cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pay freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay freezes
Senses: examples: text: Against a backdrop of economic devastation wreaked by COVID-19, from which the railway has been almost totally insulated by massive sums of public money, the RMT rail union is now calling for industrial action as a pay freeze beckons. [...] While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures".
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62:
glosses: A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.
clean as a bean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: synonyms: clean as a whistle
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clean.
clean as a new pin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: clean as a whistle
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very clean.
litmags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litmag
redelineate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redelineates
form: redelineating
form: redelineated
form: redelineated
Etymology: From re- + delineate.
Senses: glosses: To delineate again or differently.
redelineates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redelineate
redelineating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redelineate
redelineated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redelineate
redelineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redelineations
Etymology: From re- + delineation.
Senses: glosses: The process of delineating again or differently.
redelineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redelineation
beauless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beau + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a beau.
blueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blueless
form: most blueless
Etymology: From blue + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the colour blue.
redless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redless
form: most redless
Etymology: From red + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the colour red.
greenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greenless
form: most greenless
Etymology: From green + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the color green.
glosses: Lacking greenness, foliage or vegetation.
pay freezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pay freeze
Mansonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mansonesque
form: most Mansonesque
Etymology: From Manson + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Charles Manson (1934–2017), American leader of a cult-like criminal group in the 1960s.
uncocoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncocoons
form: uncocooning
form: uncocooned
form: uncocooned
Etymology: From un- + cocoon.
Senses: glosses: To come or bring out of a cocoon.
uncocoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncocoon
uncocooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncocoon
princess cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princess cakes
Etymology: Calque of Swedish prinsesstårta.
Senses: examples: text: But as a product of the European country with the highest rating for gender equality between men and women, princess cake is more subversive than its smooth marzipan surface might suggest. […] Princess cake went on to become the iconic Swedish dessert, one served at birthdays, graduations and office parties.
ref: 2025 July 12, Lois Beckett, “It’s sexy! It’s Swedish! It’s everywhere! How princess cake conquered America”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: queen cake
;
king cake
glosses: A Swedish layer cake with layers of airy sponge, pastry cream, and whipped cream, covered in usually green marzipan.
princess cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princess cake
support bubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of support bubble
Chinese spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese spiders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spider skimmer (“kitchen utensil”).
synonyms: word: spider skimmer
extra: kitchen utensil
Chinese spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese spider
spider strainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider strainers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spider skimmer (“kitchen utensil”).
synonyms: word: spider skimmer
extra: kitchen utensil
spider strainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider strainer
Adders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jocular modification of Addison + -ers. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Addison's Walk, Magdalen College, Oxford.
wikipedia: Oxford "-er"
Jaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Jagger with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jocular modification of Jesus + -ers. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Jesus College, Oxford
box boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box boys
Senses: examples: text: The moving staff (or “box boys” as they are called because they lift a lot of speaker boxes) are in charge of transporting and positioning the equipment.
ref: 1997, Chris Potash, Reggae, Rasta, Revolution: Jamaican Music from Ska to Dub:
text: […] we drank to get a nice level while nodding our heads to some sweet reggae music.
Pete, Ade, Dinford, Andy P and Derrick Green had been their box boys since their early school days, Tony 'Noddy' Macdonald, Dave 'Frisky' Macdonald, Basil Grant, Harry the Snake and Curvis Butler ran the sound under the Thornton Heath banner and the sound was transported in an old brown Hovis truck.
ref: 2015, MC Flux, Dirty:
glosses: A man who assists a disc jockey by transporting and setting up the speakers, the collection of records, etc.
box boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box boy
salazo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /sal.əz.əʊ/
ipa: /səˈlaz.ə/
ipa: /sæl.əz.oʊ/
ipa: /səˈlæz.ə/
Etymology: From sal- (“salicylic acid derivative”) + azo-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phenylazosalicylic acid derivatives.
Derived terms: -salazide
-salazine
-salazide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈsæl.ə.zaɪd/
Etymology: From salazo- (“phenylazosalicylic acid derivative”) + -ide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phenylazosalicylic acid derivatives.
Related terms: -salazine
-salan
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /sə.læn/
Etymology: From -sal- (“salicylic acid derivative”) + -an (of unknown origin).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of brominated salicylamide derivatives used as disinfectants.
