cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
small miracle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small miracles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of minor miracle.
synonyms: word: minor miracle
e-hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-hug
hyperreacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperreact
hyperreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperreact
hyperreacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperreact
hyperreaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperreactions
Etymology: From hyper- + reaction.
Senses: glosses: excessive reaction
hyperreactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperreaction
hyperreactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperreactors
Senses: glosses: One who hyperreacts.
hyperreactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperreactor
nonslutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + slutty.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, shortly after Lewinsky's poised, nonslutty impeachment testimony was broadcast, Newsweek's Jonathan Alter said, "There's the old saw 'There are no second acts in American life.' Not true. She opened her second act today. […]
ref: 1999, Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume 132, page 337:
glosses: Not slutty.
hyphenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyphenisms
Etymology: From hyphen + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: What may be called, for want of a better term, the colonial spirit, which is the essence of hyphenism, has persisted in this country to hamper national progress and national unity.
ref: 1924, Edward F. McSweeney, The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America, page 2:
glosses: The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, as in "Irish-American".
hyphenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyphenism
hederim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heder
hadarim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heder
shtetlekh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtetl
featherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherers
Etymology: From feather + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who feathers.
leatherer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatherers
Etymology: From leather + -er.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of leather.
leatherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leatherer
featherers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of featherer
hairlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairlocks
Etymology: From hair + lock.
Senses: glosses: A lock of hair.
hairlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairlock
Hamburgh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamburghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamburg (kind of chicken)
Hamburgh chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamburgh chickens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hamburg chicken.
Hamburghs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamburgh
Hamburgh chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamburgh chicken
Hamburg chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hamburg chickens
Senses: glosses: A chicken of a small to medium-sized breed that originated in Germany and Holland prior to 1700.
Hamburg chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamburg chicken
harigals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harigalds
Senses: glosses: The heart, liver and lungs of an animal.
harigalds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of harigals.
henny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: hennies
Etymology: Blend of horse + jenny, or variant of hinny?
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hinny (cross between a stallion and a she-ass)
synonyms: word: hinny
extra: cross between a stallion and a she-ass
topics: LGBT
glosses: Alternative spelling of honey.
henny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: hennier
form: henniest
Etymology: From hen + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Some intermediates differ but slightly from a purely henny bird in appearance. The majority of the saddle feathers are typically henny, but scattered among them are a few in which the tip of the feather exhibits the lack of barbules […]
ref: 1921, Journal of Genetics, volumes 1-12, page 41:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hen.
herbelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of herblet.
herbelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbelet
pedetentously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pedetentously
form: most pedetentously
Etymology: From pedetentous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I ask you who you are, and what are you riving at Dr. W. I am advancing pedetentously.
ref: 2012, S. Ross, Nineteenth-Century Attitudes: Men of Science, page 29
text: With slow and cautious steps under the auspices of the Berlin. Academy, is now moving on, not pedetentously (to borrow a word coined by Sydney Smith), but by...
ref: 1887, E. S. Roberts., An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, page 534
text: Known my feelings for she played dolente (dolefully) an erotica (a love song), singing of the whispering tentaculifera as they stealthily and pedetentously.
ref: 1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide into the South, (Quotation 6)
glosses: In a pedetentous fashion; cautiously; gradually.
hilloes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hillo
hippiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippieness
Etymology: From hippy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a hippy.
hippieness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippie + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hippiness.
hircosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hircose + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being hircose, or goatish.
histed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hist
histing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hist
hocusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hocus
forehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehoods
Etymology: From fore- + hood.
Senses: examples: text: Where the curvature is sharp they should be scribed very close together. The batten is next taken off the ship and laid on the timber from which the forehood is to be cut.
ref: 1919, William Henry Curtis, The Elements of Wood Ship Construction:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: ship-building
glosses: One of the most forward of the outside and inside planks
forehoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehood
humanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humanish
form: most humanish
form: human-ish
Etymology: From human + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of other-minds scepticism, things are less clear; if the sceptic were to ask someone to cite the basis of her claim to know that another humanish creature was possessed of a mind or soul, what might she say?
ref: 1994, Stephen Mulhall, Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary:
text: Duncan went now, impelled by humanish obstinacy, curious where Niun had gone with the figure; and his steps grew less quick, and finally ceased at the corridor that he had not seen in uncounted days: [...]
ref: 2000, C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun Trilogy Omnibus:
text: Core of Gandhian Universalism What is the measure of 'development' and change? lt is not opposed to material growth and prosperity but focused on Abhudaya, progress where growth contributes to humanish welfare.
ref: 2009, Angadi Ranga Reddy, Gandhi and globalisation:
text: Vampires, werewolves (praetorian/sasquatch,) demons, dragons most all of them come from something that was human bred, as evidenced by their human-ish intelligence; animals are far wiser.
ref: 2014, Castor Bellator, Allegory of the Chicken:
text: Tarnopol himself clearly states what he hopes to achieve in this description, declaring simply, “I wanted to be humanish: manly, a man,” thus tying his very humanity to his masculinity.
ref: 2015, Maggie McKinley, Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75:
glosses: Like or befitting a human, especially in appearance, character, nature, etc.; humanlike; humane
homeomery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeomeries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homoeomeria.
Derived terms: homeomeric
gooney birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gooney bird
homeoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeosis
homecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homecrafts
Etymology: From home + craft.
Senses: glosses: A homemade handicraft.
synonyms: housecraft
glosses: The art of homemaking.
homecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homecraft
homoeoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoeosis
Polony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, M. Channing Linthicum cites two allusions to Polonian, Polonia, or Polony shoes, or to their high heels, in 1611, and two more in 1617 and 1618.
ref: 2001, John Pitcher, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, volume 14, page 37:
text: Obviously Polony heels were made in Western Europe, though at present it is not clear why this name was given to the stacked heels.
ref: 2005, Beata Biedrońska-Słota, Crossroads of Costume and Textiles in Poland, page 40:
text: Such a one is in Houndsditch with us, but it is a Polony shoe with a bell, that will not be left for ten pound, because he hath it by inheritance.
ref: 1930, A. V. Judges, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Previously published 1930 and 1965, published 2013:
glosses: Polish (especially of shoes).
humanwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more humanwise
form: most humanwise
form: human-wise
Etymology: From human + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: We ourselves, like the savage, necessarily speak of God and imagine Him humanwise,—…
ref: 1898, The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science and Art
text: There is apparent everywhere an orderliness which we, humanwise, find suggestive of man's design, a conscious adherence to an architectural plan utilizing throughout the same long, parallel, west-slanting lines —…
ref: 1966, The Tetons: Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape
text: In his view, there are no such things; there are just particles arranged humanwise.
ref: 2014, A. J. Cotnoir, Donald L. M. Baxter, Composition as Identity:
text: By contrast, a human being is one simpliciter, and not just one secundum quid, because, although a heap of stones is many stones arranged heapwise, a human being is not many organs or many cells or many atoms arranged humanwise.
ref: 2015, Christopher Hughes, Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God:
glosses: In a humanly order, manner, or fashion; in a way typical of humans
thanatogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thanato- + genetic.
Senses: examples: 2001, V Bagdonavičius, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis on the Human's Vital Functions: Degredation and Modelling
The terminal thanatogenetic syndromes in the intensive care units in the hospitals.
glosses: Rousing death.
Yahoo boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yahoo boy
Yahoo boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: Yahoo boys
form: yahoo-yahoo boy
Etymology: Named after the Internet company Yahoo!, whose free e-mail accounts are sometimes used by scammers.
Senses: examples: text: The EFCC has a cyber crimes unit to monitor the activities of internet scam artists, also known as "Yahoo boys" (probably because they conduct their activities through their Yahoo e-mail accounts).
ref: 2009, Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong, Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria, →OCLC:
glosses: A man who carries out 419 fraud.
wikipedia: Yahoo!
gayful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪfʊl
Forms: form: more gayful
form: most gayful
Etymology: From gay + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Although she read about the gayful events of the fifth volume of Hokke Sanju-ko, she was not able to regain self.
ref: 1970, Senʼichi Hisamatsu, Murasaki Shikibu: The Greatest Lady Writer in Japanese Literature:
text: Nairobi is a very nice town and people are likeable and gayful.
ref: 1986, Maktaba, volume 9, number 2:
text: It was an open square before the earthquake and was left an open square when the rest of the city was rebuilt. The guidebook says of it, 'It has a lively gayful atmosphere, with its cafes and esplanades always crowded with people.'
ref: 1996, Sarah Lawson, A fado for my mother:
text: Heidegger apparently was blind to the gayful, playful, frolicking, dancing aspects of Nietzsche's writings.
ref: 2000, Ḥayim Gordon, Dwelling Poetically:
text: “I marshaled all my thoughts today And marched them out in sweet array. The bleachers were of depth and wide And viewed each nod so none could hide. “'Twas a gayful crowd and mighty strong That turned about to dance a song; [...]
ref: 2011, Robert Tosei Osterman, From Chicago to Spinoza:
glosses: Full of gaiety or cheerfulness; cheery; gay; lively.
Synonyms: gaysome
Derived terms: gayfully
gayfulness
gayless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gayless
form: most gayless
Etymology: From gay + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]
ref: 1856, R. McCullam, Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle:
text: She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile.
ref: 2011, Scars of a Calabash Misdeed
synonyms: word: bleak
word: dreary
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: bland
word: colourless
word: dim
word: dingy
word: dull
word: faint
word: lackluster
word: leaden
word: muddy
word: sad
word: sober
word: uncolorful
word: unholiday
word: wan
antonyms: cheery
gayful
glosses: Lacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab
examples: text: What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia? The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn?
ref: 2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture:
text: I'm a child of the early 1980s and a teenager of the 1990s, and even though TV was beginning to fill with Ellens, Wills, and Jacks, Indiana was still a gayless place.
ref: 2014, Melanie E. Brewster, Atheists in America:
glosses: Without gay people.
hominize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hominizes
form: hominizing
form: hominized
form: hominized
Etymology: From Latin homō (“human”, stem homin-) + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make human, or treat as if human.
Related terms: hominization
hominizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hominize
hominizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hominize
hominized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hominize
heterogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heterogamy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to heterogamy.
homoiothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homeothermic.
mummifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummifiers
Etymology: From mummify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Now body is placed on a wooden board or mummifier table.
ref: 2008, ML Ajmani, Embalming: Principles And Legal Aspects:
glosses: A chemical agent or a device used in embalming or mummification.
examples: text: I turned myself in to be executed, but before I did, I paid off my mummifier.
ref: 2014, M. D. Payne, Tomb of Brain Ooze #5:
glosses: A person performing mummification.
mummifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mummifier
hoosgow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoosgows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoosegow.
gaysomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gaysome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The glow and gaysomeness faded from her face.
ref: 1884, Annie Jenness Miller, Barbara Thayer:
text: For post cards and letters of congratulation on the happy style and gaysomeness of the class dinner announcement have been pouring in upon him in these last days—-all undeserved!
ref: 1913, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 14:
glosses: The state or quality of being gaysome
Babee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Bábí.
gayfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gayfully
form: most gayfully
Etymology: From gayful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gayful manner
Babi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Babis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bábí.
Babis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babi
Babees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Babee
gayfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gayful + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being gayful
wallahee
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of wallah.
horseshod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of horseshoe
forehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehorses
Etymology: From fore- + horse.
Senses: examples: text: But the principal difficulties of travel within the capital were those created by the sheer volume of the traffic. The city's regulations prohibiting the entry of ironshod vehicles and requiring draymen to lead their forehorses were ignored.
ref: 1983, Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
text: Scarcely had they passed the spot where I rested, when some one leaped from beneath the hedge, and seized the head of the forehorses. Another called upon the coachman to stop, and threatened him with instant death if he disobeyed.
ref: 2012, Charles Brockden Brown, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist:
text: On the forehorses rode two chariot men; and on the four others, four henchmen in black gowns.
ref: 2013, Alison Weir, Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World:
glosses: The foremost horse in a team of horses; a lead horse
forehorses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehorse
sahih
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈhiː/
Forms: form: saheeh
Etymology: From Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: authentic: said of a hadith that has been preserved and transmitted accurately
Gubbi Gubbi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gabi-Gabi.
forebooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebooths
Etymology: From fore- + booth. Compare Scots forebuith.
Senses: examples: text: The instrument concludes with the statement that these things were 'done in the forebooth of the tenement or lodging ….'
ref: 1895, The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries
text: This might be rebuilt with permission, or on payment of a fine (set down in borough archives), as a permanent shop or forebooth perhaps, with an unglazed window to the street.
ref: 2003, David Iredale, Discovering Local History:
text: Helen Dunbar had the liferent of this booth (described as a forebooth with a foreshop adjacent) and died about 1605.
ref: 2004, Ayr and its People
text: He also had the forebooth on the south side and the pentice below the outside stairs.
ref: 2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down o'er the Border:
glosses: A booth positioned near the front; foreshop
forebooths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forebooth
foreshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshops
Etymology: From fore- + shop.
Senses: glosses: A front shop; a shop placed near the front, facing the street
glosses: The front part of a shop
foreshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreshop
Kosov@
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Kosova (Albanian form) + Kosovo (Slavic form), with the final a/o replaced with @, which resembles both letters. Compare similar usage of @ in Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: near Prizren in Kosov@
ref: 2001, Antonia Young, Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins, page 62:
text: At that time Shkoder was a centre of intellectual life whose writers interacted constantly with those of Prizren in Kosov@, than with the rest of Albania […]
ref: 2006, Altin Ilirjani, Arolda Elbasani, Ridvan Peshkopia, Albanian Journal of Politics, page 63:
glosses: Kosovo.
forehammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehammers
Etymology: From Middle English forehamer, forhamer, equivalent to fore- + hammer. Compare Dutch voorhamer (“sledgehammer”), German Low German Vörhamer (“sledgehammer”), Danish forhammer (“sledgehammer”).
Senses: examples: text: The blacksmith I was put under was a kind good fellow and soon put me in the way of striking with the forehammer which was at first very tiring […]
ref: 1939, John Brunton's Book
glosses: A sledge or sledgehammer; the large hammer which strikes first, or before the smaller one.
forehammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehammer
gold star family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold star families
Senses: examples: text: And when he came down with a life-threatening case of Covid, he suggested that he might have caught it from Gold Star families he had met with after his positive test — that is, he blamed people he himself had callously endangered.
ref: 2021 December 7, Paul Krugman, “Where Have All the Grown-ups Gone?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: the immediate family of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action
Related terms: gold star father
gold star mother
gold star parent
gold star wife
Gold Star
gold star father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold star fathers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: the father of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action
Related terms: gold star family
gold star mother
gold star parent
gold star wife
Gold Star
gold star mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold star mothers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: the mother of a member of the U.S. armed forces who was killed in action
Related terms: blue star mother
gold star family
gold star father
gold star parent
gold star wife
Gold Star
gold star wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡəʊld stɑː ˈwaɪf/
ipa: /ˌɡoʊld stɑɹ ˈwaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪf
Forms: form: gold star wives
Etymology: From gold star (“(attributively) relative of a United States soldier when the latter has been killed in action”) + wife. Gold star refers to stars of that colour traditionally shown on service flags displayed by families of members of the U.S. armed forces.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The widow of a member of the United States armed forces who was killed in action.
Hypernyms: military widow
Coordinate terms: blue star wife
gold star family
gold star father
gold star mother
gold star parent
Related terms: Gold Star
gold star lesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold star lesbians
Etymology: From gold star + lesbian.
Senses: examples: text: My few forays into erotic desire for straight women bore the same fruit they usually do for “gold-star” lesbians—frustration and emotional pain.
ref: 1992 Spring, Carol A. Queen, “Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement”, in OUT/LOOK, volume 5, number 16, San Francisco: OUT/LOOK Foundation, →ISSN, page 29:
text: “I hate being the youngest and the only gold-star lesbian. It's so cliché. Like some of you, I've thought about giving the other side a try. You really can't help but wonder what it's like. […]”
ref: 2005 March 24, Linda Wagner, Faithful to My Heart, West Conshohocken: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:
text: There is a checklist of risk, even here [a crowded club floor]. The straight bachelorettes. The gold-star lesbians. The tranny-chasers. The people who hate my flesh, or love it wrong, […]
ref: 2021 August 12, Remy Chartier, “Snapshots of a Trans Body in Love”, in Venus Cohen, editor, VULCANALIA 2021, LUPERCALIApress, page 106:
glosses: A lesbian who has never had sex with a man.
Coordinate terms: gold star gay
gold star lesbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold star lesbian
Gold Star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gold Stars
Etymology: From gold + star from the shape of the medal, being star-shaped, and the colouration of the medal, being golden, with gold representing the highest of three grades of star medals, of traditional usage of metallic colours, gold, silver, bronze.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A high-level military service award (medal).
Coordinate terms: service ribbon
service medal
service cross
star
Related terms: Silver Star
Bronze Star
Service Star
gold star family
gold star father
gold star mother
gold star parent
gold star wife
blue star wife
blue star mother
horsebean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsebeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse bean.
horsebeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsebean
gold star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold stars
Etymology: From Gold + star from the star shape of the award and its colour, representing the highest of three levels: gold, silver, bronze.
Senses: glosses: An award for outstanding achievement.
examples: a gold-star mother
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A relative of a U.S. soldier when the latter has been killed in action.
Coordinate terms: gold
gold medal
gold medallion
Gold Star
Derived terms: gold star family
gold star father
gold star gay
gold star lesbian
gold star mother
gold star parent
gold star wife
Related terms: silver star
bronze star
hoseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosemen
Etymology: From hose + -man.
Senses: glosses: A firefighter who carries and directs the hose.
hosemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoseman
curtain off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curtains off
form: curtaining off
form: curtained off
form: curtained off
Senses: examples: text: The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours.
ref: 1960 November 14, “Strike Town”, in Time:
text: For furniture there was a table and chair, and a bed, slovenly made; one corner of the room was curtained off.
ref: 1986, J. M. Coetzee, chapter III, in Foe, Penguin, published 1987, page 113:
coordinate_terms: cordon off
glosses: To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier.
examples: text: I am talking about a way of regarding our world as amenable to investigation and interrogation without magic keys, special jargons and instruments, curtained-off practices.
ref: 1993, Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Chapter Four, Section II, p. 312:
glosses: To isolate.
howre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howres
Senses: examples: text: His louely words her seemd due recompence / Of all her passed pains: one louing howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hour.
humankinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humankind
humf
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of humph.
humf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: humfs
form: humfing
form: humfed
form: humfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of humph.
humfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humf
humfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of humf
humfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humf
hydrocolloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Etymology: From hydrocolloid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a hydrocolloid.
hydrophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydrophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hydrophytes.
hydronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of water or another liquid as the heat-transfer medium in heating and cooling systems.
hydronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydronic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, hydronics.
Chicanx
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/
Etymology: The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.
Senses: examples: text: By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]
ref: 2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America, →ISBN:
text: We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.
ref: 2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities, →ISBN:
text: Chicanx and Latinx
ref: 2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,..., →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Latinx
glosses: Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
Chicanx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪˈkɑːn.ɛks/
Forms: form: Chicanxs
Etymology: The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.
Senses: examples: text: It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.
ref: 2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4:
text: […] Chicanxs are aware of past struggles over space and draw on them in contemporary struggles, which focus on gentrification and its alternative, “gentefication” (the uplift of the neighborhood by locals and other Chicanxs and Latinxs)[…]
ref: 2023 April 3, Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, Carolin Luiprecht, Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN:
synonyms: Chican@
coordinate_terms: Latinx
glosses: A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).
Related terms: Filipinx
Latinx
soft copies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft copy
hypodiploidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A lymphocytic population exhibited diploidies attributed to mitosis or symmetrical meiosis and hypodiploidies, hypohaploidies attributed to meiosis.
ref: 1994, H Logothetou-Rella, “Differentiation of human lymphocytes into nuclear vlimata by meiosis. The cytotoxic effect of calcium-activated neutral proteinase inhibitor”, in Histology and Histopathology, volume 9, number 3, →PMID, pages 469–484:
glosses: plural of hypodiploidy, referring to types thereof.
talk big
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks big
form: talking big
form: talked big
form: talked big
Senses: glosses: To brag; to exaggerate one's abilities or achievements.
Synonyms: talk a good game
Related terms: big talk
jariya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jariyat
form: jawari
form: cariye
Etymology: From Arabic جَارِيَة (jāriya).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A slave-girl; a concubine.
jawari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jawar (“sorghum”).
jawari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jariya
jariyat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jariya
relift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relifts
form: relifting
form: relifted
form: relifted
Etymology: From re- + lift.
Senses: glosses: To lift something again.
relift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + lift.
Senses: examples: text: A relift pump would then raise the water to another concrete-lined canal on compacted fill.
ref: 1962, George A. Lineer, Report on Proposed Westplains Water Storage District:
text: The purpose of this wasteway is to provide for emergency waste in the canal in case of unscheduled shutdown of the relift pumping plant.
ref: 1985, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Lake Andes-Wagner Unit:
text: The proposed Stanfield canal, Stanfield relift pump, and Stanfield relift canal and siphon features were not surveyed at this time because they cross irrigated croplands.
ref: 1988, Umatilla Basin Project, Planning Report: Environmental Impact Statement:
text: Comparison of benefit/cost ratios of well and relift systems for tailwater recovery system in northeast Arkansas.
ref: 2004, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science - Volume 58, page 28:
qualifier: hydraulic engineering
glosses: Pertaining to a pumping system that raises the level of water that is flowing in a waterway.
Chicanxs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chicanx
Latinxs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ləˈtiː.nɛk.sɪz/
/læˈtiː.nɛk.sɪz/
/ˈlæt.ɪˌnɛk.sɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Latinx
karyomiton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed.
relifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relift
relifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relift
relifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relift
jirble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jirbles
form: jirbling
form: jirbled
form: jirbled
Senses: glosses: To pour out liquid, especially carelessly or in a messy way.
jirbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jirble
jirbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jirble
jirbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jirble
kytoplasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nucleoplasm.
synonyms: word: nucleoplasm
negative priming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavorably influences the response to the same stimulus.
kalians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalian
kalpis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalpides
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κᾰ́λπῐς (kắlpĭs).
Senses: glosses: A kind of Ancient Greek water jug.
multicanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + canaliculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having numerous, large, branching, and closely spaced pore canals. They have a high gas exchange rate, so like tubocanaliculate eggs they were probably also buried humid mounds.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: angusticanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tube + -o- + canaliculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: angusticanaliculate
multicanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oblique and canaliculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: multicanaliculate
angusticanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having pores which vary in width throughout their length. Gas exchange water water loss rates are variable, so these eggs could have been laid in many different environments. This type is subdivided into foveocanaliculate with larger pore openings, and lagenocanaliculate with narrower pore openings.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: multicanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
angusticanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having very narrow, slit-like pore canals. This pore system is seen in modern ostriches, so these eggs were laid in open nests, similar to how ostriches do today.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: multicanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
angusticanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
foveocanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having prolatocanaliculate-type pores, with larger openings.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: lagenocanaliculate
sea sparkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea sparkles
Etymology: From sea + sparkle from the sparkling of the sea due to the bioluminescent algae.
Senses: examples: text: The nocturnal fish are agile and quick to take flight, wary of reef sharks and moray eels scouring the coral heads, but as they swim and disturb the water, the darkness is sometimes interrupted by the bioluminescent flashes of 'sea sparkle', product of the microscopic dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans .
ref: 2006, Michael Bright, Wild Caribbean, page 190:
text: Their quantity remained also high in summer, when the role of the sea sparkle N. scintillans and of meroplankton, especially B. improvisus, was increasing.
ref: 2017, A. K. Vinogradov, Yu. I. Bogatova, I. A. Synegub, Ecology of Marine Ports of the Black and Azov Sea Basin, page 157:
text: Thus what sailors call the "blossoming" of the night sea, that is, the appearance of swarms of phosphorescent phytoplankton on the surface, popularly known as “Sea Sparkle” (Noctiluca scintillans), is actually a sign that the sea has become “impure, turbid, slimy” (ibid.).
ref: 2019, David Farrell Krell, The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter, page 173:
text: Bioluminescence from microscopic organisms creates sea-sparkle, a globally occurring, nocturnal phenomenon of blue sparkling light in breaking waves or around moving objects.
ref: 2019, Thomas M. Schmidt, Encyclopedia of Microbiology, page 526:
glosses: The bioluminescent dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans (syn. Noctiluca miliaris), that causes mareel.
Related terms: mareel
milky sea
blue tide
lagenocanaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flagon, pitcher, flask”) + canaliculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having prolatocanaliculate-type pores, with a narrower openings.
raw_tags: of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs
Coordinate terms: foveocanaliculate
krubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Amorphophallus titanum, the titan arum.
krubut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rafflesia arnoldii, a plant with very large flowers.
infantophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infant + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The irrational fear of infants, pregnancy, or maternalism.
Synonyms: english: in the sense of a fear of infants
translation: in the sense of a fear of infants
word: pedophobia
Related terms: infantophobe
Herodism
herodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Herodism.
infantophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantophobes
Etymology: From infant + -o- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: Someone with an irrational fear of infants.
Synonyms: pedophobe
Related terms: infantophobia
stasis lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stasis locks
Senses: examples: text: Tec had already deepened the stasis in Uru's cage to keep him asleep, and now he put the ship in a stasis lock.
ref: 1976, J. O. Jeppson, Second Experiment, page 29:
text: I am speaking to the eight ships on the dessert on the planet Vood, which are now in energy stasis locks. I am representative of the Maitan Empire fleet, who have you under surveillance.
ref: CD Moulton, Heku (page 153)
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
qualifier: machinery
glosses: An induced state of suspension or inactivity.
stasis locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stasis lock
anastomotuberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having ridges similar to lineartuberculate eggshells, but instead form wavy, branching, or anastomosing patterns resembling the water ripple marks in sand
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: compactituberculate
sagenotuberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
ramotuberculate
lineartuberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From linear + tuberculate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having ridges, and chains of ridges and nodes form lines parallel to the long axis of the egg.
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: compactituberculate
sagenotuberculate
dispersituberculate
anastomotuberculate
ramotuberculate
dispersituberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having scattered nodes - this ornamentation is seen on the poles of elongated eggs, which may have allowed accumulations C_(O2) at the poles to escape between the nodes.
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: compactituberculate
sagenotuberculate
anastomotuberculate
lineartuberculate
ramotuberculate
bahooey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bahooie
Etymology: From hooey.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hooey.
synonyms: word: hooey
sagenotuberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having nodes and ridges that form a netlike pattern interspersed with pits and grooves.
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: compactituberculate
anastomotuberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
ramotuberculate
bahooie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bahooey.
compactituberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having dome-shaped tops of the shell units which form a dense covering of nodes on the surface of the eggshell.
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: anastomotuberculate
sagenotuberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
ramotuberculate
ramotuberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having irregular chains of nodes, typically found as a transition between the lineartuberculate midsection and dispersituberculate ends of elongated eggs.
raw_tags: of dinosaurian eggshell ornamentations (textures)
Coordinate terms: compactituberculate
sagenotuberculate
dispersituberculate
lineartuberculate
anastomotuberculate
tires out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tire out
tiring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tire out
tired out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tire out
Knurd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
DeMann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Mann.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lucky dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucky dog
lucky duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucky ducks
Senses: synonyms: lucky dog
lucky devil
lucky duckling
glosses: Someone with astounding good luck.
lucky ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucky duck
lucky duckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucky ducklings
Etymology: Extended from lucky duck.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lucky duck.
synonyms: word: lucky duck
lucky ducklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucky duckling