cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underhill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underhill
form: most underhill
Etymology: From under- + hill.
Senses: examples: text: There's an underhill lane you can walk along there.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: (of a road, track or other path) passing along the foot of a hill.
discompany
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discompanies
form: discompanying
form: discompanied
form: discompanied
Etymology: From dis- + company.
Senses: glosses: To free from company, to dissociate.
Wealdsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wealdsmen
Etymology: From Weald + -s- + man.
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A man from the Weald.
Wealdsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wealdsman
lexica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicon
robin redbreast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robin redbreasts
Etymology: From the name Robin + redbreast. See robin.
Senses: glosses: The European robin.
glosses: Any robin.
glosses: A Bow Street Runner (from the colour of his waistcoat).
shegetz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪɡəts/
other: /ˈʃeɪɡɪts/
Forms: form: shkotzim
form: shegetzes
form: shegitz
form: shaigetz
form: shaigets
form: shaygets
form: shkutz
form: shkotz
Etymology: From Yiddish שייגעץ (sheygets), from Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination”).
Senses: examples: text: And where is she now, that find! Hello, Pumpkin! Making some lucky shaygets a wonderful wife out there in middle America?
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 216:
glosses: A gentile, a non-Jewish male.
Related terms: shiksa
shkotzim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃkɑtsɪm/
ipa: /ˈʃkɒtsɪm/
Etymology: From Yiddish שקצים (shkotsem), from Hebrew שְׁקָצִים (shkatsím), plural of שֶׁקֶץ (shékets, “abomination”).
Senses: examples: text: ...my father made it sound to me like Roosevelt in the White House in Washington ... and all the while how he hated their guts ... oh the whole pack of them up there in Massachusetts, shkotzim fox-hunting! playing polo!
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:
glosses: plural of shegetz
glosses: plural of shkotz
shegetzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shegetz
talebearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talebearings
Etymology: From tale + bearing.
Senses: examples: text: waiting to be in her presence to burst into the tears with which he delivered endless, and sometimes even untrue, talebearings
ref: 1973, Taya Zinkin, Weeds grow fast, page 30:
text: The damage done by calumny, detraction, and talebearing can frequently not be repaired.
ref: 1979, Bernhard Häring, Free and Faithful in Christ: General moral theology, page 94:
text: By talebearing, a person may actually violate seventeen negative Biblical precepts, fourteen positive precepts and incur three curses
ref: 2003, Avraham Steinberg with Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish medical ethics, page 229:
glosses: The spreading of gossip or rumor.
Synonyms: sense: spreading gossip or rumor
word: rumormongering
sense: spreading gossip or rumor
word: talemongering
sense: spreading gossip or rumor
word: telling tales
talebearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talebearing
shagtastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæɡˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more shagtastic
form: most shagtastic
Etymology: From shag + -tastic. Popularized by the Austin Powers movies.
Senses: examples: text: Equally, George Best's "shagtastic marathon" involving bedding seven women in 24 hours because it coincided with his shirt number is the stuff of legend now
ref: 1998 September 27, Jason Gee, “Book review: Tired tales of the expected”, in The Independent:
text: Hinting at sexual extravagance might have caused outrage and disgust in the mid 1800s, but in the shagtastic twenty-first century, it's a certificate of honour.
ref: 2008, Mike Parker, Neighbours from Hell, page 28:
glosses: brilliant, with implications of sexual intercourse.
nature preserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nature preserve
gravityless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravity + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When the third Skylab space laboratory mission returned from a three month gravityless voyage in February 1974...
ref: 1979, Armand Mattelart, Michael Chanan, Multinational corporations and the control of culture:
text: ...the consequences if the earth were to become gravityless (a hypothetical question often used to stimulate thinking)...
ref: 1986, Andhra University, Journal of Indian psychology:
glosses: Without gravity (the physical force).
Derived terms: gravitylessness
mistressless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mistress + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ...being of prudent years to undertake the charge of his motherless and mistressless family...
ref: 1839, Catherine Grace F Gore, The courtier of the days of Charles II, with other tales:
text: For, truth to tell, he was weary of his mistressless home, and he called to mind how neat and expert Zillah used to be...
ref: 1869, Emma Raymond Pitman, Vestina's martyrdom:
text: ...given full responsibility concerning at least the butler and cook, and in a mistressless home possibly concerning the others in the professional class.
ref: 1954, Amy Vanderbilt, Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette:
glosses: Without a mistress.
palatalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatalisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of palatalization.
palatalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatalisation
unpalatalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + palatalized.
Senses: glosses: Not palatalized.
subnode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: subnodes
Etymology: From sub- + node.
Senses: examples: text: Without subnodes, all instances of a data source type share the configuration parameters.
ref: 2008, “Selecting subnode configuration properties”, in publib.boulder.ibm.com:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: child node
glosses: A node within another node of a network or element in a data structure.
mandalalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mandalalike
form: most mandalalike
Etymology: From mandala + -like.
Senses: examples: text: This mandalalike garden, often depicted with the four rivers of paradise, is a sacred place with the Virgin as the protective wall...
ref: 1976, James D Simmonds, Milton studies:
text: ...the individual can see a variety of geometrical or architectural forms — dynamic kaleidoscopic patterns, mandalalike configurations, arabesques...
ref: 1985, Stanislav Grof, Beyond the brain: birth, death, and transcendence in psychotherapy:
text: Sollers provides a possible key when he describes the mandalalike geometric figure (shown below) that adorns the book's front cover to Giordano Bruno...
ref: 1987, David Hayman, Re-forming the narrative: toward a mechanics of modernist fiction:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mandala (ritualistic geometric design).
heliborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heli-borne
Etymology: From heli- + borne.
Senses: examples: text: The Israelis manned their fighting positions, certain they would be facing, at most, a few dozen heliborne commandos.
ref: 1987, Jerry Asher, Eric M Hammel, Duel for the Golan:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Transported by helicopter.
herdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herdlike
form: most herdlike
form: herd-like
Etymology: From herd + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a herd, especially in having a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
Synonyms: sense: following blindly
word: lemminglike
Related terms: gregarious
sheeplike
ayran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of airan (“Turkish drink made from yoghurt”).
quakey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quakier
form: quakiest
Etymology: From quake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't feel blushy or quakey, but quite cool and only a little excited.
ref: 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of quaky.
blushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌʃi/
Forms: form: blushier
form: blushiest
Etymology: From blush + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The artistic impulse that impels one to give a touch of beauty to all material objects extends even to the green-grocer and butcher, and the shop windows of these tradesmen betray both design and beanty. The blushiest side of the apple is always turned towards the passer-by and the hectic glow of the cranberry is further heightened by the contrasting whiteness of celery tops.
ref: 1899 December 23, “Art in Edibles”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LVIII, number 357, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:
text: As it happens, the blushy tone does wonders for tallowy New York winter complexions, and, more important, it sets off to advantage the booth’s prize display: a 1901 portrait miniature of the future Kings George VI and Edward VIII, at ages 6 and 7 respectively.
ref: 2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
text: Well, before you have to ask and get all blushy again, I'll take you home, since you're so pathetically without wheels.
ref: 2007 April 8, Bill Cameron, chapter 8, in Lost Dog (Skin Kadash; 1), Woodbury, Minn.: Midnight Ink, →ISBN, page 102:
text: I felt my face do the melt, like Miss’s, only blushier.
ref: 2014 February 4, Jenn Crowell, chapter 7, in Etched on Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 93:
synonyms: blushed
flushed
flushy
glosses: Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.
examples: text: I didn't feel blushy or quakey, but quite cool, and only a little excited.
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Our Foreign Correspondent”, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Embarrassed, blushing; feeling as though one might blush.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: blushily
blushiness
bogland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boglands
Etymology: From bog + land.
Senses: examples: text: I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27:
text: Even when it has been drained, the bogland does not make a very stable roadbed.
ref: 1953 May, P. W. B. Semmens, “Impressions of the Irish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 296:
text: I moved west to the moody, slightly creepy bogland zone called Zangarmarsh and became my server’s first Level 62er just before noon.
ref: 2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Land that is predominantly boggy; marshland.
Derived terms: boglander
boglands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogland
bookroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookrooms
Etymology: From book + room.
Senses: examples: text: There was no outcry when the ancient bookrooms of the oldest colleges were stripped of those precious volumes preserved in their sheepskin covers and fine board cases which had been handled so lovingly by librarian and scholar.
ref: 1984, Helen Whelan, Snow on the Hedges: A Life of Cuthbert Mayne, page 46:
text: She is forced into making these sacrifices by the aggressive neglect of the school’s administrators, who won’t even let her take books from the bookroom.
ref: 2007 January 19, Tom Moore, “Classroom Distinctions”, in New York Times:
glosses: A room in which books are kept; a library.
bookrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookroom
boutiquey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boutiquey
form: most boutiquey
Etymology: From boutique + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe some shoppers will look at the store and be turned off by the boutiquey feeling, and they won't wander inside.
ref: 2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the mall:
text: In hip-hop terms this is chicken feed, but Mos Def isn’t Jay-Z, and the gig had a long profile within certain influential strata: a boutiquey show in New York’s most beautiful theater, preceded by weeks of positive chatter.
ref: 2007 January 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Rapper, Backed Up by Brass”, in New York Times:
text: But I don't know anything about real estate and location and boutiquey shops out there. I don't go out there.
ref: 2007, Nora Roberts, High Noon:
text: With Watt at sea two weeks out of four, studying part-time for his captain’s papers, and Dickie busy brewing “nice, boutiquey, hop-infused beers” in Derbyshire, the two school friends got together when they could.
ref: 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a boutique (fashionable shop).
embedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embedders
Etymology: From embed + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If an object is neither an embedder of nor embedded in a network of causal relations...
ref: 2006, Graham Robert Oppy, Philosophical perspectives on infinity:
glosses: One who, or that which, embeds.
examples: text: The mating box, capping fork and spur-wheel embedder are essential tools for apiculture.
ref: 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tool for embedding wire into a surface.
embedders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embedder
ʻokina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of okina.
guildmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guildmates
Etymology: From guild + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: all celebrating the life and honouring the death of their guildmate.
ref: 2001, Jane Senese, Shard:
text: By then I was receiving dozens of private messages in the game every hour from players I had never met who could see that my guildmate and I were out front: “OMG how did you level so fast?,” “Hey you must have a lot of gold, can I have some?” and of course “You guys are huge nerds.”
ref: 2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in New York Times:
text: His eyes flicked in amusement to the young highlander, who was still enthralled in his guildmates' talk of diving.
ref: 2008, Isobelle Carmody, The Keeping Place:
hyponyms: guildie
glosses: A member of the same guild.
guildmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guildmate
hyperinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperinflated
form: most hyperinflated
Etymology: From hyper- + inflated.
Senses: examples: text: Another change that may occur from chronically hyperinflated alveoli is the formation of blebs...
ref: 1992, Shirley A Jones, Advanced emergency care for paramedic practice:
glosses: Inflated to an abnormal degree.
examples: text: There’s nothing modern about Red Lodge, which resembles a scaled-down version of Park City, Utah, minus the luxury vehicles, designer ski outfits and hyperinflated housing prices.
ref: 2007 January 19, Alicia Ault, “Miner’s Shacks, Mansions and the Real-Life West”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Increased through hyperinflation.
hyperinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hyper- + inflated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperinflate
knottily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more knottily
form: most knottily
Etymology: From knotty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He examines the implications of a doubly incestuous bloodline (which is not new speculation and is knottily complicated: it makes Adolf “a First-Degree Incestuary One Step Removed.”)
ref: 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a knotty way.
multiproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + product.
Senses: examples: text: Later this year it plans to introduce a small multiproduct compact that women can load up with different products every day if they wish.
ref: 2007 January 19, Claudia H. Deutsch, “A Chance to Save Their Skin”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving more than one type of product.
nonadversarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˌæd.vəˈsɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /nɑnˌæd.vɚˈsɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From non- + adversarial.
Senses: examples: text: On Wednesday, the administration announced that an unnamed judge on the secret court, in a nonadversarial proceeding that apparently cannot be appealed, had issued orders that apparently both granted surveillance requests and set out some ground rules for how such requests would be handled.
ref: 2007 January 19, Adam Liptak, “White House Shifting Tactics in Spy Cases”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not adversarial.
noodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodges
Senses: examples: text: Max Bialystock is many things — a stinking liar, a crook, a shameless noodge, a stud muffin for the elderly and infirm.
ref: 2007 January 19, Charles Isherwood, “Welterweight Bialystock Treads Softly on Big Shtick”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nudzh.
Derived terms: noodgy
noodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noodges
form: noodging
form: noodged
form: noodged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nudzh.
noodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodge
noodges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noodge
noodged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noodge
noodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of noodge
pantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pantingly
form: most pantingly
Etymology: From panting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This same man, […] pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, […]
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 581:
text: He spies on the Hitler household by inserting a pantingly nosy narrator who poses as a Nazi Intelligence officer but claims to have been sent by the Devil.
ref: 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times:
glosses: While, or as if, panting; eagerly, breathlessly.
shipful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipfuls
form: shipsful
Etymology: From Middle English shipfull, schyp fful, ssipvol, equivalent to ship + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see.
ref: 2007 January 19, Holland Cotter, “Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money”, in New York Times:
glosses: As much as a ship will hold.
shipfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipful
shipsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipful
tournedos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊə(ɹ)nəˌdəʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɔː(ɹ)nədəʊ/
Forms: form: tournedos
Etymology: Borrowed from French tournedos, from tourner (“to turn”) + dos (“back”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Now,’ he turned back to the menu, ‘I myself will accompany Mademoiselle with the caviar, but then I would like a very small tournedos, underdone, with sauce Béarnaise and a cœur d’artichaut.[…]’
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 8, in Casino Royale, page 47:
text: He loves grilled chops, sole meunière, rare tournedos and fresh vegetables.
ref: 2007 January 19, Elaine Sciolino, “The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire”, in New York Times:
glosses: Filet mignon.
Synonyms: english: back-formed alternative singular
translation: back-formed alternative singular
word: tournedo
Derived terms: tournedos Rossini
unsavable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + savable.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: irrecoverable, irreparable, irretrievable, unrescuable
text: By the middle, the show was unsavable.
ref: 2007 January 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Rapper, Backed Up by Brass”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unsalvable
unsalvageable
glosses: Not savable; that cannot be saved.
FE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
glosses: Abbreviation of Formula E.
examples: text: The FE exam is a computer-based test (CBT). It is closed book with an electronic reference.
ref: 2020, “Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) CIVIL CBT Exam Specifications”, in NCEES, page 1:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Fundamentals of Engineering; an exam taken by prospective engineers.
Synonyms: F-E
Formula-E
Formula E
Coordinate terms: GP1
GP2
GP3
Related terms: F-1
F1
F-2
F2
F-3
F3
F-3000
F3000
F-2000
F2000
F-1600
F1600
FE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of further education.
4B
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From four Korean words starting with Korean 비(非) (bi, “un-, not”), thus literally translated as "four nos".
Senses: examples: text: The blowback and fear that 4B practitioners experience underscores their conviction that Korea is still a frightening place for women.
ref: 2023 March 8, Anna Louie Sussman, “The women of South Korea's 4B movement aren't fighting the patriarchy — they're leaving it behind entirely.”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2024:
text: Ever since the election, there have been endless headlines about US women emulating South Korea’s fringe 4B movement[.]
ref: 2024 November 16, Arwa Mahdawi, “Are US women protesting against Trump by ‘swearing off sex with men’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A feminist movement originating in South Korea whose tenets are: no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men, and no marriage with men.
4B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4Bs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil grade 3B but lighter marks than a pencil of grade 5B; a pencil with very soft lead.
5B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5Bs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil grade 4B but lighter marks than a pencil of grade 6B; a pencil with very soft lead.
6B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 6Bs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes darker marks than a pencil grade 5B; a pencil with extremely soft lead.
4H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4Hs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade 3H but darker marks than a pencil of grade 5H; a pencil with very hard lead.
glosses: A pencil of grade 4H.
Related terms: 4-H Club
4H disease
5H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 5Hs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade 4H but darker marks than a pencil of grade 6H; a pencil with very hard lead.
glosses: A pencil of the grade 5H.
6H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 6Hs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade 5H; a pencil with extremely hard lead.
glosses: A pencil of grade 6H.
3H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3Hs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade 2H but darker marks than a pencil of grade 4H; a pencil with hard lead.
glosses: A pencil of grade 3H.
glosses: tritium. In this case, the "3" should be superscripted: ³H.
2H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2Hs
Senses: glosses: A grade of pencil with lead that makes lighter marks than a pencil grade H but darker marks than a pencil of grade 3H; a pencil with hard lead.
glosses: A pencil of grade 2H.
glosses: deuterium. In this case, the "2" should be superscripted: ²H.
marrowsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marrowskies
Etymology: Named after an 18th century Polish count who suffered from accidental sound transpositions.
Senses: glosses: Spoonerism.
conversos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of converso
conversationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conversation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: All the natural charm of the previous day was gone. The eaters of the dinner, like the dinner itself, were lukewarm, insipid, overdone—and all owing to this poor little dull Young Barnacle. Conversationless at any time, he was now the victim of a weakness special to the occasion, and solely referable to Clennam.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Without conversation.
Derived terms: conversationlessness
oxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oxlike
form: most oxlike
Etymology: From ox + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ox: strong, foolish, etc.
fanfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfests
Etymology: From fan + -fest.
Senses: examples: text: Fans of the genre frequently gather at comic book and sci-fi fanfests, which often screen Japanimation films.
ref: 1995 October, Billboard, volume 107, number 43:
text: Fanfests are increasingly popular, offering offseason weekends celebrating the team and its players and offering sponsors opportunities...
ref: 1996, Howard Schlossberg, Sports marketing:
text: Since it's a fanfest, there are plenty of autographing and meet-the-musician events in beautiful, shady English Park...
ref: 1996, Tom Clynes, Music festivals from Bach to blues: a traveler's guide:
text: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 — This should have been a feel-good event, part of a fanfest weekend being staged by the San Francisco Giants .
ref: 2007 January 20, Carol Pogash, “Giant Does Not Blame Bonds for Link to Positive Drug Test”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event held for fans.
fanfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanfest
fearsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fearsome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Of all the naturalists to choose to make a victim! Mr. Irwin, of course, had gained celebrity engaging with unwieldy and lethal reptiles as if they were, on a scale of fearsomeness, roughly equivalent to a table of society matrons at tea.
ref: 2007 January 20, Ginia Bellafante, “A Final Adventure for the Consummate Animal Hunter”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being fearsome.
headwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headwalls
Etymology: From head + wall.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The highest cliff of a glacial cirque.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The steep cliff at the back of a cirque.
examples: text: The platforms of all stations from Shepherds Bush to Liverpool Street have been lengthened from 325 ft. to 427 ft. between tunnel headwalls, to take longer trains.
ref: 1950 September, “Central London Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 622:
text: HS2 Ltd has built a 17-metre-high headwall and reinforced the ground at what will become the south portal of the ten-mile Chiltern Tunnel, as part of preparations for the arrival next year of tunnel boring machines (TBMs).
ref: 2020 August 12, “Network News: HS2 tunnel portal readied for TBMs”, in Rail, page 10:
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A retaining wall at the outlet of a drain, culvert or tunnel.
headwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headwall
cavityless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cavity + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a cavity or cavities.
nonobvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-obvious
Etymology: From non- + obvious.
Senses: glosses: Not obvious.
Synonyms: obvious
Derived terms: nonobviousness
nonobviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonobvious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “If KSR raises the bar for nonobviousness, Judge Stein may need to rethink his conclusion that the Plavix patent is not obvious,” said C. Scott Hemphill, an associate professor of law at Columbia University .
ref: 2007 January 20, Stephanie Saul, “Patent Trial Near, Bristol-Myers Counts on Resilience”, in New York Times:
glosses: The state or condition of being nonobvious.
schmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In early episodes, Homer is simply one of Burns's drones or boobs or schmos from Sector 7G.
ref: 2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation:
text: And what about the husbands? Yes, these yearned-for women were, in many cases, married, but you never get these schmos' side of the story.
ref: 2004, A J Jacobs, The know-it-all:
text: "At the time, I belonged to a group that, I realize now, fed on the fears and insecurities of hard-luck schmos like myself."
ref: 2005, Francine Prose, A changed man:
glosses: plural of schmo
testfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: testfires
form: testfiring
form: testfired
form: testfired
Etymology: From test + fire.
Senses: examples: text: The test of an antisatellite weapon last week, which Beijing declined to confirm or deny Friday despite widespread news coverage and diplomatic inquiries, was perceived by East Asia experts as China’s most provocative military action since it testfired missiles off the coast of Taiwan more than a decade ago.
ref: 2007 January 20, Joseph Kahn, “China Shows Assertiveness in Weapons Test”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To subject to a test firing.
testfiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of testfire
testfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of testfire
testfires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of testfire
trickledown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trickle + down.
Senses: examples: text: It has a huge trickledown effect,” said Mr. Cost, who had to lay off four employees because business was slow this year and last.
ref: 2007 January 20, Katie Zezima, “Warm Days and Hard Times in Snowmobile Land”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of trickle-down.
analysands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analysand
astonishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astonishable
form: most astonishable
Etymology: From astonish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Astonishing.
examples: text: These are good times for the astonishable reading public.
ref: 2007 January 21, Joe Queenan, “Astonish Me”, in New York Times:
glosses: Susceptible to being astonished; shockable.
Derived terms: unastonishable
budworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budworms
Etymology: From bud + worm.
Senses: examples: text: After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.
ref: 2007 January 21, The Associated Press, “Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of various moth caterpillars.
Derived terms: lesser budworm
spruce budworm
tobacco budworm
western spruce budworm
budworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budworm
collegebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From college + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: “I urge you all to argue with your teachers, argue with your parents,” Sanders told a group of about 60 students at South Burlington High School — generally liberal, affluent and collegebound — one afternoon in mid-December.
ref: 2007 January 21, Mark Leibovich, “The Socialist Senator”, in New York Times:
glosses: Bound for college; soon to attend college.
coverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cover + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He took the coverless book from her hand. Chardenal's French primer.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 4”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:
text: And it has a sturdy dust cover, unlike the coverless Ion. The Audio-Technica’s tone arm comes assembled and can be set to raise and lower itself from the turntable automatically
ref: 2007 January 21, Anne Eisenberg, “The Turntables That Transform Vinyl”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without a cover or covers.
Derived terms: coverlessness
cubicled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cubicle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Yet just down the hall, resembling a sort of high-rise oasis amid this construction, is the carpeted and cubicled office of Adventure Publishing, where the employees are busy putting out a trade magazine that covers the toy industry.
ref: 2007 January 21, Steven Kurutz, “Hammers and Nails and 9 to 5”, in New York Times:
glosses: Fitted with, or divided into, cubicles.
culantro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːˈlɑːn.tɹoʊ/
ipa: /kuːˈlæn.tɹoʊ/
enpr: ko͞o-länˈ -trō
enpr: -lănˈ -
Etymology: From Spanish culantro, whence also the doublet cilantro, which see for more. Both words are doublets of coriander.
Senses: examples: text: A painting of a woman wearing a burgundy shawl over a flamenco-style dress hangs on a wall, and in the garden, tomatoes, peppers, corn and culantro, an herb used in Caribbean cooking, grow in the summer.
ref: 2007 January 21, Timothy Williams, “As East Harlem Develops, Its Accent Starts to Change”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: chadon beni
word: fitweed
glosses: The tropical herb Eryngium foetidum, native to Mexico, Central America and South America but cultivated worldwide, used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine. (See Usage notes below for this sense.)
glosses: Alternative form of cilantro (the stems and leaves of Coriandrum sativum)
cilantros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Waghmare and Annapure (2015) studied the effect of the modified atmosphere packaging technique on the shelf life and quality of fresh-cut cilantros by combining it with sodium hypochlorite.
ref: 2017, Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Alina Maria Holban, Microbial Contamination and Food Degradation, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: plural of cilantro
tropicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical
subtropicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtropical
subtropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subtropically
form: most subtropically
Etymology: From sub- + tropically.
Senses: glosses: In a subtropical way.
deskman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deskmen
Etymology: From desk + man.
Senses: examples: text: His face showed his lack of confidence in the deskman.
ref: 2007 January 21, Michael Connelly, “The Overlook”, in New York Times:
glosses: A subeditor.
glosses: Anyone who works at a desk, as in a police station.
deskmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskman
subedit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subedits
form: subediting
form: subedited
form: subedited
Etymology: From sub- + edit.
Senses: glosses: To perform the work of a subeditor or copy editor.
Synonyms: sub
subedits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subedit
subediting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subedit
subedited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subedit
dicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: dghaisa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: dicers
Etymology: From dice + -er.
Senses: glosses: A gambler who plays dice.
glosses: One who, or that which, dices (cuts into cubes); a tool for this purpose.
dicers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicer
Awadhi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Awadhi
form: most Awadhi
form: Oudhi
Etymology: From Awadhi अवधी (avdhī).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Awadh in India.
Awadhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Awadhis
form: Awadhi
form: Oudhi
Etymology: From Awadhi अवधी (avdhī).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Awadh in India.
Awadhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oudhi
Etymology: From Awadhi अवधी (avdhī).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Nepal that is considered to be a part of the Eastern Hindi languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Awadhi terms
awa ⁠
hyperstimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperstimulates
form: hyperstimulating
form: hyperstimulated
form: hyperstimulated
Etymology: From hyper- + stimulate.
Senses: glosses: To stimulate to an excessive degree.
Related terms: hyperstimulation
hyperstimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperstimulate
hyperstimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperstimulate
hyperstimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperstimulate
megagrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + growth.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps a more trenchant criticism is that predicting megagrowth stocks defies hard analysis or, as the author says, is largely a matter of intuition.
ref: 2007 January 21, Roger Lowenstein, “The Tricky Task of Spotting a New Market Darling”, in New York Times:
glosses: Extraordinary growth, especially in finance or industry.
micromineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microminerals
Etymology: From micro- + mineral.
Senses: examples: text: The company’s “patent-pending Rare Minerals Skin Revival Treatment” is actually meant to be worn while sleeping, making your skin “more luminous” all the while, thanks to a formula that includes “all 72 organic macro- and microminerals that exist in nature.”
ref: 2007 January 21, Rob Walker, “Earth Cover”, in New York Times:
glosses: A mineral of which only trace amounts are needed in the diet.
microminerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromineral
nondepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From non- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: Not depressive or pertaining to depression.
nondepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: nondepressives
Etymology: From non- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not suffer from depression.
nondepressives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondepressive
nonlegitimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + legitimate.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, in some states, according to one lawyer I consulted, it is a tort — a civil offense — if someone “intentionally destroys your chance of getting a job for nonlegitimate reasons” (“legitimate” presumably having little reference to romance and its stings).
ref: 2007 January 21, Randy Cohen, “An Ex Takes the Spot”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not legitimate; illegitimate, invalid.
nonsolicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + solicitation.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
Synonyms: nonsolicit
nonsolicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsolicitations
Etymology: From non- + solicitation.
Senses: examples: text: The parallel study by the New York Curb Exchange indicates an even graver increase in nonsolicitation. A study of nonsolicitation by companies having stock listed on the New York Curb Exchange in the year 1935, prior to the adoption
ref: 1942, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, Page 1144:
glosses: The failure to solicit proxies by a company trying to limit expenses incurred from proxy rules.
examples: text: Nonsolicitations are promises to not go after relationships with people. Typically, these prohibit asking employees to leave a company for new opportunities or asking customers to reduce or eliminate purchases with the company.
ref: 2011, Coco Soodak, Birth to Buyout: Law for the Life Cycle of Your Business, Page 26:
glosses: A particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
nonsolicit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + solicit.
Senses: glosses: Nonsolicitation.
nontechie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontechies
Etymology: From non- + techie.
Senses: examples: text: Such models are designed with the nontechie in mind.
ref: 2007 January 21, Anne Eisenberg, “The Turntables That Transform Vinyl”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who is not a techie.
nontechies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontechie
overprotectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overprotectively
form: most overprotectively
Etymology: From overprotective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.
ref: 2007 January 21, Lorraine Adams, “Armenian in Istanbul”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an overprotective way.
overprotectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overprotective + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.
ref: 1982, Rita Beck Black, Bruce P. Hermann, Jean Thatcher Shope, Nursing Management of Epilepsy, page 97:
text: I also later learned that my friend had selectively sent me only part of what he had obtained from Mr. Berkeley's files, deciding not to share with me other writings which were more "kinky" or "obscene." Whether this was overprotectiveness and "male chauvinism" towards me, or a need to protect his identity with the gay world, on the part of my friend, I will not commence to judge.
ref: 1985 August 17, Rosemary Romberg, “Gay Info Trickles Down To Straights”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 5:
glosses: The state or condition of being overprotective.
prehurricane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hurricane.
Senses: examples: text: Still, upticks, if there are any, are imperceptible: the percentage of prehurricane gas and electric users who were getting service, for instance, remained the same between April and November 2006, the Brookings Institution reported last month.
ref: 2007 January 21, Adam Nossiter, “New Orleans of Future May Stay Half Its Old Size”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring before a hurricane.
scarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarers
Etymology: From scare + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
ref: 1894, William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India:
text: However, if a child tells a parent that someone “scares me,” it certainly doesn’t seem prudent to tell the alleged scarer what the child has confided to the parent, even if that parent “trusts” the baby sitter at this point.
ref: 2007 January 21, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who, or that which, scares.
glosses: Any of various devices for frightening birds away.
Synonyms: sense: one who scares
word: frightener
Derived terms: crow scarer
deer scarer
scarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarer
statisticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From statisticize + -ation or statistic + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: This led to the charge that Kinsey was perpetrating what we might call the statisticization of morality.
ref: 2007 January 21, Scott Stossel, “Measure for Measure”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of statisticizing.
thiophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiophanes
Senses: glosses: Tetrahydrothiophene.
thiophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiophane
uncomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomic
form: most uncomic
Etymology: From un- + comic.
Senses: examples: text: In retrospect, it would appear not uncomic — two philosophical monomaniacs with the same flaw — they could not help it, they were counterpunchers.”
ref: 2007 January 21, Lee Siegel, “Maestro of the Human Ego”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: uncomical
word: unfunny
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not comic.
uncomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncomically
form: most uncomically
Etymology: From uncomical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncomical way.
uncomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncomical
form: most uncomical
Etymology: From un- + comical.
Senses: synonyms: word: uncomic
word: unfunny
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not comical.
Derived terms: uncomically
tara gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tara gums
Etymology: From Spanish tara, from Quechua.
Senses: examples: text: Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
ref: 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN:
glosses: A white or beige nearly odorless powder used as a thickening agent and stabilizer for food, produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of Tara spinosa seeds.
Synonyms: E417
Related terms: tara flour