cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
denunciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: denunciators
Etymology: From Latin denuntiator.
Senses: glosses: One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses.
denunciators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denunciator
manipulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manipulatory
form: most manipulatory
Etymology: From manipulate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: manipulatory approach
text: manipulatory exploration
glosses: Of or pertaining to manipulation.
orthographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthographers
Etymology: From orthography + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who devises an orthography.
glosses: Someone who is knowledgeable in spelling rules; someone who spells words correctly.
orthographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthographer
unfleshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfleshly
form: most unfleshly
Etymology: From un- + fleshly.
Senses: examples: text: 1683, uncredited translator, Ecclesiastical History by Evagrius Scholasticus, Book 4, Chapter 33, in The History of the Church from Our Lord’s Incarnation, to the Twelfth Year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, London: Han. Sawbridge, p. 493,
This person lead an unfleshly life in the flesh, in a certain Monastery […]
text: c. 1721, Aaron Hill, The Fatal Extravagance, London: T. Jauncy, Epilogue,
The Bard, not carnal-minded,—say the Curious,
How come th’ unfleshly Folks, to be so furious?
text: […] her tears fell on his arm the while, unheeded—except by those unfleshly eyes, with which they say the very air is thronged.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, “chapter 49”, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
text: […] from its unfleshly character, as the women remember today, the spirituality of camp love became even more profound.
ref: 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, New York: Harper & Row, Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 8, p. 239:
synonyms: spiritual
glosses: Not pertaining to or devoted to the flesh or the body; not physical.
unweighing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unweighing
form: most unweighing
Etymology: From un- + weighing.
Senses: examples: text: A very superficial , ignorant , unweighing fellow
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Still, from his youth, impetuous, as a storm, Blind, and unweighing confequence, he rufh'd, Headlong he rush'd, and acted every wish;
ref: 1760, Aaron Hill, Dramatic Works: Life of the author, page 218:
text: That mental indolence or languor—that habit of slurring over difficult propositions, is alluded to, which deters the mind from following and seizing upon the higher steps of ratiocination—which makes the man a careless listener—and unweighing reader, and an unsound thinker .
ref: 1844, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 206:
glosses: Not weighing or pondering; inconsiderate.
unweighing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + weighing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unweigh
unweighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unweighings
Etymology: From un- + weighing.
Senses: examples: text: Notice the difference. Weighing and unweighing will help you make good, quick turns.
ref: 1996, Jackson Jay, Snowboarding Basics, page 27:
text: The turn is helped with a slight unweighing of the skate blade produced by a very subtle upward bounce.
ref: 1996, Karin Künzle-Watson, Stephen J. DeArmond, Ice Skating: Steps to Success, page 140:
text: As proposed in Fig. 5 (see also Fig. 13) this very short but quick downward arm movement will cause a short but quick unweighing action with the resulting pre-stretch in the knee-extensor muscles .
ref: 2003, E. Kornexl, E. Muller, C. Raschner, Science and Skiing, page 4:
glosses: The act of unweighing.
volatilizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volatilizable
form: most volatilizable
Etymology: Compare French volatisable.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being volatilized.
Bolingbrokean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bolingbrokean
form: most Bolingbrokean
form: Bolingbrokian
Etymology: From Bolingbroke + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.
Bolingbrokian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bolingbrokian
form: most Bolingbrokian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bolingbrokean.
constitutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constitutionists
Etymology: From constitution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: nothing can be more reasonable than to admit the nominal division of constitutionists and anti - constitutionists , or of a court and a countryparty
ref: c. 1733, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, A Dissertation on Parties:
glosses: One who adheres to the constitution of the country.
constitutionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constitutionist
bunny rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny rabbit
Kleene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Kleenean
Kleene closure
Kleene fixed-point theorem
Kleene hierarchy
Kleene-Mostowski hierarchy
Kleene operator
Kleene plus
Kleene's recursion theorem
Kleene star
Kleene's theorem
metacompilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + compilation.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computation which involves metasystem transitions from a computing machine to a metamachine which controls, analyzes and imitates the work of the original machine.
