cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
furioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furiosos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian. Doublet of furious.
Senses: glosses: A furious person; a violent madman.
posada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posadas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish posada.
Senses: examples: text: They make a posada for the kids over there.
ref: 2008 December 24, Judith Lerner, “A chef's menu stirs Christmas memories”, in Berkshire Eagle, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
glosses: A traditional Mexican Christmas procession.
glosses: An inn in Spanish-speaking regions.
urosepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + sepsis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: sepsis caused by bacteria from the urinary tract invading the bloodstream
coppicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coppice
coppicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coppicings
Senses: examples: text: Coppicing provides a perpetual supply of small timber for village craftsmen, […] The art of coppicing was known to late Stone Age Britons who used the poles for causeways which, in wet ground, have survived to the present day.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:
glosses: The act of cutting back a woody plant to promote new growth.
coppiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coppice
coppiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An HS2 'receptor site' for trans-located trees, new saplings and coppiced tree stumps has been established on the eastern side of Cubbington Wood.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 45, photo caption:
glosses: Cut back to ground level to stimulate growth.
raw_tags: of trees
Derived terms: uncoppiced
mustine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mechlorethamine
Derived terms: prednimustine
dumbs down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dumb down
estancias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estancia
ecological footprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecological footprint
carbon footprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon footprint
hindsight is 20/20
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the term 20/20 referring to normal visual acuity.
Senses: examples: text: Another common error dealing with memory is that of "hindsight bias." This is the tendency to exaggerate what could have been anticipated in the past. This is also known as "Monday morning quarter backing" or "hindsight is 20/20" where the "right" decision as to what should have been done appears to be more obvious now than it was in the past.
ref: 2009, Joseph Grcic, Facing Reality: An Introduction to Philosophy, Revised edition, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, page 57:
text: Honestly? If you would have told me that becoming a professional tennis player might net me a decent supply of free pasta, I would have never begged my mom to quit my lessons. 😭 Hindsight = 20/20.
ref: 2023 July 30, Gretty Garcia, “Coco Gauff Is Still a Teenager, but Her Net Worth Reveals That She’s Already a Millionaire”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: In hindsight things are obvious that were not obvious from the outset; one is able to evaluate past choices more clearly than at the time of the choice.
wikipedia: Kongming
Related terms: twenty-twenty hindsight
it is easy to be wise after the event
Monday-morning quarterback
pudding-basin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudding-basins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pudding basin.
seeing stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see stars
xeriscaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But do not get devotees of xeriscaped yards, as desert landscaping is known, started about the deleterious effects of all that grass planted around the desert, wastefully sapping water, a valuable and scarce commodity here.
ref: 2011 April 9, Marc Lacey, “Spraying to Make Yards Green ... but With Paint, Not Water”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: simple past and past participle of xeriscape
xeriscapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeriscaping
hotwire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotwires
form: hotwiring
form: hotwired
form: hotwired
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hot-wire.
thenabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It has been conjectured that Aram got much of Cark’s money, and therewith paid off a mortgage; but this is only conjecture; and as he got a legacy by the will of an old lady thenabouts, it is as fair to presume that this money, so applied, was his own.
ref: 1838, Norrisson Cavendish Scatcherd, Memoirs of the Celebrated Eugene Aram, who was executed for the murder of Daniel Clark in 1759, page 35:
text: Our friend, Simon Jennings, could not sleep that night ; his reveries and scheming lasted from the rum-punch’s final drop, at ten p.m., to circiter two, a.m., and then, or thenabouts, the devil hinted “ steal it ;” and so, not till nearly four, he began to shut his eyes and dream again, as his usual fashion was, of adding up receipts in five figures, and of counting out old Bridget’s hoarded gold.
ref: 1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Crock of Gold: A Rural Nobel, page 194:
text: Seven years ago my wife, Rupert Brooke and I were eastbound from New York, and—then or thenabouts—I wrote from shipboard an open letter on the theater to the Editor of Drama.
ref: 1921, Maurice Browne, Theater Arts Magazine, “Lonely Places: An Open Letter to the Editors of the Theatre Arts Magazine”, Theater Publications, page 207
glosses: about then
serrature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serratures
Etymology: From Latin serratura (“a sawing”).
Senses: examples: text: When a serrate leaf has small serratures upon the large ones, it is said to be Doubly-serrate
ref: 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
glosses: A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.
glosses: One of the teeth in a serrated edge; a serration.
domaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domaines
Etymology: From French domaine (“zone, estate”). Doublet of domain.
Senses: examples: text: Put [...] a gun to my head to name the domaine, I would blurt out la Romanée-Conti, for the spicy cassis and black cherry alone.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 52:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: A vineyard or wine estate, especially in France.
calabaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calabazas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.
Senses: glosses: A burr gherkin.
escolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escolars
Etymology: From Spanish escolar, because of a resemblance of the rings around the eyes to a scholar's spectacles. Doublet of scholar.
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Senses: examples: text: And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum). Consumption of more than 100 grams or so of this species causes severe diarrhoea.
ref: 2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7:
glosses: Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, one of the snake mackerels.
glosses: Any fish of species Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish.
glosses: Any of several other perciform fish of the family Gempylidae (snake mackerels).
Synonyms: sense: perciform fish
word: snake mackerel
sense: perciform fish
word: walu
sense: perciform fish
word: waloo
sense: perciform fish
word: butterfish
sense: perciform fish
word: super white tuna
sense: perciform fish
word: white tuna
sense: perciform fish
word: ex-lax fish
sense: perciform fish
word: laxative of the sea
reno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnoʊ/
Forms: form: renos
Senses: examples: text: The book is divided into four parts: "The Look of Your House" examines the exterior and front and back entries; "Kitchens and Gathering Spaces" deals not just with kitchens but also basements; "Baths and Personal Spaces" covers bedrooms, home offices and, best of all, a place of your own; and "Pulling It All Together" wraps it up with whole house renos.
ref: 2009 May 16, Peggy Mackenzie, “Thoughtful renovation or `thinking better' is the answer”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Clipping of renovation.
reno
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnoʊ/
Forms: form: renos
form: renoing
form: renoed
form: renoed
Senses: examples: text: We just renoed the bathroom last spring.
text: Fancy a church conversion, tackling a crumbling cottage, or renoing a stone townhouse that backs onto the ocean?
ref: 2020 June 27, Lauren Heskin, “3 renovation projects to buy in Ireland for less than €65,000”, in Image, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025:
glosses: Clipping of renovate
snavel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snavels
form: snaveling
form: snavelling
form: snaveled
form: snaveled
form: snavelled
form: snavelled
Etymology: Probably related to snaffle, which may be from Dutch snavel.
Senses: examples: text: 1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 59,
Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it! […] ”
text: Billy May said he made his first electric guitars after talking to an American named Paul Bigsley, who claimed to be the inventor of the Tremolo Lever, which idea, according to Billy, was “snavelled” by Fender and improved upon.
ref: 1996, Lorene Ruymar, The Hawaiian Steel Guitar and Its Great Hawaiian Musicians, page 42:
glosses: To steal, to pickpocket.
examples: text: Paul tried to snavel Dan′s chair from under him.
text: 1915, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 472,
This was in his constituency, and he believed the idea was to go straight through the reserve eventually — that if they snavelled this piece now they would snavel more of this playground a little later on, and completely spoil the reserve.
text: These primitive merchants lost the Booradeela Timber Reserve when it was snavelled up even before the Depression by the Kincomba Building Combine with a wheedled government contract.
ref: 1986, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, page 26:
glosses: To snatch.
sapa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sapa.
Senses: glosses: A reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to a third of the original volume.
Related terms: carenum
defrutum
dyslogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyslogistic
form: most dyslogistic
Etymology: From dys- + -logistic, on the model of eulogistic.
Senses: glosses: Expressing censure or disapproval
Derived terms: dyslogistically
give a toss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: gives a toss
form: giving a toss
form: gave a toss
form: given a toss
Senses: examples: text: “Tiles ... tiles ... splashback,” he burbled, trying to make himself heard over the crunching of diazepam tablets. Boris shrugged, not bothering to talk in meaningful sentences or even attempting to conceal the fact that he didn’t really give a toss.
ref: 2019 November 18, John Crace, “Boris Johnson gets down to the business of getting business down”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care.
raw_tags: in the negative
pudding basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudding basin
pudding-basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pudding-basin
neoliberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoliberalisms
Etymology: From neo- + liberalism.
Senses: examples: text: The age of Obama was the last gasp of neoliberalism. Despite some progressive words and symbolic gestures, Obama chose to ignore Wall Street crimes, reject bailouts for homeowners, oversee growing inequality and facilitate war crimes like US drones killing innocent civilians abroad.
ref: 2016 November 17, Cornel West, “Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: economic rationalism
market liberalism
hypernyms: capitalism
glosses: A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation.
glosses: The ideology associated with the New Democrats and the Democratic Leadership Council.
Derived terms: neoliberal
neoliberalist
neoliberalistic
neoliberally
obstinancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstinancies
Etymology: From obstinant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: Obstinance; the characteristic of being obstinate.
Synonyms: obstinacy
obstinance
obstinateness
stubbornness
obstinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obstinances
form: obstinence
Etymology: From Middle English obstinance, obstinaunce, from Medieval Latin obstināntia, equivalent to obstinant + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being obstinate.
Synonyms: obstinacy
obstinateness
stubbornness
obstinances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstinance
obstinancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obstinancy
obstinateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obstinate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being obstinate.
Synonyms: obstinacy
obstinance
obstinancy
stubbornness
high fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high five
high fives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of high five
high fiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of high five
high fived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of high five
fived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of five
fiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of five
ochlocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ochlocracy
meritocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meritocracy
for cryin' out loud
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "For cryin' out loud!" from Hamilton. "Look Doc, that damned calf is still alive."
ref: 1940, Richard John Dinsmore, "Hoss" Doctor, page 302:
text: ‘I knew yeh weren’t gettin’ yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn’t even know abou’ Hogwarts, fer cryin’ out loud!’
ref: 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV:
text: Then, why not pray to the trees, for cryin' out loud, and next, the dumb birds?
ref: 1999, Tom Hanley, Flyboys, page 25:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for crying out loud.
p.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pp.
form: p
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of page.
p.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: p
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of people’s.
biological clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biological clock
coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee
coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coffee
evenfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evenfalls
Etymology: From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.
Senses: examples: text: The wind that blows across them calls
Ever at dawns and evenfalls,
And I am suddenly forlorn.
Across the pastures and ripe corn
I see the mountains in my dreams.
ref: 1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 15:
text: Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: dusk, twilight
Synonyms: crepusculum
mirkning
nightfall
dusk
asperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æspəɹeɪt/
ipa: /æspəɹət/
homophone: aspirate
Forms: form: asperates
form: asperating
form: asperated
form: asperated
Etymology: From Latin asperatus, from asperare (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Senses: glosses: To make rough or harsh.
asperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æspəɹeɪt/
ipa: /æspəɹət/
homophone: aspirate
Forms: form: more asperate
form: most asperate
Etymology: From Latin asperatus, from asperare (“to make rough”), from asper (“rough”).
Senses: glosses: Rough.
Synonyms: asperous
Related terms: aspirate
tutelar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːtələ/
ipa: /ˈtuːtəlɚ/
Forms: form: more tutelar
form: most tutelar
Etymology: From Latin tūtelāris, from tūtēla (“tutelage, guardianship; dependent, client”) + -āris (suffix used to form an adjective, usually from a noun, indicating a relationship or a pertaining to).
Senses: glosses: Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary.
Synonyms: word: protective
word: tutelaric
word: tutelary
tutelar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːtələ/
ipa: /ˈtuːtəlɚ/
Forms: form: tutelars
Etymology: From Latin tūtelāris, from tūtēla (“tutelage, guardianship; dependent, client”) + -āris (suffix used to form an adjective, usually from a noun, indicating a relationship or a pertaining to).
Senses: glosses: One that is tutelary.
Synonyms: word: guardian
word: protector
word: tutelary
Related terms: tutelage
tutelarity
tutor
Löwenstein-Jensen medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Löwenstein-Jensen mediums
Senses: synonyms: LJ medium
glosses: A primary mycobacterial recovery medium composed of fresh whole eggs, defined salts, glycerol, potato flour, and malachite green.
LJ medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Löwenstein-Jensen medium.
shellback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellbacks
Etymology: From shell + back.
Senses: examples: text: “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161:
synonyms: barnacle
glosses: A worldly sailor.
glosses: A sailor who has crossed the equator.
Derived terms: shellback crab
rampike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rampikes
form: rampick
form: rampole
form: ranpike
Senses: glosses: A standing dead tree.
bagnio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbænɪɔ/
Forms: form: bagnios
Etymology: From Italian bagno, from Latin balneum (“bath”). Doublet of bain, balaneion, and banya.
Senses: examples: text: an old woman who has charge of a bagnio
ref: 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “婆 (phûa)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 458:
glosses: A brothel.
glosses: A building for bathing, sweating.
glosses: In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
ventricose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ventricose
form: most ventricose
Senses: glosses: distended; corpulent
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Broadest in the middle and tapering toward the ends
Derived terms: fusoid-ventricose
luteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːtiəs/
ipa: /ˈludiəs/
Forms: form: more luteous
form: most luteous
Etymology: From Latin lūteus.
Senses: examples: text: And men wept sorely,—for his voice had smoothed / Life’s whirlpool, with its softly-echoing tones, / Filling their hearts with peace—but his glad soul / Flung off her luteous chains, and winged her way / Far, far above the pigmy lamentations / Or frivolous praise of men.
ref: 1856, [Thomas Brinsley Norton Grantley], “The Dead Priest”, in Pinocchi, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son […], →OCLC, page 92:
text: […] the hind tibiæ more luteous than in T. cordiger, but with the apical sixth more contrastedly black; […]
ref: 1909, G[eorge] H[enry] Verrall, Stratiomyidæ and Succeeding Families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain, London: […] Gurney & Jackson, […], page 411:
text: The man who had been standing in the doorway stepped forward to greet them. No pheretrer he! His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.
ref: 1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2:
text: The driver’s smile widened, showing his luteous tombstone teeth.
ref: 1990, Ronald Frame, “Un Homme et une Femme”, in Bluette, Sevenoaks, Kent: Sceptre, published 1991, →ISBN, part I (Aquae-Regis), page 76:
text: His lips still curled back from his luteous teeth like old cabbage leaves, his pointed snout tested the air like a trunk.
ref: 1990 October, Ned Wynn, chapter 1, in We Will Always Live in Beverly Hills: Growing Up Crazy in Hollywood, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Tepshen Lahl nodded, his luteous features grave.
ref: 1990 December, Angus Wells, chapter 6, in The Way Beneath (Kingdoms; 3), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 122:
text: He put his hand on the door handle, but made no other move to leave. He turned his luteous smile on her. “I’m afraid you'll have to loan me some scratch.”
ref: 2000, Theresa Donovan Brown, “Sentinel”, in Summitville, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 129:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Yellowish.
glosses: Of or pertaining to mud.
Derived terms: luteously
fanion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænjən/
rhymes: -ænjən
Forms: form: fanions
Etymology: From French fanion.
Senses: glosses: A small flag used for marking positions, especially by soldiers and surveyors.
liquescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more liquescent
form: most liquescent
Etymology: From Latin liquescens, present participle of liquescere.
Senses: examples: text: That this, as well as other clays, is streaked and variegated, is owing to the mixture and insinuation of differently coloured, moistened and dissolved portions of earth. Hence the various colours of veined marble, colours inserted, during the liquescent state of marbles, by the concourse of differently shaded earths.
ref: 1758, William Borlase, chapter 6, in The Natural History of Cornwall, Oxford: printed for the Author, page 71:
text: And now, as the night was senescent
And star-dials pointed to morn,
As the star-dials hinted of morn,
At the end of our path a liquescent
And nebulous lustre was born,
ref: 1847, Edgar Allan Poe, Ulalume:
text: Blood mingled with liquescent skin and melting bone to form a reeking gelatinous mask.
ref: 1986, Shaun Hutson, chapter 17, in Relics, Caffeine Nights Publishing, published 2013:
glosses: Melting.
Derived terms: liquescently
miniatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miniatory
form: most miniatory
form: minatory
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of minatory.
struma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹuːmə/
Forms: form: strumas
form: strumae
Etymology: From Latin strūma.
Senses: examples: text: This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 186:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Scrofula.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.
Derived terms: strumose
spiritoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian spiritoso.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: spirituoso
glosses: In a lively or spirited manner
dot bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot bombs
Etymology: Blend of dotcom + bomb
Senses: examples: text: The 1990s saw many dot bombs.
glosses: A failed dot-com company.
dot com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot coms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dotcom.
pukeko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukekos
form: pukeko
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pūkeko.
security moms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of security mom
prebuttal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebuttals
Etymology: Blend of preemptive + rebuttal.
Senses: examples: text: You're no flexecuive, after all, just a lowly permalance. Your prebuttals fall flat, and he orders you on to a data fast, tosses a message slip on your inflatable, and leaves.
ref: 2001 December 17, Hubert B. Herring, “Roll Over, Shakespeare, the Future Is Here”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The pope should stick to religion and leave science to the scientists, said one conservative, the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, in one of a wave of “prebuttal” remarks as the encyclical was being finalized.
ref: 2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Still, is there a more exciting player in the prebuttal space than Facebook, whose attempts to get out in front of the fortnightly exposés of its behaviour are fast becoming a totally non-ominous part of the early 21st-century powerscape?
ref: 2021 October 22, Marina Hyde, “Finally, Facebook can say it’s not the most toxic social network”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A preemptive rebuttal.
Related terms: prebut
rebut
brocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒkɪt/
Forms: form: brockets
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French brocart, broquart.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: knobber, knobbler, pricket, spitter
text: “Why, a stag is called a brocket until he is three years old, at four years he is a staggart; at five years a warrantable stag; and after five years he becomes a hart royal.”
ref: 1847, Frederick Marryat, chapter 4, in The Children of the New Forest, England: H. Hurst:
glosses: A stag in its second year, before its horns have started branching.
examples: text: Before fighting, brockets rear and jump in display; when fighting, they jump over each other, striking the opponent with the hooves of the forelegs or hind legs in passing.
ref: 1998, Valerius Geist, Deer of the World, page 118:
glosses: A brocket deer, a member of genus Mazama, of short-horned deer of the tropical Americas.
Infobahn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infobahn
Etymology: Blend of info + autobahn.
Senses: examples: text: While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the ‘infobahn’, cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the ‘post-human’ philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult.
ref: 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: cloud
word: cyberspace
word: digital highway
word: Infobahn
word: information superhighway
word: Internet
word: internet
word: Intertubes
word: interweb
word: Net
word: net
word: series of tubes
word: t'internet
word: interwebs
word: interwebz
glosses: The information superhighway.
pelerine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛləˈɹiːn/
Forms: form: pelerines
Etymology: From French pèlerine, feminine of pèlerin (“pilgrim”), from Late Latin pelegrīnus.
Senses: examples: text: […] Around his shoulders, he wore a thick gray pelerine. This was the custom of the knights of the Kingdom of the Spears, the land of the beaches and the chalk cliffs with great castles[…]
ref: 2021 November 16, Clark Gillian, The Enchanted Deer and the Dreams of the Fool, Brave New Books, →ISBN:
text: Beneath the pale light crouched an ancient white-haited man, wrapped against the rain in a threadbare maroon pelerine. “Alms, sire,” he croaked, his eyes wide and fearful, his face lean and hungry. He was so thin […]
ref: 2004 09, Julie D'Arcy, Silverdawn, Mundania Press, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender).
glosses: A woman's tippet or cape with long ends coming down in front.
pricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪkɪt/
Forms: form: prickets
Etymology: From Middle English precat, preket, priket, pryket; equivalent to prick + -et. Earlier currency of the Middle English word is apparently implied by surnames and borrowings into Latin and Anglo-Norman.
Senses: glosses: A candle.
examples: text: Lighting their way with tallow candles on pewter prickets.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 174:
glosses: A spike for holding a single candle.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: brocket, knobber, knobbler, spitter
text: he can stay / For the new-mown hay, / And startle the dappled prickets?
ref: 1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:
glosses: A male deer in its second year, whose antlers have not yet branched.
luxate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌk.seɪt/
Forms: form: luxates
form: luxating
form: luxated
form: luxated
Etymology: From Latin luxātus (“dislocated”) perfect passive participle of lū̆xō (“to dislocate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: If in cases of difficulty you have recourse to this means, luxate downwards as far as half the dorsopalmar diameter, and then vice versa.
ref: 1863, Stephen Smith, Hand-book of Surgical Operations, page 97:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To dislocate.
Coordinate terms: subluxate
Derived terms: luxating patella
subluxated
luxate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌk.seɪt/
Forms: form: more luxate
form: most luxate
Etymology: From Latin luxātus (“dislocated”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dislocated.
rhabdomantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdomantists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rhabdomancer.
synonyms: word: rhabdomancer
yetts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yett
mundungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭndŭngʹgəs
ipa: /mʌnˈdʌŋɡəs/
enpr: mən'dəngʹgəs
ipa: /ˌmənˈdəŋɡəs/
Etymology: From the Spanish mondongo (“tripe, entrails”), perhaps via its English etymon mondongo.
Senses: examples: text: Claret is the universal medicine here, and mundungus port the bane and stupefaction of all society.
ref: 1767, November 5, George Faulkner, a letter to William Bowyer
glosses: Offal; waste animal product; organic matter unfit for consumption.
examples: text: Whom he brings in among us
And bribes with mundungus;
ref: 1728 July 28, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint Against the Dean, Jonathan Swift:
text: The whole town of Ryde could not supply a single leaf [of tea]; for as to what Mrs. Francis and the shop called by that name, it was not of Chinese growth. It did not indeed in the least resemble tea, either in smell or taste, or in any particular, unless in being a leaf: for it was in truth no other than a tobacco of the mundungus species.
ref: 1755, Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, pages 130–131:
text: Nobody can doubt, particularly if country be taken into the consideration, that the grinders and retailers of Mundungus were among the author's encouragers. … that he had told the Secretary of the Treasury, that if the Mundungus was taxed, “he would be damn'd if ever he forgave him, while he had an existence.”
ref: 1801 May, William Cobbett, “Porcupine's Works; Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a Faithful Picture of the United States of America; etc.”, in A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats, Part I, volume 2, page 50:
glosses: Poor-quality tobacco with a foul, rancid, or putrid smell.
troche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹoʊ.ki/
homophone: trochee
rhymes: -əʊki
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊʃ/
Forms: form: troches
Etymology: Medical English got troche and trochiscus from late Latin trochiscus; from Ancient Greek τρόχισκος (trókhiskos, “a small ball”), ultimately from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).
Senses: examples: text: At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.
ref: 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, page 260:
text: The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.
ref: 1909, A. Emil Hiss, The International Formulary, volume 1, page 515:
text: The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.
ref: 2015, Robert P. Shrewsbury, Applied Pharmaceutics in Contemporary Compounding, page 215:
glosses: A lozenge; a cough drop.
rhabdomantists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhabdomantist
divining rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divining rods
Senses: synonyms: word: dowsing rod
word: dowser
word: virgula
word: doodlebug
glosses: Rod used for dowsing, a technique of divination used to locate subterranean sources of water, metal, other mineral resources or even various other things through magic, or according to many believers a natural phenomenon.
Related terms: word: diviner
english: one adept at using a divining rod
translation: one adept at using a divining rod
word: rhabdomantist
yersel
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: ye
Senses: glosses: yourself
divining rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divining rod
dowsing rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dowsing rods
Senses: glosses: Synonym of divining rod.
synonyms: word: divining rod
dowsing rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dowsing rod
dicacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈkeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more dicacious
form: most dicacious
Etymology: From Latin dicāx, from dīcō (“to say”).
Senses: examples: text: So obstinate was this dicacious and pleonastic old man, in his struggles to monopolise the whole conversation in the salle-à-manger, that upon a gentle, respectable, and seedy English clergyman, with the usual amount of wife and children, gliding in, and beginning quietly to converse with his family, he violently wrenched the newspaper from the hands of the nearest waiter, and read out loud, at the top of his voice, an entire leading article!
ref: 1792: [ANONYMOUS EDITOR AC02751662], Sporting Magazine, serial 3, volume 32 (July–December, 1858), page 360 (Rogerson & Tuxford)
text: Believers, then, as we are, in phrenology, we cannot say that we believe in it as a trade. It is a science ( so to speak ) in embryo. It may be likened to a noble edifice, the foundations of which are laid broad and deep, upon the principles of unchangeable, eternal truth, and the superstructure of which, it must be the work of patient perseverance, deep study, close observation, and rational philosophy to rear, range after range, until it shall stand a firm and lasting monument, at once of the blessings arising from a careful cultivation of those powers of research, into the deep mysteries of our nature, wherewith God has endowed us, as well as of his benevolent providence, his fatherly kindness, and his consummate wisdom. There will be quacks and sciolous pretenders around the edifice while it is rearing, with their handicraft tools, and dicacious mystifications ( ‘blind leaders of the blind’ ) — but as in the building of the great temple, the sound of the hammer and the axe must not be heard in preparing its massive ranges, as they rise, mind impelled, towards the sky, displaying to the world, at last, the true philosophy of that most wondrous work of the Creator — THE HUMAN MIND.
ref: 1840, in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, pp237–238
text: “Gr-r-r-r!” from Doctor Sims, lunging for the saltcellar as it skated away. “Your mental attitude, Martin, always inclines to the flippant and dicacious. Personally, I find the present exuberant actions of the ship most distasteful.”
ref: 2004 July 2 (reprint date; date of first publication unknown), Hugh McAlister, The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirigible, p103 (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints); →ISBN)
text: I’d get back on to your medication pronto.
Itself in response to the question posted by “tomcatpolka” at 2:22am:
My dictionary says that lepid (pleasant, jocose) comes from the Latin lepidus. Should I think flitting like a butterfly or leaping like a rabbit?
ref: 2003: “tomcatpolka”, rec.arts.books (Google group): lepid, the 5ᵗʰ day of October at 3:13am Don’t be so dicacious! In response to the comment posted by “francis muir” at 3 o’clock a.m.
glosses: Talkative; pert; saucy.
Related terms: dicacity
buhl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: buhls
form: boulle
form: boule
Etymology: A pronunciation spelling of Boulle, a French woodcarver.
Senses: examples: text: In preparation for a client of his type, she had brought into the shop a buhl cabinet, selected from Jabez Rintle's hoard, and that piece, with its elaborate craftsmanship in brass, inlay, tortoiseshell and carving, arrested Mr Jacobson's flair for a bargain in financial values at least.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
examples: text: Fancy a Member of Parliament and an old English Baronet, by Gad! obliged to put a drawing-room clock and a buhl inkstand up the spout; and a gold duck’s-head paper-holder, that I dare say cost my wife five pound, for which they’d only give me fifteen-and-six!
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 61, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.
Derived terms: buhl work
buhlwork
kekeke
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese けけけ (kekeke).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The sound of a soft cackle.
raw_tags: in translations of Japanese works
apache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: apaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Apache, a Parisian gangster.
monochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + chronic.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by a system where things are done one at a time.
glosses: Contemporaneous.
examples: text: Western Europe tends to have a monochronic time orientation, as exemplified by the adage "there is a time and place for everything".
glosses: Having or relating to a personality type or culture (distinguished from polychronic) which prefers to set a certain time to perform each task.
Derived terms: monochronically
monochronicity
bâton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bâtons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baton.
polychronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polychronic
form: most polychronic
Senses: glosses: Happening at different times.
examples: text: A polychronic person may watch television, surf the Internet and talk on the telephone at the same time.
synonyms: multitasking
glosses: Able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Having or relating to a personality type or culture (distinguished from monochronic) which does not set a certain time to perform each task.
Derived terms: polychronically
Related terms: polychronicity
polychrony
polychronization
chronemics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Thomas J. Bruneau.
Senses: glosses: The study of the communicative function of time.
Coordinate terms: proxemics
ahorse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈhɔːs/
ipa: /əˈhɔɹs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From a- + horse.
Senses: examples: text: He managed to escape ahorse.
text: 1817, Maria Edgworth, Ormond, Chapter 4, in Harrington, and Ormond, Tales, London: R. Hunter, Volume 2, p. 85,
“By all that’s princely,” cried he, “then, that young Harry Ormond was intended for a prince, he sits a horse so like myself; and that horse requires a master hand to manage him.”
text: the right to proceed in peace, by whatever means he and his people saw fit, afoot or ahorse
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, published 1956, page 404:
text: Two Romans ahorse were circling about four dismounted Cimbri, who stood back to back and glared.
ref: 1960, Poul Anderson, chapter 2, in The Golden Slave,, New York: Avon:
glosses: On the back of a horse; on horseback.
Synonyms: horseback
ahorseback
ahorseback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈhɔː(ɹ)sbæk/
Etymology: From a- + horseback.
Senses: examples: text: Policemen once patrolled the streets ahorseback.
glosses: On the back of a horse; horseback.
Synonyms: horseback
ahorse
or-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English or-, from Old English or- (“or-”), from Proto-West Germanic *oʀ-, *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with West Frisian oar-, Dutch oor-/oer-, German ur-, Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-). Identical with Old English ā- (“a-”), and the German borrowing English ur-. More at a-.
Senses: examples: ordalian, ordeal, orlay, ort
glosses: From the outset; original; out; out of; without.
protologistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protologistic
form: most protologistic
Senses: examples: text: The American Dialect Society and similar organizations exist to identify protologistic words and track their development.
glosses: Of or pertaining to protologisms.
Marco Polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/
Forms: form: Marco Polos
form: marco polo
form: Marcopolo
form: marcopolo
Etymology: After Marco Polo (1254–1324), Venetian merchant, whose travels were documented in a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. The Italian name is from Latin Marcus + Paulus.
Senses: examples: text: Ibn Battuta has inevitably been compared with him and has usually taken second prize as "the Marco Polo of the Muslim world" or "the Marco Polo of the tropics"
ref: 2004, Ross E. Dunn, chapter 1, in The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century, page 5:
text: Gene Hunt: Come on, then, Marco Polo. Which way?
Sam Tyler: [consulting a blueprint] It's this way.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: A renowned traveler.
topics: games
coordinate_terms: Marco
marco
Polo
polo
glosses: A hunting game—usually played in a swimming pool—where the seeker moves with closed eyes or blindfolded, finding the other players by calling "Marco" and reacting to the other players' replies of "Polo".
halon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halons
Etymology: Blend of halogen + carbon
Senses: examples: text: The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons.
ref: 2009 February 12, Azadeh Ensha, “A Cellphone That Is Made With the Environment in Mind”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: haloalkane
glosses: A hydrocarbon (more precisely haloalkane) in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by halogens
patulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætʃələs/
Forms: form: more patulous
form: most patulous
Etymology: From Latin patulus.
Senses: examples: text: The foramen ovale was patulous — the opening about four lines in diameter.
ref: 1846, The Medical Times, volume 13, page 374:
synonyms: patulent
glosses: Open; spread; exposed
Derived terms: patulously
patulousness
sepon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suppawn.
flicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flick
flicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of flick
flicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flick
flicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: flickings
Senses: examples: text: Then he walks out and plays a fifteen-minute encore doing nothing but bumps and grinds and humps and tongue flickings.
ref: 2008, David Henderson, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky, page 339:
glosses: The act by which something is flicked.
gatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gata
standard lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard lamps
Etymology: See standard (“vertical pole”).
Senses: synonyms: floor lamp
torchère
glosses: A lamp supported by a tall vertical pole in order that light comes from above those seated in the vicinity.
battledore and shuttlecock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adele and Pilot—ran a race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ch XV, p242:
text: At night before I slept alternate horrors of ruin buffeted me this way and that in an endless game of battledore and shuttlecock.
ref: 1953 — Bertrand Russell, 'Satan in the Suburbs' or ' Horrors Manufactured Here' . (A short story published in 'Satan in the Suburbs and other stories', Penguin Books (1953), at p.19.)
glosses: An early version of the game badminton.
Cavachon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cavachons
Etymology: Blend of cavalier + bichon
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog that is a cross between a Bichon Frisé and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
squadrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squadrones
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of squadron.
tokay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: /toʊˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: tokays
form: tokaji
Etymology: From Hungarian tokaji (“of Tokay”), from Tokaj (placename) + -i (“originating from”).
Senses: glosses: A variety of grape grown in eastern Hungary and in eastern Slovakia.
examples: text: It was made from the furmint grape, which is better known in Hungary’s lusciously sweet tokays, but this was delicate, floral and just right with a tart chicken curry dish.
ref: 2009 February 25, Eric Asimov, “Asian Fusion, via the Wine List”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any of a variety of white wines made from this grape.
tokay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: /toʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈtəʊ.keɪ/
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.keɪ/
ipa: /təʊˈkeɪ/
ipa: /toʊˈkeɪ/
Forms: form: tokays
form: tockay
Etymology: See tokay gecko.
Senses: glosses: The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands.