cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Greekize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Greekizes
form: Greekizing
form: Greekized
form: Greekized
form: Greekise
Etymology: From Greek + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste by the Greek: Jodelle, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases.
ref: 1865, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of Literature:
text: Prideaux says that Menelaus was compelled to go a second time to Antioch before obtaining the high-priesthood, on account of the opposition at Jerusalem ; and that this last time he consented to use his office to Greekize the Jews.
ref: 1868, Samuel Hobart Winkley, A Study of the Scriptures: Parts I & II, page 28:
text: The Helladists, in whose ranks was the whole army, wished to consolidate and "Greekize" the regions which they had already won, without attempting to conquer more before the country was ready to digest it.
ref: 1939, Sir Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery-Cuninghame, Dusty measure, a record of troubled times, page 177:
text: In the Greek ghettos he tended to "Greekize" English words.
ref: 1973, Edward Fischer, Why Americans retire abroad, page 159:
glosses: To make Greek or Greek-like;
examples: text: 'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.
ref: 2000, Ronald T. Ridley, The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea, page 215:
text: We start perhaps with their point, which can now seem so much like a form of contemporary feminism or post-colonialism, that behind any 'eutrality' or 'universality' of opinion there is always a highly culturally and historically determined context: 'But does nto the Husserlian transcendental subject hide European man whose privilege it is constantly to 'Europeanize', as the Greeks 'Greekized', that is to say, to go beyond the linmits of other cultures that are preserved as psychosocial types?'
ref: 2015, Rex Butler, Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide:
text: In the Zenon archive of papyri from third century Egypt, a camel-driver complains of not receiving regular payment, presumably because, as he states, “I am a barbarian,” and, “I do not know how to 'Greekize'/behave-and-speak-like-a-Greek (hellēnizein).
ref: 2019, Sarah Davies, Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire:
glosses: To behave and speak like a Greek.
Synonyms: sense: To make Greek
word: Greekify
sense: To make Greek
word: Hellenize
sense: To behave like a Greek
word: Hellenize
Greekizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Greekize
Greekizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Greekize
Greekized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Greekize
Topic A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A check on Capitol Hill indicates that federal aid to education—not Laos—is Topic A among those who […]
ref: 1961, National Review, volume 10, page 263:
text: For the few days a story topic is Topic A, elite members of the subculture rush to shape its most widely accepted connotation.
ref: 1998, Douglas Gomery, Media in America: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, page 115:
text: […] getting rid of Saddam Hussein was "Topic A" ten days after the inauguration — eight months before September 11.
ref: 2004, Kristina Börjesson, Into the Buzzsaw, page 81:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The main topic of current interest.
topless radio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similar to much of today's “adult talk” radio and TV, topless radio was a format in which audience members called in to discuss graphically sexual issues with hosts who tried to titillate the audience by teasing every explicit detail out of a caller.
ref: 2004, Christopher H. Sterling, editor, Encyclopedia of Radio, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2326:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A radio talk show format, popular in the 1970s, focusing on intimate sexual discussion with callers.
Rollason
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sparkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sparkeses
Etymology: Variant of Sparks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
topspinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topspinners
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who applies topspin to the ball.
examples: text: She sent a topspinner sailing across the court.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball to which topspin is applied.
topspinners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topspinner
graple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: graples
form: grapling
form: grapled
form: grapled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of grapple.
grapling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of graple
graples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of graple
grapled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of graple
grabbeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grab + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grab
grappleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: grapple + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grapple
Illsley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Garrod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garrods
Etymology: Variant of Garrett.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rebenchmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebenchmarks
form: rebenchmarking
form: rebenchmarked
form: rebenchmarked
Etymology: From re- + benchmark.
Senses: glosses: To benchmark again or differently.
rebenchmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebenchmarks
Etymology: From re- + benchmark.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent benchmark.
rebenchmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebenchmark
rebenchmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebenchmark
rebenchmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebenchmark
rebenchmarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebenchmark
Cheadle Heath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8789).
select out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: selects out
form: selecting out
form: selected out
form: selected out
Senses: examples: text: During the past week employees of grade 13 and above in the Agency for International Development, which is seeking legislation to "select out" employees without regard to civil service laws, received invitations.
ref: 1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary, Privacy and the Rights of Federal Employees: Hearings:
text: Employees are, of course, never fired. They are selected out, placed out, non-retained, released, dehired, non-renewed.
ref: 1991, Elvio Angeloni, Annual Editions: Anthropology, 91-92, page 44:
glosses: To fire (an employee).
hard sectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: soft sectoring
glosses: The use of a physical mark or hole to reference sector locations within a magnetic or optical recording medium.
Related terms: hard-sectored
soft sectoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: hard sectoring
glosses: The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using physical marks or holes.
Related terms: soft-sectored
island of inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islands of inversion
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of the chart of nuclides that contains isotopes with a non-standard ordering of single particle levels in the nuclear shell model.
Related terms: island of stability
islands of inversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of island of inversion
hard-sectored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a storage medium: divided up by hard sectoring.
soft-sectored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a storage medium: divided up by soft sectoring.
self-deals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of self-deal
self-dealt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-deal
self-noise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + noise.
Senses: glosses: The input sound level that creates the same output voltage as the receiving microphone in the absence of any sound, and which represents the lowest point of the microphone's dynamic range.
examples: text: Causes of ship-radiated noise. This is another important factor, as the noise radiated by a ship is received by all sonar systems on board (self-noise) and imposes limits to the performance achievable when it exceeds ambient noise levels.
ref: 2002, Xavier Lurton, An Introduction to Underwater Acoustics, page 112:
text: Figure 10.5 typifies this latter condition, in which the self-noise generated at the sonar dome of a warship is seen.
ref: 2011, John Carlton, Marine Propellers and Propulsion, page 253:
glosses: The noise radiating from a ship, etc. because of its own operation.
earthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earthen
earthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of earthen
earthens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of earthen
demoKKKracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demokkkracy.
-erized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of -erize
-erizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of -erize
-erizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of -erize
Timperley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timperleys
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Altrincham, Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ7889).
glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: West Timperley
hypothosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hypothesis.
Vranesevich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Siberian ginseng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: eleuthero
glosses: The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus.
Tuplin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McKillop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKillops
form: Mackillop
form: MacKillop
Etymology: Variant of McKillip.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A former township in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A rural municipality in central Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220.
Woodford Halse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Woodford cum Membris parish, West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5452).
Camp Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A western suburb of Nuneaton, Nuneaton and Bedworth district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3492).
glosses: An urban area (and named street) in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0885).
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A town in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of hills, including at Bendigo, Victoria; Halifax, Nova Scotia; British Columbia; West Virginia; and Antarctica.
defense attorneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defense attorney
defensomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defensome
deferrochelatases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deferrochelatase
deflagellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deflagellation
defluoridations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defluoridation
deformylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deformylation
degalactosylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degalactosylation
Degars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Degar
faucalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: faucalizes
form: faucalizing
form: faucalized
form: faucalized
Etymology: From faucal + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To simultaneously contract the palatoglossus and palatopharyngeus muscles, which have the effects of: vertically expanding and laterally constricting the pharyngeal cavity, of constricting the oropharyngeal isthmus, and of raising the pharynx relative to the larynx.
Related terms: faucal
faucalized
faucalization
square annulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square annuli
Etymology: By analogy with annulus, which is the region enclosed by two concentric circles.
Senses: glosses: the region enclosed by two concentric squares with parallel sides
ablutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ablute + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Groceries of all kinds will probably come from Winnipeg in large quantities at a time, soap included, for the use of which ablutive water may be found conveniently, or otherwise — possibly the latter, but probably the former, […]
ref: 1900, John Wilton Cuninghame Haldane, 3800 Miles Across Canada, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, page 173
text: […] ; and as many other ablutive and restorative amenities as could be packed into the huge complex.
ref: 1992, Brian Daley, The Han Solo Adventures, Lucasbooks, →ISBN, page 399:
text: He puts a pan of milk on the stove and attends to his ablutive splashings, forgetting to keep an eye on the milk, which boils over; […]
ref: 1997, Eric Chevillard, The Crab Nebula, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Ablutionary, intended for or engaged in abluting.
deglucosylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deglucosylation
degranulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degranulator
degredations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degredation
dehydrocyclisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrocyclisation
dehydrodimerizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrodimerization
dehydroecdysones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydroecdysone
D-dimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D-dimers
form: D dimer
Etymology: So named because it contains two D fragments of the fibrin protein joined by a cross-link.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis, used in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, etc.
dehydroprogesterones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydroprogesterone
on show
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: on display
glosses: Visible; displayed.
on display
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of on show.
synonyms: word: on show
tempofrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of temporary + frost
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ground (usually on the planet Mars) that is permafrost for much of the time but undergoes periodic thawing.
tangletalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tangle + talk; coined by Iona and Peter Opie.
Senses: glosses: A playful style of language with deliberate incongruities, as in: "A barefoot boy with shoes on stood sitting in the grass".
wikipedia: Iona and Peter Opie
Donnington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Shaw cum Donnington parish, north of Newbury, West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU4668).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1928).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish (served by Eastnor Donnington Parish Council) near Ledbury, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO7034).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A housing estate of Oxford, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5204).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Wroxeter and Uppington parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ5807).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A suburb of Telford in Donnington and Muxton parish, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ7013).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU8502).
Derived terms: Donnington and Muxton
Shaw cum Donnington
Related terms: Donington
PLOSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy.
Nasu-Hakola disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Reported separately by Nasu and Hakola in the 1970s.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: PLOSL
glosses: polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy
Handsworth Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0590).
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Neath Port Talbot borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7011).
Pontardawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN7204).
Pantyffynnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Ammanford community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6210).
Rancho Calaveras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
heli-skier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heli-skiers
Etymology: From heli-ski + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This new heli-skier was exemplified by a woman named Carolyn Damon, who visited cmh year after year with her husband, Ned, and learned to ski from day one in the big-mountain powder of the heli-ski elite.
ref: 2008, Topher Donahue, Bugaboo Dreams: A Story of Skiers, Helicopters and Mountains:
glosses: One who takes part in the sport of heli-skiing.
heli-skiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heli-skier
Angels Camp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Valley Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Murphys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Mountain Ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Forest Meadows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Mokelumne Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Dorrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dorringtons
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Deora + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0852).
glosses: A village in Condover parish, central Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4702).
glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Rail Road Flat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
Vallecito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States.
helmlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helmlets
Etymology: From helm + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Goggles laid down his pen gently, and elevated the spectacles from his nose till they rested on his forehead, as a knight of old would throw up the visor of his helmlet– 't was a trick he had, when he was about saying or doing anything emphatic – a symbolical intimation that he was going to use some other organ than his eyes.
ref: 1856 April, “Balancing the Books”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 49, number 621, page 149:
text: When the wife of a great prince, whose husband was absent at the siege of Troy, was urged by her friends to put on her royal robes and be cheerful, she answered: “My husband is under the walls of Troy; shall I adorn my hair while he wears a helmlet?
ref: 1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events:
text: It brought back to me the best of the long ago:—the wild garrison life on the plains, when day after day a restless child galloped by an officer's side, among stalwart troopers, and listened to tales of “our people at home,” or to old world stories, when men of our race wore steel corslets and helmlets, and fought for “St. George and Merrie England;"
ref: 1878, Charles M. Clay, How She Came Into Her Kingdom: A Romance, page 255:
text: At your front—in your face—he may strike you; But he takes not the night for his helmlet, Nor is treachery ever his weapon.
ref: 2018, Hiram Hoyt Richmond, Montezuma, page 128:
glosses: A helmet that covers the face; a small helm.
helmlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmlet
TV typewriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV typewriters
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of video terminal that could be used with a standard television set.
TV typewriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TV typewriter
Büchi automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Büchi automatons
form: Büchi automata
Etymology: Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.
Büchi automata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Büchi automaton
Büchi automatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Büchi automaton
orthonitrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthonitrite
disintermediations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disintermediation
hen-peck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hen-pecks
form: hen-pecking
form: hen-pecked
form: hen-pecked
Senses: examples: text: But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
text: I don't want to hen-peck you ! Hen-pecking is shocking bad taste. But I won't be a slighted, neglected wife; I have a spirit of my own, and I won't meekly submit to be ignored.
ref: 1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 192:
text: We have friends who thought it was cute when their daughter "hen-pecked" her husband. But, when their son married a spicy little gal who tried to hen-peck their son, they were very angry.
ref: 1995, Betty Malz, Women in Tune, page 88:
text: Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.
ref: 2014, Jaqueline Girdner, A Sensitive Kind of Murder:
glosses: Alternative form of henpeck.
hen-peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen-pecks
Senses: examples: text: "You see, I am a hen-peck," he said.
ref: 1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431:
glosses: Alternative form of henpeck.
hen-pecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hen-peck
hen-pecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen-peck
hen-pecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hen-peck
hen-pecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hen-peck
Woldingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ3755).
to-nite
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From to- + nite.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of tonight.
to-nite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-nites
Etymology: From to- + nite.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of tonight.
to-nites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-nite
to-nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-night
now-adays
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of nowadays.
hen peck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hen pecks
form: hen pecking
form: hen pecked
form: hen pecked
Senses: examples: text: Even the common scold heartily despises the husband she can “hen peck.”
ref: 1919, Minnie Bronson, The Woman Patriot - Issues 3-4, page 8:
text: Muslim women do not "hen peck" or question their husband's late arrival home, activities, or whereabouts.
ref: 1982, Robert E. Dunton, Out where the day begins, page 89:
text: Well, Mr. Boss Contractor, I'm going to tell you some news as a reward for your letting me hen peck you.
ref: 2005, Thomas Dixon, The Flaming Sword:
glosses: Alternative form of henpeck.
hen peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hen pecks
Senses: examples: text: "Girls," Peter sneered, "all they ever want is some good-looking, hen peck, rich guy who will do anything for them.
ref: 2012, Reggie Stroud, Broken Swan, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of henpeck.
hen pecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hen peck
hen pecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen peck
hen pecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hen peck
hen pecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hen peck
private areas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private area
daahling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daahlings
Senses: glosses: Elongation of dahling.
Yanwath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain; from Middle English Euenewit (1150). Possibly Old Norse jafn (“even, level”) + viðr (“wood”), possibly a Scandinavianised form derived from the cognates Old English efn + wudu and thus a doublet of Evenwood.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Yanwath and Eamont Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5127).
Stretton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹɛtən/
Etymology: From Old English strǣt + tūn (“settlement on a Roman road”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4452).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Warrington borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ6282).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3961).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Rutland (OS grid ref SK9415).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A large village and civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK2526).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village in Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston parish, South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8811).
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, named after a George Stretton.
Derived terms: Church Stretton
Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston
Stretton-on-Dunsmore
Stretton-on-Fosse
Stretton Westwood
Grass Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Nevada County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.
Humboldt River Ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.
Unionville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Putnam County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Pershing County, Nevada, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Fort Bragg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Mendocino County, California, United States.
glosses: Former name of Fort Liberty.
Derived terms: Fort Bragg fever
Willits
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Brooktrails
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Redwood Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Covelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊvəloʊ/
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Laytonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Mendocino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛndəˈsiːnoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish mendocino.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Potter Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Point Arena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Punta Arena
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A city in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Anchor Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
Comptche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pomoan comptche ("in the valley among the hills").
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States.
multigeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + geographic.
Senses: glosses: Across multiple geographic regions.
spag bog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spag bogs
Senses: examples: text: Once the furore had been dampened, the minuscule snick on Billy's knee covered in a Superman plaster, black marks placed on Mabel's Consequences Chart, and spag bog placed in their stomachs, I found my mind flashing through multiple matters, like that of a drowning person, only more optimistic.
ref: 2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of spag bol.
proceduralise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proceduralises
form: proceduralising
form: proceduralised
form: proceduralised
form: proceduralize
Senses: glosses: To define a procedure.
faucalization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faucalization
form: most faucalization
Etymology: From faucal + -ize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Simultaneous ontraction the palatoglossus and palatopharyngeus muscles, which has the effects of: vertically expanding and laterally constricting the pharyngeal cavity, of constricting the oropharyngeal isthmus, and of raising the pharynx relative to the larynx. Faucalization with vocalization produces Faucalized voice.
Related terms: faucal
faucalize
faucalized
pernicketily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pernicketily
form: most pernicketily
Etymology: From pernickety + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He spent little on himself: his income must have been enormous, but he was pernicketily honest, he didn't use any half-legitimate devices for sliding away from taxes, and he had not made an impressive fortune.
ref: 1964, Charles Percy Snow, Corridors of Power, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 294:
text: The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple. No voice greeted me. I went quickly inside the drawing-room. Here also the lights attacked me, as in the dazzle I saw my wife. Saw her quiet, composed, preoccupied.
ref: 2010, Charles Percy Snow, Homecomings, House of Stratus, →ISBN:
glosses: British English standard form of persnicketily.
dot Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot Indians
Etymology: A reference to the bindi. See also dot or feather.
Senses: examples: text: MY FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT and I got stuck behind a family of Indians (Not scalpers, but dot Indians).
ref: 2012, Jesse C. Holder, Chutes, Beer, & Bullets: Not Your Grandpa's War Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 17:
text: It was no surprise that the doctor proved to be a dot Indian (as opposed to feather Indian, a Native American).
ref: 2005, Reynolds Price, The Good Priest's Son, Scribner Book Company:
text: In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian.
ref: 2015, Paul Theroux, Deep South, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: An Indian; a person from India.
coconut heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt hɑɹt/
Forms: form: coconut hearts
Etymology: Formed by analogy with palm heart, which is much more commonly used.
Senses: glosses: The sweetish pith of a coconut palm obtained either:
From the inside of its stem.
glosses: The sweetish pith of a coconut palm obtained either:
From a budding coconut.
synonyms: coconut apple
coconut pearl
coconut sprout
sprouted coconut
coconut embryo
coconut cotyledon
coconut hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut heart
coconut sap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut saps
Senses: synonyms: toddy
glosses: A sugary liquid obtained by tapping the stem of the coconut palm during inflorescence, from which later sugar, coconut vinegar, or palm wine may be produced.
coconut saps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut sap
Williams-Beuren syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See Williams syndrome; in this form, also named after German physician A. J. Beuren, who described some patients with the same presentation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Williams syndrome.
synonyms: word: Williams syndrome
coconut jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut jellies
Senses: synonyms: jelly coconut
glosses: The soft meat of an immature coconut, often used as babyfood
synonyms: nata de coco
glosses: A usually cubed preserve made by fermenting and then cooking coconut water, used as a dessert
coconut jellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut jelly
Grandma Moses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grandma Moses
Etymology: From the nickname of Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), American folk artist who began painting in earnest at the age of 78.
Senses: examples: text: Father Point could fairly be called the Grandma Moses of the Rocky Mountain frontier. Born at the end of the eighteenth century, Nicolas Point dreamed of becoming a missionary to native peoples. His dream became reality but not before his life had almost gone in other directions.
ref: 2001, Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, Different Travellers, Different Eyes, page 61:
glosses: A person whose talent or destined career does not become apparent until they reach old age.
wikipedia: Anna Mary Robertson Moses
jelly coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly coconuts
form: jelly-coconut
form: jelly
Senses: antonyms: water coconut
waternut
glosses: A coconut with soft or gelatinous meat inside as well as the meat itself (which is of regular quality if the coconut is immature)
jelly-coconut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly-coconuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jelly coconut.
jelly coconuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly coconut
jelly-coconuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly-coconut
unasserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unassert
unasserts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unassert
coconut vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coconut vinegars
Senses: hypernyms: palm vinegar
glosses: Vinegar made by fermenting coconut sap or less often coconut water, used extensively in Southeast Asian cuisine.
coconut vinegars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coconut vinegar
unassertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + assertion.
Senses: glosses: Absence of assertion or of assertiveness.
Bigott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Applied by the French to Normans in reference to their swearing Middle English bi God (“by God”); see bigot for more.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Francis Bigott displayed his banners in this vicinity, and having collected a great multitude from Settrington and Pickering Lyth, he sent an imperious mandate to the Bailiffs of Scarborough.
ref: 1811, Thomas Hinderwell, The History and Antiquities of Scarborough, and the Vicinity, page 60:
text: Sally was the illegitimate child of Mendrick Simpleton and Barbara “Babs” Bigott, the product of a chance meeting between the two at a Halloween party in 1974.
ref: 2012, George Waas, The Great American Short Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: A surname.
Bygott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Applied by the French to Normans in reference to their swearing Middle English bi God (“by God”); see bigot for more.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Helsby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlzbi/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4875).
fugazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fugazies
Senses: glosses: plural of fugazi
Fallon Station
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Churchill County, Nevada, United States.
Frodsham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɒdʃəm/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5277).
interturb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interturbs
form: interturbing
form: interturbed
form: interturbed
Senses: examples: text: How unseasonably and unkindly it is, to interturb the State and Church with their Amalekitish onsets, when they are in their extreme pangs of travail with their lives.
ref: 1968, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society:
text: And to the intent I would you should not think any ingratitude in me, as also that I might give you occasion to write to me again, as heretofore I have done, even so do I interturb and trouble you with my babbling, but yet having this commodity, that I babble not so much as I was wont to do.
ref: 2005, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, page 22:
text: The complaint made against Robert Brerewood, their townclerk, and some others of the city, they think too mean a business to “interturb” the weightier affairs of the Council.
ref: 1967, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1625 [-1649]:
glosses: To disturb.
interturbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interturb
interturbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interturb
interturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interturb
cleaning lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleaning ladies
form: cleaning-lady
Senses: synonyms: cleaneress
cleaning woman
charlady
charwoman
hypernyms: cleaner
glosses: A woman who cleans the interiors of houses or other buildings, normally as paid employment.
settee bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: settee beds
Senses: synonyms: word: bed settee
word: sofa bed
glosses: Synonym of sofa bed.
bed settee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed settees
Senses: synonyms: word: settee bed
word: sofa bed
glosses: Synonym of sofa bed.
prescription glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: prescription spectacles
glosses: Glasses made for a specific user; corrective spectacles.
townclerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townclerks
Senses: examples: text: What ! do you think ( for example) that your horse has been restored to the right owner ? not at all ; I assure you , he is now actually in the stable of the townclerk , where he has been deposited as a proof of the robbery ;
ref: 1815, Alain René Le Sage, The adventures of Gil Blas, page 79:
text: This was duly forwarded to the townclerk, who, retaining the document in his own hands, artfully set forth, in public conversation or otherwise, only such portions of the charter as would be palatable to the public :
ref: 1863, Our County; or, Hampshire in the reign of Charles II., page 191:
text: The complaint made against Robert Brerewood, their townclerk, and some others of the city, they think too mean a business to “ interturb” the weightier affairs of the Council.
ref: 1967, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1625 [-1649]:
text: And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
ref: 2013, Bill Vincent, Defeating the Demonic Realm:
glosses: Alternative form of town clerk.
townclerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townclerk
town-clerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town-clerks
Senses: examples: text: Be it enacted by the senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened, That a town-clerk, when chosen and sworn, shall continue in office till another is chosen and sworn in his room ;
ref: 1824, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut, page 416:
glosses: Alternative form of town clerk.
town-clerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of town-clerk
phallogocentrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallogocentrist
form: most phallogocentrist
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting phallogocentrism.
intertrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intertrudes
form: intertruding
form: intertruded
form: intertruded
Senses: examples: text: Then seek, amongst the multitude Of lovers that dare to intertrude Into your favours, One that may Love for an age, and not a day;
ref: 1650, The Academy of Complements. Wherein Ladyes, Gentlewomen, Schollers, and Strangers, may accommodate their Courtly practice with gentile Ceremonies, Complement all amorous high expressions, and Formes of speaking or writing of Letters most in Fashion:
text: Other rocks intertrude irregularly in the form of beds and veins, as serpentine, soapstone, rensselaerite, granite and primitive limestone.
ref: 1838, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York:
text: And, contradiction, like a discord breaking on the ear, Wilt intertrude its hateful presence, hoot, deny and jeer.
ref: 1912, Seymour Supercern, Truth Will Out: An Emergence from Chaos and Subterfuge Into Light and Reality:
text: Snatches of other voices seemed often to intertrude themselves in the parley; and your loyal effort not to overhear these was complicated by your fear of missing what Eva might be twittering.
ref: 1922, Sir Max Beerbohm, A Christmas Garland, page 5:
glosses: To intrude; To force or thrust into
intertrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intertrude
intertruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intertrude
intertruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intertrude
unsanctimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsanctimonious
form: most unsanctimonious
Etymology: From un- + sanctimonious.
Senses: glosses: Not sanctimonious.
Woofferton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Richard's Castle parish, in the south of Shropshire, England, on the border with Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5168).
castler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castlers
Etymology: From castle + -er (patient suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess problem whose solution involves castling.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A player who castles.
castlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castler
snow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snows up
form: snowing up
form: snowed up
form: snowed up
Senses: glosses: To prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.
examples: text: Midway between these stations a plough with two engines, which had been keeping the line open throughout the Sunday, became completely snowed up, and another engine sent from the Arrochar direction with men to assist in digging out the plough itself was caught in a drift south of Glen Douglas.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
glosses: To prevent (a person or thing) from leaving (a place) or using (a road or path) due to snow.