cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: ailings
Senses: examples: text: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An ailment.
ailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ail
ailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more ailing
form: most ailing
Senses: examples: text: She cared for her ailing brother day in, day out.
text: Based on the successful Class 59 but with a much more modern engine, what was to become the Class 66 was designed to replace much of the company's elderly and ailing locomotive fleet.
ref: 2021 February 24, “Fleet News: Class 66 history”, in RAIL, number 925, page 27:
glosses: Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.
Derived terms: unailing
ailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪld/
rhymes: -eɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ail
aiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aid
aiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: aidings
Senses: examples: text: aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind
ref: 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who aids or assists.
aided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.dɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aid
confounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confound
confounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confoundings
Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
examples: text: Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s).
ref: 2013, Macera CA, Shaffer R, Shaffer PM, Introduction to Epidemiology: Distribution and Determinants of Disease,, Cengage Learning, page 158:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.
confounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confounding
form: most confounding
Etymology: By surface analysis, confound + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]
ref: 1716, John Willison, “A Help For The Right Improvement of Communion Sabbaths”, in A Treatise Concerning the Sanctifying of the Lord's Day. And Particularly, The Right Improvement of a Communion-Sabbath, Direction V, page 255:
text: But, Lord my God, help me so to remember that thou mayest forget them ; so to charge them upon myself, that thou mayest never lay them to my charge ; so to keep them before my eyes, to abase and humble my soul, that thou mayest hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities ; especially those that are so confounding and terrible to my thought.
ref: 1803, Benjamin Jenks, “A Prayer Upon the Remembrance of Former Sins”, in Prayers and Offices of Devotion, For Families and For Particular Persons, Upon Most Occasions, page 230:
text: It is too suggestive and too confounding to be met but in the spirit of study.
ref: 1848 August, Sylvanus Urban, “Minor Correspondence”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 114:
text: Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on a sofa, intermingling kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation in a manner so confounding, that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to take a spoonful of unclaimed dividends, for it would do her good ;[…]
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “What Was Behind Mr. Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 308:
text: Theſe things are very confounding, and no Man can be prepar'd to debate with Men, that will thus go upon all manner of Poſſibilities.
ref: 1706 November 19, A Review of The State of The English Nation, volume 3, number 138, page 550:
text: There are thousands of species of seafood, each with its own characteristics of flavor and texture. Add to this an infinite number of preparation methods and sauces, and the wine choice becomes very confounding.
ref: 1983, “Crustaceans”, in Seafood, The Knapp Press, page 8:
text: Infection affects many in this population, and it is very difficult particularly to define their status. Is what is given the right choice? In infection sometimes when therapy is given nothing happens and people say it doesn’t do anything. When we look at a number of studies, this is a very confounding factor making it difficult to compare them.
ref: 2004, Simon P. Allison, Vay Liang W. Go, editors, Metabolic Issues of Clinical Nutrition, Nestlé Nutrition, page 181:
glosses: Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing.
Derived terms: confoundingly
confounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confound
confounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confound
clipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: clipt
form: clypt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clip
clipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: clipt
form: clypt
Senses: glosses: Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
glosses: With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
raw_tags: of speech
examples: text: After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, […]
ref: 1999, Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures, Feral House, published 1999, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: Circumcised.
Synonyms: sense: circumcised
word: circumcised
Derived terms: nonclipped
overclipped
unclipped
co-opt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kōˈ-ŏptˌ
ipa: /ˈkəʊˌɒpt/
ipa: /ˈkoʊˌɑpt/
rhymes: -ɒpt
rhymes: -ɑpt
Forms: form: co-opts
form: co-opting
form: co-opted
form: co-opted
form: coopt
form: coöpt
Etymology: From Latin cooptō (“to choose, elect”), from co(m)- + optō (“to opt”).
