cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
groupspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From group + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: This impressive mammal seemed on the verge of extinction, a victim of enlightenment and manners and corporate groupspeak.
ref: 2008 April 25, George Vecsey, “Where Wild Things Are, Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: The jargon used by a particular group.
victimological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From victimology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to victimology.
victimologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimology
vimless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vim + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without vim.
victimologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victimologists
Etymology: From victimology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies victimology.
victimologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victimologist
antivictim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + victim.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the victim (as in a legal trial).
antidefendant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + defendant.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the defendant (as in a legal trial).
antiplaintiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + plaintiff.
Senses: glosses: Opposing the plaintiff (as in a legal trial).
plethysmographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plethysmography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to plethysmography.
plethysmographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plethysmographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of plethysmography.
manipulatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manipulative
postpainterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + painterly.
Senses: examples: text: Here the airless, awkwardly shaped gallery is redeemed by several curiosities of postpainterly abstraction, among them Richard Kalina’s “Luquillo” (1970), a painting-sculpture hybrid made from polyester striped with acrylic and then folded, and Nicholas Krushenick’s neon-bright geometric silkscreens from the late ’60s.
ref: 2008 April 25, Karen Rosenberg, “Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge”, in New York Times:
glosses: Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
settleables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of settleable
nonsettleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + settleable.
Senses: glosses: Not settleable.
settlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more settlable
form: most settlable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of settleable.
nonsettlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + settlable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonsettleable.
insolences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insolence
multimonitor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + monitor.
Senses: examples: text: “Jeanne Delman” aside, Ms. Akerman’s greatest work is “D’Est” (“From the East”), a multimonitor installation piece that centers on blank-faced Eastern Europeans in train stations and other bleak surroundings.
ref: 2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving more than one display monitor.
linky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
Etymology: From link + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You'll see how to add links to either text or graphics and lots of other linky goodness.
ref: 2008, Dori Smith, Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Macintosh, page 68:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hyperlinks.
nocturnelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nocturnelike
form: most nocturnelike
Etymology: From nocturne + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In 2002, with the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, he led the premiere of Mr. Dutilleux’s nocturnelike “Sur le Même Accord” with the London Philharmonic, a work he and Ms. Mutter will play on one of next week’s New York programs.
ref: 2008 April 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Masur’s Vigorous Last Laps in Paris”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nocturne.
nonadventure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + adventure.
Senses: examples: nonadventure movies
glosses: Not in the genre of adventure.
underreach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underreaches
form: underreaching
form: underreached
form: underreached
Etymology: From under- + reach.
Senses: examples: text: If anything, she is underreaching with “Women From Antwerp in November, 2007,” which appears on a band of five relatively small screens.
ref: 2008 April 26, Roberta Smith, “Levitation and Smoking: Signature Images in Video Works”, in New York Times:
glosses: To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
underreaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underreach
underreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underreach
underreached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underreach
lezzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lezzies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lezzie.
antisecession
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + secession.
Senses: examples: text: Three years ago, China’s congress adopted an antisecession law threatening to use military force against Taiwan if it declared independence, using fen lie for secession, or splittism.
ref: 2008 April 27, William Safire, “Superdel”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing or preventing secession.
antitheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitheological
form: most antitheological
Etymology: From anti- + theological.
Senses: examples: text: Despite his antitheological bias, James recognized that he could not completely discount religious doctrines.
ref: 1996, Julie A. Reuben, The Making of the Modern University, page 107:
text: Sayyid Qutb is quickly overtaking Reinhold Niebuhr as the theologian about whom the un- or antitheological pronounce with the most serene authority.
ref: 2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Opposing theology.
buffetings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffeting
fusionesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fusionesque
form: most fusionesque
Etymology: From fusion + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The alto saxophonist Pete Robbins favors a species of fusionesque post-bop that’s complex but welcoming, and ultimately light on its feet.
ref: 2008 April 27, Nate Chinen, “Trippy Rock, Relaxed Jazz and Other Delights”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reminiscent of the musical style of jazz fusion.
glosses: Reminiscent of fusion cuisine.
glowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊ.i/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊ.i/
rhymes: -əʊi
homophone: glowie
Forms: form: glowier
form: more glowy
form: glowiest
form: most glowy
Etymology: From glow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Hillary grows more and more glowy as Obama grows more and more wan.
ref: 2008 April 27, Maureen Dowd, “Desperately Seeking Street Cred”, in New York Times:
text: If used with powder foundation, it [the spray] will give you a glowy appearance. Use with eyeshadow for a vibrant tint.
ref: 2012, Lorie Bennett, Little Secrets, page 20:
glosses: Glowing.
Derived terms: glowiness
groundstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ground + staff.
Senses: examples: text: The United players refused to leave, and a dispute broke out between the players and Chelsea stewards and groundstaff before the incident was resolved.
ref: 2008 April 27, Bloomberg News, “Ballack Gets Chelsea Even in the Premier League”, in New York Times:
glosses: The staff who maintain the grounds of a school, sports facility, etc.
jiujitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jujitsu.
lesbianish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lesbianish
form: most lesbianish
Etymology: From lesbian + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: “It was all very lesbianish of us,” Joshua told me.
ref: 2008 April 27, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “Young Gay Rites”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a lesbian.
lesbianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesbianism
lezbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lezbos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lesbo.
lypemania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Victorian women who weren’t locked up for falling victim to lypemania (melancholy), monomania, homicidal monomania or “moral insanity” were at risk of neurasthenia, a “mirror image of rebellion” in which their “nervous depletion” was explained as the result of their “incursion into the masculine sphere of intellectual labor,” a strain that constitutions formed for tender sentiment couldn’t be expected to support.
ref: 2008 April 27, Kathryn Harrison, “Diagnosis: Female”, in New York Times:
glosses: melancholy, mournfulness
neoimperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoimperialists
Etymology: From neo- + imperialist.
Senses: examples: text: You ran a review by a neoimperialist who praises a book by an “Atlantic man” (also a “Homo atlanticus redux”) who is “dapper,” related to Lyndon Baines Johnson, and whose book will be “read with pleasure by men of a certain age, class and education from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to London’s West End.”
ref: 2008 April 27, “Terror and Dissent”, in New York Times:
glosses: A supporter of neoimperialism.
neoimperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoimperialist
nonhybrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhybrid
nonsaccharine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + saccharine.
Senses: examples: text: The “final lecture” he delivered was not about computer science — it was a wise, direct, nonsaccharine talk about how to live.
ref: 2008 April 27, Dwight Garner, “Inside the List”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not saccharine.
preacherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preacherly
form: most preacherly
Etymology: From preacher + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He is channeling the most narcotic form of oratory in modern America for whites as well as blacks: a preacherly style of speaking rooted in black American tradition.
ref: 2008 April 27, John Mcwhorter, “Talking the Talk”, in New York Times:
glosses: Befitting a preacher.
ryokan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryokans
form: ryokan
Etymology: From Japanese 旅館(りょかん) (ryokan), which is from Middle Chinese 旅館 (MC ljoX kwanH, “inn, traveller's lodge”).
Compare modern Chinese 旅館／旅馆 (lǚguǎn, “hotel”), from 旅 (lǚ, “travel”) + 館／馆 (guǎn, “lodging-house”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ducasse is pursuing plans for a new hotel one hour from central Tokyo, a cross between a ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, and an auberge, a French country inn.
ref: 2008 April 27, “Gift to the Mailroom, From the Boardroom”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional Japanese inn with communal baths and other public areas.
ryokans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryokan
neoimperialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoimperialism
neocolonialisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocolonialism
sherried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sherry + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She strikes me as the kind of person who would eat lovely things accompanied by toast points — sherried chicken livers, steak tartare — but even a countess wouldn’t feed a brood that way.
ref: 2008 April 27, Laraine Perri, “An Enigma Gliding Through Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prepared with sherry.
arbutean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arbute + -an.
Senses: glosses: Made from arbute, the wood of the strawberry tree.
Related terms: arbutus
arbutuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbutus
stickfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick-fighting
Etymology: From stick + fighting.
Senses: examples: text: He watches a kendo — stickfighting — match between another ronin and an amateur.
ref: 2008 April 27, David Mamet, “Hard Lessons Learned in the Ring”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fighting with a staff or baton, as in certain martial arts.
thanatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thanato- + -ism. Coined by Ernst Haeckel.
Senses: examples: text: Or to put it in the bracingly original terms of “The Second Plane,” it is misology that is the cause of thanatism.
ref: 2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times:
glosses: The belief that the human soul eventually dies.
wikipedia: Ernst Haeckel
wafty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wafty
form: most wafty
Etymology: From waft + -y.
Senses: examples: text: As unsatisfied with wafty promises that arts learning inspires “creativity” as with pledges that it boosts scores, the Project Zero researchers videotaped several very different classrooms in two schools with intensive arts instruction.
ref: 2008 April 27, Ann Hulbert, “Drawing Lessons”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Tending to waft; gaseous, insubstantial.
Derived terms: wifty-wafty
kulichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian куличи́ (kuličí).
Senses: glosses: plural of kulich
prekindergartener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prekindergarteners
Etymology: From prekindergarten + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing like a prekindergartener to really boil an issue down to its core.
ref: 2008 April 28, “Metropolitan Diary”, in New York Times:
glosses: A child who has not yet begun to attend kindergarten.
prekindergarteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prekindergartener
unambivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + ambivalence.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unambivalent.
cestoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cestoids
Senses: glosses: Any of the parasitic flatworms of the class or infraclass Cestoda.
cestoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the order Cestoidea; cestoidean
balletgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ballet + going.
Senses: examples: text: In 1979, Jennifer Dunning, writing in The New York Times, said that Ms. Wilson had “etched herself indelibly on the consciousness of the New York balletgoing public.”
ref: 2008 April 29, Jack Anderson, “Sallie Wilson, Dramatic Ballerina, Dies at 76”, in New York Times:
glosses: Attending ballet performances.
dirtyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirtyish
form: most dirtyish
Etymology: From dirty + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Moderately dirty; somewhat dirty.
cliffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cliff + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cliffs.
cestoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestoid
megavitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mega- + vitamin.
Senses: examples: text: With problems ranging from mild unmedicated depression to schizophrenia treated with an unorthodox megavitamin technique, these writers also focus on trapping the words — and all agree that the sick brain often spells catastrophe for the creative mind.
ref: 2008 April 29, Abigail Zuger, M.D., “Quieting the Demons and Giving Art a Voice”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving megadoses of vitamins.
Related terms: megavitamins
neuroepidemiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + epidemiology, introduced by Dr. Len Kurland, Dr. Milton Alter, and Dr. John Kurtzke in 1967.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Breteler is a professor of neuroepidemiology at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
ref: 2008 April 29, Nicholas Bakalar, “Aging: Depression Tied to Alzheimer’s”, in New York Times:
glosses: The epidemiology of neurological diseases.
neuroepidemiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + epidemiological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroepidemiology.
neuroepidemiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroepidemiologists
Etymology: From neuro- + epidemiologist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in neuroepidemiology.
neuroepidemiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroepidemiologist
seroepidemiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + epidemiological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to seroepidemiology
nondiscordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + discordant.
Senses: glosses: Not discordant.
superstimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superstimulating
form: most superstimulating
Etymology: From super- + stimulating.
Senses: examples: text: She said players face constant challenges and receive instant feedback, a superstimulating artificial environment.
ref: 2008 April 29, Matt Richtel, “For Gamers, the Craving Won’t Quit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very highly stimulating.
unalternative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalternative
form: most unalternative
Etymology: From un- + alternative.
Senses: examples: text: In 2006, a commune is so unalternative it can get shortlisted for a prime- ministerial award for neighbourliness.
ref: 2006, The Architects' journal: Volume 223, Issues 3-8:
text: What kind of brand, slogan or cultural entity on a T-shirt would be thoroughly uncool, unalternative, at Coachella?
ref: 2008 April 29, Ben Ratliff, “Coachella Builds a Bigger Game”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not alternative; mainstream.
unrequired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + required.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Goldman said that poll workers might ask for unrequired identification and that citizens might not vote because they mistakenly thought that they could not do so if they did not have certain forms of identification.
ref: 2008 April 29, Ian Urbina, “Decision Is Likely to Spur Voter ID Laws in More States”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not required.
unrequired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + required.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrequire
labiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The great sensibility of the membrane which lines the inside of the labiæ, requires some defence, and therefore the whole surface is amply supplied with mucous folicules and glands. The labiæ are a protection to the other soft parts, so necessary, that the clitoris, or nymphæ, when they project beyond them, are subject to violent inflammation.
ref: 1809, Charles Bell and John Bell, The Anatomy of the Human Body, Collins and Perkins; Part III, Chapter I, page #129
glosses: plural of labia
focimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The art or study of measuring the power of lenses.
Related terms: focal
focus
larkspurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of larkspur
focimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focimeters
form: focometer
Senses: glosses: A lensmeter (optician's instrument).
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A device that assists in focusing an object in or before a camera; usually a lens of small magnifying power.
Related terms: focus
troutling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troutlings
Etymology: From trout + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: 1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173,
So there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]
text: ‘[…] I dare say some trout in the river—hey?—the stream looks lively.’
‘Middling, only—poor gray troutlings, Sir—not a soul cares to fish it but myself,’ he answered.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 20, in The House by the Churchyard, London: Macmillan, published 1899, page 95:
text: They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,
ref: 1904, Mary Hunter Austin, The Basket Woman, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 27:
text: ‘[…] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’
ref: 2012, Simon Brett, chapter 15, in Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger’s Moll, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, published 2014, page 110:
glosses: A young trout.
Synonyms: troutlet
troutlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troutlet
form: troutlets
Etymology: From trout + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The brook beneath, thro’ which the troutlet shy / Shot swiftly on, and baffled all his skill;
ref: 1816, James Brydges Willyams, The Influence of Genius, London: J. Hatchard, Part 1, stanza 37, p. 21:
text: As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet / Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,
ref: 1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic’s Word Book, page 67:
text: He has a nice taste in the arts that has come to him by the way of socks, spats and slips, and of these he has a large and happy collection, which he laughs at jollily in public […] but in the privacy of his chamber he sometimes spreads them out like troutlet on the river’s bank and has his quiet thrills of exultation.
ref: 1914, J. M. Barrie, “Rosalind”, in Half Hours, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 101:
text: Farther along I came to a stream and, resting on its bank, counted many troutlets lying on the bottom among the stones.
ref: 1979, Scott O’Dell, The Captive, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 121:
glosses: A young trout.
Synonyms: troutling
troutlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troutlet
troutlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troutling
conibear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conibears
Etymology: Named after Frank Conibear, a Canadian who first constructed such a trap in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: It was the killing of Cupcake, a border collie mix, in a conibear trap last winter that first spurred the anti-trapping campaign here.
ref: 2008 April 30, Jim Robbins, “Montana Dog Owners Find Wild-Animal Traps Put Pets in Harm’s Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: A kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.
conibears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conibear
yest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yests
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of yeast.
focimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focimeter
miscure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miscures
form: miscuring
form: miscured
form: miscured
Etymology: From mis- + cure.
Senses: glosses: To cure incorrectly.
Græcism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Græcisms
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Grecism.
jibarito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jibaritos
Senses: examples: text: The research for this article produced as much regret as revelation, with unrequitable longings for far-away creations like Chicago’s jibarito (steak squeezed between thin, crusty slices of smashed plantain) and extinct species like the chacarero of Jackson Heights, Queens: a Chilean sandwich with a garnish of chopped green beans, the specialty of a bakery that is now closed.
ref: 2008 April 30, Julia Moskin, “The Next Best Things in Sliced Bread”, in New York Times:
qualifier: Chicago
glosses: A speciality sandwich of Chicago, made with flattened fried green plantains instead of bread, a garlic-flavoured mayonnaise, and a filling that typically includes meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato.
jibaritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jibarito
Græcisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Græcism
simple knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple knots
Senses: glosses: A common knot used to tie a necktie.
willow ptarmigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willow ptarmigans
Senses: glosses: A willow grouse, Lagopus lagopus.
effluve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effluves
Etymology: From French effluve, from Latin effluvium.
Senses: glosses: A spray-like electric discharge.
leghold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legholds
Etymology: From leg + hold.
Senses: glosses: A kind of trap that catches an animal by the leg.
methergine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Hofmann’s work produced other important drugs, including methergine, used to treat postpartum hemorrhaging, the leading cause of death from childbirth.
ref: 2008 April 30, Craig S. Smith, “Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102”, in New York Times:
glosses: The drug methylergometrine.
nontargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + targeted.
Senses: examples: text: The recent killing of nontargeted animals, including a dog and a golden eagle, and the wounding of others have heightened tensions and helped fuel a movement to restrict fur trapping in Montana.
ref: 2008 April 30, Jim Robbins, “Montana Dog Owners Find Wild-Animal Traps Put Pets in Harm’s Way”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not targeted.
seriocomedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seriocomedies
form: serio-comedy
Senses: examples: text: Christopher Weekes, a writer-director who came all the way from Sydney to show “Bitter and Twisted,” a suburban seriocomedy that is one of the more talked-about features at the festival, said over a lunch of organic chicken and Kobe beef that New York had something all directors crave.
ref: 2008 April 30, David Carr, “Who Needs Cachet if You Have New York?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A seriocomic production.
seriocomedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seriocomedy
helichrysum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helichrysums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Also plant a trailer like helichrysum or ivy to soften the edge and provide extra coverage if needed; vines often thin at the base as they age.
ref: 2008 May 1, Leslie Land, “An Ambulatory Arbor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of the genus Helichrysum of plants related to the sunflower.
Related terms: strawflower
helichrysums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helichrysum
lickably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lickably
form: most lickably
Etymology: From lickable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Imagine the footwear wing of Frederick’s of Hollywood, if it had tottered away to seduce the Wonka factory: wall-to-wall red carpet, mirrors, disco sequins and modular Lucite cubbies all showcasing a loopy series of variations on lickably shiny, nosebleed-high hooker pumps (the cheap American cousin of which is commonly known, in fetishistic eBay galleries, as “the Pleaser”).
ref: 2008 May 1, Cintra Wilson, “Open-Toed Fetishes (and More)”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a lickable manner.
promwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prom + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: The lineup features rockabilly and rhythm and blues, and the audience at Tuesday’s concert at the House of Blues in the French Quarter, with nine hours of music on three stages, was dotted with women in vintage promwear and men sporting greased-up hair and flashy Western shirts.
ref: 2008 May 1, Jon Pareles, “An Oldies Marathon Runs a Few Extra Miles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Clothing to be worn at a prom.
verblessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From verbless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “The thick slippery feel of my bottle’s rubber nipple inside my mouth,” he recalls verblessly.
ref: 2008 May 1, Janet Maslin, “Returning to the Past and Finding the Bogeyman Is Still There”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a verb.
assertedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From asserted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Though the suit does not name Mr. Bloomberg as a defendant and claims discrimination that assertedly occurred after he left an active role in the company, it is the latest and most sweeping of a string of discrimination and sexual harassment complaints filed against the firm since the 1990s.
ref: 2008 May 2, Alan Feuer, “54 More Women Accuse Bloomberg Firm of Bias”, in New York Times:
glosses: According to an assertion.
benightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From benighted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although it falls under the rubric of “Masterpiece Classic” (as opposed to the Contemporary or Mystery divisions), it holds no interest in shifting any impressions of benightedness.
ref: 2008 May 2, Ginia Bellafante, “Spinsterhood Is Powerful (Until a Catch Shows Up)”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being benighted.
prowar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prowar
form: most prowar
Etymology: From pro- + war.
Senses: examples: text: Vanity Fair won in the profile-writing category for a piece by Evan Wright on Pat Dollard, a onetime Hollywood agent who went to Iraq to make a prowar documentary.
ref: 2008 May 2, Richard Pez-Pe, “National Geographic Wins 3 Awards, Honored Beyond Photography”, in New York Times:
glosses: Supporting war.
tenours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenour
surburbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Of all the tickets 65 percent went to tourists, and 18 percent to surburbanites.
ref: 2008 May 2, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Out-Of-Towners Make Mark on Broadway”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of suburbanite.
presuburban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + suburban.
