cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wunderkammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʊndəˌkamə/
enpr: vo͝onʹdər-kăm'ər
ipa: /ˈvʊndɚˌkɑmɚ/
enpr: vo͝onʹdər-kä'mər
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Wunderkammers
form: Wunderkammern
form: wunderkammer
Etymology: From German Wunderkammer (literally “room of wonders”).
Senses: examples: text: Despite the frequent bric-à-brac dimension to such collections, these theatres of nature invited an appreciation of nature rather different from the Renaissance Wunderkammer which had preceded them.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 207:
text: Tucked into a small storefront on Venice Boulevard, the museum has been called a modern-day wunderkammer and is the subject of a 1995 book, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonders (Pantheon), by Lawrence Weschler.
ref: 2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: cabinet of curiosities
kunstkammer
kunstkabinett
glosses: A cabinet of scientific curiosities, especially during the late Renaissance.
glosses: A place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited.
Dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Dodgers
Senses: glosses: A member of the Dodgers US professional baseball team, either before or after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dodger
mansplainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mansplainers
Etymology: From mansplain + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation?
ref: 2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal, retrieved 26 May 2012:
glosses: One (especially a man) who mansplains.
Related terms: mansplain
mansplanation
mansplainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mansplainer
microdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdresses
Etymology: From micro- + dress.
Senses: examples: text: He paused at the sight of the newly arrived trio: Seth, standing unsteadily, blood oozing down his forehead; Cyndi, in her microdress and heels; and Duane, with Blossom coiled around him, her head hovering next to his.
ref: 2013, Dave Barry, Insane City:
glosses: An extremely short minidress with the hemline ending on top of the thighs or above.
microdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microdress
minidressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From minidress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a minidress.
mansplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: măn-splānʹ
ipa: /manˈspleɪn/
ipa: /mænˈspleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: mansplains
form: mansplaining
form: mansplained
form: mansplained
Etymology: Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.
Senses: examples: text: But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.
ref: 2011 February 1, Jason Linkins, “What’s behind the drive to redefine rape in new and insane ways?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2016:
text: There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).
ref: 2012 May 18, Sarah Seltzer, “Can Occupy fight back against the war on women?”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013:
text: Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.”
ref: 2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Alresford, Hants: Zero Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.
Derived terms: mansplainer
mansplaining
mansplainy
mansplanation
Related terms: cissplain
femsplain
momsplain
straightsplain
whitesplain
womansplain
male answer syndrome
-splain
mansplains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mansplain
mansplained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mansplain
postliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-liberal
Etymology: From post- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: neo-reactionary
text: But if we hope to create a humane postliberal future, we cannot pretend that the age of liberalism did not happen or that its basic contours can simply be jettisoned in some sort of restoration of an idyllic preliberal age.
ref: 2018, Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: He [Patrick Deneen] also offers a vague reassurance that the postliberal future will not revive the prejudice and bigotry of the past.
ref: 2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The essence of the initial postliberal movement, in Pinkoski’s view, is the abandonment of the “essential tenet of liberalism: the state-society, public-private distinction,” in favor of a model of politics in which the state acts in a concert with an ever-widening array of nongovernmental partners, […].
ref: 2024 November 1, Ross Douthat, “Who Abandoned Liberalism First, the Populists or the Establishment?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: preliberal
glosses: After the introduction of liberalism; following or opposing liberalism; antiliberal.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Relating to postliberal theology.
postliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postliberals
form: post-liberal
Etymology: From post- + liberal.
Senses: examples: text: He [Patrick Deneen] calls on postliberals to aim big, “embracing, fostering and protecting not only the nation but that which is both smaller and larger than the nation.”
ref: 2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A proponent of postliberalism.
Derived terms: postliberalism
unsinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsinking
form: most unsinking
Etymology: From un- + sinking.
Senses: examples: text: Let me walk the waves of this wide world / Through faith unsinking.
ref: 1816, John Wilson, The City of the Plague:
glosses: That does not sink.
unsinkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + sink + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: the supposed unsinkability of the Titanic
glosses: The quality of being unsinkable.
antirationing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirationing
form: most antirationing
Etymology: From anti- + rationing.
Senses: glosses: Opposing rationing.
unsunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sunk.
Senses: glosses: Not having been sunk.
unholed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + holed.
Senses: glosses: Not holed; not pierced with a hole or puncture.
sjambock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sjambocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sjambok.
sjambock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sjambocks
form: sjambocking
form: sjambocked
form: sjambocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sjambok.
sjambocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sjambock
sjambocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sjambock
sjambocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sjambock
sjambocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sjambock
anticonscription
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonscription
form: most anticonscription
Etymology: From anti- + conscription.
Senses: glosses: Opposing conscription into the military.
anticonstructivism
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonstructivism
form: most anticonstructivism
Etymology: From anti- + constructivism.
Senses: glosses: Opposing constructivism.
anticonfession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonfession
form: most anticonfession
Etymology: From anti- + confession.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the Catholic practice of confession.
anticompetitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anticompetitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being anticompetitive.
antibulimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + bulimic.
Senses: examples: text: a drug with an antibulimic effect
glosses: Countering bulimia.
partisanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partisanisms
Etymology: From partisan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practices of partisans; partisanship.
antipartisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipartisan
form: most antipartisan
Etymology: From anti- + partisan.
Senses: glosses: opposing partisans or partisanship
antisecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisecurity
form: most antisecurity
Etymology: From anti- + security.
Senses: glosses: Opposing security.
snipper-snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪpəˌsnæpə/
ipa: /ˈsnɪpəɹˌsnæpəɹ/
Forms: form: snipper-snappers
Etymology: From late 16th c.
Senses: examples: text: Why, I thought you liked it immensely : women generally do; but it shows your good sense not to want to be stared at and written up by a lot of snipper-snappers.
ref: 1883, Mary Jane Holmes, Queenie Hetherton: A Novel, page 406:
text: Let me find him once and I'll make him dance. Oh, you snipper-snapper! I'll get the King's letter sent to your house indeed I will!
ref: 1914, Devabrata Mukherjee (translator), Rabindranath Tagore (original), The Post Office:
glosses: A worthless or insignificant person.
snipper-snappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snipper-snapper
pantometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panto- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to measure everything; fixation on measurement or quantitative aspects.
glosses: A proposed scheme for universal measurement.
Related terms: pantometer
pantometric
tatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattas
Etymology: Hindi [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
tattas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatta
phthiriases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phthiriasis
pediculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: phthiriasis
theanthropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek θεός (theós) + Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) + -ism
Senses: examples: text: [I]n speaking theologically and impersonally, i. e. of Psilanthropism and Theanthropism as schemes of Belief, without referrence to Individuals who profess either the one or the other, it will be absurd to use a different language as long as it is the dictate of common sense, that two opposites cannot properly be called by the same name.
ref: 1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “[Critique on Bertram.] Chapter XXIV. Conclusion.”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, […], →OCLC, page 308:
glosses: A state of being God and man.
examples: text: Here is a tradition embodying that vital union of the human with the divine , which is expressed in the word theanthropism, or anthropomorphism
ref: 1879, William Ewart Gladstone, The Olympian System Versus the Solar Theory:
glosses: The ascription of human attributes to a deity.
copatriot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copatriots
Etymology: From co- + patriot.
Senses: glosses: A joint or fellow patriot.
copatriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copatriot
Free-Soilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + soil + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The principles of the Free Soil Party, which opposed slavery in the United States in the mid-19th century.
Unixish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Unixish
form: most Unixish
Etymology: From Unix + -ish.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Unix.
Synonyms: word: Unix-like
word: Unixoid
word: Unixy
clobetasol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + -betasol (“prednisone or prednisolone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A corticosteroid used to treat various skin disorders including eczema and psoriasis.
nonembryotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + embryotoxic.
