cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
supernerdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supernerdy
form: most supernerdy
Etymology: From super- + nerdy.
Senses: examples: text: Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories.
ref: 1996 July 8, Michael Krantz, “The Literature of Nerds Goes Mainstream”, in Time:
text: Microsoft was a niche business catering to a relatively small network of supernerdy customers.
ref: 2008, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, Fireside, →ISBN, page 37:
text: My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; […]
ref: 2013, Ophira Eisenberg, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, Seal Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely nerdy.
Synonyms: supergeeky
ubergeeky
ubernerdy
ultrageeky
ultranerdy
ubernerdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ubernerdy
form: most ubernerdy
Etymology: From uber- + nerdy.
Senses: examples: text: He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud.
ref: 2004, TV Guide, volume 52, page 26:
text: The 28-year-old Brooklyn native has risen from obscurity to grab a Tony Award nomination for his portrayal of ubernerdy, grade-school speller William Barfee in the hit musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
ref: 2005 May 26, Justin Bergman, “Spelling Bee' Funny Man Climbs To Fame With Tony Nod”, in Kentucky New Era:
text: No longer the playground of the ubernerdy, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) is tres chic.
ref: 2009 May 7, Chana Garcia, “Filling the STEM gap”, in Black Enterprise:
glosses: Extremely nerdy.
Synonyms: supergeeky
supernerdy
ubergeeky
ultrageeky
ultranerdy
ubergeeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ubergeeky
form: most ubergeeky
Etymology: From uber- + geeky.
Senses: examples: text: Between our long hours of work during the early years at Rackspace, I would try to get his wife to let him come to my ubergeeky LUG-ish user group here in town: X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio (xcssa.org).
ref: 2004, Christopher Negus, Thomas Weeks, Linux Troubleshooting Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
text: Then again, perhaps these game makers are among the legions of ardent fans who adore this quirky film about an ubergeeky Idaho boy and his painfully funny high school experiences.
ref: 2008 January 14, “Game On: 'Napoleon Dynamite: The Game'”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
text: The newest model from the willfully obfuscatory watch maker uses 42 white LEDs to tell the time in three different ways - displaying it in hours or minutes or, for the ubergeeky, in binary.
ref: 2008 March 29, “Staying in: gadgets and gizmos”, in Daily Record, Scotland:
glosses: Extremely geeky.
Synonyms: supergeeky
supernerdy
ubernerdy
ultrageeky
ultranerdy
club together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clubs together
form: clubbing together
form: clubbed together
form: clubbed together
Senses: examples: text: A sailing vacation does not need to be expensive, if you club together with friends and share a week's rent of a 10-berth yacht.
text: If we club together, we will be able to by her the fur coat that she really wants.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To contribute money jointly with others.
examples: text: It was launched in 2014 (note the unfortunate timing), when six northern cities clubbed together to identify a core network of city-city rail links that would support the economic rebirth of the North.
ref: 2023 July 12, Jim Steer, “Rail's route to seizing the initiative”, in RAIL, number 987, page 39:
glosses: To link up for a particular purpose.
Baha'i Faith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼí Faith.
styrke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styrkes
Senses: examples: 1499, the will of Matilda Malham of Skipton-in-Craven
To Roger Martendale and his wiff a cow. To William Martendale, his son, a styrke.
glosses: Alternative form of stirk.
Pyeongyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pyongyang (capital of North Korea)
shrugs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shrug off
shrugging off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrug off
shrugged off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shrug off
Heffern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Hefferon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Laveyan Satanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laveyan Satanists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of LaVeyan Satanist.
typewritery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more typewritery
form: most typewritery
Etymology: From typewriter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Its etchings, by Herbert Nye, are steeped in the spirit of the story. The type, imitated, with supposed improvements, from a quarto Elzevir (a type not compressed like that of the pocket Elzevirs), is too modern in its businesslike roundness and with its typewritery short tails to the bs and ds, ps and qs.
ref: 1893 November 9, The Nation, volume 57, number 1480, page 350:
text: Naturally, it looks "typewritery," but it is not displeasing, and is quite neat.
ref: 1904, Process Review and Journal of Electrotyping, volumes 9-10, page 444:
text: Indeed, the serial data transmission method that we looked at in the preceding section was originally worked out to allow typewritery machines called teletypes (you sometimes see them in very old movies) to talk to early computers.
ref: 2012, Alan Trevennor, Practical AVR Microcontrollers: Games, Gadgets, and Home Automation with the Microcontroller Used in the Arduino, Apress, →ISBN, page 374:
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a typewriter.
Synonyms: typewriterlike
umbilics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umbilic
nonpartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + partitioned.
Senses: glosses: Not partitioned.
partitionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From partition + -less.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: dividerless, unpartitioned, undivided, wall-less, unwalled, compartmentless
glosses: Without partitions.
Related terms: file system
unified
unitary
partyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: partiless
Etymology: From party + -less.
Senses: examples: text: partyless democracy
glosses: Without political parties.
examples: text: a partyless weekend
glosses: Without parties (fiestas)
Derived terms: partylessness
distoproximally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distoproximally
form: most distoproximally
Etymology: From distoproximal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distoproximal fashion.
distortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distortable
form: most distortable
Etymology: From distort + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being distorted.
Derived terms: distorted
indistortable
undistortable
distortedly
distortedness
nondistorted
predistorted
undistorted
undistortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undistortable
form: most undistortable
Etymology: From un- + distortable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being distorted.
undistinguishedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undistinguishedly
form: most undistinguishedly
Etymology: From undistinguished + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undistinguished manner; without distinction.
undistinguishedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undistinguished + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being undistinguished; lack of distinction.
darning last
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darning lasts
Etymology: See last (“shoemaker's tool”).
Senses: glosses: A smooth, hard object, often egg-shaped, put into a stocking to preserve its shape during darning.
darning lasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darning last
pouncehug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pouncehugs
Etymology: From pounce + hug.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiastic embrace in which one person pounces on another and hugs them.
Synonyms: glomp
pouncehugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pouncehug
counterbalancingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From counterbalancing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to counterbalance.
forrayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forray
forraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forray
potterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potterers
Etymology: From potter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who potters.
potterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potterer
pothered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pother
pothering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pother
guluronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guluronates
Etymology: From guluronic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of guluronic acid.
Derived terms: oligoguluronate
guluronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guluronate
gulpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌlpɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of gulping
woodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: woodifies
form: woodifying
form: woodified
form: woodified
Etymology: From wood + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: I thought: — — the "x"'s sprout in a shoot from the little lecture notebooks: in a greening, murmuring leaflet — from the swelling bud; they woodify as twigs; and they stick out afterwards.
ref: 1987, John E. Malmstad, Andrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism, page 158:
glosses: To become wood, or woodlike.
woodifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woodify
woodifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woodify
woodified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of woodify
timeshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timeshift
timeshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of timeshift
fatigated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatigate
fatigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fatigate
fatigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fatigate
pigeonholer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonholers
Etymology: From pigeonhole + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pigeonholes.
pigeonholers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeonholer
blustereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bluster + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bluster
blusterest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: bluster + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of bluster
rodomont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒdəmɒnt/
Forms: form: rodomonts
Etymology: From French rodomont.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth of Tullies Rhetorickes, where he speaketh of a bragging Rhodomonte.
ref: 1598, Robert Dallington, A Method for Travell:
glosses: A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart.
Related terms: rodomontade
rodomonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodomont
Blanquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blanquists
Etymology: From Blanqui + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Blanquism.
Blanquist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Blanqui + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Blanquism.
Blanquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blanquist
putschism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From putsch + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that a revolution should take place by means of a putsch.
corival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: corivals
Etymology: From co- + rival.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrival.
corivals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corival
mingle-mangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mingle-mangle
mingle-mangled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mingle-mangle
predicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predicant
phthongal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound, voice”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized.
starteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: start + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of start
unoared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɔː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: unawed (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From un- + oared.
Senses: examples: text: Like one who drifts in idle boat / Unoared, and heedless whither bound[…]
ref: 1838, John Kenyon, Poems, for the most part occasional:
glosses: Not supplied with oars; oarless.
examples: text: When the mists divide with the dawn o'er those glittering waters, / Do they gaze over unoared seas[…]
ref: 1908, Alfred Noyes, The Golden Hynde:
glosses: Unvisited by boats.
oarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without oars.
