cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
orchidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidologist
orchidological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orchidological
form: most orchidological
Etymology: From orchidology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to orchidology.
gift card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift cards
Senses: glosses: A gift certificate in the form of a card issued by retailers as an alternative to a non-monetary gift, allowing the bearer to purchase goods up to its face value.
Synonyms: gift certificate
gift token
gift voucher
Derived terms: e-gift card
gift cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gift card
multilocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + local + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multilocal.
multivocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + vocal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multivocal.
cup that cheers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cups that cheer
Senses: synonyms: chirping cup
glosses: An alcoholic drink.
glosses: A cup of tea.
non-Western
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Western.
Senses: glosses: Not of or relating to the West.
infinitives of purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinitive of purpose
aimworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aimworthy
form: most aimworthy
form: aim-worthy
Etymology: From aim + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Simplifying of information at inner central area stations is thus aimworthy since the demand for information from staff is inversely proportional to simplicity.
ref: 1975, Chartered Institute of Transport: Journal: Volumes 37-38
text: Obviously, there are other constraints on service levels and fares which are determined politically; also, a distinction is made between 'aim-worthy' and ' non-aimworthy' passenger miles […]
ref: 1982, Chris Nash, Economics of public transport:
text: He had to assess his publicity work in terms of sales achieved per item, where possible, and improvements made where these could reasonably be expected to be 'aimworthy' […]
ref: 1986, Information design journal: Volumes 5-6:
glosses: Being a worthy goal; worth aiming at or for.
Related terms: aimworthiness
forthbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthbears
form: forthbearing
form: forthbore
form: forthborne
form: forthborn
Etymology: From Middle English forthberen, possibly from Old English forþberan (“to bring forth, produce”). Equivalent to forth- + bear. The Middle English word is alternatively a calque of Latin prōferre.
Senses: glosses: To bear or carry forth.
forthbring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthbrings
form: forthbringing
form: forthbrought
form: forthbrought
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English forthbringen, from Old English forþbringan (“to bring forth, produce, bring to pass, accomplish, bring forward, adduce, quote”), from Proto-West Germanic *forþbringan (“to bring forth”); equivalent to forth- + bring. Cognate with Dutch voortbrengen (“to produce, generate, create”), German fortbringen (“to carry forth, carry away”).
Senses: glosses: To bring forth; bring out; produce.
Related terms: forthbringer
untravellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: untravelable
Etymology: From un- + travellable.
Senses: examples: text: By encreasing the hollowness of a wide carriage road, much beyond the utility of form, the margins might no doubt be brought into a travellable state; whereas, of a flat road, in a wet season, every part, from side to side becomes equally untravellable.
ref: 1793, William Marshall, Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, Dublin, page 43:
text: Greece however is in a very untravellable state just now.
ref: 1848, Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear, published 2008, →ISBN, page 8:
text: [I]n this parish—without rectory, without school, without rector, with a pauper population, and untravellable roads—your petitioner spent upwards of seven months.
ref: 1855, “Petition Extraordinary”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words, volume 11:
topics: road
transport
qualifier: geographical terrain
glosses: Unsuitable for or hostile to travel; incapable of being journeyed over or upon.
raw_tags: of a political region
examples: text: . . . the defendant to have the right to reject 1000 sheep from the number mustered, which were to include lame or untravellable sheep.
ref: 1890, The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900, volume 10, page 337:
glosses: Unable to travel.
Synonyms: sense: incapable of being journeyed over
word: impassable
sense: incapable of being journeyed over
word: untraversable
untravelable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + travel + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of untravellable.
forthcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthcomes
form: forthcoming
form: forthcame
form: forthcome
Etymology: From Middle English forthcomen, from Old English forþcuman (“to come forth, proceed, arrive at, succeed, come to pass, come true, be born”), from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to forth- + come.