-drine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹiːn/
ipa: /dɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌdɹin/
Etymology: From ephedrine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of sympathomimetics.
wise off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wises off
form: wising off
form: wised off
form: wised off
Senses: glosses: To make wisecracks; to behave like a smart aleck.
deridings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deriding
brutalizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutalizers
Etymology: From brutalize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who brutalizes.
brutalizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brutalizer
holiday tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holiday trees
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Christmas tree.
synonyms: word: Christmas tree
scoodie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoodies
Etymology: From scarf + hood + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: This octopus scoodie is knitted in a pastel seaside shade, in a soft chunky yarn that knits up a treat, and it would make a great first or second project for a newbie knitter.
ref: 2015, Fiona Goble, Knitted Animal Scarves, Mitts and Socks: 37 fun and fluffy creatures to knit and wear, Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN:
text: Annie's Cheery, Comfy Bean Stitch Scoodie
Design by Terrice C. Kennedy of Aquarian Arts Studio
ref: 2020, Annie's, Hooded Pocket Scarves, Annie's Wholesale
glosses: A hooded scarf, a hood with an attached scarf.
scoodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoodie
phtisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Bacteria coming from the mouth are almost always to be found in phtisic sputum.
ref: 1890, Robert Koch, Aetiology of Tuberculosis, page 15:
text: Among the phtisic Coyntes, some are like a little flat with a slit in it, enveloped in a little skin, without either mount or border.
ref: 1898, The Old Man Young Again, Or, Age-rejuvenescence in the Power of Concupiscence, page 255:
text: The socalled phtisic and apopleptic habitus are old denominations used by the ancient physicians to designate respectively a long thin and a short broad physical constitution. According to the volume of the trunk in relation to the other […]
ref: 1922, Robert Sessions Woodworth, Archives of Psychology, page 3:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of phthisic.
phtisic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, my feign'd cough, my phtisic, and my gout, […]
ref: 1875, Ben Jonson, William Gifford, Sejanus his fall ; Volpone: or, The fox ; Epiccene: or, The silent woman, page 178:
text: We need money and laws for that purpose. We need f.e. a law to be able to separate an infectious phtisic from his family even against his own will.
ref: 1903, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, Medical Insurance: Devoted to the Insurance Examiner and Clinical Diagnostician, page 409:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of phthisic.
tissick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tissicks
Senses: examples: text: “Just a bit o' a tissick 'pon the chest,” said his father, after the child had ailed two days. “He'll be better come to-morrow if you keeps en in by the fire.” But that night poor Timmy grew worse, and, after daylight had gone, fear came upon his ...
ref: 1897, The New Review, page 120:
text: So careless of hisself as a child. ' Tis a bit of a tissick on the lungs, I reckon.
ref: 1906, The Fortnightly, page 1179:
text: He's ill with a tissick in his chest — got it cutting peat, my mother says. And he must see you this very day. Cussing Duchy, he is, and damning me and other good characters.
ref: 1920, Eden Phillpotts, Miser's Money, page 52:
glosses: Nonstandard form of phthisic.
reclench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclenches
form: reclenching
form: reclenched
form: reclenched
Etymology: From re- + clench.
Senses: glosses: To clench again.
reclenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclench
reclenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclench
reclenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclench
pozoleria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pozolerias
Etymology: From Spanish pozolería.
Senses: examples: text: Saturnino would roll his eyes and click his tongue, and look significantly towards the pozoleria, and then he would fairly shout: "give us our daily bread.” Everybody woke up and repeated: “Give us our daily bread.” And so on, […]
ref: 2009, Jaime de Angulo, The Lariat: And Other Writings, Counterpoint Press:
text: 'I really can't explain it,' says Jose Munoz Gutierrez of Restaurant Any, a pozoleria near Zihuatanejo's central market. 'Some people think eating hot food in a hot climate cools you down, but I think we love it because we associate it with family and good times.'
ref: 2017, Lonely Planet Food, From the Source - Mexico: Authentic Recipes From the People That Know Them the Best, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:
glosses: A restaurant which specializes in pozole.
-prenaline
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛn.ə.liːn/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛn.əl.ɪn/
Etymology: From isoprenaline.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of -terol.
synonyms: word: -terol
Related terms: -terenol
-terenol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹiː.nɒl/
ipa: /təˈɹiˌnɔl/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.əˌnɔl/
Etymology: From arterenol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of -terol.
