cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bigleague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigleague
form: most bigleague
Senses: examples: text: Roger Clemens pitched well on Monday for the Yankees’ Class AAA team, and could join the bigleague rotation next week.
ref: 2007 May 30, Tyler Kepner, “Clemens Slotted to Face White Sox”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of big-league.
picrocrocine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Crocine is responsible for color, picrocrocine produces the slightly bitter taste, and safranal gives off saffron’s distinctive aroma.
ref: 2007 May 30, Peter Kaminsky, “Saffron Power: Yellow, Yet Not Necessarily Mellow”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of picrocrocin.
sociopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sociopathological
form: most sociopathological
Etymology: From socio- + pathological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sociopathology.
sociopathics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociopathic
agentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agent + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe it’s not “American Idol,” but two agentless novelists have been plucked from obscurity and were anointed the winners yesterday of “First Chapters,” a writing contest sponsored by Simon & Schuster, the Borders Group and the social media site Gather.com .
ref: 2007 May 31, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
text: Ansible is agentless and you do not need to install any kind of agents on the managed nodes.
ref: 2022, Gineesh Madapparambath, Ansible for Real-Life Automation, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Without an agent.
Derived terms: agentlessness
predistressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + distressed.
Senses: examples: text: Now the box-fresh, predistressed shoes are going on sale for $220 at Comme des Garçons stores next week.
ref: 2007 May 31, Eric Wilson, “From Nike, Beat-Up Chic”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pre-distressed.
premeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + meeting.
Senses: examples: text: “Sonny Carson got more crack houses closed than the entire Police Department,” Mr. Barron said during the premeeting rally.
ref: 2007 May 31, Ray Rivera, “Council Rejects Street Name for Black Activist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Before a meeting.
reedbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reedbeds
Senses: examples: text: The water then flows into a second, lower, tub, also containing a reedbed, before flowing into a still-lower tub of floating water hyacinths and small fish.
ref: 2007 May 31, Gregory Dicum, “The Dirty Water Underground”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reed bed.
reedbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reedbed
scornee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scornees
Etymology: From scorn + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: On the premiere, the scornees are sent to a life coach, Debbie Ford, who runs an emotional boot camp in Palm Springs, Calif.
ref: 2007 May 31, Alessandra Stanley, “Social Climbing to Starting Over: A First Wife’s Lot”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who is scorned.
scornees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scornee
sweetshrub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetshrubs
Etymology: From sweet + shrub.
Senses: examples: text: To screen out the houses, Mr. Darke and Ms. Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.
ref: 2007 May 31, Anne Raver, “Reshaping Their Own Worldview”, in New York Times:
glosses: A deciduous flowering plant of the genus Calycanthus with aromatic bark and flowers.
sweetshrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetshrub
ultracasual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracasual
form: most ultracasual
Etymology: From ultra- + casual.
Senses: examples: text: Others were ultracasual in Pocahontas-style moccasins — the new Uggs — and carried a requisite status bag.
ref: 2007 May 31, Ruth La Ferla, “For This Bus You Must Be Just the Ticket”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extremely casual.
underproduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underproduced
form: most underproduced
Etymology: From under- + produced.
Senses: examples: text: An equally underproduced speech by a burned-out English Pac-Man who can’t be bothered to eat pellets is also winning, and comes in so modestly short you want to watch it a half-dozen times.
ref: 2007 May 31, Virginia Heffernan, “Mocking Stars and Beer Ads. Yawn.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having had inadequate time or effort spent on its production.
train wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of train wreck
train wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of train wreck
cringemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cringemaking
form: most cringemaking
Etymology: From cringe + making.
Senses: examples: text: The couple’s attempt to consummate their marriage, predictably enough, ends in an embarrassing encounter that will snowball into a far more dire emotional exchange, all of which is depicted by Mr. McEwan in unsavory, voyeuristic terms that are as cringemaking as they are graphic.
ref: 2007 June 1, Michiko Kakutani, “Past and Present: Imperfect, Tense”, in New York Times:
glosses: Inducing cringing; embarrassing.
