cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonconversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonconversations
Etymology: From non- + conversation.
Senses: examples: text: He used no pyro or video backdrop, and the audience stood close enough to its hero that it could hold nonconversations with him.
ref: 2007 June 15, Ben Ratliff, “McCartney, Almost Within Touching Distance”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which is not a conversation; especially a discussion that cannot be regarded as a conversation (because, for example, only one person is speaking).
nonconversations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconversation
engraveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: engrave + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engrave
engravest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: engrave + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of engrave
ambrisentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæmbɹɪˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A drug, an endothelin receptor antagonist used to treat pulmonary hypertension.
bosentan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəʊˈsɛntæn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -entan (“endothelin receptor antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A dual endothelin receptor antagonist important in the treatment of pulmonary artery hypertension.
minitheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minitheaters
form: minitheatre
Etymology: From mini- + theater.
Senses: examples: text: The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.
ref: 2007 June 16, Ben Brantley, “An Artist’s Look Back at Her Life, Now Ended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2018:
glosses: A small theater.
minitheaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minitheater
posterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posterizations
form: posterisation
Etymology: From poster + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: But he returned in 1942, after it had changed its name to AD, to design its final cover, which introduced his posterization technique.
ref: 2007 June 16, Steven Heller, “Martin J. Weber, 102, Dies; Innovator in Graphic Techniques”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of posterizing.
posterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posterization
soundscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundscores
Etymology: From sound + score.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Pulvermacher’s soundscore includes audio tutorials of an autopsy and snippets from a telephone conversation between herself and a woman you imagine to be her mother.
ref: 2007 June 16, Gia Kourlas, “In the Underworld, Looking for Beams of Blessed Light”, in New York Times:
glosses: A musical score that consists of sounds rather than traditional music.
soundscores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundscore
looptail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loop + tail.
Senses: examples: a looptail mutant mouse
topics: anatomy
biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a loop at its tail.
run riot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs riot
form: running riot
form: ran riot
form: run riot
Senses: examples: text: No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great density and complexity, in which almost every company competed with every other in its area, and in which working agreements, running powers and strategic junctions ran riot across the railway map.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 158:
text: All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
glosses: To act in an uncontrolled, unbridled manner.
examples: text: And it was only the defiance of Cech that kept a rampant Spurs at bay in the second half, producing a collection of outstanding saves to somehow keep Arsenal in contention as Pochettino's side threatened to run riot.
ref: 2018 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 0 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To be uncontrollable.
refect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refects
form: refecting
form: refected
form: refected
Senses: glosses: To refresh; restore after hunger or fatigue.
Related terms: refectory
infract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɹækt/
Forms: form: infracts
form: infracting
form: infracted
form: infracted
Etymology: From Latin īnfringō, past participle īnfractus. See infringe.
Senses: glosses: To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
examples: text: infracted rock
glosses: To break off.
Derived terms: infractible
Related terms: infraction
infarct
infract
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɹækt/
Etymology: From Latin īnfractus, from in- (“not”) + fractus (“broken”), past participle of fringō (“break”).
Senses: examples: text: a mind infract
ref: 1612, George Chapman, Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalams:
glosses: Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
infracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infract
infracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infract
Derived terms: uninfracted
take one's chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's chance
form: taking one's chance
form: took one's chance
form: taken one's chance
Senses: examples: text: Lysacek opted not to take his chances with the risky move.
ref: 2010, February 28, Alice Park, The Men’s Figure-Skating Fracas, Time (retrieved 29 Dec. 2022)
glosses: To act in a manner dependent on luck: to attempt to do something risky or not particularly likely to succeed.
Synonyms: take one's chances
toss up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses up
form: tossing up
form: tossed up
form: tossed up
Senses: glosses: To make a decision based on chance, for example by flipping a coin or rolling a dice.
glosses: To throw something upwards.
glosses: To produce, generate.
examples: text: Restless in quarantine, she began posting videos on Instagram, one of which got picked up by Barstool, the popular sports blog. […] Then she tossed up a few on TikTok, notably one in which she faux-naively referred to Houston Street in New York, which is pronounced How-ston, as Hew-ston.
ref: 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To post or upload.
glosses: To cook or prepare something quickly.
glosses: To casually mention as an idea.
examples: text: He began to vomit. Retching violently, he tossed up first the swaddled stone that he had eaten in the belief that it was Zeus, and then he vomited up Zeus's elder brothers and sisters […]
ref: 1997, Lee Hall, Athena: A Biography, page 15:
glosses: To vomit.
examples: text: He got in a fight last night and got tossed up.
glosses: To beat up, thrash.
aftercome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftercomes
Etymology: From after- + come. Compare Scots eftercum (“aftercome”).
Senses: glosses: A subsequent result; consequence.
survene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: survenes
form: survening
form: survened
form: survened
Senses: glosses: To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
rock solid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rock solid
form: most rock solid
Senses: glosses: Physically very solid; very difficult to move.
examples: text: Wolfgang Schäuble said on Tuesday he had “no concerns” about Deutsche Bank, speaking shortly after John Cryan, who was appointed to run Germany’s biggest bank seven months ago, sent an email to his 100,000 staff to assure them the bank was “absolutely rock solid”.
ref: 2016 February 9, Jill Treanor, quoting John Cryan, “Deutsche boss tells staff the bank is ‘rock solid’ as shares slide”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Very strong and dependable.
Synonyms: rock hard
solid as a rock
jog on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jogs on
form: jogging on
form: jogged on
form: jogged on
Senses: glosses: To continue with one's pursuit
jog on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: qualifier: dismissal
glosses: go away
have a laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a laugh
form: having a laugh
form: had a laugh
form: had a laugh
Senses: examples: text: It was awkward at the time, but later we all had a laugh about it.
glosses: To laugh.
examples: text: Near-synonym: have (someone) on
text: Some of the kids had a laugh and put glue on the teacher's chair.
text: Fifty quid for that piece of junk? You're having a laugh!
coordinate_terms: take the mickey
glosses: To joke; kid around.
examples: text: We had a great laugh yesterday at the funfair.
glosses: To enjoy oneself; have fun.
Related terms: kicks-and-giggles
laugh a minute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a laugh a minute
Senses: glosses: A funny thing or person.
pitman arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitman arms
Senses: glosses: An arm connected to the output shaft of a steering gear, aimed at moving the steering linkage to steer a vehicle's front wheels
born-again virgins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of born-again virgin
displeasant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more displeasant
form: most displeasant
form: displeasaunt
Etymology: From Old French desplaisant, present participle of desplaire (“to displease”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘She suffers spasms, torsions and trances. It sounds most displeasant.’
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 383:
qualifier: obsolete except as archaic
glosses: Unpleasant, disagreeable.
Derived terms: displeasantly
displeasantness
omorashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese お漏らし (omorashi).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: omo
;
bladder desperation
glosses: A paraphilia or sexual practice involving arousal from the feeling of one or someone else having a full urinary bladder, sometimes including erotic denial of bathroom access.
dubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dubby
form: most dubby
Etymology: From dub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What's striking about the record is how PiL assimilated both the dread feel of roots reggae and the dub aesthetic of subtraction (stripping out instruments, using empty space), without ever resorting to obviously dubby production effects like reverb and echo.
ref: 2005, Simon Reynolds, Rip it up and start again: postpunk 1978-1984:
text: As this "song with no words" rose from its dubby beginning to a roaring Crescendo, MacKayre sang, […]
ref: 2009, Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins, Dance of Days: Updated Edition: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the style of dub music; having been heavily remixed, particularly with reduced vocals or emphasised bass.
examples: text: Why is its brim an object to be perpetually plucked and pinched with dubby fingers?
ref: 1863, “Flowers of the Witness-Box”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round:
text: I look just like all short, dubby, light-complexioned girls.
ref: 1868, Camilla Willian, “So as by Fire”, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine:
glosses: stubby, stumpy; Lacking shapeliness or finesse.
examples: text: "Set the umbrella ready, and my pattens at the door, for I fear the roads are dubby."
ref: 1832, John Galt, Stanley Buxton: or, The schoolfellows:
text: I was going to stand on it, but my boots are a bit dubby
ref: 1994, Duncan McLean, Blackden:
glosses: wet and muddy; dirty
dubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubbies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rubby-dub (“drinker of alcohol in non-beverage form”).
synonyms: word: rubby-dub
extra: drinker of alcohol in non-beverage form
Related terms: dub
lubby-dubby
rubby-dubby
orandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oranda
pastinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastina
pastinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having three primary processes.
don't make me laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Humiliated, Wood said, "I shouldn't have brought it up. I'll collect that money without you. Me and Carney will take care of the ranger."
"Carney Blake? Don't make me laugh." Rose chuckled, his hand still extended for payment. "He's been down drunk all summer. He'll be lucky if he doesn't shoot himself."
ref: 2006, Ralph Cotton, Gunfight at Cold Devil:
synonyms: that's a laugh
that's a good one
you're having a laugh
glosses: Used to express that one cannot take a suggestion seriously.
laugh'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh
laughin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "He grins, and snirts, and thraws ye ken -- / I maist could die, wi' laughin'."
ref: 1833, Anonymous, writing in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 575, "Willie and Pate"
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of laughing; present participle of laugh.
laughathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughathons
Etymology: From laugh + -athon.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, I had a jolly time in South Dakota, all right, a regular laughathon of nonstop fun and entertainment
ref: 1995, Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo:
text: They were already into that raucous rhythm that made their show a TV landmark. Nonstop jokes, topping each other, full speed ahead, no holds barred laughathon.
ref: 2000, Mike Douglas, Thomas Kelly, Michael Heaton, I'll Be Right Back: Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show:
text: No, not what you'd call your standard laugh-a-thons. But not too grim, I hope.
ref: 2002, Paul Auster, The Book of Illusion (page 208, ff)
text: It was a laughathon at Headquarters.
ref: 2002, Terrence D. Haynes, Desert Norm: A Journal/Novel About the Gulf War, page 169:
text: What if they were having a big laughathon over Heaven and her stupid crush?
ref: 2004, Carrie Asai, The Book of the Shadow, page 36:
glosses: Something very funny; a comedy session or period of great amusement.
Synonyms: laughfest
riot
you've got to laugh
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The army teaches you to rely on yourself. It teaches you a whole lot of crap, like that some of those guys are real arseholes, and wouldn't stand a chance in the outside world. But you've got to laugh at that, man. It doesn't matter. It teaches you not to give a damn about anything, that nothing really matters.
ref: 2010, Arja Salafranca, The Thin Line:
glosses: Used when somebody sees the funny side to a tough situation, to remind not to take things so seriously.
damp squibs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damp squib
damp squids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damp squid
deafening silences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deafening silence
rabboni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbonis
Etymology: From Latin rabbonī. From biblical sources Aramaic רַבָּן (“my master/teacher”) derived from Rabbi.
Senses: examples: text: 15 Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She supposing him to be the gardiner, saith vnto him, Sir, if thou haue borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laied him, and I will take him away.
16 Iesus saith vnto her, Mary. She turned herselfe, and saith vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:15–16:
glosses: A rabbi.
unicase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + case.
Senses: examples: text: The Malayalam script is unicase.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having only one case, without the distinction of upper and lower case.
raw_tags: of a script
Synonyms: unicameral
oasthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oasthouses
Senses: examples: text: On leaving Wye, we find the country changing character; the Downs come closer to the line, and grazing gives way to orchards and hop-gardens, with pleasant farm buildings, including oasthouses, another characteristic Kentish sight.
ref: 1952 July, A. W. V. Mace, “The Ashford, Canterbury, and Ramsgate Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 436:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oast house.
oasthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oasthouse
resuscitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resuscitants
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that resuscitates.
jackstay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackstays
Etymology: From Jack + stay.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A stay (rope, bar or batten), running along a ship's yard, to which is attached the head of a square sail.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cable between two ships or from a ship to a fixed point which can be used to support a load during transfer of personnel or materiel along the cable.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line (rope, webbing or cable), attached to a boat at the ends, to which a safety harness can be clipped to restrain falling in rough conditions and to prevent falling overboard.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A line fixed at both ends, which may be used to guide a load or a diver along the route of the line. Uses include guidance to and from the underwater work site, and as a means of controlling an underwater search.
Derived terms: jackstay search
jackstays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackstay
proletarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:proletarianisms.
glosses: plural of proletarianism
makee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Alas!" he shouted, for we were at a rapid, "my savee makee good chow.
ref: 1911, Edwin Dingle, Across China on Foot:
text: "Say, Song, you see something makee you flaid this moling?" said Stella, imitating Song's pidgin English.
ref: 1915, Edward C. Taylor, Ted Strong's Motor Car:
text: My son makee for pliest."
ref: 1919, Frederick O'Brien, White Shadows in the South Seas:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of makes.
examples: text: "You makee singsong ob de lilly buckra sailor!"
ref: 1896, John Conroy Hutcheson, chapter 18, in Young Tom Bowling:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of make.
jackstay search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackstay searches
Senses: examples: text: To some extent the grid search has superseded the jackstay search in open water, since the latter requires many more ropes to be laid on the seabed. For a detailed search of a small area, however, the jackstay search has much to commend it.
ref: 1998, British Sub-aqua Club, Sport diving: the British Sub-Aqua Club diving manual:
qualifier: search and rescue
glosses: An underwater search conducted by divers who follow a guide rope, each time they reach an end of the rope moving that end in a set direction; the divers may start together or from opposite ends of the rope.
dives in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dive in
nom-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏm
ipa: /nɒm/
Etymology: Representing νομ- (nom-), the stem of the Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law”).
Senses: glosses: law, legislation
Derived terms: nomism
nomistic
nomocracy
nomogenesis
nomogenetic
nomogenist
nomogenous
nomogeny →
nomogram
nomograph
nomographer
nomographically
nomographic →
nomography
nomologically
nomologist
nomological →
nomology
nomotechnic
nomotheism
nomothesy
Related terms: nomisma
nomocanon
nomographer
nomography
nomos
nomothesy
nomothete
nomothetes
nomothetic
nomothetical
-nomy
diving in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dive in
dived in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dive in
unforch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: unfortch
Senses: examples: text: I always wanted to rock the Catholic school uniform on a day-to-day basis because I loved the plaid skirts, the blazers, the ties, and the argyle socks (unforch, I ended up going the public school route).
ref: 2012, Marisa Lynch, New Dress a Day: The Ultimate DIY Guide to Creating Fashion Dos from Thrift-Store Don’ts, New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 192:
text: 2022 June 16, Dasha Nekrasova, “Not in the Latin rite unfortch”, in Twitter.
text: And if you’ve been itching to get a fun hoodie of your own ever since you saw Tie-Dye Guy rock it, I’ve got some good news and, er, some bad news for ya. (The bad isn’t that bad, FWIW!) So unfortch, we’re not sure where we can get the exact hoodie from the show.
ref: 2022 June 27, Megan Uy, “Where to Get That Cute Tie-Dye Hoodie on ‘Only Murders in the Building’”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Clipping of unfortunately.
Maffias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maffia
drags on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drag on
dragging on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drag on
dragged on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drag on
siccer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: siker
form: sicker
form: siccar
Etymology: From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker (“certain”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker (“secure”).
siccer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: siker
form: sicker
form: siccar
Etymology: From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker (“certainly”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of sicker (“securely”).
siccate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: siccates
form: siccating
form: siccated
form: siccated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin siccātus, perfect passive participle of siccō (“to dry, drain”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To dry.
Related terms: desiccate
siccation
siccative
sindon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.dən/
Forms: form: sindons
Etymology: From Latin sindōn (possibly by way of Old French syndone and sindone), from Ancient Greek σινδών (sindṓn), from Late Egyptian šndy(t), from earlier šnḏwt (“kilt”).
Senses: glosses: A fine thin linen muslin or cambric cloth.
glosses: A piece of such cloth, particularly
A shroud of such cloth.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A piece of such cloth, particularly
The shroud of Jesus following the crucifixion.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A piece of such cloth, particularly
The corporal: the cloth placed beneath the eucharist.
examples: text: There were found in it a Book, and a Letter; Both […] wrapped in Sindons of Linnen.
ref: 1626, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, section 10:
glosses: A piece of such cloth, particularly
A garment or wrapper of such cloth.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A piece of such cloth, particularly
A wad, roll, or pledget of such cloth, usually doused with medicine, used to fill open wounds during surgery.
Derived terms: sindonless
sindonology
Related terms: shendyt
ham hock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham hocks
form: hamhock
Senses: examples: text: Cornmeal, gunpowder, ham hocks and guitar strings!
ref: 1965, Yukon Cornelius, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer:
synonyms: pork knuckle
glosses: The cut of meat at the joint between the leg and foot of a hog.
macromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + -mania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mania characterized by the delusion that objects are larger than they really are; or that one's own body or body parts are much larger than they are.
macromastia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- (“large”) + -mastia (“abnormality of the breast”), from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “long”) and μαστός (mastós, “breast”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abnormal enlargement of the breast.
Related terms: macromastic
malapportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malapportioned
form: most malapportioned
Etymology: From mal- + apportioned.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Of an electoral district, characterized by a disproportionate distribution of representatives to a legislative body.
urceus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urcei
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin urceus.
Senses: glosses: A ewer for holding water for washing.
urcei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urceus
marays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maray
reguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reguards
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regard.
reguard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reguards
form: reguarding
form: reguarded
form: reguarded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of regard.
catscratch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catscratches
Etymology: From cat + scratch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat scratch.
catscratches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catscratch
shies away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shy away
shying away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shy away
shied away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shy away
shies away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shy away from
shying away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shy away from
shied away from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shy away from
Valencian Community
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community of Spain located in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula. Area: 23,255 sq km (8,979 sq mi). Population (2009): 5,111,706. Historically, a kingdom also including the town of Caudete.
Related terms: Valencian Country
volutas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voluta
disject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈd͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: disjects
form: disjecting
form: disjected
form: disjected
Etymology: From Latin disicio.
Senses: glosses: To break apart; separate
Related terms: disjection
transume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transumes
form: transuming
form: transumed
form: transumed
Etymology: From Latin transūmō.
Senses: glosses: To change, convert
Related terms: transumpt
transumption
transumptive
intervert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interverts
form: interverting
form: interverted
form: interverted
Etymology: From Latin interverto.
Senses: glosses: To turn to another course or use.
examples: text: And so little could Watt support, on certain days, on the one hand the pressure of Mrs. Gorman from above, and on the other the thrust of Mrs. Gorman from below, that no fewer than two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine, or ten, or eleven, or even twelve, or even thirteen, changes of position were found necessary, before the time came for Mrs. Gorman to take her leave. Which, allowing one minute for the interversion, gives an average session of fifteen seconds, and, on the moderate basis of one kiss, lasting one minute, every minute and a half, a total for the day of one kiss only, one double kiss, begun in the first session and consummated in the last, for during the interversions they could not kiss, they were so busy interverting.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To undergo interversion; to exchange places.
Related terms: interversion
hebdomadary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin hebdomadārius, from hebdomas (“week”).
Senses: glosses: hebdomadal
hebdomadary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebdomadaries
Etymology: From Late Latin hebdomadārius, from hebdomas (“week”).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A member of a chapter or convent whose week it is to officiate in the choir and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
Dewali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Diwali.
amadou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.mə.duː/
Etymology: From French amadou (“tinder, lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat.
Senses: synonyms: word: German tinder
glosses: A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
piazzalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piazzalike
form: most piazzalike
Etymology: From piazza + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a piazza.
alternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternities
Senses: glosses: alternation
glosses: The concept that there exist alternate worlds or universes to the one in which we live.
transumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transume
transuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transume
transumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transume
acrophonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to or having the property of acrophony.
again and again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Repeatedly.
Synonyms: over and over
over and over again
time and again
repeatedly
night and day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day and night.
night and day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of day and night: Said of things that are very different, though possibly superficially alike.
many a time and oft
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: many a time and often
Etymology: Repetition for emphasis.
Senses: examples: text: Signor Antonio, many a time and oft
 In the Rialto you have rated me
 About my monies, and my usances:
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: And all that winter, when at night
 The wind blew from the mountain-peak,
 'Twas worth your while, though in the dark,
 The church-yard path to seek:
 For many a time and oft were heard
 Cries coming from the mountain-head:
ref: 1798, William Wordsworth, “The Thorn”, in Henry Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, published 1851, page 183:
text: "How? And art thou indeed Little John, and Robin Hood's own right-hand man? Many a time and oft I heard of thee, but never did I hope to set eyes upon thee.[…]"
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “How Little John Lived at the Sherriff’s”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
text: The three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly. Many a time and oft were they wont to come there to that favourite nook to have a cosy chat beside the sparkling waves and discuss matters feminine,[…].
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicäa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Frequently.
lateward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lateward
form: most lateward
Etymology: From late + -ward.
Senses: glosses: rather late
Synonyms: belatedly
hidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈdeɪʃən/
Etymology: From hide + -ation.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Division (of a larger territory, such as a shire or hundred) into hides
Related terms: hidate
lay over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays over
form: laying over
form: laid over
form: laid over
Senses: glosses: To make an intermediary stop somewhere.
Synonyms: stop off
lay over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lie over
not a minute too soon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: at the last possible moment; just in time
examples: text: She finally dumped her jerk boyfriend, and not a minute too soon
glosses: after an undesirable delay; undesirably late
Synonyms: about time
not a moment too soon
none too soon
straightforth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more straightforth
form: most straightforth
Etymology: From straight + forth.
Senses: examples: text: Straightforth a bench was drawn out from the wall and a meal set before the warriors of Geatland.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 26:
glosses: directly
youngun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: younguns
Senses: examples: text: “I just sits there the whole time while she bundles up the younguns and takes ʼem down the road.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 65:
glosses: Alternative spelling of young'un.
youthhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːθhʊd/
/ˈjuːθhəd/
Forms: form: youthhoods
Etymology: From Middle English youthhede, youthede, from Old English ġeoguþhād (literally “youthhood”), equivalent to (and likely remodelled after) youth + -hood; compare youthhead. Cognate with Old Saxon jugudhēd (“youthhood”).
Senses: glosses: The state of being young, either in age or in spirit; youth.
cock-stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑkˌstænd/
Forms: form: cock-stands
form: cockstand
Senses: examples: text: ‘Do you know what they do, in France? My lady wife told me. Well, not told me, but she wrote it down for me, in Latin. The man has a cock-stand, and she takes it in her mouth!’
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 393:
glosses: An erection.
youthhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːθhɛd/
Etymology: A collateral form of youthhood; equivalent to youth + -head.
Senses: glosses: Youth; youthhood.
sempervirid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: sempervirent; evergreen
unhandseled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + handseled.
Senses: examples: text: Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
ref: 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar:
glosses: unused; untouched; pure
marquisate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.kwɪ.sət/
Forms: form: marquisates
Etymology: From marquis + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it), on the pattern of Middle French marquisat, Italian marchesato.
Senses: glosses: The territory held by a marquis, margrave or marchioness.
examples: text: he has Mary Boleyn's word for it that the marquisate has bought Henry only the right to caress her sister's inner thigh.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 394:
glosses: The state or rank of a marquis.
Related terms: barony
bishopric
county
duchy
kingdom
march
margravate
margraviate
marquesate
marquessate
nobility
parish
principality
regality
royalty
shire
viscountcy
viscounty
hidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hidates
form: hidating
form: hidated
form: hidated
Etymology: From hide (“unit of land”) + -ate (verb forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In general, the newly-won districts were reckoned in carucates, while the older English territory was hidated.
ref: 1971, C. W. Atkin, chapter 2, in Henry Clifford Darby, I. B. Terrett, editors, The Domesday Geography of Midland England, 2nd edition, Herefordshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: To divide (a region, such as a shire or hundred) into hides.
examples: text: […] the well-known habit of beneficially hidating land, that is of arbitrarily estimating the number of hides on which it should pay Danegeld without regard for the number of hides there.
ref: 1920 January, E. B. Demarest, “The Firma Unius Noctis”, in The English Historical Review, volume 35, page 82:
text: Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld.
ref: 1987, Wilfred Lewis Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England, 1086–1272, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: To assess the geld of (a place, such as a manor or borough) in terms of hides.
Synonyms: geld
Related terms: hide
hidation
grandfather's clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfather's clocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grandfather clock.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A form of patience in which cards are laid out in an arrangement resembling a clock face.
nunly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nunly
form: most nunly
Etymology: From nun + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She pushes towards the king, and for a second he sees him through her eyes: a blur of red-gold and flushed skin, a ready, priapic body, a hand like a ham that stretches out to take her by her nunly elbow.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 397:
glosses: Like a nun; nunlike.
everness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ever + -ness.
Senses: glosses: perpetuity
Synonyms: ceaselessness
unendingness
endlessness
indesinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indesinent
form: most indesinent
Etymology: From in- + desinent.
Senses: examples: text: The power exerted is indesinent; as indesinent as that of gravity. Surely this is a particular where truth stares us in the face
ref: 1773, Andrew Baxter, An Appendix to the First Part of the Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human soul:
glosses: perpetual; eternal
Derived terms: indesinently
Related terms: indesinence
grandfather's clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandfather's clock
younguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youngun
youthhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youthhood
lays over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay over
laying over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay over
laid over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lay over
marquisates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marquisate
cock-stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cock-stand
alternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternity
nutbrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nutbrown
form: most nutbrown
Senses: examples: text: Gerty just took off her hat for a moment to settle her hair and a prettier, a daintier head of nutbrown tresses was never seen on a girl's shoulders
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of nut-brown.
higharched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more higharched
form: most higharched
Senses: examples: text: There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep
ref: 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
glosses: Having a high arch.
split one's sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: splits one's sides
form: splitting one's sides
form: split one's sides
form: split one's sides
Senses: examples: text: Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men's faces on her nails with red ink make you split your sides[…]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: And we sat and watched the women hide
 Laughed so much we split our sides
 Scattered horses that they would ride
 Mayhem in the high degree.
ref: 1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:
synonyms: laugh one's head off
roll in the aisles
glosses: To laugh hysterically.
Related terms: sidesplitting
bold as brass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Popularly supposed to have originated in reference to Brass Crosby, Lord Mayor of London in the 1770s, who was bold enough to defy the British parliament. However, this origin theory is dismissed by some as bogus.
Senses: examples: text: The twins were now playing in the most approved brotherly fashion till at last Master Jacky who was really as bold as brass there was no getting behind that deliberately kicked the ball as hard as ever he could down towards the seaweedy rocks.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:
text: In true Victorian bold-as-brass fashion, passengers often travelled across structures built to span ravines and valleys and bodies of fast-moving water, even as debates rolled on into the safety and suitability of materials used.
ref: 2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57:
text: “Angie was American, she was tall, cool and as bold as brass,” recalls Ronson. “I couldn’t believe how amazing she was.”
ref: 2024 April 2, Sarfraz Manzoor, quoting Suzi Ronson, “‘Bowie said he’d sell his soul to be famous’: Suzi Ronson on sex, ruthless ambition – and dyeing David’s hair red”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very bold; very forward or impudent.
wikipedia: Brass Crosby
Related terms: brazen
watchchain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchchains
Etymology: From watch + chain.
Senses: examples: text: So over she went and when he saw her coming she could see him take his hand out of his pocket, getting nervous, and beginning to play with his watchchain, looking up at the church.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A chain attached to a watch (timepiece), so that the owner does not lose it.
gripeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gripe + -eth.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gripe
hye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hyer
form: hyest
Senses: examples: text: On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south."
ref: 1661, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of high.
hye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyes
form: hying
form: hyeing
form: hyed
form: hyed
Senses: examples: text: NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hie.
rubber trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubber tree
flyspecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flyspecked
form: most flyspecked
Etymology: From flyspeck + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Covered with flyspecks.
bioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioneers
Etymology: Blend of biological + pioneer or biological + engineer, possibly coined by Kenny Ausubel.
Senses: examples: text: A high environmental impact of an industry significantly reduces the likelihood of a firm to be classified as a bioneer or ecopreneur.
ref: 2009, Gary D. Libecap, Frontiers in Eco-Entrepreneurship Research, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: A biological pioneer, an inventer of environmental solutions and biotechnology; a crafter of creative solutions to environmental and sociocultural problems.
examples: text: Beneath the coat, a metal frame of gears and levers and wheels: living bone, tendon, sinew holding it together. A bioneer’s wet dream.
ref: 2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A biological engineer, an engineer of creatures, especially partially artificial/mechanical ones.
Related terms: biotechnology