Related terms: metacomputation
supercompilation
batologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: batologists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”) + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: The brambles were backward this season, and I could do little with them ; but I am sure that this part of Ireland is a good hunting-ground for the batologist.
ref: 1898, Journal of Botany, volume 36:
text: Now that you know, you might consider yourself a batologist, one who studies blackberries and other brambles.
ref: 2013 August 7, Suzan Bellincampi, “Batty Batologist”, in Vineyard Gazette:
glosses: A botanist who studies the genus Rubus, i.e. brambles.
batologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: batologists
Etymology: From bat + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, the choice of whether to use batologist or chiropterologist may come down to personal preference. […] After exploring the differences between batologists and chiropterologists, it is clear that these two terms refer to distinct fields of study within the broader discipline of biology.
ref: 2023 August 11, “Batologist vs Chiropterologist: Decoding Common Word Mix-Ups”, in The Content Authority:
glosses: Someone who studies bats (the flying mammal).
Synonyms: chiropterologist
reënforce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reënforces
form: reënforcing
form: reënforced
form: reënforced
Senses: examples: text: Aiming to reach firm ground beyond this bayou, and to leave as little time for our enemy to reënforce as possible, I determined to make a show of attack along the whole front, but to break across the bayou at the two points named, and have general orders accordingly.
ref: 1891, William Tecumseh Sherman, chapter 12, in Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, volume 1, page 319:
glosses: Alternative form of re-enforce.
examples: text: On this second visit Mr. Charles W. Hare, a prominent white citizen of Tuskegee, kindly volunteered to accompany me, to reënforce my invitation with one from the white people of Tuskegee and the vicinity.
ref: 1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 17, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, New York: A. L. Burt, →LCCN, page 304:
glosses: Alternative form of reinforce.
nerdsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nerdsome
form: most nerdsome
Etymology: From nerd + -some.
Senses: examples: text: You are one of the most boring, characterless, nagging, niggling, nerdsome persons to ever draw breath.
ref: 2006, TwistyCreek, “Why don't I get any recreational effect off of benzos?”, in alt.drugs.hard (Usenet):
text: […]the nerdsome reliance on meaningless facts and figures[…]
ref: 2010, Matthew Norman, You Cannot Be Serious!:
glosses: nerdy; like, or characteristic of, a nerd
batologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batologist
neelghau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neelghaus
form: neelghau
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of nilgai.
neelghaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neelghau
reëmbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmbarks
form: reëmbarking
form: reëmbarked
form: reëmbarked
Senses: examples: text: It took a long time for us to reëmbark.
ref: 1862, unknown, The Rebellion Record, page 92:
glosses: Alternative form of reembark.
rudderstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudderstocks
Etymology: From rudder + stock.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The axle connected to the rudder.
rudderstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rudderstock
Helvetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlˈvɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more Helvetic
form: most Helvetic
Etymology: From Latin helveticus, from Helvetii (“the Helvetii”).
Senses: examples: text: the Helvetic confederacy
text: Helvetic states
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions.
glosses: Swiss
Derived terms: Helvetic Republic
panoplied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panoplied
form: most panoplied
Etymology: From panoply + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in panoply.
glosses: very well-dressed.
examples: text: The TUCC hearing of the Highland closure proposals in Inverness Town House on March 9 and 10 will be the most panoplied affair of its kind since the present arbitration procedure was established.
ref: 1964 March, “News and Comment: Inverness set for showdown”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
glosses: lavishly displayed or decorated.
Derived terms: unpanoplied
recumbently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From recumbent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recumbent manner; while lying down.
discordful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discordful
form: most discordful
Etymology: From discord + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: But Blandamour full of vainglorious spright, / And rather stird by his discordfull Dame, / Upon them gladly would have prov'd his might […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Full of discord; contentious, quarrelsome.
devulgarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devulgarizes
form: devulgarizing
form: devulgarized
form: devulgarized
form: devulgarise
Etymology: From de- + vulgarize.
Senses: examples: text: Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books.
ref: 1868, E. A. Abbott, “The Teaching of English”, in The Living Age:
glosses: To free from what is vulgar or obscene.
Derived terms: devulgarization
devulgarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devulgarize
devulgarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devulgarize
devulgarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devulgarize
shizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪzəl/
Etymology: From shit + -izzle.
Senses: glosses: Shit.
shizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪzəl/
Etymology: From shit + -izzle.
Senses: examples: ref: 2006 October 6, Republicans@Hell.com, “Drudge Report - Pedophile Friendly and full of Shizzle!”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):
glosses: Shit.
