cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rosaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /roʊˈzeɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more rosaceous
form: most rosaceous
Etymology: From translingual rosacea + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: In cold weather rosaceous cheeks often tend to become mauvish and take on a cyanotic tinge.
ref: 1976, Ronald Marks, Common facial dermatoses, page 9:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of rosacea; rosy; reddish.
rythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rythmic
form: most rythmic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rhythmic.
well-intended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-intended
form: most well-intended
Etymology: From well + intended.
Senses: glosses: Well-intentioned.
vitelline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitelline
form: most vitelline
Etymology: From Latin vitellinus.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the yolk of an egg.
Derived terms: choriovitelline
intravitelline
perivitelline
vitelline artery
vitelline diverticulum
vitelline duct
vitelline gland
vitelline membrane
vitelline vessel
vitelline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitellines
Etymology: From Latin vitellinus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A terminal branch of any of the main arteries connecting the aorta to the yolk sac.
vilipend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪlɪpɛnd/
ipa: /ˈvɪləˌpɛnd/
Forms: form: vilipends
form: vilipending
form: vilipended
form: vilipended
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: vilipend
form: vilipend
form: vilipended
form: vilipend
form: vilipended
form: vilipends
form: vilipendeth
form: vilipended
form: vilipend
form: vilipended
form: vilipend
form: vilipended
form: vilipend
form: -
form: vilipending
form: vilipended
Etymology: From Middle English vilipenden (“to treat (something) as contemptible”) [and other forms], from Old French vilipender (modern French vilipender (“to condemn, despise, revile, scorn, vilipend, vilify”)), or its etymon Latin vilipendō, from vīlis (“cheap, inexpensive; base, mean, vile, worthless”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to buy, sell”)) + pendō (“to hang, suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (figuratively) to consider, ponder”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”)). The English word is cognate with Italian vilipendere (“to despise, scorn, vilipend”), Portuguese vilipendiar (“to vilify”), Spanish vilipendiar (“to vilify”).
Senses: synonyms: belittle
contemn
misprize
slight
glosses: To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
examples: text: But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large.
ref: 1853 July 10, “Evil Birds”, in The Colonist, New Zealand: Nelson, page 4:
text: But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents.
ref: 1917, O. W. Firkins, The Nation, The Nation Company, page 176:
synonyms: word: abuse
word: disparage
word: derogate
word: assassinate
word: asperse
word: backbite
word: badmouth
word: belibel
word: belittle
word: besmirch
word: blaze
word: blemish
word: blot
word: calumniate
word: calumny
word: cloud
word: cut down
word: defame
word: demonize
word: denigrate
word: derogate
word: detract
word: discredit
word: disgrace
word: disparage
word: diss
word: forgab
word: infamize
word: lampoon
word: libel
word: malign
word: monster
word: reproach
word: revile
word: scandal
word: shit-talk
word: slag
word: slander
word: spatter
word: speak ill of
word: stab
word: talk shit
word: talk shite
word: talk trash
word: torch
word: traduce
word: trash-talk
word: vilify
word: vilipend
word: vituperate
glosses: To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.
Derived terms: word: vilipended
word: vilipender
word: vilipending
Related terms: vilification
vilifier
vilify
videography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: videographies
Etymology: From video- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The art and technology of producing moving (video) images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
glosses: The occupation of making videos.
glosses: The list of music videos an artist has appeared or performed in.
Derived terms: astrovideography
microvideography
Related terms: videograph
videographer
videographical
vibrissae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈbɹɪsaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of vibrissa
unvisited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvisited
form: most unvisited
Etymology: From un- + visited.
Senses: examples: text: O, you have lived in desolation here,
Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: […] whence, with neighbouring arms,
And opportune excursion, we may chance
Re-enter Heaven; or else in some mild zone
Dwell, not unvisited of Heaven’s fair light,
Secure, and at the brightening orient beam
Purge off this gloom: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: But knowest thou that trees and fruits flourish upon the earth
To gratify senses unknown—trees, beasts, and birds unknown;
Unknown, not unperceiv’d, spread in the infinite microscope,
In places yet unvisited by the voyager, and in worlds
Over another kind of seas, and in atmospheres unknown?
ref: 1793, William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, lines 100–104:
text: […] though his voice did not falter, and though she had no reason to suppose his eye wandering towards her while he spoke, Anne felt the utter impossibility, from her knowledge of his mind, that he could be unvisited by remembrance any more than herself.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: 1870, Charles E. Oakley, “Hills of the north, rejoice,” in Edward Henry Bickersteth (ed.), The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston,
Shores of the utmost West,
Ye that have waited long,
Unvisited, unblest,
Break forth to swelling song:
text: Avoiding the popular “Wolfe collection,” whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main galleries of the queer wilderness of cast-iron and encaustic tiles known as the Metropolitan Museum, they had wandered down a passage to the room where the “Cesnola antiquities” mouldered in unvisited loneliness.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book II, Chapter 31:
glosses: Not visited.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Never visited.
raw_tags: of a node in a graph
put pedal to the metal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts pedal to the metal
form: putting pedal to the metal
form: put pedal to the metal
form: put pedal to the metal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put the pedal to the metal.
gas pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas pedals
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An accelerator; a foot control for fuel flow.
uncached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Etymology: From un- + cached.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not cached.
raw_tags: of data
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having no cache.
raw_tags: of a device
tucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌkɪt/
rhymes: -ʌkɪt
Forms: form: tuckets
Etymology: From tuck (“a blow, a drum beat”), from Old French touchet (“stroke, blow”). Compare toccata. Compare also Middle French toquer from Old French *toquer (“to strike”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]hen let the Trumpets ſound / The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount: / For our approach ſhall ſo much dare the field, / That England ſhall couch downe in feare, and yeeld.
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act IV, scene ii, page 86:
text: But just then the dull beat of many horses on the snow suddenly arose in the hollow ear of the night, and, with incredible swiftness, drew nearer and swelled louder. At the same time, answering tuckets repeated and repeated Hatch's call
"Rally, rally!" cried Dick. "Rally upon me! Rally for your lives!"
ref: 1883 June 30 – October 20, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published 1888, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fanfare played on one or more trumpets, bugles or similar.
trophallaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophallaxes
Senses: examples: text: Trophallaxis is at its most highly developed in social insects such as ants, wasps, bees and termites, but is also used by some birds, and by wolves and vampire bats.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mutual exchange of (fluid) food between individuals, especially in social insects.
Related terms: trophallactic
floor it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floors it
form: flooring it
form: floored it
form: floored it
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To depress the accelerator to the maximum extent.
glosses: To move (run, ride etc.) at full speed.
Synonyms: sense: to depress the accelerator the maximum extent
word: put the pedal to the metal
sense: to depress the accelerator the maximum extent
word: fang it
sense: to depress the accelerator the maximum extent
word: redline
sense: to depress the accelerator the maximum extent
word: step on it
trihydrochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihydrochlorides
Etymology: From tri- + hydrochloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing three hydrochloride groups
triconodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triconodonts
Senses: glosses: A tooth having three conical cusps.
glosses: Any extinct mammal of the paraphyletic order †Triconodonta, partially replaced by †Eutriconodonta.
put the pedal to the metal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the pedal to the metal
form: putting the pedal to the metal
form: put the pedal to the metal
form: put the pedal to the metal
form: put pedal to the metal
Etymology: First use appears c. 1976. Originated in car racing.
Senses: examples: text: I released the brakes, smashed the clutch and switched the transmission case into low gear, then put the pedal to the metal again throwing the car into what is known as a “moonshine spin”.
ref: 2013, Loyd E. Hill, Marvin R. Query, Reap the Wild Seeds, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 74:
synonyms: floor it
redline
coordinate_terms: give it the gun
glosses: To press the gas pedal to the maximum extent.
examples: text: There are times for all of us when we have to put the pedal to the metal. Businesspeople and students have deadlines. Parents have periods of time when they don't get breaks because their partners are unavailable or they have no partners.
ref: 2007, Donna Carter, 10 Smart Things Women Can Do to Build a Better Life, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:
synonyms: go all out
glosses: To exert maximum effort.
Related terms: pedal to the metal
balls to the wall
chenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chenets
Etymology: French chenet
Senses: glosses: fire dog, andiron
pronunciational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronunciational
form: most pronunciational
Etymology: From pronunciation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: [A]n English batsman had been caught by Tellerkeratne of the bowling of Wijaygunawaden which is, I agree, a set of circumstances to make strong men quail in a pronunciational sense.
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 60:
glosses: Of or relating to pronunciation.
dancen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English dauncen, equivalent to dance + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing;
Ivy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring.
ref: a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly:
text: Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
text: Here to my pipe they dancen on a row:
ref: 1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclogue I. Amyntas.:
glosses: plural simple present of dance
rosaniline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosanilines
Etymology: From German Rosanilin (from Rose + Anilin) (so called by chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann in 1862).
Senses: glosses: An organic base, C₂₀H₁₉N₃, used to make the dye fuchsine
glosses: The deep red or magenta colour of fuchsine (rosaniline hydrochloride).
romantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romantical
form: most romantical
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a romantic tendency or character.
Derived terms: bromantical
improviso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin improvisus (“unforeseen”); compare Italian improvviso.
Senses: examples: a. 1784, Samuel Johnson, "Improviso Translation of the following lines of M. Benserade A Son Lit"
glosses: Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
recooper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recoopers
form: recoopering
form: recoopered
form: recoopered
Etymology: From re- + cooper.
Senses: glosses: To cooper again, to repair a damaged barrel.
glosses: To make good any damaged package or container.
glosses: To recover or reclaim.
recooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoopers
Etymology: From re- + cooper.
Senses: glosses: Recovery.
daubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daub
daubing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daubings
Senses: glosses: Something daubed, such as graffiti.
glosses: A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; roughcast.
glosses: In currying horses, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; dubbing.
daubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daub
sleazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleaze
neves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neve
neven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nevens
form: nevening
form: nevened
form: nevened
form: nevin
form: nemmin
form: nem
form: nevyn
Etymology: From Middle English nevenen, nevnen, nemmen, nempnen, nemnen, from Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, call, give a name to a person or thing; use such and such a name or title in speaking of a person or thing; enumerate; address, speak to; nominate; call upon the name of, address by name, invoke; mention by name, mention, relate”) and Old Norse nefna (“to name, call”); both from Proto-Germanic *namnijaną (“to name”). More at name.
Senses: glosses: To give as a name to; name; call (someone something).
glosses: To appoint; nominate.
glosses: To mention; speak of; give an account of; tell.
examples: text: Thou netherest of Nazareth, now nevened is thy name.
ref: 1995, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays:
glosses: To utter; mention the name of.
glosses: To tell or make mention of (a person or thing); specify; designate.
glosses: To say; speak.
Derived terms: nevening
delegacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delegacies
Senses: glosses: The position or state of being a delegate.
glosses: A collection of delegates.
delegacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delegacy
deltoid muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deltoid muscles
Etymology: Short for deltoideus + muscle. Previously the deltoideus muscle and musculus deltoideus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A triangular muscle on the human shoulder.
Synonyms: colloquially
the deltoid
demandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From demand + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being demanded.
dialyse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dialyses
form: dialysing
form: dialysed
form: dialysed
form: dialyze
Etymology: From dialysis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dialyze.
Derived terms: dialysable
hemodialyse
retrodialysed
undialysed
dialysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dialyse
dialysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dialyse
Related terms: dialysis
dialyze
dialyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dialyze
dialyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dialyze
devas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deva
dosimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dosimeter
devitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From devitalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The wands are Spenser's phallic white rods, here symbolizing wintry devitalization.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: The act or process of devitalizing; its results.
Synonyms: word: deanimation
word: de-energization
word: devitalization
word: disanimation
Hypernyms: word: diminishment
word: suppression
Hyponyms: word: relaxation
word: benumbment
word: sedation
Coordinate terms: word: bleeding
word: death
word: dieback
word: dormancy
word: failure to thrive
word: flagging
word: killing
word: lifelessness
word: morbidity
word: moribundity
word: moribundness
word: mortality
word: sapping
word: unliveliness
word: weakening
word: waning
word: wilting
word: wizening
devitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devitalize
devitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devitalize
devitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devitalize
heavy-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavy-set
form: most heavy-set
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heavyset.
dissolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dissolvable
form: most dissolvable
Etymology: From dissolve + -able.
Senses: synonyms: dissoluble
soluble
antonyms: undissolvable
indissoluble
insoluble
glosses: Capable of being dissolved.
Derived terms: dissolvableness
indissolvable
nondissolvable
undissolvable
dissolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolvables
Etymology: From dissolve + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Disposables and dissolvables may soon lessen the need to return goods which have been used or worked with.
ref: 1965, Marshall B. Kreidberg, Herman H. Field, Problems of Pediatric Hospital Design:
glosses: Something that can be dissolved, especially a form of tobacco that dissolves in the mouth instead of being chewed.
discotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discotomies
Etymology: From disc + -otomy = disc + -otomy = disco- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of discectomy.
synonyms: word: discectomy
discotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discotomy
discectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discectomy
cattishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cattish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being cattish.
carousels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carousel
carnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnation
telefone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of telephone.
bilwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vilwa.
bino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binos
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The superpartner of the gauge boson corresponding to weak hypercharge. The W and Z bosons are electroweakinos: winos and binos.
shouting match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shouting matches
Senses: examples: text: On these words being read, a furious storm broke out in the meeting. It degenerated into a mere shouting match, in which Dioscorus and his party came off victors.
ref: 1897, Edith Louisa Butcher, The Story of the Church of Egypt: Being an Outline of the History of the Egyptians Under Their Successive Masters from the Roman Conquest Until Now, page 292:
text: When an argument and a shouting match ensued, the crowds outside pushed their way into the poll room.
ref: 1999, John Carrick Greene, Between Damnation and Starvation, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Larry gets into a shouting match with fellow golfer Norm because of the slow pace of Norm's play. Norm, who has high blood pressure, dies from a heart attack after the shouting match.
ref: 2024 August 26, Stephen Clouse, Aaron Kushner, A Hero in All of Us?: Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 121:
synonyms: screaming match
glosses: An argument or debate characterized by the loudness or intensity of the participants.
pixellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pixelated.
Derived terms: unpixellated
pixellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pixellate
Black Thursday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: The day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: March 12, 2020, as part of the 2020 stock market crash; the day on which United States stock markets saw their biggest single-day percentage drop since 1987.
Coordinate terms: Black Monday
Black Friday
volves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volve
volvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volva
Montezuma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒntɪˈzuːmə/
rhymes: -uːmə
Forms: form: Moctezuma
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl Motēuczōma (literally “he frowns like a lord”).
Senses: glosses: A Nahuatl male given name, the name of two Aztec emperors.
glosses: Moctezuma II (1466–1520), the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest.
glosses: A town in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
glosses: A town in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Poweshiek County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Gray County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in New Mexico.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Virginia.
Derived terms: Montezuma County
Montezuma cypress
Montezuma quail
Montezuma's revenge
trip the light fantastic toe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips the light fantastic toe
form: tripping the light fantastic toe
form: tripped the light fantastic toe
form: tripped the light fantastic toe
Senses: examples: text: Com, and trip it as ye go / On the light fantaſtick toe,
ref: a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 31:
text: The venerable Sachems now returned to the ballroom, where they tripped the light fantastic toe until the hour far.
ref: 1856 January 9, “The Softs: Grand Demonstration at the Old Wigwam, Sentiments, Speeches and Dancing”, in New-York Daily Times, page 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of trip the light fantastic.
make a monkey out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a monkey out of
form: making a monkey out of
form: made a monkey out of
form: made a monkey out of
form: make a monkey of
Senses: examples: text: The rough old sealer swore some terrible oaths, protesting "that he would not make a monkey of himself, by appearing in this garb."
ref: 1835, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 10, in The Monikins:
text: Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system. . . . Doctors in many départements went on informal strike.
ref: 1960 May 30, “Vive la R”, in Time:
text: It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically.
ref: 2008 April 28, Zafar Altaf, “Changing the resource base in farming”, in Pakistan Dawn, retrieved 04 Oct 2008:
glosses: To cause a person, group, or action to appear foolish or inferior; to subject someone or something to ridicule.
make a monkey of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a monkey of
form: making a monkey of
form: made a monkey of
form: made a monkey of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make a monkey out of.
foul anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foul anchors
Senses: examples: text: One stone in particular attracts me. It bears a beautiful ‘foul anchor’ and the simple inscription: Dummy 1879-1918.
ref: 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 13:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An anchor which has become entangled or caught up in something, or an image of this.
fouled anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fouled anchors
Senses: glosses: A foul anchor
Home Counties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From Caro, the British colonel's wife, now ferrying around anti-tear gas solvent kits and bottled water, her toenails painted a riot of different colors, her posh Home Counties diction already absorbing the shortened vowels of our southern African dialect.
ref: 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
glosses: A geographic area consisting of the counties surrounding London, England.
trackway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackways
Etymology: From track + way.
Senses: glosses: A set of tracks or footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal, especially if fossilized.
hyponyms: railway
tramway
glosses: Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or similar, set in the ground to aid the movement of wheeled vehicles.
Related terms: trailway
toolmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tool + making.
Senses: examples: text: Either that, or “you have two different groups of hominins with two totally different toolmaking traditions occupying the same landscape at the same time yet never intermixing,” said the study’s lead author, Daniel Adler, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut.
ref: 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014:
glosses: The art or craft of a toolmaker; the manufacture of tools.
toadstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toadstones
Etymology: From toad + stone.
Senses: glosses: A small stone, once believed to be a jewel embedded in the head of a toad, worn as an amulet.
examples: text: Rowley-Rag appeared to be the same thing as basalt and toadstone resembled some species of lava.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 162:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A soft, earthy variety of trap-rock of a brownish-grey colour, looking like an argillaceous deposit.
chocho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chochos
Etymology: Of Caribbean Spanish origin, ultimately from an indigenous South American word. Compare also Réunion French chouchou.
Senses: glosses: A chayote.
wikipedia: Caribbean Spanish
Réunion
rhyparography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪ.pəˈɹɒ.ɡɹə.fi/
ipa: /ɹɪ.pəˈɹɑ.ɡɹə.fi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) + -graphy.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The painting, or literary description, of mean or sordid things; especially still-life or genre painting.
Related terms: rhyparograph
rhyparographer
rhyparographic
sacred ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacred ibis
form: sacred ibises
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Poynter will probably contribute to the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Academy his picture of a damsel attached to the worship of Isis feeding the sacred ibides before the great temple at Karnac.
ref: 1871 March 4, “Fine-Art Gossip”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, number 2262, London: John Francis, page 280:
glosses: A wading bird of species Threskiornis aethiopicus, of the family Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, southeastern Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth.
Synonyms: African sacred ibis
tie back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties back
form: tying back
form: tied back
form: tied back
Senses: examples: text: Marie tied back her long hair to keep it out of her way when she worked.
glosses: To tie or fasten behind.
tied back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie back
squamose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squamose
form: most squamose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squamous.
provocatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provocatrices
Etymology: From French provocatrice.
Senses: examples: text: In these last ten days in the settle-bed, he had reached one other definite though qualified conclusion: if the legend was true, he had lost Merrily completely, and for one simple reason. The reason was this: she was the one woman he could truly love. She was a provocatrice, yes. An accomplished flirt, yes. No better than she should be, by the gossip, yes. But he loved her.
ref: 1938, Neil H[armon] Swanson, “In Which Black Roger Solves a Puzzle, and Merrily Gorth Becomes a Forbidden Woman”, in The Forbidden Ground, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Farrar & Rinehart, →OCLC, page 88:
text: The Sceptic will be no provocateur or provocatrice; if we imagine a female Sceptic, she will have no doctrinal reason for doing anything to provoke her neighbours or the authorities.
ref: 2014, Melissa Lane, “Cosmopolitanism”, in The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 237:
text: After she died, I knew what she would say all the time. Now, I must think even to remember. She would say . . . well, she was a provocatrice. She would throw down the gauntlet in anything she said.
ref: 2016, Bev Jafek, “The Beginning: The Sacred Beasts”, in The Sacred Beasts, Fairfield, Calif.: Bink Books, →ISBN, page 89:
synonyms: provocateuse
provocatrix
glosses: A female provocateur.
Related terms: agente provocatrice
squamate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskweɪmət/
Etymology: From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
Senses: examples: text: The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 45:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Covered in scales.
Synonyms: scaly
squamose
squamate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskweɪmət/
Forms: form: squamates
Etymology: From Latin squāmātus (“scaly”).
Senses: examples: text: In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates, and many other modern groups radiated substantially.
ref: 2009 February 6, Michael J. Benton, “The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 728–732:
glosses: Any reptile of the order Squamata; a lizard, snake or mosasauroid.
saeptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saepta
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of septum.
scis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sci
sweater dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweater dresses
form: sweater-dress
form: sweaterdress
Senses: glosses: A knitted dress, especially of wool, worn for warmth.
sweaterdress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweaterdresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweater dress.
sweater-dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweater-dresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweater dress.
chilblained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chilblained
form: most chilblained
Etymology: From chilblain + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
glosses: Afflicted with a chilblain.
big hairy armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big hairy armadillos
Senses: glosses: A species of armadillo found in South America, Chaetophractus villosus.
Related terms: hairy armadillo
beautiful armadillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautiful armadillos
Senses: glosses: An extinct prehistoric species of armadillo, †Dasypus bellus.
cumshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumshaws
form: comshaw
form: cumsha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thank you”).
Senses: glosses: A gratuity or tip as thanks for a service
cumshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cumshaws
form: cumshawing
form: cumshawed
form: cumshawed
form: comshaw
form: cumsha
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 感謝 /感谢 (kám-siā, “thank you”).
Senses: glosses: To give or make a present to.
Related terms: comshaw
sugar spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar spoons
Senses: glosses: A spoon used for serving granulated sugar from a sugar bowl, often with a wider head than most other types of spoon.
wine coolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wine cooler
baby daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby daddies
form: baby-daddy
form: babydaddy
Etymology: African-American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's daddy) 1990s, popularized in the 2000s; compare baby mama. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-father, alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
Senses: examples: text: My baby’s daddy, [sic] Barack Obama.
ref: 2004, Michelle Obama, Senate victory speech, November 2, 2004
text: The baby daddy many of us at one point or another have or will be in a relationship with someone who has a child or children, and with that child or children comes another parent.
ref: 2009, Stacye Branch M Msc, It's All in How You Look at It: Thoughts and Questions About Life, page 191:
text: “I'm so glad I only have one baby daddy.” “F'really.” “I feel sorry for those girls with more than one.”
ref: 2011, Michael Cornwall, Ticklenotes: More Voices from Cube Village, page 44:
text: The father of your child, whom you did not marry, and with whom you are not currently involved. That man isn't my boyfriend; he's my baby daddy.
ref: 2012, Aaron Peckham, Urban Dictionary: Freshest Street Slang Defined, page 16:
synonyms: babyfather
glosses: The father of a child in common, particularly one who did not marry the mother and provides little or no support for the mother and child.
Related terms: baby mama
boyshorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy shorts
form: boy-shorts
Etymology: From boy + shorts.
Senses: examples: text: The only viable alternative, one that my daughter favored, was an item called boyshorts, a low-riding pair of short shorts loosely, or should I say tightly, based on Britney's stagewear.
ref: 2003 October 6, Claudia Wallis, “The thing about thongs”, in Time:
text: This time round BarelyPolitical.com has got in on the act, selling skimpy red boy-shorts with "OBAMA" written in big white lettering across the back.
ref: 2008 April 8, Ada Edemariam, “The rise of pants campaigns”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: booty shorts
glosses: A female undergarment that covers the hips like a pair of shorts.
co-occur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-occurs
form: co-occurring
form: co-occurred
form: co-occurred
Etymology: From co- + occur.
Senses: examples: text: For all of the taxonomies studied, there was a level of abstraction at which all of these factors co-occurred.
glosses: To occur together.
todaye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of today.
subcommission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcommissions
form: sub-commission
Etymology: From sub- + commission.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of a commission
historicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historicalizations
Etymology: From historical + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The framing of something in an historical perspective.
instrumentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instrumentalizes
form: instrumentalizing
form: instrumentalized
form: instrumentalized
Etymology: From instrumental + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] they also instrumentalize race to reinstate nostalgic, vanguard notions of political activism […]
ref: 2002, Katrin Sieg, Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany:
glosses: To make into an instrument for achieving a goal.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To transcribe for instrumental execution a piece of music written for the human voice
Derived terms: instrumentalizer
Related terms: instrumentalization
disaffectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disaffect + -ation, perhaps with influence from (or confusion due to) affectation.
Senses: qualifier: perhaps nonstandard
glosses: Alternative form of disaffection.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: alexithymia, a neurological condition characterized by severe lack of emotional awareness
consolised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of consolized.
catalytic converters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catalytic converter
palettise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪtaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpælɪtaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpælətaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpælətɑez/
homophone: palatize
homophone: palletize
Forms: form: palettises
form: palettising
form: palettised
form: palettised
Etymology: From palette + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of palettize.
reimage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimages
form: reimaging
form: reimaged
form: reimaged
Etymology: From re- + image.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To completely replace the operating system (on a particular computer) with a preconfigured image, typically as a drastic means of fixing problems.
citronellol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citronellols
Etymology: From citronella + -ol.
Senses: glosses: A natural acyclic monoterpenoid, occurring in citronella oils and used in perfumes and insect repellents.
Derived terms: citronellyl
alakazam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˌæl.ə.kəˈzæm/
Etymology: Unknown, with various theories ranging from spontaneous usage as a nonsense chant, to less likely sources from Arabic, Latin, and Hindi.
Some etymologists suggest an origin from Arabic القَسَم (al-qasam, “the oath”).
Senses: glosses: A magic word used in conjuring; presto, shazaam.
I'll say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: - Jack's put on a bit of weight recently.
- I'll say!
glosses: Used to indicate emphatic agreement
periodontitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodontitides
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “a tooth”) + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: An untreated gingivitis may lead to periodontitis, both forms of periodontal disease.
text: Schlein reports favorable results from the use of Besredka's antivirus in cases of ulcerous stomatitis, acute pulpitis and periodontitides.
ref: 1932, The Journal of Periodontology, volume 3, page 29:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: parodontitis
glosses: A serious form or stage of periodontal disease which may lead to loss of bone and falling out of teeth.
Related terms: periodontal
periodontics
periodontist
periodontium
periodontology
periodontium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús) + -ium.
Senses: glosses: The specialized tissues that both surround and support the teeth, maintaining them in the maxillary and mandibular bones; the tissues including alveolar bone, cementum, gums and periodontal ligament.
Related terms: periodontal
periodontics
periodontist
periodontitis
periodontology
bratling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bratlings
Etymology: From brat + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: So they swung him and they rocked him, Rocked him till his hair was flying; Rocked him one day and a second, But already on the third day The young bratling started kicking, Kicking, thrashing, flailing round him […]
ref: 1988, Eino Friberg, George C. Schoolfield, Björn Landström, The Kalevala:
glosses: A little brat.
antimeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimesons
Etymology: From anti- + meson.
Senses: examples: text: To have anti-iron we need the fundamental antifermions (positrons), the antiparticles (antimesons and antibaryons) and the property that these antiparticles must interact like the particles in order to have the antinucleus of the iron.
ref: 2001, Giovanni C. Bonsignori, Nucleus-nucleus Collisions, →ISBN:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiparticle corresponding to a meson.
antimuon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimuons
form: anti-muon
Etymology: From anti- + muon.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A positively charged particle, the antiparticle corresponding to a muon.
Hypernyms: antilepton
antimatter
antiparticle
Coordinate terms: lepton
lepton family
Derived terms: antimuon neutrino
Related terms: antimuonium
antimuon neutrino
muonium
muon neutrino
muononium
non-terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Not terminal.
non-terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-terminals
Etymology: From non- + terminal.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
nonterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-terminal.
Derived terms: nonterminally
nonterminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonterminals
Etymology: From non- + terminal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-terminal.
non-terminal symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-terminal symbols
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol in a formal grammar that cannot appear in sentences of the grammar but may eventually be resolved into a sequence of terminal symbols.
terminal symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terminal symbols
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol in a formal grammar that can appear in sentences of the grammar.
Coordinate terms: non-terminal symbol
horseraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horserace
soft shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softshoe
form: soft-shoe
Senses: examples: text: Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.
ref: 1966 Jan. 15, "Sunday (TV listings)," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 19 (retrieved 5 Oct 2008)
text: Like the technically astounding and spiritually hollow production numbers, however, [Emily] Blunt can't situate the sentimental energy in a deeper foundation. Her excellence gets left in a sort of vacuum when paired with the fully extraneous train wreck of a visit with Meryl Streep as kooky Poppins cousin Topsy or some discomfiting soft shoe from a creaky Dick Van Dyke.
ref: 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A kind of tap dancing performed in soft-soled shoes, popular in vaudeville.
examples: text: Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?
ref: 2001 November 26, Adam Piore, “Red, White And What A Deal!”, in Newsweek, retrieved 01 May 2014:
glosses: A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone.
soft shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: softshoe
form: soft-shoe
Senses: qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Of or pertaining to this kind of dancing.
examples: text: Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side.
ref: 1958 October 6, “Mellow Man in Charge”, in Time, retrieved 05 Oct 2008:
glosses: Casual, low-key, easy-going.
soft shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soft shoes
form: soft shoeing
form: soft shoed
form: soft shoed
form: softshoe
form: soft-shoe
Senses: glosses: To perform a dance of this kind.
soft-shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft shoe.
softshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft shoe.