Derived terms: cringe-makingly
desmoteplase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desmo- + -teplase (“tissue-type plasminogen activator”).
Senses: examples: text: The Danish drug group H. Lundbeck has a deal with Paion to market desmoteplase in countries outside the United States and Canada, where Forest has the rights.
ref: 2007 June 1, Reuters, “Experimental Stroke Drug Fails Late-Stage Trial”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A chemical found in the saliva of vampire bats that catalyzes the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin, used as a thrombolytic.
napalmlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more napalmlike
form: most napalmlike
Etymology: From napalm + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Troubled by testimony showing support for Nazis, gang connections and plans for violence, a federal judge ordered a Liberty University student held without bond on a charge of possessing a napalmlike bomb that the authorities found the night before the Rev. Jerry Falwell ’s funeral.
ref: 2007 June 1, The Associated Press, “Virginia: Liberty University Student Held”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of napalm.
shoulderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shoulder + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Surely these beautiful artists would have wanted what they wore to be reported. Mr. Hvorostovsky looked sexy in black leather pants and an open-collared black shirt. Ms. Netrebko first appeared in a simple, fetching black dress, then switched to a shoulderless cream and sequined gown for the second half.
ref: 2007 June 1, Anthony Tommasini, “In Opera’s Shrinking World, It Still Helps to Use Your First Language”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without shoulders.
boulderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boulder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without boulders.
timberwolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timberwolf
unpugnacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpugnacious
form: most unpugnacious
Etymology: From un- + pugnacious.
Senses: examples: text: Arthur was elected to replace the unpugnacious Nora Lewin (Dianne Wiest ), a liberal law professor who was skittish about capital punishment and clashed with more aggressive prosecutors.
ref: 2007 June 1, Alessandra Stanley, “In Casting for President, Will Actor Rate a Callback?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pugnacious.
antiextremist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiextremist
form: most antiextremist
Etymology: From anti- + extremist.
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, Mr. Husain says he has been approached by British government officials, asking whether he wants to join their antiextremist efforts, a move that would almost certainly cast him in parts of Britain’s diverse Muslim community as a government stooge.
ref: 2007 June 2, Jane Perlez, “A Journey to, and From, the Heart of Radical Islam in Britain”, in New York Times:
glosses: Countering or opposing extremism.
antiextremist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiextremists
Etymology: From anti- + extremist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes extremism.
noninterventionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noninterventionists
Etymology: From non- + interventionist.
Senses: examples: text: To noninterventionists the Iraq war provides sorrowful evidence of the dangers of exercising American power around the globe.
ref: 2007 June 2, Patricia Cohen, “Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means”, in The New York Times:
text: “From the end of the Bush years up through 2013 and ’14, there was a war weariness that was permeating even Republicans,” said David Boaz, author of a new book “The Libertarian Mind.” “However, the videos of ISIS beheading Americans and other people have certainly made it more difficult to stick to a noninterventionist argument.”
ref: 2015 April 8, Stephen Collinson, “Has Rand Paul missed his moment?”, in CNN:
glosses: A proponent of non-intervention.
Related terms: isolationist
noninterventionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noninterventionist
outsiderly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outsiderly
form: most outsiderly
Etymology: From outsider + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like an outsider; not accepted.
Derived terms: outsiderliness
skeeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Not a few — maybe most — hold its eating contests, roller coaster and skeeball in high regard.
ref: 2007 June 2, Anthony Ramirez, “Breathing in Coney Island, at Just $178 a Bottle”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of skee ball.
vociferator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vociferators
Etymology: From vociferate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who vociferates, or is clamorous.
boundariless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boundary + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boundaryless.
Derived terms: boundarilessness
spratlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spratlike
form: most spratlike
Etymology: From sprat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sprat.
ACP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of acyl carrier protein.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of automatic Colt pistol, a class of handgun ammunition.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of advance care planning.
Related terms: topics: biochemistry
microbiology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
biology
word: PCP
topics: firearms
weaponry
military
tools
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
war
government
politics
word: LCP
walrii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wôlʹrĭī
ipa: /ˈwɔːlɹɪaɪ/
Etymology: From walrus + -ii, in imitation of Latin nominative plural forms of nouns ending in ius. Compare fetii and penii.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.
glosses: Misconstructed plural form of walrus.
satanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satanical
form: most satanical
Etymology: From Satan + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Satanic.
Bargoens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bargoens.
Senses: examples: text: Lowee generally spoke Bargoens, the language of thieves—a mixture of Dutch, Cockney, Yiddish, and Papiamento.
ref: 2007, A. C. Baantjer, DeKok and Murder on Blood Mountain, Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 74:
coordinate_terms: Rotwelsch
glosses: A Dutch cant historically spoken in Netherlands, most famously by criminals, until the early 20th century.
admirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admirators
Senses: glosses: An admirer; one who admires.
mishuga
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mishuga
form: most mishuga
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshugge.
meshugah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meshugah
form: most meshugah
Senses: examples: text: I'm telling you, Mala makes me meshugah! I want that maybe you could come now to queens to help me.
ref: 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of meshugge.
meshugga
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meshugga
form: most meshugga
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshugge.
testificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testificators
Etymology: From New Latin testificātor (“testifier”), from Latin testificor + -ātor.
Senses: qualifier: usually religious
glosses: A testifier.
vaticinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaticinators
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: Someone who vaticinates; a prophet.
aminobenzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amino- + benzoic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to aminobenzoic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: aminobenzoate
chargehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chargehands
Etymology: From charge + hand.
Senses: examples: text: The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
glosses: A person who is in charge of a small group of workers; a lesser foreman.
clarificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clarificatory
form: most clarificatory
Etymology: From Late Latin clārificāre, clārificātus (see clarify), on type of Latin adjectives in -ōrius: see -ory.
Senses: glosses: That serves to clarify.
compurgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɜːˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /kɒmpəˈɡeɪʃən/
Forms: form: compurgations
Etymology: From Latin compurgātiōnem, from compurgāre (“to purify”).
Senses: examples: text: Between the later middle ages and the early seventeenth century, compurgation appears to have become an increasingly onerous test to pass, perhaps reflecting tightening attitudes to sexual offenders.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 23:
glosses: Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
compurgator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compurgators
Etymology: From Medieval Latin compurgator or Middle French compurgateur, from Latin compurgō (“to purify”).
Senses: examples: text: If a wise woman fell under suspicion from the authorities her neighbours might rally to her defence, providing compurgators in court, or drawing up certificates testifying to her innocence.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 244:
topics: law
glosses: Someone who vouches for another person's innocence, trustworthiness etc.
A character witness in canon law who swore an oath that the accused was innocent.
topics: law
glosses: Someone who vouches for another person's innocence, trustworthiness etc.
An ‘oath-helper’ in Anglo-Saxon or Germanic law who testified to the character of an accused person.
Related terms: compurgation
compurgatrix
argumentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argumentators
Senses: glosses: One who argues; a debator.
peregrinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peregrinators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peregrīnātor.
Senses: glosses: One who peregrinates; one who travels about.
precare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + care.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forecare.
synonyms: word: forecare
precare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + care.
Senses: glosses: Before medical or psychiatric care.
Related terms: aftercare
forecare
discreeter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of discreet: more discreet
discreetest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of discreet: most discreet
downcurved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downcurved
form: most downcurved
Etymology: From down- + curved.
Senses: glosses: curved downwards
elecampane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlɪkamˈpeɪn/
ipa: /ˌɛləkæmˈpeɪn/
Forms: form: elecampanes
Etymology: From Middle English elena campana, from a confusion of Latin enula campana and helenium.
Senses: synonyms: elfdock
elfwort
horseheal
scabwort
hypernyms: inula
glosses: A tall Eurasian herb, Inula helenium, whose roots have been used medicinally.
emulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emulsive
form: most emulsive
Senses: glosses: That yields an emulsion (or a milk-like substance).
glosses: That readily forms or enters into an emulsion.
racemare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racemares
Etymology: From race + mare.
Senses: glosses: A female racehorse.
nonwaveguide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + waveguide.
Senses: glosses: Not having or pertaining to a waveguide.
elecampanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elecampane
enterotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterotomies
Etymology: From entero- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision into the intestine
Derived terms: gastroenterotomy
enterotoxaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterotoxaemias
Senses: glosses: blood poisoning by an enterotoxin
Derived terms: enterotoxaemic
masterliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From masterly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being masterly.
hoverport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverports
Etymology: From hover + port.
Senses: glosses: A terminal for hovercraft.
feminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛmɪnəl/
Forms: form: more feminal
form: most feminal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism
Derived terms: feminality
hoverports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverport
femineity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being feminine; femininity
filmdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From film + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Because all filmdom was laughing itself to the bursting point, not at Chaplin's antics, not even at the sight of the real Chaplin appearing on the Hippodrome stage — […]
ref: 1916, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly:
text: [I]n filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just ‘good friends’?
ref: 2008 August 2, Shivangi Singh, “A sneak-peek at ‘just friends’ of filmdom!”, in Zee News:
glosses: The film (movie) industry; the people who work in that industry.
altercator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altercators
Senses: glosses: One who altercates.
flexile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flexile
form: most flexile
Etymology: From Latin flexil(em).
Senses: examples: text: Rooted in earth each cloven hoof descends, / And round and round her flexile neck she bends […].
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 24:
glosses: Flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.
Derived terms: semiflexile
flexwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexwings
Etymology: From flex + wing.
Senses: glosses: The delta wing, made of fabric, of a hang glider or microlight
frontager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontagers
Etymology: From frontage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] these frontagers were obliged to leave a washway of half-a-mile wide on the west side of the river, so as not to impede the drainage of the country; […]
ref: 1882, James Sandby Padley, The fens and floods of mid-Lincolnshire, page 14:
glosses: An owner of property that fronts onto a street or a waterway.
assenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: assenters
Etymology: From assent + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who assents.
topics: government
politics
glosses: One of the eight voters who endorse the proposer and seconder's nomination of a candidate for election to the parliament of the United Kingdom.
assentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assentators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin assentātor, from assentari (“to assent constantly”).
Senses: glosses: An obsequious flatterer; a yes man.
Related terms: assentatory
frontagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontager
auctioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auctioners
Etymology: From auction + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of auctioneer.
synonyms: word: auctioneer
unshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shot.
Senses: examples: an unshot target
glosses: Not having been shot.
examples: weapons left unshot
glosses: Not discharged or fired off.
unshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshots
form: unshotting
form: unshotted
form: unshotted
Etymology: From un- + shot.
Senses: glosses: To remove the shot from (a gun); to unload.
permanent marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanent markers
Senses: glosses: A type of felt-tip pen used to create permanent water-resistant writing on a surface.
examples: text: I wrote my name on the DVD in permanent marker.
glosses: The permanent ink of such a marker.
bishopsweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bishop + -s- + weed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bishop's weed (“Ammi majus, a plant with white lace-like flowers”).
flexwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexwing
exhortator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhortators
Senses: glosses: One who exhorts.
quillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quillows
Etymology: Blend of quilt + pillow
Senses: glosses: A quilt with an attached pocket into which the whole blanket can be folded, thus making a pillow.
quillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quillow
militarywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From military + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] a perfect Babel of voices accompanies the clatter of plates and knives and the tramp of the waiters as they march in, militarywise, in double file, with fresh dishes.
ref: 1881, “In the Sunny Rhineland”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, All the Year Round, volume 27, page 437:
glosses: In the fashion of the military.
examples: text: It seemed to me we had a much better chance militarywise in perfecting our A-bomb weapons.
ref: 2002, Richard Polenberg, In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: the security clearance hearing, page 187:
glosses: In military terms.
contrarotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contra- + rotation.
Senses: glosses: Rotation in a contrary direction.
glosses: The use of a single piston or turboprop engine to drive two propellers in opposite rotation.
