cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yangzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæŋ.zi/
ipa: /ˈjɑŋ-/
ipa: /-tsi/
ipa: /-tsə/
enpr: yängʹdzûʹ
Forms: form: Yang-tzu
form: Yang-tzŭ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋梓 (Yángzǐ).
Senses: examples: text: Liu Cuilan at Bailing Village of Yangzi Town in Zhongxiang city has a large house of 140 meters² (about 1506 ft².) for the [Christians] gatherings, which was torn down by the policemen from Yingzhong police station in August 2001.
ref: 2001 December 17, “Brief report on the financial loss of the church in Hubei”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2014:
glosses: A town in Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
glosses: A residential community in Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
glosses: A village in Yangzi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China.
long drink of water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒŋ ˈdɹɪŋk əv ˈwɔːtə/
ipa: /lɔŋ ˈdɹɪŋk əv ˈwɔtɚ/
ipa: [- ˈwɔɾɚ]
Forms: form: long drinks of water
form: tall drink of water
Etymology: The term originated in the United States, and was presumably used in vaudeville performances. It was derived from earlier Scots lang drink.
Senses: examples: text: Stair had grown up into a great lang drink, and would faukled, as Robin Cummell said, if he fell.
ref: [1887, John Service, chapter XVI, in The Life and Recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning. Written by Himself, and Now First Printed from the Recovered Manuscript, Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland, →OCLC, page 103:
text: Other acts will include Klein, Abe and Nicholson, “the fat bellboy, the corpulent Scot and ‘the long drink of water,’” in a comedy of melody.
ref: 1915 August 1, “Photoplays, Vaudeville and outdoor amusements”, in The Washington Post, page 3, column 1:
text: Mr. [David] Kirkwood [Independent Labour Party member] addressed his reproof to Lord Winterton [Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton], who, along with his colleagues, had protested against the defiance of the speaker's ruling. "Ye are not treating with Indians, ye big long drink of water," he shouted. Immediately the Speaker reproved the member for Dumbarton.
ref: 1924 May 10, “The Speaker defied”, in The Times, London, page 12:
glosses: A tall person.
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Orunmila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba Ọ̀rúnmìlà.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Yoruba.
glosses: An orisha in the Yoruba religion, the god of wisdom and divination.
Frigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: Frig
form: Frigga
form: Frija
Etymology: From Old Norse Frigg, from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Cognate with the native Old English Frīġ. Doublet of Priya.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Odin
Thor
glosses: The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).
fritillaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɪtɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌfɹɪtɪˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: fritillarias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant in the genus Fritillaria.
fructosuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fructosurias
Etymology: From fructose + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The (abnormal) presence of fructose in the urine
Prosper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
poet's daffodil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poet's daffodils
Senses: glosses: A daffodil of species Narcissus poeticus, found in Europe and North America.
Synonyms: word: poet's narcissus
word: nargis
word: pheasant's eye
word: findern flower
word: pinkster lily
isard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of izard.
Furia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Furias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Furia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
furlana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furlanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian furlana, feminine of furlano (“Friulian”).
Senses: glosses: A lively Italian folk dance.
fuselol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fuselöl.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fusel oil.
synonyms: word: fusel oil
vishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of voice + phishing
Senses: examples: text: Vishing takes advantage of the trust that most people place in the telephone network.
ref: 2008, Gregory B. White, Dwayne Williams, Roger Davis, CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam SY0-201), page 36:
text: Within just an hour, a new vishing infrastructure can be configured and put in place to launch a new attack.
ref: 2009, Ken Dunham, Mobile malware attacks and defense, page 188:
text: Between 2006 and 2007, the number of vishing identity theft cases rose from 3 percent of theft to 40 percent (Source: Javelin Strategy & Research.)
ref: 2010, David A. Montague, Essentials of Online Payment Security and Fraud Prevention, page 85:
text: But there has been less public outreach about similar new types of phone schemes, sometimes called vishing.
ref: 2014, Nick Wingfield, Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet’s Tactics:
glosses: A form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.
Hypernyms: phishing
Coordinate terms: smishing
Istro-Romanians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Istro-Romanian
Schwarzschild radius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzschild radii
Etymology: Named after German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The radius of an object such that, if all its mass were compressed within that radius, the escape velocity would equal the speed of light.
hexafoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexafoils
Senses: glosses: A design with six round semicircular petals stemming from a central circle.
Related terms: trefoil
hexafoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexafoil
tagless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæɡləs/
Etymology: From tag + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a tag or tags.
reignition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reignitions
Etymology: From re- + ignition, by analogy with reignite.
Senses: glosses: Process, act or instance of reigniting.
reignitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reignition
empirical rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the empirical rule
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Synonym of the 68-95-99.7 rule.
synonyms: word: the 68-95-99.7 rule
Canadian Ballet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A strip club, especially one in Canada near the American border.
cloistre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloistres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cloister.
behell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behells
form: behelling
form: behelled
form: behelled
Etymology: From be- + hell.
Senses: examples: text: Did behell and rack him ― Hewyt.
text: Thus a mechanic who feels himself electrically influenced speaks of "brain-kilowatt-hours", or a resistive patient talks of "behelling" injections.
ref: 1936, Frederick Walker Mott, Archives of neurology and psychiatry:
text: I have seen them behell a saint for ignorantly drinking an alcoholic drink. Beshrew the sanctimonious riffraff!
ref: 2006, Philangi Dasa, Swedenborg the Buddhist:
glosses: To torture as with pains of hell; give hell (to).
contoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒn.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: contoids
Etymology: From con(sonan)t + -oid. First appears c. the 1940s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: vocoid
glosses: A phonetic consonant, as opposed to a phonological one.
alexical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + lexical.
Senses: examples: text: In Wolfram hatte Hunger, we would not say that Wolfram is the possessor of the hunger. Hence, the descriptive content is close to nothing, and it is perhaps somewhat arbitrary whether one considers hab- to be alexical or lexical.
ref: 2002, Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Issues in formal German(ic) typology, page 157:
glosses: Not lexical.
bleed the lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleeds the lizard
form: bleeding the lizard
form: bled the lizard
form: bled the lizard
Etymology: From slang use of lizard in reference to the penis.
Senses: glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of men
Synonyms: drain the lizard
urinate
drain the main vein
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drains the main vein
form: draining the main vein
form: drained the main vein
form: drained the main vein
Etymology: A slang rhyming reference to the idea that a urethra is similar to a vein or artery.
Senses: examples: text: I got to drain the main vein, kiddo, so you just stay put.
ref: 2003, David Zielinski, A Genuine Monster, page 232:
glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of men
Synonyms: urinate
unforesighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforesighted
form: most unforesighted
Etymology: From un- + foresighted.
Senses: glosses: Lacking foresight.
foresightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foresight + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking foresight.
Derived terms: foresightlessness
cauldronful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cauldronfuls
form: cauldronsful
form: caldronful
Etymology: From cauldron + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a cauldron will hold.
cauldronfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauldronful
cauldronsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauldronful
syphon the python
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syphons the python
form: syphoning the python
form: syphoned the python
form: syphoned the python
Etymology: From a supposed resemblance of the penis to a snake, a large variety of which is the python.
Senses: glosses: To urinate.
raw_tags: of a male
glosses: To ejaculate.
raw_tags: of a male
saucersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saucerful
townful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townfuls
form: townsful
Etymology: From town + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As many people as a town can hold.
townfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townful
townsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townful
platterful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platterfuls
form: plattersful
Etymology: From platter + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a platter will hold.
platterfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platterful
plattersful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platterful
trayful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪfʊl
Forms: form: trayfuls
form: traysful
Etymology: From tray + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a tray will hold.
trayfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trayful
traysful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trayful
triazolopyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triazolopyridines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any heterocycle containing a pyrimidine ring fused with one of triazole; any antidepressant based on such a structure
triazolopyridines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triazolopyridine
canful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canfuls
form: cansful
Etymology: From can + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.
ref: 1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking:
glosses: As much as a can will hold.
canfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canful
cansful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canful
tinful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinfuls
form: tinsful
Etymology: From tin + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a tin will hold.
tinfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinful
tinsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinful
thimblesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thimbleful
drumful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumfuls
form: drumsful
Etymology: From drum + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a drum will hold.
drumfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drumful
drumsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drumful
earsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earful
pageful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagefuls
form: pagesful
Etymology: From page + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much (text etc.) as a page will hold.
pagefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pageful
pagesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pageful
behew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behews
form: behewing
form: behewed
form: behewn
Etymology: From Middle English behewen, from Old English behēawan (“to cut, chip, chop, beat, cut off from, deprive of”), equivalent to be- + hew.
Senses: glosses: To carve; adorn; embellish.
behate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behates
form: behating
form: behated
form: behated
Etymology: From Middle English behaten, equivalent to be- + hate.
Senses: glosses: To hate; detest.
behappen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æpən
Forms: form: behappens
form: behappening
form: behappened
form: behappened
Etymology: From Middle English behappenen, equivalent to be- + happen, analogous to befall.
Senses: examples: text: "But why have ye," said Artegall, "forborne
Your owne good shield in daungerous dismay?
That is the greatest shame and foulest scorne,
Which unto any knight behappen may.
To loose the badge that should his deedes display."
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book V LII:
text: And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from? Pummel thy pumkin, and a tell me that, Peter Grievous. Where, but out of my pouche, Gaby? That is, I first havin and holdin the wherewithalls, and the whys, and the wherefores. Do you take me now? So that forsooth, some folks may behappen to cry peccavi.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives. a Novel:
glosses: To happen to, to befall.
behappen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -æpən
Etymology: From Middle English behappenen, equivalent to be- + happen, analogous to befall.
Senses: examples: text: Behappen it ul rain.
ref: 1841, Charles Henry Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical,' Military, and Other Early Remains in Shropshire and the North Welsh Borders; with Observations Upon the Names of Places, and a Glossary of Words Used in the County of Salop:
glosses: Perhaps, mayhap.
taking a shit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a shit
behappened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of behappen
behap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: behaps
form: behapping
form: behapped
form: behapped
Etymology: From be- + hap (“luck, chance, event, occurrence”).
Senses: glosses: To happen.
satchelful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satchelfuls
form: satchelsful
Etymology: From satchel + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a satchel will hold.
precarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /pɹɪˈkɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: precaria
Senses: glosses: A form of land tenure in which a petitioner receives a property for a specific amount of time without any change of ownership.
satchelsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satchelful
satchelfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satchelful
flaskful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaskfuls
form: flasksful
Etymology: From flask + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: For the benefit of seedsmen and orchardists I would say, I have found “Lyons’ Magnetic powder” effec[t]ual in driving insects from seed and away from all places they infest, and have no doubt a few flasksful thrown in the crevices of fruit trees, would drive the pests from their fortresses.
ref: 1859, “Lyons’ Powder!---Death to Insects!”, in D. Lee, D. Redmond, C. W. Howard, editors, The Southern Cultivator, a Monthly Journal, […], volume XVII, Augusta, Ga.: William S. Jones, page 361:
glosses: As much as a flask will hold.
flaskfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaskful
netful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netfuls
form: netsful
Etymology: From net + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a netful of fish
text: It may be asked, What is a poor man's pot? Bacon, haply a pudding, or "dow-boy," a net of greens, or what not, and a netful of Potatoes.
ref: 1889, Robert Fenn, “International Potato”, in Robert Hogg, editor, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer. […] , volume XVIII:
text: Less than 15 years ago a bizarre contraption edged its way alongside a cherry-laden tree in Michigan. An iron hand reached out and shook the tree violently. The cherries fell into a net beneath; result: a netful of bruised cherries.
ref: 1973 July 24, “Breakthrough!”, in agricultural situation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, page 7:
glosses: As much as a net will hold.
netfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netful
netsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netful
netrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netrin
beguilty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beguilties
form: beguiltying
form: beguiltied
form: beguiltied
Etymology: From be- + guilty.