Senses: glosses: Not embryotoxic.
physics package
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physics packages
Senses: glosses: The part of any equipment which requires advanced knowledge of physics to design; especially the core nuclear components of a nuclear weapon
spiritful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiritful
form: most spiritful
Etymology: From spirit + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart, and spiritful.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Full of spirit; spirited.
Related terms: spiritfully
spiritfulness
unborn child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unborn children
Senses: glosses: A human offspring that is developing in the uterus; fetus.
unborn children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unborn child
physianthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physio- + -anthropy.
Senses: glosses: The science of human life, especially of human health, disease, and remedies.
chatoyment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French chatoiement. See chatoyant.
Senses: examples: text: The colour of these "black pearls" is black by incident light; by rolling the pearls in a certain direction brownish coloured bands with chatoyment are shown the same as can be observed in cabochon ground Cat's eyes (quartz).
ref: 1941, J. Bolman, The Mystery of the Pearl:
glosses: Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
pedetentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛdɪˈtɛntəs/
Etymology: From Latin pes, pedis (“foot”) + tendō (“to stretch out”). Compare Latin tentim (“by degrees”).
Senses: examples: text: that pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk
ref: 1838, Sydney Smith, Lord John Russell:
glosses: Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
Derived terms: pedetentously
blond metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A variety of clay iron ore, from Staffordshire, England, once used for making tools such as nails, axes and horseshoes.
paralbumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralbumins
Etymology: From para- + albumin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteid-like body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
paralbumins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralbumin
phylactolaematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Phylactolaema + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the former order of bryozoans, Phylactolaema, now probably corresponding to Phylactolaemata.
pleuronectoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleuronectoid
form: most pleuronectoid
Senses: synonyms: pleuronectid
glosses: Relating to the Pleuronectidae, or flounder family.
pleuronectoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleuronectoids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pleuronectid.
synonyms: word: pleuronectid
caligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caligatio, from caligare (“to emit vapour, to be dark”), from caligo (“mist, darkness”).
Senses: examples: text: Now instead of a diminution or imperfect vision in the Moll, we affirm an abolition or totall privation; in stead of caligation or dimnesse, we conclude a cecity or blindness, which hath been frequently inferred concerning other animals;
ref: 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: dimness; cloudiness
starthroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starthroats
Etymology: From star + throat.
Senses: glosses: Any hummingbird of the genus Heliomaster, with throat feathers having a glittering lustre.
Derived terms: blue-tufted starthroat
long-billed starthroat
plain-capped starthroat
stripe-breasted starthroat
starthroats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starthroat
tercine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French tercine, from Latin tertius (“the third”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac.
Related terms: quintine
cactaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to, or like, the family of cacti Cactaceae.
calumbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calumba + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.
ref: 1843, Samuel Thomson, “On the Vegetable Resources of the Edinburgh Pharmacopœia”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 60, page 167:
text: CALUMBÆ RADIX (Kalumbo, Portuguese). The root of the Cocculus palmatus, one of our most useful stomachics and tonics. It contains a bitter principle, called calumbin.
ref: 1844, Richard Dennis Hoblyn, A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences:
text: It also contains bitter terpene-dilactones, such as calumbin and dihydronaphthalene (chasmanthin and palmanin).
ref: 2014, Maurice M. Iwu, Handbook of African Medicinal Plants, Second Edition, page 242:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bitter white crystalline substance extracted from the calumba root (Jateorhiza palmata).
puritanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puritanizes
form: puritanizing
form: puritanized
form: puritanized
Etymology: From Puritan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: M. PERKINS , in his Probleme though hee ſaine would puritanize it , and ſo goeth on, hanging hoofe againſt hoofe, yet confeſſeth, that the Fathers uſed to arm themſelves againſt the Divell with the ſigne of the Croſſe
ref: 1625, Richard Montagu, Appello Caesarem: a just Appeale from two unjust Informers:
glosses: To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans.
puritanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of puritanize
puritanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puritanize
puritanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puritanize
curship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃɪp
Etymology: From cur + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a cur
examples: text: How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: someone who is currish.
prochein
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ꝓchein
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman prochein, from Old French prochain, from Vulgar Latin propeānus, from Latin prope (“near”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Next; nearest.
