cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
daintily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪntɪli/
Forms: form: more daintily
form: most daintily
Etymology: From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?
ref: c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 69, column 2:
text: At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: [Allegra]'s daintily readjusting her stance.
ref: 2019 October 18, Nintendo EPD, Ring Fit Adventure, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, scene: extra turn, level/area: Beaut Camp:
glosses: In a dainty manner, delicately.
dimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimpled
form: most dimpled
Senses: glosses: Having dimples
Derived terms: dimpled chad
undimpled
dimpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dimple
disbeliever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disbelievers
Etymology: From disbelieve + -er or dis- + believer.
Senses: examples: text: How was it possible that I, a rational man, not unacquainted with the leading scientific facts of our history, and hitherto an absolute and utter disbeliever in all the hocus-pocus which in Europe goes by the name of the supernatural, could believe that I had within the last few minutes been engaged in conversation with a woman two thousand and odd years old?
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: One who disbelieves; one who does not believe.
huso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husos
Etymology: From German Hausen and English isinglass.
Senses: glosses: A large European sturgeon (Huso huso), inhabiting the Black Sea and Caspian Sea; the beluga.
glosses: The huchen, a large salmon.
disbelieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsbɪˈliːv/
Forms: form: disbelieves
form: disbelieving
form: disbelieved
form: disbelieved
Etymology: Coined circa 1640, from dis- + believe. Compare misbelieve.
Senses: examples: text: If you disbelieve such people, then keep disbelieving them for as long as you live or want.
text: And the Lisbonites did not more disbelieve in, and dream less of their coming ruin, than Cecil did his, […]
ref: 1867, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “After a Richmond Dinner”, in Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: To not believe; to exercise disbelief.
examples: text: He chose to disbelieve the bad news as inconceivable.
glosses: To actively deny (a statement, opinion or perception).
examples: text: And so far as this opinion prevails, we have reason to fear that the important doctrine, of the real Divinity and even of the humanity of Christ, will be gradually disbelieved.
ref: 1802, The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, and Religious ...:
text: Elfrida walked slowly upstairs, reviewing what had happened and not happened in the last three, not to say six weeks, and gradually disbelieving the good case that she had made out.
ref: 1890, Edward Henage Dering, Freville Chase, volume 1, page 37:
text: He never "revolted" against Christianity; only, reluctantly and gradually, disbelieved it.
ref: 1923, David Alec Wilson, Life of Carlyle, volume 1, page 79:
text: From the moment he said "I love you" she slowly disbelieved everything he said.
ref: 1986, Dermot Healy, Fighting with Shadows, page 136:
text: Cook's claim was gradually disbelieved, and Cook fell into disfavor and died a pauper in 1940.
ref: 2007, Robert F. Gorman, Great Events from History: The 20th century, 1901-1940:
glosses: To cease to believe.
Synonyms: misbelieve
Derived terms: disbelievable
disbeliever
Related terms: disbelief
disbeliefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disbelief
indistinctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indistinctnesses
Etymology: From indistinct + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being indistinct.
examples: text: The two Martians halted, the nearer to us standing and facing Sunbury, the remoter being a gray indistinctness towards the evening star, away towards Staines.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 139:
glosses: An indistinct thing.
brut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brut
form: most brut
Etymology: From French brut (“raw”), from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“heavy”).
Senses: glosses: very dry, and not sweet
raw_tags: of champagne
potentiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potentiates
form: potentiating
form: potentiated
form: potentiated
Etymology: From potent + -i- + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after German potenzieren.
Senses: glosses: To endow with power.
glosses: To enhance.
examples: text: These antidepressants potentiate the analgesic action of opiates.
glosses: To increase the potency (of a drug or biochemical agent).
Derived terms: chemopotentiating
depotentiate
immunopotentiating
kickball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickballs
form: kick-ball
form: kick ball
Etymology: From kick + ball.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit.
examples: text: They bounced their kickball against the wall, flinging it at one another’s heads. It ricocheted between their bodies. Their sneakers squeaked through the silence.
ref: 2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 166:
glosses: The ball used in the above sport.