Related terms: fo shizzle
reëmbody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmbodies
form: reëmbodying
form: reëmbodied
form: reëmbodied
Senses: examples: text: I propose, therefore, now to reëmbody my views in a more popular form, with such additions as have occurred to me since.
ref: 1874, Joseph Le Conte, The Popular Science Monthly, page 157:
glosses: Alternative form of reembody.
wearifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wearifully
form: most wearifully
Etymology: From weariful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a weariful manner.
smoochy-woochy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoochy-woochy
form: most smoochy-woochy
Etymology: Reduplication of smoochy.
Senses: glosses: Excessively romantic.
Synonyms: lovey-dovey
loathful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈləʊθfəl/
Forms: form: more loathful
form: most loathful
Etymology: From Middle English lothful, loothful, equivalent to loath + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: loathful eyes
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Full of loathing; hateful
examples: text: Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Causing a feeling of loathing; loathsome.
Derived terms: loathfully
loathfulness
Bismarck Archipelago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago off the coast of New Guinea, governed by Papua New Guinea.
reëmit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmits
form: reëmitting
form: reëmitted
form: reëmitted
Senses: examples: text: And whereas it hath been represented to us that it will be of advantage to the trade of the said province to reëmit and continue the said fourscore thousand pounds and even to enlarge and encrease the quantity of paper money, you are therefore diligently and carefully to enquire whether it is necessary and will be convenient to reëmit the said fourscore thousand pounds and also whether it is really necessary to create and issue any further sum in paper currency or Bills of Credit in the said province.
ref: 1900, unknown, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volume XXIV, page 310:
glosses: Alternative form of reemit.
galvanography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From galvano- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of depositing metals by electricity; electrotypy.
glosses: A method of producing by means of electrotyping process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.
Derived terms: photogalvanography
tripalmitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripalmitates
Etymology: From tri- + palmitate.
Senses: examples: text: ammonium tripalmitate
text: glyceryl tripalmitate
text: sodium tripalmitate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A palmitate derived from three molecules of palmitic acid.
Related terms: tripalmitin
tripalmitates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripalmitate
universologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universologists
Etymology: From universology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is versed in universology.
universologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universologist
intrusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intrusion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to intrusion; intrusive.
Commander Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a group of Russian islands near Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea.
Synonyms: Komandorski Islands
Related terms: Kamchatka
EPETO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Earthquake Performance Evaluation Tool Online.
skipt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skip
stitcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stitch
broacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broach
brancht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of branched.
brancht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of branch
makes use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make use
making use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make use
made use
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make use
clutcht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clutch
bath mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath mat
bumfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmˌfʌk/
Forms: form: more bumfuck
form: most bumfuck
Etymology: From bum + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Ken Morris, Man in the Middle
Someone, let's say Boris Yeltsin's bum-fuck girlfriend, is part of a syndicate—you know, Russian Mob, say.
text: That sounds more like your bum-fuck nonsense than mine.
ref: 2007, Lori Handeland, Hidden Moon, page 4
glosses: Undesirable or held in contempt.
bumfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmˌfʌk/
Forms: form: bumfucks
form: bumfucking
form: bumfucked
form: bumfucked
Etymology: From bum + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Git outa the way,’ Monte said, ‘or I’ll hike back to the cop shop an’ tell ‘em you bum-fucked Duck Allsop.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 60:
glosses: To fuck anally.
Synonyms: assfuck
buttfuck
cornhole
Timbuktu
bumfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmˌfʌk/
Forms: form: bumfucks
Etymology: From bum + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: I could really go for a good nasty bumfuck right now.
glosses: Anal sex.
examples: text: Why the hell does your brother have to live out in bumfuck?
text: 2009, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
bumfuck n American a very remote and/or backward place.
I had to park in bumfuck because all the good spots were taken.
glosses: An isolated place far removed from major cities.
Derived terms: bumfuck nowhere
bunny wunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny wunnies
Etymology: Reduplication.
Senses: glosses: A bunny; a rabbit.
Synonyms: bunny rabbit
clencht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clencht
form: most clencht
Etymology: From clench + -t.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of clenched.
clencht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From clench + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clench
detacht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more detacht
form: most detacht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of detached.
detacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detach
chirpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chirp
extravagate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: extravagates
form: extravagating
form: extravagated
form: extravagated
Senses: glosses: To wander beyond the limits.
glosses: To rove.
Related terms: extravagation
Republic of Angola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Angola
Senses: glosses: Official name of Angola: a country in Central Africa.