Senses: glosses: Prior to the development of a suburb.
surburbanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surburbanite
unfrazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrazzled
form: most unfrazzled
Etymology: From un- + frazzled.
Senses: examples: text: This being Construction Safety Week in New York City, where construction accidents since Jan. 1 have already claimed the lives of more workers (13) than occurred in all of 2007 (12), Mr. LiMandri is making a valiant attempt to appear unfrazzled while having his commissioner chain jerked in several directions simultaneously.
ref: 2008 May 2, Robin Finn, “The Hard Hat Passes to a New Commissioner”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not frazzled; calm.
unimmunized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + immunized.
Senses: examples: text: We know there are unimmunized people out there, and measles is extremely infectious.
ref: 2008 May 2, Denise Grady, “Measles in U.S. at Highest Level Since 2001”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not having been immunized.
vintagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vintagey
form: most vintagey
Etymology: From vintage + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Another girl in a vintagey red polka-dot dress revealed a striking depth of cleavage, but a lumpy zip-up sweatshirt layered on top announced, in some generic way, that she couldn’t care less, a crucial component of Upper West Side high schooler style.
ref: 2008 May 2, Susan Dominus, “The Miley Cyrus Message, in the Eyes of Schoolgirls”, in New York Times:
text: “Every time you turn a corner, there’s a guy wearing skinny jeans, an ironic cap, a low V-neck tee, vintagey high-tops and a scarf.
ref: 2009 June 4, David Colman, “Michael Bastian: That Thing He Does”, in New York Times:
glosses: Suggesting a vintage style.
alternanthera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternantheras
Etymology: Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Alternanthera.
Senses: examples: text: Various cultivars of purple-leaved Heuchera (coral bells), crimson-leaved annuals such as Solonostemon 'Red Carpet' (coleus), Alternanthera dentata 'Rubiginosa' (alternanthera), and the splendid shrublike annual Euphorbia cotinifolia (red spurge)—these dark reds help carry the eye around a planting bed or along the front of a border.
ref: 2009 August 25, Lynden B Miller, Parks Plants and People: Beautifying The Urban Landscape, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 100:
synonyms: joyweed
Joseph's coat
glosses: Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Alternanthera in the amaranth family.
alternantheras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternanthera
bacopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacopas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Decaying brains, or the fear thereof, have inspired a mini-industry of brain health products — not just supplements like coenzyme Q10, ginseng and bacopa, but computer-based fitter-brain products as well.
ref: 2008 May 3, Katie Hafner, “Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Bacopa of aquatic plants, the water hyssops.
bacopas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacopa
groundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grounded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And if we lose our memories we lose that groundedness of who we are.”
ref: 2008 May 3, Katie Hafner, “Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being grounded.
hoofprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoofprints
Etymology: From hoof + print.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps, like us, he may journey for a fortnight, and see not so much as the hoof-print of a deer; in the spring, not even a prairie-hen is to be had. Yet, to compensate him for this unlooked-for deficiency of game he will find himself beset with 'warmints' innumerable.
ref: 1849, Francis Parkman, The California and Oregon Trail:
text: There was the round solid hoof of the quagga, and his near congener the dauw; and there was the neat hoofprint of the gemsbok, and the larger track of the eland; and among these Von Bloom did not fail to notice the spoor of the dreaded lion.
ref: 1861, Mayne Reid, The bush-boys; or the history and adventures of a cape farmer and his family in the wild Karoos of Southern Africa:
text: In five minutes, she pointed out the tracks of at least six deer: does with rounded hoofprints, bucks with big pointy prints the length of a man’s finger, fawns with little prints.
ref: 2008 May 3, Andy Newman, “On Staten Island, More Deer and Few Solutions”, in New York Times:
glosses: The mark of a hoof.
Synonyms: hoofmark
hoofprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoofprint
nonholy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + holy.