Senses: examples: text: By dropping a penny in the slot, the gas was forthcoming, and when a penny's worth had forthcome the supply was automatically shut off.
ref: 1903, Jack London, The People of the Abyss:
text: The crowd slowly dissolved as news from doctors and Service upstairs failed to forthcome.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair:
text: With little information forthcoming from Laos authorities, some travelers in Vang Vieng and friends of those who died have taken it upon themselves to investigate.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: To come forth.
Synonyms: emerge
appear
Derived terms: forthcoming
forthcome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthcomes
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forþcyme (“a forthcoming”), from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth”), *kumiz (“coming”), equivalent to forth- + come. Cognate with German Fortkommen (“advancement”).
Senses: glosses: A coming forth.
forthcut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthcuts
form: forthcutting
form: forthcut
form: forthcut
Etymology: From Middle English forthkutten, equivalent to forth- + cut.
Senses: glosses: To cut; plow.
forthdeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthdeals
Etymology: From an erroneous form of foredeal (“advantage”), as though from forth- + deal.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foredeal.
forthdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːθˈdɹɔː/
ipa: /fɔɹθˈdɹɔ/
Forms: form: forthdraws
form: forthdrawing
form: forthdrew
form: forthdrawn
form: forth-draw
Etymology: From Middle English forthdrawen, equivalent to forth- + draw.
Senses: examples: text: Vpon a day as ſhe him ſate beſide,
By chance he certaine miniments forth drew,
Which yet with him as relickes did abide
Of all the bounty which Belphebe threw
On him, whilſt goodly grace ſhe did him ſhew: […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene: Disposed into Twelue Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book IV, canto VIII, stanza VI, page 109:
text: Forthdrawing from his unexhausted store,
'Twas his to bid the burden'd heart o'erflow,
Infusing joys it never knew before,
And melting it with soft luxuriant woe!
ref: 1841, Anton Schindler, in Ignaz Moscheles, editor, The Life of Beethoven, including His Correspondence with His Friends, Numerous Characteristic Traits, and Remarks on His Musical Works, London: Henry Colburn, OCLC 1284695; quoted in T[homas] Hanly Ball, Sketch of Handel and Beethoven. Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864, London: Charles J. Skeet, 10, King William Street, Charing Cross, 1864, OCLC 556454839, page 89
text: Half-formed and colourless, root and stem, leaflet and leaf there slept,
Their charmèd life all safe from harm by the arid kernel kept,
Till gentle dews and genial rain forthdrew the swelling might,
That shoots elastic from its bed of circumambient night.
ref: 1860, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Metamorphosis of Plants. (From the German of Goethe.)”, in John Stuart Blackie, transl., Lyrical Poems, Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., →OCLC, book III (Erato), page 192:
text: He spoke; and from the bleeding neck the copper lance forthdrew, And threw 't aside […]
ref: 1866, Homer, translated by John Stuart Blackie, Homer and the Iliad, volumes III (The Iliad in English Verse. Books XIII.–XXIV.), Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, book XXII, page 343:
text: And Brunhild looked, and saw, with down-crushed pride,
Forthdrawn from Chriemhild's robe of silken fold,
A ring she knew too well and zone of burnished gold.
ref: 1894, Maxwell Gray [pseudonym; Mary Gleed Tuttiett], “The Strife of the Sister Queens”, in Lays of the Dragon Slayer, London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, →OCLC, stanza LXI, page 157:
glosses: To draw or bring forth.
forthen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English forthen, from Old English forþon, furþon, furþum (“even, exactly, quite, already, just as, at first, further, previously”), from forþ (“forth”). More at forth.
Senses: glosses: Also; even.
forthfare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthfares
form: forthfaring
form: forthfared
form: forthfared
Etymology: From Middle English forthfaren, from Old English forþfaran (“to go forth, depart”), equivalent to forth- + fare. Related to forþfaru (“departure”) and forþfōr (“departure, death”).
Senses: examples: text: When he had learned what he wanted to know, he forthfared to meet Winton at the incoming train.
ref: 1905, Francis Lynde, A fool for love:
text: [...] with great-hearted Christians fighting for each other instead of against each other, all just forthfaring unitedly for the Christianizing of the world, [...]
ref: 1908, The Homiletic review, volume 56, page 450:
text: There was nobody to meet me as I forthfared from the prison gates, but I was not expecting any one and so was not disappointed.
ref: 1918, Francis Lynde, Branded:
text: [...] That Love may go forthfaring unafraid.
ref: 1921, Eliakim Littell, The living age: Volume 309 - Page 434:
text: The evolution of energetic, industrious, forthfaring peoples under the peculiarly favourable climatic conditions of north-western Europe is the most important element in that success.
ref: 2002, Irene Gammel, Making Avonlea:
glosses: To go forth; go away; depart; journey.
glosses: To decease; pass away; die.
Derived terms: forthfaring
forthfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthfares
Etymology: From Middle English forthfare, from Old English forþfaru (“a going forth, departure”).
Senses: glosses: Departure.
glosses: Passing bell, death knell.
passing bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing bells
form: passing-bell
Etymology: From passing + bell.
Senses: examples: text: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
 — Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
 Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
ref: 1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth:
synonyms: dead bell
death bell
death knell
lych bell
skellet bell
mort bell
soul bell
soul knell
glosses: A bell rung to announce a passing, a death, or funeral; death bell, death knell.
forthfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthfathers
Etymology: From Middle English forthfader, forthfeder, from Old English forþfæder (“forefather, ancestor”), equivalent to forth- + father.
Senses: glosses: Forefather.
resplendid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Influence by splendid.
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of resplendent.
beclip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclips
form: beclipping
form: beclipped
form: beclipped
Etymology: From Middle English beclippen, from Old English beclyppan (“to clip, clasp, embrace, enfold”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *klumpijaną (“to hold, clench”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“to hold, clench”), equivalent to be- + clip. Compare also Middle English umbeclippen (“to embrace”). See also umbeclip.
Senses: examples: text: At the coming of Jupiter many Tears were wept for joy, by Dame Cibel and Vesc. Cibel kist and beclipt oftentimes her Son;
ref: 1702, Raoul Lefèvre, The Destruction of Troy:
text: Which thing was told to the king by the same Hulin, and anon the king had pity on the poor man, and disdained not, but took him on his shoulders and bare him, whom the cripple beclipped with his foul and scabby hands and arms, and so, n the bearing, his sinews loosed and were reached out.
ref: 1900, Jacobus (de Voragine) William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints - Volume 4, page 15:
text: After the kiss in the Mass, when the priest consecrates, there forget all the world and there be altogether out of the body; there in sparkling love beclip our beloved that into our breast's bower is alighted out of heaven, and hold him fast till he hath granted all that ever you will.
ref: 1927, David Knowles, The English Mystics, page 71:
glosses: To fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.
glosses: To wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.
glosses: To include; comprise; comprehend; contain.
glosses: To lay hold of; seize upon; grip; catch; overtake.
glosses: To curdle (milk).
Derived terms: beclipping
beclip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beclips
form: beclipping
form: beclipped
form: beclipped
Etymology: From be- + clip.
Senses: examples: beclip a photograph
glosses: To clip around or about (the edges of); crop.
Picrous Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A festival formerly celebrated by the tin miners of Cornwall on the second Thursday before Christmas.
snoweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: snow + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snow
multilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilocal
form: most multilocal
Etymology: From multi- + local.
Senses: examples: text: One of the foundations of this multilocal strategy is that 90% of Unilever managers are locally recruited and trained.
ref: 2009, Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Dejan Verčič, The global public relations handbook: theory, research, and practice, page 508:
glosses: Operating at a local level in more than one region.
multipost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multiposts
form: multiposting
form: multiposted
form: multiposted
Etymology: From multi- + post.
Senses: examples: text: It makes more sense to crosspost than to multipost: that way, replies will all appear together in a single thread.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To post several copies of (a message) to different newsgroups.
Derived terms: multiposter
Related terms: crosspost
multiposts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multipost
multiposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multipost
multiposted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multipost
unwearily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwearily
form: most unwearily
Etymology: From unweary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without weariness.
unwarning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwarning
form: most unwarning
Etymology: From un- + warning.
Senses: glosses: Without warning; sudden.
necromantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necromantical
form: most necromantical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of necromantic.
permie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permies
Etymology: From permanent + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Even if you take six months off you will still earn more than most IT permies, and about three times as much as non-IT permies.
ref: 1999, Martin, “Bullying, Abuse and Harrrassment^([sic]), then Termination at work”, in uk.legal (Usenet):
glosses: A permanent employee.
permies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permie
permethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permethylation
mesquites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesquite
woebetide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: However, woebetide the male who takes that downward step into femininity.
ref: 1989, Annie Woodhouse, “Conclusion: Transvestism and the Politics of Gender”, in Fantastic Women: Sex, Gender and Transvestism, Basingstoke, Hampshire; London: Macmillan Education, →DOI, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: Alternative form of woe betide.
Old Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The earliest stage of the Korean language, written in hanja, which evolved into Middle Korean by the 10ᵗʰ or 13ᵗʰ century, depending on the analysis.
Related terms: Proto-Koreanic
Middle Korean
Early Modern Korean
Modern Korean
Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Korean terms
Canterbury bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Campanula medium, an annual or biennial flowering plant with bell-shaped flowers.
Bonesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bonesmen
Etymology: From bones + man.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University, USA.
Bonesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonesman
Zamucoan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Samúkoan
Senses: glosses: A small, endangered language family of Paraguay and Bolivia, consisting of the languages Ayoreo and Chamacoco.
unbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbricks
form: unbricking
form: unbricked
form: unbricked
Etymology: From un- + brick.
Senses: examples: text: The skylight, although it had been bricked up by someone’s hysterical order, at that time in the past when a man had penetrated the attic-floor of the club to visit a girl, was not beyond being unbricked by the firemen. It was all a question of time.
ref: 1963, Muriel Spark, chapter 8, in The Girls of Slender Means, London: Macmillan:
text: "My folks are off playing golf, and Marci's going to that Summer Fun thing at the school. Which means we'll have plenty of time to unbrick that door and see what's behind it."
ref: 2009, John Saul, In the Dark of the Night, page 135:
glosses: To reopen something bricked up.
examples: text: Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router
ref: 2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking, page 327:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).
unbricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbrick
unbricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbrick
unbricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbrick
unbricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not paved or blocked up with bricks.
neognosticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + gnosticism.
Senses: glosses: Any relatively modern Gnostic movement.
Related terms: neognostic
neognostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neognostic
form: most neognostic
Etymology: From neo- + gnostic.
Senses: examples: text: It was in Languedoc that a neognostic group, the Cathars, flourished.
ref: 1994, Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted, Spirit, nature, and community: issues in the thought of Simone Weil, page 204:
glosses: Of or pertaining to neognosticism.
hazardproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hazardproof
form: most hazardproof
Etymology: From hazard + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Secure from, or resistant to, hazards.
jihadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jihadic
form: most jihadic
Etymology: From jihad + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Kepel, however, refuses to surrender his belief that the jihadic firestorm reached its zenith long before, with the Soviet expulsion from Afghanistan in 1989.
ref: 2005, William H. Thornton, New world empire: civil Islam, terrorism, and the making of neoglobalism, page 4:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to jihad.
machicolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of machicolate
tegmenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tegmentum
temptator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temptators
Etymology: From Middle English temptatour, from Latin temptātor.
Senses: examples: text: If the temptator ſaye, thou haſte not kepte the lawe of god, wherfore thou arte accurſed.
ref: [1540], Rycharde Tracy, transl., Of the Preparation to the Crosse, and to Deathe, and of the Comforte vnder the Crosse and Deathe, Two Bokes Very Fruictefull for Deuoute People to Rede, Translated from Latyn to Englysshe, [London]: [ […] Thomæ Bertheleti […]]:
text: Firſt they be Imitators; next, Mutators; thirdly, Temptators; and lastly, your Plantators, in all the varieties of vanity.
ref: 1640, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica. […], London: […] I. Okes, page 443:
text: But Satan from the ſpecial Frailty of our Nature, is an overmatch for moſt Men, if the Aſſiſtance of divine Power, does not interpoſe: Tho’ in the ſpecial Compoſition of Man, he hath Abilities enough to confound this Temptator in his utmoſt Power and Subtlety, if duly exerted.
ref: 1641, John Roche, Moravian Heresy. Wherein the Principal Errors of That Doctrine, as Taught Throughout Several Parts of Europe and America, by Count Zinzendorf, Mr. Cennick, and Other Moravian Teachers, Are Fully Set Forth, Proved, and Refuted. […], Dublin: […] the Author, page 135:
glosses: Synonym of tempter.
synonyms: word: tempter
syncarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From syn- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having carpels joined together
raw_tags: of a pistil
Synonyms: coenocarpic
coenocarpous
Bootnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bootniks
Etymology: Blend of boot + beatnik?
Senses: glosses: A fan of the ReBoot CGI-animated television series.
Synonyms: Booter
Bootniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bootnik
come into being
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes into being
form: coming into being
form: came into being
form: come into being
Senses: examples: text: Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.
synonyms: appear
form
materialize
take shape
glosses: To form; to start to exist.
Synonyms: word: appear
word: arise
word: be born
word: become
word: rise
word: come into being
word: emerge
word: engender
word: form
word: get up
word: inform
word: materialize
word: originate
word: pop up
word: spring
word: spring to life
word: spring up
word: surface
word: take form
word: take shape
word: upspring
Hypernyms: word: exist
Hyponyms: word: actualize
word: concretize
word: effigiate
word: embody
word: incarnate
word: objectify
word: personify
word: realize
word: reify
word: thingify
Related terms: word: bring into being
word: create
word: happen
Booter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Booters
Senses: glosses: A fan of the ReBoot CGI-animated television series.
Synonyms: Bootnik
Booters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Booter
JCP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of Java Community Process.
glosses: Initialism of judicial corporal punishment.
JCP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Japanese Communist Party.
Related terms: JSR
SNAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.
ref: 2023 June 2, Tami Luhby, “Here’s who would have to work for government benefits – and who wouldn’t – under the debt ceiling package”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2023:
text: Most of the current proposals to eliminate soda from SNAP come from reliably Republican states, but the partisan lines aren’t straightforward.
ref: 2025 July 19, Ben Blatt, “Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2025:
glosses: Acronym of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
SNAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNAPs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of soluble NSF attachment protein.
bootblacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bootblack
bootblacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A smell of scent soap and bootblacking[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: The practice of shining shoes; shoe-shining.
bootblacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bootblack
reset button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reset buttons
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A button that resets something.
examples: text: But after a year of sagging ratings, Dallas hit the reset button, by having Pam wake up to see Bobby, very much alive, lathering up in their shower. The entire 1985–86 season, including Bobby's death, had been a bad dream of Pam's, and now that she was awake, Dallas could go on the way it should have, with the previous year's events effectively wiped away.
ref: 2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:
text: Voyager the show ambles and meanders just like Voyager the ship, hypothetically exploring new territory but actually doomed to retreads and consequence-free episodic storytelling (heavy on what fans came to call “the Reset Button” that restores the status quo), exacerbated by overuse of technobabble.
ref: 2020, Murray Leeder, “Confessions of an Anti-Fan”, in Robert L. Lively, editor, Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays, McFarland, →ISBN, page 250:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction, by returning characters and situations to the status quo they held before certain changes were introduced.
reset buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reset button
the lady doth protest too much
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the lady doth protest too much, methinks
form: methinks the lady doth protest too much
form: methinks thou dost protest too much
Etymology: An allusion to Shakespeare's Hamlet, where the line is spoken by Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. In the play, "protest" is used to mean "insist that what one is saying is true" (in this case, the Player Queen's protestations of love), not "insist that what another is saying is false."
Senses: examples: text: In all Penelope's devotion to her husband there is an ever present sense that the lady doth protest too much.
ref: 1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey:
glosses: It is suspected that, because someone is insisting too much about something, the opposite of what they're saying must be true.
Derived terms: protest too much
Related terms: a hit dog will holler
tristful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tristful
form: most tristful
form: tristeful
Etymology: From Middle English trystefull; equivalent to trist + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Be mindefull still of my presumpteous crime,
Which forced me to tell this tristfull tale.
ref: 1579, Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, London, Book 2, “The Complaint of Adonia Sonne, to King Dauid,” Remember me which past before your time, Remember how I fell from blisse to bale
text: […] Heaven’s face doth glow;
Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Is thought-sick at the act.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: […] So shine thy tristfull light
With pallid Ray, and with strange Horrour, fright
The world:
ref: 1648, Seneca the Younger, translated by Edward Sherburne, Medea, London: Humphrey Moseley, act IV, scene 2, page 42:
text: 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 2, Letter 46, p. 184,
I think, I want nothing but a ’squire as tristful as yourself, to record my misadventures in the stile of a ballad, called the Disastrous Traveller […]
text: A wistful look in your mirror, and an air of tristful languor in public, and a sense of being deeper than you thought you were, if you ever thought about it at all.
ref: 1927, Warwick Deeping, Doomsday, Part 3, Chapter 24:
synonyms: word: miserable
word: sorrowful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Sad, melancholic.
kine-pox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cowpox.
tentorii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The tentorii, hardened structures within the head which provide additional support, are also made of this material (Borror et a1. 1976).
ref: 1981, Theo Colborn, Aquatic insects as measures of trace element presence: cadmium and molybdenum:
glosses: plural of tentorium
mrw
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of MRW.
BOFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BOF
trabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trab
tragula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragulae
form: tragulas
Senses: glosses: A type of javelin, used in ancient Sparta, attached to the thrower's wrist by a rope
tragulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragula
tragulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragula
kady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪdi/
Forms: form: kadies
form: cady
form: katy
form: caddy
Etymology: 1846. Unknown origin — possibly alteration of caddie.
Senses: glosses: A man's straw hat
cady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of caddie.
glosses: Alternative spelling of kady.
witchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From witchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being witchy.
money spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money spiders
Senses: glosses: Any spider of the family Linyphiidae, or (loosely) any very small spider, superstitiously believed to bring financial good luck.
Synonyms: sheet weaver
money spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money spider
trepidant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trepidant
form: most trepidant
Etymology: From Latin trepidāntem.
Senses: examples: text: The good old Duke – no, the General, called me all trepidant to him, smiled, asked my age and service, liked the wire, and passed into the village.
ref: 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 131:
glosses: Trembling with fear or emotion.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Marked by trembling or tremor.
Derived terms: paroxysmal trepidant abasia
Transpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Transpondians
form: transpondian
Etymology: Jocular coinage from trans- + the pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the British Isles or the United States.
Related terms: Leftpondian
Rightpondian
transpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transpondian
form: most transpondian
Etymology: Jocular coinage from trans- + the pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Having to do with the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean or with traversing it, especially between the British Isles and the United States.
glosses: Having to do with the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the British Isles or the United States.
transpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpondians
form: Transpondian
Etymology: Jocular coinage from trans- + the pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the British Isles or the United States.
Related terms: Leftpondian
Rightpondian
transpondians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transpondian
Transpondians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Transpondian
acteme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actemes
Etymology: From act + -eme.
Senses: examples: text: A realisation of an acteme is called an act, and is the content of one semantically homogeneous verse series.
ref: 1970, Fritz Kramer, Literature among the Cuna Indians:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
psychology
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A unit of behavior.
recompilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From recompile + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being recompiled.
compilability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compile + -ability.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The quality of being compilable.
aeroboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- (or the Irish aer) + board, or from a company of a similar name which manufactures polystyrene insulation products in Ireland.
Senses: glosses: Expanded polystyrene foam, such as is used in insulation.
Synonyms: styrofoam
allyou
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: From all + you.
Senses: examples: text: 'Ah, I wish I was like all you Jamaican,' Moses say, 'Allyou could live on two-three pound a week...
ref: 1979, Samuel Selvon, The lonely Londoners:
text: What I paying the two of allyou for if I have to hire management consultant?
ref: 2006, Niala Maharaj, Like heaven:
glosses: Plural form of you.
Synonyms: the list of other second-person pronouns in you
frithborh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frithborhs
Senses: glosses: A frankpledge.
frithborhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frithborh
fissirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fissirostral
form: most fissirostral
Senses: glosses: Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.
hypogeums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogeum
hypogaeums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogaeum
hypogaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypogaeum
kaikomako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: Pennantia baylisiana, a rare tree of New Zealand.
hokkus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hokku
allylzincs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allylzinc
Havdoloh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Havdalah.
Havdala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Havdalah.
folklives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folklife
longcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longcases
Etymology: From long + case.
Senses: glosses: A longcase clock.
longcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longcase
longcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longcut
libethenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Libethen (“Ľubietová, Slovakia, where it was discovered”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare copper phosphate hydroxide mineral that forms striking dark green orthorhombic crystals.
Derived terms: zincolibethenite
rednecky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rednecky
form: most rednecky
Etymology: From redneck + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a redneck; rural, uneducated, unsophisticated, etc.
Synonyms: redneckian
redneckish
kadies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kady
cadies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadie
glosses: plural of cady
lessoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lesson
lessoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lessonings
Senses: examples: text: And then I learned / Unto mine own tamed heart a higher trust, / And mightier strength to bear, so to give thee / Life's truest lessonings.
ref: 1868, Eliza Cruger, Regina: And Other Poems, page 25:
glosses: instruction; tuition
lessoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lessoned
form: most lessoned
Derived terms: unlessoned
lessoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lesson
leafmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From leaf + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: Áh! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh / Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; […]
ref: 1880, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
leafmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leaf + meal, modelled after leafmould.
Senses: glosses: A feed or meal, particularly for animals, consisting chiefly of decayed vegetable matter, especially leaves.
examples: text: The Wilburtsons' pool, by contrast, is a swirl of sunk and sinking leafmeal, their yellow cat basking on the diving board.
ref: 2006, Dwight Yates, Bring Everybody, page 103:
glosses: Fallen or decaying leaves; leaf litter
leafmould
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leafmoulds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leaf mold.
class acts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of class act
rocken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rocken
form: most rocken
Etymology: From Middle English rochen, equivalent to rocke, roche + -en.
Senses: examples: text: […] Don't talk ov housen all o' brick, / Wi' rocken walls nine inches thick, […]
ref: c. 1870, William Barnes, “The Girt Wold House o' Mossy Stwone”, in Poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect:
glosses: Consisting or made of rock or rocky material.
Synonyms: stonen
cytotrophoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytotrophoblasts
Etymology: From cyto- + trophoblast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The inner layer of the trophoblast.
Synonyms: layer of Langhans
Coordinate terms: syncytiotrophoblast
Derived terms: cytotrophoblastic
bridle up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bridles up
form: bridling up
form: bridled up
form: bridled up
Senses: synonyms: bridle
bristle
glosses: To show anger or indignation at something.
syncytiotrophoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncytiotrophoblasts
Etymology: From syncytium + -o- + trophoblast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The outer layer of the trophoblast, consisting of a single cell with many nuclei and a very large size and surface area.
Coordinate terms: cytotrophoblast
cytomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + -megaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Enlargement of cells, seen especially in infections of cytomegalovirus
Derived terms: cytomegalic
Stoliczka's mountain voles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stoliczka's mountain vole
stomodaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomodaea
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stomodeum.
Sarlacc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sarlacc
Etymology: From the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi (1983).
Senses: glosses: A fictional multi-tentacled beast known to dissolve its prey slowly, buried in a depression in the desert sands of the planet Tatooine.
wikipedia: Star Wars
latka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of latke.
latkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latka
jelly donut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jelly donuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jelly doughnut.
jelly donuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly donut
sufganiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːfɡɑniˈjɑː/
Forms: form: sufganiyot
Etymology: From Hebrew סופגנייה.
Senses: glosses: A deep-fried, ball-shaped doughnut, usually filled with jelly or custard and topped with powdered sugar.
sufganiyot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sufganiya
glosses: plural of sufganiyah
pointsettia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointsettias
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poinsettia.
pointsettias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poinsettias.
poinsetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poinsettas
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poinsettia.
poinsettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of poinsettias.
Trans-New Guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From trans- + New Guinea.
Senses: glosses: A major language family spoken in large parts of New Guinea.
Derived terms: Trans-New Guinean
Related terms: Proto-Trans-New Guinea
pyloric valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyloric valves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A valvular fold at the end of the pyloric canal which lets food pass from the stomach to the duodenum.
Synonyms: pyloric sphincter
Related terms: pylorus
proctodeum
ventriculus
proctodaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proctodaeums
form: proctodaea
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of proctodeum.
fluid intelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.
Related terms: crystallized intelligence
bacaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A representation of the vocal sound made by a chicken at the end of a series of clucks. Usually used in conjunction with either buck or cluck.
examples: text: Buck buck bacaw! Betcha won't do it.
glosses: Used to accuse another person of cowardice.
forthgo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthgoes
form: forthgoing
form: forthwent
form: forthgone
Etymology: From Middle English forthgon, forthgan, from Old English forþgān (“to go forth, advance, proceed, pass by, go away, go on, precede, succeed”), from Proto-Germanic *furþą (“forth”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to forth- + go. Cognate with Dutch voortgaan (“to continue, proceed, go ahead”), German fortgehen (“to go away, leave, depart, blin”), Swedish fortgå (“to continue, go on, proceed”).
Senses: glosses: To go forth; proceed.
Derived terms: forthgoing
forth-issuing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forth-issuing
form: most forth-issuing
Etymology: From forth- + issuing.
Senses: glosses: Issuing; coming out; coming forth, as from a covert.
forthlead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthleads
form: forthleading
form: forthled
form: forthled
Etymology: From Middle English forthleden, from Old English forþlǣdan. Calque of Latin prōdūcere (“to lead forth”). Equivalent to forth- + lead.
Senses: glosses: To lead forth.
forthleap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthleaps
form: forthleaping
form: forthleapt
form: forthleapt
form: forthleaped
form: forthleaped
Etymology: From Middle English forthlepen, equivalent to forth- + leap.
Senses: glosses: To leap forth or out.
forthlook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forthlooks
form: forthlooking
form: forthlooked
form: forthlooked
Etymology: From Middle English forthloken, from Old English forþlōcian (“to look forth”), equivalent to forth- + look.
Senses: glosses: To look forth; look out.
forthlook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forthlooks
Etymology: From Middle English forthloken, from Old English forþlōcian (“to look forth”), equivalent to forth- + look.
Senses: examples: text: This essay is a thoughtful forthlook to the time when, at the approaching disestablishment of the Episcopal Church in England, Congregationalism will be placed on a new footing — [...]
ref: 1872, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, New Englander and Yale review:
glosses: A looking forth, forward, or ahead; an outlook; prospect; projection.