Related terms: prochein ami
SPB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Shortest Path Bridging, a network configuration technology.
SPB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SPBs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of super pressure balloon.
prenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prenate
vityaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vityazes
Etymology: From Russian ви́тязь (vítjazʹ).
Senses: glosses: A Russian noble knight who rode a horse.
potender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potenders
Etymology: Blend of pot + bartender
Senses: glosses: Synonym of budtender.
synonyms: word: budtender
potenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potender
Barbarie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
ref: 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
glosses: Obsolete form of Barbary.
monticulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monticuli
Etymology: From Latin monticulus.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: colliculus
glosses: A little elevation.
Related terms: monticle
monticulus cerebelli
exaggregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: This assignment is not graded. There is no need to exaggregate your answers, as we want an accurate picture of the students. - An assignment for the applicants to Rice University, Houston, Texas http://www.clear.rice.edu/comp200/12spring/assignments/0/0.pdf
glosses: Misspelling of exaggerate.
Murugan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kartikeyan
form: Skanda
form: Subrahmanyan
form: Saravanan
form: Velavan
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil முருகன் (murukaṉ).
Senses: examples: text: The temple was […] dedicated to Murugan, the god of war, to whom he had always shown particular devotion.
ref: 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 256:
glosses: A Hindu deity, especially popular among Tamils, worshipped in areas of South India.
Synonyms: Kartikeya
unborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's not like we'd blasted this stuff at Tracy's pregnant belly, the way some parents assault their unborns with Mozart.
ref: 2010, Ryan Knighton, C'Mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark, Knopf Canada, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: plural of unborn
encolour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encolours
form: encolouring
form: encoloured
form: encoloured
form: encolor
Etymology: From en- + colour.
Senses: glosses: To colour.
encoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encolour
encolouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encolour
encolours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encolour
antejentacularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antejentacular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before breakfast.
flying starts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying start
redpole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redpoles
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Archaic form of redpoll (“Acanthis spp.”).
redpoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redpole
prelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prelations
Etymology: From Latin praelatio. Compare French prélation. See prelate, and compare prefer.
Senses: examples: text: prelation and election of one before another
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: The setting of one item above another; preference.
prelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prelation
pricklice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricklouse
pricklouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪklaʊs/
Forms: form: pricklice
Etymology: From prick + louse.
Senses: examples: text: When she was under Water, and could call him Pricklouse no longer with her Lips, she held up her Hands over her Head
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tailor.
examples: text: that woman […] by no threats or stripes would leave to call her husband pricke-lowse [translating pouilleux], and being cast into a pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands, and joyning her two thumbs-nailes in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still […].
ref: , II.32
glosses: A lousy person.
monocardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a heart with a single ventricle.
clavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clavie
glosses: plural of clavy
clavy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clavies
Etymology: Compare French claveau (“centrepiece of an arch”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A mantelpiece.
sulphoarsenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulpho- + arsenic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen.
paynize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paynizes
form: paynizing
form: paynized
form: paynized
Etymology: From Payne + -ize, after the inventor.
Senses: glosses: To treat or preserve (wood etc.) by a process resembling kyanization.
Related terms: Payne's process
paynized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paynize
paynizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paynize
paynizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paynize
triniunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of trinity + unity
Senses: examples: text: As for terms of trinity, triniunity, […] and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions.
ref: 1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Tolreation […] :
glosses: Obsolete form of triunity.
saxicavid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the saxicavas.
saxicavid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saxicavids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A saxicava.
saxicavids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saxicavid
wishbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishbooks
Etymology: From wish + book.
Senses: glosses: A book or catalogue listing desirable things.
wishbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wishbook
renoviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛn.əˈvɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: renovictions
Etymology: Blend of renovation + eviction.