Senses: glosses: To render guilty; burden with a sense of guilt.
windowful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowfuls
form: windowsful
Etymology: From window + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The amount displayed in a window.
windowfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowful
windowsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windowful
widowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more widowlike
form: most widowlike
Etymology: From widow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a widow.
drop the kids off at the pool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops the kids off at the pool
form: dropping the kids off at the pool
form: dropped the kids off at the pool
form: dropped the kids off at the pool
form: drop the kiddies off at the pool
Etymology: From humorous association of the toilet bowl with a swimming pool; slight wordplay regarding drop and drop off (figurative).
Senses: glosses: To defecate into a toilet.
Synonyms: drop a bomb
drop a chalupa
drop a deuce
drop anchor
have a food baby
defecate
Empsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmpˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɛmpˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Empsonian
form: most Empsonian
Etymology: From Empson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It was a memory of a poetry lesson in her training college in Liverpool: an earnest Empsonian young man, not really attractive.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 620:
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet.
widowhoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of widowhood
take the Browns to the Super Bowl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the Browns to the Super Bowl
form: taking the Browns to the Super Bowl
form: took the Browns to the Super Bowl
form: taken the Browns to the Super Bowl
form: take the browns to the super bowl
Etymology: A punning reference to the Cleveland Browns and the NFL Super Bowl, as well as the color of most feces and a toilet bowl.
Senses: glosses: To defecate.
wikipedia: Cleveland Browns
NFL
Super Bowl
Synonyms: defecate
behad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more behad
form: most behad
Etymology: From Old Scots behald, behauld, reduced variant of behalden, behaulden (“beholden, indebted”), from behald, behauld (“to look at, regard”). More at behold.
Senses: glosses: Beholden; indebted.
begunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begunks
form: begunking
form: begunked
form: begunked
form: begink
Etymology: Perhaps from a nasalised variant of Scots begeck (“to deceive, disappoint”), equivalent to be- + geck.
Senses: glosses: To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.
begunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begunks
form: begink
Etymology: Perhaps from a nasalised variant of Scots begeck (“to deceive, disappoint”), equivalent to be- + geck.
Senses: glosses: An illusion; trick; cheat.
begink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beginks
form: beginking
form: beginked
form: beginked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of begunk.
place word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place words
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: locative word
kettlesful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kettleful
dormitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dormītōria.
Senses: glosses: plural of dormitorium
aemule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈmjul/
ipa: /ɪ-/
ipa: /ə-/
other: /iˈmjul/
other: /ə-/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: aemules
form: aemuling
form: aemuled
form: aemuled
Senses: examples: text: æmuled of many
ref: 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of emulate (“to emulate”).
gnawingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gnawingly
form: most gnawingly
Etymology: From gnawing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Somehow seeing that small streak of blood made the way she felt inside seem less out of control, less desperate, less awkwardly, gnawingly painful.
ref: 2007, Steven James, The Pawn, page 121:
glosses: In a manner that chafes or worries.
gnashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gnashingly
form: most gnashingly
Etymology: From gnashing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She watched the horse chew gnashingly, his lower jaw slipping sideways. She saw big yellow teeth, and white froth, mixed with apple bits, bubbling out.
ref: 2004, Mike Barnes, Contrary angel, page 132:
glosses: While, or as if, gnashing.
tinplating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tinplate
tinplated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tinplate
tentful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tentfuls
form: tentsful
Etymology: From tent + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a tent will hold.
tentsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentful
tentfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tentful
tureenful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tureenfuls
form: tureensful
Etymology: From tureen + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “I was properly impressed. Most properly. I yawned openly. ‘Strict supervision, and play them off one against the other,’ said The Mussuck, shoveling down his ice by tureenfuls, I assure you. ‘That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government.’”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 11:
glosses: As much as a tureen will hold.
tureenfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tureenful
tureensful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tureenful
breadcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breadcakes
Etymology: From bread + cake.
Senses: examples: text: One [chip shop] offered extra peas, beans, curry or breadcake for just 10p with a full meal on Tuesday evenings […]
ref: 1998, Julian Cummins, Sales Promotion:
glosses: A bread roll.
breadcakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadcake
classroomful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classroomfuls
form: classroomsful
Etymology: From classroom + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As many people as a classroom will hold.
classroomfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classroomful
classroomsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of classroomful
sockful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sockfuls
form: socksful
Etymology: From sock + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Distrusting banks, the eccentric old man kept a sockful of silver coins under his mattress.
glosses: As much as a sock will hold.
sockfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sockful
balsamarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɔːl.səˈmɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌbɔl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌbɑl.səˈmɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: balsamariums
form: balsamaria
Etymology: From balsam + -arium.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Wight said that as recently as May the museum bought an important late Hellenistic or early Roman bronze balsamarium, or oil vessel, in the shape of a boxer’s head from a private collection in the United States that has documentation stretching back to the 1870s.
ref: 2007 June 26, Randy Kennedy, “Collecting Antiquities, Cautiously, at the Getty”, in New York Times:
glosses: An ancient vessel for holding balsam.
balsamaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsamarium
disproportionably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disproportionably
form: most disproportionably
Etymology: From disproportionable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a disproportionable manner.
intraleague
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + league.
Senses: examples: text: Attendance for all games is up from last season’s record, but the interleague average is 15.4 percent higher than the intraleague average, 30,257.
ref: 2007 June 26, Murray Chass, “Complaints About Schedule Arrive on Time”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within a sports league.
Related terms: interleague
megacatastrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megacatastrophic
form: most megacatastrophic
Etymology: From mega- + catastrophic.
Senses: examples: text: “Fire has emerged as more and more a megacatastrophic risk like we saw with Katrina,” said Carole Walker, the executive director of Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.
ref: 2007 June 26, Jesse Mckinley, “On Fringe of Forests, Homes and Fires Meet”, in New York Times:
glosses: Catastrophic on a very large scale.
microcephalins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcephalin
postlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postlike
form: most postlike
Etymology: From post + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Tall and slender with rounded heads, the postlike figures seemed more like exotic conversation pieces than relics with a religious purpose, the Allens’ daughter, the writer Brooke Allen, recalls.
ref: 2007 June 26, Robin Pogrebin, “9 Statues Uprooted From Africa Head Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a post (upright stake).
toxoplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxoplasmata
form: toxoplasmas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: To mingle with others of its kind and produce the next generation of eggs, toxoplasma must find its way to the gastrointestinal tract of a cat.
ref: 2007 June 26, Natalie Angier, “In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host”, in New York Times:
text: All in all, toxoplasmata seem to be unpleasant but otherwise unimportant little critters, if you don't happen to be pregnant.
ref: 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 198:
glosses: Any member of the genus Toxoplasma of parasitic sporozoans.
unparasitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + parasitized.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, infected pill bugs end up being eaten by birds at a far higher rate than are their unparasitized peers, and the thorn-headed worm lives on.
ref: 2007 June 26, Natalie Angier, “In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been parasitized.
nonparasitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parasitized.
Senses: glosses: Not having been parasitized.
paraxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paraxially
form: most paraxially
Etymology: From paraxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paraxial manner.
unpeckable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + peckable.
Senses: examples: text: He then became henpecked. Are women unpeckable?
ref: 1955, Phyllis Bottome, Not in Our Stars, Faber & Faber, page 103:
text: After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone.
ref: 2007 June 26, Natalie Angier, “In Parasite Survival, Ploys to Get Help From a Host”, in New York Times:
glosses: Impossible to peck.
weightwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From weight + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Doctor: Is that up a little bit for you, weightwise?
ref: 2007 June 26, Gina Kolata, “Study Says Chatty Doctors Forget Patients”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of weight.
wingspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingspots
Etymology: From wing + spot.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most exciting area in evolution is in exploring how rewiring the circuitry of genes produces different arthropod appendages, or wingspots on butterflies.
ref: 2007 June 26, Douglas H. Erwin, “Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift”, in New York Times:
glosses: A spot on a wing (as of a bird or butterfly).
wingspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingspot
dahling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dahlings
Senses: examples: text: (She seems to be saying to her son, “But dahling, if you don’t marry one of these dreary girls, all these frightful yobs will think you’re gay.”)
ref: 2007 June 27, Alastair Macaulay, “How Could There Be Ballet Before the Swans Learned to Dance?”, in New York Times:
glosses: darling (imitating a posh or pretentious person)
dahlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dahling
debeard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɪə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: debeards
form: debearding
form: debearded
form: debearded
Etymology: From de- + beard.
Senses: glosses: To remove the beard from (mussels, clams, seeds, etc.).
debearding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debeard
debearded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debeard
pastirma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastirma
form: basturma
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish باصدرمه (pastırma) (modern Turkish pastırma). Doublet of pastrama.
Senses: examples: text: Filet mignon wrapped in air-cured beef pastirma (7 ounces, which is two medallions, for $15) is another option, as are marinated vegetables, also ready for a rich burnish ($5 for 8 ounces).
ref: 2007 June 27, Florence Fabricant, “Food Stuff”, in New York Times:
glosses: A highly seasoned, air-dried cured beef in Ottoman cuisine.
Related terms: pastrami
pastrama
unpitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pitted.
Senses: examples: text: 5 cups sugar 4 tablespoons fresh lime juice 3 pounds washed and stemmed sour cherries, unpitted.
ref: 2007 June 27, “Recipe: Sour Cherry Syrup”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not pitted.
bugginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buggy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of this inexcusable bugginess, I can speak only of the PlayStation 3 version.
ref: 2007 June 28, Charles Herold, “A Slipshod Harry Potter and a Challenging Racer”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being buggy.
coladeira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coladeiras
Etymology: From Portuguese coladeira.
Senses: examples: text: She alternated slow mornas with slightly faster songs that touched on other Cape Verdean rhythms like funaná and coladeira.
ref: 2007 June 28, Jon Pareles, “A Calm, Serene Presence From Islands of Nostalgia”, in New York Times:
glosses: A dance and associated musical genre of Cape Verde.
coladeiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coladeira
dialable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dial + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Multiple open pages (like tabs), fonts, layouts, pop-up menus, checkboxes, clickable links and dialable phone numbers (tap with your finger).
ref: 2007 June 28, David Pogue, “Often-Asked iPhone Questions”, in New York Times:
glosses: able to be dialed
Derived terms: undialable
inadvisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inadvisedly
form: most inadvisedly
Etymology: From inadvised + -ly or in- + advised + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Becker (North) raised to two hearts, when some would inadvisedly jump pre-emptively to three hearts because they had four-card support.
ref: 2007 June 28, Phillip Alder, “From a Risk of Down Two, a Big Reward”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of unadvisedly.
synonyms: word: unadvisedly
jurisprudentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From jurisprudential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Justice Scalia was clearly taking aim at the chief justice, openly mocking his much publicized goal of lowering the court’s temperature through unanimous and jurisprudentially modest decisions.
ref: 2007 June 28, Linda Greenhouse, “Even in Agreement, Scalia Puts Roberts to Lash”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of jurisprudence.
mornas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morna
Cape Verdeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cape Verdean
oompf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The keyboard, available now online and in stores for $69.95, even has a special key design to give that extra oompf that gamers need.
ref: 2007 June 28, John Biggs, “A Keyboard Made for Those in Need of a ‘Kill Aliens’ Command”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of oomph.
oomphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oomph
repeddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repeddles
form: repeddling
form: repeddled
form: repeddled
Etymology: From re- + peddle.
Senses: examples: text: According to Mr. Tenet, Mr. Ledeen seemed to be repeddling to Bush administration hawks the same dubious Iranian source, Manucher Ghorbanifar, who received a burn notice in 1984 yet went on to serve as a middleman in the arms-for-hostages scandal.
ref: 2007 June 28, Alessandra Stanley, “The Spy Who Loved His Mother, Barely”, in New York Times:
glosses: To peddle again or anew.
repeddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repeddle
repeddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repeddle
splashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splashing
superpopulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpopulated
form: most superpopulated
Etymology: From super- + populated.
Senses: examples: text: On Saturday night a dinner was held for Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga beneath Tiepolo’s hallucinatory and superpopulated ceiling at the Palazzo Clerici.
ref: 2007 June 28, Guy Trebay, “Looking Like a Billion Bucks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Densely populated.
tweedlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tweedlike
form: most tweedlike
Etymology: From tweed + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Bigbucks was here again at the Salvatore Ferragamo show, conjured this time wearing sharp-edged suits of white cotton (with accompanying gloves), handsome tweedlike cotton blazers or faintly feminine evening clothes (a kind of shiny hoodie) that suggested a time in the future when it will be the man who needs help with his zipper before leaving the house.
ref: 2007 June 28, Guy Trebay, “Looking Like a Billion Bucks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tweed.
underearn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underearns
form: underearning
form: underearned
form: underearned
Etymology: From under- + earn.
Senses: examples: text: “They have a dominant retail position in a high-service business, yet significantly underearn other high-service-oriented retail segments,” Mr. Balter wrote in a research note after Guitar Center made its announcement.
ref: 2007 June 28, Reuters, “Equity Firm Is Acquiring Guitar Center”, in New York Times:
glosses: To earn less than.
examples: text: Those who underearn should avoid overspending.
glosses: To earn less than might be expected.
underearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underearn
underearning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underearn
workbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workbags
Etymology: From work + bag.
Senses: examples: text: The American Medical Association warns that carrying more than 10 percent of your body weight can lead to injury, and the overnight appearance of low back pain led me to weigh my own workbag a few summers ago (back then, it was a satchel slung over one shoulder).
ref: 2007 June 28, Lisa Belkin, “Your Briefcase Just Ran Over My Toe”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bag containing tools or material used for work, especially needlework.
Synonyms: workbasket
workbox
workbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workbag
workbaskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workbasket
antimodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimodernisms
Etymology: From anti- + modernism.
Senses: examples: text: The community has not only maintained its linguistic and cultural practices, but also fostered “a fierce antimodernism and anti-Zionism,” Dr. Sarna said.
ref: 2007 June 29, Sewell Chan, “Explosive Growth Since 2000 in State’s Hasidic Enclaves”, in New York Times:
glosses: A movement that opposes modernism.
Related terms: antimodernist
antimodernisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimodernism
briery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪəɹi/
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: more briery
form: most briery
Etymology: From brier + -y.
Senses: examples: text: All these species are climbing, briery plants, having long slender roots, which proceed in all directions from a common rootstalk or rhizome.
ref: 1868, George Bacon Wood, A Treatise on Therapeutics, and Pharmacology, Or Materia Medica, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 432:
text: But Mrs. McCain is clearly not interested in having her husband take a beating at the expense of his family or enduring accusations about his briery temperament.
ref: 2007 June 29, Jennifer Steinhauer, “Mrs. McCain, Demure in 2000, Is Speaking Up in a Steely Tone”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of briary.
briery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪəɹi/
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: brieries
Etymology: From brier + -y.
Senses: glosses: A place where briars grow.
briary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: more briary
form: most briary
form: briery
Etymology: From briar + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a briar; thorny.
costumery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costumeries
Etymology: From costume + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: I'm tall, attrac. male, 28, delighting in 20th century costumery (leotards, skin-tight jeans and white pants, bikinis, etc.).
ref: 1978 August 5, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
text: POLYPHONIC SPREE (Sunday) The grandiose costumery — flowing white robes, black military-style suits decorated with peace symbols — is the first hint of this 26-piece band and choir’s faux-charismatic smarm.
ref: 2007 June 29, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Costumes in general.
creekfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creek + front.
Senses: examples: text: The Lemenses’ neighbors agreed that creekfront living was not what it used to be.
ref: 2007 June 29, Gretel C. Kovach, “In Texas, Assessing Flood Damage and Preparing for More”, in New York Times:
glosses: The waterfront alongside a creek.
featherwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherworks
Etymology: From feather + work.
Senses: synonyms: featherworking
glosses: The working of feathers into a cultural artifact.
examples: text: With filigreed Kongo ivories, gilded Qing astrolabes, Brazilian featherwork, Sri Lankan rock-crystal, mother-of-pearl Mughal inlay and life-size Portuguese carvings of angels and saints, it has something even for someone who has seen everything before.
ref: 2007 June 29, Holland Cotter, “Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered”, in New York Times:
text: The importation of New World featherworks into Europe was a journey of dilution, degradation and eventual loss of meaning - a banal Disneyfication of indigenous dignity.
ref: 2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 149:
glosses: A cultural artifact made with feathers.
Related terms: featherworker
featherworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherwork
hypersegregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersegregated
form: most hypersegregated
Etymology: From hyper- + segregated.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the courthouse, the failing Washington school system was hypersegregated, with more than 90 percent of its students black and Latino.
ref: 2007 June 29, Juan Williams, “Don’t Mourn Brown v. Board of Education”, in New York Times:
glosses: Exhibiting hypersegregation.
masscult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mass + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).
Senses: examples: text: In a famous 1960 essay, Macdonald identified three sorts of cultures: High Culture (think Cezanne and Eliot), which articulates an artist's idiosyncratic and often demanding vision; Masscult (Norman Rockwell and Erle Stanley Gardner), which tries “to please the crowd by any means,” and Midcult (Pearl Buck and Thornton Wilder), which disguises Masscult's reliance on formula with pretentious allusions.
ref: 1996 September 22, Michiko Kakutani, “The Trickle-Down Theory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: ★ THE BAD PLUS (Tomorrow) With its fifth studio album, “Prog” (Do the Math), this trio ventures further along a distinctive and adventurous path; the bassist Reid Anderson, the pianist Ethan Iverson and the drummer David King sound as committed as ever, and their alchemy of masscult allusions and highbrow inventions still has the power to overwhelm.
ref: 2007 June 29, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: midcult
glosses: The modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.
monochromist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monochromists
Etymology: From monochrome + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: His art connects to European monochromists like Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni and also to skeptical painters like Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool, but it may be best understood as an Americanized, Warholian version of Arte Povera; Mr. Stingel often favors cheap materials (Styrofoam, for example), but instead of being distressed they are always brand new, industrial and somehow implicitly American.
ref: 2007 June 29, Roberta Smith, “DIY Art: Walk on It, Write on It, Stroke It”, in New York Times:
glosses: An artist working in the monochromatic style.
monochromists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monochromist
orangeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orange + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The shock was multiple: Not only was this immense, furry orangeness a painting, it was interactive; you could run your fingers through its color.
ref: 2007 June 29, Roberta Smith, “DIY Art: Walk on It, Write on It, Stroke It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being orange in colour.
untrumpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrumpable
form: most untrumpable
Etymology: From un- + trumpable.
Senses: examples: text: This show’s radical idea is to depict a world closer to the one we inhabit than the one we pretend to live in: a place where money and provenance really are untrumpable determinants of the social order.
ref: 2007 June 29, Ginia Bellafante, “Majoring in Snob Studies at Rich Kid U”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not trumpable.
unknowabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknowability
preferans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian префера́нс (preferáns), in turn from French préférence. Doublet of preference.
Senses: glosses: A card game, related to bridge, Boston, and whist.
benempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bename, Alternative form of benamed.
bemete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemetes
form: bemeting
form: bemeted
form: bemeted
Etymology: From Middle English bemeten, from Old English bemetan (“to measure, compare, account, consider”), from Proto-West Germanic *bimetan; equivalent to be- + mete.
Senses: glosses: To measure.
bemingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: bemingles
form: bemingling
form: bemingled
form: bemingled
Etymology: From be- (“around, about”) + mingle.
Senses: examples: text: No longer was there semblance of organization. Division was inextricably bemingled with division; ...
ref: 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
glosses: To mingle; mix.
bemaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemazes
form: bemazing
form: bemazed
form: bemazed
Etymology: From Middle English bemasen, equivalent to be- + maze.
Senses: glosses: To bewilder.
bemad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemads
form: bemadding
form: bemadded
form: bemadded
Etymology: From be- + mad.
Senses: glosses: To make mad.
bemask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bemasks
form: bemasking
form: bemasked
form: bemasked
Etymology: From be- + mask.
Senses: glosses: To mask; cover or conceal with a mask; conceal.