cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
laze about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lazes about
form: lazing about
form: lazed about
form: lazed about
Senses: examples: text: No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […]”
ref: 1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, page 245:
glosses: To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
Synonyms: laze around
loaf
loaf about
loaf around
loaf about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loafs about
form: loafing about
form: loafed about
form: loafed about
Senses: glosses: To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
Synonyms: laze about
laze around
loaf
loaf around
loaf around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loafs around
form: loafing around
form: loafed around
form: loafed around
Senses: examples: text: Thanks for coming on such short notice to clean my house. I'm just going to loaf around while you work, but I'll let you know if you're in my way.
glosses: to do nothing in particular, be idle.
Synonyms: laze about
laze around
loaf
loaf about
veg out
warehousewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehousewomen
Etymology: From warehouse + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who manages, or works in, a warehouse.
Related terms: warehouseman
warehousewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warehousewoman
L-driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: L-drivers
Senses: glosses: Someone who is learning to drive.
Related terms: L-plate
lead balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead balloons
Etymology: From go down like a lead balloon and similar expressions.
Senses: examples: text: After the collusion story proved a bust, there was an attempt to blow some life into the obstruction of justice charge. But that was a lead balloon with the American people.
ref: 2019 November 17, Robert Robb, “Trump wants Republicans to defend him. But it's hard to defend the indefensible”, in The Arizona Republic:
text: He does it because it establishes the primary deniability of "I was just trolling" when his lead balloons fail to go over
ref: 2025 May 3, @itazurakko999, X:
glosses: A failure, especially something that fails to have the intended resonance with an audience.
lead on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads on
form: leading on
form: led on
form: led on
Senses: examples: text: "But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on?" said I. / "Yes," she returned, again nodding steadily, "I let you go on."
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: To mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.
examples: text: I thought she really loved me but really she was just leading me on.
glosses: To mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.
To encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship.
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lead, on.
lay on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays on
form: laying on
form: laid on
form: laid on
Senses: examples: text: At the conference, they laid on a wonderful buffet.
glosses: to provide (food or drinks) for free
examples: text: Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself. Özil laid on a total of nine chances, the majority of them for Walcott.
ref: 2016 January 1, David Hytner, The Guardian:
text: Operator Abellio ScotRail doubled the Mon-Sat service from one train in each direction to two from May 2019 - it being something of a self-fulfilling prophecy that if you lay on trains, people might use them.
ref: 2022 January 26, Stephen Roberts, “Top of the stops: our least used stations”, in RAIL, number 949, page 56:
glosses: To provide
examples: text: He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly.
glosses: To apply or implement (something).
examples: text: He laid on compliments.
text: She was fed up him laying on the jokes, which she found insulting.
glosses: To repeatedly say (particular types of thing)
examples: text: I would I could see / this taborer! He lays it on.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To do something excessively.
examples: text: He's going to lay on a coat of primer before painting the wall.
glosses: To cover something with a layer of (something).
examples: text: Maybe somebody would see him and recognize him, maybe one of the guys would lay enough bread on him for a meal or at least subway fare.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, pages 3–4:
glosses: To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone).
examples: text: Lay some wisdom on me, man.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone).
examples: text: So the lad went back again to the north wind, and said that the goat wasn't worth anything, and he wasn't going to be done out of his meal, not he! "Well," said the north wind, "I have nothing else to give you but that old stick over there in the corner; but it is a good stick, and if you only say, 'Stick of mine, lay on,' it lays on, till you say, 'Stick of mine, leave off.'"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 166:
glosses: To attack or strike.
glosses: To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To feed sheets in for printing one by one.
examples: text: He talked to the cops and laid it on me.
glosses: To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something.
lay-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-downs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laydown.
Derived terms: lay-down misère
lie before
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies before
form: lying before
form: lay before
form: lain before
Senses: examples: text: I lie before you today begging for help.
glosses: to put oneself at the whim of, to bow down to
glosses: (especially of something honorific) to be situated in front of
e-bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-bike
bow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊ ˈdaʊn/
Forms: form: bows down
form: bowing down
form: bowed down
form: bowed down
Senses: examples: text: 8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth.
9 Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
10 And shewing mercy vnto thousands, of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 5:8–10:
text: You were all so powerful, so overwhelming. The whole world bowed down before you.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
text: Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: To bow, to bend oneself as a gesture of deference or respect.
examples: text: You better bow down to my skills.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To submit to another; to acknowledge one's inferiority to another.
Derived terms: bow down before the porcelain god
bowed-down
leak out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaks out
form: leaking out
form: leaked out
form: leaked out
Senses: examples: text: Water leaked out onto the floor.
synonyms: escape
glosses: To spill or pour out, because of a leak.
examples: text: The news of her pregnancy eventually leaked out to the press.
glosses: To be revealed (especially, of information intended to be kept secret).
examples: text: For example, when U2 songs appeared on the Internet before they were pressed onto CDs, it was someone inside the recording studio who leaked them out.
ref: 2003 October 28, Simson Garfinkel, “Insiders To Blame For Leaked Flicks”, in MIT Technology Review, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023:
text: Someone has invaded my privacy, stolen my song from me and leaked it out on the internet.
ref: 2015 December 13, Logesh Balachandran, quoting Simbu, The Times of India, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2015:
glosses: To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.
dactylitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”) + -itis
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of an entire digit (a finger or toe).
Synonyms: sausage digit
Derived terms: tuberculous dactylitis
Related terms: dactylitic
fat finger
leave off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves off
form: leaving off
form: left off
form: left off
Senses: glosses: To omit.
examples: text: Leave off hitting him!
synonyms: let off
let up
glosses: To desist; to cease.
examples: text: We will now continue where the other team left off.
text: Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
text: The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.
ref: 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC:
glosses: To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
Synonyms: sense: omit
word: exclude
word: miss off
word: omit
alt: desist
word: break off
word: have done with
word: desist
sense: stop with a view to resuming
word: pause
sense: stop with a view to resuming
word: take a break
dactylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dactylists
Etymology: From dactyl + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For these following efforts, composed more or less off-the-cuff, I make no greater claim than that they serve my present purpose, which is to challenge the dogmatic anapaestists and dactylists alike.
ref: 1978, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A writer of dactylic verse.
lecture theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecture theatres
Senses: examples: text: Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.
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 5:
glosses: A room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor, used to hold lectures.
Synonyms: lecture hall
lecture hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecture halls
Senses: glosses: A lecture theatre.
dealfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dealfish
legendry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legendries
Etymology: From legend + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: Legends in general; mythology.
legendry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more legendry
form: most legendry
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of legendary.
legendries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legendry
Legion of Honor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Legion of Honour
Senses: glosses: The highest order of merit in France.
glosses: The medal awarded for achieving this.
Haapala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haapalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Haapala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
decangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkæŋɡjələ(ɹ)/
Etymology: From deca- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Having ten angles.
ribbonfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribbonfish
lampriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or related to the order Lampridiformes of ray-finned fish
lampriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampriforms
Senses: glosses: Any of the fish in the order Lampridiformes
lampriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampriform
legionnaires' disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Legionnaires' disease.
Related terms: Pontiac fever
decapsulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decapsulate
decapsulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decapsulate
decapsulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decapsulate
leisure center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leisure centers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leisure centre.
Pontiac fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Pontiac, Michigan, where the first case was recognised.
Senses: glosses: A form of legionellosis that is less severe than legionnaires' disease.
Ketola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ketolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Ketola.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Korpela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Korpelas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Korpela.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
laser surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser surgeries
Senses: glosses: Any surgery using a laser to cut tissue instead of a scalpel.
glosses: The field thereof.
Kujala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kujalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Kujala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
level off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: levels off
form: leveling off
form: levelling off
form: leveled off
form: leveled off
form: levelled off
form: levelled off
Senses: examples: text: I poured some flour into the scoop and levelled it off with a knife.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see level, off.
examples: text: Will the exponential growth in TV rights income at home and abroad that has fuelled the endless inflation of the Premier League’s high-octane balloon ever level off?
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
glosses: To get to a stable level; to cease climbing, descending, or oscillating.
Coordinate terms: level up
smooth down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smooths down
form: smoothing down
form: smoothed down
form: smoothed down
Senses: examples: text: She smoothed her nails down with a file.
glosses: To render smooth, to remove roughness from
lgth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of length.
wdth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wdths
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of width.
LHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHDs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: RHD
glosses: Abbreviation of left-hand drive.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
coordinate_terms: LHA
glosses: Initialism of landing, helicopter, dock: A type of amphibious assault ship that has a dock for handling landing crafts, and a deck for handling helicopters.
Liberty Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small uninhabited island in New York Harbor, the location of the Statue of Liberty.
debaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbeɪsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: debasers
Etymology: From debase + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […]a most jealous and barbarous governor, a debaser of the Roman empire, a corrupter of all that was good[…]
ref: 1869, Thomas Stackhouse, A history of the holy Bible, page 1130:
glosses: One who, or that which, debases.
debasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debaser
lickerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: liquorish
liquorice
Forms: form: more lickerish
form: most lickerish
Etymology: Probably an alteration of lickerous.
Senses: glosses: Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
examples: text: Birdsong, who followed the Colombian, stopped his hymn singing at this lickerish pantomime and watched his fellow muleteer in righteous disapproval. Condemnation was written in the Arkansan's very back and stride.
ref: 1922, T. S. Stribling, “The Web of the Sun”, in Adventure, Chapter 3:
glosses: Lecherous; lustful, mawkish.
examples: text: I thought of all the lickerish pleasures of Felicity Place.
ref: 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 399:
glosses: Tempting the appetite; dainty.
glosses: Sweet, luscious.
examples: text: Fighting like seals in a lickerish estuary
ref: a. 1917, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, “The Willow-tree Bough”:
glosses: During mating season.
Derived terms: lickerishly
lickerishness
lie around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies around
form: lying around
form: lay around
form: lain around
Senses: examples: text: I spent the day lying around reading a detective novel.
glosses: To do nothing in particular; to be idle.
examples: text: I'm sure that pencil sharpener is lying around somewhere.
glosses: To be in an unknown place.
debuscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbjəskəʊp/
Forms: form: debuscopes
Etymology: Borrowed from French debuscope, named after Debus, a French optician.
Senses: glosses: A form of kaleidoscope.
lie back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies back
form: lying back
form: lay back
form: lain back
Senses: glosses: To lie down from a sitting position
glosses: To relax, to exert less effort
Related terms: lie back and think of England
pay the debt of nature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays the debt of nature
form: paying the debt of nature
form: paid the debt of nature
form: paid the debt of nature
Senses: examples: text: The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.
ref: 1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs, volume 1, page 36:
text: Ten years after he had seen his son married^([sic]), become a church member, and give up his carnal delights, old Deacon Smith paid the debt of nature. His last days he always called his best days.
ref: 1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 76:
synonyms: pay nature's debt
glosses: To die.
lie off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies off
form: lying off
form: lay off
form: lain off
Senses: examples: text: Try to lie off the cardinal.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remain at a safe distance from (another vessel or hazard)
deburse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deburses
form: debursing
form: debursed
form: debursed
Etymology: From de- + Latin bursa (“purse”), equivalent to de- + burse.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disburse.
Related terms: debursement
debursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deburse
deburses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deburse
debursing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deburse
life coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life coaches
Senses: glosses: A professional who helps clients to achieve their personal goals.
life coach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: life coaches
form: life coaching
form: life coached
form: life coached
Senses: glosses: To help someone achieve their personal goals.
life story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life stories
Senses: examples: text: Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:
glosses: An account of an individual's life.
examples: text: I wish this guy would stop giving me his life story and just buy me a drink.
glosses: A long and detailed monologue delivered to someone.
Related terms: story of my life
story of one's life
threetip sagebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Artemisia tripartita, a sagebrush plant.
trunkline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunklines
Etymology: From trunk + line.
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: Any road under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Related terms: trunk line
trunklines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunkline
line judge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line judges
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: An official who watches the lines of the court and judges whether the ball has landed in or out and also declares foot faults.
Synonyms: word: linesman
word: line umpire
Related terms: chair umpire
tertiarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiarisation
Etymology: From tertiary + -ization.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A shift from the primary and secondary sectors to the tertiary sector.
tertiarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tertiarization.
line management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A method of management in which instructions are passed to and from one's superior.
Hypernyms: management
Related terms: line manager
torrenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torrent
torrented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torrent
white gentian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white gentians
Senses: glosses: Gentiana alba, a herbaceous flowering plant with yellowish-white flowers from thick white taproots.
weariless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weariless
form: most weariless
Etymology: From Middle English weryles; equivalent to weary + -less.
Senses: glosses: Tireless; incapable of being wearied.
dechristianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dechristianize
dechristianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dechristianize
dechristianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dechristianize
decastich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decastichs
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: A poem of ten lines.
decastichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decastich
decastere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decasteres
Etymology: From deca- + stere.
Senses: glosses: A measure of capacity equal to ten steres or cubic metres.
decasteres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decastere
decarburizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decarburize
decarburizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decarburize
decarburized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decarburize
decasulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decasulphides
Etymology: From deca- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decasulfide.
decasyllables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decasyllable
decatetraenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decatetraene
decimalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪməlɪzəm/
Etymology: From decimal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The decimal system.
declarators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declarator
declaratorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklæɹətɔːɹɪli/
Forms: form: more declaratorily
form: most declaratorily
Etymology: From declaratory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a declaratory manner.
unligated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ligated.
Senses: examples: blood flow signals from unligated collateral vessels
glosses: Not ligated.
decenylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛnɪliːn/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric acetylenes having ten carbon atoms
Synonyms: decyne
decillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decillionth
decillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decillion
decyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decynes
Etymology: From dec- + -yne.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric acetylenes having ten carbon atoms, but especially 1-decyne
decimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decimator
decreaseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːsləs/
Etymology: From decrease + -less.
Senses: examples: It flows and flows, and yet will flow,
Volume decreaseless to the final hour. — A. Seward.
glosses: Not decreasing.
boutfit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boutfits
Etymology: Blend of bout + outfit
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't just the skater's athletic prowess that was enviable... it was her sporty fishnets and hot-pants "boutfit."
ref: 2009 November 29, Sophia Kercher, Los Angeles Times:
text: We bump into the dressing room with our skate bags and boutfits. I have new pair of tights that look like dragon tattoos.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Samples, Pivot, page 191:
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: An outfit chosen for a bout.
disparager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disparagers
Etymology: From disparage + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disparages.
disparagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disparager
cocksurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cocksurely
form: most cocksurely
Etymology: From cocksure + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cocksure manner.
displaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more displaceable
form: most displaceable
Etymology: From displace + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being displaced.
Derived terms: nondisplaceable
undisplaceable
disobeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disobeyers
Etymology: From disobey + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disobeys.
disobeyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disobeyer
displeasedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more displeasedly
form: most displeasedly
Etymology: From displeased + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a displeased manner.
cougaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cougar + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The seeking of casual, often sexual, companionship of younger males by an older woman.
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: The act of deliberately picking up a minor penalty in order to visit the penalty box at a convenient time.
dispoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.
disprover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disprovers
Etymology: From disprove + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, disproves.
disprovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disprover
disrespecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disrespecters
form: disrespector
Etymology: From disrespect + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disrespects.
disrespecters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disrespecter
distributers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributer
narcissisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcissism.
dysluite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + Ancient Greek λύω (lúō) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of the zinc spinel or gahnite.
gahnites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gahnite
dysodile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysodiles
form: dysodil
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῠσώδης (dŭsṓdēs, “ill-smelling”), from δῠσ- (dŭs-) + ὄζω (ózō, “smell”), + -ile.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, finely laminated, greenish or yellowish-grey impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly foetid odour when burning.
Derived terms: dysodilic
dysodiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysodile
dysmyelinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysmyelination
dysontogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dys- + ontogenetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dysontogenesis.
dynamitard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamitards
Etymology: From dynamite + -ard.
Senses: examples: text: Are we then to repudiate Fabian methods, and return to those of the barricader, or adopt those of the dynamitard and the assassin?
ref: 1901–1903, John Tanner [pseudonym; George Bernard Shaw], “[The Revolutionist’s Handbook and Pocket Companion] Progress an Illusion”, in Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, page 204:
text: The president of the funeral committee was Thomas Clarke, a former Clan na Gael dynamitard who had been arrested in 1883, before he even commenced activities, and had served fifteen years of particularly harsh imprisonment.
ref: 2014 June, Guy Beiner, “Fenianism and the Martyrdom-Terrorism Nexus in Ireland before Independence”, in Dominic Janes, Alex Houen, editors, Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: A political dynamiter.
dynamitards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamitard
dynamisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamism
dunfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dun + fish, from its colour.
Senses: glosses: A kind of cured codfish.
dunesand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunesands
Etymology: From dune + sand.
Senses: glosses: A loose thin sand that can be carried by the wind.
durene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durenes
Etymology: From Latin durus (“hard”) (because solid at ordinary temperatures) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon used as a solvent and in the manufacture of pyromellitic acid.
Derived terms: duroquinol
duroquinone
durenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durene
durion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durions
Senses: examples: text: Poor monkeys! how I pity them. The only durions they can eat are the overripe ones, which fall from the trees and burst open.
ref: 1883, “More about the durion”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume 10, part 1:
glosses: Archaic form of durian.
dyspnoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dyspnoic
form: most dyspnoic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dyspneic.
dysuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysuric
form: most dysuric
Etymology: From dysuria + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysuria.
dysury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysuries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dysuria.
dysuries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysury
dystrophinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dystrophinopathy
dystrophins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dystrophin
waferer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waferers
Etymology: From Middle English wafrer, from Anglo-Norman wafrer; equivalent to wafer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A maker of wafers.
waferers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waferer
gralloching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gralloch
gralloched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gralloch
wae
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of with.
Derived terms: mad wae it
wae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waes
Senses: examples: text: Wae is me!
glosses: Alternative form of woe.
waistcoateer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwɛskəˈtɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: waistcoateers
Etymology: From waistcoat + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Do you think you are here, sir, / Amongst your waistcoateers, your base wenches?
ref: 1639, John Fletcher, Wit Without Money:
text: Thou knowest well that, from Mrs. Deputy's self down to the waistcoateers in the alley, all of them are twiring and peeping betwixt their fingers when you pass; and yet you call yourself a miserable dog!
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: Someone wearing a waistcoat; especially, a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a whore.
waistcoateers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waistcoateer
lossier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lossy: more lossy
lossiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lossy: most lossy
yé-yé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yé-yés
Etymology: From French yéyé, from English yeah-yeah.
Senses: examples: text: […] she (Françoise Hardy) is so today, so white boots and yé-yé, that she can make anyone over 25 (me) feel prehistoric, raccoon coat and rah-rah.
ref: 1966 December 18, Joan Barthel, “Francoise from France: White Boots and Ye-Ye”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of pop music of the early 1960s in Europe.
examples: text: The Mods and the Yé Yés are growing up.
ref: 1965 March 8, “Older Women In Their 20's Can Be Yé Yé”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A fan or artist of this genre.
pick holes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks holes
form: picking holes
form: picked holes
form: picked holes
Senses: examples: text: The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it.
ref: 2011 September 23, Jason Palmer, “Light speed: Flying into fantasy”, in BBC News:
glosses: To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
yole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoles
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A Scottish rowing boat that could also use a sail
neuropsychiatrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuropsychiatrist
cry down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries down
form: crying down
form: cried down
form: cried down
Senses: glosses: Publicly to forbid or suppress (something).
examples: text: ‘I, for my part, don't want to cry Sir Robert down, though he does not deal at my shop.’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 346:
synonyms: downcry
glosses: To condemn, disparage.
glosses: To cry until it is tired.
raw_tags: of a baby
blandiloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin blandus (“flattering”) + loquor (“speak”).
Senses: examples: text: The scale and ferocity of violence produced by uncivil wars have fascinated, shocked, and sickened the whole world. Words cannot easily describe their cruelty, and their attempted theorisation seems at first glance to be a self-indulgent act of blandiloquence.
ref: 2004, John Keane, Violence and Democracy:
glosses: flattery
praise to the skies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹeɪz tə ðə ˈskaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: praises to the skies
form: praising to the skies
form: praised to the skies
form: praised to the skies
Etymology: From praise + to the skies (or sky) (“to the highest possible degree”).
Senses: synonyms: praise to high heaven
glosses: To praise or laud (someone or something) excessively.
Related terms: sing the praises of
honey-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more honey-mouthed
form: most honey-mouthed
Etymology: From honey + mouthed.
Senses: examples: text: 1627, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, London: M.F., J. Marriot & R. Royston, 1649, Volume 2, Sermon 42, p. 386,
Truely, when I reade a Sermon of Chrysostome, or of Chrysologus, or of Ambrose, Men, who carry in the very signification of their Names, and in their Histories, the attributes of Hony mouthed, and Golden-mouthed Men, I finde my selfe oftentimes, more affected, with the very Citation, and Application of some sentence of Scripture, in the middest or end of one of their Sermons, then with any witty, or forcible passage of their owne.
text: […] they had much profitable conversation, McCampbell quoting the doctrines of a rabbi called John Calvin, and our grandfather’s grandfather replying with Talmud and Torah till McCampbell would almost weep that such a honey-mouthed scholar should be destined to eternal damnation.
ref: 1938, Stephen Vincent Benét, “Jacob and the Indians”, in Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, volume 2, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, published 1942, page 10:
glosses: (in a positive sense) Having a sweet and smooth voice; eloquent.
examples: text: Now to thintent thou mayest playnly beholde and Iudge rightly of these hony mouthed false feynyng flatterours and auncient enemyes of Christes religion the better and more readily […]
ref: 1553, Stephen Gardiner, “The Preface of the translatour to the gentil reader”, in Edmund Bonner, transl., Touching True Obedience, Rome: Hugh Singleton:
text: He must be told on’t, and he shall: the office
Becomes a woman best; I’ll take’t upon me:
If I prove honey-mouth’d let my tongue blister
And never to my red-look’d anger be
The trumpet any more.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 1858, George Eliot, “Janet’s Repentance” in Scenes of Clerical Life, London: William Blackwood, Volume 2, Chapter 7, p. 151,
“ […] Tryan’s sermons […] [are] not at all what I expected—dull, stupid things—nothing of the roaring fire-and-brimstone sort that I expected.”
“Roaring? No; Tryan’s as soft as a sucking dove—one of your honey-mouthed hypocrites.”
glosses: (in a negative sense) Indirect, delivering a message in a way that will make it seem more pleasant to the hearer(s); seductive, persuasive.
Related terms: honey-lipped
honey-tongued
mellifluous
silver-tongued
suckup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suckups
Etymology: Deverbal from suck up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of suck-up.
spermatorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatorrhœas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spermatorrhea.
good wine needs no bush
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: First recorded in the epilogue to As You Like It by William Shakespeare: "If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue." Here, the term bush denotes a branch or bunch of ivy formerly hung as a vintner’s sign in front of a tavern.
Senses: glosses: There is no need to boast or advertise about something of good quality.
Related terms: old wine in a new bottle
of one's word
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She never needed to show them to us — we knew, just as the adults did, that Dadi was a woman of her word.
ref: 1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Dean is a great guy and is always helping someone. He is a man of his word, very respectable, and highly intelligent. But he is not the kind of man you would want to cross if you know what I mean.
ref: 2012, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: That keeps promises and tells the truth.
Related terms: good as one's word
true to one's colors
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: true to one's colours
Senses: glosses: loyal
Related terms: true to one's word
true to oneself
show one's true colors
shitmuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitmunchers
Etymology: From shit + muncher.
Senses: synonyms: shitmunch
glosses: An unwanted or undesirable person.
well-doing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If we take not the law of weldoing from our selves: if impunity be justice in us: to how many kindes of treacherie are we daily to abandon our selves?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: But I will not have your murderous propensities interfere with Emily's well-doing.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: The practice of doing good; virtuousness, good conduct.
well-doing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: virtuous
sticker prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sticker price
asking prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asking price
scum of the earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Child abusers and pedophiles are the scum of the earth.
text: When I see people who arrive here legitimately seeking refuge and shelter, and they are treated as the scum of the Earth and they are sentenced to awful detention and sometimes death by both major political parties […]
ref: 2018 August 20, “Q&A: John Marsden says he would not have written the Tomorrow series today”, in ABC News (Australia):
antonyms: salt of the earth
glosses: An undesirable individual; the worst type of person or people.
shitmunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitmuncher
cockmuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockmunchers
Etymology: From cock + muncher.
Senses: examples: text: Jeremy Usborne: Look, you're a cockmuncher, OK?
ref: 2003, Peep Show (TV series), Warring Factions (episode)
synonyms: cock gobbler
coordinate_terms: rug muncher
glosses: Term of abuse.
cockmunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockmuncher
cockmunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockmunches
Etymology: cock + munch
Senses: glosses: An idiot or other undesirable person.
cockmunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockmunch
shitnecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitneck
hæmaturiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There had been two hæmaturiæ in six months previous, with lumbricoidal clots passed in the five following days.
ref: 1894, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 584:
glosses: plural of hæmaturia
hæmaturia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmaturiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hematuria.
orthopnœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthopnœic
form: most orthopnœic
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orthopneic.
suckups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suckup
line judges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line judge
superluminosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + luminosity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being superluminal.
fuckton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌktʌn/
Forms: form: fucktons
form: fucktonne
form: fuck ton
form: fuck tonne
form: fuck-ton
Etymology: From fuck + ton (“large amount”).
Senses: synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large amount.
Related terms: fuckwad
metric fuckton
shitton
crapton
multihomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + homed.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having network reliability increased by means of multihoming.
packway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packways
Etymology: From pack + way.
Senses: glosses: A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.
packways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packway
paddlewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paddle + wood.
Senses: glosses: The light elastic wood of Aspidosperma excelsum, a South American tree whose trunk is readily split into planks.
ouchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ouchless
form: most ouchless
Etymology: From ouch + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without pain.
paddy bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddy birds
Senses: glosses: The Java sparrow.
glosses: An egret.