Republic of Belarus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Belarus
Senses: glosses: Official name of Belarus: a country in Eastern Europe.
corner boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corner boy
doggy woggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggy woggy
piggy wiggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggy wiggies
Etymology: Partial reduplication of piggy.
Senses: glosses: a pig.
fishy wishy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishy wishies
Senses: glosses: A fish.
Synonyms: fishy
kiddy widdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddy widdies
Senses: glosses: a child.
kitty witty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitty witties
Etymology: By reduplication from kitty.
Senses: glosses: A cat.
coochy coo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: coochy coochy coo
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps imitative of a baby’s vocalizations. Compare coo. Attested from the late 19th century, with coochey, oochy a bit earlier.
Senses: glosses: An affectionate vocalization normally used towards a baby.
coochy coo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coochy coos
form: coochy coochy coo
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps imitative of a baby’s vocalizations. Compare coo. Attested from the late 19th century, with coochey, oochy a bit earlier.
Senses: glosses: An instance of saying coochy coo; an affectionate vocalization to a baby.
moo cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moo cows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moo-cow.
miaower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaowers
Etymology: From miaow + -er.
Senses: glosses: A cat that miaows.
woofy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːfi
Forms: form: woofier
form: woofiest
Etymology: From woof + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Close round us hung, the vapours of the night
Had form'd a woofy curtain, dim and pale,
Through which the waning moon did faintly mark
Its slender crescent.’
ref: 1826, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr, act 2:
glosses: Having a close texture; dense
glosses: Prone to woofing
glosses: Similar in sound to the woof of a dog.
Maradonaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maradonaesque
form: most Maradonaesque
Etymology: From Diego Maradona + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In the footballing style of Diego Maradona.
wikipedia: Diego Maradona
Zidanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zidanesque
form: most Zidanesque
Etymology: From Zidane + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In the footballing style of Zinedine Zidane.
Beckhamesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Beckhamesque
form: most Beckhamesque
Etymology: From David Beckham + -esque.
Senses: glosses: in the style of David Beckham, particularly in the footballing style
wikipedia: David Beckham
sucks to be you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: You are in a bad situation, but I have no sympathy/empathy.
Synonyms: tough
tough luck
tough shit
snye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snyes
form: snying
form: snyed
form: snyed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sny (“abound, swarm, teem, be infested”).
correctress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctresses
Etymology: From corrector + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: In order the better to acquit herself of her Office, the Correctress should look over beforehand what has to be read.
ref: 1889, The Rule of Saint Augustine and the constitutions of the Sisters of Penance of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, forming the Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary of the United States of America (Mother-House and Novitiate), page 82
glosses: A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector; a correctrix.
correctrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correctrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin corrēctrīx. By surface analysis, correct + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: Inside the castle is a rankery, a real one. And rankery is the right word, don’t go thinking the correctrix got it wrong. You know full well that no correctrix has proofed my dad’s book.
ref: 2000, The Fat Princess: A Story for Grown-Ups, page 121:
glosses: A woman or girl who corrects; a female corrector; a correctress.
relegalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relegalizes
form: relegalizing
form: relegalized
form: relegalized
Etymology: From re- + legalize.
Senses: examples: text: Drinking alcohol was relegalized after the era of Prohibition.
glosses: To make legal again.
Related terms: relegalization
releasors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of releasor
relegalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relegalize
relegalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relegalize
relegalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relegalize
reëntered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reënter
diarrhoeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarrhoea
yaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaas
Senses: glosses: The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
chilometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilometres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kilometre.
patrocinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin patrōcinium.
Senses: glosses: The distinctive relationship in Ancient Roman society between a patron and a client.
self-blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selfblood
Etymology: From self- + blood.
Senses: glosses: One's direct progeny or offspring.
glosses: The shedding of one's own blood; self-slaughter; suicide.
coöperatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coöperatively
form: most coöperatively
Etymology: From coöperative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of cooperatively.
peracute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peracute
form: most peracute
Etymology: From Latin peracūtus.
Senses: examples: text: malign continual peracute Feavers, do after moſt dangerous and doubtful attaques ſuddenly remit into a ſenſible abatement of the ardent heat
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Very sharp; very violent.
uninspiredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninspiredly
form: most uninspiredly
Etymology: From uninspired + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uninspired manner.
uninspiredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninspired + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uninspired.
latred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latred
form: most latred
form: latrede
form: lattred
form: laterede
Etymology: From Middle English latrede, from Old English lætrǣde (“slow, deliberate”), equivalent to late + -red.