Senses: glosses: To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee.
examples: text: Artists' engagement with bleeding-edge tech will always have the potential to critique its destructive civil and military applications, as well as the potential to be co-opted by them—as propaganda or R&D—as the rise of the so-called knowledge economy has amply demonstrated.
ref: 2009, chapter 2, in Josephine Berry Slater, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, editors, Proud to be Flesh, →ISBN:
glosses: To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
examples: text: In the resolution between the culture and the counterculture, it is impossible to tell who co-opted whom, because in reality the bohemians and the bourgeois co-opted each other. They emerge from this process as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos.
ref: 2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: nearly seven meandering, episodic minutes of unlikely chord changes […]
ref: 2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To absorb or assimilate into an established group, movement, category, etc.
Derived terms: co-optation
co-optative
co-option
co-optive
Related terms: recuperation
crop circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crop circles
Senses: glosses: An area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.
Synonyms: corn circle
UFO nest
Related terms: cereology
cerealogy
riddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdəld/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of riddle
riddled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪdəld/
Forms: form: more riddled
form: most riddled
Senses: examples: text: When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written".
ref: 2024 March 20, Conrad Landin, “"Farcical" Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act isn't working”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 25:
glosses: Damaged throughout by holes.
examples: text: The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
text: Another anti-extremism organization, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by X on Thursday, calling the suit “riddled with legal deficiencies”.
ref: 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
synonyms: lousy
coordinate_terms: peppered
examples: text: a hole-riddled sweater
text: They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
ref: 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
synonyms: -ridden
pooier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pooey: more pooey
redshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/
enpr: rĕd'-shĭftˌ
rhymes: -ɛdʃɪft
Forms: form: redshifts
form: red shift
Etymology: From red + shift.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: blueshift#Noun
qualifier: relativity
glosses: An increase in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a lower frequency and a shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Derived terms: cosmological redshift
gravitational redshift
redshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/
enpr: rĕd'-shĭftˌ
rhymes: -ɛdʃɪft
Forms: form: redshifts
form: redshifting
form: redshifted
form: redshifted
form: red shift
Etymology: From red + shift.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: blueshift#Verb
qualifier: relativity
glosses: (ergative) (said of light or a photon) To shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum; to change to a longer wavelength and a lower frequency.
Derived terms: redshifted
Related terms: Doppler effect
aguise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: aguises
form: aguising
form: aguised
form: aguised
Etymology: From a- + guise; compare disguise.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise
With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight
About her neck
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To dress; to array.
aguise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Etymology: From a- + guise; compare disguise.
Senses: examples: text: The glory of the Court, their faſhions, / And brave agguize with all their Princely ſtate, / Which Poets or Hiſtorians relate / This farre excels, farther than pompous Court / Excels the homelieſt garb of Country rate: […]
ref: 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 23, page 6:
glosses: Clothing, dress.
aguising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aguise
aguised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aguise
aguised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aguised
form: most aguised
Senses: examples: text: Faire sonne, God giue you happie chance, / And that deare Crosse vpon your shield deuizd, / Wherewith aboue all knights ye goodly seeme aguizd.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 2, canto 1, verse 31:
glosses: Dressed.
Synonyms: beclad
yclothed
clothed
aguises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aguise
mystified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mystify
mystified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: puzzled or confused
glosses: state of enchantment as concerns person or event
Derived terms: mystifiedly
unmystified
aguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ague
agued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ague
agued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with ague.
agues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ague
in the nuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Naked or nude.
Related terms: in the nude
from dusk to dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: duration
time
glosses: From sunset to sunrise.
examples: text: Roos and wallabies often leap onto roads, particularly from dusk to dawn; keep your speed under 70km/h at these times.
ref: 2005, Paul Smitz, Carolyn Bain, Sandra Bao, Susannah Farfor, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 745:
topics: temporal-location
time
glosses: At night, nighttime.
glosses: All night.
Related terms: dawn to dusk
baitware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bait + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Freeware of deliberately poor quality with some, but generally not all, of the features of a software application, intended to entice those who download the freeware to buy the complete application.
sandlapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandlappers
Etymology: Upon visiting Columbia/Lancaster, SC, in 1791, George Washington is said to have called the people living on the sands near the river shores sandlappers.
An alternative etymology is that the word was used before and during the American Revolution by the British and the residents of the Carolina coast to refer to residents of the river-bottoms and more generally of the back country and piedmont areas of South Carolina. The word originally had a pejorative connotation, not unlike hillbilly.
Senses: glosses: A native of South Carolina.
louer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: louers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of lover.
acrolect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.ɹə.lɛkt/
Forms: form: acrolects
Etymology: From acro- (“tip; peak”) + -lect, coined by William Alexander Stewart in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: In one dimension change is directed toward the acrolect, the “typical” change in the creole continuum.
ref: 1994, Michael Montgomery, The Crucible of Carolina, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 60:
text: At the other end of the continuum is the most standard speech, the acrolect. In between is a gradient of forms with many successive levels, the mesolects.
ref: 2013, Allan Bell, The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 83:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
coordinate_terms: mesolect
basilect
;
hyperlect
glosses: The variety of speech that is considered most suitable for formal occasions (typically using only standard forms).
Derived terms: acrolectal
Related terms: code-switching
matrilect
sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suck
sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Forms: form: suckings
Senses: glosses: An act of sucking.
glosses: A sound or motion that sucks.
Derived terms: dick-sucking
sucking-pig
sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Still nourished by the mother's milk, as an infant; suckling.
examples: text: Rather a shy place for a sucking county member, ay, Pynsent?
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 26, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Young and inexperienced.
-dom
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-dəm/
ipa: /-dɒm/
ipa: /-dɑm/
ipa: /-dəm/
Etymology: From dom, shortening of variously domination, dominance, or dominator.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Forms uncountable nouns denoting a type of domination.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Forms countable nouns denoting a type of dominator.
Jacobs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic derived from Jacob.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A southern neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin, named after William H. Jacobs.
glosses: A place in the United States:
Former name of Port Providence, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Gould-Jacobs reaction
Jacobs bogie
Jacobs syndrome
Jacobsian
Jacobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪkəbz/
Forms: form: jacobs
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang - Jacob's Cream Crackers (a brand of crackers) = knackers
Senses: examples: text: He has also provided some of the show's funniest moments - when enjoying a bath with Three Degrees star Sheila Ferguson he told her: 'I'm comfortable with anything, love, but you don't want to see my 'Jacobs' hanging out.'
ref: 2004 December 8, Sherna Noah, “Joe's jungle 'experience'”, in The Birmingham Post:
text: I used to have a Velo seat, which is pretty similar to the KH in design, and I got rid of it for the same reason. The padding was so deep and spongey that my Jacobs used to float to the top as I rode along.
ref: 2005 July 2, Mikefule [username], “Re: Nut buster seat”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet):
text: Horseshit every match matters and Alex Ferguson would drag his players out of the club by their Jacobs if they made such a statement.
ref: 2008 November 25, Baldoni, “Re: Amazing...”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):
glosses: Testicles (sometimes spelt Jacob's).
swim the Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swims the Tiber
form: swimming the Tiber
form: swam the Tiber
form: swum the Tiber
form: cross the Tiber
Senses: glosses: To convert to Catholicism.
Related terms: english: convert to Anglicanism
translation: convert to Anglicanism
word: swim the Thames
agrises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agrise
agrising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agrise
agrised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agrise
agonises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agonise
agonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agonize
agonising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agonising
form: most agonising
Senses: glosses: Causing agony; very painful
Derived terms: agonisingly
agonising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agonise
agonising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agonisings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agonizing.
agonised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agonised
form: most agonised
Senses: synonyms: word: tortured
word: agonised
word: tortured
glosses: Experiencing agony
agonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agonise
Derived terms: unagonised
agonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agonises
form: agonising
form: agonised
form: agonised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agonize.
abjurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abjuration
awent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ago
agoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From a- + going.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go
agone
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From a- + gone, see ago.
Senses: examples: text: Three days agone I fell sick.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:13:
text: And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
glosses: Alternative form of ago.
agitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agitate
agists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agist
agitating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agitating
form: most agitating
Senses: glosses: That agitates
Derived terms: agitatingly
agitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agitate
agisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agist
agisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒɪstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agist
agisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʒɪstɪd/
Forms: form: more agisted
form: most agisted
Senses: examples: text: ‘Them Brooks have got your old place now,’ she said to Annabelle. ‘They got cattle agisted on Verbena.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 285:
glosses: That has been put out to pasture (of an animal), especially on hired land not belonging to the animal's owner.
males
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪlz/
homophone: mails
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of male
accoll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accolls
form: accolling
form: accolled
form: accolled
Etymology: From Middle English acolen, from Old French acoler (whence modern French accoler), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”).
Senses: examples: text: Thrice raught I with mine arms to accoll her
ref: 1840, James Henry, Miscellanies, page 123:
glosses: To embrace; cling to.
wildebeests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildebeest
neenish tart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neenish tarts
form: nienich tart
Etymology: Unknown. The oldest known reference is a September 1895 advertisement in the Sydney Sunday Times for Nenish cakes.
Derivation from a German or Viennese German word has been suggested, and the early spellings nienich (1935) and nenische (1959) appear consistent with a German origin, but the "very English" spelling neenish has been common since even earlier, being in a January 1903 recipe in the Launceston Daily Telegraph, a May 1924 Melbourne Argus article, and a 1929 cookbook by Lucy Drake, suggesting the Germanic spellings may have developed later to give the dish a Continental feel.
A popular claim that the tarts were first made by a Ruby Neenish in Grong Grong, New South Wales circa 1913, when she ran low on cocoa preparing for an unexpected shower tea and made do with half-chocolate/half-white icing, was a hoax.
Senses: examples: text: She had thought of a neenish tart but then wondered if the filling might run.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Smither, The Girl who Proposed: New Short Stories, page 14:
text: “See if Mrs Clarke would like a neenish tart.”
ref: 2010, Philip Marshall, Wainui Days, page 82:
ref: 2010, Books LLC, Australian Desserts: Pavlova, Anzac Biscuit, Lamington, Frog Cake, Icebox Cake, Neenish Tart, White Christmas:
glosses: A small tart with a pastry base and gelatine-set cream filling, covered with icing in two colours, half and half.
wikipedia: Launceston, Tasmania
Sydney
manimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manimals
Etymology: Blend of man + animal
Senses: examples: text: Standing naked against a wintry landscape, the figure became a screen for the projection of identities--beast, bigfoot, manimal, specter, even, to use a word Newkirk's work encourages one to use in all its dangerousness, spook.
ref: 2004 January 1, Christopher Miles, “Kori Newkirk; the project”, in Artforum International Magazine:
text: 2006 February 1, Paul Z. Myers, Pharyngula, ScienceBlogs
President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!
text: Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen...and now there's, like, manimal.
ref: 2006 February 4, Charlie Pierce, “Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.
examples: 2004 January 1, Michael Burnett, “Tumyeto army”, Thrasher, High Speed Productions, Inc.
Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal.
"Oh, he's so on the team," Diego kept saying.
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: A person compared to such a creature, especially an unkempt and uncivilized, or strong and sexually aggressive man.
Synonyms: sense: individual
word: macho man
word: hypermasculine man
agnises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agnise
agnising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agnise
agnized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agnize
agnised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agnise
agnizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agnize
agnizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agnize
agnominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of agnominate
agnominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of agnominate
agnominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of agnominate
dimly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪmli/
rhymes: -ɪmli
Forms: form: more dimly
form: most dimly
Etymology: From dim + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I began dimly to understand.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 249:
text: "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The well-heeled gay yuppies of Bay Village would just as soon banish Drag Queens and hustlers entirely from their lives, only to dimly acknowledge them once a year in flowery paeans to "the gay men and Lesbians who rioted at Stonewall and gave birth to our movement" on Gay Pride Day.
ref: 1984 December 22, Ingrid Sell, “Changing Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 4:
glosses: In a dim manner; not clearly.
shadowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæd.oʊ.i/
ipa: /ˈʃæd.əʊ.i/
Forms: form: shadowier
form: shadowiest
Etymology: From Middle English schadwy, schadowy, equivalent to shadow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He sat in a shadowy corner.
glosses: In shadow; darkened by shadows.
examples: text: He was a shadowy man who rarely spoke.
text: By 1980, South Korea had overtaken its northern neighbour, and was well on its way to being one of the Asian tigers – high-performing economies, with democratic movements ultimately winning power in the 1990s. The withdrawal of most Soviet aid in 1991, with the fall of the Soviet empire, pushed North Korea further down. Kim Il-sung had held a genuine place on North Korean people's affections. His son was regarded as a shadowy playboy, with rumours circulating over the years that he imported Russian and Chinese prostitutes, and lived a life of profligacy and excess.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: But the most frequent guests were as New York magazine put it, “Arab princes, Third World officials, and shadowy European and American businessmen.
ref: 2017 June 7, Adam Lusher, “Adnan Khashoggi: the 'whoremonger' whose arms deals funded a playboy life of decadence and 'pleasure wives'”, in The Independent, London:
glosses: Dark, obscure.
raw_tags: of character
glosses: Vague, dim, unclear, faint of an image.
glosses: Indulging in fancies; daydreaming.
louder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊdɚ/
ipa: /ˈlaʊdə/
rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: The sound of a hard-working diesel engine pierces the damp Yorkshire air. It gets louder, until a bright red High Speed Train cuts through the gloom.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32:
glosses: comparative form of loud: more loud
sympathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmpəθiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sympathy
escheated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of escheat
dipsophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dipso- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear of alcohol.
dynamic equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any equilibrium in which opposite changes occur simultaneously.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An equilibrium in which two reversible reactions occur at the same rate.
Related terms: static equilibrium
steady state
lethologica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌliθəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkə/
ipa: /ˌliθəˈlɑd͡ʒəkə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “forgetfulness”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”), early 20th c. Popularly attributed to Carl Jung.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am sorry, Senator Ludwig, I have succumbed to a fit of lethologica, having listened to your remarks; I cannot remember what I was about to say, I am so taken aback by you […]
ref: 2006 September 11, Senator Brandis, “Aged Care”, in parliamentary debates (Australian Senate):
synonyms: letholexia
glosses: The inability to remember the correct word.
wikipedia: Carl Jung
Related terms: lethetic
Lethe
anomia
dysnomia
on the tip of one's tongue
presque vu
wordfinding
indehiscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + dehiscent.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer wants indehiscent heads of a cereal which can be gathered without shedding their grain.
text: A rich and dark and indehiscent meat
ref: 2006 June, A. E. Stallings, “Olives”, in The New Criterion, volume 24, page 28:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.
Synonyms: non-shedding
motivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.tɪ.veɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˈmoʊ.ɾə.veɪ.ʃn̩]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: motivations
Etymology: From French motivation. Morphologically motivate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Willingness of action especially in behavior.
glosses: The action of motivating.
glosses: Something which motivates.
glosses: An incentive or reason for doing something.
examples: text: The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
Derived terms: antimotivation
countermotivation
demotivation
extrinsic motivation
intrinsic motivation
letter of motivation
motivational
motivationless
nonmotivation
remotivation
submotivation
transmotivation
undermotivation
unmotivation
silver-tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪlvəˈtʌŋd/
ipa: /ˌsɪlvəɹˈtʌŋd/
Forms: form: more silver-tongued
form: most silver-tongued
Etymology: From silver (“(noun) lustrous, white, metallic element; (adjective) consisting or made of silver; (figurative) soft and clear in sound; eloquent”) + tongued (“having a particular manner of speaking”), referring to the clear musical tone produced when silver is struck.
Senses: examples: text: silver-tongued devil
text: Siluer tongu'd Smith whoſe well tun'd ſtile hath made thy death the generall teares of the Muſes, queintlie couldſt thou deuiſe heauenly Ditties to Apollos Lute, and teach ſtately verſe to trip it as ſmoothly, as if Ouid and thou had but one ſoule.
ref: 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC, signature D3, verso:
text: Mr. [Thomas] Parker ſoon became a pleader at the bar; travelled the Midland circuit; acquired additional eſteem, buſineſs, and property; vvas denominated the Silver-tongued Counſel; and found intereſt enough, in 1705, to cauſe himſelf to be returned a member for the borough, vvith Lord James Cavendiſh, ſon to the firſt Duke of Devonſhire.
ref: 1791, W[illiam] Hutton, “Eminent Men”, in The History of Derby; from the Remote Ages of Antiquity, to the Year MDCCXCI. […], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols, and sold by G[eorge] G. J. & J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, pages 284–285:
text: [T]he statesman, whose inward feelings had at first so much impeded his efforts to make himself known, had now regained all the ease and fluency of a silver-tongued lawyer of the very highest order.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20:
synonyms: word: glib
word: golden-tongued
word: honey-mouthed
word: honey-tongued
word: sweet-spoken
word: birdsweet
word: dulcet
word: mellifluent
word: mellifluous
word: ariose
word: birdsweet
word: canorous
word: concentual
word: dulcet
word: euphonic
word: euphonical
word: euphonious
word: euphonous
word: harmonious
word: harmonical
word: listenable
word: mellifluent
word: mellifluous
word: melodic
word: melodious
word: musical
word: soundful
word: symphonious
word: tunable
word: tuneful
glosses: Articulate and charming in speech; eloquent; also, having a pleasant-sounding voice or way of speaking.
Derived terms: english: probably, as it is attested later than the adjective
translation: probably, as it is attested later than the adjective
word: silver tongue
gametophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gametophytes
Etymology: From gameto- + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: examples: text: In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.
ref: 2018 May 25, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
Derived terms: macrogametophyte
megagametophyte
microgametophyte
Related terms: gametangium
gamete
gametogenesis
gametophytic
sporophyte
mutilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mutilations
Etymology: Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.
Senses: glosses: The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.
Hyponyms: female genital mutilation
male genital mutilation
Derived terms: genital mutilation
self-mutilation
Related terms: body modification
s/he
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /hi ɔː(ɹ)ʃi/
Forms: form: they
form: (s)he
form: he/she
Senses: examples: text: Born as Neil Andrew Megson in Manchester, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge grew up in Essex. S/he was a member of radical art collective COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s, and went on to form Throbbing Gristle with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter.
ref: 2020 March 14, Martin Belam, “Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV leader Genesis Breyer P-Orridge dies aged 70”, in The Guardian:
glosses: he or she
Synonyms: sense: sometimes proscribed; grammatically plural but semantically singular
word: they
word: he
sense: arbitrarily
word: she
Related terms: wo/man
(s)he
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: s/he
form: she/he
form: he/she
Senses: glosses: He or she; singular of they, used as a gender-neutral form of the third person singular.
pleather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pleathers
Etymology: Blend of plastic + leather.
Senses: examples: text: From the black, belted fur vest and turban-style headgear on the left, to the perforated pleather jacket with gold studs in the middle, to the white shift and black caplet punctuated with ...
ref: 1983, Elizabeth Bucar, Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, page 168:
hypernyms: pseudoleather
coordinate_terms: see pseudoleather § Hyponyms
glosses: Faux leather, usually of polyurethane.
Coordinate terms: latex
Naugahyde
PVC
rubber
vinyl
Derived terms: pleathered
Related terms: Corinthian leather
leather
imitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imitators
form: imitatour
Etymology: From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.
ref: 2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN:
text: Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.
ref: 2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN:
synonyms: aper
glosses: A person who imitates or apes another.
Derived terms: great imitator
imitatorship
imitatress
Related terms: imitate
electrical engineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: electroengineering
glosses: The branch of engineering that deals with the technology of electricity, especially the design and application of circuitry and equipment for power generation and distribution, machine control, and communications.
Derived terms: electrical engineer
well and good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Having 200,000 people on your mailing-list is all well and good, but how many of them actually read the mailings?
glosses: Basically good, but with some shortcoming or limitation.
Synonyms: all very well
dandy
finalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.nə.laɪz/
Forms: form: finalizes
form: finalizing
form: finalized
form: finalized
form: finalise
Etymology: From final + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as we get the plane tickets, we'll finalize our reservations with the hotel.
glosses: To make final or firm; to finish or complete.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.
Synonyms: english: of a document
translation: of a document
word: engross
Derived terms: finalizable
finalizer
unfinalized
clincher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinchers
Etymology: From clinch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The clincher was that we couldn't wait any longer to leave, or it would get dark.
text: Newcastle's Dan Gosling was sent off for a foul on Russell Martin but Ba fired in to cut the deficit, before Holt nodded in the clincher.
ref: 2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: Even after what turned out to be the clincher, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz and Jorginho went close to forcing a penalty shootout.
ref: 2022 April 12, Neil Johnston, “Real Madrid 2-3 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
text: Transport Scotland acknowledges that the permanence of the new fares regime could be the clincher in persuading people to "travel more often and make long-term choices with certainty, helping people to leave the car at home".
ref: 2025 September 17, Conrad Landin, “Decarbonising Scottish transport”, in RAIL, number 1044, page 39:
glosses: That which clinches; that which makes something final or firm; a decisive factor.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tyre with a bead around the edge to attach to the rim of the wheel when inflated.
Derived terms: clincher-built
clincher-work
clinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clinch
clinch nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinch nuts
Senses: glosses: A threaded fastener secured by a press fit into one of the pieces to be joined. Frequently used in sheet metal designs when a material is too thin to tap threads.
push factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊʃ ˈfæktə/
Forms: form: push factors
Senses: examples: text: The push-pull hypothesis proposes that people will voluntarily vacate old premises and seek new ones when conditions are no longer comfortable or tolerable, or when conditions in another country offer more favorable circumstances for an improved standard of living. According to Juan Gonzales (1990), immigration to America reveals both of the aforementioned push and pull factors. The push factors include economic conditions, political conditions, social conditions, overpopulation, and natural disasters. […] Political push factors include such unsettling events as rebellion, revolution, war, and seizure of the government—all of which reflect grave instability in a society.
ref: 1995, George Henderson, Thompson [Dale] Olasiji, Migrants, Immigrants, and Slaves: Racial and Ethnic Groups in America, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The decision of whether or not to migrate is not taken lightly by any migrant. […] Factors that might force a person to leave their place of residence are called push factors, and these can be broadly divided into ‘hard push factors’ and ‘soft push factors’. Hard push factors include war, starvation and environmental catastrophes, while soft push factors persecution, poverty and social loneliness.
ref: 2005, Stephen Codrington, “Population Change”, in Planet Geography, 3rd edition, Sydney: Solid Star Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Socially discriminated entrepreneurs did not switch activity because of: / Push factor[:] Unemployment / Pull factor[:] Low Uncertainty of income […] / Traditional entrepreneurs switched activity because of: / Pull factor[:] could handle alone / Push factor[:] lack of skilled labour
ref: 2005, Atul Mishra, “Entrepreneurial Motivations in Start-up and Survival of Micro- and Small Enterprises in the Rural Non-farm Economy”, in Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, volume 18, number 3, Regina, Saskatchewan: Faculty of Administration, University of Regina, →ISSN, page 314:
text: A pull factor is a positive perception about a location that influences a person to move there. A push factor is a negative perception about a location that induces a person to move away from that location. Both push and pull factors are based on an individual's perceptions of the area. A pull factor for one person may be a push factor for another.
ref: 2015, Kelly Swanson, AP Human Geography 2016, New York, N.Y.: Kaplan Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A factor that encourages one to leave one's current home, region, country, organization, or religion.
Coordinate terms: pull factor
processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ̯sɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ̯sɛsiːz/
enpr: prōˈ -sĕsĭz
enpr: nonstandard prōˈ -sĕ-sēz
ipa: /ˈpɹɑsɛsɪz/
enpr: prŏsˈ -ĕsĭz
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈpɹɑsɛˌsiːz/
enpr: prŏsˈ -ĕ-sēzˌ
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsɛsiːz/
enpr: prōˈ -sĕsĭz
enpr: nonstandard prōˈ -sĕ-sēz
Senses: glosses: plural of process
processes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ̯sɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ̯sɛsiːz/
enpr: prōˈ -sĕsĭz
enpr: nonstandard prōˈ -sĕ-sēz
ipa: /ˈpɹɑsɛsɪz/
enpr: prŏsˈ -ĕsĭz
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈpɹɑsɛˌsiːz/
enpr: prŏsˈ -ĕ-sēzˌ
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsɛsɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsɛsiːz/
enpr: prōˈ -sĕsĭz
enpr: nonstandard prōˈ -sĕ-sēz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of process