Related terms: contrarotating
counterrotating
Quiverfull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From quiver + full, in reference to the Old Testament: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them."
Senses: glosses: A conservative evangelical Christian movement that promotes procreation, rejects birth control, and regards children as a blessing from God.
Related terms: quiverful
Quiverfull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quiverfulls
Etymology: From quiver + full, in reference to the Old Testament: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them."
Senses: glosses: A member of the Quiverfull religious movement.
nonplacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + placental.
Senses: glosses: Not placental.
annet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annets
form: annot
form: anny
Etymology: From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).
Senses: glosses: A duck or drake.
glosses: The common eider (Somateria mollissima).
glosses: A black-legged kittiwake.
glosses: A silly fellow; gull.
Derived terms: stock annet
Related terms: drake
articulacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of articulacy
contrarotating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: contra-rotating
Etymology: From contra- + rotating.
Senses: examples: text: Contrarotating propellers are two propellers rotating in opposite directions about the same shaft axis and usually driven by the same engine. Do not confuse them with counterrotating propellers which are propellers rotating in opposite directions, but on different shaft axes.
glosses: Rotating in two directions by contrarotation.
Related terms: counterrotating
camos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camo
camos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of camo
camoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of camo
camoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of camo
chenna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chhena.
clanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clan + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It tells the story of Melinda Sordino, a clanless outcast who barely endures her freshman year at a suburban high school, and it features one of the best young narrative voices this side of Holden Caulfield.
ref: 2007 June 3, John Green, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a clan.
Derived terms: clanlessness
clankily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more clankily
form: most clankily
Etymology: From clanky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clanky manner.
clanlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clanless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.
ref: 2004, Michael Hanne, Creativity in exile, page 23:
glosses: The state of being clanless.
cologned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cologned
form: most cologned
Etymology: From cologne + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: As some of the early bohemian hangouts are being overwhelmed by a decidedly high-heeled and cologned crowd, and others give way to hotels and luxury rentals like the Ludlow, a 23-story brick-and-glass giant that looms over Katz’s Delicatessen, Mr. Misrahi finds himself vilified by some longtime Lower East Side watchers (even though the Ludlow, the most visible symbol of gentrification, is one of the few projects he had nothing to do with).
ref: 2007 June 3, Allen Salkin, “Lower East Side Is Under a Groove”, in New York Times:
glosses: Perfumed with cologne.
divil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divils
Senses: examples: text: It is often said at sea that “the divil would make a good sailor, if he could only tie a bowline and look aloft.”
ref: 1944, Clifford Warren Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of devil.
festoonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: festooneries
Etymology: From festoon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Earlier that day, seeking festoonery, she tore the trim from a dress.
ref: 2007 June 3, ZoË Wolff, “North American Songbird”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which is festooned; hanging ornamentation.
gingered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gingered
form: most gingered
Etymology: From ginger + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: (There’s nothing like a state dinner to get my mouth watering — gingered pheasant consommé!)
ref: 2007 June 3, Amanda Hesser, “Cooking”, in New York Times:
glosses: Spiced with ginger.
gingered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ginger + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ginger
glamorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glamorizers
Etymology: From glamorize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you had to have grown up in that nervous decade, as Mr. Weber did, to find Mr. Baker’s ostentatious laid-backness subversive, to imbue it with so much bad-boy allure. Mr. Weber, who is also a fashion photographer, is a glamorizer both by trade and by nature, and when something imprints itself as strongly on his fantasy life as the image of the young Chet Baker clearly did, he holds onto it tightly — cherishes it, embellishes it, uses it to transport himself back to his own hard-dreaming youth.
ref: 2007 June 3, Terrence Rafferty, “A Jazzman So Cool You Want Him Frozen at His Peak”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who glamorizes.
glamorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glamorizer
heliboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heli- + boarding.
Senses: examples: text: DUBLIN, Ohio, June 2 — Will MacKenzie’s hobbies include heliboarding in Alaska and surfing in Hawaii.
ref: 2007 June 3, Damon Hack, “For Free Spirit, the Tour Is the Latest Adventure”, in New York Times:
glosses: The extreme sport of snowboarding after jumping out of a helicopter.
heli-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of helicopter.
Senses: glosses: helicopter
Related terms: english: clipped form counterpart to the prefix
translation: clipped form counterpart to the prefix
word: heli
english: indirectly related through the root for spiral/helix
translation: indirectly related through the root for spiral/helix
word: helico-
word: copter
english: and derivatives therefrom
translation: and derivatives therefrom
word: -copter
klutzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of klutzy: more klutzy
klutziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of klutzy: most klutzy
multilocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + locked.
Senses: examples: text: Every morning, Mr. Mosconi, the city’s official musical conservationist, stands before pristine, multilocked glass cases and faces three violins by the Amatis (one of the first makers of the modern violin, from the mid-16th century), two by the Guarneris and four instruments — three violins and a cello — by Stradivari. Mr. Mosconi has no favorite: The very question is a mild affront.
ref: 2007 June 3, Ian Fisher, “Fingers That Keep the Most Treasured Violins Fit”, in New York Times:
glosses: Secured by more than one lock.
mumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mum
glosses: present participle and gerund of mumm
mumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: mummings
Senses: examples: text: The vassals or tenants collected in the hall for Christmas masking and mumming—the peasant gathering that May-day called out upon the green, drew together ranks whose distance, in our day, occasions forgetfulness on one side, and discontent on the other.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 280–281:
text: The court masque has its origin in medieval court mummings.
ref: 2011, Susan Lauffer O'Hara, The Theatricality of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus:
synonyms: mummering
glosses: A pantomime or dumb show.
mummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mum
glosses: simple past and past participle of mumm
nonjournalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + journalistic.
Senses: examples: text: She doesn’t hold back on genuine (read nonjournalistic) gasps of “Oh my God” astonishment or delight.
ref: 2007 June 3, Stuart Miller, “Loosey-Goosey Voice on, Yeah, Public Radio”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not journalistic.
nosybody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosybodies
Etymology: From nosy + body.
Senses: examples: text: Which leaves one as a pretty lonely number for some here at Fuddruckers, who complain that they face ever more pressure  from relatives, nosybodies, and their own children  to produce siblings.
ref: 2007 June 3, Tina Kelley, “Company for an Only Child, and for Parents, Peace of Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: A nosy person.
nosybodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosybody
outfinesse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfinesses
form: outfinessing
form: outfinessed
form: outfinessed
Etymology: From out- + finesse.
Senses: examples: text: Having failed for years to outhandle and outfinesse the BMW, the competition has been trying to hammer it into submission.
ref: 2007 June 3, Lawrence Ulrich, “A Grand Opening for BMW’s Quick-Tanning Machine”, in New York Times:
glosses: To show more finesse than; to excel in grace, elegance, or skill.
outfinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfinesse
outfinessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfinesse
outfinessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfinesse
overresearched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overresearched
form: most overresearched
Etymology: From over- + researched.
Senses: examples: text: Writing music bios is hard — even generous advances have a way of disappearing before the job is done right, with overresearched childhoods and rushed endgames common, especially if the writer has no academic salary to fall back on.
ref: 2007 June 3, Robert Christgau, “Combat Rocker”, in New York Times:
text: One senior manager was concerned that gender issues are being overresearched and yet the research findings do not benefit the Kenyan people.
ref: 2011, Jane Onsongo, Promoting Gender Equity in Selected Public Universities of Kenya, page 105:
glosses: Excessively researched.
pictureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From picture + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The first pictureless postcard was produced in Austria in 1869, and by the end of the century picture cards had been introduced, setting off a rash of collecting.
ref: 2007 June 3, Steven Heller, “Visuals”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a picture.
Derived terms: picturelessness
planelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planelike
form: most planelike
Etymology: From plane + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a geometrical plane.
examples: text: (The cover of “Underworld,” to name one uncanny example, had a planelike bird flying toward the twin towers.)
ref: 2007 June 3, Sarah Towers, “Shattered”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an aeroplane.
preadult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + adult.
Senses: glosses: Not yet adult.
preadult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preadults
Etymology: From pre- + adult.
Senses: examples: text: This species has been described from a series of specimens including holotype adult female and paratype adult females and males and preadults collected by Mr. E. G. Smyth on Acacia species at Oaxaco, Mexico, September 22, 1923, while he was engaged in a search through Mexico for parasitic enemies of the Mexican Bean Beetle for the Bureau of Entomology.
ref: 1927, Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume 40, Biological Society of Washington, page 108:
text: In May it transforms to a preadult, and about 15 days later it becomes mature. No males or winged forms of this species are known.
ref: 1935, Milton Stover Eisenhower, United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook 1935, Washington, Office of Printers to House of Representatives, page 132:
text: The food required for larvae and the adults might be different in their quality and quantity. Sastry (1965) reared the scallop larvae to preadults by providing unicellular algae as food. Additional experiments to determine the value of different organisms in plankton as food for larvae are needed for an understanding of the relationship between food and reproduction.
ref: 1966, Alfred Clarence Redfield, Carl Richard Moore, Frank Rattray Lillie, The Biological Bulletin, Volume 130, Marine Biological Laboratory, page 132:
glosses: One who is not yet an adult.
preadults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preadult
pummellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pummelling
pummelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pummeling
reconviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconvictions
Etymology: From re- + conviction.
Senses: examples: text: Only Illinois and New York, besides Texas, have had more convictions overturned by genetic testing than Dallas County, a fact attributable in part to evidence retained to assure reconviction in the event of a successful appeal.
ref: 2007 June 3, Ralph Blumenthal, “For Dallas, New Prosecutor Means an End to the Old Ways”, in New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: Conviction again or anew.
reconvictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconviction
rehydrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehydration
siblinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sibling + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Only children also have a slight advantage in terms of vocabulary and math readiness over their siblinged counterparts, though “by the time they’re 25 or so, it’s pretty much dissipated,” according to Toni L. Falbo, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has studied only children for decades.
ref: 2007 June 3, Tina Kelley, “Company for an Only Child, and for Parents, Peace of Mind”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a sibling or siblings.
stepmotherhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stepmother + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: Lissy, who never makes it through any of the assigned books, nonetheless wrestles with Angela’s claims about art as life lesson and ends up with a stronger lease on marriage and stepmotherhood as well as miraculous recompense for a never-healed childhood loss.
ref: 2007 June 3, Anne Mendelson, “Ladies Who Read”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state of being a stepmother.
subcastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcaste
unblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blown.
Senses: examples: text: an unblown trumpet
text: Fortunately, for this, his first book, Letcher’s mind has remained unblown.
ref: 2007 June 3, Dick Teresi, “Do You Believe in Magic?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not having been blown (in various senses).
glosses: Still in the bud; not yet having bloomed.
glosses: Not turbocharged or supercharged.
raw_tags: of automobile engines
nabis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nabi
nabam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular fungicide.
unfractured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fractured.
Senses: examples: text: I would rather that his head remain unfractured, even if that means his psyche remains unchallenged.
ref: 2007 June 3, Walter Kirn, “Boys Gone Mild”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been fractured.
nanto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nantos
Etymology: From an Aboriginal language. Shortening of "pindi nanto", literally "European kangaroo".
Senses: qualifier: among Aboriginals
glosses: A horse.
uninvolving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninvolving
form: most uninvolving
Etymology: From un- + involving.
Senses: examples: text: As a director Mr. Hare must take his share of the responsibility for the theatrical nonevent that was “The Year of Magical Thinking,” the uninvolving stage adaptation of Joan Didion’s memoir.
ref: 2007 June 3, Charles Isherwood, “Imported Doesn’t Always Mean Important”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not involving.
vanitases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanitas
divvy van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divvy vans
Etymology: From a diminutive of divisional + van.
Senses: examples: text: On the way back I walked through the Block, then past the Aboriginal Legal Service and three divvy vans. One of the constables wound down his window and put his radio in his lap. ‘Hold onto your purse, Lady.’
ref: 2009, Kalinda Ashton, The Danger Game, page 84:
text: Lucky they got them in the divvy vans quick as they did. You hear about that? Had to bring in divvy vans far as bloody Albury to take them off. Had them in lock-ups all over the place.
ref: 2010, Jeremy Chambers, The Vintage and the Gleaning, page 249:
text: Someone called the police and there were eight divvy vans at the front of our court. I must have been very evil. On the first fire I started in my backyard, I put a lot of things on that fire, petrol, tyres, wood, and many more things.
ref: 2011, Jacob Staring, My Life: How I Overcame Stress, Depression, and Communication Breakdowns, page 16:
qualifier: Victoria
glosses: A police van. In other parts of Australia, a paddy wagon.
Synonyms: sense: police van
word: Black Maria
sense: police van
word: dog box
sense: police van
word: paddy wagon
vessell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vessells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of vessel.
vessells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vessell
chondrodysplasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chondrodysplasia
nonnursing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nursing.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to nursing.
nonrhizomelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rhizomelic.
Senses: glosses: Not rhizomelic.
nonresolved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + resolved.
Senses: glosses: Not having been resolved.
surlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more surlily
form: most surlily
Etymology: From surly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One of the biggest and most redoubted of the Black Family was now in that seat of dignity, and, refusing surlily to yield it at Jasper's rude summons, was seized by the scuff of the neck, and literally hurled on the table in front.
ref: 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?:
glosses: In a surly manner.
hoopties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoopty
unserene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unserene
form: most unserene
Etymology: From un- + serene.
Senses: glosses: Not serene.
apostatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostata
crocitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crocitates
form: crocitating
form: crocitated
form: crocitated
Senses: glosses: To croak or caw
carmelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carmelizes
form: carmelizing
form: carmelized
form: carmelized
Etymology: From carmel + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The flour will carmelize in this way just as the sugar carmelizes: that is, a change will take place.
ref: 1899, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 655:
text: Carmelize onions; in a large nonstick saute pan, heat oil and add onions.
ref: 2002, Joy Bauer, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Total Nutrition, page 156:
text: Your choice of bulgogi steak, tangy chicken or carmelized tofu with one of two slaws in a corn tortilla and topped with siracha sauce, lime crema, cilantro and sesame seeds.
ref: 2010 August 9, Justine Rude, The Washington Post:
glosses: Alternative form of caramelize.
vicechairman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicechairmen
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vice-chairman.
vicechairmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicechairman
vice chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-chairs
Senses: glosses: plural of vice chair
amadans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amadan
agencylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agencylike
form: most agencylike
Etymology: From agency + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Over the last five years, Mr. Beckman has developed an agencylike business within Condé Nast’s ad sales unit, generating new revenue by planning events for advertisers and creating advertisements that help sell more magazine pages.
ref: 2007 June 4, Louise Story, “Publishers Creating Their Own In-House Ad Agencies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an agency.
antimusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimusical
form: most antimusical
Etymology: From anti- + musical.
Senses: examples: text: This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.
ref: 2007 June 4, Alastair Macaulay, “Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Opposing or countering music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to antimusic.
lockjawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lockjawed
form: most lockjawed
Senses: examples: text: A work that never quite succeeds in matching its thoughtful head to its sentimental heart, “Crazy Mary” charts a culture clash between a lockjawed, button-down matron and her distant cousin, a longtime sanitarium resident who is, to put it politely, bonkers.
ref: 2007 June 4, Ben Brantley, “Bound by Blood, but Separated by a Breach in Sanity”, in New York Times:
glosses: Rigidly humourless.
miniagency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniagencies
Etymology: From mini- + agency.
Senses: examples: text: Now some of them have set up what amount to internal miniagencies that work with clients to design campaigns for their own pages.
ref: 2007 June 4, Louise Story, “Publishers Creating Their Own In-House Ad Agencies”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small agency.
miniagencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniagency