cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moneyhatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From money + hat + -ing. Of uncertain origin. Possibly referencing a Penny Arcade comic.
Senses: examples: text: This practice of "moneyhatting" that Micro$not has brought to the console video game business is just more corruption that harms the whole video game industry with nothing positive coming out of it except buying a little more time for the xflop 3-shitty before it dies.
ref: 2007, RMZ, “Re: EGM confirms Micro$hit paid bribe to 2K Games to keep Bioshock off PS3”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet):
text: I think it's great that the consoles are getting this stuff, but it just serves to make them even less relevant to people with alternatives. That said, while the AAA moneyhatting seems to have waned a fair bit this generation, it's being replaced with a trend of tying up cool looking, ostensibly PC titles with exclusivity contracts […]
ref: 2014, hurricanepilot, “Re: PWB, has it come to this?”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: The use of unfair financial incentives; bribery.
wikipedia: Penny Arcade
Mesopotamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mesopotamic
form: most Mesopotamic
Senses: glosses: Mesopotamian
muggest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mug: most mug
Nihonjinron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Japanese 日本人論, literally "theories/discussions about the Japanese".
Senses: glosses: A genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity and how Japan and the Japanese should be understood.
nasolabial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪbiəl
Etymology: From naso- + labial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the nose and lips.
Derived terms: nasolabial triangle
nasolabial fold
neocatastrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + catastrophism.
Senses: glosses: The hypothesis that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts have acted as a galactic regulation mechanism in the Milky Way upon the emergence of complex life in its habitable zone.
neocatastrophist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocatastrophists
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the hypothesis of neocatastrophism.
neocatastrophists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocatastrophist
neomort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neomorts
Etymology: Coined by Willard Gaylin. Compare neo- and mortal.
Senses: examples: text: Neomorts offer a great potential source of bone marrow for transplant procedures, and I am assured that a bioemporium of modest size could be assembled to fit most transplantation antigen requirements.
ref: 2005, Michael Palmer, Moral Problems in Medicine: A Practical Coursebook, page 92:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A brain-dead human being that could be kept on life support for organ transplantation, medical and nursing education, and drug research.
wikipedia: Willard Gaylin
neomorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neomort
neoregelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoregelias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Neoregelia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Neoregelia of flowering plants in the bromeliad family.
neoregelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoregelia
nervish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nervish
form: most nervish
Etymology: From nerve + -ish.
Senses: glosses: nervous; anxious
neocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + cyanine.
Senses: glosses: A dye found in kryptocyanine.
antimosque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimosque
form: most antimosque
Etymology: From anti- + mosque.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the mosque; against Muslim institutions.
unmosqued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mosque + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Who does not generally attend the mosque.
intermosque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + mosque.
Senses: glosses: Between mosques.
Nessler cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nessler cylinders
Senses: glosses: A laboratory tube used in colorimetric analysis.
neurocytologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurocytologists
Etymology: From neuro- + cytologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies neurocytology.
neurocytologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurocytologist
neuropediatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + pediatric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuropediatrics.
New Ageism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Age + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Appropriated stories were stripped by New Ageism of their demand for sacrifice and ritual, participation, shamanic guidance requiring more than the effort needed to sit before a television, read a trash novel, or crack open a geode.
ref: 2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, page 147:
glosses: New Age beliefs and practices generally.
Neusiok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Neuse
form: Neiosioke
Senses: glosses: A Native American people who lived on the south side of lower Neuse river, within the present Lenoir, Craven and Carteret Counties of North Carolina.
Nervii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One of the most powerful Belgic tribes, living in northern Gaul at the time of its conquest by Ancient Rome.
Belgae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine.
Senses: glosses: A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.
Menapii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Belgic tribe of northern Gaul in pre-Roman and Roman times.
neoliberalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoliberalists
Etymology: From neo- + liberal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of neoliberalism.
neoliberalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoliberalist
Netsilik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Netsiliks
form: Netsilik
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of Inuit living predominantly in the communities of Kugaaruk and Gjoa Haven of the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, and to a smaller extent in Taloyoak and the north Qikiqtaaluk Region.
unsuggested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suggested.
Senses: glosses: Not suggested.
unsuggestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuggestible
form: most unsuggestible
Etymology: From un- + suggestible.
Senses: glosses: Not suggestible.
antisugar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisugar
form: most antisugar
Etymology: From anti- + sugar.
Senses: examples: text: The chief topics of discussion were the importance of dental work in public schools, the antisugar campaign, the gospel of the clean mouth and the relation of systemic diseases to infected teeth.
ref: 1920, “Medical News”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 74, page 956:
text: Not surprisingly, perhaps, an antisugar school of medicine arose anew, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
ref: 1986, Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History:
text: That Joan is not such an antisugar fascist that she'd embarrass Haley in front of the Highlands and refuse to allow their delicious desserts into the house.
ref: 2008, Liz Ruckdeschel, Sara James, What If . . . Your Past Came Back to Haunt You, page 19:
glosses: Opposed to the consumption or production of sugar or sugar-containing foods.
examples: text: In another approach, antiglobulin neutralization was carried out by incubating the antiglobulin reagents directly with sugar-coated erythrocytes that had been sensitized with antisugar antibodies.
ref: 1984, P Lalezari, AF Jiang, M Kumar, I Lalezari, “Carbohydrate‐Specific Antibodies in Normal Human Sera: I. Characterization of Specificity for β‐D‐Glucose”, in Vox sanguinis, Wiley Online Library:
text: Like many parents, I would welcome an antiwhining vaccine that causes no physical harm to my child but makes the act of whining more unpleasant to her than to me. An antisugar vaccine would also be nice, eliminating daily demands for ice cream and other desserts
ref: 2013, EA Feldman, “Shots for tots?”, in Hastings Center Report, Wiley Online Library:
text: We synthesized the new compound 4-((E)-((4-((E)-phenyldiazenyl)phenyl)imino)methyl)benzoic acid (E-PABA) that it ^([sic]) has antisugar and antibacterial activities
ref: 2017, M Sheikhi, S Shahab, L Filippovich, et al., “Interaction between new synthesized derivative of (E, E)-azomethines and BN (6, 6-7) nanotube for medical applications: Geometry optimization, molecular structure, spectroscopic (NMR, UV/Vis, excited state), FMO, MEP and HOMO-LUMO investigations”, in Journal of Molecular Structure:
glosses: Countering the effects of sugar in mammalian metabolism.
antisugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + sugar.
Senses: examples: text: As one special example the author states that alcohol is an antisugar having calorigenic value but at the same time an antidynamic action.
ref: 1954, Archivos latinoamericanos de nutrición, volume 5, page 405:
glosses: A substance that reacts readily to consume sugars.
kavapyrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kavapyrone
unsuggestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuggestable
form: most unsuggestable
Etymology: From un- + suggestable.
Senses: glosses: Not suggestable.
suggestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suggestable
form: most suggestable
Etymology: From suggest + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being suggested.
Derived terms: suggestably
suggestability
Related terms: english: susceptible to influence by suggestion
translation: susceptible to influence by suggestion
word: suggestible
english: tending to suggest
translation: tending to suggest
word: suggestive
suggestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of suggestible.
nonsuggestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + suggestive.
Senses: glosses: Not suggestive.
nonsuggestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + suggestible.
Senses: glosses: Not suggestible.
nondigestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + digestive.
Senses: glosses: Not digestive.
nonfasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fasted.
Senses: glosses: Not fasted.
unfasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fasted.
Senses: glosses: Not fasted.
nondigested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + digested.
Senses: glosses: Not digested.
nontolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tolerant.
Senses: glosses: Not tolerant.
Newcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Dahlberg Borer Newcomer syndrome
never-was
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: never-weres
form: neverwas
form: never was
Senses: examples: text: They're saying Sonny Hayes isn't a has-been. He's a never-was.
ref: 2025, Ehren Kruger, F1: The Movie, spoken by Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon):
synonyms: never-wozzer
never-been
glosses: One who has never achieved success or popularity.
Coordinate terms: gonnabe
has-been
never-be
wannabe
would-be
never-weres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of never-was
New Politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The ideology of the U.S. Democratic Party during the 1950s.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A movement in the U.S. Democratic Party associated with the candidacies of Eugene J. McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy and later George McGovern, which demanded an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Vietnam War.
tetraethylgermanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + ethyl + germanium.
Senses: glosses: An organogermanium compound with the chemical formula (CH₃CH₂)₄Ge, used in vapour deposition of germanium.
pyrocollodion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyro- + collodion.
Senses: glosses: A smokeless powder, a variant of nitrocellulose.
Mendeleevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mendeleevian
form: most Mendeleevian
form: Mendeleefian
form: Mendelevian
Etymology: From Mendeleev + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Dmitri Mendeleev (Russian: Дми́трий Менделе́ев; 1834–1907), Russian chemist and inventor involved in the creation of the modern periodic table.
Cedar Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chase County, Kansas.
glosses: A town in Carteret County, North Carolina.
glosses: A village in LaSalle County, Kosciusko County, Illinois.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, Ontario.
Batmaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Batmaniacs
Etymology: Blend of Batman + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: The DC comic book recently ran a two-day telephone poll asking Batmaniacs whether they wanted Robin, who was seriously injured by an explosion at the end of one issue, to live or die.
ref: 1988, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, volume 112, numbers 19-26, page xxxi:
glosses: A fan of the Batman fictional franchise.
Synonyms: Batfan
Batmaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Batmaniac
boguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bogue
bogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bogue
Nicholite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicholites
Etymology: From Nichols + -ite, after Joseph Nichols.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Quaker-influenced religious movement formed in the 1700s.
Nicholites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nicholite
peggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peg + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being pegged.
Matilija poppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Matilija poppies
Senses: synonyms: fried-egg plant
tree poppy
glosses: Either of the two species of poppy in the genus Romneya.
Matilija poppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Matilija poppy
capillitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillitium
mazaedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazaedia
Senses: glosses: A powdery spore mass released by some fungi on the surface of the apothecium.
mazaedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazaedium
mazagran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazagrans
Etymology: Borrowed from French mazagran, named after the Algerian town of Mazagran, the site of a French victory in 1840.
Senses: examples: text: Coffee, in the vocabulary of the place, may be called for in the shape of a demi-tasse, a capucin, or a mazagran.
ref: 1883, A cup of coffee, page 35:
text: But the joy of life was to drop in at any hour during the day and call: "Pierre, a mazagran!" for Pierre was the waiter, Madame the cashier, and the mazagran was a large glass of that marvelous beverage, yclept coffee — yclept other, and maddening things.
ref: 1909, “The Coffee”, in Puck:
glosses: A long cold coffee beverage with lemon, ice, and sometimes sugar, rum or water, served in a tall glass.
mazagrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazagran
matai beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A liquid tapped from the matai tree and drunk by early bushmen.
bushperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushpeople
Etymology: From bush + person.
Senses: glosses: A bushman or bushwoman.
Related terms: bushcraft
bushmanship
bush pilot
bushpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bushperson
Mthwakazi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əmtwɑːˈkɑːzi/
Senses: glosses: The proto-Ndebele and Ndebele kingdom that existed until the end of the 19th century within the area of modern Zimbabwe.
Mazak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zamak, influenced by the initials of the manufacturer, Morris Ashby.
Senses: glosses: A form of Zamak alloy using a different kind of zinc.
mazedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazedia
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mazaedium.
mazedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazedium
mazaedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mazaedium.
Mazovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazovian
form: most Mazovian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masovian.
Mazovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazovians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masovian.
Mazovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Masovian.
Mazovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazovian
punishingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punishing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being punishing.
eigenfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenfeature
eigenheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigenhead
Bogue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /boːɡ/
Etymology: In reference to the Chinese strait, a corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An important strait in the Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and the South China Sea.
raw_tags: with the definite article
glosses: A town in Kansas.
glosses: A town in North Carolina.
Synonyms: sense: Chinese strait
word: Bocca Tigris
nougaty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nougaty
form: most nougaty
Etymology: From nougat + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of nougat.
Mattole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A group of Native Americans in California, whose traditional lands were along the Mattole and Bear Rivers near Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.
Mattole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Athabaskan language once spoken by the Mattole.
Mavrud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mavruds
Etymology: Bulgarian мавруд (mavrud), from Ancient Greek word for "black".
Senses: glosses: A red wine grape indigenous to the region of Kara Thrace in Bulgaria.
cutthroat eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutthroat eels
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Synaphobranchidae of eels.
Mearns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mearnses
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname for someone coming from The Mearns, an alternative name for Kincardineshire, which is named as An Mhaoirne in Scottish Gaelic, from maor (“bailiff, steward, beadle”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A hamlet in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Mearns quail
Mearns's flying fox
Mearns's grasshopper mouse
Mearns's pocket gopher
Mearns's pouched mouse
Mearns's squirrel
Related terms: Newton Mearns
digital PR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The field of public relations expanded to include digital spaces such as social media, online newspapers, e-magazines, and smartphone applications.
Sadhbh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
fly rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly rods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flyrod.
flyscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyscreens
Etymology: From fly + screen.
Senses: glosses: A screen attached to the front of a motorcycle, designed to prevent insects from flying into the rider.
glosses: A window screen.
fly spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly sprays
Senses: glosses: An insecticide, especially one for killing flies.
foetiparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fetiparous.
Fomorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fomorians
Etymology: Probably Old Irish fo- (“under”) + mor, mur (“ocean”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of the semi-divine race that were said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.
Fomorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably Old Irish fo- (“under”) + mor, mur (“ocean”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the race of semi-divine creatures said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.
fool with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fools with
form: fooling with
form: fooled with
form: fooled with
Senses: examples: text: If you fool with the Mafia, expect to get hurt.
glosses: To involve oneself with in a dangerous and reckless manner.
forearm smash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forearm smashes
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A charge at the opponent followed by a strike in the chest or face with a forearm to force them back and down to the mat.
forecaddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecaddies
Etymology: From fore- + caddie.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A caddie who does not carry clubs, but locates balls and gets groups of players to move around the course.
forecaddie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forecaddies
form: forecaddying
form: forecaddied
form: forecaddied
Etymology: From fore- + caddie.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To act as a forecaddie.
caddieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From caddie + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a caddie.
caddielike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caddielike
form: most caddielike
Etymology: From caddie + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or acting like a caddie
forecourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecourses
Etymology: From fore- + course?
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lowest foresail on a square-rigged foremast.
Four Corners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Driving north from Gallup, New Mexico, on State Route 491 toward the Four Corners Monument, one passes through the vast, arid lands of the eastern Navajo Nation.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: The quadripoint at the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the region surrounding it.
glosses: A type of patience card game.
Zyklon-B
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zyklon B.
zymogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zymo + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The transformation of a zymogen into an enzyme
vanishing spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanishing sprays
Senses: synonyms: vanishing foam
glosses: A spray substance applied to sports fields in order to mark temporary lines, especially for free kicks in soccer. The marks disappear after a short time.
blind scouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Unsurprisingly, given the geography of the area, Liverpool’s scouse isn’t dissimilar to Irish stew or Lancashire hotpot, either, and, like those noble dishes, is eminently practical, easy to make in a small kitchen, or indeed a galley, and to adapt to current circumstances – there’s even a vegetarian variant, blind scouse, for when you can’t, or won’t, run to meat. […] You don’t, of course, have to use any meat at all: when you couldn’t quite run to any, you’d make the aforementioned “blind scouse” instead – often with bones, but you could use vegetable stock, or try the Quorn and sweet potato version in the Merseysider magazine.
ref: 2019 October 30, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect scouse – recipe”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A vegetarian variant of the scouse stew.
lapskaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Norwegian lapskaus, which was borrowed again from English lobscouse.
Senses: glosses: A Norwegian stew of diced meat and vegetables, similar to scouse.
character shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character shoes
Senses: glosses: A heeled leather shoe, usually with one or more straps across the instep to secure it to the foot.
character shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character shoe
crempog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crempogs
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh crempog.
Senses: examples: text: But each time a great stack of freshly made Crempogs was brought from the kitchen and handed round you can guess how fervently I prayed my mother's insistence that she really could eat no more of anything might spare us both.
ref: 1947, Viscount Gwynedd, Dame Margaret: The Life Story of His Mother, page 194:
text: We used to visit farms for crempog teas and I used to eye the huge pot of melted butter, in which lurked the small round pancakes, with apprehension.
ref: 1973, Kyffin Williams, Across the Straits: An Autobiography:
glosses: A Welsh pancake made with self-raising flour, salt, eggs, milk and salted butter.
crempogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crempog
know one's head from a hole in the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's head from a hole in the ground
form: knowing one's head from a hole in the ground
form: knew one's head from a hole in the ground
form: known one's head from a hole in the ground
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know one's ass from a hole in the ground.
synonyms: word: know one's ass from a hole in the ground
pleurothetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A pattern of orientation among most bivalves whereby they come to rest on their left or right sides.
pleurothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pleurothetic
form: most pleurothetic
Senses: examples: text: The Dimyidae are a pleurothetic superfamily of molluscs.
glosses: Of or pertaining to pleurothetism.
Okhranka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Okhrana.
Okhrana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ochrana
form: Okhranka
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian охра́на (oxrána).
Senses: glosses: A secret police force of the Russian Empire.
nut clam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut clams
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Nuculidae of small saltwater clams.
nursery pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursery puddings
Senses: glosses: bread and butter pudding
nursery puddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nursery pudding
nut clams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nut clam
odonatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odonatologists
Etymology: From odonatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies odonatology.
odonatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odonatologist
odonatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From odonatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to odonatology.
skoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
rhymes: -oʊʃ
Forms: form: skooshes
Etymology: Apparently imitative of a squirting or squishing sound.
Senses: examples: text: But Mrs Strain ducked and dodged and weaved, keeping the bucket steady between her feet and managing to give the two or three cats running about the place a skoosh of milk straight from the udder into their mouth.
ref: 2002, Hugh Robinson, Back Across the Fields of Yesterday, →ISBN:
text: 1 pint of filtered water
2 dessert spoons of sugar (or honey)
4 nobs of butter (or one big lump)
1 big skoosh of lemon juice, hand squeezed
6 large free range eggs.
ref: 2012, Harry Morris, The Last Night on the Beat: The Best of Harry the Polis, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A squirt (of liquid).
examples: text: After what we had learned in the Navy, police training was a skoosh.
ref: 2013, Joe Pieri, The Big Men:
glosses: Something very easy; a piece of cake.
skoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
rhymes: -oʊʃ
Forms: form: skooshes
form: skooshing
form: skooshed
form: skooshed
Etymology: Apparently imitative of a squirting or squishing sound.
Senses: examples: text: Untouchable. I am untouchable. I cannot touch. But in these other states, I am the citizen of many nations. To that woman on holiday in Millport many, many years ago, I am that cheeky wee boy who skooshed her in the face with my water pistol […]
ref: 2001, Andrew Campbell, Dead Letter House, Neil Wilson Pub Limited
text: She positions herself in the middle of each room, then sprays every surface as if she's Lara Croft holding one of those paintball guns. By the time I've mopped up all the puddles of polish she's skooshed on Mum's good furniture, […]
ref: 2006, Catherine Forde, Firestarter, Egmont Books, →ISBN:
text: She shut the doors, covered the food and then skooshed DDT at them. That killed them all and we were choked but fly-free for a few minutes. I have no doubt Mrs Low's was the healthier option - however grotesque it may have been.
ref: 2008, Charlie Allan, The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a Buchan Farm, Birlinn:
text: She skooshed some foam from a spray can onto her hand and applied it to her hair.
"What's that?" said Gerry.
"Styling mousse."
ref: 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, chapter 8, in Midwinter Break, page 160:
glosses: To squirt.
examples: text: Eternal Returnists believe that after you die you must return as every fly you ever swatted, every ant you ever skooshed, every mosquito, every spider, every animal you ever roared over on the highway with your Harley, whether you knew it or not […]
ref: 2004, Don Strachan, King of Diamonds, Penthe Pub, →ISBN:
text: I tore my mayonnaise packet open with my teeth, squirted it on the bun, and skooshed it around to coat the alleged patty. Noah tapped his finger on my lunch tray. "You going to eat your fruit cup? You should."
ref: 2012, Lisa Harkrader, The Adventures of Beanboy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: To squish, to smoosh.
glosses: To have an easy time.
skoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
rhymes: -oʊʃ
Forms: form: skooshes
Etymology: Variant of skosh.
Senses: examples: text: […] his wife, who might have outweighed him by forty pounds, wore a cut-off sweatshirt over a red blouse, and what seemed to be men's Levis, cut with a bit more than "a skoosh more room," as the ads say.
ref: 1995, James C. Schaap, In the Silence There are Ghosts: A Novel, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: “Not even a little problem, just a skoosh of a problem, really.”
ref: 2018, Melissa Radke, Eat Cake. Be Brave., Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Off-balance myself, I skidded to one knee and got up just a skoosh slower than Beastie did.
ref: 2020, Sara Hanover, The New Improved Sorceress, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: skosh
word: scooch
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A smidge, a small amount.
oligophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligophages
Etymology: From oligo- + -phage.
Senses: glosses: Any oligophagous organism.
oligophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligophage
oakenshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oakenshaws
Senses: examples: 1922, A.E Housman, "The Oracles"
'Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountain
When winds were in the oakenshaws and all the cauldrons tolled,
And mute's the midland navel-stone beside the singing fountain,
And echoes list to silence now where gods told lies of old.
glosses: A grove of oaks.
oakenshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oakenshaw
Okanagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Okanagan
form: most Okanagan
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Syilx people.
Okanagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Okanagans
Senses: glosses: A member of the Syilx people.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Salish language which arose among the indigenous peoples of the southern Interior Plateau region based primarily in the Okanagan River Basin and the Columbia River Basin.
Derived terms: Central Okanagan
North Okanagan
Okanagan-Similkameen
Osoyoos
Okanogan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Okanogan
form: most Okanogan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Okanagan.
Okanogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Okanogans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Okanagan.
Okanogan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Okanogan County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms: Okanogan County
okanoganite
Okanagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Okanagan
Okanogans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Okanogan
Syilx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia in the Okanagan Country region.
Oconee bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Shortia galacifolia, a rare plant of the Southern Appalachians in the family Diapensiaceae.
obento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obentos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bento.
odonatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odonatans
Etymology: Odonata + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Odonata (dragonflies etc.).
odonatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odonatan
odonatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odonatists
Etymology: Odonata + -ist
Senses: glosses: One who studies dragonflies or damselflies.
odonatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odonatist
streets in the sky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the UK, the concept of 'streets in the sky' was first developed by the New Brutalist architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, in their widely published entry for the Corporation of London's Golden Lane Competition (1951).
ref: 2013, Ben Campkin, Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture:
glosses: Architecture of a style that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, generally built to replace run-down terraced housing with modern improvements, and including shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks.
Engelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Engelsian
form: most Engelsian
Etymology: From Engels + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory alongside Karl Marx.
Trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trots
form: trot
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Loyal to a tee, he is still at a loss to understand the failure of the Frank Dobson candidacy in the London mayoral contest, and abandoned constituency meetings after a couple of events because they were "too dominated by Trots".
ref: 2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian:
text: We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.
ref: 2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street:
glosses: A Trotskyist.
Synonyms: Trotskyite
Trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trot
Trotskian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trotskian
form: most Trotskian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Trotskyan.
Trotskyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Trotskyan
form: most Trotskyan
form: Trotskyian
Etymology: From Trotsky + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting, the communist doctrines of Leon Trotsky.
in the nip
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ðə ˈnɪp/
Senses: examples: text: The streaker ran across the playing field in the nip.
text: Father Dougal: Those women were in the nip!
ref: 1998, Graham Linehan & al., "Speed 3", Father Ted Series 3, Episode 3, Channel Four
synonyms: in the nick
glosses: Nude.
histotripsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From histo- + -tripsy.
Senses: glosses: Mechanical fractionation of the tissue using repetitive high-intensity ultrasound pulses.
memory palace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory palaces
Senses: synonyms: mind palace
glosses: An imaginary place used as a mnemonic device to recall faces, digits, etc. by their position inside it.
Related terms: memory journey
memory palaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory palace
melting moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melting moments
Senses: glosses: A kind of light biscuit or cookie, sometimes in two pieces sandwiched together with icing.
melting moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melting moment
melius inquirendum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ commanding a further enquiry into something.
megaphylly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + -phyll + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having large leaves.
Crip walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dance move associated with Crip gang members, involving quick and intricate footwork.
superaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superaged
form: most superaged
Etymology: From super- + aged.
Senses: examples: text: In this process, Korea would take only twenty-six years to become superaged, which is faster than Japan, which would take thirty-six years, the United States, which would take eighty-eight years, and France, which would take 155 years […]
ref: 2011, Choong Soon Kim, Voices of Foreign Brides, page 156:
glosses: In which the elderly make up a large proportion of the population.
bedtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedtables
Etymology: From bed + table.
Senses: glosses: A table that can be placed on the lap of a patient in a hospital bed.
bedtables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedtable
mellerdrammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellerdrammers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of melodrama.
mellerdrammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mellerdrammer
medietas linguae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, literally "half tongue".
Senses: glosses: A jury or inquest consisting half of aliens and half of natives.
Synonyms: party jury
jury of half-tongue
medallion man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medallion men
Senses: glosses: A man who wears a necklace with a medallion-style pendant over a largely unbuttoned shirt, fashionable in the 1960s and 1970s.
medallion men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medallion man
megaplume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaplumes
Etymology: From mega- + plume.
Senses: examples: text: A megaplume is a supermass of extremely hot rocks that moves very slowly under the surface of the earth and influences the breakup of tectonic plates.
ref: 1990, Richard Moran, Magill's Survey of Science: Earth Science Series Supplement, Salem Press, pages 4-5:
text: The rise height of a buoyant plume increases with the discharge rate of its source fluid, and all previously observed hydrothermal plumes had been found no more than a few hundred meters above their sources. The megaplume reached a stunning 1,000 meters above the ridge axis depth of 2,300 meters.
ref: 1991, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Oceanus, Volume 34, Number 4 Winter, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, page 85:
text: Taken together, the two pieces of evidence could mean only one thing: the North Atlantic volcanoes were sitting atop a titanic, previously unknown hot spot, a megaplume of superheated magma rising from far down in the earth's mantle.
ref: 1995, Richard Moran, The Empire of Ice, TOR, →ISBN, pages 4-5:
text: As well as these small continuous sources there exist much larger-scale episodes, which give rise to the so-called ‘megaplumes’.
ref: 1997, John E. Simpson, Gravity Currents in the Environment and the Laboratory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 138:
text: "That's what I mean," Use said. "What if we emit an active sonar beam, one that's directionally very tight, at minimum power? Wave it back and forth and grab the micro-echoes off the precipitation particles? That would give a picture of water motion in the megaplume."
ref: 2000, Joe Buff, Deep Sound Channel, Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 311-312:
glosses: A very large plume or column of water.
megaplumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaplume
spoorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spoor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without spoor.
glosses: Without (leaving) a trace.
gambreling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gambrel
gambreled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gambrel
migrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migraters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of migrator.
migraters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of migrater
mikeside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mike + -side.
Senses: examples: text: In radiotelephone high society, good mikeside manners are the hallmark of top pilots. It is essential that each pilot know all of the shortcuts, for communications are going to get worse before they get better.
ref: 1958 March, Flying Magazine, volume 62, number 3, page 47:
glosses: Beside a microphone; broadcasting via microphone.
mindstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindstyles
Etymology: From mind + style.
Senses: glosses: A customary way of thinking; a set of mental habits.
mindstyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mindstyle
miniaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miniature
miniatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miniature
Minisink
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived by Dutch colonists from the Munsee name for the area, likely mŭnúsunk (“at the island”). Compare Munsee.
Senses: glosses: A loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren Counties), northeastern Pennsylvania (Pike and Northampton Counties) and New York (Orange and Sullivan Counties).
glosses: A town in Orange County, New York, United States.
milking booster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milking boosters
Senses: glosses: A kind of booster, in a power station, used to give an additional charge to a battery cell operating with reduced capacity by "milking" the other, healthy cells.
moly cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊli kaʊ̯/
ipa: /ˈmoʊli kaʊ̯/
Forms: form: moly cows
Etymology: From moly (informal term for molybdenum) + cow. The word cow alludes to the fact that the device “milks” technetium-99m from molybdenum-99: see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: When the ⁹⁹Tcₘ isotope is needed for medical imaging purposes, it has to be created on the spot because its half-life is only six hours. This is done using a device filled with longer-lived ⁹⁹Mo, which decays into ⁹⁹Tcₘ, continually replenishing the supply within the device. Because the process of removing the accumulated ⁹⁹Tcₘ is called "milking", the device is informally known as a "moly cow."
ref: 2012, Theodore [W.] Gray, The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe, New York, N.Y.: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, →ISBN:
text: The radioactive isotope molybdenum-99 (half-life of 66 hours) decays to generate technetium-99m, which has a half-life of only six hours and is used in hospitals for medical imaging. The technetium isotope collects in various parts of the body, in particular bone. Scanners detect the radiation from the isotope to create an image, enabling diagnosis. The process uses a device that is filled with Mo-99, which decays into Tc-99m, forming a continuous supply that is ‘milked off’. The device is nicknamed the ‘moly cow’.
ref: 2013, Paul Parsons, Gail Dixon, The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements, London: Quercus, →ISBN:
text: Clearly, transporting the daughter in equilibrium with the parent is a more economical, safer, and environmentally friendlier approach. This is the reason that "technetium generators," dubbed "moly cows," are transported around the globe instead of the ⁹⁹ᵐTc isotope.
ref: 2013 November 6, Chary Rangacharyulu, “Radioactivity”, in Physics of Nuclear Radiations: Concepts, Techniques and Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device used to extract from a source of decaying molybdenum-99 the metastable isotope ⁹⁹ᵐTc of technetium, which is the most commonly used medical radioisotope.
wikipedia: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Synonyms: technetium-99m generator
technetium cow
Related terms: holy cow
milking boosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milking booster
moly cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moly cow
mill-wand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill-wands
Senses: glosses: A rod by which a millstone was trundled from the quarry to the mill.
millionaire's defence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the millionaire's defence
Senses: glosses: The situation where a wealthy party in a legal case avoids having to disclose the extent of his/her assets by arguing that he/she clearly has the ability to make any payment the court might impose.
military macaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military macaws
Etymology: The green plumage has been likened to a military uniform.
Senses: glosses: Ara militaris, a large parrot with mostly green plumage.
Related terms: miligold