cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nanocomponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocomponent
nanocomponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocomponents
Etymology: From nano- + component.
Senses: glosses: A nanosized component
polytime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + time.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: polynomial time
acausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + causal.
Senses: glosses: Not causal.
Derived terms: acausally
presynthesized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + synthesized.
Senses: glosses: synthesized in advance
ruthenocuprates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruthenocuprate
ruthenocuprate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruthenocuprates
Etymology: From rutheno- + cuprate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of cuprates of ruthenium, especially those that have superconducting or magnetoresistive properties
starforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of star-forming.
star-forming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a region of space in which new stars are being formed
subensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subensembles
form: sub-ensemble
Etymology: From sub- + ensemble.
Senses: glosses: A subset of an ensemble
unmodulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmodulated
form: most unmodulated
Etymology: From un- + modulated.
Senses: examples: text: And the performances have a raw, unmodulated quality, as if everyone were simply pouring out their thoughts and feelings.
ref: 2009 May 31, Dave Kehr, “One Man’s Love Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not modulated
untenability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untenabilities
Etymology: From un- + tenability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being untenable.
helicopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helicopts
form: helicopting
form: helicopted
form: helicopted
Etymology: Back-formation from helicopter.
Senses: glosses: To helicopter.
give a rat's arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a rat's arse
form: giving a rat's arse
form: gave a rat's arse
form: given a rat's arse
form: give a rat's ass
Senses: examples: text: I just don't give a rat's arse!
text: She couldn't give a rat's arse whether he shows up or not.
text: I don't give a rat's arse about politics.
synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care a minimum amount; to have or show minimal interest
raw_tags: in the negative
fucky-fucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucky fucky
Senses: examples: text: Fifteen hundred pesos for a "fucky-fucky," two thousand for a chupuda^([sic – meaning chupada]).
ref: 2000 May 16, Charles Nicholl, “from The Fruit Palace: An Obyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underground”, in Lucretia Stewart, editor, Erogenous Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad, Modern Library, →ISBN, →OL, page 310:
text: “Nothing serious, just fucky-fucky.” “That's right, nothing serious, just fucky-fucky. I have enough to handle in my life without you becoming possessive.”
ref: 2005 March 31, Fabienne Villette, The More I Know Men, the More I Love Dogs, Trafford on Demand, →ISBN, →OL:
text: If you get picked up by the military police you will be in big trouble, and there will be no fucky-fucky for you tonight.
ref: 2006 March 15, Peter Neville, The Rose of Singapore: An Epic Tale of Love, Loss and Sexual Awakening in 1950s Malaya & Singapore, Singapore: Monsoon Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 123:
synonyms: word: aphrodisia
word: carnal knowledge
word: coitus
word: coition
word: commerce
word: commixtion
word: congress
word: conjunction
word: connection
word: consummation
word: conversation
word: copulation
word: coupling
word: intercourse
word: intimacy
word: intimate relations
word: intromission
word: joining
word: lovemaking
word: lustmaking
word: marital embrace
word: mating
word: mounting
raw_tags: for animals
word: pareunia
word: penetration
word: relations
word: sex
word: sexual congress
word: sexual intercourse
word: sexual relation
word: sexual union
word: swiving
word: union
word: the beast with two backs
word: the birds and the bees
word: boom-boom
word: chesterfield rugby
word: horizontal dancing
word: horizontal hula
word: horizontal jogging
word: horizontal mambo
word: horizontal refreshments
word: how's your father
word: love
word: Netflix and chill
word: physical love
word: roll in the hay
word: Ugandan affairs
word: Ugandan discussions
word: action
word: ass
word: bang
word: barney-mugging
word: beef injection
word: bonking
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: frig
word: fucky-fucky
word: hot beef injection
word: hump
word: humpa humpa
word: jig-jig
word: jiggy-jiggy
word: lay
word: legover
word: meat injection
word: nookie
word: old hat
word: pipe
word: plow
word: plough
word: poon
word: poontang
word: punani
word: pussy
word: ride
word: root
word: rumpo
word: rumpy-pumpy
word: seeing-to
word: sexy time
word: sexy times
word: screw
word: screwing
word: shag
word: skin
word: snu snu
word: tang
word: trim
word: hanky-panky
word: funny business
word: making whoopee
word: jiggery-pokery
word: monkey business
word: fooling about
word: fooling around
word: playing around
glosses: Sexual intercourse.
Related terms: sucky-sucky
object permanence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The understanding (typically developed during early infancy) that an object still exists even when it disappears from sight, or other senses.
unshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshoes
form: unshoeing
form: unshoed
form: unshoed
form: unshod
form: unshod
Etymology: From Middle English unshon, from Old English onscōgan (“to unshoe”), equivalent to un- + shoe.
Senses: examples: text: With plants of the kind we may compare the wonder-working moonwort (Botrychium lunaria), which was said to open locks and to unshoe horses that trod on it, a notion which Du Bartas thus mentions in his "Divine Weekes" – "Horses that, feeding on the grassy hills, Tread upon moonwort with their hollow heels, Though lately shod, at night go barefoot home, Their maister musing where their shoes become.
ref: 1889, T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, The Folk-lore of Plants:
glosses: to remove a shoe (especially a horseshoe) from.
unsailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sailed.
Senses: examples: text: Now when I look back / On manhood's and on childhood's far-stretched track, / I see but a little child / In a green sunny world-home; there enisled / By another, cloudy world / Of unsailed waters all around him curled, / And he at home content / With the small sky of wonders over him bent […]
ref: 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
text: Fourscore years since, and come but one month more / The count were perfect of his mortal score / Whose sail went seaward yesterday from shore / To cross the last of many an unsailed sea.
ref: 1917, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems & Ballads (Second Series):
glosses: Not sailed; not visited or explored by boat or ship.
unrig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrigs
form: unrigging
form: unrigged
form: unrigged
Etymology: From un- + rig.
Senses: examples: text: No, I have brought nothing but Ballaſt back,—made a delicious Voyage, Setter; and might have rode at Anchor in the Port till this time, but the Enemy ſurpriz'd us.— I vvou'd unrig.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 43:
text: Some climbed the masts to unrig her, others rushed into the hold to get out the cargo, and numbers hurried to the cabin to carry off the lighter articles which it contained.
ref: 1859, W[illiam] H[enry] G[iles] Kingston, chapter 22, in Old Jack:
text: TRIPPING-LINE. A small rope serving to unrig the lower top-gallant yard-arm of its lift and brace, when in the act of sending it down on deck.
ref: 1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book:
text: [I]n bathing costumes they unrigged the boat, put away the sails, and got her up to her resting place upon the dry sand of the beach.
ref: 1957, Neville Shute, chapter 3, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.).
glosses: To disable.
glosses: To undress (someone).
unrespected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrespected
form: most unrespected
Etymology: From un- + respected.
Senses: glosses: not respected
unmarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmarries
form: unmarrying
form: unmarried
form: unmarried
Etymology: From un- + marry.
Senses: examples: text: But there can be no doubt that John Scarborough and Ada Sneyd were married at Rummelsburg, and that it will be found to be impossible to unmarry them.
ref: 1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family:
text: If you like to exercise your authority I'll run away and you can't unmarry me.
ref: 1909, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn:
glosses: To undo the action of marrying somebody.
unmarries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmarry
unmarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmarry
unlove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“not; lack of”) + love (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.
ref: 2005, David Deida, Blue Truth:
text: How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily […] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.
ref: 2007, John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:
text: All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor […] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.
ref: 2011, Christopher Uhl, Teaching as if Life Matters:
glosses: The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
unlove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unloves
form: unloving
form: unloved
form: unloved
Etymology: From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) + love (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre:
text: And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
ref: 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy:
text: They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.
ref: 1891 [1711], Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.:
glosses: To lose one's love (for someone or something).
Related terms: disenamour
fall out of love
love
enamour
fall in love
unarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˈnɑːm/
ipa: /ʌˈnɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: unarms
form: unarming
form: unarmed
form: unarmed
Etymology: From un- + arm.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne anone la beale Isoud sente in to the toune / and prayd syr Dynadan that he wold come in to the castel / & repose hym there with a lady / with a good wylle sayd sir Dynadan / & soo he mounted vpon his hors and rode in to the castel / & there he alyghte / and was vnarmed / & brought in to the castel
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
glosses: To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
examples: text: Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again:
Why should I war without the walls of Troy,
That find such cruel battle here within?
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To remove one's armour.
tythe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tythes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tithe.
tythe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tythes
form: tything
form: tythed
form: tythed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of tithe.
tythes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tythe
calendarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calendarize
calendarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calendarize
calendarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calendarize
scratch someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scratches someone's back
form: scratching someone's back
form: scratched someone's back
form: scratched someone's back
Senses: glosses: To do someone a favour.
Related terms: you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
balconylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælkəniˌlaɪk/
Forms: form: more balconylike
form: most balconylike
Etymology: From balcony + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a balcony.
Synonyms: sense: characteristic of a balcony
word: balconic
Related terms: balconette
balconette bra
balcony
balcony bra
website aggregators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of website aggregator
uncinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsaɪ.nəs/
rhymes: -aɪnəs
Forms: form: uncini
Etymology: From Latin uncīnus (“hook”).
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud species which consists of fine hair-like strands, with hooked terminations. Associated only with cirrus formations.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The curved tip of the hooks associated with belemnite tentacles.
Related terms: unciform
spissatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spissati
Etymology: From Latin spissatus.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud species which consists of dense, high level strands, which can haze, or block the sun. Associated only with cirrus formations.
spissati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spissatus
noier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noiers
Senses: examples: text: The North is a noier, to grasse of al suites,
The East a destroier, to hearbs and al fruits
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: An annoyer.
scolices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolex
proglottids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proglottid
proglottides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proglottis
unarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unarm
unarming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unarm
castellanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæstəˈlɑːnəs/
Forms: form: castellani
Etymology: From New Latin castellānus, from Medieval Latin castellum (“castle, fortress”) + -ānus (“-an: forming adj.”), from castrum (“fort”) + -ellum (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellano, castellan, and chatelain.
Senses: examples: text: Turbulent mixing, evidenced by alto-cumulus castellanus cloud over France, also took place en route and carried dust to high altitudes.
ref: 1985 February 14, Dennis Wheeler, “Saharan dust storm over England”, in New Scientist, volume 105, number 1443, page 26:
text: Over France the altocumuli castellani clouds at medium level indicate a very unstable air mass there, because these clouds often develop into thunderstorms.
ref: 1993, Monthly Weather Review - Volume 121, Issues 10-12, page 2709:
text: But liftoff in warm, moist, unstable air in which condensation is occurring may result in an updraft capped by a towering altocumulus castellanus cloud at 11,000 to 15,000 feet.
ref: 1998, Stuart H. Walker, The Sailor's Wind, page 56:
text: When a layer of cloud rises in distinct turrets with bumpy tops that resemble crenellations, it is of the species known as castellanus—and this one can give an early indication of unsettled weather to come later in the day.
ref: 2011, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Cloud Collector's Handbook, page 40:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: castellatus
glosses: A cloud species which shows vertical formations giving a crenellated appearance, associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
examples: text: In addition to the rettori, there were castellani of the fort in the town of Chios and of fourteen other forts in the society's island. The castellanus of the urban fort was chosen by a complicated process of indirect election resembling that which determined the Podestà, and again like him was to be drawn from the popolari of Genoa.
ref: 1979, Adolf M., Kaegi Hakkert (Walter E.), Byzantinische Forschungen - Volume 6, page 17:
text: Castle garrisons are castellani; WP does not use the term oppidani.
ref: 1998, Guillaume IX ((duc d'Aquitaine ;), Ralph Henry Carless Davis, & Marjorie Chibnall, The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers, page xli:
text: In these documents conderning the castle of Talarn, however, the term castellanus is applied to both of the bottom two levels of the hierarchy: the texts imply that both Oliver Bernat and Guillem Folc are castellani.
ref: 2001, Adam J. Kosto, Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of castellan.
wedel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedels
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Alternative form of wedeln.
wedel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wedels
form: wedeling
form: wedelling
form: wedeled
form: wedeled
form: wedelled
form: wedelled
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Alternative form of wedeln.
floccus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flocci
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin floccus.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
glosses: A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs
glosses: The downy plumage of unfledged birds.
flocci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floccus
aberrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aberrometers
Senses: glosses: A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye
Related terms: aberrometric
aberrometrist
aberrometry
abience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.i.n̩ts/
ipa: /ˈæb.i.n̩s/
Forms: form: abiences
Etymology: From abient + -ence.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus.
Related terms: abient
abient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.i.n̩t/
Forms: form: more abient
form: most abient
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin abiens present participle of abeō (“to go away”), from ab (“from, away”) + eō (“to go”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal.
Synonyms: avoidant
Derived terms: abience
abjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɔɪnt/
ipa: /æbˈd͡ʒɔɪnt/
Forms: form: abjoints
form: abjointing
form: abjointed
form: abjointed
Etymology: From ab- (“away”) + joint (“join”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: To separate from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum.
Related terms: abjunction
abolitionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abolitionistic
form: most abolitionistic
Etymology: From abolition + -istic.
Senses: glosses: abolitionist
absorbifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more absorbifacient
form: most absorbifacient
Senses: glosses: absorbent
acaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈkɔd.l/
ipa: /eɪˈkɔd.əl/
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + caudal (“tail”).
Senses: glosses: acaudate
Donald Ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Donald Duck
aclinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aclinal
form: most aclinal
Etymology: From a- + clinal.
Senses: glosses: Having no dip; horizontal
husi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jusi.
shoutier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shouty: more shouty
shoutiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shouty: most shouty
mermaiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mermaidens
Etymology: From Middle English meremaiden (“mermaid”), from mere (“mere, sea”) + maiden (“maiden”), equivalent to mer- + maiden. Compare Old English meremennen (“mermaid, siren”). More at mere, maiden.
Senses: examples: text: The Neck here his harp in the glass-castle plays,
And Mermaidens comb out their green hair always,
And bleach here their shining white clothes.
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 156:
glosses: A mermaid; a maiden of the sea; a siren.
Synonyms: mergirl
merlady
mermaid
merwoman
tramplest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: trample + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of trample
accidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accidentia
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: An Accidens (or accident) of an individual, genus, or species is any attribute which is possessed by it, and which does not follow from, or form a part of, its comprehension. […] If, on the other hand, an accidens is sometimes present and sometimes absent in an individual, […]
ref: 1886, Prasanna K. Roy, A Text-book of Deductive Logic: For the Use of Students, page 83:
text: But, where there is no apparent reason why the attribute should always be found in the individuals of a class, it is called an Accidens.
ref: 1896, James Welton, A Manual of Logic, volume 1, page 86:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”).
synonyms: word: accident
extra: a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive
qafiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qafizes
form: cafiz
Etymology: From Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz), from Aramaic קְפִיזָא and Classical Syriac ܩܦܝܙܐ (qəp̄īzā), of uncertain derivation from Egyptian, Akkadian, and similar units. Doublet of cahiz and cafiso. Cognate with Ancient Greek καπίθη (kapíthē).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Arab unit of volume, varying over time, place, and substance measured.
glosses: Any of various medieval units of dry or liquid measure derived from the qafiz.
Casanova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæsəˈnəʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæzəˈnəʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæsəˈnoʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæzəˈnoʊvə/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Forms: form: Casanovas
Etymology: Eponym from Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Venetian writer and adventurer.
Senses: glosses: A man considered romantic and gallant, especially one who gives amorous attentions to women.
synonyms: word: philanderer
word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
glosses: A promiscuous, philandering man.
Casanova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæsəˈnəʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæzəˈnəʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæsəˈnoʊvə/
ipa: /ˌkæzəˈnoʊvə/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Forms: form: Casanovas
Etymology: From Romance Casanova (Spanish Casanova, Italian Casanova, Catalan Casanova). From casa (house) + nova (new). Literally, “new house”.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Newhouse.
Casanovas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Casanova
stoppest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: stop + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of stop
hocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hockets
form: hoquet
Etymology: From French hoquet (“hiccup”).
Senses: examples: text: Hocket is a contrapuntal technique described by the early fourteenth-century Walter Odington as "A truncation … made over the tenor … in such a way that one voice is always silent while the other sings."
ref: 1977, Lloyd Ultan, Music theory: problems and practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, U of Minnesota Press, page 91:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In medieval music, a rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
topics: architecture
glosses: A narrow passageway or opening between buildings, typically designed to facilitate access or movement between separate architectural structures.
glosses: Any small gap or opening; often used to describe a narrow space that allows for movement or connection between two areas.
Derived terms: hocketed
hocketing
hocketor
summe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sum.
summest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sum + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of sum
summet
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: The langer they gaze, still the mair they may wonder,
And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.
ref: 1805, R. Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 105
glosses: Alternative form of summat.
summet
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of summat.
loche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loches
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of loach (“kind of fish”).
tippest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tip + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of tip
quakest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: quake + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of quake
leprechology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leprechaunology.
actuarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From actuary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of, or using the methods of an actuary
scelidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scelidate
form: most scelidate
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having legs
Related terms: scelides
addictionologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addictionologists
Etymology: From addictionology + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physician whose speciality is addictionology.
adeciduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + deciduate.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Not deciduate.
adherend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adherends
Senses: examples: text: The aerospace industry routinely uses the tendency of clean water to 'bead' or 'break' as an indication of the presence of hydrophobic contaminant on an adherend during surface preparation.
ref: 2017, Rhys Jones, A.A. Baker, Neil Matthews, Aircraft Sustainment and Repair, page 284:
glosses: That which adheres to something else by adhesion.
fuzz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuzzes out
form: fuzzing out
form: fuzzed out
form: fuzzed out
Senses: glosses: to censor (an image) by blurring.
dry heave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry heaves
form: dry heaving
form: dry heaved
form: dry heaved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dry-heave.
dry heave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry heaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dry-heave.
hypoosmolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + osmolar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hypoosmolarity.
hypoosmolarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + osmolarity.
Senses: glosses: An abnormally low osmolarity
Related terms: hypoosmolar
recalcitrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recalcitrancies
Etymology: In use since at least 1869 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985).
Senses: glosses: recalcitrance.
recalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌriːkəˈlɛsəns/
ipa: /ˌrikəˈlɛsəns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: recalescences
Etymology: From Latin recalescere (“to grow warm again”), from re- + calēscere (“to grow warm”), inchoative of calēre (“to be warm”). In use since at least 1873 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985). By surface analysis, re- + calescence, or, by surface analysis, recalesce + -ence.
Senses: synonyms: reglow#Noun
coordinate_terms: calescence
decalescence
glosses: An increase in temperature that occurs while cooling metal through a range of temperatures in which change in structure occurs.
Related terms: calesce
calorie
calorific
recalesce
recalescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recalescence
leprechaunology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leprechology
Etymology: From leprechaun + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of leprechauns.
cross-correlation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-correlations
Etymology: From cross- + correlation.
Senses: glosses: A notion used across various fields of scientific study that shows the relation between members of two or more groups of data.
do unto others
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does unto others
form: doing unto others
form: did unto others
form: done unto others
Etymology: From the first part of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, a common formulation of the golden rule.
Senses: glosses: To obey the golden rule: to treat others as one would wish to be treated.
feel oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels oneself
form: feeling oneself
form: felt oneself
form: felt oneself
Senses: examples: text: I hope you don't mind if I cancel our date this afternoon – I just don't feel myself today.
text: I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself / Man, I been on my own, Lord, I'ma need some help
ref: 2018, “Clout Cobain”, performed by Denzel Curry:
glosses: To feel comfortable or normal; to be in one's usual mood or state of health; to feel like oneself.
examples: text: Madison called her when she returned from California, and Ashley was upbeat and really feeling herself. She was ready to get out and hang, and if Madison hadn't been in her present condition, she would've been ready to roll too. But, she needed her friend's unconditional support, and Ashley shocked her with[…]
ref: 2005 07, Collen Dixon, Relative Secrets, the FIN group, →ISBN, page 97:
text: She even began to share her selfies and videos of herself taken during the moments when she was really feeling herself. Sharing a collection of video selfies, she tweeted: “No mo digital hoardingggg taking up spaceee i luh yallll.” No longer lingering on her phone, we can see Solange's personality hang out in all its goofy, sultry, thirst-trap-ready form.
ref: 2021 April 20, Stephanie Phillips, Why Solange Matters, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 208:
coordinate_terms: feel one's oats
glosses: To feel particularly good (especially about oneself) or particularly into oneself.
glosses: To touch oneself.
poke box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poke boxes
Etymology: From poke + box, since one must poke around to find what one is looking for.
Senses: glosses: A domestic container for miscellaneous items such as buttons, paper clips, and safety pins.
good old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: good ol'
form: good ole
Senses: examples: text: Good old Jenny – she typed out all the reports last night for us.
text: There's nothing like a good old American action film.
glosses: Reliable; typical; consistently good.
Derived terms: good old boy
good old days
Related terms: plain old
poor old
same old
human movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The academic study of how human beings move around, perform and exercise, especially in sport.
Iau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yau
Senses: glosses: A Lakes Plain language spoken by the Turu people.
quaeritate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quaeritates
form: quaeritating
form: quaeritated
form: quaeritated
Senses: glosses: To question
sextos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexto
oitava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oitavas
form: outava
Etymology: From Portuguese oitava, from Old Galician-Portuguese oitavo, from Latin octāvus (“eighth”), q.v., in reference to it making up one-eighth of the alqueire (Portuguese bushel) or onça (Portuguese ounce). Doublet of octave, octavo, and ochava.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equivalent to 1.6–2.4 liters in different 19th-century contexts.
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 3.6 grams.
glosses: A traditional Brazilian unit of weight, equivalent to 17.44 carats, typically used for gold and precious stones.
Synonyms: english: in Portuguese contexts
translation: in Portuguese contexts
word: eighth
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of dry volume
word: celamim (1⁄4 oitava)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: maquia (1⁄2 oitava)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: quarta (2 oitavas)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: alqueire (8 oitavas)
sense: unit of mass
word: grao (1⁄72 oitava)
sense: unit of mass
word: vintem (1⁄32 oitava)
sense: unit of mass
word: quilate (1⁄18 oitava)
sense: unit of mass
word: escropulo (1⁄3 oitava)
sense: unit of mass
word: onça (8 oitavas)
sense: unit of mass
word: quarta (24 oitavas)
sense: unit of mass
word: marco (48 oitavas)
sense: unit of mass
english: usually 72 oitavas
translation: usually 72 oitavas
word: libra
sense: unit of mass
word: arratel (128 oitavas)
oitavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oitava
nonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nono
Potter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtə/
ipa: /ˈpɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Potters
Etymology: From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.
Senses: glosses: A person from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: someone connected with Stoke City Football Club (in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK), as a fan, player, coach etc.
Potter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtə/
ipa: /ˈpɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Potters
Etymology: From Middle English Potter, English, Dutch, and north German surname, from the noun pot.
The usage for someone from Stoke-on-Trent refers to it being the home of the pottery industry in England, where it is also known as The Potteries.
Senses: examples: text: We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century.
ref: 2023 February 16, Pavlo Kazarin, “A year ago I volunteered as a soldier in the Ukrainian army”, in NATO Review, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2025:
glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a potter.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and township in Polk County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Yates County, New York.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Barnes County, North Dakota.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Beaver County and Centre County.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Calumet County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Potter County.
Derived terms: Doege-Potter syndrome
Harry Potter
Potter County
Potterdom
Potteresque
Potterfic
Potterhead
Potterholic
Potterian
Potterite
Potterlock
Pottermania
Pottermaniac
Potterphile
Potter sequence
Potter Valley
Potterverse
Related terms: Potters Bar
in someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: And why do you and all men regard or reward a loving thankful, obedient child, more than one that will scorn you and spit in your face?
ref: 1675, Richard Baxter, Richard Baxter's Catholick Theologie: Plain, Pure, Peaceable: for Pacification of the Dogmatic Word-Warriours..., page 226:
glosses: Onto or into someone's face.
examples: text: This hypocrite will laugh in your face, and cut your throat...
ref: 1658, Samuel Crook, Christopher Barker, William Garrett, Ta diapheronta, or, Divine characters: in two parts..., page 70:
text: They smilin' in your face / All the time, they want to take your place / The back stabbers
ref: 1972, the O'Jays, “Back Stabbers (song)”, in Back Stabbers (album), performed by the O'Jays:
text: Well well they smile in your face / When all the time they wanna take your place / Them backstabbers
ref: 1994, TLC, “Case of the Fake People”, in CrazySexyCool, performed by TLC:
glosses: In front of someone's face; before someone's eyes.
Derived terms: in-your-face
in your face
Related terms: facially
to someone's face
make a face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a face
form: making a face
form: made a face
form: made a face
Senses: examples: text: I looked at Tomkins to see whether, by chance, he had made a face at his lordship, ...
ref: 1849, “Mr. Jolly Green's Account Of The Great Paris Excursion”, in W. Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New monthly magazine, volume 86, page 98:
text: I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a face back. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.
ref: 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Pat, 34:52 from the start, in Penn Radio:
glosses: To make a facial expression, often for humor, as a taunt, or to indicate distaste.
Synonyms: pull a face
Related terms: make eyes at
make mouths at
replicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replicabilities
Senses: synonyms: replicatability
glosses: The ability or possibility of being replicated or reproduced (replicated).
Related terms: replicable
surface ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface ships
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A military (naval) vessel designed for operation on the marine surface, as distinguished from a submarine or other types of vessels. Aircraft carriers are also generally excluded.
Related terms: surface combatant
noncryptographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cryptographic.
Senses: glosses: Not cryptographic.
anticryptography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From anti- + cryptography.
Senses: examples: text: We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it.
ref: 1973, Carl Sagan, The cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspective:
text: It is common in the art of anticryptography to include a cross-check device with the coded message so that the recipient may reassure himself that he has properly deciphered and understood the message.
ref: 2005, Paul A LaViolette, Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age:
glosses: The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.
nonpretentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pretentious.
Senses: glosses: unpretentious
unpretentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpretentiously
form: most unpretentiously
Etymology: From unpretentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not pretentious; sincerely, without affectation.
phaeomelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaeomelanins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pheomelanin.
neuromelanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuromelanins
Etymology: From neuro- + melanin.
Senses: glosses: A dark pigment present in parts of the brain
penpals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penpal
tapespondent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapespondents
Etymology: Blend of tape + correspondent
Senses: examples: text: The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts.
ref: 1967, Ken Peters, Modern tape recording and hi-fi:
text: So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil […]
ref: 1969, High Fidelity, volume 19, numbers 7-12:
text: I remember a few particularly valued tapespondents: Don from Riverside, California; Louis from Miami, Florida […]
ref: 2002, Tom Sherman, Peggy Gale, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment:
synonyms: voicespondent
glosses: A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post.
Related terms: tapespondence
tapesponding
tapespondents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapespondent
tapesponding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tapespondent + -ing, or (audio) tape + corresponding.
Senses: examples: text: Friendly Folk Association, Torquay (est. 1943). Social introductions, Pen-friends, Book-lovers, Stamps, Photography, Tapesponding, etc., 100 countries.
ref: 1961 May, “Small Advertisements”, in Trains Illustrated, page ix:
glosses: Friendly communication by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post, as engaged in by tapespondents.
sabotiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabotieres
Etymology: From French sorbetière.
Senses: glosses: The inner of two buckets used in the production of ice cream; the bucket which contained the ice cream and sat inside the larger bucket of ice which froze the ice cream.
glosses: A device for making ice cream (the entire device, including both buckets).
blicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blickets
Etymology: Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.
Senses: examples: text: So if the child now represents these instances as being blickets, she represents them as being more similar to each other than they seemed previously.
ref: 2007 September 1, Daniel A. Weiskopf, “The origins of concepts”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI:
text: Later they were presented with the picture of a blicket along with the real object it depicted and asked to indicate the blicket. Many of the 24-, 18-, and even 15-month-olds indicated the real object as an instance of a blicket […]
ref: 2012, Issues in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research and Practice, page 1627:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music).
magnetoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + elasticity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being magnetoelastic.
bicornes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicorne
K-rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-rails
Etymology: This term is stipulated in a specification of the California Department of Transportation, who first started using concrete median barriers in the mid-1940s. The reason for the letter K is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A concrete barrier used to separate lanes of traffic.
Synonyms: Jersey barrier
parabolic concrete barrier
Hyponyms: concrete step barrier
constant-slope barrier
F-shape barrier
Jersey barrier
Jersey bump
Jersey curb
Jersey wall
Ontario tall wall
backtesting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From back + testing.
Senses: glosses: The process of testing a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time
boxiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boxy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the widely sexual beings we have the potential to be, we've been put (and put ourselves) into increasingly shrinking sexual categories. We are brought up to be "homosexual" or "heterosexual." As homosexuals, many of us become "leather queens," "bottoms" or "tops," "chicken queens," "dinge queens," etc. This boxiness makes us more isolated, seemingly foreign, highly specialized and limited sexual beings.
ref: 1981 August 8, Bob Collins, “The New Normals”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: The condition of being boxy
congruential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That uses congruency (division by a modulus)
Derived terms: congruential generator
linear congruential generator