cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kettledrummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kettledrummers
Etymology: From kettledrum + -er.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the kettledrum.
kettledrumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kettledrum + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The playing of a kettledrum.
kettledrummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettledrummer
nupur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nupurs
Etymology: From Hindi नूपुर (nūpur, “anklet, nupur, ornament for the feet”), from Sanskrit नूपुर (nūpura, “anklet”).
Senses: glosses: An anklet.
kilostere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilosteres
Etymology: From kilo- + stere.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one thousand cubic metres.
kilosteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilostere
kindless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kindless
form: most kindless
Etymology: From kind (“inherent quality, nature”) + -less. Compare Middle English kindelæs (“incapable of generation, barren”).
Senses: examples: text: Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 1771, Hugh Kelly, Clementina, London: Edward & Charles Dilly and T. Cadell, Act III, p. ,
Kneel not to me, ungrateful, kindless girl!
I have been prostrate at your feet in vain.
text: The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind […]
ref: 1902, E. W. Hornung, chapter 10, in The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, pages 111–112:
glosses: Destitute of kindness; unnatural.
kinepox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kine-pox.
jump down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps down someone's throat
form: jumping down someone's throat
form: jumped down someone's throat
form: jumped down someone's throat
form: climb down someone's throat
form: leap down someone's throat
Senses: examples: text: Try to remember next time, but don’t fret — I won’t jump down your throat if you forget.
text: Opposing counsel has a right to question you, and if you respond with smart talk or give evasive answers, opposing counsel may jump down your throat.
ref: 2006, Larry Rice, The Complete Guide to Divorce Practice: Forms and Procedures for the Lawyer, 3rd edition, page 266:
text: ‘Thanks, Jean,’ he said. ‘Mike I'm sorry. I didn't mean to jump down your throat. Thanks for the advice. I will be careful.’
ref: 2007, Michael Bennett, Bent, page 103:
text: “I'm sorry I jumped on you — jumped down your throat,” he amended, feeling like a complete idiot.
ref: 2009, Shiela Stewart, Embracing the Darkness: Darkness Series, Book 3, page 59:
glosses: To criticise with excessive and unexpected harshness.
Related terms: at each other's throats
jumps down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump down someone's throat
jumping down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump down someone's throat
jumped down someone's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump down someone's throat
first order of the day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first orders of the day
Senses: examples: text: ...from the Commons should be the first Order of the day.
ref: 1699, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, The Manuscripts of the House of Lords: Volume 4, page ix:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An item of business that will be discussed before any other item on a particular day when a legislature is sitting.
examples: text: There are two things every union member should make the first order of the day the pay envelope comes around — supply his family and pay his union dues.
ref: 1921, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America, editor, The Bricklayer, mason and plasterer: Volumes 24-25, page 26:
glosses: A goal or task that is of primary importance and will or should be pursued before any other goal.
first orders of the day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first order of the day
præfatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præfatory
form: most præfatory
Senses: examples: text: As a concluding Note for this volume, I may introduce the following curious one from M. Genin’s præfatory Notice: […]
ref: 1846, David Dundas Scott and Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigné, History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Blackie and Son), volume II, book XII, page 671
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prefatory.
kindful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kindful
form: most kindful
form: kindiful
Etymology: From Middle English kindeful, kyndeful, equivalent to kind + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Natural.
examples: text: "Men and women, horses and asses, sheep and oxen, and all kindiful things"
ref: 1830, Robert Forby, The vocabulary of East Anglia:
glosses: Of, relating to, or denoting a specified kind or sort; kindly.
examples: text: The lady who was then in charge of the school, manifested a kindful feeling towards her, and imparted the best [...]
ref: 1856, Wesleyan Methodist missionary society, The Wesleyan juvenile offering:
glosses: Of natural disposition or affections; kind.
kindiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kindiful
form: most kindiful
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kindful.
præcursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcursors
Senses: examples: text: In an age leſs ripe for reformation, the præcurſor of Zuinglius was heard with applauſe : a brace and ſimple people imbibed and long retained the colour of his opinion; and his art, or merit, ſeduced the biſhop of Conſtance, and even the pope’s legate, who forgot, for his ſake, the intereſt of their maſter and their order.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume XII, pages 243–244:
glosses: Obsolete form of precursor.
kakaralli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water because not consumed by sea worms or barnacles.
Izumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Izumis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 泉 (izumi, “spring; fountain”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
kahau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kahaus
Etymology: Native name, from its cry.
Senses: glosses: The proboscis monkey.
kahaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kahau
kaleege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaleeges
Senses: glosses: A bird, the kalij pheasant.
kaleeges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaleege
præcinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcincts
Senses: examples: text: […] and that every clerk of the peace neglecting his duty therein, ſhall forfeit the ſum of twenty pounds to ſuch perſon or perſons as ſhall inform or proſecture for the ſame, until the party be thereof convicted upon an indictment before the juſtices of the peace, at any general quarter‐ſeſſions of the peace to be holden for the ſame country, riding, diviſion, or præcinct.
ref: 1793, chapter VIII, in Trials per Pais, page 116:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of precinct.
Kazumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かずみ (Kazumi).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
knifeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knifeboards
Etymology: From knife + board.
Senses: glosses: A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
examples: knifeboard seating
Arthur Smith, A Summer Idyll
On 'busses' knifeboards stretch'd, / The City clerks all tongue-protruded lay.
glosses: A way of arranging benches back to back, resembling a knifeboard; common on the open upper deck of early double-deck omnibuses and trams.
glosses: An early bus with narrow, restrictive seating; a knifeboard bus.
knifeboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knifeboard
knitback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knit + back, from its use as a restorative.
Senses: glosses: The plant comfrey.
knockstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockstones
Etymology: From knock + stone.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A block upon which ore is broken up.
knockstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knockstone
knowableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knowable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being knowable.
knotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English knotteles; equivalent to knot + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a knotless rope
text: knotless timber
glosses: Without knots.
Derived terms: knotlessness
knowleching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: knowledge
kirkmaister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirkmaisters
form: kirkmaster
Etymology: From kirk (“church”) + maister (“master”), possibly a calque of Middle Dutch keercmeester (“churchmaster”).
Senses: glosses: A churchwarden
kobellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German mineralogist Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell (1803–1882), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey, fibrous, metallic mineral, a sulfide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.
koolokamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koolokambas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koolakamba.
koolokambas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koolokamba
Koordish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Koordish
form: most Koordish
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Kurdish.
Koord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koords
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Kurd.
Koords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koord
krakowiaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krakowiak
krakowiak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krakowiaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish krakowiak.
Senses: glosses: A lively, syncopated Polish dance in duple time.
Synonyms: cracovienne
cracovienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracoviennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French cracovienne (“krakowiak”).
Senses: glosses: A dance, the krakowiak.
cracoviennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracovienne
cracksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracksmen
Etymology: From crack + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The fraudulent clerk and the flash “cracksman” interchanged experiences.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 52:
text: She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
text: The bank cracksmen who looted the national bank at Northampton were traced by a piece of wrapping paper picked up in an abandoned schoolhouse.
ref: 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
glosses: A burglar or safebreaker.
cracksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracksman
safebreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safebreakings
Etymology: From safe + breaking.
Senses: glosses: The act of breaking into a safe.
Synonyms: safecracking
safebreakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safebreaking
krokidolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crocidolite.
krummhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krummhorn
krumhorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krumhorns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of krummhorn.
krumhorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krumhorn
kyriological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: curiologic
form: cyriologic
form: cyriological
form: kuriologic
form: kyriologic
Etymology: From kyriology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriological, because it represented the pure elementary sounds.
glosses: Of or related to kyriology; serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters.
curiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kyriologic.
kuriologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kyriologic.
kyriologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: kyriological
kaguan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaguans
Senses: glosses: A mammal, the colugo.
kaguans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaguan
kaleidoscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kaleidoscopical
form: most kaleidoscopical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
Kainozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cenozoic.
screenwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screenworks
Etymology: From screen + work.
Senses: examples: text: Between the tower and the north aisle is a piece of screenwork much altered in the eighteenth century[…]
ref: 1938, Somersetshire Archaeological, Natural History Society, Proceedings: Volume 83:
topics: architecture
glosses: Work in the form of a screen.
glosses: Work done for film or television, such as directing.
glosses: Work done on a computer, with a screen as display device.
Somersetshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Somerset + -shire.
Senses: examples: text: In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?
ref: 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
glosses: The English county of Somerset.
kabook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A clay ironstone found in Sri Lanka.
kabobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kabob
kabobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kabob
kebabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kebab
kebabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kebab
kalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalan
philanderess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philanderesses
Etymology: From philander + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female philanderer.
philanderesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philanderess
kafal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ]
From Arabic قَفَل (qafal).
Senses: examples: text: Balsamodendron kafal (Kafal tree)[…] This tree is also a native of Arabia, where it attains to the height of twenty feet. It is there called kafal.
ref: 1835, Philip Miller, The Gardener's Dictionary, page 582:
glosses: Either of two trees of the genus Commiphora, which yield a gum resin and a red aromatic wood.
kafal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kafals
form: kaphal
form: kaaphal
form: kafal berry
form: kafal fruit
Etymology: From Hindi काफल (kāphal).
Senses: examples: text: gardens with trees laden with pomegranate and cucumbers, the forests yield crimson ‘Kafal’ and violet Kilmora berries just for the picking
ref: 1994, Gumānī Panta, translated by Cārucandra Pānḍe, Says Gumani (poem):
text: I saw a girl swiftly climbing a tree to pluck kafals. Three women standing beneath were gathering fruits in baskets made of bamboo.
ref: 2015, Chandra Prakash Kala, Nanda's Neelkanth, page 53:
glosses: Bayberry, the fruit of Myrica esculenta, a tree or large shrub native to Nepal.
kaligenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kaligenous
form: most kaligenous
Etymology: Related to alkali; see -genous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming alkalis with oxygen, as some metals do.
kamptulicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamptulicons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάμπτω (kámptō, “bend”) + οὖλος (oûlos, “thick, woolly”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of elastic floorcloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.
kamptulicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kamptulicon
Kantism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kant + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Kantianism
Kantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kantists
Etymology: From Kant + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Kantianist.
Kantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kantist
kantons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kanton
kampylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of campylite.
campylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campylites
form: kampylite
Etymology: Ancient Greek καμπούρα (kampoúra, “bent”), on account of the barrel-shaped bend of its crystals.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of mimetite.
mimetite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mimetites
Etymology: Ancient Greek Μιμητής (Mimētḗs), "imitator", from its similarity to pyromorphite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: green lead ore
glosses: An arsenate mineral which forms in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.
mimetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimetite
necessaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛsɪˈsɛə/
ipa: /nɛsɪˈsɛɹ/
Forms: form: necessaires
form: nécessaire
Etymology: From French nécessaire. Doublet of necessary.
Senses: examples: text: While this was being made they missed one boat, and, by the time it was ready, the sleuths were on their track – this unlucky medicine chest having played the same part that Marie Antoinette's nécessaire did in the escape to Varennes.
ref: 1945, Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love, Penguin, published 2010, page 111:
glosses: A small case for holding personal items, especially toiletries.
Kaoru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese かおる (Kaoru).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
Kazuomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Kazuki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
gentleman cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentleman cows
Senses: examples: text: One day he attempted to help out by leading a gentleman cow back to the ranch, a distance of about a mile.
ref: 1914, “Catering industry employee”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 23, page 44:
glosses: A bull.
Atlantic pomfret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlantic pomfrets
Senses: glosses: Brama brama, the largest species of the pomfret family Bramidae, found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Synonyms: sense: Brama brama
word: Ray's bream
lyons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lyon
Kibology
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kibo + -logy, after prolific Usenet poster James "Kibo" Parry. A newsgroup called alt.religion.kibology was created in late 1991.
