cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Broonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Broonites
Etymology: Introduced in a comic strip by the satirical magazine Private Eye, styled on The Broons and referring to Gordon Brown's Scottish accent.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brownite.
wikipedia: Gordon Brown
Private Eye
The Broons
Del Boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Del Boys
Etymology: Nickname of Derek Trotter, a character of this kind in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
Senses: glosses: a male confidence trickster.
doggy woggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggy woggies
form: doggy-woggy
Etymology: Reduplication of doggy.
Senses: glosses: A dog, especially a small one.
degree of glory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrees of glory
Senses: examples: text: The Lord has said that we will be blessed and will live in a degree of glory in the next life according to the eternal laws we obey in mortality.
ref: 2005 April, B. Renato Maldonado, “Messages from the Doctrine and Covenants: The Three Degrees of Glory”, in Ensign, pages 62–65:
glosses: One of the three eternal dwelling places for all resurrected beings except for the children of perdition; the celestial kingdom being the highest, the terrestrial kingdom being the middle, and the telestial kingdom being the lowest.
Synonyms: kingdom of glory
Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Downs cell
Downs process
Hellings and Downs curve
Hellings-Downs curve
Downs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Downs
Senses: examples: text: Let's go for a walk on the Downs.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: The South Downs.
examples: text: On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
ref: 1771, James Cook, diary:
glosses: A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
glosses: Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884.
papula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæpjʊlə/
Forms: form: papulae
form: papulas
Etymology: From Latin papula.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Lanza stating that in Naples it is observed as an acute febrile disease, of which the papulae, pustules, and ulceration of the mouth are the sole pathognomonic signs, or anatomical character.
ref: 1847, “Positive Nosology. By V. Lanza. Vols. Ill and IV”, in British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
Harry Hun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Lieutenant George: Great Scott sir, you mean, you mean the moment’s finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a darned good British style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?
ref: 1989, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, “Captain Cook”, episode 1 of season 4 of Blackadder
text: “[…] All the blokes were off shootin’ Harry Hun. […]”
ref: 2002, Brian Hughes, The Greyminster Chronicles, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 124:
text: So it didn't seem much of an option, leaning against a tree waiting for Harry Hun.
ref: 2003, Michael Dobbs, Never Surrender, Sourcebooks Landmark, published 2007, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A name used to represent the German people.
for all the world
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: […] not a ha'porth of him left but a goodish piece of his skin, just for all the world like a hedgehog's, and a piece o' old iron furbished up.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: […] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely, for all the world as though he had been old enough to be this young woman's father […]
ref: 1885, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Lady Lovelace:
text: […] the babies looking for all the world as though they had stepped out of pictures by Gian Bellini or by Fra Bartolommeo, that greatest of baby painters.
ref: 1917 September 5, Frank Hunter Potter, “Prevention First”, in Alfred Emanuel Smith, editor, New Outlook, page 17:
glosses: Entirely, to all appearances.
particularistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more particularistic
form: most particularistic
Etymology: From particularism + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to particularism.
Derived terms: nonparticularistic
particularistically
azaspirodecanedione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azaspirodecanediones
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of nonaddictive drugs with anxiolytic effects, used to treat anxiety and depression.
Synonyms: azapirone
azaspirodecanediones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azaspirodecanedione
azapirone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪzəˈpaɪɹəʊn/
Forms: form: azapirones
Senses: glosses: Any azaspirodecanedione.
azapirones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azapirone
flowfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowfields
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flow field.
flow field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flow fields
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The distribution of the density and velocity of a fluid over space and time
fluxions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fluxion
fluxions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluxion
fluxions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sheltered world of academia suited Clarence, who for the first time was among his intellectual peers. He excelled at geometry, algebra and fluxions.
ref: 2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 141:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: differential calculus.
fluxion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: fluxions
Etymology: From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The derivative of a function.
examples: text: Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]
glosses: The action of flowing.
glosses: A difference or variation.
Derived terms: fluxionary
fluxionist
fluxion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌkʃən/
rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Forms: form: fluxions
form: fluxioning
form: fluxioned
form: fluxioned
Etymology: From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.
