cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Philipino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Philippino
Etymology: From Filipino with the first letter respelled to ⟨PH⟩ to emulate the country name, Philippines, itself originally ultimately from Spanish Filipinas.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Filipino.
Related terms: Philippian
Murican
kBps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kBps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of kilobytes per second.
Synonyms: kB/s
Coordinate terms: Bps
MBps
GBps
TBps
PBps
EBps
Related terms: kbps
MBps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MBps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: megabytes per second
Synonyms: MB/s
Coordinate terms: Bps
kBps
GBps
TBps
PBps
EBps
Related terms: Mbps
Bps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of byte per second.
Synonyms: B/s
Coordinate terms: kBps
MBps
GBps
TBps
PBps
EBps
Related terms: bps
NACCHO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of National Association of City and County Health Officials.
Eastern Arrernte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eastern Arrenrnte
Senses: glosses: A language of Australia.
Akeu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of China.
Ambakich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Amele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Aeka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Gulf Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, eastern Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iran and northern Oman.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Gulf Arabic terms
Andai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Putukwam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Nigeria.
Akrukay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Nanubae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Defaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Nigeria.
Eloyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Nigeria.
Tapei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language of Papua New Guinea.
Afro-Seminole Creole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Gullah language, spoken by black Seminoles in scattered communities in Oklahoma, Texas, and Northern Mexico.
Naziland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nazi + -land.
Senses: glosses: Any place populated by Nazis.
examples: text: The reason he was going to Switzerland was to write it out and mail it in a free country; he would never put anything on paper in Naziland.
ref: 1944, Upton Sinclair, “Dangerous Majesty”, in Presidential Agent (Lanny Budd), page 333:
glosses: Germany, especially Nazi Germany.
Synonyms: Fascist Germany
Hitlerland
Nazi Germany
Third Reich
master races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of master race
DM-OPEN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Disaster Management Open Platform for Emergency Networks. A system which provides interoperability interfaces for sharing of emergency-related information to vetted emergency management agencies.
Tasmanian devils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tasmanian devil
Yakima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjæ.kɪ.mɑ/
Forms: form: Yakima
form: Yakimas
Senses: examples: text: Debra, on behalf of the family of David Sohappy, a member of the Yakima tribe in Washington state, would like to thank the conference for its support of the resolution she presented on behalf of the Sohappys' fishing rights struggle.
ref: 1987 April 11, Debra O'Gara, Yolanda Alaniz, Nancy Kato, Merle Woo, “Lesbians and Gays of Color: Our Take on the 1986 International Conference”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
synonyms: Cutsahnim
glosses: A member of the Shahaptian Yakima tribe.
Yakima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjæ.kɪ.mɑ/
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A tributary of the Columbia River, Washington; in full, the Yakima River.
Derived terms: Yakiman
Yakimaniac
Yakimite
Cutsahnim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cutsahnims
form: Cutsahnim
Senses: glosses: A member of a Shahaptian tribe mentioned by Lewis and Clark in 1806.
Related terms: Yakima
HazCollect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: All Hazards Emergency Collection System. Distributes non-weather emergency messages (NWEM)a class of Civil Emergency Messages (CEMs)sent via National Weather Service.
Speedy Gonzales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after a fast-running animated mouse in Warner Bros. cartoons.
Senses: glosses: Someone who moves or acts exceptionally fast.
wikipedia: Warner Bros.
NWEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NWEMs
Senses: glosses: Non-Weather Emergency Message, synonym for Civil Emergency Message (CEMs), put out via the NWS dissemination infrastructure to the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
giant pandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant panda
slave-girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave-girl
nipple clamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nipple clamp
dark cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark culture
chastity cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chastity cage
snarl up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snarls up
form: snarling up
form: snarled up
form: snarled up
Senses: glosses: to entangle
glosses: To become tangled; to become entangled
glosses: To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
glosses: to become congested.
raw_tags: of traffic
glosses: To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
muddle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: muddles up
form: muddling up
form: muddled up
form: muddled up
Senses: examples: text: Whenever I meet the twins, I always muddle up their names. I call John Jim, and Jim John.
glosses: to confuse (one or more objects with another object or other objects)
examples: muddle up the letters in the word, and try to make new ones.
glosses: To mix together
snaffle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snaffles up
form: snaffling up
form: snaffled up
form: snaffled up
Senses: examples: text: We snaffled up all the chips before Jeff came to the table.
glosses: To devour greedily.
Synonyms: gobble up
sing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings up
form: singing up
form: sang up
form: sung up
Senses: glosses: to sing louder.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: to sing higher, to sing an ascending scale
settle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: settles up
form: settling up
form: settled up
form: settled up
Senses: glosses: to pay what one owes (a debt, a bill etc.)
scrape up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes up
form: scraping up
form: scraped up
form: scraped up
Senses: examples: text: He should not have used that old dirty rag. Look how it scraped up his paint job.
glosses: To scrape completely; cover all over with scrapes.
examples: scrape up all the dirt left in the bath.
glosses: to collect together by scraping
examples: text: If I empty all my pockets, search around the house, and ask a few friends for a loan, I should be able to scrape up enough money to buy that new suit.
glosses: to gather together something needed (especially money)
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To clean a roller and slab by removing ink.
Synonyms: sense: gather together something needed
word: scrape together
free lover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free lovers
form: free-lover
Etymology: Either from free + lover, after free love, or from free love + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone connected to the free love movement.
meat pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meat pie
netballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net balls
form: net-balls
Senses: glosses: plural of netball
gross incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gross income
handsomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handsome
handsoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handsome
handsomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handsome
uglinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ugliness
uncuteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncute.
likenessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of likeness
likenessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of likeness
prettifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prettification
voluptuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voluptuary
golden girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: yellow pincushion, Chaenactis glabriuscula
golden girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden girl
dead donkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead donkey
amebicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amebicide
kills time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kill time
killed time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kill time
dominicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominicide
Bennite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bennites
Etymology: From Benn + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the political views of former British politician Tony Benn.
Bennite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Benn + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or conforming with the political views of Tony Benn.
Bennites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bennite
syphilological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syphilology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to syphilology.
syphilologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilologists
Etymology: From syphilology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist in syphilology.
syphilologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilologist
syphilitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilitic
flatfootedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flatfooted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flatfooted.
morcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morcel
giant salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant salamanders
Senses: glosses: Any of the large amphibians in the family Cryptobranchidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Andrias davidianus
word: Chinese giant salamander
taxonomic: Andrias japonicus
word: Japanese giant salamander
VetMB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, a degree awarded by the University of Cambridge.
wall lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall lizards
Senses: glosses: A small, thin species of lizard found in Europe and North America, Podarcis muralis.
glosses: Any lizard of the genus Podarcis.
glosses: Any lizard of the family Lacertidae, a lacertid
Derived terms: taxonomic: Podarcis raffonei
word: Aeolian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis taurica
word: Balkan wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis bocagei
word: Bocage's wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis carbonelli
word: Carbonell's wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis liolepis
word: Catalonian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis atrata
word: Columbretes wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis melisellensis
word: Dalmatian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis erhardii
word: Erhard's wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis filfolensis
word: Filfola lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis hispanica
word: Iberian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis pityusensis
word: Ibiza wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis sicula
word: Italian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis lilfordi
word: Lilford's wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis dugesii
word: Madeiran wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis filfolensis
word: Maltese wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis milensis
word: Milos wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis peloponnesiaca
word: Peloponnese wall lizard
alt: †Podarcis sicula sanctistephani
word: Santo Stefano lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis wagleriana
word: Sicilian wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis gaigeae
word: Skyros wall lizard
taxonomic: Podarcis tiliguerta
word: Tyrrhenian wall lizard
Japanese beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese beetles
Senses: glosses: A beetle of species Popillia japonica, with iridescent copper-colored elytra and green thorax and head, an invasive pest outside of Japan.
ride up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides up
form: riding up
form: rode up
form: ridden up
form: ride-up
Senses: glosses: to approach or come near to while riding.
examples: text: My jeans always seem to ride up on me in public.
text: The skimpy black underpants had ridden up, and now Chang’s wrinkly old bottom was pointing in their direction.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
qualifier: especially tight skirts
glosses: to move up higher on one's body.
raw_tags: of clothes
Related terms: ride up on
ride up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ride ups
form: ride-up
Senses: glosses: The act or process of riding up
psych up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: psychs up
form: psyching up
form: psyched up
form: psyched up
Etymology: See psych.
Senses: glosses: To motivate, encourage or mentally (emotionally) prepare.
syphilology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syphilo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of, and treatment of, syphilis.
ratchet up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ratchets up
form: ratcheting up
form: ratcheted up
form: ratcheted up
Senses: examples: text: After all, nations are pouring massive resources into military applications of AI, and many citizens don’t know or don’t care. Yet that quiescent attitude may change over time, as the domestic use of AI surveillance ratchets up, and that technology is increasingly identified with shadowy apparatuses of control, rather than democratically accountable local powers.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
text: Living legend Miley Cyrus and songwriter/producer/drummer Maxx Morando have recently ratcheted up their PDA, and if you're new here ("here" being their relationship), don't worry about it. We put together a timeline just for you—yw!
ref: 2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: hike up
glosses: To increase.
pack-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack-ups
Etymology: From the verb pack up.
Senses: glosses: A bundle or shipment of goods.
examples: text: Mums […] were often won over not so much by the healthy eating arguments as by a simple fact — in my experience, no parent has yet been born who loved making pack-ups.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Grahamslaw, A Parents' Guide To Primary School:
qualifier: Hull; North Lincolnshire; Hull; North Lincolnshire
glosses: A packed lunch.
move up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves up
form: moving up
form: moved up
form: moved up
Senses: examples: text: […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, chapter 11, in The Caine Mutiny, Boston: Little, Brown, published 2018:
text: We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought we country children would make our classmates feel inferior―and we did.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 10, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 61:
glosses: To put (something) higher or further.
To promote, put onto a higher level.
glosses: To put (something) higher or further.
To raise, put onto a higher place.
glosses: To put (something) higher or further.
To put higher on a list.
examples: text: The meeting was moved up to Tuesday.
text: “She’s upset she has to walk me down the aisle,” Serena told Maggie.
“Oh if only your uncle Maynard would come and do it instead!” Anita cried. “Maybe we should move the wedding up a week and give him another chance […]”
ref: 1988, Anne Tyler, chapter 3, in Breathing Lessons, Penguin, page 108:
synonyms: move forward
prepone
antonyms: move back
glosses: To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
glosses: To move higher.
To be promoted.
glosses: To move higher.
To pass to a higher level.
examples: text: Can you move up to the next seat so we can sit together, please?
text: "It's hard to articulate how tightly packed we have become accustomed to - [...] 'Move up, we need to get one more in.' The only picture I can paint is that it is often not possible to reach into my jacket pocket to retrieve my mobile phone, because I cannot raise my arms. Sardines enjoy more space."
ref: 2020 June 3, Philip Haigh, “Who can clean up Manchester's mess?”, in Rail, page 43:
synonyms: move over
glosses: To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
examples: text: I was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car, and this beast, this conductor, hollered at me, ‘Come on you, move up!’ […] I said, ‘it’s the people ahead of me, who won’t move up,’
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter X, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).
Derived terms: move out to move up
move up in the world
piggy move up
mount up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mounts up
form: mounting up
form: mounted up
form: mounted up
Senses: glosses: to increase over a period of time; to accumulate
Synonyms: heap up
pile up
accumulate
adsurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adsurgent
form: most adsurgent
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assurgent.
basaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian بسیجی (basiji, “member of the Basij”), from بسیج (basij, “Basij, volunteer army”).
Senses: examples: text: In other parts of the world, soldiers have also been willing to commit suicide in bombing another army, most notably the Japanese kamikaze in World War II and the Iranian basaji during the Iran-Iraq War
ref: 2006, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, Global cooperation: challenges and opportunities in the twenty-first century, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: A class of low-ranking Iranian foot soldiers.
Basij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baseej
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian بسیج (basij).
Senses: glosses: A paramilitary group under the command of IRGC in Iran.
attollent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈtɒlənt/
Etymology: From Latin attollens, present participle of attollo; ad + tollo (“to lift”).
Senses: examples: text: And here I might instance the peculiar and artificial structure of the trochlearis, and the augmentation of its power by the trochlea; the magnitude and strength of the attollent muscle, somewhat exceeding that of its antagonist
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lifting up; raising.
attollent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɒlənt/
Forms: form: attollents
Etymology: From Latin attollens, present participle of attollo; ad + tollo (“to lift”).
Senses: glosses: A raising or lifting muscle.
video referee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video referees
Senses: examples: text: Ireland got their second try not long before half-time with O'Leary, an injury doubt all week with a stiff back, just about getting over for a try which was confirmed by the video referee.
ref: 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An off-field match official who makes game decisions based on watching instant replays.
video referees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video referee
discussion room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discussion rooms
Senses: glosses: A forum or message board.
video nasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video nasty
video photographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of video photographer
perceptualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perceptualizes
form: perceptualizing
form: perceptualized
form: perceptualized
Etymology: From perceptual + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) perceptual or sensed.
glosses: To make something easier to perceive or understand
Derived terms: perceptualization
perceptualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perceptualize
perceptualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perceptualize
perceptualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perceptualize
standart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standarts
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of standard.
standart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more standart
form: most standart
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of standard.
standarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standart
lance-corporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lance-corporals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lance corporal.
break-even
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-evens
form: breakeven
Senses: examples: text: We'll never reach break-even if our variable costs are higher than our selling price.
topics: business
management
glosses: The level of revenues sufficient to cover costs.
Synonyms: topics: business
management
word: break-even point
break-even
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: breakeven
Senses: examples: text: The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS.
text: The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created to own not just the railways, but also London Underground, docks, inland waterways, and some road haulage activities. Its remit was to operate on a break-even basis, with sustained losses unacceptable.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 38:
glosses: that is characterized by the level of revenues just sufficient to cover costs
Derived terms: break-even point
Related terms: word: break even
break-evens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break-even
amygdaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amygdal- + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: It is known that emulsine and amygdaline are two innocent substances when they are administered by themselves, but that they develope hydrocyanic acid and become a violent poison when placed in contact.
ref: 1844, Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, page 272:
text: Not finding any key to this enigma, he (as is hat too frequently done) ascribed the formation of amygdaline, or the transformation of its elements into hydrocyanic acid and oil of bitter almonds, to the co-operation of an intangible and invisible something, which, from its nature, must be beyond the reach of our understanding.
ref: 1844, The Lancent, page 383:
text: This insoluble residue, even when completely washed with distilled water so as to remove all soluble matter, still furnishes the characteristic reaction of emulsine with amygdaline.
ref: 1849, The Chemical Gazette, Or, Journal of Practical Chemistry:
glosses: Alternative form of amygdalin.
amygdaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amygdaline
form: most amygdaline
Etymology: From amygdal- + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: From this it seems clear that if Ag. fabaceus has an amygdaline odour and taste it must be in a very modified degree, as the taste and odour of the plant, as it grows here, could escape no one.
ref: 1905, Journal of Mycology, volume 11, page 16:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of almonds.
broken even
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break even
exercycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exercycle
break-even points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break-even point
breakeven points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakeven point
pseudoprofound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudoprofound
form: most pseudoprofound
Etymology: From pseudo- + profound.
Senses: glosses: Apparently, but not actually, profound; having pretensions of depth.
Related terms: pseudoprofundity
ummahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ummah
ummas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umma
pseudoclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoclasses
form: pseudo-class
Etymology: From pseudo- + class.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Cascading Style Sheets
glosses: A construct in code that behaves like a class but is not a true class.
pseudoelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoelements
Etymology: From pseudo- + element.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Cascading Style Sheets
glosses: An object in code that behaves like an HTML element but is not a true element.
glosses: In a chemical formula, something that is called by a chemical symbol, but is not an element; e.g. Et may mean ethyl group, or Ph (or Φ) may mean phenyl group. (See "Skeletal formula § Pseudoelement symbols" on Wikipedia.)
pseudoclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoclass
pseudoelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoelement
hunkses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunks
theftproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theft + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being stolen.
unserenaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + serenaded.
Senses: glosses: Not serenaded.
forageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forageable
form: most forageable
Etymology: From forage + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being foraged.
antidepressives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidepressive
gibelotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibelottes
Etymology: French, from Old French gibelet
Senses: glosses: A type of stew made from rabbit or fish, in white wine and broth, originating from France.
angustate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angustate
form: most angustate
Etymology: From Latin angustatus (“narrowed”), past participle of angustare (“to make narrow”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: narrowed
kouign-amann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwiːn æˈmæn/
ipa: /-ˈmɑn/
ipa: /ˌkwin æˈmæn/
ipa: /-ˈmɑn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: kouign-amann
form: kouign-amanns
Etymology: Borrowed from Breton kouign-amann, from kouign (“brioche; bun; cake”) (ultimately from Latin cuneus (“wedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”)) + amann (“butter”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to anoint; to smear”)).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Breton cake made of layers of butter, dough, and sugar.
'tec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'tecs
Etymology: A clipping of detective.
Senses: examples: text: "In the morning the blessed 'tecs will be out in all the stations, no doubt. And if they once got hold of her, for one reason or another she would be lost to him indeed."
ref: 1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent:
text: "You're a marvel, that's wot you are," ses the 'tec, shaking his 'ead. "Have one with me."
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Self-Help:
text: A collection of battered churns, looking like the jars for Ali-Baba's thieves, stood at one end of the room. A 'tec could hide in one of those, thought Robin.
ref: 1963, Barbara Euphan Todd, Jill Crockford, Detective Worzel Gummidge:
glosses: A detective.
'tecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'tec
crimefree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crime-free
Etymology: From crime + -free.
Senses: glosses: Free from crime.
drillproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drillproof
form: most drillproof
Etymology: From drill + -proof.
Senses: examples: a drillproof safe
synonyms: antidrill
glosses: Resistant to drills.
hazelnutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hazelnutty
form: most hazelnutty
Etymology: From hazelnut + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of hazelnuts.
dirtproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dirtproof
form: most dirtproof
Etymology: From dirt + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to dirt.
mudproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mudproof
form: most mudproof
Etymology: From mud + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to mud.
missileproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missileproof
form: most missileproof
Etymology: From missile + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to missiles.
germproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more germproof
form: most germproof
Etymology: From germ + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to germs.
unsaluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + saluted.
Senses: glosses: Not saluted.
unprayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prayed.
Senses: examples: prayers left unprayed
1843, William Arthur Brown Lunn, Bizarre fables: a series of eccentric historiettes (page 109_
Tom Doyle lies dead and unprayed for — and Mr. Francis Evans is alive, and rides in his coach.
glosses: Not prayed.
historiette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historiettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French historiette.
Senses: glosses: A short history or tale.
historiettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historiette
historiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more historiographically
form: most historiographically
Etymology: From historiographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a historiographical manner; by means of a historiography.
bluelink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluelinks
Senses: examples: text: IP> I just downloaded the Netscape 3.0 beta. It is very nice. There / I think this is Netscape 2.0 beta 3, by the way (the one that's been / weeks), just before you all go off tapping that bluelink... I haven' / anything about Netscape 3.0 yet.
ref: 1995, Ben Schorr, “Just Downloaded Netscape”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):
text: People on PCs and people on other ISP tell me sometimes they can't get to my / website when I send a bluelink
ref: 2002, Jim, “ebay artwork”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet):
text: Creating a redirect in this case is detrimental: it creates a useless dead end, and it turns the redirect page title into a bluelink, whereas a redlink might attract the attention of an author who would want to write the article.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it, No Starch Press Series, page 235:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blue link.
blue link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue links
form: bluelink
Etymology: In most wikis, a link to an existing page appears in blue text.
Senses: glosses: A hyperlink displayed in blue, traditionally indicating that the user has not yet visited the linked resource.
examples: text: Beyond the satisfaction it provides linguistically and in terms of pure meanness, what makes “nepotism baby” so popular is that it also functions as a tool, a simple way for our brains to deconstruct the bigger idea of upward mobility in inequality. Every human is someone’s child, but not everyone’s parents are a blue link on Wikipedia.
ref: 2022 August 31, Alex Abad-Santos, “They hate to see a nepotism baby winning”, in Vox:
antonyms: red link
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A blue hyperlink that directs to an existing page of a wiki.
Derived terms: blue-linked
crashlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crashlike
form: most crashlike
Etymology: From crash + -like.
Senses: examples: text: crashlike movements of the stock market
text: crashlike accelerations experienced by a typical car
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a crash (in various senses).
cornetcies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornetcy
columnize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: columnizes
form: columnizing
form: columnized
form: columnized
Etymology: From column + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: You can columnize an entire document, everything past the position of the cursor, an entire section, or selected text.
ref: 2001, Stephen L. Nelson, Julia Kelly, Office XP: the complete reference:
glosses: To format (writing or data) as a series of columns.
Derived terms: decolumnize
columnizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of columnize
columnizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of columnize
columnized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of columnize
waft off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wafts off
form: wafting off
form: wafted off
form: wafted off
Senses: glosses: To shoo by wafting with the hands.
feature films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feature film
beauty shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty shop
Camberwell beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Camberwell beauty
lines of beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line of beauty
spring beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spring beauty
gulper eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulper eels
Senses: synonyms: saccopharyngiform
glosses: Any of many fish of the order Saccopharyngiformes that resemble eels, and which are sometimes treated as true eels, members of Anguilliformes.
synonyms: saccopharyngiform
glosses: Any of many fish of the order Saccopharyngiformes that resemble eels, and which are sometimes treated as true eels, members of Anguilliformes.
A pelican eel of species Eurypharynx pelecanoides of deep-sea eels.
Urban Cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urban Cowboy
Pulitzer Prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pulitzer Prize
Oscars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oscar
railroad tramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad tramps
Senses: glosses: A transient, homeless person who rides from place to place on freight trains; a hobo
renamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renamers
Etymology: From rename + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or process that performs renaming.
renamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renamer
cameleopard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cameleopards
Etymology: See camelopard. In this spelling, influenced by English leopard.
Senses: examples: text: And first the spotted cameleopard came, / And then the wise and fearless elephant; […]
ref: 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of camelopard.
cameleopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameleopard
leptospiroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptospirosis
leptospirotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to leptospirosis.
funnelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From funnel + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a funnel.
parakeratotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parakeratosis + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to parakeratosis.
Derived terms: hyperparakeratotic
paralanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralanguage
nonvasoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vasoactive.
Senses: glosses: Not vasoactive.
nontrigonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + trigonal.
Senses: glosses: Not trigonal.
noninhibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inhibitory.
Senses: glosses: Not inhibitory.
nonpurine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + purine.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to purine.
social democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social democrat
nonprurient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prurient.
Senses: glosses: Not prurient.
parakeratoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parakeratosis
Thackerayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Thackerayan
form: most Thackerayan
Etymology: From Thackeray + -an.
Senses: examples: text: What she already knew, moreover, was full to her vision, of English, of eccentric, of Thackerayan character, Kate Croy having gradually become not a little explicit on the subject of her situation, her past, her present, her general predicament, her small success, up to the present hour, in contenting at the same time her father, her sister, her aunt and herself.
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
glosses: Of or pertaining to William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist and satirist.
pouchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pouch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a pouch.
spoonbending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spoon + bending.
Senses: glosses: A form of stage magic involving the apparent deformation of objects, especially metal cutlery, with little or no physical force.
Related terms: spoonbender
spoonbender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoonbenders
Etymology: From spoon + bender.
Senses: glosses: An illusionist who performs spoonbending.
spoonbenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonbender
unkist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kist.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unkissed.
prenewtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: preNewtonian
Etymology: From pre- + Newtonian.
Senses: glosses: Before the work of Isaac Newton.
preNewtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of prenewtonian.
insecty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insecty
form: most insecty
Etymology: From insect + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But far more than the murmuring and insecty air of the moorland does the wet chirk-chirking of the living shore give one the idea of crowded and multitudinous life.
ref: 1865, Alexander Smith, A summer in Skye, page 288:
text: Altogether it was an insecty, odoriferous, screaming, wrangling, jostling throng, to shoulder one's way amongst.
ref: 1882, Laurence Oliphant, Land of Khemi: up and down the middle Nile:
glosses: Full of insects.
nonnewtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-Newtonian.
Derived terms: nonnewtonian fluid
non-Newtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Etymology: From non- + Newtonian.
Senses: glosses: Not Newtonian
Derived terms: non-Newtonian drive
non-Newtonian dynamics
non-Newtonian flow
non-Newtonian fluid
non-Newtonian gravity
non-Newtonian liquid
Rilkean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rilkean
form: most Rilkean
Etymology: From Rilke + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Austrian poet regarded as a transitional figure between the traditional and modernist poets.
nongelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gelling.
Senses: glosses: Not forming a gel.
nonkeratinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + keratinizing.
Senses: glosses: That does not keratinize.
unpurse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpurses
form: unpursing
form: unpursed
form: unpursed
Etymology: From un- + purse.
Senses: glosses: To bring (one's lips) back from a pursed expression.
unpursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + pursed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unpurse
unpursed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pursed.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, verbal praise or encouragement should not be given without appropriate inflection of the voice and related facial expressions, and yet how often we hear these encouraging cliches fall from unpursed lips in an expressionless face.
ref: 1975, George Daniel Spache, Good reading for the disadvantaged reader: multi-ethnic resources, page 14:
glosses: Not pursed.
unpurses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpurse
unpursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unpurse
Mycenaeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mycenaean
unmenaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + menaced.
Senses: glosses: Not menaced; unthreatened.
nonboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + boxing.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to the sport of boxing.
unstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsteps
form: unstepping
form: unstepped
form: unstepped
Etymology: From un- + step.
Senses: glosses: To remove (the mast) from a sailing vessel.
unsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstep
unstepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstep
unstepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstep
unstepped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unstepped tower
glosses: Not stepped; without steps.
nonexecuting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + executing.
Senses: examples: text: A nonexecuting program is the limp puppet without a hand, an empty shell. Slip a computer inside and it becomes a working software machine: an electric-powered information-transforming machine...
ref: 1998, David Hillel Gelernter, Machine beauty: elegance and the heart of technology:
text: Program comments are nonexecuting statements that you add to a program for the purpose of documentation. Programmers use comments to leave notes for themselves and for others who might read their programs in the future.
ref: 2003, Joyce Farrell, Java Programming:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not executing; not running.
examples: text: Figure 17.1 Murder rates in executing and nonexecuting states.
ref: 2008, Hugo M. Mialon, Paul H. Rubin, Economics, law and individual rights, page 403:
glosses: Not carrying out executions; without capital punishment.
raw_tags: of a nation or state
nonthickened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thickened.
Senses: glosses: Not thickened.
nonthickening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + thickening.
Senses: glosses: Not thickening.
nonvisa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + visa.
Senses: examples: text: In theory, upon arrival all nonvisa visitors must obtain a free tourist card, good for 90 days and renewable for 90 more.
ref: 1992, Wayne Bernhardson, María Massolo, Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay: a travel survival kit:
text: Switzerland, for example, had a long-standing nonvisa agreement with Germany, but in the summer of 1938, alarmed by the prospect of a Jewish deluge, they demanded some form of travel identification.
ref: 1997, Ruth Lewin Sime, Lise Meitner: a life in physics, page 226:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to visas.
dutyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duty + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dutiless.
dutiless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dutyless
Etymology: From duty + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Ab initio, in Roman right, man was dutiless towards his fellows […]
ref: 1882, Sabine Baring-Gould, Germany, present and past:
glosses: Without duties.
Derived terms: dutilessness
unsuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suckled.
Senses: examples: text: Women who consistently use one breast for suckling likewise have a higher risk of developing breast cancer in the unsuckled breast.
ref: 1998, Barbara Joseph, My healing from breast cancer, page 103:
glosses: Not suckled.
neurosomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + somatic, coined by Psychiatrist Jay A. Goldstein.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to illnesses of the body caused by neurological dysfunctions
raw_tags: in some forms of alternative medicine
glosses: Relating to a neurosome
handwavium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /handˈweɪ.vi.əm/
ipa: /hændˈweɪ.vi.əm/
Etymology: From hand waving + -ium (“the chemical element suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: My handwavium was an invented mineral, but - reading up - what about platinum? Could I substitute platinum for handwavium?
ref: 2008 February 3, Jacey Bedford <jacey@artisan-harmony.com>, “Handwavium”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):
text: It made no sense to him that their very impossibility was their pleasure. He puzzled over the spacecraft and their handwavium drives. "The thousand and one nights of Scheherazade, told by an engineering student who failed his graduation exams," was his literary judgment.
ref: 2008 March, Alexander Jablokov, “The Boarder”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 114, number 3, Concord, N.H.: Fantasy House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
text: She writes romantic fantasy and science fiction, and makes liberal use of the substance known as handwavium.
ref: 2012, Imogen Howson, Blood of the Volcano, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN, page 167:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Any hypothetical but unobtainable material with desirable engineering properties.
Synonyms: unobtainium
Related terms: handwave
hand waving
handwaving
handwavy
wave of the hand