cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lipidologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipidologists
Etymology: From lipidology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Her father is an endocrinologist and lipidologist in St. Louis and an associate professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
ref: 2008 January 20, “Margo Crespin, Joshua Rosenbaum”, in New York Times:
glosses: A scientist involved in lipidology, the study of fats.
lipidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipid + -ology.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of lipids (fats)
Derived terms: lipidologist
assuringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assuringly
form: most assuringly
Etymology: From assuring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, yes!" said the lawyer, assuringly, "oh, yes! there's no mistake about that, there isn't the shadow of a doubt about that.
ref: 1887, Homer Greene, Burnham Breaker:
text: "He won't hurt you, Miss Lloyd," he called, assuringly.
ref: 1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘Found Out’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 168:
text: He laid his hard, rough hand assuringly on the shoulder of the frightened child and sought to soothe her fears.
ref: 1909, John R. Musick, The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story:
glosses: In an assuring manner.
asthmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asthmatically
form: most asthmatically
Etymology: From asthmatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: He came in and stood breathing asthmatically.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: The Chinese Puffhard excelled herself, and though she choked asthmatically did not really stop once until we were half way up the drive, when I abandoned her to the gardeners, who later on harnessed the donkey to her and pulled her into the motor-house.
ref: 1915, William J. Locke, Jaffery:
text: He was not an old man, though he affected to be so--walking very slowly and deliberately, coughing asthmatically, glimmering with his eyes, and mumbling like a witch.
ref: 1864, John Hanning Speke, The Discovery of the Source of the Nile:
glosses: In an asthmatic manner.
andt
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From English and.
Senses: examples: text: Veil, mein friendts, andt how vags the vorldt wid you, mein tdears?
ref: 1878, George T. Ferris, The Great German Composers:
text: When the time gome dat dis iss a free gountry again, then I dake a bension again for my woundts; but I would sdarfe before I dake a bension now from a rebublic dat iss bought oap by monobolies, and ron by drusts and gompines, and railroadts andt oil gompanies."
ref: 1871, William Dean Howells, The March Family Trilogy, Complete:
text: […] I know not who I wouldt waitd for, over andt above mine oldt rival, Master Dom[…].
ref: 1902, Frederick James Crowest, Musicians' wit, humour, & anecdote:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of and.
poetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poetizes
form: poetizing
form: poetized
form: poetized
Etymology: From poet + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book.
ref: 1857, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, volume I:
text: Its aim is not merely to reunite all the dispersed classes of poetry, and to place poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric; it aims and ought to aim to mingle and combine poetry and prose, genius and criticism, artistic and natural poetry; to make poetry lively and social, to make life and society poetic; to poetize wit, to saturate all the forms of art with worthy materials of culture and enliven them by the sallies of humor.
ref: 1914, Kuno Francke, editor, The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, volume IV:
text: While the sailor was again attacking his breakfast with the familiarity of a lover who has achieved his ends and no longer needs to hide and poetize his grosser necessities, she seated herself on an old chaise longue, lighting a cigarette.
ref: 1919, Vicente Blasco Iba, Mare Nostrum (Our Sea):
glosses: To make (something) poetic.
examples: text: [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto:
text: It was probably after this amour ended that Sordello sat out upon his travels, visiting most courts, and dwelling long in Provence, where he learned to poetize in the Provencal tongue, in which he thereafter chiefly wrote, and composed many songs.
ref: 1867, William Dean Howells, Italian Journeys:
text: Hot sake is next served, which is to them what beer is to a German or absinthe to a blouse; and there they sit, sip, and poetize, passing their couplets, as they do their cups, in honor to one another.
ref: 1888, Percival Lowell, The Soul of the Far East:
text: This it is that, particularly in my earlier years, gave me a rather awkward appearance both in the field of speculation and in that of poetry; for the poetic mind generally got the better of me when I ought to have philosophized, and my philosophical mind when I wished to poetize.
ref: 1914, Kuno Francke, editor, The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, volume III:
glosses: To compose poetry.
Derived terms: depoetize
poetization
poetizer
unpoetize
unpoetized
poetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poetize
poetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poetize
poetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poetize
scatheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scatheless
form: most scatheless
form: scathless
Etymology: From Middle English scatheles, skathelæs (“scathless”), from Old English *sceaþlēas; equivalent to scathe + -less, or scath + -less. Cognate with Scots skaithless (“free of financial loss, penalty or liability”), Old Frisian skadlos, schadlos (“scatheless”), Dutch schadeloos (“harmless”), Middle Low German schadelōs, Middle High German schadelōs, Danish skadesløs (“harmless”), Swedish skadeslös (“harmless”), Icelandic skaðlaus (“harmless”).
Senses: examples: text: He felt like a man who has just come scatheless through some horrible crisis, and once more knows the sweet sensation of safety.
ref: 1884, H. Rider Haggard, Dawn:
text: The houses round about have fared better, in the main, than the mill, though none of them has come scatheless out of the fight.
ref: 1915, Irvin S. Cobb, Paths of Glory:
text: With the exception, perhaps, of Great Britain, whose privileged insular situation, enormous mercantile navy and flourishing trade in coal have enabled her to resume her pre-war economic existence almost entirely, no country has emerged scatheless from the War. The rates of exchange soar daily to fantastic heights, and insuperable barriers to the commerce of European nations are being created.
ref: 1922, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Peaceless Europe:
synonyms: unscathed
glosses: Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
inspirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inspirit
inspirited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inspirit
inspiritingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inspiritingly
form: most inspiritingly
Etymology: From inspiriting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The old soldier struck him on the shoulder inspiritingly, his weather-beaten face very grave.
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, Hillsboro People:
text: The birds sung less inspiritingly than usual amid the boughs, which remained as motionless as death.
ref: 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne:
text: Then the absurdity of her--Miss Heth's--feeling constraint before this Mr.--no, Dr.--Vivian, this friend of the Cooneys and malicious attacker of the Cooneys' relatives' characters, rushed over the girl inspiritingly.
ref: 1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes:
glosses: In an inspiriting manner.
palisading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palisade
palisading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palisadings
Senses: glosses: A row of palisades set in the ground.
agoraphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agoraphobes
Etymology: From agora + -phobe, see agoraphobia.
Senses: examples: text: Through such substances the agoraphobes could come to like open spaces, and the 'scotophobes' enjoy the dark.
ref: 1974, Erwin Lausch, Manipulation; dangers and benefits of brain research:
text: She has never considered herself either a claustrophobe or an agoraphobe but, well, this was different. This was both fears together – the fear of wide-open spaces jammed shoulder to shoulder with angry people.
ref: 1998, Jim Mortimore, chapter 3, in Beltempest, page 73:
text: The following season Mr. Murphy composed an original Broadway-style number for a scene in which Brian the dog attempts to persuade an elderly agoraphobe to leave her home.
ref: 2007 November 4, Dave Itzkoff, “A Satirical Sit-Coms Memorable Music”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who suffers from agoraphobia.
puddinglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puddinglike
form: most puddinglike
Etymology: From pudding + -like.
Senses: examples: text: When it was just soft enough to be succulent but not entirely puddinglike, I let it cool so it wouldn’t wilt the peppers and the cherry tomatoes that I decided to add for their freshness.
ref: 2007 August 15, Melissa Clark, “A Nonconforming Eggplant”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pudding.
foglight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foglights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fog light.
fuhgeddaboud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuhgeddabout
Etymology: Back-formation from fuhgeddaboudit.
Senses: examples: text: In response to the letter writer (June 14) who suggests I fuhgeddaboud signing copies of my book “Forever Blue” in Brooklyn:
ref: 2009 June 28, “Back in Brooklyn”, in New York Times:
glosses: forget about
grandstanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandstander
hullaballoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hullaballoos
Senses: examples: text: […]The truth of all this hullaballoo was that Rigby had a sly pension which, by an inevitable association of ideas, he always connected with the maintenance of an Aristocracy.
ref: 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or The New Generation, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 234–235:
text: 'Sarah, could you bring me the calendar from the wall over there? Does it say the right date?' 'Two days behind – and small wonder no one tore it off with all the hullaballoo going on. Ever so pretty, isn't it?' said Sarah as she handed the calendar to Jessamy.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
hullaballoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hullaballoos
form: hullaballooing
form: hullaballooed
form: hullaballooed
Senses: examples: text: They roared, they danced, they hullaballoed, they pinched one another; they behaved like young savages – but I knew I had got them safe.
ref: 1844, George Carter Needham, Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes: The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation, D. L. Guernsey:
text: "Nonsense, child," said my father, smiling. "Did you ever see a stone thrown into the pond? there's a great splash, and a few circles on the water, and that's about all, isn't it? Well, when I die there'll be a great splash of tears and hullaballooing, and a few circles of tender recollections, and then the surface will smooth itself over, and it'll be all right again."
ref: 1867, Rhoda Broughton, Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], pages 53–54:
text: Ho, hullaballoing clan / Agape, with woe / In your beaks, on the gabbing capes!
ref: 1952, Dylan Thomas, “Author’s Prologue”, in Collected Poems, 1934–1952, Dent, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Twitter broke the news, and soon enough, the media hullaballooed over this latest act of art vandalism.
ref: 2012 October 30, Jessica Redmond, “It was all yellow: Some dude defaces a Rothko in the name of ‘yellowism’”, in Columbia Spectator:
text: In addition to size, manufacturers hope to attract buyers with added gadgetry despite disappointing sales of 3D televisions, an innovation hullaballooed at CES last year only to flop in stores.
ref: 2013 January 8, Rory Carroll, “CES 2013: TV companies hope size and sharpness are the future”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
interborough
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + borough.
Senses: examples: text: There are also 14 miles of approach roads and a giant traffic junction that provides access to Randalls Island and tries to sort out the various strands of interborough travel.
ref: 2009 June 28, Alan Feuer, “Shepherding Millions Across the Rivers and Through the Tolls”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between boroughs.
outfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfishes
form: outfishing
form: outfished
form: outfished
Etymology: From out- + fish.
Senses: examples: text: My friend Jud has outfished me in all but one or two of the hundred times we’ve gone to the ocean and bay beaches and kettle ponds on Cape Cod. By both study and exercise, he knows the culture of striped bass better than I know my own nose.
ref: 2009 June 28, Salvatore Scibona, “Think Like a Fish”, in New York Times:
glosses: To catch bigger (or more) fish than.
plantwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plant + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Just a day before, the line was stopped early for a plantwide meeting on the factory floor.
ref: 2009 June 28, Jonathan Mahler, “G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class”, in New York Times:
glosses: Throughout a plant (factory)
nonwhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + whaling.
Senses: examples: text: The commission’s nonwhaling members, the United States included, should press for a complete ban.
ref: 2009 June 28, “A Non-Ban on Whaling”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not whaling; that doesn't hunt whales.
nonwhale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + whale.
Senses: examples: text: Subsequent to the decimation of stocks of the great whales, several nonwhale species also increased in abundance
ref: 2002, S. Ferson, Mark A. Burgman, Quantitative methods for conservation biology, page 120:
text: What was still missing was the closest nonwhale ancestor, the animal that was the link to these early whales.
ref: 2007 December 25, Henry Fountain, “Researchers Find Animal That Links Whales to Land”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not related to whales, not a whale
head-emptier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-emptiers
Senses: examples: March 6 1992, National Public Radio, "LAWNMOWER MAN" A FUN, BAD MOVIE
And for all the goofiness and great yawning gaps of plot logic, "The Lawnmower Man" is a fun bad movie, a diverting head emptier, a movie Twinkie.
glosses: Anything mindless; something that does not involve thinking.
noseblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nose + blood, after the fashion of nosebleed.
Senses: examples: text: […]she said, sharply, "if we women had great fists as big as yours there might be a juster spurting of noseblood, Broad One."
ref: 2004, Richard Monaco, Parsival Or a Knight's Tale, page 38:
glosses: The blood produced from a nosebleed.
first point of Aries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A point on the celestial sphere where the sun crosses the celestial equator on March equinox.
Coordinate terms: first point of Libra
first point of Cancer
first point of Capricorn
willow tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willow tit
marsh tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsh tit
crested tits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crested tit
occashun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occashuns
Etymology: From occasion.
Senses: examples: text: My meetin house wuz gorgeously decorated for the occashun; the walls bein hung with confedrit battle flags, and on the corners of the pulpit wuz placed two skulls uv Yankees, picked up at Andersonville by one of the guards, who is now a loyal citizen uv this State, residin at this pint.
ref: 1867, Petroleum V. Nasby, "Swingin Round the Cirkle.":
text: Ef we believes we'se preshus in his sight,--an' de Bible sez we is,--we'll hev no occashun fer gettin discouraged, fer de dear Lord's boun ter do de best fer his loved ones.
ref: 1904, Edith Ferguson Black, chapter 16, in A Beautiful Possibility:
text: 'I thort p'raps you'd like to drink to the occashun of the 'appy 'ome-coming in a nice glarss o' stout,' she explained.
ref: 1920, Florence A. Kilpatrick, Our Elizabeth:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of occasion.
occashuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occashun
occasioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occasioners
Etymology: From occasion + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He is an occasioner of disloyal thoughts in the commonwealth, for he makes men hate the king's name worse than the devil's.
ref: 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
text: The charge recited the evils and calamities which had resulted from the war, and concluded by saying that "the said Charles Stuart is and has been the occasioner, author, and continuer of the said unnatural, cruel, and bloody wars, and is therein guilty of all the treasons, murders, rapines, burnings, spoils, desolations, damages, and mischiefs to this nation acted and committed in the said wars, or occasioned thereby."
ref: 1901, Jacob Abbott, Charles I:
glosses: Agent noun of occasion; one who occasions
thort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From thought.
Senses: examples: text: "Who'd a thort there'd 've been any of the warmints about, whin we took sich pains with our fire.
ref: 1911, Edward S. Ellis, The Lost Trail:
text: Mayhap it wouldn't be right till take it from a sinner like me, but--I thort I'd like it, somehow,"--showing him the fly-leaf.
ref: 1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862:
text: Off he goes, and the neks sean shows us the werry plaice, all filled with savidges, and demons, and snakes, and things; and presently, when Mr. Horfay is seen a cumming down, all the demons and savidges runs at him to stop him; but he holds up the Liar, and begins for to sing, and most bewtifully too, tho' I didn't kno the tune; they all makes way for him, and he gos bang into lots of big flames, and so I werry naterally thort as how it was all over.
ref: 1890, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 6, 1890:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of thought.
thort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thorts
Etymology: From thought.
Senses: examples: text: And he had jest the same helegant but simple lunch as before, with a bottle of the same splendid Champane, as before, and he didn't harf finish it, as before, and not a drop of what he left was wasted, as before; and so, when he paid me his little account, he arsked me if many of the werry bewtifool ladies, as I had told him of when he came larst, had been to the "Grand" lately, so the bold thort seized, me, and I says to him, "Yes, your ——, there's jest a nice few of 'em here now, and if you will kindly foller me up to our bewtifool Libery, and will keep your eyes quite wide open as you gos along, you will see jest about a hole room full of 'em."
ref: 1890, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 19, 1890:
text: BROWN wound up the armony of our truly appy heavening by singing his new song of, "The LORD MARE leads a nappy life," and we sort our seweral nupshal couches as happy and contented a lot as his Lordship hisself, our werry larst drink all round being to the follering sentiment given out by me as the prowd Chairman: "May all the well to do in this grand old London of ours enjoy as merry a Crismus as we have enjoyed to-night, and may they all give a kind thort, and a liberal stump-up, to all the poor and needy who so badly wants it this bitter weather."
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., January 3, 1891.:
text: When we got to the Darby, in course our fust thort was lunch, but afore I coud get beyond laying the cloth, there came such a reglar buster of an ail storm that we was all drove hunder the homnibus for shelter, and when it leaved off, and I went on the roof, the table cloth was about three inches thick with round ale stones!
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 6, 1891:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of thought.
popina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒˈpaɪnə/
/pɒˈpiːnə/
Forms: form: popinae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin popīna. Doublet of cuisine and kitchen; more at cook.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman bar or bistro, selling wine and simple foods.
noight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noights
Etymology: From night.
Senses: examples: text: "Good noight to ye all," and he trotted back into his office with his hat and its silver contents in his hand.
ref: 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Firm of Girdlestone:
text: Oi'd not loike to be in his place this noight!"
ref: 1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell at Yale:
text: For it's meself as hasn't sturred fut out of the store the day and noight,--more betoken as the boys I've sarved kin testify."
ref: 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine:
text: Oi would 'a' helped him jest the same afther that swap an' moore, fur he wuz good stuff, but he must nades shoot at me that noight as I come home wit the wad, so av coorse--" "I wish ye had a Dog now," said the farmer in the new tone of a new subject; "tramps is a nuisance at all toimes, an' a Dog is the best med'cine for them.
ref: 1917, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of night.
endosseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + osseous.
Senses: examples: text: Serious injuries can occasionally require endosseous implants.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Contained within a bone.
bdelygmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛl.ɪɡ.mi.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βδελυγμία (bdelugmía, “nastiness”).
Senses: glosses: Abnormal disgust at or loathing of food.
glosses: A litany of invective criticism.
Synonyms: word: abominatio
noights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noight
wanse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wanses
form: wansing
form: wansed
form: wansed
form: wanze
Etymology: From Middle English wansen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Old English wansian (“to diminish”), from Proto-West Germanic *wansōn, a variant of *wanisōn, from Proto-Germanic *wanisōną (“to lessen”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Old Norse vansa (“to do too little, suffer loss”), Old Norse vansi (“lack, want”). More at wane.
Senses: glosses: To wane; waste, waste away; pine; wither.
wanspeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wanspede, from Old English wanspēd (“poverty, want”, literally “lack of prosperity”), equivalent to wan- + speed.
Senses: glosses: Ill fortune.
wanthriven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wanthriven
form: most wanthriven
form: wan-thriven
Etymology: From wan- + thriven. More at wan-, thrive.
Senses: glosses: Stunted; ill-grown; decayed; in a state of decline.
glosses: Emaciated; weakly.
wan-thriven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wan-thriven
form: most wan-thriven
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wanthriven.
wantonhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wantounhede, equivalent to wanton + -head.
Senses: glosses: Wantonness.
wantonhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alteration of Middle English wantounhede, equivalent to wanton + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Wantonness.
wantrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wantrust, equivalent to wan- + trust. Compare Middle Dutch wantroost (“distrust”).
Senses: glosses: Distrust.
Synonyms: distrust
mistrust
untrust
wantsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wantsome
form: most wantsome
Etymology: From Middle English wantsum, equivalent to want + -some.
Senses: examples: text: And to her gates the wantsome may
From everie where resorte […]
ref: 1908, original 1620, C. J. Evans, The Story of Glamorgan, page 30:
glosses: Characterised or marked by lack; poor; needy.
wanze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wanzes
form: wanzing
form: wanzed
form: wanzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wanse.
famelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more famelic
form: most famelic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hunger.
offcome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-come
Etymology: From off- + come.
Senses: examples: text: […] to observe as regards exact direction, owing (especially in the instance of pretty bright meteors) to the dense offcome of sparks from the nucleus, or to the phosphorescence it generates as the result of concussion with the air.
ref: 1883, Royal Astronomical Society, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Volume 45 - Page 96:
glosses: That which comes off or the act or process of coming off; emission.
examples: text: Such movement is called reflex action, or reflex movement, in distinction from the case of the statue, where there is no change or movement in the subject, which is passive, all expression being an offcome, not an "outcome;" […]
ref: 1885, Francis Warner, Physical expression: its modes and principles - Page 37:
text: In July he wrote to his father: "I have not yet got a master, they all make some objection or other" and no wonder, for who wanted such an "offcome"?
ref: 2010, H. W. Dickinson, James Watt: Craftsman and Engineer - Page 21:
glosses: The way any thing or business turns out; the way a person comes off from an encounter or enterprise; result; outcome; reception.
glosses: An apology; excuse.
glosses: An escape or evasion by subterfuge or pretext; a way of avoiding or getting out of a difficult or uncomfortable situation.
glosses: An exhibition of temper.
Synonyms: excuse
off-come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offcome.
popinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popina
bouffage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouffages
Etymology: Borrowed from French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A satisfying meal
scent-bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scent-bottles
form: scent bottle
Senses: examples: text: She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A small elegant bottle containing perfume.
nonorganically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonorganically
form: most nonorganically
Etymology: From non- + organically.
Senses: glosses: In a nonorganic manner.
shitebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitebags
Etymology: From shite + bag.
Senses: qualifier: very uncommon
glosses: Alternative form of shitbag.
shitebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitebag
nonnature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + nature.
Senses: examples: text: Universality is denied to nature, and only the supersensible, that is, nonnature, is the realm of the universal.
ref: 1977, Marx W. Wartofsky, Feuerbach, page 57:
glosses: That which is not nature.
nonnaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + naturally.
Senses: examples: nonnaturally occurring chemical elements
glosses: In a nonnatural manner or context.
heretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heretors
Senses: examples: text: […]Heretors or Proprietors of Lands within the Pariſh of Avendale[…]
ref: 1730, Journals of the House of Lords, page 634:
text: 18. Item—Adams decreet against Laird Chaip, heretor of the land where this annual is gotten. 27th Jan. 1570.
ref: 1865 (published), Charles Fraser-Mackintosh, Antiquarian Notes: A Series of Papers Regarding Families and Places in the Highlands, Inverness: […], page 280:
text: James Clerk in Rivoch, heretor in Walls, 40mks. val., 1lib 6sh;
ref: 1890 (published), Archæological and Historical Collections Relating to the County of Renfrew, volume II, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, page 195:
text: […]marying the Lady Beochamps, and he became heritor of Lochow by marying the foresd Evah heretrix therof (his eldest brother Dionysius having remained in ffrance as heretor of Campus bellus or Beochamps as was formerly marked.
ref: 1916 (published), Publications of the Scottish History Society, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of heritor.
imprecator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprecators
Etymology: From imprecate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who imprecates or curses.
irrigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrigants
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: irrigating agent
intumesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intumesce
Kalmars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kalmar
Kalmar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Kalmar.
Senses: glosses: A small city and municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden.
glosses: A county in south-east Sweden.
Derived terms: Kalmarian
Kalmar Union
Union of Kalmar
Kalmar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalmars
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Kalmár.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Voigt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Voigt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Voigt effect
Voigtian
Related terms: Vogt
Voight
Vought
wonderworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wonderworlds
Etymology: From wonder + world; compare the coincidentally equivalently formed Old English wundorworuld (“wonderful world”).
Senses: examples: text: What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perceive it to be no less so.
ref: 1864, The Spiritual Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 279:
text: In new suburban wonderworlds, psychic and social tensions challenged marital togetherness, prompting a new generation of muckrakers to expose the harried lives of affluent Americans.
ref: 1983, David Quentin Voigt, American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age:
text: Your child dives into the deep sea and meets a wonderworld of strange creatures!
ref: 1996 November 12, Weekly World News, volume 18, number 7, page 18:
text: When I finally took a trip to Marcoland, or to one outpost of his kingdom anyway, a wonderworld in Mayfair called Mirabelle, I found a fantasy of '50s posh, with neither wild attitude nor blood sausage in sight.
ref: 2003, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2003, page 181:
text: I spent a lot of time at the Ballston Beach parking lot with him, blocking off large sections and flooding them with water from his house, making vast, swamp wonderworlds between the parked cars.
ref: 2007, Natalie Robins, Steven M. L. Aronson, Savage Grace, page 164:
glosses: A place full of delights or marvels.
Synonyms: wonderland
wonderworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wonderworld
latitat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlætɪtæt/
Forms: form: latitats
Etymology: Latin, meaning "he lies hidden", from latito.
Senses: examples: text: This bill of Middlesex must be served on the defendant by the sheriff, if he finds him in that county; but , if he returns “non est inventus" then there issues out a writ of latitat to the sheriff of another county
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.
glosses: A lawyer.
latitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more latitant
form: most latitant
Senses: examples: text: […] it must be the Modus of some other Substance latitant in the fluid Matter, and really distinguishable from it; which is either the Soul, or some seminal Form or Archeus, as the Chymist calls it […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68
glosses: Lying hidden; concealed; latent.
Derived terms: latitancy
latites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latite
in hiding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Remaining hidden (typically of a person).
Upper Voltan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Upper Volta + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Upper Voltese
Upper Voltaic
glosses: From Upper Volta (previous name of Burkina Faso).
Upper Voltan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Upper Voltans
Etymology: From Upper Volta + -an.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: Burkinabe
glosses: A person from Upper Volta (previous name of Burkina Faso).
Upper Voltans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Upper Voltan
Voltan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voltans
Etymology: From Volta + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives by the river Volta.
Voltans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Voltan
rawnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rawness
Buddha Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Buddhist holiday celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and passing of the Buddha.
Synonyms: Vesak
Al Hijrah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Al-Hijra
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الهِجْرَة (al-hijra)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The first day of the Islamic calendar; the first day of Muharram.
Synonyms: Islamic New Year
Baisakhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vaisakhi.
Yuan Tan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 元旦 (yuándàn).
Senses: examples: text: The Chinese celebrate Yuan Tan (pronounced wahn tahn), or the New Year, during the first month of their 13- month lunar calendar.
ref: 1972 January, Bruce McWilliams, “A world Friendship Pageant”, in Boys' Life, volume 62, number 1:
text: The celebration of Yuan Tan, the Chinese New Year, concludes with a red dragon parading up and down the street.
ref: 1996, Belinda Recio, Catherine Kouts, The Essence of Red, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Another unifying factor amongst die Chinese people is the celebration of the New Year, Yuan Tan.
ref: 1997, John Logan, Teacher's Resource Book, page 12:
text: Preparations for Yuan Tan begin the week before when each family member gathers in the kitchen.
ref: 1997, Angela Wood, John Logan, Jenny Rose, Time and Seasons, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Chinese New Year
Related terms: Lunar New Year
New Year
Spring Festival
woolfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolfats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wool fat.
woolfats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolfat
Saint David's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The feast day of Saint David, patron saint of Wales, celebrated in Wales on March 1.
inkosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkosis
form: amakhosi
form: inkhosi
Etymology: From Zulu inkosi (“chief, king”).
Senses: examples: text: Before leaving his house to go to the kraal the inkosi had to eat a little porridge.
ref: 1956, Margaret Read, The Ngoni of Nyasaland, page 66:
text: Muse, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Akhilleus, / deadly rage that brought the Akhaians endless pain, / that hurled down to Hades many strong souls / of heroes and made their bodies meat for dogs / and vultures, fulfilling the plan of Zeus, / ever since that day those two quarreled— / inkosi Agamemnon and godlike Akhilleus.
ref: 2012, Homer, translated by Richard Whitaker, The Iliad: A Southern African Translation:
glosses: A chief (particularly Zulu).
inkosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkosi
amakosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkosi
inkhosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkhosis
form: amakhosi
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inkosi.
amakhosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkhosi
kyries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyrie
wornness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From worn + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The wornness of the old man's clothes testified to his poverty.
glosses: The quality of being worn.
red-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: redhaired
Etymology: From red + haired.
Senses: examples: text: It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter VIII, in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV:
text: Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, / then go to Meneláos, the red-haired king / at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians.
ref: 1961, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey, Book One, Prentice Hall, published 2001, lines 320–22:
synonyms: redheaded
glosses: Having red hair.
invadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From invade + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be invaded
Related terms: invadability
zebrule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛb.ɹuːl/
ipa: /ˈziː.bɹuːl/
ipa: /ˈziˌbɹul/
Forms: form: zebrules
form: zebrula
Etymology: Blend of zebra + mule
Senses: glosses: A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.
Related terms: zorse
zigsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigsaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jigsaw.
Synonyms: zigsaw puzzle
ziggety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ziggety
form: most ziggety
Senses: glosses: zigzagging.
ziggety
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ziggety
form: most ziggety
Senses: examples: text: Rabbit come scooting out of the bresh, he's going to do two things. He's going to head di-rectly for the nearest cover, only ziggety-zag.
ref: 1969, Field and Stream, page 66:
glosses: In a zigzag fashion.
ziggety
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Hot ziggety dam!” he chortled. "Prov'dence points de way trough de doorway ob hebbin.”
ref: 1939, The Candle, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of diggety.
Related terms: hot ziggety
hot ziggety
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hot ziggity
Senses: examples: text: Would you like the assignment?" Jacqueline raised her limpid blue eyes. "Would I like it?" she breathed. "Hot ziggety damn!" Houston sat back with a start.
ref: 2004, Eleanor Sullivan, Fifty Best Mysteries:
text: There was all that "longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning, the idle hopes, the joys and tears," which, God knows, Kate had personally experienced. Hot ziggety, thought Kate gleefully.
ref: 1991, Celestine Sibley, Ah, sweet mystery:
text: "Hot ziggety! A real one at last!"
ref: 1947, Bill Mauldin, Back home:
glosses: An expression of surprise or excitement
Zairese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zaire + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Zairean
Zanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡sɑn.də/
/ˈzɑn.də/
Etymology: From Tibetan རྩ་མདའ (rtsa mda'), (Tibetan Pinyin: Zanda)
Senses: examples: text: Here at Manam Gonpa, there is an enormous complex of ruins which even now holds untold precious works of art, buried beneath the rubble. A further trek of 21 km will bring you to Toling, capital of Tsamda county, on the left bank of the Sutlej.
ref: [1996 January, “Far-west Tibet”, in Gyurme Dorje, editor, Tibet Handbook: with Bhutan, Passport Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 425, column 1:
text: It will also go through Burang county between Tibet, Nepal and India as well as Zanda county in Ngari prefecture, parts of which are held by India.
ref: 2022 July 20, Laura Zhou, “China-India border: Beijing’s new highway plans near disputed territory expected to spark concern in Delhi”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2022, China/Diplomacy:
glosses: A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
wikipedia: Tibetan pinyin
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Zhada
snatchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I may add that my own putting becomes “snatchier,” quicker and worse day by day; which again is testimony, if it is understood rightly, of the value of the slow, smooth stroke.
ref: 1906, Country Life, volume 20, page 679:
text: They’re a bit scared of these seemingly mature females. They may “love” an especially attractive, outgoing one, but she’s probably interested, at a distance, in an older boy. So the “little boys” get tougher, clumsier, ruder and snatchier. It’s a splendid period of mutual rejection!
ref: 1959, Eric W. Johnson, How to Live Through Junior High School, Lippincott, page 189:
text: Since it is unlikely that the GT will see any track time, the logic behind the massive and exotic stoppers on the car is unclear. Quite typical of such brakes, the pedal feel is snatchier than the conventional steel brakes found on the standard GT.
ref: 2007 January, Torque, issue, page 30:
text: In view of these results, it might be assumed that emails show an even smaller occurrence of punctuation marks than linked text messages, as a logical conclusion of the analysis would be that sentence structures are again more complex in emails. Surprisingly, however, punctuation marks are five times more frequent in emails than in linked messages. Yet, considering the random example in (191), one can see that emails can even be snatchier in sentence style than single text messages: the email example consists of 83 words and 15 (fragmented) sentences, which corresponds to an average of 5.5 words per sentence.
ref: 2008, Linguistic Insights (ISSN 14248689), volume 58, Carmen Frehner, “Email – SMS – MMS: The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age” (Peter Lang, page 133
glosses: comparative form of snatchy: more snatchy
snatchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Poetry (save perhaps the very briefest, snatchiest) is an art of time. We cannot read it backwards, or to and fro, or round and round like sculpture or a picture.
ref: 1964, John Holloway, The Lion Hunt: A Pursuit of Poetry and Reality, Archon Books, page 33:
text: LCM, looking fabulous as always, enters the room and upon spying the Pink Princess, dashes over and exclaims with great enthusiasm “Oh darling – that outfit makes you look like the world’s biggest snatch! It’s the snatchiest ever, sweetie!”
ref: 1998 August 29th (7:00am), “{{{{{LCM}}}}}” (user name), alt.culture.fabulous (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Tinseltown Trash”, Message ID: <35e8792c.12005538@news.newsguy.com>#1/1
glosses: superlative form of snatchy: most snatchy
labellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of labelable.
bignonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bignonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Bignonia of flowering plants in the catalpa family.
bignonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bignonia
bedrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrops
form: bedropping
form: bedropped
form: bedropped
Etymology: From Middle English bidroppen, equivalent to be- + drop. Cognate with German betropfen.
Senses: examples: text: He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man.
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 1, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: To cover with drops; to splash or spatter.
bedropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedrop
bedrops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedrop
bedropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedrop
brainstormer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainstormers
Etymology: From brainstorm + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who brainstorms.
brainstormers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainstormer
forgis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgi
antismuggler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + smuggler.
Senses: examples: text: Thailand has built an antismuggler and antiterrorist fence along the Malaysian border.
ref: 1996, Martin Ira Glassner, Political geography, page 90:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Acting to combat or prevent the activities of smugglers.
Synonyms: antismuggling
flashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flashingly
form: most flashingly
Etymology: From flashing + -ly.
Senses: examples: flashingly indignant eyes
glosses: With a flashing appearance.
LJer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LJers
Etymology: From LJ + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There's a very useful page for LJers at http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml - but it only works for those friends who have entered their birthdays.
ref: 2003, Cerulean, “Annette”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
glosses: A user of the LiveJournal blogging service.
Synonyms: LiveJournaler
LJers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LJer
nonfoodborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + foodborne.
Senses: glosses: Not foodborne.