Senses: glosses: An Internet-based parody religion led by James "Kibo" Parry and partly satirizing Scientology.
wikipedia: James Parry
Related terms: Kibological
Kibologist
kiboze
wackyparse
Kibologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kibologists
Etymology: From Kibology + -ist. Coined by James Parry.
Senses: examples: text: But UNIX will never compete with MTS until it has "$DISPLAY TIMESPELLEDOUT", *PIZZADELIVERY, and the famous sausage transfer protocol ("$FTP LINK=SAUSAGE"--gee, doesn't that look like it was implemented by a Kibologist?)
ref: 1992 January 2, James 'Kibo' Parry, “Hello?”, in alt.sex.masturbation (Usenet):
glosses: An adherent of the parody religion Kibology.
Kibologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kibologist
McQuary limit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the McQuary limit
Etymology: After George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to the newsgroup alt.fan.warlord where flamboyant signatures were criticised.
Senses: examples: text: Only 5 lines, so it just squeezes past the McQuary limit, but what a stylish BUAF for your collections, I only hope Kibo is reading.
ref: 1992 October 14, David Philip Langstaff, “Wanted...”, in alt.fan.warlord (Usenet):
glosses: The rule of netiquette stating that the text of a Usenet signature, or sig, should be less than 80 columns wide and no longer than four lines.
Related terms: warlording
sigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡz/
homophone: cigs
Senses: glosses: plural of sig
sigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡz/
homophone: cigs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sig
McQuary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McQuarys
Etymology: Variant of McQuarrie.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: McQuary limit
autocancel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocancels
form: autocanceling
form: autocancelling
form: autocanceled
form: autocanceled
form: autocancelled
form: autocancelled
Etymology: From auto- + cancel.
Senses: glosses: To cancel (a previously posted message on Usenet) automatically.
autocancel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocancels
Etymology: From auto- + cancel.
Senses: glosses: A Usenet control message, generated automatically, that cancels a previously posted message.
autocancels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autocancel
autocancels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocancel
autocancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autocancel
autocancelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autocancel
autocanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autocancel
autocanceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autocancel
autowinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autowinder
autodelete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autodeletes
form: autodeleting
form: autodeleted
form: autodeleted
Etymology: From auto- + delete.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To delete automatically.
Related terms: autodeletion
autodeletes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autodelete
autodeleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autodelete
autodeleting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autodelete
Binetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Binetian
form: most Binetian
Etymology: From Binet + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Alfred Binet (1857–1911), French psychologist and inventor of an early intelligence test.
biners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biner
kitemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitemark
kitemarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kitemark
kitemarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kitemark
kitemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kite + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of kites.
highpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highpoint
Tyrifjorden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Buskerud, Norway.
spellfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spell + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Just the tiniest speck of spellfire pushed into his palm.
ref: 1995, Lucy Sussex, Judith Raphael Buckrich, She's fantastical, page 191:
text: She gains one level of spellfire energy for every spell level absorbed and can store a number of spellfire energy levels equal to her Constitution.
ref: 2001, Sean K. Reynolds, Angel Leigh McCoy, Duane Maxwell, Magic of Faerun:
text: Jerzy watched the two of them, coming to Agreement over the flickering tendrils of spellfire, and felt something twist in his gut.
ref: 2009, Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire, page 370:
topics: fantasy
glosses: The exchange of shots or explosive blasts of spells (from a wand, staff, etc.) as in magical combat.
Related terms: gunfire
spellwork
spellcraft
Utoeya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Utøya
Senses: glosses: An island in Tyrifjorden lake, Norway
Reynoldsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Reynoldsian
form: most Reynoldsian
Etymology: From Reynolds + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits.
mithridatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mithridatize
smailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smail
smailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smail
ulcered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulcered
form: most ulcered
Etymology: From ulcer + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having an ulcer or ulcers.
garvey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garveys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of boat which was originally flat-bottomed, reminiscent of a sled, and historically sailed around New Jersey.
garveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garvey
amarant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæməɹænt/
ipa: /ˈæməˌɹænt/
Forms: form: amarants
Senses: examples: text: With ſolemn adoration down they [the angels] caſt
 Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold;
 Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once
 In Paradiſe, faſt by the Tree of Life
 Began to bloom, but ſoon for mans offence
 To Heav'n remov'd where firſt it grew, there grows,
 And flours aloft ſhading the Fount of Life, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 351–357:
text: Thouſands of flow'rs their ſilken webs unfold, / Amarants, immortal amarants ariſe, / Theſe beaming bright with vegetable gold, / And theſe with azure, theſe with Tyrian dyes; […]
ref: 1760, [James] Scott, Heaven: A Vision, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 8:
text: Such vegetable amarants have a fair content of protein and are rich in Vitamins A and C, as well as in minerals; but they contain also slight amounts of anti-nutritional factors, especially oxalates and nitrates. These leaf-producing amarants are adapted to many different ecological environments.
ref: 1989, Heinz Brücher, “Farinaceous Plants”, in Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin and Their Wild Relatives, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, section 1 (Amaranthus spp.), page 54:
glosses: Obsolete form of amaranth.
raggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: raggier
form: raggiest
Etymology: From Middle English raggy, from Old English raggiġ; equivalent to rag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Raglike; like a rag.
glosses: Scruffy; tending to dress in rags.
glosses: Similar in style to ragtime music.
raggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rag + -y, rag being a dialectal (northern England) word for a fog or mist with drizzling rain, related to dialectal Danish rag (“sea vapour”). Compare roke, rawk, from a word for smoke (compare Swedish rök (“smoke”)), which may or may not be related.
Senses: examples: text: It looks a bit rough wi' lyin' out thoose raggy neets.
ref: 1874 (edition of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, page 157
text: It's been nobbut raggy weather up o' the moors this winter.
ref: 1892, David Grieve, Ward, III, book IV, vi:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.
raggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ragi (“finger millet”).
self-insertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-insertions
Etymology: From self- + insertion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: A literary device in which the author writes himself or herself into the story as a character.
raggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of raggy: more raggy
raggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of raggy: most raggy
raglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raglike
form: most raglike
Etymology: From rag + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a rag (scrap of material).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ragtime music.
howf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊf/
ipa: /hʌuf/
rhymes: -aʊf
Forms: form: howfs
form: howff
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots howf (noun, verb).
Senses: examples: text: [A]s this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 60:
text: ‘He stayed at home at nights and devoted himself to his books. He even missed a few week-ends in the High Street howffs.’
ref: 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 164:
glosses: A frequent meeting place; a haunt; often specifically, a drinking-house or tavern.
glosses: A rudimentary shelter, especially one used by a mountaineer; a hut.
howf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊf/
ipa: /hʌuf/
rhymes: -aʊf
Forms: form: howfs
form: howfing
form: howfed
form: howfed
form: howff
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots howf (noun, verb).
Senses: glosses: To frequent or resort to a place; to haunt.
Related terms: hovel
hucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: huckers
Etymology: From huck + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who hucks (any meaning)
examples: text: Captain Spanberg, who was appointed commander of one of the vessels in this expedition, gave orders for two vessels to be built at that place, one a hucker, called Michael the Archangel, the other a double shallop, named the Hope.
ref: 1765, John Barrow, A Collection Of Authentic, Useful, and Entertaining Voyages and Discoveries:
text: For these Captain Spangberg ordered a hucker, the Erkeengeln Michael, and a double sloop, the Nadeschda, to be built at Okotsk, the old vessel Gabriel being at the same time repaired for the same purpose.
ref: 2012, Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A trade ship.
ice climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the branch of mountaineering that specializes in climbing on frozen surfaces.
idiot card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot cards
Senses: glosses: A cue card.
cue card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cue cards
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: flipcard
idiot card
idiot sheet
glosses: A card with writing on it, shown to actors to remind them of their lines.
examples: text: […] you will have a set of cue cards that contain your speaking points. As the debate unfolds, you need to make notes on what your opponents say so that you can counteract it.
ref: 2018, Claire Duffy, The Teen's Guide to Debating and Public Speaking:
glosses: Any card serving as a prompt to a speaker.
closedown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closedowns
Etymology: Deverbal from close down.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.
Related terms: shutdown
closedowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closedown
howsit
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: howzit
Senses: glosses: how is it
howsit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: howzit
Senses: glosses: a contracted form of how's it going
wazzat
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wassat.
shu'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Shu' the door, an' have a drink.
ref: 1906, John Galsworthy, The Silver Box:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of shut.
underclay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underclays
Etymology: From under- + clay.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed.
underclays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underclay
undernourish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undernourishes
form: undernourishing
form: undernourished
form: undernourished
Etymology: From under- + nourish.
Senses: glosses: To provide with insufficient nourishment.
undercliff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercliffs
Etymology: From under- + cliff.
Senses: examples: text: Between Folkestone and Dover, the main line of the Southern Region crosses a two-mile stretch of undercliff known as Folkestone Warren.
ref: 1954 September, “Coast Erosion Works in Folkestone Warren”, in Railway Magazine, page 601:
glosses: A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.
Related terms: The Undercliff
undercliffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercliff
undernourishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undernourish
undernourishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undernourish
undertime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dɚˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dəˈtaɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dɚˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dəˌtaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)taɪm
Forms: form: undertimes
form: undertiming
form: undertimed
form: undertimed
form: under-time
Etymology: From under- + time.
Senses: glosses: To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To underexpose.
undertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dɚˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dəˈtaɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dɚˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dəˌtaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)taɪm
Forms: form: under-time
Etymology: From under- + time, based on overtime.
Senses: glosses: The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.
undertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dɚˈtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˌʌn.dəˈtaɪ̯m/
ipa: /ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dɚˌtaɪ̯m/
other: /ˈʌn.dəˌtaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)taɪm
Forms: form: under-time
Senses: examples: text: He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
glosses: The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.
underspin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underspins
Etymology: From under- + spin.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Backspin.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot using backspin.
undergrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + grown.
Senses: glosses: insufficiently grown; not having grown to a normal or suitable size.
examples: text: That I will soon wete (answered the Collector) and taking the young Maiden dishonestly, turned her up to search whether she were undergrown with Hair or not;
ref: 1733, Robert Seymour, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and Parts Adjacent, volume 1, page 90:
glosses: having pubic hair
undertints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undertint
undertrump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undertrumps
form: undertrumping
form: undertrumped
form: undertrumped
Etymology: From under- + trump.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: To play a lower trump card than the previous one in a trick.
Related terms: overtrump
SHRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of rain showers.
undertrumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undertrump
undertrumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undertrump
undertrumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undertrump
underhandly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underhandly
form: most underhandly
Etymology: From underhand + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an underhand manner.
underived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + derived.
Senses: examples: text: If their rights are inherent and underived, they may, by their own suffrages, encircle, with a diadem, the brows of Mr. Cushing.
ref: 1742, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6:
text: "Firstly,--if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?"
ref: 1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859:
text: Thus it is that though contact of the senses with the objects may later on be imagined to be the conditioning factor, yet the rise of knowledge as well as our notion of its validity strikes us as original, underived, immediate, and first-hand.
ref: 1922, Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1:
text: He held that everything in existence is composed of four underived and indestructible substances--fire, water, earth, and air--and that atmosphere is a corporeal substance, not a mere void.
ref: 1988 December 2, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The Sound of German”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: not derived, not related.
nonderivational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + derivational.
Senses: glosses: Not derivational.
underlinen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlinens
Etymology: From under + linen.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly she announced her intention of becoming a nun--sold her house and lovely garden, where she had spent so many happy hours with her flowers and her birds, distributed her pretty things among her friends, and accepted all the small trials of strict convent life--no bath, nor mirror, coarse underlinen and sheets--no fire, no lights, no privacy, the regular irksome routine of a nun's life, and is perfectly happy--never misses the intellectual companionship and the refinement and daintiness of her former life,--likes the commonplace routine of the convent--the books they read to each other in "recreation," simple stories one would hardly give to a child of twelve or fourteen,--the fetes on the "mother's" birthday, when the nuns make a cake and put a wreath of roses on the mother's head.
ref: 1914, Mary King Waddington, My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879:
text: In an open space before the church walked a woman with her gown-sleeves rolled up so high that the edge of her underlinen was visible, and her skirt tucked up through her pocket hole.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: He did so, and I commenced to don, "Well, Jeeves," I said, reaching for the underlinen, "here we are again at Brinkley Court in the county of Worcestershire."
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:
glosses: underwear (especially, but not always, made of linen); any undergarment.
Hypernyms: linen
underburning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underburn
underburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underburn
underburned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underburn
BKN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of broken (as in cloud cover).
underburnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underburn
underbuilders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbuilder
underbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underbuild
SCT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of scattered.
SCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of stem cell transplantation.
glosses: Initialism of symbolic convergence theory.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of squad combat team.
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: BCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: DCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: PCT
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RCT
SCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Seismic Classifier Toolbox, a software system used for stratigraphic mapping.
underkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underkeepers
Etymology: From under- + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: By the letter of the judges of the circuit court of the United States, held at Boston in June last, and the inclosed application of the underkeeper of the jail at that place, of which copies are herewith transmitted, Congress will perceive the necessity of making a suitable provision for the maintenance of prisoners committed to the jails of the several States under the authority of the United States.
ref: 1897, James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents:
glosses: A subordinate keeper or guardian.
underkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underkeeper
OVC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: overcast
underbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbreak
underchamberlain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underchamberlains
Etymology: From under- + chamberlain.
Senses: glosses: A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
underchamberlains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underchamberlain
underweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: At dawn of day, (17th) we got underweigh and steered through the islands; at noon, we were abreast of Termination Island, the latitude of which we found to be 34 degrees 32 minutes.
ref: 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia:
text: We have got some five or six of them fairly underweigh, as Jack would say, and hope the remainder will speedily trip their anchors and follow."
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
text: Got underweigh at 1 p.m., and stood to the south-west, under topsails, stemming a strong ebb tide to 3.30, when we came to anchor in five fathoms (sand and shells), about three miles from the western shore of the bay, Sloping Head bearing north by east five miles.
ref: 1884, A C, F T Gregory, Journals of Australian Explorations:
text: Many turned resolutely back, preferring rather to die than to attempt life under such new and hopeless conditions, and stern examples had to be made before the unwilling emigrants were at last fairly got underweigh.
ref: 1896, Emily Lawless, The Story Of Ireland:
text: The captain of the Claverhouse, however, got underweigh, but before getting very far his engineer reported that the hot-well cover had broken in two.
ref: 1907, Walter Runciman, Looking Seaward Again:
glosses: Alternative form of under way.
underweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underweighs
form: underweighing
form: underweighed
form: underweighed
Senses: glosses: To weigh insufficiently (indicating a too-small weight)
undercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercast
undercasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercast
undercasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercast
underdrawers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + drawers.
Senses: examples: text: They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers (such as Eastern women wear) of many folds.
ref: 1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay:
text: Then, his laughter suddenly booming out he bunched his muscles and a black haired giant of a man in shirt and underdrawers was jerked floundering out of his bunk to the middle of the room.
ref: 1916, Jackson Gregory, The Short Cut:
text: He was quite an imposing spectacle in his bare feet, with his trousers rolled up to his great knees, thereby revealing his scarlet flannel underdrawers.
ref: 1919, Peter B. Kyne, Captain Scraggs:
text: His extra shirt, instead of being wadded into the fore-end of the saddlebag on top of a pair of socks, had been stuffed into the hinder end on top of a pair of underdrawers.
ref: 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:
glosses: underpants.