would say in relating his experience of a gin-shop.
ref: 1862, “The” Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood:
text: This he tries to compensate through various means. The show of vulgar power, rude behaviour, a generally contemptive attitude are but a few of them.
ref: 1984, D. N. Gautam, What is wrong with Indian police?, page 225:
glosses: Contemptuous.
contemptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛmp.tɪv/
Forms: form: contemptives
Etymology: From contempt + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word form expressing the negative attitude of the speaker.
Related terms: contempt
contemptible
contemptuous
bulldog edition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulldog editions
Etymology: Uncertain. One popular theory is that competition mainly drove the term; publishers "fought like bulldogs" to "get out editions that would catch the mails going out of town." Another theory suggests that it comes from the nautical term dogwatch (“evening shift”), as printers had to work late in the evening to put out an early edition for the morning paper. Numerous other theories have been proposed.
Senses: examples: text: The Detroit Mirror, morning tabloid, which has been under the same ownership as The Chicago Tribune and The New York Daily News, suspended publication with its early bulldog edition today.
ref: 1932 August 5, “The Detroit Mirror, a Tabloid, Suspends”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Sep 2012:
text: In journalism, a "bulldog edition" is an edition of a daily newspaper printed early for transportation to distant points.
ref: 1970 June 10, “Today in History”, in Owosso Argus-Press, Michigan, USA, retrieved 14 Sep 2012, page 23:
text: Larry Holmes marched into view at 20 minutes before the hour of 11 a.m. . . . The guys with the cameras could snap away, and everybody would have a story for the 6 O'Clock News or the bulldog edition.
ref: 1980 October 2, Bruce Keidan, “Ali-Holmes strike out before bout”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 14 Sep 2012, page 9:
text: He took us on evening walks. […] On the way home, he'd stop at the corner next to the subway stop, get the bulldog edition of the Inquirer and chat with the guy selling the papers.
ref: 2008 April 10, Chris Matthews, “Philly Politicos Kick it Old-School”, in Time:
topics: journalism
media
newspapers
publishing
glosses: The earliest edition of a periodical publication, especially a daily newspaper.
Related terms: pup
SDLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: Synchronous Data Link Control
SDLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SDLCs
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of software development lifecycle.
CdLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
bulldog clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulldog clip
maza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza). Doublet of mass.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek barley cake.
smoodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoodge
smoodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoodge
smoodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoodge
croggans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of croggan
yaupan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: now largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative form of yaupon.
black drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black drinks
Senses: glosses: A tea-like drink made by Native Americans, and then by other peoples, having exhilarant and diuretic properties, thought to have been brewed with Ilex vomitoria (yaupon) or Ilex cassine leaves.
black drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black drink
nokehike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊkˌhɪk/
ipa: /ˈnoʊkˌ(h)ɪk/
Senses: examples: text: Some of their modes of cookery have been adopted, and are retained. [...] [T]heir nokehike, which is corn parched and pounded, their ſuckataſh, which is a mixture of corn and beans boiled, are much uſed, and very palatable.
ref: 1792, Jeremy Belknap, “Monuments and Relics of the Indians”, in The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: […] Belknap and Young, […], →OCLC, pages 92–93:
text: This lordly dish is made of oak, and will contain about six quarts, which was indeed a goodly quantity, whether of nokehike, appoon, nausamp, or sukketash, for the breakfast of his tawny majesty.
ref: 1814, Timothy Alden, “551. A Trophy from the Wigwam of King Philip, when He was Slain, in 1676, by —— Richard. […]”, in A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes, pentade I, volume III, New York, N.Y.: S. Marks, […], →OCLC, page 165:
text: Mic-ki-nac sat on a fallen tree, / And of savory no-ke-hike partook, [...]
ref: 1844, W[illia]m H[owe] C[uyler] Hosmer, “Canto Fourth. The Bower.”, in Yonnondio, or Warriors of the Genesee: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, New York, N.Y.: Wiley & Putnam; Rochester, N.Y.: D. M. Dewey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 115:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nokehick.
torrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torrifies
form: torrifying
form: torrified
form: torrified
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of torrefy.
Derived terms: torrification
torrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: torrefaction
kelek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keleks
Senses: glosses: A kind of raft supported on inflated animal skins.
ara ara
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あらあら (Japanese for "oh dear"), popularized around March 2019.
Senses: examples: text: ara ara, are you alone, little boy?
glosses: Used to express admiration or a typical reaction, often used in women speech.
pocosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈkoʊsən/
Forms: form: pocosins
form: pocoson
form: pocosen
form: poquoson
Etymology: From an unknown Algonquian word, sometimes suggested to be one meaning "opening out" (the widening of a river, related to Ojibwe baakisin (“it is left open”)), or "swamp on a hill". Alternatively, perhaps related to Abenaki pôgwaso (“very shallow”).
Senses: examples: text: One has to go down "on all fours" to get below the dense tangle of vegetation. Each step in the soft peat is uncertain. The reward is a pocosin community full of wildflowers.
ref: 2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 95:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low, wooded swamp in (especially coastal) Eastern Maryland, Virginia or the Carolinas; a palustrine wetland with deep, acidic peat soils.
Derived terms: short pocosin
tall pocosin
pocosen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocosens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pocosin.
elif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elifs
Etymology: Blend of else + if
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
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glosses: A conditional statement in computer code that runs after an "if" statement.
pocosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocosin
yeme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yemes
form: yeming
form: yemed
form: yemed
Etymology: From Middle English yemen, ȝemen (“to heed, pay attention, observe, keep”), from Old English ġīeman, from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną (“to heed, notice, observe, keep”). Cognate with Icelandic geyma, Norwegian gjømme, Swedish gömma, Danish gemme, Faroese geymi, Alemannic German gaume, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan). Doublet of gaum ("to understand, comprehend"), gorm (“to gape, gawk”), and goam (“to recognise, pay attention”), all from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
ref: 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
glosses: To keep, to observe, to pay attention.
short pocosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short pocosins
Senses: glosses: A pocosin with relatively short trees, deep peat, and fewer soil nutrients.
tall pocosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall pocosins
Senses: glosses: A pocosin with relatively tall trees (and often a closed canopy), shallow peat, and more soil nutrients.
short pocosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short pocosin
tall pocosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tall pocosin
pokeloken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊkˌloʊkən/
Forms: form: pokelokens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pokelogan.
pokelogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkˌloʊɡən/
other: /ˌpoʊkəˈloʊɡən/
Forms: form: pokelogans
form: pokeloken
form: pocologan
Etymology: Uncertain. Often suggested to be from an Algonquian language. Perhaps related to pocosin.
Early spellings like Pokee Login and Pocologan (found especially in place names) suggest the four-syllable pronunciation is older.
Senses: examples: text: Moose sometimes wallow in pokelogans.
qualifier: Vermont
glosses: A marsh; an area of grassy ground partly covered with (generally stagnant) water adjacent or connected to a stream or lake.
pokelokens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokeloken
pokelogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pokelogan
recordability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From record + -ability.
Senses: antonyms: unrecordability
glosses: The state or quality of being recordable.
sea puss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pusses
form: sea-puss
form: seapoose
form: sea-poose
form: sea-purse
form: sea purse
form: sepoose
Etymology: From Quiripi (Unquachog) seépus (“river”), cognate to Abenaki sibo (“river”), sibos (“brook, little river”).
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes owing to a peculiar formation of the coast, the waves are brought together in an angle, indenting the shore in such a way that this return flow, or undertow, runs out to sea in a continuous stream, which is called a sea-puss. The sea-puss is of variable width—from twenty or thirty feet to perhaps fifty or a hundred—and its location can generally be recognized by the peculiar roughness of the sea, […] as well as by the fact that the beach opposite to it is channeled by the action of the water. […] Thus is happens that there may exist a strong sea-puss at a certain point one day; and next day, or later in the same day, owing to a change in the tide, the veering of the wind, or the shifting of some sandbar, it may have entirely disappeared.
ref: 1877 August, N. B. Emerson, “Sea-Bathing”, in The Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend, volume 49, number 8, page 227:
text: On the afternoon of the date mentioned the wind was blowing offshore and the tide was running in, forming sea pusses at intervals along the shore. We swam out to where the bar had been. Finding that it had shifted, we turned to come back and found that the ide had carried us into a sea puss, and that we were being swept seaward.
ref: 1911 October 25, Millicent F. Eady and Calvin T. Allison, a letter published in 1913 in the Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service, page 96
glosses: A strong seaward current; a riptide or undertow, especially as results when a sandbar formed by waves suddenly gives way, and which is dangerous to swimmers.
glosses: The (flowing) channel which results when a cut is made (often deliberately by humans) in a barrier beach which separates a bay from an ocean, so as to control the water level in the bay (which affects water mills) and its salinity (which affects shellfish).
sea puss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pusses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea-purse (“egg case; sea bean”).
seapoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seapooses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea puss.
abore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
glosses: simple past of abear
Cumae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cūmae.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek, and then Roman, settlement near Naples famed for its sibyl.
sea-purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-purses
form: sea puss
form: sea purse
Etymology: Named because it is shaped like a small purse.
Senses: glosses: The egg case of skate, shark or ratfish; a mermaid's purse.
glosses: The sea bean Dioclea reflexa.
Synonyms: sense: egg case
word: devil's purse
sense: egg case
word: mermaid's purse
sea-purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-purses
Etymology: Alteration of sea puss.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea puss (“dangerous current”).
devil's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's purses
Senses: glosses: The egg case of some sharks, skates, and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes).
Synonyms: sense: egg case
word: mermaid's purse
sense: egg case
word: sea-purse
devil's purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's purse
sea-purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-purse
mermaid's purses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mermaid's purse
sea bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea beans
Senses: glosses: A drift seed or drift fruit.
glosses: Entada gigas.
glosses: Glasswort (Salicornia spp.), when considered as food.
glosses: A small univalve shell.
glosses: The lid of the aperture of any shell of the family Turbinidae, formerly worn as amulets.
sea beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea bean
forthyete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthyetes
form: forthyeting
form: forthyeted
form: forthyeted
Etymology: From Middle English forthyeten, from Old English forþġietan (“to pour forth, pour out”), equivalent to forth- + yete.
Senses: glosses: To pour out.
forthset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌfɔː(ɹ)θˈsɛt/
Forms: form: forthsets
form: forthsetting
form: forthset
form: forthset
Etymology: From Middle English forthsetten. By surface analysis, forth- + set.
Senses: examples: text: "The stillness I broke by myself when I spoke. Your warriors harked to my words, and they marked how I handled my praise of your high-flying days, and they'll not forget what I've now forthset."
ref: 2003, Poul Anderson, Mother of Kings:
glosses: To set forth; present to view; display.
Derived terms: forthsetting
luckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucklings
Etymology: From luck + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: And how excessive is the conceit likely to be of the few inordinately flattered lucklings of an hour, on a single day in July last, in Saratoga!
ref: 1876, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher:
text: Our little lambkin, waxwing, luckling, all the cordial choir are Noah-calling you now: [...]
ref: 2007, Greg Delanty, The Ship of Birth:
glosses: One favoured by luck or fortune.
lucklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luckling
neechee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neechees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nitchie.
forthwax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthwaxes
form: forthwaxing
form: forthwaxed
form: forthwaxed
Etymology: From Middle English forthwaxen, from Old English forþweaxan (“to break forth, burst forth”), equivalent to forth- + wax (“to grow, increase”).
Senses: glosses: To grow forth; grow to excess; increase; come on.
forthfill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthfills
form: forthfilling
form: forthfilled
form: forthfilled
Etymology: From Middle English forthfillen, equivalent to forth- + fill.
Senses: examples: text: … if they dont want u living somewhere move if they dont want ur blood dont give it if they dont want u to marry dont its that simple all of them things are not vitaly important for a happy forthfilled life is it
ref: 2011, 8 Things Gay People Can't Do, www.ranker.com/list/8-things-gay-people-can_t-do/cdu827
glosses: To fulfill; also, to discharge (a legacy).
ozier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oziers
Senses: qualifier: now largely obsolete
glosses: Alternative form of osier.
decision fatigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The deteriorating quality of decisions made by a person after a long session of decision making.
pooseback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.
Senses: examples: text: Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […]
ref: 1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228:
text: The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back,
While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback?
ref: 1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:
glosses: piggyback
muckawis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from Mohegan-Pequot múckkowheesce.
Senses: glosses: The whippoorwill.
pauhagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Related to poghaden; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.
Senses: glosses: menhaden (fish)
poghaden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poghaden
Etymology: Related to pauhagen; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.
Senses: glosses: menhaden (fish)
pogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpoʊɡi/
Forms: form: pogies
Etymology: Clipping of poghaden.
Senses: glosses: menhaden (fish)
kishon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kishons
Etymology: Perhaps from Manx.
Senses: glosses: A measure used in the Isle of Man, similar to a peck.
kirkgarth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirkgarths
Etymology: From Middle English kyrkgarth; equivalent to kirk + garth. Directly cognate to Danish Kierkegaard, kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.
Senses: glosses: A churchyard.
kitchendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ɪ)ndəm/
ipa: /ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)nˌdəm/
Etymology: From kitchen + -dom (suffix denoting a domain or jurisdiction).
Senses: examples: text: What knowest thou of flowers, except, belike / To garnish meats with? hath not our good King / Who lent me thee, the flower of kitchendom, / A foolish love of flowers?
ref: 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: The domain of the kitchen or people who work there.
Related terms: kitchen
kitchenry
Shawnese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Shawnee.
kissel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kisel (“type of dessert”).
regular grid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular grids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a tessellation of Euclidean space into congruent rectangles, parallelograms, cuboids, or more generally, parallelotopes
Hyponyms: Cartesian grid
Space Race
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Space Race
Senses: glosses: The informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to launch unmanned satellites, send people into space and land them on the Moon.
circumlocuitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumlocuitous
form: most circumlocuitous
Senses: glosses: Characterised by circumlocution.
Synonyms: circumlocutory
Related terms: circumlocuitously
circumlocutorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From circumlocutory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumlocutory manner.
Synonyms: circumlocuitously
circumlocuitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumlocuitously
form: most circumlocuitously
Etymology: From circumlocuitous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumlocuitous manner.
Synonyms: circumlocutorily
shamash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈmæʃ/
ipa: /ʃəˈmɑʃ/
ipa: /ʃɑˈmɑʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: shamashim
form: shamashes
form: shames
form: shamos
form: shammes
form: shammos
Etymology: From Hebrew שַׁמָּשׁ (shamásh, “waiter, sexton”). Doublet of shammes, via Yiddish.
Senses: examples: text: The candelabras lit on Hanukkah are technically called hanukkiahs. They have eight candles plus one more, a shamash, that is used for lighting the others.
ref: 2023 December 7, Jacey Fortin, “For Some, the Symbols of Hanukkah Bring Extra Concern This Year”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The candle used to light the other eight candles of a Hanukkah menorah or hanukkiah.
examples: text: Until 1890, when the local Chevra Kadisha (a traditional Jewish funerary society) was set up, funeral services were performed by the shamashim, the beadles of the synagogues.
ref: 1997, Michael Stivelman, The Death March:
glosses: A sexton in a synagogue.
peritext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritexts
Etymology: By surface analysis, peri- + text.
Senses: examples: text: The main work is not the translation at all, but Nabokov's appropriation of it through his inflated peritext.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 143:
text: Using a narrower focus (the reception of the oeuvre of just two writers, Il'ia Il'f and Evgenii Petrov, who wrote as a team), the approach is literary and the perspective unusual, the editional segments at issue are not so much the texts themselves as their accompanying materials, or peritexts.
ref: 2011, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Miranda Remnek, The Space of the Book, page 252:
coordinate_terms: epitext
paratext
context
subtext
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: Images and textual elements which surround, or are secondary to, the main body of a published work, such as an introduction, notes, front covers, etc.
Derived terms: word: peritextual
peritexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritext
Danial
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Danials
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دَانِيَال (dāniyāl, “Daniel”); this surname is found among both Muslims and Christians.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Ayu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Kaduna State of Nigeria.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ayu terms
negative gearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative gearings
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A form of leveraged speculation in which a speculator borrows money to buy an asset, but the income generated by that asset does not cover the interest on the loan
juarez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wares + Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on that country's border with the United States. The border is often publicly associated with illicit trafficking.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warez.
juarez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: juarezes
form: juarezing
form: juarezed
form: juarezed
Etymology: Blend of wares + Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on that country's border with the United States. The border is often publicly associated with illicit trafficking.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warez.
number close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌmbə(ɹ)ˌkləʊz/
Forms: form: number closes
form: number closing
form: number closed
form: number closed
Etymology: From number + close.
Senses: examples: text: I number closed her but she flaked.
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: To end the pickup of a woman by getting her telephone number.
number close
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnʌmbə(ɹ)ˌkləʊz/
Forms: form: number closes
Etymology: From number + close.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: The successful acquisition of a woman's telephone number at the end of a pickup attempt.
Related terms: kiss close
f-close
subject headings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subject heading
parallelotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallelotopes
Etymology: Blend of parallelogram + polytope. Popularized by Canadian geometer H.S.M. Coxeter.
Senses: examples: text: 1983 [North Holland/Elsevier], Robert S. Borden, A Course in Advanced Calculus, 1998, Dover, page 83,
Suppose now that P is a k-dimensional parallelotope, 1<k<n, in Eⁿ.
text: 1997, Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota, Introduction to Geometric Probability, Cambridge University Press, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, page 30,
We develop next a theory of invariant valuations for the lattice of finite unions of orthogonal parallelotopes, having edgers parallel to a fixed frame. […] This follows from the basic fact that the intersection of two parallelotopes is a parallelotope.
text: It has 2ᵏ gyrovertices, k#43;1 of which are the gyropoints of S, and k 2#123;k-1#125; gyroedges, in full analogy with parallelotopes.
ref: 2015, Abraham Albert Ungar, Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry in N Dimensions, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 187:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.
wikipedia: Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
-care
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Used to denote a plan that provides health care services.
wifier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪfiə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: How her distracted husband finds her, how he brings her home, and convinces her that no intellect or beauty, or charm of any kind in any other woman, could for a moment seem to him comparable to the innocence and simplicity of his 'wee wifie,' and how under the influence of his praise she becomes wee-er and wifier than ever, is elaborately set forth for those who care to know.
ref: 1887 May 14, The Critic, pages 240–241:
text: As wifier-than-thou Val, Miss Eikenberry seems to be reprising her "LA Law" role, just as Miss Sheedy seems to be reprising her misfit from her "Breakfast Club" days.
ref: 1993 July 18, “'Lace' covers women's concerns but avoids some broader issues”, in The Washington Times:
text: But she can be made more ceremonial; she can be made wifier.
ref: 1994 December 25, Joel Achenbach, “These Are Delicate Times For Nation's First Lady”, in The Buffalo News:
glosses: comparative form of wifey: more wifey
wifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wifier
offuscated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offuscate
offuscates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offuscate
offuscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offuscate
aaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acquired aplastic anemia.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of acute anxiety attack.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of amalgam.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of androgenic anabolic agent.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery.
planetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more planetic
form: most planetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin planeticus, from Ancient Greek πλανητικός (planētikós), from πλανητός (planētós, “wandering; planetary”), from πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer, planet”), from πλανάω (planáō, “to wander”) + -της (-tēs, masculine agent noun suffix).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: planetical
glosses: Of or relating to planets; planetary.
glosses: Ever-changing; erratic, turbulent.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the transfer of nuclei between cells (in certain fungi and algae species).
Derived terms: aplanetic
diplanetic
monoplanetic
polyplanetic
zeawant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Dutch-influenced variant of seawan, from Munsee. See seawan.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seawan.
amphitropal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphitropal
form: most amphitropal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “both”) + Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ, “turn”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: amphitropous
mesquit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesquits
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mesquite.
mesquits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesquit
chronogrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or containing a chronogram
Synonyms: chronogrammic
ligulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ligulated
form: most ligulated
Etymology: From ligulate + -d.
Senses: glosses: ligulate
stufae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stufa
kinnikinnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnikinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinnikinik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.
kinikinick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.