Senses: glosses: Slow; tardy.
pussy cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pussy cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pussy-cat.
PSOE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish PSOE.
Senses: examples: text: The PSOE leader, who once promised to bring Puigdemont back to Spain to face justice, risked considerable political capital two years ago by pardoning nine of the Catalan leaders behind the drive for secession.
ref: 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.
snied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sny
glosses: simple past and past participle of snie
perhorresces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perhorresce
perhorresce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəːhəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /pəːhɒˈɹɛs/
ipa: /pɚhəˈɹɛs/
ipa: /pɚhɔˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: perhorresces
form: perhorrescing
form: perhorresced
form: perhorresced
Etymology: From Latin perhorrēscere.
Senses: examples: text: This we may ascribe to the ‘d—d nonsense’ perhorresced by Mr. Lockhart.
ref: 1865, James Hutchison Stirling, The Secret of Hegel, volume I, London, page xxxii:
text: otherwise the curtain-wind fact would have as much ontological reality as the existence of the Absolute itself: a conclusion at which the non-empiricist perhorresces […]
ref: 1905, John Dewey, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, volume II, number 15:
text: The "Messidor" style of new buildings allowed only the Classical straight line, and perhorresced at every curve.
ref: 1930, Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, volume II, page 431:
glosses: To shudder (at).
snying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sny
glosses: present participle and gerund of snie
glosses: present participle and gerund of snye
snying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.
wers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wer
barber's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of barber’s shop.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of barbershop (“place of business of a barber”).
synonyms: word: barbershop
extra: place of business of a barber
think on one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks on one's feet
form: thinking on one's feet
form: thought on one's feet
form: thought on one's feet
Senses: examples: text: "There will be wine," said Medora. "Drink it. There may be toasts. Be ready to respond."
Abner could think on his feet—speech would not fail.
ref: 1901, Henry B. Fuller, chapter 24, in Under the Skylights:
text: The political canvass had given freedom to his wings; he had learned to think on his feet, to meet interruption, to parry in debate.
ref: c. 1919, Elbert Hubbard, “Richard Cobden”, in Little Journeys, Volume 9: Great Reformers:
text: Clemens had to think on his feet, adjust on the run, make split-second decisions and, if he messed up, contend with the consequences.
ref: 2007 September 16, Karen Crouse, “Covering New Ground, Jets’ Clemens Relies on Deep Roots”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Nov 2011:
glosses: When one is in the middle of a process, activity, or conversation, to adjust rapidly, effectively, and intelligently to new developments or changing circumstances.
Synonyms: extemporize
improvise
Related terms: make it up as one goes along
Lacanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkeɪ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Forms: form: more Lacanian
form: most Lacanian
Etymology: From Lacan + -ian, after Jacques Lacan.
Senses: examples: text: For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.
ref: 2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).
wikipedia: Jacques Lacan
Related terms: Lacanianism
Lacanianist
anslaight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anslaights
Etymology: From an- + slaight, probably from Middle English sleight, from Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to on- + slaught.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of onslaught.
coöperant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of cooperant.
coöperant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coöperants
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of cooperant.
anend
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anend
form: most anend
form: an-end
Etymology: From on- + end.
Senses: glosses: On end; in an upright position.
anend
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: anan
Etymology: Alteration of anent.
Senses: glosses: How; come again; say what.
anend
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anend
form: most anend
form: anan
Etymology: Alteration of anent.
Senses: glosses: Right; continuously.
Hawara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Egypt, and an Ancient Egyptian site near it, south of Crocodilopolis / Arsinoe, with a pyramid and a necropolis in which the Fayum mummy portraits were found.
Hawara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaras
form: Hawara
form: Hawwarah
Etymology: From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry.
mirror stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A concept concerning the structure of human subjectivity and the imaginary order in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.
Related terms: Lacanian
ninth chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninth chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chord with five notes that are thirds apart.
ninth chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ninth chord
Godardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Godardian
form: most Godardian
Etymology: From Godard + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Godardian vision of a universe that is both lost and recuperable in time is the thread that holds this movie and all his others together.
ref: 1997, Kenneth S. Rothwell, “In Search of Nothing: Mapping King Lear,”, in Shakespeare, the movie: popularizing the plays on film, TV, and video, page 146:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022), French film director and critic, or his cinematic style.
pernoctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜːnɒkˈteɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌpɜɹnɑkˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /pɜɹˌnɑk-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: pernoctations
Etymology: PIE word
 *nókʷts
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pernoctātiō (“act of spending of the night (doing something, particularly praying)”), from pernoctō (“to spend the night”) + -tiō (action noun suffix). Pernoctō is from per- (prefix with the sense of completion or entirety forming verbs) + nox (“night; darkness”). By surface analysis, pernoctate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The next morning they [Mary and Joseph] return back with ſpeed toward Jeruſalem; and at night repairing to their former lodging, neither there it ſeems heard they any thing of him [Jesus] (which argues, for this time of his abſence his pernoctation in the Temple), and ſo they muſt paſs this ſecond night alſo in great deſolation.
ref: 1685, R. H. [pseudonym; Abraham Woodhead], “Part I”, in An Historical Narration of the Life and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [s.n.], →OCLC, § 113, page 88:
text: For the purposes of this clause, residing in Oxford shall mean the occupation of a dwelling-house or lodging in Oxford with pernoctation, and residing in College shall mean the occupation of rooms in College, or of a house in immediate communication with the College, with pernoctation.
ref: 1880 November, Statutes Proposed to be Made by the University of Oxford Commissioners for Exeter College, Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire: E. Pickard Hall, […], and J. H. Stacy, […], →OCLC, part III, section 15, page 11:
glosses: The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this; an overnight stay.
examples: text: In 1599 Sʳ Robert Leech and Sʳ John Meades were guilty of pernoctation and breaking windows. They had been sent to prison by the Proctor.
ref: 1958, W[illiam] C[onrad] Costin, The History of St. John’s College, Oxford, 1598–1890, Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: The action of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch; (countable) an instance of this.
examples: text: [I]n general the veſpers begin a little before ſunſet; the matins at four o'clock in the morning, and the liturgy or communion about nine; and when the vigil, or pernoctation, is performed, that ſervice begins after ſunſet; and there is no ſervice, in the morning following, till the communion.
ref: 1772, John Glen King, “The Order of the After-vespers”, in The Rites and Ceremonies of the Greek Church, in Russia; […], London: […] W. Owen, […]; J[ames] Dodsley, […]; J[ohn] Rivington, […]; and T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, footnote 6, page 82:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed; a vigil.
Related terms: pernoctate
pernoctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernoctation
approportionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: approportionates
form: approportionating
form: approportionated
form: approportionated
Etymology: From ap- (form of ad- (“to”)) + proportionate.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] the extreme lightness of her [a Bird-of-Paradise's] furniture being approportionated to the thinness of that Element [Air]?"
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 78
glosses: to render proportionate; to proportion.
urare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curare.
dependee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependees
Etymology: From depend + -ee (“target of action”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An agent that is depended on by a depender, the target of a dependency (used in agent-oriented programming)
wikipedia: agent-oriented programming
Related terms: dependency
dependum
cackle bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cackle bladders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cackle-bladder.
undermilk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermilks
form: undermilking
form: undermilked
form: undermilked
Etymology: From under- + milk.
Senses: glosses: To milk (a cow or other animal) inadequately.
undermilks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undermilk
undermilking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undermilk
undermilked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermilk
PIIGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: GIIPS
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, grouped on the basis of their high large debts during the European sovereign debt crisis.
Related terms: PIGS
PIIIGS
PIIGGS
PIIIGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: European Union economic planners are chewing their fingernails over looming defaults in Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Greece and Spain. PIIIGS are part of an economic block that could paralyze the entire "Planet Money" if the hemorrhage is not dealt with.
ref: 2011 October 17, Vic Hummert, “Movie sheds light on Wall Street protests”, in The Advertiser:
text: PIGS, PIIGS or PIIIGS – They All Smell Like Bacon
ref: 2010 April 11, Lorimer Wilson, “Will Sovereign Debt Tsunami Drown All the PIIIGS and Then the US and UK?”, in MunKnee:
text: The so-called PIIIGS of Europe (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Greece and Spain) are all in the bottom third.
ref: 2011, TJ Augustine, A Maasry, D Sobo, Sovereign Fiscal Responsibility Index 2011, Stanford University:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Greece and Spain, grouped on the basis of their large debts during the European sovereign debt crisis.
Related terms: PIGS
PIIGS
PIIGGS
PIIGGS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The so-called contagion of the public debt crisis among the PIIGGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Great Britain and Spain) worries Washington and Tokyo, the deepest in debt non-European governments.
ref: 2010, P Deaconu, “The Impact Of The Financial Crisis On The Currency And The Monetary System”, in Annals of Spiru Haret University:
text: Unlike in 2008, now it is no more just PIGS that drag the EU down. The PIGS club has now expanded, with Ireland first, and ironically, Great Britain next, as the newly qualified members of the PIGS, making it PIIGGS (adding another ‘I', for Ireland and another ‘G', for Great Britain).
ref: 2010 May 26, S. Gurumurthy, “Too small is ‘too big' to fail”, in Business Line - The Hindu:
text: The collective term — with permutations such as PIIGGS to include Ireland and Great Britain among the list of debt-ridden countries — has been denounced by politicians in Portugal and Spain.
ref: 2010 August 4, Sebastian Tong, “PIGS, CIVETS and other creature economies…”, in Reuters:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Great Britain (UK) and Spain, grouped on the basis of their high indebtedness during the European sovereign debt crisis.
Related terms: PIGS
PIIGS
PIIIGS
PIIgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIIgGs
form: PI IgG
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pre-immune immunoglobulin G.
Related terms: Ig
IgG
pIgG
PIgG
UIgG
IgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IgG
IgMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IgM
pIgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pIgGs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin G.
Related terms: Ig
IgA
IgG
IgM
pIg
pIgA
PIgG
pIgM
PIIgG
UIgG
pIgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pIgG
pIgM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pIgMs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin M.
Related terms: Ig
IgA
IgG
IgM
pIg
pIgA
pIgG
pIgMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pIgM
UTIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UTI
PIgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIgGs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of plasma immunoglobulin G.
Related terms: Ig
IgG
pIgG
PIIgG
UIgG
PIgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIgG
UIgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UIgGs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of urine immunoglobulin G.
Related terms: Ig
IgG
PIgG
pIgG
PIIgG
UIgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UIgG
pIgA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pIgAs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin A.
Related terms: Ig
IgA
IgG
IgM
pIg
pIgG
pIgM
gremial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the lap.
Derived terms: nongremial
gremial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gremials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Senses: glosses: A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
examples: text: These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and the scholars could not set their horses in one stable, or rather their books on one shelf.
ref: 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge:
glosses: A bosom friend.
IgAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IgA
pIgAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pIgA
PI IgG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PI IgGs
form: PIIgG
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pre-immune immunoglobulin G.
Related terms: UIgG
PIgG
pIgG
IgG
Ig
PI IgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PI IgG
PIIgGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIIgG
replead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repleads
form: repleading
form: repled
form: repled
form: repleaded
form: repleaded
Etymology: From re- + plead.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To present a rewritten argument.
baniak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baniaks
form: banyak
form: buniak
form: bunyak
Etymology: From Ukrainian баня́к (banják, “cooking pot”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile
[footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.
ref: 1981, Andrew Suknaski, Dennis Cooley, “In the name of Narid: new poems”, in Porcupine, Quill, page 114:
text: What woman could ever consent to be his wife, to lose all her dignity and position with a bunyak like that?”
ref: 1986, Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli express, Oberon Press, page 78:
text: “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?
ref: 1987: Janice Kulyk Keefer, “Unseen, the cuckoo sings at dawn”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 103
text: No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.
ref: 1987: Michael John Nimchuk, “The day my grandad died”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 172
text: Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted.
“Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?”
ref: 1988: Levi Dronyk, “The puck artist”, in Doug Beardsley ed., The rocket, the flower, the hammer, and me, Vancouver: Polestar Books, pp 161
text: As someone said, that even one with a university degree, BA, could be called “Baniak”, or an empty pot, if that individual isolated himself from the community to which he naturally belonged.
ref: 1995, Michael Ewanchuk, Reflections and reminiscences: Ukrainians in Canada, 1892-1992, M. Ewanchuk, page 36:
text: God. What a Banyak . . .
ref: 1995, Nika Rylski, “Just a kommedia”, in Aviva Ravel, editor, Canadian mosaic: 6 plays, Dundurn Press, page 130:
qualifier: chiefly italicized
glosses: A fool.
buniak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buniaks
Senses: glosses: alternative form of baniak
bunyak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunyaks
Senses: glosses: alternative form of baniak
quadruplator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruplators
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a public informer who received a fourth part.