Synonyms: sense: sport
word: soccer baseball
Derived terms: kickballer
humpback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmpbæk/
Forms: form: humpbacks
form: humpbacking
form: humpbacked
form: humpbacked
form: hump-back
Etymology: From hump + back.
Senses: examples: text: The captain of the James Rodgers […] was an old hand at humpbacking […]
ref: 1895, Charles Nordhoff, chapter 10, in Whaling and Fishing, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 191:
text: […] the Alice Knowles […] did her whaling in the south Atlantic, by turns humpbacking off the African coast and cruising around Tristan in season.
ref: 1953, Emma Mayhew Whiting, Henry Beetle Hough, chapter 16, in Whaling Wives, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 240:
glosses: To hunt humpback whales.
handstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌstænd/
Forms: form: handstands
Etymology: From hand + stand.
Senses: glosses: The act of standing on one's hands, most often in an inverted way.
glosses: The position of standing on one's hands.
glosses: A headstand.
handstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌstænd/
Forms: form: handstands
form: handstanding
form: handstood
form: handstood
Etymology: From hand + stand.
Senses: examples: text: My student Jon for example is a juggler, wanting to add another string to his circus bow, he decided to learn to handstand; not wanting to ruin his wrists, he sought out some professional help in learning to handstand.
ref: 2017, Ash Bond, Gabrielle Parker, The Handstanding Yogi, page 193:
glosses: To perform a handstand.
shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftings
Senses: examples: text: I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
ref: 1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation:
text: But shiftings and readjustments ensued, as they are sure to do with a walking-party. Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man.
ref: 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:
text: Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.
ref: 1978, Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window:
glosses: A shift or change; a shifting movement.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon by which two or more constituents appearing on the same side of their common head exchange positions to obtain non-canonical order.
Derived terms: gear-shifting
money shifting
pixel shifting
reality shifting
shifting cultivation
shifting executory interest
time shifting
shifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shift
doof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: doofs
Etymology: From doofus, or alternatively from Scots, which uses the word with the same meaning. Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”).
Senses: glosses: A simpleton.
Derived terms: doofbag
doofoid
doof
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːf/
rhymes: -uːf
ipa: /dʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
ipa: /duːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.
Senses: synonyms: oontz
glosses: Imitating an electronic drum sound.
doof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːf/
rhymes: -uːf
ipa: /dʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
ipa: /duːf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: doofs
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.
Senses: glosses: A type of music with pronounced bass, typically associated with the modified car scene.
examples: text: Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.
ref: 2004, Graham St John, editor, Rave Culture and Religion, page 138:
text: Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs’ of Australian rave culture.
ref: 2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture, volume 2, page 110:
text: 2007, Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History, Volume 31, page 76,
The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.
glosses: An outdoor dance party, held in bushland in a remote area or on the outskirts of a city.
Derived terms: doof-doof
doofer
doofy
Related terms: doofus
doosh
oontz
chirpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)pi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pi
Forms: form: chirpier
form: chirpiest
Etymology: From chirp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's surprisingly chirpy for someone who just lost his father.
text: Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Country burr.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: In a good mood; happy and energetic.
glosses: Making chirping noises.
Derived terms: chirpily
chirpiness
chirpy as a cricket
chirpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)pi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)pi
Forms: form: chirpies
Etymology: From chirp + -y.
Senses: glosses: An electronic device which uses a piezoelectric transducer to make chirping noise, often designed to be hidden and function as an annoyance
glosses: Specifically, a version of the above designed to be thrown for placement. Similar to a throwie.
chanteuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒnˈtɜːz/
ipa: /ʃɑnˈtuːz/
rhymes: (UK) -ɜːz
rhymes: (US) -uːz
Forms: form: chanteuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French chanteuse (“female singer”).
Senses: examples: text: Smith could easily be lumped in with expressive chanteuses like Norah Jones and Alicia Keys, but she has a broader palette than either. On the soulful torch song "Dream," which Smith wrote, she conveys a sophisticated allure that would seem well beyond her twenty-seven years.
ref: 2006 September 7, Evan Serpick, “10 artists to watch 2006: The Noisettes, Jibbs, Silversun Pickups and seven other up-and-comers”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2009:
glosses: A female singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
Synonyms: chantress
breakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: more breakable
form: most breakable
Etymology: From break + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The accident was also one of several since Clapham […] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase survivability.
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 42:
glosses: Able to break or be broken.
examples: text: Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Ways of Getting Round”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Fragile.
Synonyms: frangible
fragile
Derived terms: breakableness
breakably
nonbreakable
breakable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkəbəl/
Forms: form: breakables
Etymology: From break + -able.
Senses: examples: text: We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.
text: She was, she wrote, “impatient and absent-minded, prone to drop things intentionally or through clumsiness, even breakables like dishes and love affairs; a woman who is perennially on the move, changing jobs and homes at the drop of a hat and inventing reasons afterward while she is packing; a person who runs away as soon as she gets nervous, long before she smells danger.”
ref: 2020 October 16, Sam Roberts, “Ruth Kluger, Author of a Haunting Holocaust Memoir, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something that is (easily) breakable.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
blowjobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blowjob
attagirl
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəˌɡɜː(ɹ)l/
Forms: form: attagal
form: atta girl
Etymology: A variant pronunciation of That's the girl!, a cry of encouragement, especially to children and pet dogs.
Senses: examples: text: Attagirl! That's the way to hit a home run!
glosses: Used to show encouragement or approval to a girl, woman, or female animal.
attagirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætəˌɡɜː(ɹ)l/
Forms: form: attagirls
form: attagal
form: atta girl
Etymology: A variant pronunciation of That's the girl!, a cry of encouragement, especially to children and pet dogs.
Senses: glosses: A cry of encouragement; an accolade.
Related terms: attaboy
you go, girl
capa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capas
Etymology: From Spanish capa. Doublet of cape and cappa.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish cloak.
glosses: Fine Cuban tobacco for the outsides of cigars.
CEDA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Cross Examination Debate Association.
fesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fesses
Senses: examples: text: It is crossed by a fesse argent (silver band) for the roads, and two pairs of narrow barrulets argent for the railways. On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.
ref: 1957 February 24, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fess (“horizontal band in heraldry”).
nombril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒmbɹɪl/
ipa: /ˈnɑmbɹəl/
Forms: form: nombrils
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French nombril.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A point halfway between the fess point (centre of the shield) and the middle base (bottom) point of an escutcheon.
Synonyms: navel point
nombril point
Derived terms: nombril point
Aizu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region in western Fukushima Prefecture. Primary city is Aizu Wakamatsu (会津若松).
poitrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪ.tɹin/
ipa: /ˌpwɑˈtɹin/
rhymes: (gallicized) -iːn
Forms: form: poitrines
Etymology: From French poitrine or a Middle or Old French predecessor.
Senses: glosses: The breastplate of a knight's armour.
examples: text: The horse-armour of the harnesses (A37-38), on the contrary, seems to have been made for the Emperor Maxmilian, […] The ear-coverings of the one are shaped like rams ' horns, and the poitrine, or breast-plate, is embossed with grotesque faces.
ref: 1924, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spain: An Historical and Descriptive Account of Its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts, page 58:
text: IMPORTANT Suit of TURKISH HORSE ARMOR XV Century
Composed of : chanfron, neck defences, poitrine, croupiere and side pieces of rectangular plates of steel joined by riveted links of mail; saddle, bridle, and stirrups.
ref: 1936, Frank Gair Macomber, Arms and Armor, Oriental and European Examples of the XV to XVIII Centuries: Valuable Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries:
glosses: Synonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”).
synonyms: word: poitrel
extra: chest-armor for a horse
examples: text: 2018, Jerome Bixby, Devilish Tales: A collection of droll, teasing and very wicked fantasies, Digital Parchment Press
Full red lips and a patrician nose, and a delicately formed but ample poitrine that curled Pierre's hands into iron hooks beneath the counter. "Forgive me, kind sir," she said, in a voice like music in a bedroom, […]
text: Her bodices fully covered her ample poitrine right up to her nonexistent neck.
ref: 2008, Leslie Carroll, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Penguin, →ISBN, page 326:
text: (She points to her ID badge, situated on her ample poitrine, allowing my next unforgivable remark.) DC: Men don't have those.
ref: 2010, Dick Cavett, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Chest, bosom, especially of a woman.
Related terms: poitrinal
poitrel
petronel
pectoral
false friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false friend
authorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authorships
form: authourship
Etymology: From author + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: authorhood
glosses: The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.
examples: text: We are unaware of the authorship of this book.
glosses: The source; the origin; the origination.
Derived terms: coauthorship
honorary authorship
hyperauthorship
Albigensian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Albigensian
form: most Albigensian
Etymology: From Albigenses + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.
glosses: of or relating to the heresy of Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France
Albigensian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Albigensians
Etymology: From Albigenses + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Albigenses
glosses: An inhabitant of Albi
glosses: an adherent to Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France
Hypernyms: Occitan
Frenchman
Frenchwoman
Derived terms: Albigensianism
Albigenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Medieval Latin, from French Albi.
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants of Albi, a city in southern France.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A sect of reformers opposed to the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th century AD, considered heretics who were subject to the Albigensian Crusade; a branch of the Catharists, distinct from the Waldenses.
Derived terms: Albigensian
Albi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune, the prefecture of Tarn department, Occitania, in southern France.
bumptiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumptiousnesses
Etymology: From bumptious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 13, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
bumptiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bumptiously
form: most bumptiously
Etymology: From bumptious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He bumptiously introduced himself and subsequently inferred himself as the topic of conversation.
glosses: In a bumptious manner.
conceitedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conceited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.
conceitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conceitedly
form: most conceitedly
Etymology: From conceited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a conceited or egotistical manner
glosses: fanciful; whimsically
Monte Carlo fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monte Carlo fallacies
Etymology: From an incident which took place at the Casino de Monte-Carlo.
Senses: synonyms: gambler's fallacy
glosses: The fallacy, most often believed by gamblers, that a past random event influences the outcome of a future random event, that is, that a run of even numbers at roulette means that there is a greater chance of an odd number next time.
Monte Carlo method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monte Carlo methods
Etymology: Named after the Monte Carlo casino.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of a class of techniques for estimating the solution of a numerical mathematical problem by means of a random artificial sampling experiment that simulates the problem.
wikipedia: Monte Carlo casino
defiantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)əntli/
Forms: form: more defiantly
form: most defiantly
Etymology: From defiant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a defiant manner.
defiantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)əntli/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of definitely.
vendace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛndɪs/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈvɛndeɪs/
rhymes: -ɛndɪs
Forms: form: vendaces
form: vendace
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots vendace, from Middle Scots *vendois, *vendis, from Middle French vendoise, vandoise (“dace”), from Old French vendoise, vandoise, from Late Latin *vindēsia, *vindisia, from Gaulish *windēsyā, from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”). Compare modern French vandoise (“dace”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two types of whitefish, Coregonus albula and Coregonus vandesius.
wikipedia: Brill Publishers
English Studies (journal)
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
Synonyms: sense: whitefish
word: European cisco
barramundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹəˈmʌndi/
Forms: form: barramundis
Etymology: Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language. Said to be from a language spoken in the Rockhampton area in Queensland, but this cannot be confirmed.
Senses: glosses: A diadromous fish of species Lates calcarifer, of the Centropomidae family, order Perciformes, widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific; a popular food fish.
glosses: Either of two fish, Scleropages leichardti and S. jardinii, of the family Osteoglossidae.
glosses: The fish Neoceratodus forsteri of the family Neoceratodontidae; the Australian lungfish.
Synonyms: word: Asian sea bass
word: barra
urls: https://www.fishbase.org/summary/346
word: For other English common names see barramundi at Fishbase
word: begti
bichir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈʃiːɹ/
ipa: /biˈʃiːɹ/
ipa: /ˈbiːʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪtʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɪtʃə/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
homophone: bitcher
homophone: biker
Forms: form: bichirs
Etymology: From the species epithet of Polypterus bichir taken over in 1802/1803, the years of its collection and description, after Arabic بَشِير (bašīr).
Senses: glosses: Any ray-finned fish of the genus Polypterus in the family Polypteridae, having elongated bodies covered in thick, bone-like, ganoid scales.
Hypernyms: polypterid
cladistian
Hyponyms: saddled bichir
caring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more caring
form: most caring
Etymology: From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
glosses: Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: caringly
caringness
noncaring
uncaring
uncaringness
caring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of care
Related terms: caring profession
caring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: carings
Etymology: From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.
ref: 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:
glosses: The act of one who cares.
Derived terms: childcaring
sandwich caring
relationships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relationship
survived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of survive
alter ego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːl.təɹ iːɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔl.tɚ iɡoʊ/
Forms: form: alter egos
Etymology: From Latin alter ego (literally “other me”).
Senses: examples: text: Clark Kent's coworkers finally discovered his alter ego, Superman.
text: […] a belief in the possibility of a man possessing an alter ego in the form of some animal such as a crocodile or a hippopotamus. It is believed that such a person's life is bound up with that of the animal to such an extent that, whatever affects the one produces a corresponding impression upon the other, and that if one dies the other must speedily do so too.
ref: 1897, Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, page 538:
text: As one commentator has remarked, all the confusing old three-syllable names that used to index Chinese politics can now be forgotten — the names and their bearers have ceased to be of the slightest importance. In their place stands one man — a small, frail, volatile but tremendously energetic man — who oddly enough has become the alter ego of that powerful, sprawling, sleepy giant that is China.
ref: 1938, Robert Berkov, “China's Chiang”, in Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 1:
text: Ruffalo's turn as Bruce Banner and his angry green alter-ego has been widely praised. Avengers Assemble (titled The Avengers outside the UK) is on course to be one of the year's biggest films and has received strong reviews.
ref: 2012 May 1, Ben Child, “Mark Ruffalo gets green light to play Hulk in six-movie deal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: An individual's alternate personality or persona; another self.
examples: text: GWM, 5'10", 175, 40, non-smoker, MCC-er. Good build. Int. in classical music, books, travel. Seeks alter ego with own peace for honest relationship.
ref: 1974 April 13, “Sex Isn't Everything! (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: A very close and intimate friend.
topics: law
glosses: A corporation used by a person to conduct personal business in an attempt to shield himself or herself from personal liability, and which a court may penetrate by "piercing the corporate veil" to impose liability on the person when they commit fraud or injustice.
Synonyms: alter idem
Derived terms: english: one identity of a person with dissociative identity disorder
translation: one identity of a person with dissociative identity disorder
word: alter
word: alteregoism
Related terms: alteregoism
alter-egotism
double life
skiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skive
skiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skivings
Senses: glosses: A piece made in skiving (paring or splitting) leather, especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: hobbing#Noun
glosses: A type of machining that skives metal, with various applications including gear cutting.
garage rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A simple, relatively raw form of rock and roll from the mid-1960s.
Related terms: garage band
squinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squint
squinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪntɪŋ/
Forms: form: squintings
Senses: examples: text: I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
ref: 1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828, page 153:
glosses: The act of one who squints.
scavengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scavenger
cœlacanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœlacanths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of coelacanth.
zoonoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzʊuˈnəʊ.sɪis/
Senses: glosses: plural of zoonosis
glosses: plural of zoonose
stopcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑpkɑk/
ipa: /ˈstɒpkɒk/
Forms: form: stopcocks
Etymology: From stop + cock.
Senses: glosses: A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe.
examples: text: If you have a burst pipe, turn the water off at the stopcock.
glosses: A main shutoff for water to a home from a municipal supply. Usually these valves exist in pairs, one outside the property boundary and one inside the property boundary.
Hypernyms: cock
shutoff
Coordinate terms: bibcock
petcock
seacock
sillcock
stopcock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑpkɑk/
ipa: /ˈstɒpkɒk/
Forms: form: stopcocks
form: stopcocking
form: stopcocked
form: stopcocked
Etymology: From stop + cock.
Senses: glosses: To control the gas pressure in (an oil well) by keeping the well closed in and the gas confined except during set intervals when the oil is flowed or pumped.
zoonosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
ipa: /zoʊˈɒn.ə.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌzoʊ.əˈnoʊ.sɪs/
Forms: form: zoonoses
form: zoönosis
Etymology: From zoo- + (itself from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”)) + Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) (compare also nosology); the surface analysis is almost, although not quite, zoo- + -osis; compare also anthroponosis.
Senses: examples: ref: 1982 February 11, A.L. Ritterson, “Valentine's day: is love really a zoonosis?”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2023, pages 372-373:
text: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
ref: 2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal disease, such as rabies or anthrax, that can be transmitted to humans.
Hyponyms: amphixenosis
amphizoonosis
Derived terms: anthropozoonosis
endozoonosis
epizoonosis
protozoonosis
reverse zoonosis
xenozoonosis
zoonositic
zoonotic
Related terms: anthroponosis
shoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌvɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English schovynge; equivalent to shove + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shove
shoving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌvɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌvɪŋ
Forms: form: shovings
Etymology: From Middle English schovynge; equivalent to shove + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We were soon separated by the pushings and shovings of the crowd.
glosses: The act of one who shoves.
seraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seraph
preparer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preparers
Etymology: From prepare + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.
installment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-stôlʹmənt
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɑl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstoːl.mənt/
Forms: form: installments
form: instalment
Etymology: A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“fix payments”), from Old French estal (“fixed position”), from Old High German stal (“stall", "standing place”)
The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.
Senses: examples: text: Not to give rise to suspicion, I drank when they were looking, and when able to do it unperceived, I quietly deposited the contents, by installments, under the table.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 20:
text: Granted, this was but the first installment in the long process of “hatching” and mastering a dragon egg, but it was a good start.
ref: 2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light: Touring the Visionary Geography of Santa Fe, New Mexico, →ISBN:
text: The blessings of the kingdom (healing, freedom, Stan's defat, abundant life, relationship with the King) are available now. Yet they are available only as a foretaste, the first installment of what will come when Christ returns.
ref: 2014, Karen Lee-Thorp, A Compact Guide to the Christian Life, →ISBN:
text: Now bands like Mumford and the Lumineers are fulfilling that role, but they're also becoming the latest installment of the whole "indie goes mainstream"/"mainstream co-opt indie" thing that's been happening since Seth Cohen's heyday -- or, you know, since Don Draper married Megan.
ref: 2015, How to Write About Music, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), and payment of which takes place at regular intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
examples: text: With The Two Towers, the new installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, about to storm the box office, we are seeing what might be called the enchanting of America.
ref: 2010, Michael A. Cramer, Medieval Fantasy as Performance, →ISBN, page ix:
text: It is a serial story which we are all reading, and which grows in vital interest with each successive installment.
ref: 2012, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, →ISBN:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A part of a published or broadcast serial.
Synonyms: sense: part of a broadcast or published serial
word: episode
sense: part of a broadcast or published serial
word: part
Derived terms: installment loan
installment plan
noninstallment
installment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-stôlʹmənt
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɑl.mənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstoːl.mənt/
Forms: form: installments
form: instalment
Etymology: From install + -ment, install from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installare, from Medieval Latin in- and Medieval Latin stallum, stall from a Germanic source (compare Old High German stal).
Senses: examples: text: Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], published 1649 (2nd printing), →OCLC:
text: In the twenty-two years Faellon had been Chief Servant, he had officiated at many royal ceremonies, including the burial of Joakal's father and mother, and Joakal's own installment as King nine years ago.
ref: 2000, Rebecca Neason, Guises of the Mind, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: The act of installing; installation.
examples: text: Each faire Instalment, Coate, and seu’rall Crest,
With loyall Blazon, euermore be blest.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: The seat in which one is placed.
Synonyms: investiture
investment
installation
issues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭsyo͞oz
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞oz
ipa: /ˈɪsjuːz/
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uːz/
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞oz
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uz/
Senses: glosses: plural of issue
issues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭsyo͞oz
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞oz
ipa: /ˈɪsjuːz/
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uːz/
enpr: ĭsh(y)o͞oz
ipa: /ˈɪʃ(j)uz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of issue
meanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meannesses
Etymology: From mean + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
examples: text: There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.
ref: 1908, The World's Work, volume 16, page 10497:
glosses: A mean act.
Synonyms: meandom
Millerchip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname from Middle English derived from the name Miller.
Related terms: Miller
whiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wīnʹi
ipa: /ˈwaɪni/
rhymes: -aɪni
homophone: winy (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whinier
form: whiniest
form: whiney
Etymology: From whine + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Emily is very whiny; she keeps complaining about trivial things.
text: Mrs. Strakosh is played with a whinier accent than Mrs. Brice.
ref: 1981 October 5, Haskel Frankel, “ROSALIND HARRIS IN 'FUNNY GIRL'”, in The New York Times:
text: But everyone else seems to have phoned in the film, including Mr. Grodin at his whiniest and Arthur Hiller, the veteran director of films as funny as The In-Laws and as unspeakable as Love Story.
ref: 1990 August 17, Caryn James, “Review/Film; An Adman, His Filofax And a Thief”, in The New York Times:
text: It takes nerve for a singer to dig out a whiny teenage lament from the early days of rock 'n' roll and transform it into a sexy, slow-burning torch song for adults.
ref: 2000 January 24, Stephen Holden, “MUSIC IN REVIEW: CABARET; Turning 1960's Innocence Into 90's Toughness”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Whining; tending to whine or complain.
Derived terms: whiny-ass titty baby
Tobias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /təˈbaɪəs/
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek Τοβίας (Tobías), from Hebrew טוֹבִיָּה (toviyá, literally “my good is YHWH”).
Senses: examples: text: Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his son had prepared all things far the journey, his father said, Go thou with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey, and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the young man's dog with them.
ref: Tobit 5:16
glosses: The main character in the Book of Tobit, regarded as apocryphal by most Protestants (Biblical character).
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Tobias acid
Tobias night
Related terms: Tobiah
Toby
Dallon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rare English surname, said to mean "from the dale."
whining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whine
whining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whinings
Senses: examples: text: Stop your whining!
text: the whinings of a lonesome dog
glosses: gerund of whine
Related terms: whining Willy
neighborly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neighborlier
form: neighborliest
Etymology: From neighbor + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He's very neighborly: he always collects my mail when I'm away on vacation.
glosses: US standard spelling of neighbourly.
Derived terms: neighborlily
neighborliness
unneighborly
chelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /kɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: chelations
Etymology: From chelate + -ion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a polydentate chelate compound from a metal salt.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of this process to remove metal ions from solution, especially to counter poisoning by heavy metals.
Derived terms: cheluviation
dechelation
interchelation
metallochelation
phytochelation
transchelation
Related terms: chelate
chelated
chelative
rockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocker
Derived terms: rockers reggae
rockily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rockily
form: most rockily
Etymology: From rocky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: https://web.archive.org/web/20060508091041/http://www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/articles/earprob.htm
We arrive there five minutes later and I sit up very rockily. I have to get off this boat, I am getting sick.
text: https://web.archive.org/web/20050217043222/http://www.talkcinema.com/reviews/cannes9907.html
French actress Sophie Marceau entered rockily on heels
text: The hand-held camera rockily zooms in on one of the surgeons who is holding a circular surgical saw covered in dried blood.
ref: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread95347/pg1
glosses: In an uneven way; in a rocking manner.
examples: text: Ten minutes before serving whisk up the whites of eggs with a little sugar and pile rockily on top.
ref: 1956, “Apple a Day”, in The Times:
text: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/mountainbiking/roundsmartsmountain/
After the trail reaches the height of land, it descends sometimes steeply and often rockily.
text: Roads, railway, river, streams, a world in accurate and lively detail, with mountains sticking up abruptly and rockily, as the old painters painted it.
ref: 1924, Maurice Magnus, Memoirs of the Foreign Legion:
text: https://web.archive.org/web/20060212182830/http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/goheen_robert.html
Patient, always humane and trustworthy, he is personally humble at the very time that he is rockily steadfast (an unsympathetic witness might say stubborn), not because he fails to understand and respect the views of others but because he refuses to compromise his own enduring values.
glosses: In a manner suggestive of a rock or rocks.
examples: text: https://web.archive.org/web/20051221172204/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/mccoy1.htm
They would gain much in common only slowly, and I should add rockily, for the early stages of their acquaintance was based substantially on mutual self-interest.
text: Having murdered her lecherous grandfather as he attempts an anal assault, Ludmila finds herself catapulted into a rockily conceived exercise in damage-control
ref: 2006 February 24, Liz Jensen, “Ludmila's Broken English, by D B C Pierre”, in The Independent:
text: At 13 Drew was using cocaine, and by the time she was 16 the rockily-rehabbed actress was co-authoring an autobiography about it all.
ref: https://web.archive.org/web/20060523201359/http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/starstruck/feature/?sernum=34
glosses: Unsteadily; inconsistently or resulting in volatility.
examples: https://web.archive.org/web/20060504130636/http://www.albemarle-london.com/notredame.html
The music of Richard Cocciante, the book and lyrics of Luc Plamondon, with the lyrics translated by Will Jennings, are consistently and rockily entertaining
https://web.archive.org/web/20060429210002/http://www.atticlights.co.uk/about.html
Top of the three here is “Ton Of Love”, a back beaten Tom Petty-ish album tracker with Beach Boy backing vox, slick and, get this, rockily abrasive.
glosses: In a manner suggestive of rock music.
morphine alkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphine alkaloids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of about twenty closely related compounds obtained from the dried latex that exudes from the seed capsule of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum.
Synonyms: opium alkaloid
Related terms: berberine
codeine
hydrastine
morphine
narceine
narcotine
papaverine
sanguinarine
thebaine
whorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪʃ
Forms: form: more whorish
form: most whorish
form: whoreish
Etymology: From whore + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.
text: You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […].
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 6:9:
text: […] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 327:
text: Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda. "I love it here, it's so whorish," he said.
ref: 2005 March 13, Denny Lee, quoting Vince, “Looking for Mr. Right Now”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Nov 2016:
synonyms: hookerish
meretricious
sluttery
slutlike
sluttish
slutty
tartish
tarty
trampy
whorey
whorelike
glosses: Resembling or befitting a whore.
Derived terms: whorishly
whorishness
opium alkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opium alkaloids
Senses: glosses: Synonym of morphine alkaloid.
synonyms: word: morphine alkaloid