Derived terms: -prenaline
-buterol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuː.tə.ɹɒl/
ipa: /ˈbju.təˌɹɔl/
Etymology: From (tert-)but(yl) + -terol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of phenethylamine derivatives used as bronchodilators.
magnetosensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of magnetoception.
synonyms: word: magnetoception
mesoanterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From meso- + anterior.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mesial and anterior
mesomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From meso- + medial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: mesial and medial
macroecofact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroecofacts
Etymology: From macro- + ecofact.
Senses: glosses: A relatively large ecofact
microecofact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microecofacts
Etymology: From micro- + ecofact.
Senses: glosses: A very small ecofact
microecofacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microecofact
macroecofacts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroecofact
microdebitage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdebitages
Etymology: From micro- + debitage.
Senses: glosses: microscopic debitage
multilesion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + lesion.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple lesions
myotropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of myotropic.
nacubactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -bactam (“β-lactamase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A bridged diazabicyclooctane β-lactamase inhibitor [(1R,2S,5R)-2-[(2-aminoethoxy)carbamoyl]-7-oxo-1,6-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-6-yl]oxidanesulfonic acid.
overmasking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + masking.
Senses: glosses: The masking of a sound in one ear by a sound in the other
palaeodosimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleodosimetric.
pedosediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedosediments
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + sediment.
Senses: glosses: A sedimentary soil.
Related terms: pedosedimentary
pedosediments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedosediment
pedosedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pedo- (“soil”) + sedimentary.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of pedosediment.
phasirnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasirna
phenylethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenylethanols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenyl derivative of ethanol
phytolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + -lithic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of phytoliths
walking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk out
galley-slave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galley-slaves
Senses: examples: text: He makes his prentice his galley-slave. I wish our lane were purged of him.
ref: 1801, Jonathan Swift, “An Account of a Pestilent Neighbour”, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, volume 16:
glosses: Alternative form of galley slave.
for dummies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the For Dummies series of instructional reference books.
Senses: examples: text: It's still too complicated for me to understand. Can you give me the 'for dummies' version?
glosses: Intended for a lay audience, simplified.
raw_tags: used in titles
undercloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undercloth
overcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcloth
imit.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of imitation.
imit.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of imitative.
imp. gal.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of imperial gallon.
incr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of increase.
incr.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of imitation.
indic.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of indication.
indus.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of industry.
infin.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: inf.
glosses: Abbreviation of infinitive.
infl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of inflation.
glosses: Abbreviation of inflection.
isl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isls.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of island.
ital.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of italics.
Ital.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Italian.
Ja.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Japanese.
jct.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jcts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of junction.
jnr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of junior.
jnt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of joint.
jour.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of journal.
Ken.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Kentucky: a state of the United States.
kt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of knight.
lang.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of language.
lect.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lecture.
legis.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of legislature.
Levit.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Leviticus.
lexicog.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lexicography.
lg.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of long.
examples: text: 2 beautiful, sunny, furnished rooms in lovely old house, lg. yard, fireplace, piano.
ref: 1985 April 13, “Sublet Beautiful Rooms (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Abbreviation of large.
liq.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of liquid.
lithog.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of lithography.
M.Ch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Master of Surgery.
mdse.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: THE CONSIGNEE is the party to whom the mdse. is consigned.
ref: 1882, Atwood Bond Meservey, Meservey's Book-keeping, Single and Double Entry, page 149:
glosses: Abbreviation of merchandise.
meas.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of measurement.
meas.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of measure.
M.Econ.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Master of Economy.
met.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of metre.
metall.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of metallurgy.
prediastemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + diastemal.
Senses: glosses: anterior to a diastema
Related terms: postprediastemal
meteorol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of meteorology.
postdiastemal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + diastemal.
Senses: glosses: posterior to a diastema
Related terms: prediastemal
milit.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of military.
morph.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of morphology.
modif.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of modification.
Mrs. Mop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mrs Mop.
manuf.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of manufacturing.
relebactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -bactam (“β-lactamase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular lactamase inhibitor.
spondylolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spondylo- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spondylolysis.
sulfocoumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfocoumarins
Etymology: From sulfo- + coumarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of a coumarin in which the >C=O group is replaced by >SO₂
sulfocoumarins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfocoumarin
technofunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From techno- + functional.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the function of a particular technology
thermoresponsivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoresponsivities
Etymology: From thermo- + responsivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being thermoresponsive
toricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toricities
Etymology: From toric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition (or extent) of being toric.
anticholeraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + choleraic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: anticholera
trimodulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A polyclonal antibody for the treatment of COVID-19
tryptophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tryptophyllins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptides in the skin secretions of some frogs
tryptophyllins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tryptophyllin
vasculotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasculotides
Etymology: From vasculo- + -tide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of peptides that mimic the action of angiopoietin
vasculotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasculotide
virogenomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From viro- + genomic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a viral genome
Related terms: virogenomics
virogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From viro- + genomics.
Senses: glosses: The study of viral genomes
Related terms: virogenomic
visfatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of visfatin.
vogeloside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside present in Anthocleista vogelii
vomerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vomer + -ian.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the vomer bone.
Christmas's tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas's trees
Senses: examples: text: Seen today in the Sunday Times (not, it must be said, a British tabloid!) /[…]This will also enable us to once again use the services of Nina, who sang a Bond song that we feel is one that most typifies the series. This 'series' link will be heightened by her rendition of 'Do You Know How Christmas's Trees Are Grown.'
ref: 1998 November 22, Rhino, “TWINE Update”, in alt.fan.james-bond (Usenet):
text: The young man in a mournful cry / “Help me Jesus” or I will die. / He saw the star turning slowly; / He knew he was anew and made Holy. / Someone found the man in the cold. / Placed him under a Christmas’s Tree boldly, / When held did arrive, He was awake and alive.
ref: 2005, Charles E. Carr, “A Parable of the Holy Star”, in At the Door: A Book of Writings, Lyrics, Poems & Inspiration Essays, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Smell of cigarettes, trash burning, someone / Cooking oak gumbo with chicken & sausage, and muddy / Brown stew. Barbecue pits set off / Flames dancing into the wind. / Christmas’s tree spreading the smell of / Fresh pine cones.
ref: 2011, Ina M. Easter, “Remembering a Moment”, in God, I Wonder, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Still can't grasp why Moslems oppose Christmas's trees? / In the Middle East were^([sic]) told a tree is a symbol of life. It is spectacular to see after days nothing but sand then in the distance a tree. You can see the Arabs mood change to pleasantry as soon as the "TREE" sighting is made. Once there you find water by the trees and usually a town
ref: 2012 December 8, petzl, “Moslems stop Christmass festivities in Campbelltown Shopping Centre”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: My local shopping Mall is not allowed to display Christmas's trees or play Christmas Carols because of Islamic threats
ref: 2013 December 1, petzl, “Australian police find 328 guns, 4.2 tons of ammo at farm”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: Table 6 Echocardiography, electrocardiogram and chest X-ray findings in scorpion sting envenomation /[…]/ [“Modality”] Electrocardiogram [“Finding and clinical significance”][…]• In acute myocardial injury: Arrowhead tented T wave look like Ashoka tree appearance / • Recovery of myocardial injury: Tent-shaped look like Christmas’s tree appearance
ref: 2015, S Mahadevan, R Ramesh Kumar, “Part III: Intensive Care and Emergencies”, “Section 9: Poisoning and Envenomation”, “7. Scorpion Sting”, in Piyush Gupta, PSN Menon, Siddarth Ramji, Rakesh Lodha (section editor), editors, PG Textbook of Pediatrics, volumes 1: “General Pediatrics and Neonatology”, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd.: The Health Sciences Publisher, →ISBN, “Management”, page 321:
text: “Ma, it’s not dads^([sic]) fault. Why are you hollering at him?” “I’ve watched your father go out and kill people for twenty years. He never talks about it, but it’s always there. When the phone rings, your father lights up like a / Christmas’s tree. He likes killing people.”
ref: 2019, Don Bourassa, Dee Boer US Marshal, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: Nonstandard form of Christmas tree.
Christmas's trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christmas's tree
Rottenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rottenbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rottenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rottenbergs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rottenberg
Reitmeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reitmeyers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Reitmeyer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reitmeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reitmeyer
Patchell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Patchells
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Patchells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Patchell
Spratlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spratlins
Etymology: Variant of Spratling.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Spratlins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Spratlin
Frantzen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frantzens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Frantzens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frantzen
Hilsabeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hilsabecks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hilsabecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hilsabeck
Toupin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toupins
Etymology: Borrowed from French Toupin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Toupins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Toupin
Clewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clewells
Etymology: Unidentified.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Clewells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clewell
Den Helder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Den Helder.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and city in North Holland, Netherlands.
