cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
balderdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balderdash
balderdashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of balderdash
epitaphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epitaph
epitaphed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epitaphed
form: most epitaphed
Senses: examples: text: Since William J. Bryan is politically dead, buried, epitaphed and forgotten, there is something puzzling about the consternation his declaration of political policy has created among the plutocratic politicians and newspapers of both parties who have killed, buried, epitaphed and forgotten him.
ref: 1904 January 30, The Public, number 304, page 673:
text: It is ultimately in the spirit behind these lines that the heritage of Imagism, that much-epitaphed movement, is to be found.
ref: 1985, The Poetry of Ezra Pound, page 55:
text: Death as a sense-making termination of human life is made possible only on the condition of such presence; without it, we are doomed to live a spectral existence of those who are not only "buried alive" but whose lives remain totally sealed in and by incomprehension, "epitaphed with hieroglyphics".
ref: 2013, Andrzej Ciuk, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, Exploring Space, page 44:
glosses: Having been described as the subject of an epitaph.
examples: text: What though no monument epitaphed Be built above each grave?
ref: 1904, Abram Joseph Ryan, “Peace”, in The World's Best Poetry, page 453:
text: Under an epitaphed marble slab in a nearby grassy cemetery a loved one rots .
ref: 2008, William E. Woodruff, A Quirky Eye, page 137:
text: Average epitaph lengths and epitaphed headstone size according to three periods of time.
ref: 2020, Sylvia E. Thornbush, Mary J. Thornbush, Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards, page 104:
glosses: Having an inscribed epitaph.
Derived terms: unepitaphed
epitaphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epitaph
minimifidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪ.nɪ.mɪˈfɪ.di.ən/
Etymology: Of Latin origin; compare minimum, fidelity.
Senses: examples: text: The deadliest attack of the infidel is not so faith-destroying as these attempts to prop up our belief by the endorsement of the politician, or the patronizing certificate of the minimifidian man of science, neither of whom, it may very possibly be, knows as much of the Scriptures and Christianity as the once dark savage who sits clothed and in his right mind at the feet of the missionary of the cross.
ref: 1854, Harper's new monthly magazine, Volume 9, "Editor's Table", page 117
glosses: Having a minimal amount of faith.
minimifidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪ.nɪ.mɪˈfɪ.di.ən/
Forms: form: minimifidians
Etymology: Of Latin origin; compare minimum, fidelity.
Senses: glosses: One who has a minimal amount of faith.
Derived terms: minimifidianism
hanai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːnaɪ/
Etymology: From Hawaiian hānai.
Senses: examples: text: The practice of hānai was abhorrent to the New England missionaries, who discouraged it.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, page 8:
glosses: The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another family.
hanai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːnaɪ/
Forms: form: hānai
Etymology: From Hawaiian hānai.
Senses: examples: text: This is Kimo, my hanai brother.
glosses: Adopted in the traditional Hawaiian way, made a complete part of the family.
Coordinate terms: adopted
foster
green sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green seas
Senses: examples: text: We're taking green seas aboard.
glosses: A solid wave of water coming aboard the deck of a ship.
rakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raking
sea monk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea monks
Senses: glosses: Monk seal.
examples: text: […] three sea monks being found in 1530, 1546 and 1549. In fact the first sea monk was not a sea monk at all, having been found in the Rhine. The second one was found near Copenhagen with a black head and the clothes of a monk and the final one was found near Hafnia (Copenhagen), tonsured like a monk. […] Nonetheless walruses remain a possible explanation for the occurrence of sea monks prior to 1546.
ref: 2005, Steenstrupia, volume 29, pages 40–45:
text: Sea monks had failed to assert themselves into the popular imagination the way mermaids had. They lacked a certain appeal. The few pictorial depictions stuck a tonsured human head on a fish body, scaly fins and tail forming the monk's ...
ref: 2019, Holly MacArthur, Tin House 80: 20th Anniversary Edition:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A sea creature in European folklore (in the 16th century), a sort of fish that resembled (and was sometimes robed or tonsured like) a European monk.
sea monks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea monk
vugg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vuggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vug.
vuggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vugg
multiliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + literal.
Senses: examples: a multiliteral writing system
glosses: Of or relating to more than one letter (written character).
Napierian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiən
Forms: form: more Napierian
form: most Napierian
form: Naperian
form: Neperian
Etymology: From Napier + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Napier (1550–1617), Scottish mathematician who discovered logarithms.