Senses: examples: text: The city's blogs and online communities are filled with rants against so-called "renovictions," as landlords boot out long-time tenants to install hardwood floors and marble countertops in order to hike up rent or pay for things like security and safety upgrades.
ref: 2011 September 14, Erica Alini, “Vancouver—the most livable city?”, in Maclean's:
glosses: The eviction of all of a building's tenants on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.
renovictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renoviction
astraean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin astraeus or similar, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the former genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae.
astraean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astraeans
Etymology: From Late Latin astraeus or similar, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A coral of the former family Astraeidae; a star coral.
astraeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astraean
stegnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στεγνωτικός (stegnōtikós), from στεγνός (stegnós, “costive”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: antidiarrheic
standergrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The plant Orchis mascula.
Synonyms: long purple
standerwort
pentaptych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaptychs
Etymology: From penta- + Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “a fold”).
Senses: glosses: A five-part polyptych; a picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centrepiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.
pentaptychs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentaptych
salicaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin salix, salicis (“willow”) + -aceous
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to the species in family Salicaceae of willows.
clerk-ale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerk-ales
Senses: examples: text: That ALE is festival, appears from its sense in composition; as, amongst others, in the words Lecet-ale, Lamb-ale, Whitson-ale, Clerk-ale, and Church-ale
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
clerk-ales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerk-ale
stacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstækɪt/
Forms: form: stackets
Etymology: Compare French estacade and English stockade.
Senses: examples: text: Also, I would advise you to fortify the said sconce, not only by a foussie, or graffe, but also by certain stackets, or palisades. […] The whilk stackets or palisades should be artificially framed with re-entering angles and loop-holes, or crenelles, for musquetry, whereof it shall arise that the foemen— […]
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume IV (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 32:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A stockade.
stackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stacket
orangerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orangeries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orangery.
signiorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signiorizes
form: signiorizing
form: signiorized
form: signiorized
Etymology: From signior + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
examples: text: then should those of this beautifull damzell presently signiorize my liberty
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To exercise dominion over; to lord it over.
signiorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of signiorize
signiorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of signiorize
signiorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of signiorize
scitamineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I recollect no instance at this moment of an 1-locular anther except in Canna, and from its mode of insertion as well as the analogy of other scitamineous anthers, that seems to me rather half an anther, than a whole one: however, the radication, and stipulation fix Sowerbæa immovably near Dianella, as well as the country it comes from
ref: 1806, Richard Salisbury, The Paradisus Londinensis, volume 1, part 2, section 98:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Scitamineae.
picrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picrolites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πικρός (pikrós, “bitter”) + -lite: compare French picrolithe.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fibrous variety of serpentine, possibly antigorite.
picrolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picrolite
stercoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stercorations
Etymology: From Latin stercoratio, from stercorare (“to dung”).
Senses: examples: text: The first and most ordinary help is stercoration . The sheeps dung is one of the best ; and next the dung of kine : and thirdly , that of horses
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Manuring with dung.
Related terms: stercorate
stercorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stercoration
chandries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chandry
chandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃændɹi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːndri/
Forms: form: chandries
Senses: examples: text: torches from the chandry
ref: 1622, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Augurs:
glosses: A chandlery (candle-store).
social evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the social evil
Senses: glosses: Prostitution.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see social, evil.
stockish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stockish
form: most stockish
Etymology: From stock + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,
 But music for the time doth change his nature.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: Like a stock; stupid; blockish.
scaphander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaphanders
Etymology: Ancient Greek σκάφος (skáphos, “anything hollowed”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “a man”): compare French scaphandre.
Senses: glosses: A kind of diving suit.
scaphanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaphander
retrofuturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retro-futurism
Etymology: From retro- + futurism.
Senses: examples: text: Even the aesthetics of its interface, with a kind of Star Trek-like retrofuturism, makes users feel as if their computer is doing the things we imagined computers would be doing, rather than the humdrum business of typing, filing and storing.
ref: 2006, David Bell, Science, Technology and Culture, Open University Press, →ISBN, pages 89–90:
glosses: The revival of historical conceptions of the future in media and design.
Derived terms: retrofuturistic
Related terms: zeerust
retro-futurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + futurism.
Senses: examples: text: So it's no accident that the "Jetsons" cartoon theme has been encouraged in Apple's descriptions of the iMac--a vaguely reminiscent, friendly retro-futurism that people seem to crave.
ref: 1998 June 8, Charles Piller, “Apple Finds Its Design Footing Again With iMac”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of retrofuturism.
retrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, a wave of retrophilia started to crest. Clothing companies like Homage (which reproduces vintage-esque T's celebrating sports and pop culture from the '70s through the '90s) came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear.
ref: 2010 November 21, Kevin Alexander, “The secret to selling cool”, in Boston Globe:
glosses: The attraction to and preference for that which is from or characteristic of the past.
Derived terms: retrophile
retrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrophiles
Etymology: From retro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: A pair of chunky leather sandals from the '60s complete her retrophile look.
ref: 2007, Nairne Holtz, The Skin Beneath, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: One who loves the past, or past styles.
retrophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrophile
ringxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪŋzˈaɪəti/
Etymology: Blend of ring + anxiety.
Senses: examples: text: I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.
"Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."
ref: 2011, Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71:
synonyms: fauxcellarm
glosses: The anxiety resulting from the mistaken belief that one's cell phone or mobile is ringing or vibrating.
Monnow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Mynwy.
Senses: glosses: A river flowing through Herefordshire and Monmouthshire, United Kingdom, which joins the River Wye at Monmouth.
Derived terms: Monmouth
commonwealthman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonwealthmen
form: commonwealthsman
form: commonwealth's-man
Etymology: From commonwealth + man.
Senses: examples: text: Other radicals looked for inspiration to England again – though, interestingly, neither to Voltaire's commercial nor Montesquieu's constitutional paragon, but rather to the seventeenth-century Commonwealthmen.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 222:
text: Machiavelli had a decisive influence on the English political thinker and commonwealthman James Harrington, who in turn had an enormous impact on Irish patriots such as John Toland, Robert Molesworth and Francis Hutcheson.
ref: 2008, David Dwan, The Great Community, page 52:
glosses: Someone who lived under the English Commonwealth of the 17th century, especially an adherent of it; loosely, a republican.
commonwealthmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonwealthman
commonwealthsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonwealthsmen
Etymology: From commonwealth + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commonwealthman.
commonwealthsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonwealthsman
Millwall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlwɔːl/
Etymology: Referring to the large number of windmills built on the river wall in the 19th century. Originally known as Marshwall, the area acquired its new name with its breakaway from its former parish of Poplar.
Senses: glosses: A district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England.
Derived terms: Millwall brick
pineau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French pineau.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink made from unfermented grape juice and cognac.
fabada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabadas
Etymology: Borrowed from Asturian fabada.
Senses: examples: text: His other brother, Candido, explained: “In the north of Spain, you have fabada; in the south, paella. But tortilla is everywhere. The tortilla is 150 percent Spain.”
ref: 2015 June 17, Francis Lam, “The King of Tapas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A dish from Asturias, made of white beans, pork products, chorizo and various other ingredients.
Synonyms: fabada asturiana
fabes con amasueles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Asturian fabes con amasueles (“beans with clams”).
Senses: glosses: A dish from Asturias, made of white beans and clams.
fabada asturiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabadas asturianas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fabada.
synonyms: word: fabada
bollu preñáu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Asturian bollu preñáu (pregnant roll).
Senses: glosses: A dish from Asturias, consisting of a bread roll with a piece of chorizo inside.
fabadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabada
line graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line graphs
Senses: synonyms: line chart
glosses: A graph in which a series of connected straight lines connect points, each of which represents the value of a particular variable as a function of another variable.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph L(G) which is derived from a given non-oriented graph G such that the vertices of L(G) represent edges of G and so that a clique in L(G) represents a common end-vertex shared by a set of represented edges. (A star subgraph in G transforms into a clique in L(G).)
examples: Suppose that a graph G has vertices A, B, C, and D such that A is adjacent to each of B, C, and D, but {B, C, D} is an independent set. Then G cannot be a line graph.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph L(G) which is derived from a given non-oriented graph G such that the vertices of L(G) represent edges of G and so that a clique in L(G) represents a common end-vertex shared by a set of represented edges. (A star subgraph in G transforms into a clique in L(G).)
A graph which is the line graph (in the above sense) of some other graph.
set pulses racing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets pulses racing
form: setting pulses racing
form: set pulses racing
form: set pulses racing
Senses: examples: text: And while the performance hardly set pulses racing, it should be remembered that the side that starts the serious action against France in Donestsk on 11 June will not resemble the one on show in Oslo.
ref: 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To excite, thrill.
line graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line graph
blocking and tackling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From US football.
Senses: examples: text: Some are caught up in the vision. Others are turned off and say he's a self-promoter who doesn't know anything about the blocking and tackling of the brokerage business.
ref: 1999 March 16, Saul Hansell, “THE MARKETS: Market Place -- Trading on E*Trade's Success; Chief Has Aggressive Plans to Expand Internet Broker”, in New York Times:
text: Cummings has been instrumental in the design of a computer simulation that he says will teach "the basic blocking and tackling of urban warfare.
ref: 2002 November 16, Ron Martz, “U.S. soldiers train for urban warfare; 'A knife fight in a phone booth,' is what troops liken it to. U.S. forces are preparing.”, in Atlanta Journal Constitution:
text: This is admittedly the bare basics of journalism, and one would hope it took more than simple journalistic blocking and tackling to become our most trusted practitioner.
ref: 2009 December, anonymous author, “Letters to the Editor”, in Atlantic Monthly, volume 304, number 5, page 10:
glosses: Basic tasks or skills in an undertaking or occupation.
soul sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊl ˈsɪs.tɚ/
ipa: /soʊl ˈsɪs.tə/
Forms: form: soul sisters
Senses: glosses: A fellow African American woman
Related terms: soul brother
sonic barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonic barriers
Senses: glosses: sound barrier
Spanish ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish hams
Senses: glosses: jamón ibérico
echinococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echinococcus
echinococcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌkaɪ.nəˈkɑk.əs/
rhymes: -ɒkəs
Forms: form: echinococci
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Echinococcus, from echino- (“sea urchin, prickle”) + -coccus (“spherical microorganism”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A parasite of humans and of many domestic and wild animals, the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, that forms compound cysts or tumours (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs.
Derived terms: echinococcal
echinococcosis
jamón ibérico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish jamón ibérico.
Senses: glosses: A type of cured ham from Spain, made from the black Iberian pig.
Synonyms: Spanish ham
spatterdock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatterdocks
form: splatterdock
Etymology: From spatter + dock?
Senses: synonyms: yellow pond-lily
cow lily
glosses: A water lily of species Nuphar advena, of temperate eastern North America.
speako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speakos
Etymology: From speak + -o, modelled on typo.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, you made a "speako" rather than a "typo." Speech systems these days are typically interactive, allowing for verification of input.
ref: 1999, Transportation & Distribution, volume 40, page 4:
text: "How come it thinks I said that?" Jay asked. "Those are 'speakos'. Kind of like what we call a 'typo
ref: 2015, The Least, page 117:
text: [The new version] too is mangled by typos and speakos and hearos, and the most spreadable ones accumulate
ref: 2019, Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve:
synonyms: lapsus linguae
misspeech
slip of the tongue
coordinate_terms: clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
printo
scanno
spello
thinko
typo
writo
glosses: A mistake made when speaking, for example saying the wrong word accidentally.
Related terms: malapropism
spoonerism
speako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speakos
Etymology: From speakeasy + -o.
Senses: glosses: A speakeasy (illegal bar, saloon or tavern).
speako
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From speak + -o, in imitation of Spanish hablo and Portuguese falo.
Senses: examples: text: no speako the lingo
text: Q: Why didn't you ask them about X? A: No speako the lingo.
glosses: [I] speak.
spermatocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatocides
form: spermaticide
Etymology: From spermato- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: spermicide