Boruckis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Borucki
Sealock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sealocks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sealocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sealock
vegetarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegetarianists
Etymology: From vegetarian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As “there is never smoke without fire,” so do we see there is some truth in the view of vegetarianists.
ref: 1873, Henry Lawson, “Chapter V”, in A Manual of Popular Physiology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Science of Life in Untechnical Language, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 24:
text: The Atlanteans are handsome long-lived vegetarianists and eugenists whose society is a utopian communism without money, officials chosen by competitive examination, and careers assigned by a committee of personnel experts.
ref: 1954, L. Sprague de Camp, Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature, Gnome Press, page 263:
text: For every vegetarianist who attributes his healthy old age to his diet, we have seen an even older person who gives credit to something else, perhaps the fact that he eats beef every day.
ref: 1956, Benjamin F. Miller, The Complete Medical Guide, Simon and Schuster, page 37:
text: […]and they thud in the loess and leave footprints / for the paleontologists to jump around / and the angry young men / ask the timid old animals / how could they be so big and be vegetarianists / Funny
ref: 1982, Atanas Slavov, Mr. Lampedusa Has Vanished, Occidental Press, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Gandhi was obviously more attracted by non-conformist groups like anarchists, free thinkers, vegetarianists, socialists and communists, which were all active in the metropolis of the imperialist world.
ref: 1996, M. Rajaretnam, editor, Jose Rizal and the Asian Renaissance, Institut Kajian Dasar and Solidaridad Publishing House, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Thompsonians, vegetarianists, hydropaths, chromothermalists, even self-taught native “doctors” all ended up serving side by side with the skilled surgeons of the Army Medical Corps in times of extreme crisis.
ref: 2001, Roland R. Maust, Grappling with Death: The Union Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg, the Press of Morningside, →ISBN, page 418:
text: Cousins also reminded vegetarianists that: ‘The suffrage movements are more closely connected with the Food Reform movement than the enthusiasts of either are usually aware of.’
ref: 2007, Catherine Candy, “Chapter Nine: Untouchability, Vegetarianism and the Suffragist Ideology of Margaret Cousins”, in Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward, editors, Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens, Irish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: Scholars and bloggers appear to agree: human vegetarianism is a healthy option for the environment. / But anti-vegetarianists aren’t the only people who call upon the rhetoric of “choice” with regards to eating or not eating meat: many vegetarians weigh in on the debate by addressing environmental concerns while specifying that these were not their primary reason for “going vegetarian.”
ref: 2015, Stephanie Kraftson, Jana Pohorelsky, Alex Myong, “Chapter 1: Are Meat-Based Diets Bad for the Planet?”, “Overview: People Choose Their Diets Based on Personal Reasons”, in Amy Francis, editor, Vegetarianism, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: A proponent of vegetarianism.
vegetarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vegetarianist
form: most vegetarianist
Etymology: From vegetarian + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And he was quite vegetarianist until the age of twenty-one.
ref: 1967, Harold Sherman, “Wonder” Healers of the Philippines, DeVorss & Co., page 237:
text: Early in the century a vegetarianist postcard—featuring a woodcut of Hans Olde’s famous portrait of Nietzsche—carried an apocryphal quote from Nietzsche: “I believe that the vegetarian with his prescription to eat less and more simply, has been more beneficial than all the new moral systems combined” (illus. 11).
ref: 1992, Steven E. Aschheim, “Chapter IV. Nietzscheanism Institutionalized”, in The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890-1990, University of California Press, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 112–113:
text: That there are in fact so many variant opinions—and so very many writings in prose and poetry by Shelley himself in which vegetarianist ideology plays a major role in substance or in figuration—reminds us again of what a major preoccupation this subject was with the short-lived poet.
ref: 1996, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, page 556:
text: Cousins’ orientalist thinking was largely inspired by a long history of late nineteenth century British vegetarianist feminist thinking which was in some part later formalised by the Theosophical Society, which she, together with a remarkable number of Irish writers of the period, would join.[…]Cousins’ friends may not have been quite so far off the mark when they attributed her sexual trauma to her vegetarianist politics. Her celibacy and her vegetarianism emerged at precisely the same hour.
ref: 2007, Catherine Candy, “Chapter Nine: Untouchability, Vegetarianism and the Suffragist Ideology of Margaret Cousins”, in Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward, editors, Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens, Irish Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 155, 161:
glosses: Pertaining to vegetarianism.