Senses: examples: text: ...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix).
ref: 1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
Derived terms: fluxional
acultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acultural
form: most acultural
Etymology: From a- + cultural.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, there is no acultural Christianity, just as there is no acultural option for God, love, and salvation.
ref: 1999, Orlando O Espín, Miguel H Díaz, From the heart of our people:
glosses: Without, or irrespective of, culture (customs and habits).
Derived terms: aculturally
aculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aculturally
form: most aculturally
Etymology: From acultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an acultural way.
gennaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: gennakers
Etymology: Blend of genoa + spinnaker
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail having characteristics of a genoa and a spinnaker.
Synonyms: asymmetrical spinnaker
geodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + dynamical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geodynamics
unculturedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncultured + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being uncultured.
Synonyms: boorishness
gennakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gennaker
homotopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: homotopic
businesslikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From businesslike + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I do myself think that this is so; that disputes about standards of businesslikeness are verbal in the sense that they turn on what we choose to mean by 'businesslike', […]
ref: 1969, Ronald F. Atkinson, Conduct: an Introduction to Moral Philosophy (page 70)
glosses: The state or condition of being businesslike.
horizontals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horizontal
hydromechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydromechanics.
Derived terms: hydromechanically
botlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more botlike
form: most botlike
Etymology: From bot + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The combination of communication with a known C&C server and botlike activity is usually enough to conclude this is a positive determination of a botnet.
ref: 2008, Harold F Tipton, Micki Krause, Information security management handbook:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling a bot (automated software process).
Synonyms: botty
hyperelliptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperelliptic
form: most hyperelliptic
form: hyperelliptical
Etymology: From hyper- + elliptic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing an extension of elliptic functions to complex numbers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a hyperellipse.
gayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gayer
hydromechanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydromechanical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hydromechanical way; by means of hydromechanics.
excaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ex- + caudate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not caudate; without a cauda.
Synonyms: tailless
isogeotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogeotherms
Senses: glosses: A geoisotherm.
Related terms: isogeothermic
isogeotherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isogeotherm
isocheim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocheims
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek χεῖμα (kheîma, “cold, winter”).
Senses: antonyms: isothere
glosses: An isotherm connecting points on a map with equal mean winter temperature.
Related terms: isocheimal
isocheimonal
isochimenal
isocryme
isothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotheres
Etymology: From French isothère, from iso- + Ancient Greek θέρος (théros, “summer”).
Senses: antonyms: isocheim
glosses: An isotherm connecting points on a map with equal mean summer temperature.
Related terms: isotheral
isotheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isothere
isocheims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isocheim
isohel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isohels
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”).
Senses: examples: text: Each map shows a zone of increased sunshine between Ghana and Nigeria, destroying the regular pattern of east-west trending isohels across southern Nigeria and Ivory Coast.
ref: 1987, Derek F. Hayward, Julius S. Oguntoyinbo, Climatology of West Africa, page 29:
glosses: A line on a map connecting places that receive equal solar radiation, or equal daily hours of sunshine.
isohels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohel
isoneph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isonephs
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”) (see nepho-).
Senses: examples: text: After plotting the amounts in oktas, isonephs were drawn at two-okta intervals. Closely spaced isonephs indicate a sharp edge to a cloud sheet, the edge approximately coinciding with the four-okta isoneph. A station reporting four oktas and lying in a region of close isonephs would have one side of its sky relatively cloudfree and the opposite side covered.
ref: 1962, D. E. Pedgley, “A meso-synoptic analysis of the thunderstorms on 28 August 1958”, in Geophysical Memoirs, number 106, UK Meteorological Office, page 23:
glosses: An isoline indicating equal cloud cover.
isonephs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoneph
isohume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isohumes
Etymology: From iso- + the base of humid. A pseudo-classical coinage.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isoline connecting places with equal relative humidity.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An isoline connecting places in which the coal seam has equal moisture content.
isohumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohume
isodrosotherms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isodrosotherm
isobront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobronts
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) (see bronto-).
Senses: examples: text: The lines joining the points where the first thunder is heard at the same instant of time are called "isobronts", or lines of equal front.
Sometimes the isobront is taken as the mean of the time when first and last thunder is heard at a place. This is the custom in France.
ref: 1895, Thomas Russell, Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, pages 119–120:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isoline drawn through geographical points at which a given phase of thunderstorm activity occurred simultaneously.
examples: text: On these charts isobronts, or lines of equal frequency of thunder, were drawn. These are shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the data being expressed as percentages of days on which thunder was heard.
ref: 1925, C. E. P. Brooks, “The distribution of thunderstorms over the globe”, in Geophysical Memoirs, number 24, UK Air Ministry, Meteorological Office:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isoline drawn through geographical points which, on average, experience the same number of thundery days per year.
isobronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isobront
isohyets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohyet
isohyetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isohyet + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The weatherman showed an isohyetal map of the country.
synonyms: isohyetose
glosses: Pertaining to, or making use of, isohyets.
isohyetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isohyetals
Etymology: From isohyet + -al.
Senses: glosses: An isohyet.
ipecacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ipecac
goldtail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gold + tail.
Senses: glosses: Used to describe various creatures with a gold-coloured tail.
Derived terms: goldtail angelfish
goldtail demoiselle
goldtail moth
gutsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gutsily
form: most gutsily
Etymology: From gutsy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a gutsy way; bravely.
infopreneurial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infopreneur + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an infopreneur or his/her skills.
hafizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hafiz
lilylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lilylike
form: most lilylike
Etymology: From lily + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lily.
joltily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more joltily
form: most joltily
Etymology: From jolty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jolty way.
joltiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jolty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being jolty.
jolty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɒl.ti/
rhymes: -ɒlti
Forms: form: joltier
form: joltiest
Etymology: From jolt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The ride was a little jolty, but then we were on jointed track and the Blaenau branch is never going to win any awards for the best track in Britain!
ref: 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 55:
glosses: Characterised by jolts; bumpy or jerky.
Derived terms: joltily
joltiness
joltier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jolty: more jolty
joltiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jolty: most jolty
bumpingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bumpingly
form: most bumpingly
Etymology: From bumping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bumping way; with bumps or jolts.
jarrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarring
hypomagnesaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypomagnesemia.
makeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeresses
Etymology: From maker + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female maker or manufacturer.
Synonyms: manufacturess
makeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of makeress
manufacturesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manufacturess
bakeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakeresses
Etymology: From baker + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female baker or baxter.
bakeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bakeress
teacheresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teacheress
farmeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmeresses
Etymology: From farmer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female farmer.
farmeresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmeress
natureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nature + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having no nature (set of properties).
Derived terms: naturelessness
naturelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From natureless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being natureless.
pigeonlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigeonlike
form: most pigeonlike
Etymology: From pigeon + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pigeon.
tormentrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tormentor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female tormentor; a tormentress.
halflife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halflives
Etymology: From half + life.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-life.
halflives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halflife
hiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hive + -less.
Senses: examples: hiveless bees
glosses: Without a hive.
horizonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horizon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a horizon.
Derived terms: horizonlessness
ploughwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plough + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Moving, like a plough on a field, alternately from left to right and from right to left.
Synonyms: boustrophedon
ploughwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plough + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a ploughwise manner.
wampums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wampum
umteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of umpteenth.
northmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From north + -most, or possibly from Old English norþmest, undergoing the same reanalysis by folk etymology as foremost.
Senses: synonyms: word: northernmost
word: northest
glosses: Furthest to the north; most northern.
southmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From south + -most.
Senses: synonyms: southernmost
glosses: Furthest to the south; most southern.
strokeplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stroke play.
stroke play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A scoring system in which points are awarded based on the number of strokes used to sink the ball, as opposed to match play.
examples: text: Greg Chappell: the master bastman. Enthralled crowds all over the world with his glorious strokeplay.
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Batting, especially excellent batting.
Synonyms: topics: golf
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: medal play
stormbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From storm + bound.
