cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ultrablond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrablond
form: most ultrablond
Etymology: From ultra- + blond.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, there was the requisite shot from when they both appeared on Oprah, hand-holding shots on red carpets with Celia in a flame of an orange dress and Kick in a smooth tuxedo sporting the ultrablond hair from one of his summer blockbuster movies.
ref: 2007, Sharon Naylor, It's Not My Wedding (But I'm in Charge), page 50:
text: As her partner, Maxim Beloserkovsky has too little freshness and too much calculated charm in his dancing; and he is distractingly ultrablond in a way that strongly recalls too many Soviet male dancers of yesteryear.
ref: 2009 May 21, Alastair Macaulay, “Adrift in a Spectacle of Balanchine and Tchaikovsky”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very strikingly blond.
fornicatours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fornicatour
demisoloist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demisoloists
Etymology: From demi- + soloist.
Senses: examples: text: This pretty-in-pink affair, for a couple (Abi Stafford and Jared Angle), four demisoloists and six female corps dancers, is set to a Britten score for strings.
ref: 2009 May 22, Roslyn Sulcas, “Dancing to the Beat of an Elaborate Mathematical Equation”, in New York Times:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A dancer of a particular rank below soloist.
demisoloists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demisoloist
irruptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irruption
haikulike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haikulike
form: most haikulike
Etymology: From haiku + -like.
Senses: examples: text: You can also see a connection in the work of contemporary photographers like Paul Graham, whose haikulike sequences of images don’t shy away from socioeconomic reality.
ref: 2009 May 22, Karen Rosenberg, “A Photographer Who Refused to Think Like a Photographer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of haiku.
khimar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/
/xɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: khimars
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic خِمَار (ḵimār).
Senses: examples: text: Nor would universal healing arrive with the Sabbath candlesticks from Poland that had been in Rina Lubit’s family for five generations or with the khimar, a scarf to cover a Muslim woman’s face, that was handed down from Tayssir Abdullah’s great-grandmother in Yemen.
ref: 2009 May 22, Clyde Haberman, “Interfaith Understanding Wins Out, and a Plot Loses”, in New York Times:
glosses: A long veil worn by Muslim women as part of hijab.
khimars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khimar
midcrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + crash.
Senses: examples: text: Made in 2001, the eerily prophetic “Middlemen” shows the paper-strewn floor of a stock exchange apparently in midcrash.
ref: 2009 May 22, Ken Johnson, “Video Spectacles, Imagined or, in One Case, Real”, in New York Times:
text: They're present in the spongy feeling when you walk in your high-tech running shoes, the building envelope that insulates your home or office, the designed collapse of your car's bumper in midcrash.
ref: 2007, Metropolis, volume 26, numbers 9-10:
glosses: A point in time during a crash.
Sukumas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sukuma
prebubble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + bubble.
Senses: examples: text: Even if it becomes easier for small technology companies to go public, he said, “the new normal” will probably be an average of 50 venture-backed public offerings a year, down from 125 in the prebubble days and 260 at the height of the bubble.
ref: 2009 May 22, Claire Cain Miller, “Two Technology Offerings Find Favor on Wall Street”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a financial bubble.
semiclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + clear.
Senses: examples: text: They are seen through a kind of screen of semiclear plastic that was applied in a gelatinous form to the surface (canvas, fabric or stretched plastic) and then neatly striated (vertically) with a comblike machine.
ref: 2009 May 22, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly clear.
semilegible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + legible.
Senses: examples: text: In other instances second looks reveal unexpected excisions or additions to the posters or a semilegible word cut out of painted paper.
ref: 2009 May 22, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly legible.
semiketals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiketal
semihydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semihydrate
palliatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From palliative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of Ethel Hannah, he says, the family could have instructed the hospital to not treat her pneumonia and to treat her palliatively.
ref: 2009 May 23, Judy Steed, Toronto Star:
glosses: With palliative care.
arthrogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthrograms
Etymology: From arthro- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Bruney had a magnetic resonance imaging exam on Thursday and an arthrogram on Friday, seeking answers.
ref: 2009 May 23, Tyler Kepner, “Bruney Can’t Find Reason for Pain”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A series of images, often X-rays, of a joint after injection of a contrast medium.
arthrograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthrogram
arthrogrypotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
teratology
glosses: Of, pertaining to or affected with arthrogryposis.
arthromeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arthromere
arthrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arthrology + -ical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to arthrology.
fryling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frylings
Etymology: From fry + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: In an unusual alliance, Minnesota is trading walleye fingerlings, above, for Wisconsin frylings.
ref: 2009 May 23, Monica Davey, “States Barter Fish and Bullets to Save Money”, in New York Times:
text: He begins with eggs and raises the trout from frylings to rainbows that will measure well over 16 inches.
ref: 2009, Jim DuFresne, Michigan Off the Beaten Path, page 90:
glosses: A very small trout.
frylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fryling
quickfire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quickfire
form: most quickfire
Senses: examples: text: Brawn believes his driver’s past setbacks may be a firmer preparation for a championship bid than, say, the quickfire success earned by Hamilton, who has turned sullen in his public appearances and blamed his troubles on his McLaren-Mercedes team giving him a “bad car.”
ref: 2009 May 23, John F. Burns, “A Rebirth in Britain as a Driver Revives a Career and a Team”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of quick-fire.
quickfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If his revelation had started as a slow burn, his fame now exploded and spread like quickfire.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 363:
glosses: Fire that spreads quickly through dry vegetation.
supermaximum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-maximum
Etymology: From super- + maximum.
Senses: examples: text: The federal supermaximum prison in Florence, Colo.
ref: 2009 May 23, Kirk Johnson, “In Area Packed With Prisons, a Split on Jihadists”, in New York Times:
glosses: supermax
glosses: Greater than maximum; to the very highest degree; supermaximal
supermaximum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermaximums
form: super-maximum
Etymology: From super- + maximum.
Senses: glosses: A supermax prison.
belledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From belle + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Here were four elegant women, co-workers at Sugarbaker & Associates, an Atlanta design firm — sharp-tongued but affectionate, unfailingly well-mannered, makeup always just so — who appeared to be standing tall for Southern belledom.
ref: 2009 May 24, Jon Caramanica, “Chintz, Sequins and Ruffled Feathers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The realm or sphere of belles.
boutonniered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boutonniere + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Standing amid a crowd of about 80 parents, siblings and grandparents, they snapped pictures and whooped appreciatively as their white friends — blow-dried, boutonniered and glittering in a way that only high-school seniors can — did their “senior walk,” parading in elegant pairs into the prom.
ref: 2009 May 24, Sara Corbett, “A Prom Divided”, in New York Times:
glosses: Wearing a boutonniere.
galaktoboureko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Greek γαλακτομπούρεκο (galaktompoúreko).
Senses: glosses: A Greek dessert of semolina-based custard in phyllo.
bootneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootnecks
Etymology: From boot + neck.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: buffalo
bullock
turkey
glosses: A member of the Royal Marines.
bootnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootneck
gopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gopping
form: most gopping
Senses: examples: text: […]there will be a prose-poem of pure meaninglessness as his brilliance finally breaks loose from the tethers of observation and oozes across the page in a great, gopping goo of pure pretension.
ref: 2009 May 24, David Brooks, “Mirror on America”, in New York Times:
text: They were gopping: the biggest bruises I have ever seen on his thighs and legs. I had completely messed him up.
ref: 2010, Matt Croucher, Bullet Proof, page 147:
text: 'You look gopping,' Cress said, glancing over at Tor - who was pale and black- eyed from last night's bottle of wine - as she rifled through her confection of rainbow-coloured chiffons and slinky slipper satins.
ref: 2010, Karen Swan, Players:
text: 2012, Top Gear (TV series), "Africa Special"
RICHARD: You know that word you like, James, “gopping”?
JAMES: It is gopping.
RICHARD: Nothing has ever been more gopping than that.
glosses: Ugly; disgusting.
governmentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From government + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the past few months, a new axis of conflict has opened up in Somalia, an essentially governmentless nation ripped apart by rival clans since 1991.
ref: 2009 May 24, Jeffrey Gettleman, “For Somalia, Chaos Breeds Religious War”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a government.
Derived terms: governmentlessness
adhærents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhærent
hotwalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotwalkers
Senses: examples: text: His daughter is now here, and she just started working as a hotwalker for Darwin Barnach in the barn next to us.
ref: 2009 May 24, Alex Brown, “A Day in the Life of an Exercise Rider”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who walks a horse to cool it after exercise.
Related terms: hotwalking
hotwalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotwalker
hotwires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotwire
hotwiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotwire
hotwired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotwire
Houdiniesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Houdiniesque
form: most Houdiniesque
Etymology: From Houdini + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the magician and escape artist Harry Houdini.
hyperviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + violence.
Senses: examples: text: To Morris, this rejection and all that followed — the hyperviolence of the second Palestinian uprising, the rise of Hamas — confirm that there is nothing Israel could do to make Arab Muslims agree to its existence as a Jewish state.
ref: 2009 May 24, Jeffrey Goldberg, “No Common Ground”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extreme violence.
hyperviolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperviolent
form: most hyperviolent
Etymology: From hyper- + violent.
Senses: glosses: Extremely violent.
insiderness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insider + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The clipping of words is a harmless habit, used less for speed in spoken communication than for its sense of novelty or insiderness.
ref: 2009 May 24, William Safire, “Abbreve That Template”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being an insider.
ketubah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketubahs
form: ketubot
form: ketuboth
form: kesubah
form: ketuba
form: ketubbah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כתובה / כְּתֻבָּה (k'tubá).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Jewish marriage contract that outlines the rights and responsibilities of the groom in relation to the bride.
ketubahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketubah
ketubot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketubah
ketubbah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketubbahs
form: ketubbot
form: ketubboth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ketubah.
ketubbahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketubbah
ketubbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketubbah
benzenonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: benzenium
Derived terms: benzenonium ion
stepmama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepmamas
form: stepmamma
Etymology: From step- + mama.
Senses: glosses: stepmother
stepmamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepmammas
form: stepmama
Etymology: From step- + mamma.
Senses: glosses: stepmother
stepmamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepmama
stepmammas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepmamma
basilean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bəsĭʹlĭən
ipa: /bəˈsɪlɪən/
Forms: form: basileans
Etymology: Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives and derived substantives); compare basileolatry
Senses: glosses: A royalist; a partisan of a king.
great gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great guns
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Obsolete form of big gun.
synonyms: bigwig
glosses: A person of great importance or talent.
Derived terms: go great guns
supermachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermachines
Etymology: From super- + machine.
Senses: examples: text: That has led to no shortage of raised eyebrows among hard-nosed technologists in the engineering culture here, some of whom describe the Kurzweilian romance with supermachines as a new form of religion.
ref: 2009 May 24, John Markoff, “The Coming Superbrain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any very powerful machine.
supermachines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermachine
titanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more titanically
form: most titanically
Etymology: From titanic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: His parents — a restless, titanically self-involved father and a mother who cultivated her inner life in strict solitude — seem a much likelier source for his condition.
ref: 2009 May 24, Laura Miller, “Faking It”, in New York Times:
glosses: To a titanic extent.
uncircumspect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncircumspect
form: most uncircumspect
Etymology: From un- + circumspect.
Senses: examples: text: And he sets industriously to the task of cleaning, renovating and exploring his overgrown property with the steady uncircumspect conviction of a true handyman.
ref: 2009 May 24, Scott Bradfield, “Upstate”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not circumspect.
underreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: underreactions
Etymology: From under- + reaction.
Senses: examples: text: If there was no consensus on tapabocas, I thought I might at least find a safe midpoint between overreactions and underreactions.
ref: 2009 May 24, Colleen Kinder, “Unmasked”, in New York Times:
glosses: A reaction that is inadequate or insufficient.
underreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underreaction
nonconsensus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + consensus.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to consensus.
bragfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡfɛst/
Forms: form: bragfests
Etymology: From brag + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Over a haunted-house beat by the goth-rap innovator Zaytoven, “Gorgeous” is magnificent, a shameless bragfest structured around two-syllable rhymes: “watch like thunder, chain like lightning/my ring game scary, my pinky so frightening.”
ref: 2009 May 25, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: A song, event, etc. characterized by bragging.
bragfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bragfest
disinform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disinforms
form: disinforming
form: disinformed
form: disinformed
Etymology: Back-formation from disinformation, equivalent to dis- + inform.
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between memory as lived and history as documented is always a complex dialogue — each informing, and disinforming, the other.
ref: 2009 May 25, “Of Memory and Israel”, in New York Times:
glosses: To supply with disinformation.
Derived terms: disinformer
Related terms: disinformation
misinform
disinforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disinform
disinforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disinform
disinformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disinform
disinformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinformation
disinformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disinformers
Etymology: From disinform + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disinforms.
Synonyms: disinformant
disinformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinformer
disinformant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disinformants
Etymology: From dis- + informant.
Senses: glosses: One who disinforms.
Synonyms: disinformer
disinformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disinformative
form: most disinformative
Etymology: From dis- + informative.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to disinformation.
disinformants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinformant
relead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈlɛd/
homophone: reled
Forms: form: releads
form: releading
form: releaded
form: releaded
Etymology: From re- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: The real windows were transported to nine glass-restoration studios from Massachusetts to California, where the glass was cleaned and patched, and then releaded.
ref: 2009 May 25, Glenn Collins, “Let There Be Light, and Color, on Fifth Avenue”, in New York Times:
glosses: To fit (a window) with new lead.
relead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈlɛd/
homophone: reled
ipa: /ɹiːˈlɛd/
homophone: reled
Forms: form: releads
form: releading
form: reled
form: reled
Etymology: re- + lead
Senses: glosses: To lead again.
releaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relead
releading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relead
releads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relead
moral minimums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral minimum
subgovernor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgovernors
Etymology: From sub- + governor.
Senses: examples: text: “Upon speaking to multiple village elders, family members, the police chief and the subgovernor, I am convinced that the individual in question is not the person that the government claims,” he wrote in January to Clive Stafford Smith, a human rights lawyer he had met three years earlier during a posting to Guantánamo.
ref: 2009 May 25, Richard A. Oppel, “U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee”, in New York Times:
glosses: A secondary or subsidiary governor.
subgovernors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgovernor
subgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgrade
moral minima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral minimum
Zabbaleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zabbaleens
form: Zabbaleen
Etymology: Egyptian Arabic زبالين
Senses: glosses: One of a minority religious community of Coptic Christians who work as Cairo's informal garbage collectors.
Zabbaleens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zabbaleen
zygomycoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygomycosis
zygomycotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zygomycosis.
controversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controversions
Etymology: From Middle French controversion and its etymon Latin contrōversiō.
Senses: examples: text: “Tori & Dean” (which begins anew on Tuesday) is itself an exercise in controversion, as Ms. Spelling’s attempts to avoid photographers with long lenses are in turn filmed by the camera crew she has invited to follow her around while she navigates life with her husband, Dean McDermott, and their children Liam and Stella Doreen.
ref: 2009 May 26, Ginia Bellafante, “Examined Lives: So Many Camera Crews, So Little Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: controversy
Related terms: controverse
controversional
controvert
megacase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megacases
Etymology: From mega- + case.
Senses: examples: text: Although no judge will be assigned until the case is filed, court officials are creating plans for a separate computer server devoted to G.M.’s filing, which will be an even bigger megacase than Chrysler, which received that designation in April.
ref: 2009 May 26, Micheline Maynard, “Bankruptcy for G.M. Would Tax the Experts”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large and complex legal case.
megacases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megacase
neonatalogist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neonatalogists
Etymology: From neonatalogy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “The Little Couple” (beginning on Tuesday on TLC) revolves around Bill Klein, a businessman, and Jen Arnold, a neonatalogist, who share a compatibility of mind and, more pointedly for the purposes of reality television, a likeness of physical stature: they are both under four feet tall.
ref: 2009 May 26, Ginia Bellafante, “Examined Lives: So Many Camera Crews, So Little Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who works in the field of neonatology.
neonatalogists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neonatalogist
nonmalformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + malformed.
Senses: glosses: Not malformed.
nonoverloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + overloaded.
Senses: glosses: Not overloaded.
overliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overlive
overlives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overlive
overlived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overlive
saprophagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “They are the major decomposers,” outdoing even bacteria, worms and maggots in their saprophagic industry, said David J. McLaughlin, a mycologist at the University of Minnesota.
ref: 2009 May 26, Natalie Angier, “Fungi, From Killer to Dinner Companion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Eating dead organic matter.
Related terms: saprophyte
biogasoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + gasoline.
Senses: examples: text: Shell has also formed partnerships with a variety of small companies at work on improving enzymes that break down various plants and waste materials for ethanol, making fuels from algae and even biogasoline from sugary liquids derived from plant materials.
ref: 2009 May 27, Clifford Krauss, “Big Oil Warms to Ethanol and Biofuel Companies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Gasoline produced from biomass.
biofunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biofunction
autobiog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autobiogs
Etymology: Shortening; compare biog.
Senses: glosses: An autobiography.
autobiogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autobiog
poophead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp.hɛd/
Forms: form: poopheads
Etymology: From poop + head.
Senses: glosses: An objectionable person.
Related terms: poohead
poopoohead
poopyhead
poopheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poophead
nonbirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + birth.
Senses: glosses: The absence of birth; failure to be born.
ethanols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethanol
naphthalenesulphonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalenesulphonates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naphthalenesulfonate.
naphthalenesulphonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthalenesulphonate
naphthalenesulfonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naphthalenesulfonates
form: naphthalenesulphonate
Etymology: From naphthalene + sulfonate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of derivatives of sulfonic acid which contain a naphthalene functional unit.
Synonyms: napsylate
naphthalenesulfonates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthalenesulfonate
naphthaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthaldehyde
naphthalenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naphthalene
farmstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmstands
Etymology: From farm + stand.
Senses: examples: text: Stacks of locally grown, peak-ripe produce are about to appear at farmstands and markets — then disappear for another year.
ref: 2009 May 27, Julia Moskin, “Preserving Time in a Bottle (or a Jar)”, in New York Times:
glosses: A stand that sells farm produce.
farmstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmstand
flowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowages
Etymology: From flow + -age.
Senses: glosses: A flowing or overflowing of liquid.
flowages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowage
rendang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛnˈdæŋ/
/ˈɹɛnˌdæŋ/
Forms: form: rendangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay rendang, from Minangkabau randang.
Senses: examples: text: Look for gado-gado and lothek, a pair of vegetable salads with crunchy highlights, awash in sauce that’s hand-ground (and spiced to order) for each customer; combro, a deep-fried, chili-spiked croquette of grated cassava; satay plates of skewered beef and chicken, accompanied by peanut sauce and blocks of sticky rice; the long-simmered stew called beef rendang; chicken or beef noodle soup; and cendol, iced coconut milk laden with green rice noodles and tiny cubes of colored jelly, and laced with palm sugar.
ref: 2009 May 27, Dave Cook, “A Little Taste of Somewhere Else”, in New York Times:
glosses: An Indonesian dish of beef (or sometimes other meat) slowly cooked in coconut milk.
rendangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rendang
resterilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resterilizes
form: resterilizing
form: resterilized
form: resterilized
Etymology: From re- + sterilize.
Senses: examples: text: This afternoon Bets does surgery on my leg—a small infection I've let get worse. It looks bad, clearly infected around the area. She pulls off the scab and some of the surrounding skin with our often resterilized needle.
ref: 1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 8:
text: If in doubt, know that most “spoilers” — molds, yeasts, enzymes and bacteria — cannot survive more than a few minutes’ cooking, so the contents of a questionable jar can always be dumped into a pot and resterilized by boiling for 10 minutes.
ref: 2009 May 27, Julia Moskin, “Some Canning Dos and Don'ts”, in New York Times:
glosses: To sterilize again.
Related terms: resterilization
resterilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resterilize
resterilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resterilize
resterilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resterilize
weissbiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weissbier
weissbier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪs.bɪə/
ipa: /ˈvaɪs.bɪɚ/
Forms: form: weissbiers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weißbier, probably from weiß (“white”) + Bier (“beer”), but see the lemma.
Senses: examples: text: It actually starts as two beers, Mr. Adrià said: a straightforward lager and a German-style weissbier that is seasoned with orange peel, coriander and licorice.
ref: 2009 May 27, Florence Fabricant, “From a Revered Chef, a Beer That Behaves Like Wine”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Bavarian specialty beer in which a significant proportion of malted barley is replaced with malted wheat.
Synonyms: wheat beer
Clœlia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cloelia
Etymology: Feminine form of Latin Cloelius.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Clœlius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cloelius
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
logaœdic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logaoedic.
logaœdic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logaœdics
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logaoedic.
logaœdics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps nowhere can be found more forcible examples of the inimitable power of logaœdics than in the poems of Shelley, himself almost as mighty an innovator in English rhythm as Archilochus of old in the Greek.
ref: 1891, George Stanley Farnell, Greek Lyric Poetry, Longmans, Green, and Co., Article VI., page #48:
glosses: plural of logaœdic
jigget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡət/
homophone: gigot
Forms: form: jiggets
Etymology: See gigot.
Senses: examples: text: a jigget of beef  jiggets of mutton
text: You muſt have Hind-Quarters very large, and cut Jigget Faſhion, that is a Piece of Loin with it; […]
ref: 1732, Charles Carter, “For Legs of Mutton Ham Fashion”, in The Compleat City and Country Cook: Or, Accomplish’d Housewife. […], London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis […] T. Green […]; and S. Austen […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: On the table the only viands were barons of beef, jiggets of mutton, legs of pork, and such other ponderous masses of butcher's stuff, which no one can look at without discomfort, when the first edge has been taken off the appetite.
ref: 1860, J[ohn] Cordy Jeaffreson, “The Doctor as a Bon-vivant”, in A Book about Doctors. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: Archaic spelling of gigot.
Related terms: jiggot
jigot
jigget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡət/
homophone: gigot
Forms: form: jiggets
form: jiggeting
form: jiggetting
form: jiggeted
form: jiggeted
form: jiggetted
form: jiggetted
Etymology: From jig + -et; related to jiggle.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] and jiggetting to outlandish countries, you'll do well to give her a hint to keep astern of me; for I shall never uphold a person who behaves o' that sort."
ref: 1814, Fanny Burney, The Wanderer, or, Female difficulties, page 290:
text: I don't believe he is ever two days in a place — always jiggeting about from one great house to another.
ref: 1818, Mary Russel Mitford, in a letter to William Elford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, page 288
text: […] here you stand jiggetting, and sniggling, and looking cunning, as if there were some mighty matter of intrigue and common understanding betwixt you and me, whom you never set your eyes on before!
ref: 1831, Walter Scott, “The Abbot”, in Waverley novels, volume 19, page 230:
text: Of all the boys hurrying back to St Xavier's, from Sukkur in the sands to Galle beneath the palms, none was so filled with virtue as Kimball O'Hara, jiggetting down to Umballa behind Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, […]
ref: 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 9, in Kim:
text: […] but although he knew his Queen was dead, he went on jiggetting as if nothing had happened!
ref: 1906, Richard Davey, The pageant of London, volume 2, page 365:
glosses: To gad; to move from one place to another in a (seemingly) flippant or idle manner.
fornent
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forenenst.
coronæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corona
cowardize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, […]
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
cowardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cowardizes
form: cowardizing
form: cowardized
form: cowardized
Etymology: From coward + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To render (someone or something) cowardly, to cause to become a coward.
overpull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpʊl/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpʊl/
Forms: form: overpulls
Etymology: From over- + pull.
Senses: glosses: The amount of force that must be exerted on a pipe to pull it upward, above and beyond its own weight, due to drag and other forces.
raw_tags: in an oil well
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The driver for a pump that has the eccentrics above or beside the gear wheel.
glosses: The act of pulling too much.
overpull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpʊl/
ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpʊl/
Forms: form: overpulls
form: overpulling
form: overpulled
form: overpulled
Etymology: From over- + pull.
Senses: glosses: To pull something with more force than (someone or something).
glosses: To pull (something) too far, or with too much force.
examples: text: A big mistake I see a lot of warlocks do is overpulling with whatever demon they're using. VW's good for two (maybe three), but the succubus is only good for one at a time. But young warlocks don't know this, so they send their demon into a pack of mobs, start up with their DOT's and suddenly find themselves in the middle of melee because the demon can't hold aggro.
ref: 2008, Jobbles, “Dead server economy?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: To lure away more enemies than one can handle in combat.
pentagrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentagramme
ICCL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I couldn't care less.
panaceæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panacea
he-wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːˌwʊlf/
other: [ˈhiːˌwʊɫf]
Forms: form: he-wolves
Etymology: From he- + wolf.
Senses: glosses: A male wolf.
Hypernyms: wolf
he-wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of he-wolf
contributrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contributrices
Senses: glosses: A female contributor.
Synonyms: contributress
epigrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigramme
snaggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snaggle
glanderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glanderous
form: most glanderous
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, pertaining to, or afflicted by glanders
meat safe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat safes
form: meatsafe
Senses: examples: text: […] her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty, mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe) […]
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 227:
text: It was now dusk, and after I had routed out some biscuits and a cheese in the bar—there was a meat-safe, but it contained nothing but maggots—I wandered on through the silent residential squares to Baker Street […]
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Book 2, Chapter 8”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 277:
text: 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice (The Legacy), London: Heinemann, Secker and Warburg, 1983, Chapter 9, p. 201,
Masses of cooked meat were stored in a wire-gauze meat safe with nearly as many flies inside it as there were outside.
text: Under the pepper tree the meat-safe hung, and swung, round and round, slowly, on a wire.
ref: 1955, Patrick White, chapter 10, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 140:
text: She took [the leg of mutton] and put it in the meat safe outside.
ref: 1981, G. B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York: Moyer Bell, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 62:
glosses: A ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.
examples: text: “[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.”
ref: 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in Rodney Stone,, London: Smith, Elder, page 172:
text: […] with him carryin’ his guard high, and leavin’ the way to his meat safe open half the time, it was all I could do to hold myself back.
ref: 1908, Sewell Ford, chapter 14, in Side-Stepping with Shorty, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 221:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The stomach.
Derived terms: meat-safe cot
unassessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + assessed.
Senses: glosses: Not having been assessed.
new brooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of new broom
treasury tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treasury tag
spherical wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherical wedge
spherocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spherocyte
square matrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square matrix
spring breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring break
mozzetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈzɛtə/
note: following the Italian pronunciation
ipa: /mɔːtˈt͡sɛtə/
ipa: /moʊˈzɛtə/
ipa: [-ɾə]
rhymes: -ɛtə
ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈzɛteɪ/
note: following the Italian pronunciation
ipa: /mɔːtˈt͡sɛteɪ/
ipa: /moʊˈzɛteɪ/
ipa: [-ɾeɪ]
Forms: form: mozzettas
form: mozzette
form: mosette
form: mozetta
Etymology: Borrowed from a merger of French mozzete (obsolete) (modern French mosette, mossette), and from its etymon Italian mozzetta; further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* from Italian mozzo (“cut off; shortened”, adjective) (from Vulgar Latin *mutius, from Latin mutilus (“mutilated”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mewt- (“cut short”)); or
* from Late Latin almucia (“hood or cape with a hood worn by clergy”) (further etymology unknown)
+ Italian -etta (feminine form of -etto (diminutive suffix)).
The plural form mozzette is borrowed from Italian mozzette. Doublet of mosette.
Senses: examples: text: Benedict [XVI], the first pope to resign voluntarily in six centuries, will dress in a simple white cassock, forgoing the mozzetta, the elbow-length cape worn by some Catholic clergymen, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told reporters at a news briefing.
ref: 2013 February 26, Gaia Pianigiani, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Benedict XVI to be known as emeritus in retirement”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2024:
text: On that night of his election he [Pope Francis] stepped out on to the balcony overlooking Saint Peter's Square in simple white robes, refusing the fancy red mozzetta or cape that Benedict [XVI] had sported when he had been announced as pope. When told to put on white trousers, he later remembered in his autobiography, he replied: "I don't want to be an ice-cream seller."
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary: Leader of the Catholic church who pushed for social and economic justice, and an urgent response to the climate crisis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2025:
text: The most notable figure in the room is Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is the Pope [Francis]'s "camerlengo" or chamberlain and runs the Vatican until a new Pope is chosen. The cardinal – in red mozzetta and cassock – is shown blessing the body of the late Pope during the rite of the declaration of death.
ref: 2025 April 22, “In Pictures: Symbolism on Show as Pope Francis Lies in Open Coffin”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2025:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
coordinate_terms: cope
mantum
pellegrina
glosses: A short cape covering the shoulders and buttoned in front, with a hood, which is worn by the pope, cardinals, bishops, and other senior clergy.
wikipedia: William Goh
Wim Eijk
mozzette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈzɛteɪ/
note: following the Italian pronunciation
ipa: /mɔːtˈt͡sɛteɪ/
ipa: /moʊˈzɛteɪ/
ipa: [-ɾeɪ]
Forms: form: mozette
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mozzette.
Senses: glosses: plural of mozzetta
spot-backed antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot-backed antshrike
no-hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-hitter
jugendstil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.ɡəntˈʃtiːl/
ipa: /ˌju.ɡəntˈʃtil/
ipa: /ˌjʉː.ɡəntˈʃtiːl/
ipa: /ˌjʉ.ɡəntˈʃtil/
ipa: /ˌjuː.ɡenʈˈʃʈiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: Borrowed from German Jugendstil.
Senses: glosses: The German equivalent of art nouveau.
excetera
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of et cetera.
exetera
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of et cetera.
ekcetera
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of et cetera.
winner, winner, chicken dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Possibly originating in casinos as a stock cry of croupiers whenever a patron won.
Senses: examples: text: [In Las Vegas casinos] When you win, you’ll hear the stickman say, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner” and get high-fives all around. This sure beats pushing buttons and waiting for a bunch of cherries.
ref: 1998, Davis, Alan, Alan Davis' the fun also rises travel guide North America : the most fun places to be at the right time, →OCLC:
glosses: An expression or declaration of victory, especially in a game of chance.
Citibank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of First National City Bank, an earlier name of the company.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, every Citibanker becomes a brand manager and an ambassador of the Citibank brand. ... Indeed, the Citibank brand will "never sleep"
ref: 2000, Duane E. Knapp, The Brandmindset, page 67:
glosses: The service mark under which Citicorp offers banking services.
Amtrak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæmˌtɹæk/
Etymology: Coined circa 1971; blend of American + track.
Senses: examples: text: Trains are fuller under Amtrak, but it is thought to be largely because there are fewer trains.
ref: 1969, School Mathematics Study Group, Studies in mathematics, volumes 19-20, page 8:
text: Its pitifully small appropriation of $40 million already gone, Amtrak has asked Congress for another $170 million to keep the trains running through mid-1973.
ref: 1971, “Give the trains a chance”, in Life, page 42:
text: The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen.
ref: 1999, Bernd Schmitt, Experiential marketing, page 39:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A US passenger railway (incorporated as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation).
in name
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He is a friend in name only.
text: Ethnobotanist Gary P. Nabhan of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix made a painful pilgrimage to see Texas wild-rice for his 1989 book, Enduring Seeds. He called it a surviving species in name more than in behavior.
ref: 1990 Summer, E. Hoyt, “Wild relatives”, in Wilderness, volume 53, number 189, page 45:
glosses: Nominally, not essentially.
Derived terms: DINO
GINO
RINO
Related terms: de jure
lapsed
Acela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛlə/
Etymology: A shortening of Acela Express, from a marketing coinage based on acceleration and excellence.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The service mark of Amtrak's high-speed rail service in the Northeast Corridor of the United States.
examples: text: First, the party’s non-Trumpist faction — embodied by senators like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski, various purple- and blue-state governors and most of the remaining Acela corridor conservatives, from lawyers and judges to lobbyists and staffers — […].
ref: 2021 January 12, Ross Douthat, “How the Republican Party Could Break”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The Northeastern United States, generally north and east of Washington, D.C.
Northeast Corridor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Amtrak's rail routes from Washington DC to Boston MA.
glosses: The populated areas located around the ground transportation routes between Washington DC and Boston MA in the northeastern United States, sometimes extended farther and wider.
mucic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to mucic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: mucamide
mucate
muconic