Related terms: vegetarianistic
vegetarianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegetarianist
vegetarianistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vegetarianistic
form: most vegetarianistic
Etymology: From vegetarian + -istic or vegetarianist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Men must kill something or other if they have to live. So that a vegetarianistic superstition must be broken in the interests of a higher conception of religion.
ref: 1919, The Indian Social Reformer, volume 30, page 417, column 1:
text: In this connection it turned out to be instructive to take a closer look at vegetarianistic phrases like madhumūlaphalair jīvan, etc., and it was seen that such phrases came to be simply a metaphor for innocuousness, though this change of meaning need not have succeeded the vegetarianistic acceptance after any considerable period of time, sublating the latter (§ 1.6ff.).[…]readings that are transmissional changes not based on objection to repetition but born of the wish to make sure that 33cd and 35cd were not misconstrued to be vegetarianistic.
ref: 1984, Srinivasa Ayya Srinivasan, Studies in the Rāma Story: On the Irretrievable Loss of Vālmīki’s Original and the Operation of the Received Text as Seen in Some Versions of the Vālin-Sugrīva Episode, Steiner, →ISBN, pages 82, 149:
text: Maybe it isn't a gaffe......I know, I'm strectching, but buying Prime Rib is not anti-vegetarianistic, (I bet you can't find that word in Webster's) and everyone knows there really isn't any meat in a chicken pot pie. (sorry Staufers)
ref: 1995 January 3, Jim Ward, “INSOMNIA gaffe?”, in alt.books.stephen-king (Usenet):
text: If you are talking about protein, which is often the topic when it comes to vegetarianistic diets.. A one pound steak contains four ounces of protein, less than three of which is usable. You can get better ratios without meat.
ref: 1999 June 30, josiah, “London Swamped by Anti-Capitalism Protesters]^([sic])”, in alt.punk (Usenet):
text: FRUIT GROWERS / THIS IS A TREND GIVEN TO YOU / IN THE FORM OF LOVE / FROM AN ANGEL WHO DID / DIE / INSPITE OF HER METICULOUS / BUT TOO LATE REFORMED / VEGETARIANISTIC HABITS..
ref: 1999 September 12, wild...@peconic.net, “SOME RELATED SUBJECTS BELOW...”, in alt.animals.dolphins (Usenet):
text: I'm quite sure the novel can be found in any big library. It's not very long, so you could go through it just by the shelves and find those mentions of Vegetarianistic leader and his depiction of the process.
ref: 2003 November 23, George, “Vegetarianismo?”, in soc.culture.argentina (Usenet):
glosses: Pertaining to vegetarianists.
endjoining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end joining
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The joining of the broken ends of DNA fragments
spendocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spend + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A government supporting excessive spending.
Related terms: spendocrat
taxocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxocracies
Etymology: From tax + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A government supporting excessive taxes or spending.
Related terms: spendocracy
taxocrat
taxocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxocracy
repostulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repostulates
form: repostulating
form: repostulated
form: repostulated
Etymology: From re- + postulate.
Senses: glosses: To postulate again.
repostulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repostulate
repostulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repostulate
repostulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repostulate
repostulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repostulations
Etymology: From re- + postulation.
Senses: glosses: The act of postulating again.
repostulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repostulation
pen and paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: A combination which can be used for writing.
Related terms: put pen to paper
Fitzwilliamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fitzwilliamite
Mackenzie bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mackenzie beans
Senses: glosses: A toxic bean of a flowering plant of species Canavalia rosea.
Mackenzie beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mackenzie bean
white shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white shields
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of this white shield around black bodies was to prevent the threat of violence by the police against the black students.
ref: 2020, Awino Okech, Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 2:
hypernyms: human shield
glosses: White people who make a formation around black people in order to protect them from racist violence.
crayonning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crayon
crayonned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crayon
Borises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The tale of the wildly divergent paths that brought the two Borises to this battle has the flavour of the synopsis for a novel Jeffrey Archer was too ashamed to show his publisher.
ref: 2018 June 24, Matthew Norman, “If Boris Johnson and Boris Becker battled over who would make a better foreign secretary, Becker would easily win”, in The Independent:
glosses: plural of Boris
-stigmine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪɡ.miːn/
Etymology: From physostigmine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
live-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: live-streams
form: live-streaming
form: live-streamed
form: live-streamed
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, a teenage girl opposite spends much of her time on her phone live-streaming to her friends, [...].
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of livestream.
live-streaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of live-stream
self-drilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + drilling.
Senses: glosses: self-tapping with a drill point
raw_tags: of a screw
backtaxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backtaxis
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of backtrack.
synonyms: word: backtrack
backtaxi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backtaxis
form: backtaxies
form: backtaxiing
form: backtaxying
form: backtaxied
form: backtaxied
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of backtrack.
synonyms: word: backtrack
live-streamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of live-stream
live-streams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live-stream
-crine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /kɹiːn/
Etymology: Contraction of acridine. Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of acridine derivatives.
offwings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offwing
caseophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caseophile
hooman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ho͞oʹmən
ipa: /ˈhuː.mən/
Forms: form: hoomans
Etymology: A respelling of human. In science fiction, seemingly popularized by the speech pattern of the Ferengi in the Star Trek franchise. The slang sense was popularized in the 2010s and is used chiefly in DoggoLingo.
Senses: examples: text: It was established that the chimps' high living standard had been watched and envied by the hoomans for some length of time.
ref: 1961, The Bedding Manufacturer:
text: During the fight, Alexander found himself cut off from his men when a war elephant charged at him, but Peritas, who had been his companion on the campaign, leapt (probably in slow motion, possibly from a helicopter) in front of his hooman.
ref: 2019, Mackenzi Lee, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs, New York, NY: Abrams Image, →ISBN, page unknown:
glosses: A human being.
examples: text: Let me tell you something about hoomans, Nephew.
ref: 1998, Ira Steven Behr, Hans Beimler, The Siege of AR-558 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), spoken by Quark:
text: These aliens had heard about Hoomans, but none of them had ever seen one.
ref: 2013 10, Richard H. Wildey, A Chance to Learn the Secrets of the Ancients, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 445:
text: "I thinking I seen this hooman before. Not know name Lyle, though."
ref: 2023 March 30, Celia Kyle, Horde Bride (A Scifi Alien Romance), Summerhouse Publishing:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A human being.
A human from the perspective of an alien.
synonyms: Earthling
Terran
glosses: A human being.
A person who owns a dog or cat.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of human.
Tiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A minor river in south-east Cornwall, England, which joins the River Lynher.
Derived terms: Tideford
hoomans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooman
backtaxied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backtaxi
backtaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtaxi
backtaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtaxi
backtaxiing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backtaxi
rubescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rubescently
form: most rubescently
Etymology: From rubescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rubescent manner.
unallayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unallayable
form: most unallayable
Etymology: From un- + allayable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be allayed.
allayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more allayable
form: most allayable
Etymology: From allay + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be allayed.
Derived terms: allatectomy
unspooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspooked
form: most unspooked
Etymology: From un- + spooked.
Senses: glosses: Not spooked.
unspontaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unspontaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unspontaneous.
unspontaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unspontaneously
form: most unspontaneously
Etymology: From unspontaneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unspontaneous manner.
Mapplethorpean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mapplethorpean
form: most Mapplethorpean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mapplethorpian.
Mapplethorpian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mapplethorpian
form: most Mapplethorpian
form: Mapplethorpean
Etymology: From Mapplethorpe + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), American photographer known for controversial images of the homosexual male BDSM subculture of New York City.
zodis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zodi
undisgusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisgusted
form: most undisgusted
Etymology: From un- + disgusted.
Senses: glosses: Not disgusted.
undisgusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisgusting
form: most undisgusting
Etymology: From un- + disgusting.
Senses: glosses: Not disgusting.
triactantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + actantial.
Senses: examples: text: 1988, Julio Calvo Pérez, Perceptual and Topological Criteria in Linguistics Description, Publicacions de la Universitat de València
S- A Juan se le permite venir
F- On permet Jean de venir
E- John is allowed to come by
G- Johannes ist erlaubt vorbeizukommen
All of these expressions contain an explicit triactantial (3-place) performative to allow, […]
text: ... are my proposed semantic classes of Georgian deponents, with examples of each type : TYPE I . base trivalent transitive, no relative DV
The first group comprises verbs of giving and communicating, that is, fundamentally triactantial verbs ...
ref: 2002, Winfried Boeder, Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur: Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having three actants (such as subject, direct object, and indirect object),