cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tridirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + directional.
Senses: glosses: In, or relating to, three directions.
Related terms: tridirectionality
tridirectionally
trichoepithelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichoepitheliomas
form: trichoepitheliomata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) + epithelium + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A neoplasm of the adnexa of the skin
trichoepitheliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trichoepithelioma
biffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biffers
Etymology: From biff + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who hits or punches; a fighter.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: big hitter
glosses: An attacking batsman.
biffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biffers
Senses: glosses: An unattractive woman.
lateropulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateropulsions
Etymology: From latero- + pulsion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a tendency to tilt or move sideways involuntarily
Related terms: retropulsion
crowdedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crowded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Herb was initially overcome by Jakarta ('The impressions of noise, chaos, tremendous crowdedness and I suppose whitelessness were perhaps the strongest, and I felt something of a stranger') and faced with the familiar conundrum ('again the sensation of the thousands of hungry people all around –happy looking often, pluckily cheerful but in fact hungry –is strange and upsetting'), but he quickly slipped into the volunteer lifestyle with relish, borrowing a bike from Soewarto, a friend from Kempen, and spending a lot of his time with volunteers, including Lance Castles and John Gare.
ref: 2011, Jemma Purdey, From Vienna to Yogyakarta:
glosses: The state or quality of being crowded.
unactualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unactualizable
form: most unactualizable
Etymology: From un- + actualizable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be actualized.
polymathes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymathe
radoubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radoub
tiger bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A torture method, historically used especially in China, in which a person is tied in a sitting position with their legs straight in front of them, with their knees tied to the bench; bricks are placed under their feet until their knees or feet break.
athetotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having, or relating to, athetosis.
hemiballismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiballism
Etymology: From hemi- + ballismus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare movement disorder with involuntary flinging motions of the extremities on one side of the body.
Related terms: ballism
ballismus
bosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosomes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bosom.
bosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosome
wff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪf/
ipa: /wʊf/
ipa: /wʌf/
rhymes: -ɪf
rhymes: -ʊf
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: wffs
form: WFF
Senses: examples: text: which are of the form P(S) and hence we know that we can decide its truth value if we can decide the truth Value of all d-wff's of form P(S). But if it is of the form P(S ) then it is equivalent to P(T) where T is the dans of S. But by the principle of […]
ref: 1964, On the Occurrence of Non-deontic WFF's in Argument Forms Having Deontic WFF's as Conclusion:
text: A grammatically correct expression is called a well-formed formula, or wff for short, which can be pronounced "woof." To decide whether an expression is a wff , we need to precisely define the syntax (or grammar) rules for the formation of wffs […]
ref: 2001, James L. Hein, Discrete Structures, Logic, and Computability, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 350:
text: The set of well-formed formulas (wffs) is the smallest set satisfying the following conditions: • If p is an n-ary predicate symbol (an element of Pn) and t1 ,. .., tn are terms, p(t1 ,. ..,tn) is a wff. • If p is a wff and x is a variable, (∀x)p and (∃x)p are […]
ref: 2002, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Stuart M. Shieber, Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis, Microtome Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Acronym of well-formed formula.
directest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of direct: most direct
visualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From visual + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being visual.
seclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being seclusive.
drivenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From driven + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being driven; drive; ambition.
neurodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + dynamical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neurodynamics.
arsphenamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsphenamine
arsephenamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsephenamines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arsphenamine.
arsephenamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsephenamine
kyphotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kyphotic
form: most kyphotic
Etymology: Ancient Greek κύφος (kúphos, “humpback, bent”) + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: Kyphosis is an increase of the spinal curve in the sagittal plane that results in a greater than normal posterior convexity (anterior concavity). An increased kyphotic curve is encountered more often in the thoracic spine, where it produces a rounded upper back, or 'humped back'.
ref: 2007, Nicette Sergueef, Cranial Osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents:
topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
Synonyms: humpbacked
hunchbacked
Derived terms: hyperkyphotic
hypokyphotic
Related terms: kyphosis
festinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festination
smoothnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoothness
medicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medication + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to medication.
Related terms: medical
medicinal
vas rectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: väsʹ rĕkʹtəm
ipa: /ˈvɑːs ˈɹɛktəm/
Forms: form: vasa recta
Etymology: First attested in 1750; Latin: vās (“vessel”) + rēctum (neuter nominative singular of rēctus, “straight”) = “straight vessel”.
Senses: examples: text: A yellowiſh ſemen is generated in the vaſcula ſerpentina, is ſent down into the vasa recta, and thence depoſited in the rete under the albuginea.
ref: 1750, Albert Haller, “Of the paſſages of the ſemen” in The Philoſophical Tranſactions (1743–1750) Abridged X (1756), ed. John Martyn, page 1,092
text: One single, straight duct termed vas rectum, which joins the rete testis at a right angle. The vasa recta are very slender, and easily give way when injected.
ref: 1843, Thomas Blizard Curling, “A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Testis”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, LX:ii, page 216:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a number of straight vasa (tubes), specifically:
A straight seminiferous tubule conveying semen from its pertaining tubulus seminiferus contortus (convoluted seminiferous tubule) to the rete testis of the testicle that contains it; now more commonly called the tubulus seminiferus rectus (straight seminiferous tubule).
examples: text: Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides.
ref: 1858, Lionel Smith Beale, Illustrations of the Constituents of Urine, Urinary Deposits, and Calculi, Fig. 1. g., page 3
text: The vasa recta are capillaries, mostly derived from the efferent arterioles of juxtamedullary nephrons, which have a ‘hairpin’ arrangement and dip far down into the renal medulla.
ref: 2000, Christopher J. Lote, Principles of Renal Physiology, fourth edition, § 6.4, page 78:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a number of straight vasa (tubes), specifically:
Any one of many straight capillaries in the kidney that branch off from the arteriolae efferentes (efferent arterioles) of juxtamedullary nephrons, enter the medulla, and surround the loop of Henle, where they function to absorb water and to secrete salt and urea into the renal interstitium, thereby facilitating the production of concentrated urine.
qualifier: sometimes more fully
examples: text: Bleeding from colonic diverticula is caused by rupture of the underlying vas rectum.
ref: 1990, Jay H. Stein, Internal Medicine, third edition, page 395:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of a number of straight vasa (tubes), specifically:
Any one of numerous straight arteries that branch off from the arcades of the mesentery of the jejunum and ileum whence they head toward the small intestine.
Hyponyms: sense: renal capillary
word: arteriola recta renis
sense: renal capillary
word: venula recta renis
vasa recta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: väʹsə rĕkʹtə
ipa: /ˈvɑːsə ˈɹɛktə/
Etymology: Latin: vāsa (“vessels”, nominative plural of vās) + rēcta (neuter nominative plural of rēctus) = “straight vessels”
Senses: glosses: plural of vas rectum
-land
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /lənd/
ipa: /lɪnd/
other: /lænd/
other: [lænd]
Etymology: From land.
Senses: examples: text: Graceland /ɡɹeɪs.lənd/
text: Disneyland /dɪz.ni.lænd/
text: In "Bobland," as Robert Burridge refers to his studio, the artist surrounds himself with vibrant color.
ref: 2005, Caroline Jasper, Powercolor: master color concepts for all media, →ISBN, page 132:
text: […] Jeff Bridges, the loathsome journalist (and in Bobland there is no other sort) is grinding out his weary cynical take […]
ref: 2006, Michael Gray, The Bob Dylan encyclopedia, page 454:
text: 'As long as you treat the kids properly and help financially I don't care what you do.' [Kevin] exhaled loudly. 'Thanks, Annie. You're a wonderful woman and I do love you, you know that.' So in Kevinland that made everything right.
ref: 2013, Elisabeth Rose, E For England, →ISBN:
glosses: Used to form the name of a territory, country, or region.
examples: computerland
screenland
glosses: Used to form the name of a sphere of activity or interaction.
Related terms: -landia
-landia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -land + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: "The action takes place in Fucklandia in the city of Venus-Mound situated on the banks of the Brothela, in the palace of Testiculus."
ref: 1987, Robert Maccubbin, Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment, page 235:
text: Keltner Enterprises has acquired an 80% interest in Jacklandia (a foreign company).
ref: 2008, Paul Fischer, Rita Cheng, William Taylor, Advanced Accounting, page 666:
text: I set down a fishy can of tuna, which in Catlandia is as enticing as foie gras to gourmets and shooting speedballs to junkies.
ref: 2011, Jeff Kahn, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, page 46:
glosses: A fictional or metaphorical place relating to the person or thing being suffixed.
Related terms: -land
land
omfg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OMFG.
Related terms: OMG
omgz
whistling duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistling ducks
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the genus Dendrocygna in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.
Derived terms: fulvous whistling duck
Indian whistling duck
lesser whistling duck
plumed whistling duck
spotted whistling duck
wandering whistling duck
steamer duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steamer ducks
Senses: synonyms: steamer
glosses: A bird of the genus Tachyeres in the family Anatidae, the family of duck, goose and swan.
umbra recta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭmʹbrə rĕkʹtə
ipa: /ˈʌmbɹə ˈɹɛktə/
Etymology: First attested in Modern English in 1688, although the phrase was also used in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) in his Treatise on the Astrolabe; Latin: umbra (“shadow”) + rēcta (feminine nominative singular of rēctus, “straight”) = “straight shadow”; compare umbra versa.
Senses: examples: text: Scheubelius a great Mathematician, but by book only, and not by practice who being required ſometime in an Army to make uſe of his Quadrant, knew not the difference between umbra recta, and umbra verſa.
ref: 1688, John Hales, “The Rich man’s Recepiſti”, in Golden Remains, 3rd edition, page 77:
glosses: On a shadow in the shape of a right triangle, the length of the shadow's edge adjacent to a measured angle.
Synonyms: umbra extensa
umbra versa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭmʹbrə vûrʹsə
ipa: /ˈʌmbɹə ˈvɜːsə/
Etymology: First attested in Modern English in 1688, although the phrase was also used in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) in his Treatise on the Astrolabe; Latin: umbra (“shadow”) + versa (feminine nominative singular of versus, “turned”) = “turned shadow”; compare umbra recta.
Senses: examples: text: Scheubelius a great Mathematician, but by book only, and not by practice who being required ſometime in an Army to make uſe of his Quadrant, knew not the difference between umbra recta, and umbra verſa.
ref: 1688, John Hales, “The Rich man’s Recepiſti”, in Golden Remains, 3rd edition, page 77:
glosses: On a shadow in the shape of a right triangle, the length of the shadow's edge opposite to a measured angle.
Synonyms: umbra stans
sillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silly
examples: text: […] a number of commentators have noted how, during meetings and in committees, for example, organisation members often experience an attack of the sillies by playing the fool and horsing around.
ref: 2003, Peter Gronn, The New Work of Educational Leaders:
glosses: A period of foolish behaviour.
raw_tags: as "the sillies"
corrugators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrugator
lateralward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lateralward
form: most lateralward
Etymology: From lateral + -ward.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In a lateral direction; towards the side of the body.
hot hamburger sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot hamburger sandwiches
Senses: glosses: A hamburger, covered in gravy, and most often served between slices of bread.
unhashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hashable.
Senses: examples: text: Mutable types like lists and dictionaries are unhashable.
ref: 2012, Allen B. Downey, Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling, page 28:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not hashable.
coprolalias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coprolalia
coprolalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coprolalic
form: most coprolalic
Etymology: From coprolalia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, coprolalia.
akathisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more akathisic
form: most akathisic
Etymology: From akathisia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, akathisia.
hyperkineses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperkinesis
kineses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinesis
kinescopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kinescope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a kinescope or kinescopy.
telerecording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telerecordings
Etymology: From tele- + recording.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A recording of a television broadcast made while it is being transmitted, especially by filming the picture from a monitor screen; the process of making such a recording.
Related terms: telecording
telerecord
telerecordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telerecording
conditionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conditionable
form: most conditionable
Etymology: From condition + -able.
Senses: examples: conditionable stimuli
glosses: Capable of being conditioned.
Derived terms: unconditionable
greeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greed
greeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greed
Lilliputian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lilliputians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lilliputian.
Lilliputian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lilliputian
form: most Lilliputian
Senses: examples: text: Its nasty sting backs up the warning, and in the case of the cow killer, additional warnings also come in the form of sound, a squeak of broad frequency range that resembles a miniature rattle of a Lilliputian rattlesnake, and an odorous chemical warning signal.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 6f:
glosses: Alternative form of lilliputian.
anumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + numerical.
Senses: examples: text: It suddenly came to me that Parkinsonism was a propensity, a tendency — which had no minimum, no maximum, and no finite units; that it was anumerical; that from its first, infinitesimal, intimation or twinge, it could proceed by an infinite multitude of infinitesimal increments to an infinite, and then more infinite, and still more infinite, degree of severity.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Not numerical; outside the realm of numbers.
hypophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypophonic
form: most hypophonic
Etymology: From hypophonia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, hypophonia.
quantality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quantal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: I soon came to think that […] there was something, assuredly, very strange going on — not quantality, not relativity, but something much commoner, yet stranger.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The quality of being quantal.
JAMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This is especially true for Black women. the rate of deaths from breast cancer among Black women in their 40s was 27 per 100,000 person-years, compared to 15 per 100,000 person-years among White women, according to a 2023 JAMA Network Open study.
ref: 2024 May 8, Katia Hetter, “Mammograms are now recommended starting at age 40. Should you get one?”, in CNN:
text: “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.
ref: 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Journal of the American Medical Association.
glosses: Initialism of Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.
glosses: Initialism of Journal of Asian Martial Arts (a former magazine).
thoughtscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoughtscapes
Etymology: From thought + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A mental or imaginary landscape.
thoughtscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoughtscape
catatonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catatonic
Shabbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: She renewed contact with the rabbi and other orthodox patients in the hospital, went to all the religious services, and loved nothing so much as lighting the Shabbas candles.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: I'm saying, I see what you're getting at, Dude, he kept the money, but my point is, here we are, it's shabbas, the sabbath, which I'm allowed to break only if it's a matter of life and death—
ref: 1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
glosses: Alternative form of Shabbat.
fagboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagboys
form: fag boy
form: fag-boy
Etymology: From fag + boy.
Senses: examples: text: “You give the term eat me a whole new meaning, don't you, fagboy? Just sucking his cock wasn't enough for you, was it?
ref: 1996, Stephen King, Rose Madder, link:
text: “Big ol' fagboy, that's all y'are, jus' love a big ol' cock up your asshole. Makes ya drool, gives you a boner jus' thinkin' 'bout that cock.
ref: 2006, Michael J. Vaughn, Double Blind, page 37:
text: As soon as the door thunks shut and the bolts clank, he says, “What the fuck you looking at, fagboy?”
ref: 2010, David S. Schow, Internecine, page 135:
qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: A contemptible young gay man, sometimes partially a term of endearment for a submissive bottom or sex partner.
Related terms: gayboy
fagboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagboy
unilaterality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unilateral + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Miss H. showed a striking unilaterality of rigidity and akinesia, the left side of her body being much more severely affected.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The state or quality of being unilateral; one-sidedness.
fag boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fagboy.
fag-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag-boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fagboy.
fag boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag boy
fag-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fag-boy
novelish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more novelish
form: most novelish
Etymology: From novel + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Yet he managed to throw over the most unlikely material a novelish or at least a romantic character, which is sometimes — nay, very often — utterly wanting in professed and admitted masters of the business[…]
ref: 1919, George Saintsbury, A history of the French novel: to the close of the 19th century: Volume 2:
text: Two such books dawned in me when I first saw our post-encephalitic patients: Compulsion and Constraint (a study of subcortical disorders and mechanisms) and People of the Abyss (a novelish, Jack Londonish book).
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
subcortically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subcortical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or in relation to, the subcortex.
synkinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to synkinesia.
synkinetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From synkinetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a synkinetic manner; by synkinesia.
unactualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + actualized.
Senses: examples: text: There was also, even in her first month of treatment, a number of minor 'side-effects' (a term which I found it increasingly difficult to give any meaning to), with the promise (or threat) of others lurking in posse — as I imagined it — in an as-yet unactualized state.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Not actualized.
beheard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behear
palilalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palilalic
form: most palilalic
Senses: examples: text: Her excitement seemed to come in waves, each wave rising higher and higher towards some limitless climax, and with these waves a mixture of anguish and terror and shame overwhelmed her, to which she gave voice in palilalic screamings[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Of or relating to palilalia.
oculogyria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lillian W. would also have bizarre 'miscellaneous' crises, in which a great variety of phenomena (sniffing, oculogyria, panting, counting, etc., etc.) would be thrown together in unexpected (and seemingly senseless) combinations; indeed new and strange combinations were continually appearing.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The rotation of the eyeballs within their orbits.
Related terms: oculogyric
mastications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastication
smackingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smackingly
form: most smackingly
Etymology: From smacking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was, however, sensible of attention and kindness, and would occasionally smile to her nurses, or smackingly kiss them in a manner as explosive as her greeds and rages.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: With a smacking sound or motion.
Related terms: lip-smackingly
macropolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + politics.
Senses: glosses: Normal large-scale politics, as opposed to micropolitics.
Derived terms: macropolitical
macropolitically
gayby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪbi/
rhymes: -eɪbi
homophone: gaby
Forms: form: gaybies
Etymology: Blend of gay + baby
Senses: examples: text: 2005, No. 685, The Advocate - Jul 11, 1995, link
Much to my surprise I find out that I am part of the "gayby boom."
text: Hollywood's gayby boom As my partner and I watch our friends dive into child rearing with the abandon previously held only for screenplay writing...
ref: 2002, The Advocate - No. 864, Hollywood's Gayby Boom - May 28, 2002, page 55:
text: The “gayby boom” children have two moms, two dads, or one of a combination of numerous queer parents.
ref: 2009, Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine, link:
text: “I was born a gayby.” “Aww, you were a gayby?” Lucy gushed. “I seriously was,” Marshall said. “I was allergic to breast milk.” Everyone laughed.
ref: 2011, Stephen Emond, Winter Town, link:
glosses: The baby of a gay person or couple.
glosses: A young child with apparent homosexual countenance ("gayface").
Derived terms: gayby boom
Related terms: gaby
gaybies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1998, Girlfriends: the magazine of Lesbian enjoyment: Volume 5, link
Those already mothering may benefit from efforts such as Our Mom's a Dyke, in which they can glimpse the homophobia and harassment their gaybies endure at the hands of peers, hetero parents, and (shock, dismay) teachers.
glosses: plural of gayby
transfinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfinite
transfiguringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transfiguringly
form: most transfiguringly
Etymology: From transfiguring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her soul shone transfiguringly through her face, and kindled her eyes into tenderness, which her rising tears served to heighten.
ref: 1860, Henry Mills Alden, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: So as to transfigure.
identificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The important distinction between descriptive and identificatory nonverbal clauses[…]
ref: 1996, Jan Joosten, The Syriac language of the Peshitta and old Syriac versions of Matthew, page 86:
text: Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?
ref: 1989, Frank Kuppner, A Very Quiet Street, page 72:
glosses: Serving to identify something; identifying.
examples: text: Her attitude to L-DOPA became one of detached and humorous resignation, as did her attitude to her own symptoms and disabilities; she ceased to envy the patients who were flying aloft on L-DOPA, or to view with identificatory terror those patients who had done badly on the drug[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Tending to identify oneself with someone or something; engendering association.
Derived terms: disidentificatory
apraxias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apraxia
miscognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscognitions
Etymology: From mis- + cognition.
Senses: examples: text: The apraxic-agnosic patient may make errors of action or cognition, but he is not driven into misperformance or miscognition through being the subject of violent deforming forces[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: To make it more explicit we describe it as 'paratra paravabhasa ' - misappearance or miscognition of something in an alien context — a context which is characterised by its absolute negation.
ref: 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: incorrect or false cognition
miscognitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscognition
colita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colitas
Senses: examples: text: On a dark desert highway / Cool wind in my hair / Warm smell of colitas / Rising up through the air.
ref: 1976, Don Felder; Don Henley; and Glenn Frey (The Eagles), Hotel California, in "Hotel California"
glosses: The fag-end of a cannabis joint
overarousal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + arousal.
Senses: examples: text: In every such patient I found a sort of triad or tryptich: profoundly slow activity in the absence of medication, very excited and often convulsive activity with overarousal on medication, and between these, so to speak, a very attenuated, narrow band, showing relatively normal activities between the abnormals.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: excessive arousal
nonabnormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + abnormal.
Senses: glosses: Not abnormal.
Synonyms: normal
akinesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akinesia
subjectivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subjectivises
form: subjectivising
form: subjectivised
form: subjectivised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subjectivize.
subjectivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subjectivise
subjectivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subjectivise
subjectivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subjectivise
misjudgement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misjudgements
Etymology: From mis- + judgement.
Senses: examples: text: […] patients who have sustained peripheral injuries […] may make individual misjudgements, or a series of these, with regard to the size of individual objects, especially meaningless, geometrical objects like steps, because of an uncertainty or deficiency in their own inner scales […]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Alternative form of misjudgment.
misjudgements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misjudgement
perplexingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perplexing + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being perplexing.
noncommunicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + communicational.
Senses: glosses: Not communicational.
lacrimae rerum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăʹkrĭmī rāʹrəm
ipa: /ˈlækɹɪmaɪ ˈɹeɪɹəm/
Forms: form: lacrimæ rerum
form: lachrymae rerum
form: lachrymæ rerum
Etymology: An allusion to Virgil’s Aeneid (29–19 BC), book I, line 462; Latin: lacrimae (“tears”, the nominative plural form of lacrima, “tear”) + rērum (“of things”, the genitive plural form of rēs, “thing”) = “tears of things”.
Senses: examples: text: Louis Macneice in a note on Eliot and the Adolescent remarks that “anyhow lacrimae rerum are not a monopoly of the mature adult.” Indeed the lacrimae rerum of the adolescent are likely to be far more bitter and consuming than those of the mature adult learning to care and not to care.
ref: 1993, Robert D. Hamner, Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott, →ISBN, page 101:
text: So too is Byles's depiction of Brooke feeling the weight of lacrimae rerum as he looks from the deck of his ship towards the unknown lands in which he will indeed lie buried, and realizes that his duty to his country requires the renunciation of his personal dreams for the future.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Vandiver, Stand in the Trench, Achilles, →ISBN, page 375:
glosses: The “tears of things”; the inherent tragedy of existence.
letterboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letterboards
Etymology: From letter + board.
Senses: examples: text: So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.
ref: 1941, Transit Journal: Volume 85:
glosses: A signboard for lettering or text.
examples: text: One of the patients, Leonard L., when he heard of L-DOPA, rapped on his letterboard with mixed enthusiasm and irony, 'Dopamine is Resurrectamine. Cotzias is the Chemical Messiah.'
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: A board marked with letters of the alphabet, used for communication by the disabled.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A board on which matter in type is placed for storage or manipulation.
letterboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterboard
situationlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From situationless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Magda B., engulfed in non-activity, non-being, nothingness, situationlessness, was not, I think, frustrated or tormented like Rose R.; she was becalmed, asleep, on the ocean of life.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Lack of a situation.
unicuspids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicuspid
disimprison
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disimprisons
form: disimprisoning
form: disimprisoned
form: disimprisoned
Etymology: From dis- + imprison.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes it is sufficient for another person to say 'Look!,' 'Look at that!,' or 'Look over there!' to release the transfixed attention, to disimprison the patient from his spellbound, albeit empty, Parkinsonian attention and allow him once again to move freely in the real world.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: To free or release from a state of imprisonment.
disimprisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disimprison
disimprisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disimprison
disimprisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disimprison
gayboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: gayboys
form: gay boy
Etymology: From gay + boy.
Senses: examples: text: A virgin fecking gayboy, is it?
ref: 1999, Martin McDonagh, The Lonesome West, New York, N.Y: Dramatists Play Service, page 22:
text: Raoul, 24, is a cute gayboy filmmaker
ref: 2007, Barbara Ann Kipfer, Robert L. Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, page 198:
text: “First, though, I think you need to visit the gayboy ducking stool.
ref: 2009, Stephen King, Just After Sunset: Stories, page 522
text: “Two pretty gayboys,” Pete said, looking Luke in the eye. “We don't serve your kind.” “What century are we in? ... “I saw you with your ass in the air so your boyfriend here could poke you, gayboy.”
ref: 2011, Douglas Clegg, The Abandoned, link:
glosses: A gay man, especially a younger man or a boy.
raw_tags: in UK
Related terms: fagboy
gaybo
lateropulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lateropulsion
retropulsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retropulsion
gayboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayboy
gay boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gayboy.
gay boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay boy
enactively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enactive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I was chatting with his director, and he was walking by himself a few yards behind. Suddenly I thought I heard my patient. I was extremely startled, and turned round — and saw it was Dustin thinking to himself, but thinking with his body, thinking enactively, thinking of the young autistic man he had just seen.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: In an enactive manner; by acting out.
gaybait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gay + bait (“something that allures”).
Senses: glosses: A man who is attractive to other gay men.
Synonyms: queerbait
gaybait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gaybaits
form: gaybaiting
form: gaybaited
form: gaybaited
Etymology: From gay + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).
Senses: examples: text: Criticism of the sodomy law by successful gubernatorial candidate Ann Richards led to gay-baiting by her opponents, who claimed gay activists had named her an "honorary lesbian."
ref: 1990 December 16, David Morris, “Judge Strikes Down Texas Sodomy Law”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 15:
text: In addition to gay-baiting fascists and fascist-baiting homosexuals, currents of [Soviet] officialdom also used epithets of "effeminacy" and "effete" homosexuality to label elements of the old ruling class and to help build the image of the proletarian society and its soldiers as hypermasculine.
ref: 2004 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World:
text: It’s possible, we suppose, that former Rep. Darrell Issa didn’t realize his TV ad attacking a GOP rival, Carl DeMaio, in the 50th Congressional District primary race could be seen as gay-baiting. The ad, ostensibly about DeMaio’s stance on immigration and President Trump, includes two gratuitous references to the fact that DeMaio is gay.
ref: 2020 January 29, “Editorial: Darrell Issa’s shameful gay-baiting attack ads are the worst kind of time warp”, in Los Angeles Times:
coordinate_terms: redbait
glosses: To harass or vilify someone for their real or imagined homosexuality.
glosses: To seduce a heterosexual person into homosexual relations.
glosses: To queerbait.
gaybaited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gaybait
gaybaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gaybait
enactest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enact + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of enact
petulancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petulancies
Senses: examples: text: the petulancy of our words
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber:
glosses: petulance; petulant attitude or behaviour
petulancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petulancy
brevic.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of breviculum.
deball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deballs
form: deballing
form: deballed
form: deballed
form: de-ball
Etymology: From de- + ball.
Senses: examples: text: And that's how the captain's platoon found him later that afternoon, strung up like aside of beef, dripping blood from asshole and crotch, half-dead, and de-balled, the severed nuts lying in the dust at his feet.
ref: 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:
glosses: To remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.
deballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deball
deballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deball
deballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deball
ĭ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the KIT vowel
motorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From motoric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She becomes immensely excited, emotionally as well as motorically, many times a day, and her excitement, at such times, will assume any form which suggests itself or is appropriate[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In terms of the motor faculties.
oil trash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1986, World oil: Volume 203, Issues 1-6, link
One of my biggest complaints in this mess is that oil people are not speaking out. I am third generation oil trash, and beyond my personal loss in business, I love this industry and the people who gave it birth.
text: We kicked on to a few more bars, having a good time, until a group of drunk American businessmen called us “oil trash” and shoved Erwin. We were not dressed like oil trash, we didn't draw attention to ourselves or look for trouble.
ref: 2007, Paul Catrer, Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player, page 113:
text: Never called anybody “oil trash.” Never had a bad word for anybody.
ref: 2011, Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, link:
glosses: An uncultured, rowdy roughneck employed in the petroleum industry, especially a "white trash" person if used negatively.
Related terms: leatherneck
grease monkey
reactionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reaction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: For the ensuing six months Mr G. again reverted to his reactionless state, until in March 1970 he was carried away by a new wave of responses.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Devoid of reactions; not reacting.
Derived terms: reactionless drive
ideographic space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideographic spaces
Etymology: Compare ideographic comma.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A space of non-variable width, equal to the width of an ideograph, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Siniform ideographs.
raw_tags: in fonts whose ideographs are of uniform width
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laevodihydroxyphenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laevo- + dihydroxyphenylalanine.
Senses: glosses: L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, a biosynthetic compound used as a drug in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and dystonia.
insistencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insistency
figure space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figure spaces
Etymology: Compare figure dash.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: In fonts whose digits are of uniform width, a space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a digit.
grease monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grease monkey
code monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code monkeys
Senses: synonyms: coder#Noun
programmer
coordinate_terms: developer
;
software engineer
;
designer
;
software architect
glosses: A computer programmer.
existenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From existence + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Before this, she was almost existenceless, 'asleep'; following this, whatever her tribulations and complications, she has been firmly awake, and most passionately and gratefully back in the world.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Without existence.
Derived terms: existencelessness
minifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minification
punctuation space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctuation spaces
Etymology: Used to give consistent presentation of quotation marks irrespective of comma or period placement.
Senses: examples: Many examples occur on page 204 of the 1837 New Sporting Magazine XIII.
glosses: A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of a period (full stop) or comma, inserted after ⟨“⟩ or ⟨‘⟩ and before ⟨”⟩ or ⟨’⟩ (and sometimes ⟨?⟩ or ⟨!⟩), unless a punctuation mark occurs there. It is Unicode character U+2008. When using X11 input method, the conventional key combination is Compose+Space+Period.
raw_tags: in dated typography
migrainous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From migraine + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or afflicted with migraine.
Derived terms: amigrainous
nonmigrainous
misperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misperformances
Etymology: From mis- + performance.
Senses: examples: text: The apraxic-agnosic patient may make errors of action or cognition, but he is not driven into misperformance or miscognition through being the subject of violent deforming forces[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: incorrect performance
misperformances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misperformance
replicabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replicability
modulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being modulated.
desolatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more desolatingly
form: most desolatingly
Etymology: From desolating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In his absence, I think, she found herself desolatingly alone, though this was never acknowledged, but covered up by her 'affable' façade.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: So as to cause desolation.
unhurriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhurriable
form: most unhurriable
form: unhurryable
Etymology: From un- + hurry + -able.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being hurried; slow, leisurely.
unhurryable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhurryable
form: most unhurryable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unhurriable.
dysmetrias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysmetria
electrooculographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electrooculography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrooculography.
Derived terms: electrooculographically
electrooculography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From electro- + oculography.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the resting potential of the retina.
Derived terms: electrooculographic
Related terms: electrooculogram
electrooculograph
electroocular
electrooptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrooptical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an electrooptical manner or context.
gaybaits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [He] gives a performance both infuriating — he gaybaits Batman on "Batty-Boys" (?!) — and intoxicating, as his knotty linguistics draw you into a singularly malcontented mind.
ref: 2009 May, SPIN, volume 25, number 5, page 96:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gaybait
exhaustions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhaustion
choreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chorea + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Fisher stiffened, but managed to extend a yellowish, choreatic hand to the decanter on the sideboard and pour another glassful for the guest.
ref: 2005, Sebastian Faulks, Human Traces:
glosses: Of or relating to chorea.
composures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composure
immoderations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immoderation