Senses: glosses: Caught in a storm, so that proper navigation is impossible.
raw_tags: of a ship
tribromoethanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + bromo- + ethanol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: avertin
glosses: A brominated alcohol formerly used as an anaesthetic in humans and now mainly used in laboratory animals.
destroyer minesweeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destroyer minesweepers
Senses: glosses: A former destroyer (ship) that has been converted into a minesweeper.
destroyer minesweepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destroyer minesweeper
vaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vau
vavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vav
butcheress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcheresses
Etymology: From butcher + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female butcher (dealer in meat).
glosses: A murderess.
butcheresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butcheress
stonyhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stonyhearted
form: most stonyhearted
form: stony-hearted
form: stonehearted
form: stone-hearted
Etymology: From stony + hearted.
Senses: synonyms: word: hardhearted
word: stonehearted
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Cruel, compassionless, discompassionate, as if having a heart made of stone.
Derived terms: stony-heartedly
stony-heartedness
quaylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quaylike
form: most quaylike
Etymology: From quay + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a quay.
zoonose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoonoses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zoonosis.
sirih
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malay sirih.
Senses: glosses: A vining plant of Sumatra, whose leaves may be chewed with betel nuts or used medicinally to shrink the vagina after childbirth.
samekhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of samekh
sandek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑːndɛk/
/ˈsɑːndək/
/ˈsɑːndɪk/
Forms: form: sandeks
form: sandak
form: sandok
form: sanduk
Etymology: From Yiddish סנדק (sandek), from Hebrew סַנְדָּק (sandák), most likely from Ancient Greek σύντεκνος (súnteknos, literally “companion of child”), from συν- (sun-) + τέκνον (téknon).
Senses: glosses: A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision.
sandeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandek
smalltime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From small + time.
Senses: examples: text: A little divine favor would be nice, even if deep down you’re pretty sure no god views you that favorably or has any interest in your smalltime struggles.
ref: 2024, Kazerad, ==>, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), May 21 2024
glosses: Alternative spelling of small-time.
saintlily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saintlily
form: most saintlily
Etymology: From saintly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And how perfect she was, how daintily complete in mere physical beauty, from the heavy masses of her dark, copper-hued hair, and the sweet pale face, now looking so saintlily grave, and now bubbling with fun at some unexpected turn of humour […]
ref: 1908, John William Brodie-Innes, Morag the Seal:
glosses: In a saintly way.
hoglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoglike
form: most hoglike
Etymology: From hog + -like.
Senses: synonyms: piglike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hog.
priggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more priggishly
form: most priggishly
Etymology: From priggish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Philostratus seems to be the only writer who conceives that the Knossian Labryinth ^([sic]) was pointed out to visitors as still existing. Apollonius of Tyana priggishly refused to go to see it, because he would not make himself a spectator of Minos's wrong-doing.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 110:
glosses: In a priggish way.
sausagefest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausagefests
form: sausage fest
Etymology: From sausage + -fest, a phallic reference.
Senses: examples: text: This party is a total sausagefest! Let's call Sarah and have her bring some of her girlfriends over.
synonyms: brodeo
brodown
dickfest
sausage party
coordinate_terms: taco fest
glosses: An event populated almost entirely by men, with few or no women.
sausagefests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausagefest
piwakawaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pīwakawaka.
Senses: synonyms: tirairaka
tiwakawaka
glosses: The New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa, a small insectivorous bird of the South Pacific.
unrecycled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + recycled.
Senses: glosses: Not recycled.
niceish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nice + -ish.
Senses: examples: 1892: George du Maurier cartoon
Our Art Critic (patronisingly). "HA—HUM! WELL, YOUR COLOUR IS FAIRLY DECENT, AND YOU HAVE A NICEISH FEELING FOR LIGHT AND SHADE, AND CHIAROSCURIO. BUT WHERE YOU ALWAYS FAIL TO PLEASE, SOMEHOW, IS IN YOUR EXECUTION!"
glosses: Somewhat or rather nice.
ricelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ricelike
form: most ricelike
Etymology: From rice + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling rice or some aspect of it.
wheatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wheatlike
form: most wheatlike
Etymology: From wheat + -like.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: wheaty
glosses: Resembling wheat or some aspect of it.
Related terms: wheatish
maizelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maizelike
form: most maizelike
Etymology: From maize + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling maize or some aspect of it.
cornlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornlike
form: most cornlike
Etymology: From corn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of corn (the cereal crop).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a corn (pimple on the foot).
stairlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stairlike
form: most stairlike
Etymology: From stair + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stair.
steplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more steplike
form: most steplike
Etymology: From step + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a step.
cuntlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuntlike
form: most cuntlike
Etymology: From cunt + -like.
Senses: examples: text: […] all light, movement, power impersonally conceived, generated, and distributed throughout a choked, cuntlike cleft intended to dazzle and awe the savage […]
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 92:
text: The orchid is a cuntlike plant. Don't you think? Menacing in its beauty. Some plants just stand there. The orchid lures a person. It draws a person inward.
ref: 1973, Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street:
text: A fingernail jutted out of a female sex organ, out of a cuntlike furrow very close by his face. The broad fingernail of a broad hand. I feel sick, he said.
ref: 1998, Drago Jančar, Michael Biggins, Mocking desire:
glosses: Resembling the cunt (vagina) or some aspect of it.
Synonyms: vaginalike
Korowai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korowai
form: Korowais
Senses: synonyms: Kolufo
glosses: A member of a people of southeastern Papua who are hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists.
Korowai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kolufaup
glosses: The Nuclear-Trans-New-Guinean language of these people.
mokihi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mokihis
form: mokihi
form: moguey
Etymology: Maori [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A Māori raft made from dried flower stalks bound together with flax twine.
mokihis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mokihi
gold rushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gold rush
goldrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldrushes
Etymology: From gold + rush.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gold rush.
goldrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goldrush
breweress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breweresses
Etymology: From Middle English breweres; equivalent to brewer + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female brewer.
breweresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breweress
millineress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millineresses
Etymology: From milliner + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female milliner.
millineresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millineress
milleress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milleresses
Etymology: From miller + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female miller.
milleresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milleress
newmown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newmown
form: most newmown
Etymology: From late Middle English [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of new-mown.
kayoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kayo
kayoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kayo
nonrural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: From non- + rural.
Senses: glosses: Not rural.
nonmystical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mystical.
Senses: glosses: Not mystical.
Derived terms: nonmystically
nonmimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒn.mɪˈmɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: non-mimetic
Etymology: From non- + mimetic.
Senses: glosses: Not mimetic; not exhibiting mimesis.
nonluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + luminous.
Senses: glosses: Not luminous.
nonloyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + loyal.
Senses: glosses: Not loyal.
nonliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + liable.
Senses: glosses: Not liable.
Related terms: nonliability
nonlexical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-lexical
Etymology: From non- + lexical.
Senses: examples: text: But, on the whole non-lexical features are all that is needed to accurately determine the language being spoken when collecting data.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
glosses: Not lexical.
nonarbitrary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arbitrary.
Senses: glosses: Not arbitrary.
wetproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wetproof
form: most wetproof
Etymology: From wet + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Waterproof.
wetproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wetproofs
form: wetproofing
form: wetproofed
form: wetproofed
Etymology: From wet + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make waterproof.
decentish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more decentish
form: most decentish
Etymology: From decent + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The stranger produced a match, and lighted a cigar, saying, as he did so, “Decentish kind o’ wench you’ve got round there, stranger.”
ref: 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 12, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
text: Two hundred decentish, rather subdued-looking people were sitting packed on long wooden benches.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: Somewhat decent; all right, tolerable.
shawlless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shawl + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a shawl.
Synonyms: unshawled
geoeconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒiː.oʊ.ɛkəˈnɑmɪks/
rhymes: -nɑmɪks
Forms: form: geo-economics
Etymology: From geo- + economics.
Senses: examples: text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
text: ‘Country risk’ is essentially about assessing the economic prospects of a nation holistically, within the broader legal and geopolitical soil without which institutional investors cannot grow their assets. The government of Qatar is now paying an incommensurate price for having thought it could defy forever the laws of geoeconomic gravity.
ref: 2017 June 17, M. Nicolas J. Firzli, “The Qatar Crisis and the Eastern Flank of the MENA Area”, in Asharq Al-Awsat, volume 167, number 17, page 12:
text: So universities like John Hopkins, Dartmouth, Kiel and Stanford are looking to expand their “geoeconomics” programmes (with the latter using machine learning for that end), along with entities such as the IMF, the Milken Institute and Atlantic Council.
ref: 2025 May 10, Gillian Tett, “Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics”, in FT Weekend, page 9:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The study of the spatial, temporal, and political aspects of economies and resources in relation to the balance of power between nation-states or trade blocs.
Related terms: geonomics
geoeconomic
geoeconomist
geopolitics
cuntless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌntləs/
Etymology: From cunt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: All the ball-less critics / All their cuntless wives / Give to Mr. Hemingway / A violent case of Hives.
ref: 1930, Ernest Hemingway, “Little Mr. Wilson”, in Complete Poems, page 97:
text: "Hell is cuntless, you miserable shit. Your cock will be cut off slice by stinking slice." His lips part and his broad teeth show in unbrushed sarcasm.
ref: 1977, Stanley Shapiro, Simon's soul, page 219:
glosses: Without a cunt (vagina).
Derived terms: cuntlessness
sapful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sapful
form: most sapful
Etymology: From sap + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Full of sap; sappy; tasteful.
uveas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uvea
phantomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phantomlike
form: most phantomlike
Etymology: From phantom + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a phantom; ghostly.
pavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pav
profitwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From profit + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of profit.
germ-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: germfree
Etymology: From germ + -free.
Senses: glosses: Without any (especially harmful) microorganisms; aseptic.
examples: text: It is worth being cautious: many studies show associations rather than cause and effect, and some are based only on studies in germ-free mice and have not been explored in humans.
ref: 2018, Nicola Davis, The Guardian, 256 March:
topics: sciences
glosses: Specifically, pertaining to an animal with no microorganisms living in or on it, used in gnotobiotic research.
cwtching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cwtch
cwtched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cwtch
euoi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: evhoe
form: evoe
form: evohe
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐοῖ (euoî).
Senses: examples: text: Shall the warriors of Thebes be dumb? "Euoi! Euoi! Hail Bacchus!" They dance to the pipe and drum.
ref: 1909, Richard Edwin Day, New poems:
text: Euoi! Curving vines, delicate tendrils from sinews and tendons. Euoi! Candle flames and sweet smoke sting, swarm with the sound of bees...
ref: 1983, George Hitchcock, Kayak:
text: The Bacchic cry of Euoi is not too dissimilar to Jesus' penultimate cry, while on the cross, of Eloi, Eloi.
ref: 2001, Ralph Ellis, K2: Quest of the Gods:
text: […] sexually aroused by them but never successful in their urge to debauch them. The maenads, Diodoros continues, cry out 'euoi' […]
ref: 2003, Matthew Dillon, Girls and women in classical Greek religion:
glosses: A cry of impassioned rapture in ancient Bacchic revels.
flambee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flambees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flambé.
flambee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flambees
form: flambeeing
form: flambeed
form: flambeed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flambé.
flambees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flambee
flambees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flambee
flambeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flambee
faceup
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From face + up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of face-up.
furzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːzi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
Forms: form: more furzy
form: most furzy
Etymology: From furze + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered in furze.
examples: text: Finally, a man approaches her — an uncommonly fat, clownish-looking man, with a bulbous nose, furzy white hair, and fearsome great eyebrows like crushed mice.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 725:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of furze.
Synonyms: gorsy
antikickback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + kickback.
Senses: glosses: Serving to counter kickbacks (illicit payments); antibribery.
glosses: Serving to prevent kickbacks (accidents with machinery).
anticigarette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + cigarette.
Senses: glosses: In opposition to the smoking of cigarettes.
Synonyms: antismoking
wheylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wheylike
form: most wheylike
Etymology: From whey + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of whey.
Synonyms: wheyey
wheyey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wheyier
form: wheyiest
Etymology: From whey + -ey.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of whey.
Synonyms: wheyish
wheylike
priestesshood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priestesshoods
Etymology: From priestess + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Priesthood as it relates to priestesses, i.e. the female kind.
priestesshoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priestesshood
yrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Rapt.
glosses: Wrapped.
sveltely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sveltely
form: most sveltely
Etymology: From svelte + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a svelte way.
sveltest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of svelte: most svelte
sweatiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sweaty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being sweaty.
woodmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodmice
Etymology: From wood + mouse.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wood mouse.
woodmice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodmouse
ungirlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungirlish
form: most ungirlish
Etymology: From un- + girlish.
Senses: glosses: Not girlish; unfeminine.
Derived terms: ungirlishly
somewhy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmwai/
ipa: /ˈsʌmʍai/
Etymology: From some + why, in analogy with somewhere, somehow etc.
Senses: examples: text: Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn
 What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?
ref: 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
text: I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles^([sic]) & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.
ref: 1988, William Morris, 1924, quotee, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me.
ref: 2003, Cameron Royce Jess, Bearer of the Chose Seed (Fiction), Inscape Publications, →ISBN, page 15:
text: But somehow, somewhy, he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ...
ref: 2008, Margaret Feinberg, “Bring Them to Me”, in The Sacred Echo, Zondervan, →ISBN, page unk:
text: Or is it actually him? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy.
ref: 2011, Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: For some reason.
sheepman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepmen
Etymology: From sheep + -man.
Senses: examples: 1940, Zane Grey, 30,000 on the Hoof, New York: Pocket Book, 1977, Chapter 1, p. 8,
At Pleasant Valley sheepmen and cattlemen were at odds over the grazing.
glosses: A shepherd.
sheepmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepman
foveae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fovea
foveas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fovea
koas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koa
patentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patent + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a patent or patents.
wagonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wagon + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a wagon or wagons.
miromiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A tom-tit.
tomtits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomtit
kenaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian کنف (kanaf). See Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis) for more. Doublet of cannabis, canvas, and hemp.
Senses: glosses: Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found mainly in Asia.
glosses: The fibre obtained from this plant, similar to jute.
kanuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kanukas
form: kanuka
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Kunzea ericoides, the white tea tree of Australia and New Zealand, which can grow at high altitudes and in close proximity to geothermal features such as fumaroles.
noncabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cabinet.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the cabinet.
markkaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Despite the slow-down in the growth of imports, the trade deficit grew by 23 million markkaa in 1965.
ref: 1967, Moshe Y Sachs, Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations:
text: The rates used for converting national currencies into markkaa then into dollars are, from December, the central rates effective at the end of the month...
ref: 1972, Organisation for Economic Co-operation, “Sources and methods”, in Development:
text: The household of the average income group had about 127000 markkaa (approximately 21360 euros) for their expenses...
ref: 2002, Melvin Ember, Carol R Ember, Encyclopedia of urban cultures:
glosses: plural of markka
minxish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minxish
form: most minxish
Etymology: From minx + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a minx.
Derived terms: minxishly
minxishness
misfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfiːd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfiːd/
Forms: form: misfeeds
form: misfeeding
form: misfed
form: misfed
Etymology: From Middle English *misfeden, from Old English misfēdan; equivalent to mis- + feed.
Senses: examples: text: The problem with keeping the green iguana as a pet is that they are often misfed. For example, some will feed them meat or meat-based foods […]
ref: 2015, Rachel Smith, John Davidson, Lizards For Kids, page 18:
glosses: To feed incorrectly, as for example with the wrong foodstuff.
misfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈfiːd/
ipa: /ˈmɪsfiːd/
Forms: form: misfeeds
Etymology: From Middle English *misfeden, from Old English misfēdan; equivalent to mis- + feed.
Senses: glosses: A fault in a mechanical feed mechanism (in the paper pick-up of a printer, for example).
missee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missees
form: misseeing
form: missaw
form: misseen
Etymology: From mis- + see.
Senses: glosses: To see incorrectly; to misperceive visually; take a wrong view of; see in a false or distorted light.
glosses: To take a wrong, false, or distorted view; fail to see accurately.
missee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of missy (“miss; young lady”).
misfeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misfeed
misfeeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misfeed
misfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misfeed
missees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missee
missees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missee
misseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missee
missaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of missee
misseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of missee
jiglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jiglike
form: most jiglike
Etymology: From jig + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a jig (dance).