Derived terms: Napierian logarithm
Naperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Naperian
form: most Naperian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Napierian.
Derived terms: Naperian logarithm
Hesychian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hesychian
form: most Hesychian
Etymology: From Hesychius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hesychius.
sheboon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheboons
Etymology: Blend of she + baboon.
Senses: examples: text: If the sheboon is unable to control her violent impulses to dominate, and display her chimpanzee "gifts" from nature to a "human" and she continues to assert these "superior" "gifts" that she is very proud of on me with her moronic sub imbecilic yapping (the ability to attack and savage a non primate with niggerbabble and threat of physical violence looming always in the background) then the "shit" will start.
ref: 2009 March 23, Lexi Brown, “If the sheboon keeps bothering me than I will then make more trouble”, in alt.test.test.test (Usenet):
text: I was recently contacted by an old sheboon girlfriend, who suggested we "do lunch" sometime.
ref: 2011 August 13, Virtual Shadow or VS-1 [username], “SHEBOON LOVER”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):
text: The unwed, government dependent sheboons who use food as a babysitter, while stuffing their own faces constantly.
ref: 2014 July 19, Fred Oinka, “Re: Obesity, Waffle Houses, And the South”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):
text: sheboons don't take baths !!
ref: 2015 January 31, THE NI99ERS [username], “Re: Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive in tub”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):
text: Footage, recorded by a coonstomer on Saturday night, shows a gaggle of groids engage in a CAT 4 chimpout at around 3.30pm at the Swatara Township store in Pennsylvania. During the chimpout, which began after a 'disagreement' between two sheboons, the two parties tenderize and pull each other's fur near the check-out line, as bystanders try to intervene. I wonder when chimping out will become an Olympic sport? You could have the All-Nigger games, Flash rioting, Sheboon fighting, niglet tossing, the 200 meter "I ain't the daddy" dash, the possibilities are endless!
ref: 2019 March 14, Robert Wolfe, “Another "shocking" NigMart CAT 4 chimpout”, in soc.penpals (Usenet):
text: That guard handled that extremely well, but they'd need about 2 more of him to be able to lift that fat slob sheboon off the floor, she's probably close to 400. Notice that she called him "White trash" before accusing Walmart of being "racist".
ref: 2024 February 20, K Wills, “Must watch! Fat bootlip sheboon screeches "Walmart is racist!" after fight with security”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
synonyms: buffarilla
negress
she-ape
sherilla
glosses: An ugly, fat or stupid black woman.
recoursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recourse
recoursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recourse
mispleadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispleading
subcostals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcostal
nervures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervure
water can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water cans
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, can.
glosses: Any of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; so called from the shape of the seed vessel.
Related terms: watering can
suppeditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppeditations
Etymology: From Latin suppeditatio.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot sufficiently marvel that this part of knowledge […] should be omitted both in morality and policy; considering it is of so great ministry and suppeditation to them both.
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 2XXII4
glosses: supply, or aid given.
suppeditations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suppeditation
rankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranker
flailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flailingly
form: most flailingly
Etymology: From flailing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I splashed flailingly around in the pool until the lifeguard dragged me out.
glosses: With flailing motions.
equivocatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more equivocatingly
form: most equivocatingly
Etymology: From equivocating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With equivocation.
amoebozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoebozoan
chlorellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorella
chlorellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorella
inharmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inharmonical
form: most inharmonical
Etymology: From in- + harmonical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inharmonic.
skepticalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skeptical + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being skeptical.
couraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of courage
dragonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonettes
Etymology: From dragon + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is. This is one seriously juicy-looking dragonette.
ref: 2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: dragonet
dragonlet
dragonling
dragoness
dragonness
glosses: A small or female dragon.
described video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: described videos
Senses: synonyms: described audio
DV
coordinate_terms: audio description
glosses: A video recording that includes an audio track designed for a visually impaired audience that describes the visual elements of a film, which can also include acting out subtitled dialogue in character as needed.
Derived terms: DV
Related terms: video description
ST
subtitle
subtitling
CC
closed caption
closed captioning
poynant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of poignant.
ymet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of meet
Aaron's-beard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aaron's-beards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aaron's beard.
Aaron's beards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aaron's beard
Aaron's-beards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aaron's-beard
from A to izzard
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: From beginning to end; thoroughly; covering the whole range or scope.
Aaron's beard cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aaron's beard cacti
form: Aaron's-beard cactus
Senses: synonyms: arborescent prickly pear
semaphore cactus
glosses: Opuntia leucotricha, a type of cactus similar to prickly pear.
Aaron's beard cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aaron's beard cactus
Aaron's-beard cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aaron's-beard cacti
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aaron's beard cactus.
Aaron's-beard cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aaron's-beard cactus
public servants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public servant
rebop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: bebop
deuton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutons
Etymology: From deuto- + -on.
Senses: glosses: deuteron
aasvoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑsˌfoʊ.əl/
Forms: form: aasvoels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aasvogel.
echographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From echography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to echography
Derived terms: cardioechographic
echographically
aasvoels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aasvoel
shapes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shape up
shaping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shape up
shaped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shape up
crystal stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystal stones
Senses: examples: text: A goodly Lady did foreby them rush, / Whose face did seeme as cleare as Christall stone [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: All which words, with the nature of their light and colour, the Holy Ghost doth in the vision of John comprise, and placeth within the colour of the jasper and the crystal-stone.
ref: 1665, John Bunyan, The Holy City:
glosses: Crystal; a piece of crystal.
fluorescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorescence
plum tom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plum toms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plum tomato.
synonyms: word: plum tomato
plum toms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plum tom
Abs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ab
Abs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ab
perdy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.
ref: 1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC, pages 56–57:
text: “Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of pardie.
goal lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goal line
paunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːns/
Forms: form: paunces
form: pauncer
form: pauncher
Etymology: From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans. Doublet of paunch.
Senses: examples: text: The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...
ref: 2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
Related terms: paunch
paunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːns/
Forms: form: paunces
Etymology: See pansy.
Senses: examples: text: She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of pansy.
paunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paunce
ABs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AB
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby team.
concomitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concomitance
thiogallate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiogallates
Etymology: From thio- + gallate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion derived from a gallate by replacing one or more oxygen atom by sulfur; any salt containing such an anion
thorotrast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of thorium + contrast. Originally a trade name.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A radiographic contrast medium composed of a suspension of thorium dioxide.
sure-footedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sure-footed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being sure-footed
fyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fyles
form: fyling
form: fyled
form: fyled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of file.
nice as pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very nice.
deutons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuton
prestigiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestigiators
Etymology: From Latin praestīgiātor.
Senses: examples: text: this cunning Prestigiator took the advantage of so high a place to set off his Representations the more lively, and to make them the more probable to be true .
ref: 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: A conjurer; a prestidigitator.
prestigiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prestigiator
Ababdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ababda
laggardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laggard + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being a laggard.
Related terms: laggardly
Ababda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæb.də/
Forms: form: Ababdas
form: Ababda
form: Ababdeh
form: Habab
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَبَابِدَة (ʕabābida).
Senses: glosses: A member of a nomadic Beja people of upper Egypt.
Ababdeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæb.dɛ/
Forms: form: Ababdehs
form: Ababdeh
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ababda.
Ababdehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ababdeh
starosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starost
ab absurdo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbəbˈsɝˌdoʊ/
ipa: /ˌæˌbæbˈsɝˌdoʊ/
ipa: /ˌæˌbæbˈzɝˌdoʊ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ab absurdō (literally “away from harsh”), from ab (“of, from, by, since”) + absurdō (“silly, stupid”), ablative masculine/neuter of absurdus.
Senses: glosses: From absurdity.
operatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more operatical
form: most operatical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of operatic.
commendatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commendatory
abacaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abacaxi
Parmesans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parmesan
psalmodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psalmodical
form: most psalmodical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psalmodic.
fulmined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fulmine
on condition
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was bitten by a snake, but a second woman cured him, on condition that she could also be his wife.
ref: 1975, William Russell Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, page 115:
qualifier: following by a clause
glosses: Providing.
examples: text: these presents are made in contemplation, but not on condition of, a marriage
ref: 1793, William Moseley, Lord Peter King, editors, Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court:
text: In all these cases the life of the god-man is prolonged on condition of showing, in a severe physical contest of fight or flight, that his bodily strength is not decayed
ref: 1890, J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough, page 213:
qualifier: a present participle
glosses: With the requirement (of).
raw_tags: followed by of and
examples: text: Airframes, engines, and electronics are generally repaired on condition, before next flight.
qualifier: operations; maintenance; operations; maintenance
glosses: When testing or inspection finds an indication of a potential problem.
a baculo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ā baculō (literally “by means of the rod”), from ā (“of, from”) + baculō (“sceptre, rod”), ablative singular of baculum.
Senses: examples: text: Philonous’ reply is perhaps less interesting for its a baculo dismissal of the argument than for a nuance in its first sentence.
ref: 2018, William Boos, edited by Florence S. Boos, Metamathematics and the Philosophical Tradition, →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: Argued by means of force rather than logic.
Abadites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abadite
Abadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abadites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ibadite.
bravings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of braving
basisphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of basisphenoid.
crib lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crib lizards
Senses: examples: text: Or she'd have gone straight, married a dentist, squeezed out a minivan full of crib lizards, and gotten fat.
ref: 2009, Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim, Eos Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A child, especially a baby or toddler.
crib lizards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crib lizard
crotch dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotch droppings
form: crotch-dropping
form: crotchdropping
Senses: examples: text: […] And when I looked myself up on the Internet this morning, some alternative weekly called Joy my crotch dropping."
ref: 2008, Jennifer Weiner, Certain Girls, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A child; an offspring.
crotch droppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch dropping
aquagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aqua- + -genic.
Senses: examples: aquagenic pruritus
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Caused by contact with water.
episcoparian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more episcoparian
form: most episcoparian
Senses: examples: text: S. Paul, where shewing himself a grand Episcoparian
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: episcopal
habitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitator
disestablishmentarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disestablishmentarian
unraunchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unraunchy
form: most unraunchy
Etymology: From un- + raunchy.
Senses: glosses: Not raunchy.
keight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of catch
crotch-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotch-droppings
Senses: examples: text: "The Mary Poppins act is just for the benefit of the crotch-droppings and their parents."
ref: 2008, Karin Coddon, The Shadow Man, Lulu.com, published 2008, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: Alternative form of crotch dropping.
crotch-droppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch-dropping
echomail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From echo + mail.
Senses: examples: text: While the advantages of echomail are obvious, there are a few disadvantages.
ref: 1991, Martha E. Williams, 12th National Online Meeting: proceedings — 1991: New York, May 7-9, 1991 (Infotoday):
text: This system has become quite efficient; a message entered in any of the hundreds of echomail conference areas carried on the backbone propagates around the world in less than 24 hours.
ref: 1991, Philip L. Becker, Introduction to PC communications:
text: It maintains a number of echomail areas, including 40 recently added that cover areas rainging from animal rights to robotics.
ref: 1997, Joseph C. Tardiff, Mary Alampi, Information Industry Directory, 1998: Descriptive listings:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Messages transmitted between bulletin board systems and presented on discussion forums.
Related terms: netmail
cow tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow trees
Etymology: Compare Spanish palo de vaca.
Senses: glosses: Any trees in several species:
Brosimum utile, a tree of South America that yields a nourishing milky fluid when cut.
glosses: Any trees in several species:
Couma macrocarpa in the family Apocynaceae, a tropical rainforest tree native to Colombia.
glosses: Any trees in several species:
Gymnema lactiferum (Ceylon cow tree).
glosses: Any trees in several species:
Manilkara bidentata (massaranduba).
cow trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cow tree
antecursors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antecursor
crotch dumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotch dumplings
Etymology: From crotch + dumpling.
Senses: examples: text: Not every marriage revolves around creating crotch dumplings.
ref: 2003 November 15, m miller, “Re: Why Not to Get Married”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
crotch dumplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotch dumpling
me neither
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: "I don't go there any more." / "Me neither."
"I never go there." / "Me neither."
"Would you go there?" / "No way." / "Me neither."
"I can't go there." / "Me neither."
"Neither of us go there." / "Me neither."
"I saw no one." / "Me neither."
"I'm not going anywhere today." / "Me neither." (Compare: "I'm going nowhere today." / "Me too." go nowhere is an idiom.)
glosses: Used to say that a negative-containing statement of the previous speaker applies to the speaker as well.
temperature inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperature inversions
Senses: examples: text: Temperature inversions can occur in perfectly clear skies. Samford said such an inversion was present in the Washington area early last Sunday, when up to a dozen unidentified flying objects appeared on radar screens both at Washington national airport and nearby Andrews air base.
ref: 1952 July 30, Vern Haugland (Associated Press), "Air Force Says Saucers No Menace to US", Ludington Daily News (Michigan, USA), p. 1 (Retrieved 21 June 2012)
text: It's possible that a temperature inversion—a layer of warm air lying on top of a layer of cold air—is causing the sounds of the sonic booms to be carried inland, he said.
ref: 1993 March 6, Linda Hetsel, “Jets over Gulf may have caused booms”, in Victoria Advocate, Texas, USA, retrieved 21 Jun 2012, page 12A:
text: Bottled up by a temperature inversion, the gunk grew so dense that the Utah Division of Air Quality imposed the season's first "red" no-burn restrictions,
ref: 2005 Dec. 13, Joe Bauman, "Wasatch's gray skies trigger a red advisory, but a storm front today could ease air pollution, Deseret News (Utah, USA) (Retrieved 21 June 2012)
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An atmospheric condition in which a cooler layer of air lies below a warmer layer of air that functions as a "ceiling" for the cooler layer, interfering with normal atmospheric circulation and trapping pollutants.
forgetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly continuing Middle English forgetenes (“forgetfulness”); or recreated in modern times from forget + -ness, modelled after forgiveness. Compare West Frisian ferjitnis (“forgetfulness”), Dutch vergetenis (“forgetfulness”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, how many of us must charge our hearts to-day with forgetness!
ref: 1893, The Pulpit: A Magazine of Sermons, volume 8, page 289:
text: […] but to think of him foundling a nelliza the second, also cliptbuss (the best was still there if the torso was gone) where he did and when he did, retriever to the last — escapes my forgetness now was it dust-covered, […]
ref: 1999, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
text: While working they manage to reach a level of what Goleman (1995) calls 'flow', which is a state of 'self-forgetness' as a result of being engrossed in the task at hand.
ref: 2008, Shahnaz Bahman, Helen Maffini, Developing Children's Emotional Intelligence:
text: If you were to visit a Christian church, you would hear a lot about forgiveness: […]. Instead of forgiveness, it is useful to strive for forgetness, and simply leave behind the pain of the past.
ref: 2000, Gavin Frost, Yvonne Frost, The Witch's Magical Handbook:
text: [...]: he comes to understand God's forgiveness in terms of forgetness, and that recognition brings with it a new understanding of the Christian life of faith as entailing not merely belief but praxis or the expressing of love in community.
ref: 2012, Curtis L. Thompson, Joyce M. Cuff, God and Nature:
text: We have not found that such forgetness happened to any of the prophets especially the master and the last of them (peace be upon them).
ref: 2014, Abdul-Hussayn Sharafiddeen al-Musawi, Abu Hurayra:
text: Once those feelings are identified then the people involved need to be sure they are clear on what happened. Finally, there is a decision to move past it and not allow the hurt to continue or to drive their feelings. Forgiveness is not forgetness.
ref: 2014, Elise I. Guari, Divorcing with Dignity:
glosses: The act of forgetting, or any property associated with it; oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.
cunt dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunt droppings
Etymology: From cunt + dropping.
Senses: examples: text: I just heard on Friday that the farm owner directly across the street from me may be selling his property to the school district so they can build an ELEMENTRY^([sic]) SCHOOL there!!! ACK! A concentrated force of screaming cunt droppings right across the street!
ref: 2000 August 13, kestryl [username], “Re: I stirred up a bit of sh*t”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
cunt droppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cunt dropping
go nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes nowhere
form: going nowhere
form: went nowhere
form: gone nowhere
Senses: examples: text: This project is going nowhere.
text: The negotiations went nowhere.
glosses: To fail to progress, to fail to attain a favorable result or outcome.
Synonyms: go nowhere fast
Related terms: tread water
disadorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disadorn
disadorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disadorn
disadorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disadorn
celling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cell + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The prison was so crowded that they had to resort to double celling and then triple celling.
glosses: confinement in a cell
Derived terms: single-celling
celling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cell
chiropter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiropters
Etymology: Coined by William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French chiroptère.
Senses: glosses: A member of the order Chiroptera, a bat
wikipedia: Georges Cuvier
Derived terms: chiroptero-
inned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inn
crotchling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotchlings
Etymology: From crotch + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Bad enough that the model for every dumb-blond joke you've ever heard, her dumb-as-mud husband and her three spoiled whiney crotchlings moved in right behind us.
ref: 1999 March 22, Jas, “RANT!! (Was: And even MORE weirdness...)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
crotchlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crotchling
forgnaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forgnaws
form: forgnawing
form: forgnawed
form: forgnawed
Etymology: From Middle English forgnawen, forgnaȝen, from Old English forgnagan (“to eat up”), equivalent to for- + gnaw.
Senses: glosses: To gnaw in pieces; eat up.
fuck trophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck trophies
Etymology: fuck + trophy, the implication being that a child is a prize received for having sexual intercourse, which is regarded as an unremarkable achievement.
Senses: examples: text: Victor "the Diceman" Lemieux started life as a seven-and-a-half-pound fuck trophy, in a third-floor walk-up brothel off Canal Street in New Orleans.
ref: 2005, Harry Hunsicker, Still River, St. Martin's Press, published 2006, →ISBN:
glosses: A child.
fuck trophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck trophy
ground balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ground ball
ground ball with eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground balls with eyes
Etymology: From the metaphor that the ball has eyes, allowing it to avoid the infielders.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weakly hit ground ball that barely evades the infielders.
cavernicoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavernicole
hump dumpling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hump dumplings
Etymology: From hump (“to have sex”) and dumpling, suggesting something short and squat. Derogatory usage implies that such a child is little more than the product of humping.
Senses: examples: text: You do NOT have the right to allow your hump dumplings to roam unattended in any public place.
ref: 2003 October 5, Kari Levstik, “Speaking of CF Hotels and B & B's”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A child.
hump dumplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hump dumpling
in check
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XI, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: The old feelings, so religiously held in check, were stimulated to rebelliousness, though they did not show themselves in any direct manner as yet.
ref: 1880, Thomas Hardy, chapter 37, in The Trumpet Major:
text: I . . . espied a small cave, excellent suited to our defence and where two determined men might hold in check a whole army.
ref: 1921, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 30, in Martin Conisby's Vengeance:
text: Scott also has schizoaffective bipolar disorder, a mental illness she keeps in check with a low dose of Zyprexa.
ref: 2008 December 3, Kate Torgovnick, “Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger?”, in Time:
glosses: Under restraint or control.
shriekling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrieklings
Etymology: From shriek + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Mommee stayed through all but the last three minutes of the first half of the concert and waited until the little shriekling was at maximum caterwaul before taking it out of the room.
ref: 1998 December 1, BrassWoman [username], “Concert at the Church (rant)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A noisy child.
shrieklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shriekling
smoked salmons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoked salmon
mealworm beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mealworm beetles
Etymology: From meal + worm + beetle.
Senses: glosses: A darkling beetle (or darkening beetle) of species Tenebrio molitor, in the family Tenebrionidae, whose larvae (mealworms) are typically used as a food source for reptile, fish, and avian pets.
Synonyms: yellow mealworm beetle
mealworm beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mealworm beetle
fleshloaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshloaves
form: flesh loaf
Etymology: From flesh + loaf. Apparently derived from "pinching off a flesh loaf" (attested in 1999), which likens childbirth to a bowel movement (pinch a loaf being slang for "to defecate").
Senses: examples: text: Elderly don't bug me, however loud drunken adults bother me as much as screaming fleshloaves.
ref: 2001 October 21, JD Kidkill [username], “Re: Stupid Breeder LTTE”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: A baby.
Teutonomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutomania
Etymology: From Teutono- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: an obsession with Germany and German things
fleshloaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshloaf
Teutomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Teuto- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Teutonomania.
flesh loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh loaves
Senses: examples: text: I have a tiny bit of respect of Angelina for adopting an orphan instead of populating the world with another (her own) flesh loaf.
ref: 2002 July 20, Ida Kern, “Re: marriage destroyed by adopted flesh-loaf”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of fleshloaf.
flesh loaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flesh loaf
scratches one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scratch one's head
scratched one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scratch one's head
scratching one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scratch one's head
cafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caf
tertiary care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Milwaukee Children's Hospital would be incorporated in a 75-bed unit at the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, dealing with so-called tertiary care patients, those requiring the most advanced level of medicine.
ref: 1981 Jan. 23, Neil D. Rosenberg, Health board holds on hospital plans", Milwaukee Journal, p. 1 (retrieved 21 June 2012)
text: This 150-bed hospital would become the only hospital in the New York City area specializing entirely in providing tertiary care—the highest level of care—for seriously ill children.
ref: 1996 April 28, Tom Callahan, “Hospital Plans Unit for Children”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2012:
text: The part that gets the most recognition is the relatively small tertiary care segment with advanced technology and highly specialized medical personnel.
ref: 2009 September 9, P. Zachariah, “Rethinking medical education in India”, in The Hindu, India, retrieved 21 Jun 2012:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Health care treatment requiring very specialized expertise and advanced equipment and usually delivered within a medical facility.
Related terms: primary care
secondary care
hantel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hantels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hantle.
Mercian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməːsɪən/
ipa: /ˈməːʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Mercians
form: Mertian
Etymology: From Late Latin Mercius + -an, Latinized from Old English Mierċe.
Senses: examples: text: And comming forth shall spred his banner brave / Over the troubled South, that it shall make / The warlike Mertians for feare to quake […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
Mercian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməːsɪən/
ipa: /ˈməːʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Mertian
Etymology: From Late Latin Mercius + -an, Latinized from Old English Mierċe.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Old English spoken in Mercia.
Mercian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməːsɪən/
ipa: /ˈməːʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: Mertian
Etymology: From Late Latin Mercius + -an, Latinized from Old English Mierċe.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Mercia.
Mercians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mercian
red-banded sand wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-banded sand wasps
Senses: glosses: Ammophila sabulosa, found in northern Europe, is a species of wasp within the subfamily Ammophilinae of the hunting wasp family Sphecidae.
Synonyms: sense: Ammophila sabulosa
word: Sphex sabulosa
Hyponyms: sense: Ammophila sabulosa
word: Ammophila sabulosa sabulosa
sense: Ammophila sabulosa
alt: Matsumura, 1911
word: Ammophila sabulosa solowiyofkae
sense: Ammophila sabulosa
alt: Ed. André, 1886
word: Ammophila sabulosa touareg
sense: Ammophila sabulosa
english: F. Smith, 1856
translation: F. Smith, 1856
word: Ammophila sabulosa vagabunda
red-banded sand wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-banded sand wasp
Neustria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːstɹɪə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Neustria.
Senses: examples: text: There shall a Lion from the sea-bord wood / Of Neustria come roring, with a crew / Of hungry whelpes […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The western part of the Frankish empire, corresponding roughly to modern-day northern France.
Derived terms: Neustrian
Related terms: Austrasia
Austria
pommie washes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pommie wash
danta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dantas
Etymology: Borrowed from a certain Ghanaian vernacular name (compare Anyi danta, Sehwi danta).
Senses: glosses: A deciduous timber-yielding tree native to West and West Central Tropical Africa, Nesogordonia papaverifera.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
abstract factory pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract factory patterns
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A creational design pattern that decouples the object creation by providing a group of individual factories by defining an abstract factory class.
Related terms: factory method pattern
wife-giver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife-givers
Senses: glosses: A lineage or a family that gives a woman in marriage.
wife-taker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife-takers
Senses: glosses: A lineage or a family that accepts a woman in marriage from another lineage or family.
quatercentenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quatercentenary
Romanichals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanichal
arylesterases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arylesterase
downsamplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downsampling
tongue lashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue lashing
space operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of space opera
Giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Giant
dephenylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dephenylation
lower limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lower limit
upper limits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper limit
bitzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitzers
form: bitsa
form: bitser
form: bitza
Etymology: Unknown. Originally used of dogs. Perhaps from bits + -er, in reference to the dog's composition from multiple different "bits". The spelling with tz may be influenced from other names of breeds (e.g. spitz, shih tzu, etc.) or in imitation of German names. Compare also German Betze (“bitch, female dog”).
Senses: synonyms: mutt
glosses: A mongrel dog.
examples: text: And a bit Welsh on your father's side. And a bit Irish. There's even some Chinese in there. You're a bitzer, Stevie.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN:
glosses: A person of mixed race or ethnicity.
glosses: A bicycle assembled from bits and pieces.
abstract factory class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract factory classes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A class that has an abstract method to create an object.
abstract method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract methods
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A method of an abstract class that has no implementation in that class and must therefore be implemented by all subtyping classes.
abstract methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract method
abstract class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract classes
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A class that cannot be instantiated and may have abstract method.
abstract classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract class
electrothermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + -thermy.
Senses: glosses: The electrical generation of heat
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic application of such heat
Related terms: electrothermic
juncus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juncuses
Etymology: From the genus name. Doublet of junco and junk.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Juncus (the rushes).