Senses: examples: text: “But because of the tone the media takes, which is crass and nonrespectful, which the Orthodox community would say is nonholy, it’s discounted.”
ref: 2008 May 3, Debra Nussbaum, “Among Orthodox Jews, More Openness on Sexuality”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not holy.
rhinestoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rhinestone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She let a bit of roots music in, like the bluegrass of “Shattered Image” and the Irish folk song of “Only Dreamin’ ”; she played a bit of dulcimer, autoharp, electric guitar and piano, all of them white and rhinestoned.
ref: 2008 May 3, Ben Ratliff, “Forever Dolly: Unbowed, Unsinkable”, in New York Times:
glosses: Decorated with rhinestones.
go crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes crazy
form: going crazy
form: went crazy
form: gone crazy
Senses: examples: text: The night Santa went crazy
The night Kris Kringle went nuts
Now you can't hardly walk around the North Pole
Without steppin' in reindeer guts
ref: 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day:
synonyms: go bonkers
go insane
go nuts
pop one's cork
glosses: To suddenly behave irrationally; to go mad.
examples: text: the fit goes crazy
translation: the outfit is excellent
english: the outfit is excellent
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synonyms: go hard
glosses: To be excellent.
Synonyms: word: flip one's wig
word: flip out
word: freak out
word: get one's freak on
word: go ballistic
word: go bananas
word: go berserk
word: go bonkers
word: go crazy
word: go HAM
word: go H.A.M.
word: go ham
word: go mad
word: go nuts
word: go potty
word: lose it
word: lose one's marbles
word: lose one's mind
word: run amok
word: take leave of one's senses
Related terms: word: act a fool
word: lose one's temper
undictatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dictatorial.
Senses: examples: text: Slim enough to fit into a jacket pocket, it surveys 22 of Balanchine’s most popular ballets; it’s good-humored, enthusiastic and undictatorial; it gives you numerous things to look out for in any performance; and it abounds with insights.
ref: 2008 May 3, Alastair Macaulay, “About Mr. B.: A Compact Guide to a Master’s Works”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not dictatorial.
unrelinquished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + relinquished.
Senses: examples: text: On Jan. 31, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that the state could not sell or transfer any ceded lands “until such time as the unrelinquished claims of the Native Hawaiians have been resolved.”
ref: 2008 May 3, Janis L. Magin, “Occupation of Palace Area Invigorates Native Hawaiian Movement”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not relinquished.
beckoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beckoners
Etymology: From beckon + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, beckons.
beckoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beckoner
illegalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegalizations
Etymology: From illegalize + -ation or il- + legalization.
Senses: examples: text: “Once the drug illegalization crowd gets hold of it, that’s that,” said Alexander Shulgin, a former Dow chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, which has also been made a controlled substance.
ref: 2008 May 4, Benedict Carey, “A Psychedelic ‘Problem Child’ Comes Full Circle”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of illegalizing.
Hypernyms: legal reclassification
insanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insanity
pseudoscorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoscorpion
nondescendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondescendants
Etymology: From non- + descendant.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, Ms. Minis pointed out, a nondescendant who had bought an interest in some land in the state’s wildlife management area was being allowed to swap it for a 60-year lease in Hog Hammock.
ref: 2008 May 4, Shaila Dewan, “A Georgia Community With an African Feel Fights a Wave of Change”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is not a descendant.
nondesperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + desperate.
Senses: examples: text: For Jean, who has found working from the island — with its “miniature rain forest and ... the jammed markets, the friendly, nondesperate people, the bright and thrillingly imperiled birdlife” — something of a “prolonged junket with sunshine and copy,” and who still thinks that a bit of jam stuck to the corner of her longtime husband’s mouth at breakfast is somehow endearing, the prospect of blowing up the marriage is fairly daunting.
ref: 2008 May 4, Helen Schulman, “Cheating Hearts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not desperate.
nondescendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondescendant
overschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + schooled.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overschool
overschooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overschooled
form: most overschooled
Etymology: From over- + schooled.
Senses: examples: text: Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.
ref: 1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Wear and Tear: Or, Hints for the Overworked, page 63:
text: In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.
ref: 2008 May 4, Andrew Ferguson, “Don’t Know Much About History”, in New York Times:
glosses: Schooled too much.
Related terms: overschooling
solemnify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solemnifies
form: solemnifying
form: solemnified
form: solemnified
Etymology: From solemn + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: The drink dates to 1861, when it was allegedly concocted at Brooks’s, a Whig party hangout in London, to commemorate the death of Queen Victoria’s prince consort Albert (or, more accurately, as a smoke screen to solemnify taking a glass of either stout or Champagne on so mournful an occasion).
ref: 2009 March 13, Toby Cecchini, “Mixing Metaphors”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make solemn.
Related terms: solemnification
solemnifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solemnify
solemnifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solemnify
solemnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of solemnify
stathead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statheads
Etymology: From stat + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Whether coincidence or not, this overlap was widely noted, and it is now standard practice for baseball teams to hire a flock of statheads and use their analyses to help make decisions on and off the field.
ref: 2008 May 4, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, “Hoop Data Dreams”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person with a keen interest in statistics, particularly in sport.
Synonyms: statto
statheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stathead
summerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summerfuls
form: summersful
Etymology: From summer + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly he poured out from his throat Whole summerfuls of song in every note
ref: 1934, David Dodds Henry, William Vaughn Moody: A Study, page 98:
text: A suggestion from the post mistress in the western village of Cill Mhuirbhigh gave me the form of this contribution: since I seemed to have a hand for the drawing, an ear for the placenames and legs for the boreens, why should I not make a map of the islands, for which endless summersful of visitors would thank and pay me?
ref: 1986, Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, page 11:
text: Some women even tried the solar cooker—a matter of some satisfaction, since a day's fuel needs of a tribal village burn away a summerful of solar-energy trapped in dry twigs.
ref: 1988, Indian Farming - Volume 38, page 4:
text: Perhaps a summerful of my pouting didn't appeal to them.
ref: 2005, Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God, page 74:
text: By their own account they keep pushing an increasingly corporate entertainment industry to do what scares it a little — and not just stick to a summerful of sequels and animated sure shots.
ref: 2008 May 4, Michael Cieply, “A Man of Steel With Feet of Clay”, in New York Times:
glosses: Enough to fill or be produced by a summer.
summerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more summerful
form: most summerful
Etymology: From summer + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The summerless year 1927 is brought in as an example of their unutterable folly: that year was as summerful as any other year!
ref: 1926, The Sunspot - Volumes 12-16, page 5:
text: There was a moment of silence, as if the evening had turned suddenly dry, calm, summerful, and empty.
ref: 1949, Oscar De Liso, God's Thumb Down, page 254:
text: Summerful England, what lovelier, totally wholesomely lovely place is there to remember a totally, wholesomely lovely world.
ref: 2017, Irena Milloy, Another Pot of Coffee, page 126:
glosses: Having or characteristic of summer; summery.
uncrinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncrinkles
form: uncrinkling
form: uncrinkled
form: uncrinkled
Etymology: From un- + crinkle.
Senses: examples: text: Engulfed by the sound of uncrinkling candy wrappers: Off. Surrounded by tattoos and Obama buttons: Off Off.
ref: 2008 May 4, Charles Isherwood, “When Off Meets Off Off, Creative Ferment Is On”, in New York Times:
glosses: To unfold from a crinkled state.
uncrinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncrinkle
uncrinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncrinkle
uncrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncrinkle
uncrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not crinkled.
upscaleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From upscale + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: At the upfronts I always learned something too about what the American people want: heartwarming dramas, women’s stuff, sports, heroism, complex characters, real people, guilty pleasures, eye candy, names they can trust, ambiguous villains, simple comedies, hipster hipness, good old-fashioned values, edginess, upscaleness, satire, science fiction, girls, boys, Latinas, crime procedurals, urban sitcoms, aspirationalism, a way to express their anger.
ref: 2008 May 4, Virginia Heffernan, “VoilSort Of)!”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being upscale.
overjubilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjubilant
form: most overjubilant
Etymology: From over- + jubilant.
Senses: examples: text: Are we going to be overjubilant and all?
ref: 2008 May 5, Joe Drape, “Confusion and Sorrow for Trainer of Filly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively jubilant.
quasisexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Dance or nondance, everything that occurs is both superficial and intense, even when Mr. Cassella cries out “Encourage me!” while repeatedly pulling Ms. Workum toward him with quasisexual emphasis.
ref: 2008 May 5, Alastair Macaulay, “Begging Encouragement as They Pose and Eat”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat or seemingly sexual.