Synonyms: unoared
Derived terms: oarlessness
cyolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of synthetic minerals composed of sodium, calcium and aluminium fluorides used (as a substitute for cryolite) as a flux in the electrolysisof bauxite
glosses: A class of minerals, also indicated as calcined clay, composed of silicon dioxide, aluminum silicate, applied as the carriers in the industry of feed additives.
sautered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sauter
sautéeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sautée
sautering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sauter
imposthumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imposthume
drawerknob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawerknobs
Etymology: From drawer + knob.
Senses: examples: text: Downed in bed, his feet extend drawerknobs over edge.
ref: 2003, Sandra L. Ballard, Patricia L. Hudson, Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, page 185:
text: Then Clayton climbed off of that quartersawn sideboard, using the drawerknobs for steps, and ambled across the front room to pitch himself into his chair.
ref: 2002, T. R. Pearson, Polar, page 65:
text: Ezra Cornell's glass drawerknobs proved to be a prototype as glass insulators became popular in America, while Europeans favored earthenware.
ref: 1992, Paul Israel, From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory, page 59:
glosses: A knob for opening a drawer.
drawerknobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawerknob
REA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REAs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of request for an equitable adjustment; in contracting with government entities in the United States, used to indicate that compensation is sought for unexpected costs arising in the fulfillment of a contract.
glosses: Initialism of real estate agent.
REA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “The district and REA met in bargaining sessions on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this week,” the district said in their statement Thursday.
ref: 2022 September 9, Paradise Afshar, “Washington state school district goes on strike”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Ridgefield Education Association.
Bennu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian bnw. Doublet of phoenix.
Senses: examples: 1830, "E. H.", Fragments on Egyptian Literature, Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, page 349,
One compound name, of which it is an element, is that of the city, from which the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile was denominated Sebennu, that is, "the temple of Bennu," a god, who was represented in the form of a waterfowl, and whose phonetic name is of frequent occurrence.
2014, J. Daniel Gunther, The Angel & The Abyss, Nicolas-Hays, Inc. (Ibis Press), page 113,
15 The Uas Sceptre is the origin of the “Phoenix Wand”, which is the Wand of the Imperator of A!∴!A!∴,. The head of the wand was not originally a Bennu Bird, but the head of the god Set. The identification with the Bennu seems to have originated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A self-created deity with the form of a bird (in New Kingdom artwork, a heron) that features in the ancient Egyptian creation myth and is also described as the ba (soul) of Ra.
examples: text: Osiris-Rex’s arrival at Bennu was not like the landing of NASA’s InSight spacecraft in one piece on the surface of Mars last Monday. (Happily, it landed flawlessly.)
ref: 2018 December 3, Kenneth Chang, “NASA’s Osiris-Rex Arrives at Asteroid Bennu After a Two-Year Journey”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.
ref: 2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu.
Derived terms: english: the bird aspect of the deity; the indefinite corresponding real bird
translation: the bird aspect of the deity; the indefinite corresponding real bird
word: Bennu bird
taxonomic: Ardea bennuides†
word: Bennu heron
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: OSIRIS-REx
genon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genons
Senses: examples: text: The genon in this case is defined as the branch-cut point where the branch-cut line ends.
ref: 2013, M Barkeshli, CM Jian, XL Qi, “Theory of defects in Abelian topological states”, in Physical Review B:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch cut between two complex planes.
examples: text: The genon is defined as the coding sequence (which can then revert to being called "gene," akin to the sense of cistron, but better (less ambiguously) expresed in terms of the mRNA that is translated into a protein) together with the additional information that is needed to fully express the coding sequence. The genon is therefore more akin to a program that results in a functionally active gene product.
ref: 2015, Jeremy Ramsden, Bioinformatics: An Introduction:
text: Their central point is that coding information is not simply contained in the coded sequence, but is, in their terms, provided by the genon that accompanies it on the expression pathway and controls in which peptide it will end up.
ref: 2017, Rodrick Wallace, Computational Psychiatry: A Systems Biology Approach to the Epigenetics of Mental Disorders:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A coding sequence (or gene) together with the information necessary to fully express that coding sequence, such as epigenetic factors.
unsecreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsecret
unsecrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsecret
unacknowledgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unacknowledgeable
form: most unacknowledgeable
Etymology: From un- + acknowledgeable.
Senses: glosses: Not acknowledgeable.
Simonidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Simonidean
form: most Simonidean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek poet Simonides.
sullens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sullen
Draytonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹeɪˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹeɪˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Draytonian
form: most Draytonian
Etymology: From Drayton + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Michael Drayton (1563–1631), English poet.
American ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia).
Goliathan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goliathan
form: most Goliathan
Etymology: From Goliath + -an.
Senses: examples: text: It loomed so gigantically through the mist, and defied the armies of Israel with so Goliathan an air, that we trembled for the ark of God.
ref: 1850, Methodist review, volume 32, page 530:
glosses: Of or relating to the Biblical giant Goliath; gigantic.
storehousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of storehouse
storehoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of storehouse
unbetrayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbetrayable
form: most unbetrayable
Etymology: From un- + betrayable.
Senses: examples: text: So he betrays, / Not Truth, the unbetrayable, but himself: […]
ref: 1897, Francis Thompson, “[Miscellaneous Poems.] ‘Whereto art Thou Come’.”, in New Poems, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC, page 185:
text: 1926, Hart Crane, “Voyages” VI in The Collected Poems of Hart Crane, New York: Liveright, 1946, p. 110,
The imaged Word, it is, that holds
Hushed willows anchored in its glow.
It is the unbetrayable reply
Whose accent no farewell can know.
text: It is seven years, thought Sandy, since I betrayed this tiresome woman. What does she mean by “betray”? She was looking at the hills as if to see there the first and unbetrayable Miss Brodie, indifferent to criticism as a crag.
ref: 1961, Muriel Spark, chapter 3, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, London: Macmillan:
glosses: Not able to be betrayed.
probeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: probe + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of probe
unscourged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scourged.
Senses: examples: text: […] even in an age when a Rochester could walk the streets unhooted and unscourged […]
ref: 1831, The Law Magazine: Or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, page 64:
glosses: Not having been scourged.
Dagonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dagonites
Etymology: From Dagon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: As a subtle form of resistance to the evil of Dagon, all the Dagonites were given names from the Christian Bible.
ref: 2012, Rick Carufel, Fever Dreams and Disturbing Visions:
glosses: A worshipper of Dagon.
Dagonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dagonite
unkneeling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kneeling.
Senses: examples: text: the spirit of indignation at the sight of the unkneeling congregation
ref: 1860, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Hopes and Fears:
glosses: Not kneeling.
courtyarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From courtyard + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a courtyard.
sirenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siren + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a siren.
keep the pot boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the pot boiling
form: keeping the pot boiling
form: kept the pot boiling
form: kept the pot boiling
Senses: glosses: To maintain one's livelihood; to continue to procure the necessities of living.
examples: text: Of course, you intend to reach game eventually; on the next round you can keep the pot boiling with Three Diamonds.
ref: 1969, Terence Reese, Albert Dormer, How to play a better game of bridge, page 42:
text: These are in the nature of party games intended for fun rather than competition, though part of the fun may well consist in imposing forfeits on players who fail to keep the pot boiling.
ref: 1982, David Sidney Parlett, The Penguin book of word games, page 55:
glosses: To continue going on actively, as in certain games.
jail lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jail locks
Senses: examples: text: The outer, and inner entrance doors have jail locks.
ref: 1887, Minnesota State Board of Corrections and Charities, Biennial Report of the State Board of Corrections and Charities:
text: To prevent this and the possibility of scandal (which could happen on trumped up charges) a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway.
ref: 1927, New York Legislative Documents - Volume 20, page 343:
text: Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key.
ref: 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference, →ISBN:
text: An old jail lock hanging on the wall swayed back and forth.
ref: 2009, Michael Norman, The Nearly Departed, →ISBN:
text: The locks to the doors must be the Scandinavian Jail Lock.
ref: 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1877, →ISBN:
synonyms: Scandinavian padlock
glosses: A kind of cast-iron padlock.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jail, lock.
jail locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jail lock
leading wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leading wheel
lowbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowbells
Etymology: From low + bell. See low (“a flame”).
Senses: examples: c. 1700-1708, William King, Art of Love
The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep.
glosses: A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net.
examples: text: […] take the lowbell […]; toll this bell just as a weather sheep does, while he is feeding in pasture ground […]
ref: 1831, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Sportsman's Cyclopedia, page 527:
text: […] pipes and horns were sounded, together with lowbells [cow- or sheep-bell] and other smaller bells which the company had amongst them […]
ref: 2009, Newton Key, Robert Bucholz, Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714 (page 113)
glosses: A bell to be hung on the neck of a sheep or cow.
lowbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowbell
Virginia reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Virginia reels
Senses: glosses: An English country dance dating from the 17th century, popular in America between 1830 and 1890.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A solitaire card game using two mixed decks of playing cards, and in which the foundations are built up by suit in intervals of three.
glosses: A kind of rollercoaster characterized by spinning circular "tubs" that zigzag down a flat-bottomed track.
Virginia reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Virginia reel
violenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of violent
violented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of violent
disvalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disvalue
disvaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disvalue
disvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disvalue
flaggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflæɡɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flagging
retrospecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrospect
retrospected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrospect
nitwittery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nitwit + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Behaviour of nitwits; folly.
heckelphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heckelphones
Etymology: From German Heckelphon, named after the inventors, Wilhelm Heckel and his sons.
Senses: glosses: A musical instrument resembling the oboe, but pitched an octave lower.
heckelphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heckelphone
shittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shittle
Chauceresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chô'sə-rĕskʹ
ipa: /ˌtʃɔːsəˈɹɛsk/
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɔsəˈɹɛsk/
rhymes: -ɛsk
Forms: form: more Chauceresque
form: most Chauceresque
Etymology: From Chaucer + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: a shocking word of Chauceresque earthiness
ref: 2011, Melvin J. Lasky, Media Warfare: The Americanization of Language, volume 3, page 35:
text: Thrust together in a small vehicle for hours, or even days, they would have no choice but to get to know each other and the result might be a Chauceresque exchange of stories.
ref: 2011, Mike Paterson, Inside Dickens' London, page 125:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Reminiscent of the style of Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1343–1400), major English poet of the Middle Ages.
diaconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diaconate
counterbuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterbuff
counterbuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterbuff
intralegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + legal.
Senses: glosses: Within the law; not extralegal.
badger game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badger games
Senses: glosses: An extortion scheme in which the victim is tricked into a compromising position (typically a sexual encounter) and then blackmailed.
badger games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badger game
Johnson bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johnson bars
Etymology: The reinforcing bar was invented by A. L. Johnson of the St. Louis Expanded Metal Company.
Senses: glosses: A corrugated metal bar used to reinforce concrete.
glosses: A hand lever on various vehicles.
glosses: A lever-dolly (similar to a crowbar) for moving heavy apparatus.
Johnson bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Johnson bar
syncrude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncrudes
Etymology: Short for synthetic crude.
Senses: glosses: The output from a bitumen/extra heavy oil upgrader facility used in connection with oil sand production.
money mules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money mule
laprobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laprobes
Etymology: From lap + robe.
Senses: examples: "Cherokee drove his sleigh to the door, and they lifted Bobby in beside him. The team of fine horses sprang away prancingly over the hard snow. Cherokee had on his $500 overcoat of baby sealskin. The laprobe that he drew about them was as warm as velvet." O. Henry. Christmas by Injunction.
glosses: A blanket to cover the lap.
laprobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laprobe
basecoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basecoats
Etymology: From base + coat.
Senses: antonyms: topcoat#Noun
overcoat#Noun
coordinate_terms: undercoat#Noun
glosses: The undermost coat of paint, etc., over which subsequent layers can be applied. In general usage this does not include any primer.
Related terms: clearcoat
basecoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basecoat
clearcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearcoats
Etymology: From clear + coat.
Senses: examples: text: This car has an excellent clearcoat. It's very tough and scratch-resistant.
text: I sprayed a clearcoat over her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.
hypernyms: coat#Noun
coordinate_terms: topcoat#Noun
overcoat#Noun
;
undercoat#Noun
basecoat#Noun
glosses: A (usually glossy and durable) transparent coat sprayed over the pigmented coats of a paint job or similar coating.
Related terms: fixative
clearcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clearcoats
form: clearcoating
form: clearcoated
form: clearcoated
Etymology: From clear + coat.
Senses: examples: text: I clearcoated her pastel drawing, so it ought to last many years without smudging.
text: A: What job are you on this week? B: They've got me clearcoating. I'm good at clearcoating without getting any runs, so Bill will probably keep me on it.
hypernyms: coat#Verb
coordinate_terms: topcoat#Verb
overcoat#Verb
glosses: To apply a clearcoat.
clearcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clearcoat
dish the dirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishes the dirt
form: dishing the dirt
form: dished the dirt
form: dished the dirt
Senses: examples: text: The tabloid newspaper was eager to dish the dirt on celebrities.
glosses: To tell salacious gossip.
Mazdian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mazdian
form: most Mazdian
Etymology: From Mazda + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mazdean.
Mazdian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mazdians
Etymology: From Mazda + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mazdean.
Mazdians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazdian
Mazdeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazdean
misguider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misguiders
Etymology: From misguide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] and I would not have taken the misguiders as assistants.
ref: 1997, Emily Assami, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley, transl., The Qur’an (Sahih International), surah 18, verse 51:
glosses: One who misguides.
misguiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misguider
canarygrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canarygrasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canary grass.
canarygrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canarygrass
Hitchcockesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hitchcockesque
form: most Hitchcockesque
Etymology: From Hitchcock + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Even the original score [of Volver] by Almodóvar's close collaborator Alberto Iglesias, recently Oscar-nominated for The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005), is discreet and unshowy. Deftly echoing Almodóvar's frequent changes in register, Iglesias offers Hitchcockesque strings for the thriller elements (a bloody murder) and tender harp chords for the supernatural apparitions (the moving Maura).
ref: 2014, Paul Julian Smith, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Verso, London/New York, third edition, page 192:
glosses: Reminiscent of the style of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), British filmmaker and producer; suspenseful; of the nature of a psychological thriller.
Synonyms: Hitchcockian
catechizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catechizing
sprunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprunt
sprunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprunt
knightlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of knightly: more knightly
knightliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of knightly: most knightly
dairyhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dairyhouses
Etymology: From dairy + house.
Senses: glosses: A farm building operating as a dairy.
dairyhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairyhouse
augmentatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more augmentatively
form: most augmentatively
Etymology: From augmentative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an augmentative fashion.
wheedlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheedling
turn-sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turn-sick
form: most turn-sick
Senses: examples: text: So if a man see another turn swiftly and long, or if he look upon wheels that turn, himself waxeth turn-sick.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, 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: giddy
nonmicrosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + microsomal.
Senses: glosses: Not microsomal.
nonmicroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + microscopic.
Senses: glosses: Not microscopic.
steans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːnz/
ipa: /stinz/
Forms: form: steens
Senses: glosses: plural of stean
steans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːnz/
ipa: /stinz/
Forms: form: steens
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stean
steens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːnz/
ipa: /stinz/
Forms: form: steans
Senses: glosses: plural of steen
steens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːnz/
ipa: /stinz/
Forms: form: steans
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steen
steenbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steenbuck
steenboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steenbok
oversparred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈspɑːd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈspɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more oversparred
form: most oversparred
Etymology: From over- + sparred.
Senses: examples: text: According to the definitions of character adopted by the association of Lake underwriters at Buffalo, (see March number, vol. 3 page 440,) the “model” is to be taken into account—an important element in the calculation. They provide that “no vessel past six years old, however well rebuilt or repaired, shall be placed in class A, nor one that is oversparred, or hogged, strained from loading, launching, or other cause.”
ref: 1856, “Marine Insurance and Its Influence upon Ship-Building”, in The U.S. Nautical Magazine, and Naval Journal, volume V, number 1, page 6:
text: When such a measurement is established, we may hope for the substitution of correctly modelled yachts, in lieu of the oversparred and overmanned vessels which are to be found at the starting buoys of every regatta.
ref: 1865, P. R. Marett, Yachts and Yacht Building: being a treatise on the construction of Yachts, and other matters relating to Yachting, page 80:
text: The Rockland men believed the yacht oversparred for coasting and eight feet was taken off each of her masts.
ref: 1904, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, page 243:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having spars larger than the usual dimension.
assotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxix, leaf 239r
Ryght so came the fals Kynght syr Mordred and sawe sir Alysander was assoted vpon his lady
"Right so came the false knight Sir Mordred, and saw Sir Alisander was assotted upon his lady"
glosses: simple past and past participle of assot
aunswer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aunswers
form: aunswerth
form: aunswering
form: aunswered
form: aunswered
form: aunswerd
form: aunswerd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of answer.
Derived terms: aunswerable
blouwildebeesoog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans blouwildebeesoog.
Senses: glosses: An African disease of cattle (sheep, horses and cows), marked by protrusion of the eye, blindness, and rupture
aunswers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aunswer
aunswering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aunswer
aunswereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aunswers
Etymology: aunswer + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aunswer
aunswered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aunswerd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aunswer
aunswerd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aunswered
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aunswer
ulcus molle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chancroid
soft chancre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft chancres
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: chancroid (sexually transmitted disease)
granuloma inguinale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bacterial disease caused by Klebsiella granulomatis characterized by ulcerative genital lesions, endemic in many less developed regions.
Synonyms: donovanosis
granuloma genitoinguinale
granuloma inguinale tropicum
granuloma venereum
granuloma venereum genitoinguinale
lupoid form of groin ulceration
serpiginous ulceration of the groin
ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum
ulcerating sclerosing granuloma
Related terms: lymphogranuloma venereum
dermatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermatitis
Dravid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi द्रविड़ (draviṛ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Zebak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zibak
form: Zibok
Senses: glosses: A city in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
First Bloke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First Blokes
Senses: glosses: The male partner of Australia's female prime minister.
anteros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anterôs
form: anterōs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀντέρως (antérōs), reputedly coined by Plato. That in turn comes from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἔρως (érōs, “love”), hence the translation as counterlove.
Senses: examples: text: The loved one, in turn, thus subject to the fiery soul of the lover, experiences anteros, a counterlove whose calm consent amounts to very filial affection […]
ref: 1987, Julia Kristeva, Tales of love, page 66:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: The counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes.
wikipedia: Plato
Alkoran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Qur'an.
Qoran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rare form of Qur'an.
palingenesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpælɪnd͡ʒɪˈniːsɪk/
Forms: form: more palingenesic
form: most palingenesic
Etymology: From palingenesy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to palingenesis.
Qor'an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Qur'an.
shoebeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuː.ɡɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: shoebeams
form: shoe beam
Etymology: From shoe + beam.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A beam of non-conductive material (usually fibreglass or wood), attached to a train bogey that supports the pickup shoe.
Hypernyms: shoegear
Coordinate terms: shoe
pickup shoe
shoebeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoebeam
shoe beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe beams
Senses: examples: text: Note the rubber axlebox suspension and the positive rail collector shoe beneath the laminated wooden shoe beam.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94, photo caption:
glosses: Alternative form of shoebeam.
Ḳurʾān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of Qur'an.
shoe beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe beam
speld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: spelds
Etymology: From Middle English speld, spelde, from Old English speld (“a splinter; a chip of wood; torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“splinter, board”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).
Senses: glosses: A chip of wood; a splinter.
speld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: spelds
form: spelding
form: speld
form: speld
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat.
glosses: To split.
Related terms: spald
ruddy ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruddy duck
tellingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From telling + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being telling.
quadrilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quadrille
quadrilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadrille
crossdresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crossdress
crossdressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crossdress
transfeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfeminists
Etymology: From trans- + feminist.
Senses: antonyms: TERF
glosses: One who is involved in transfeminism.
transfeminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfeminist
transfemorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transfemoral + -ly.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Across the femur.
transsexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transsexuality
pseudohermaphroditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + hermaphroditic.
Senses: examples: text: A pseudohermaphroditic infant female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) showing masculinization of the external genitalia as a result of exposure to testosterone propionate during foetal development.
ref: 2012, Alan F. Dixson, Primate Sexuality:
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudohermaphroditism.