cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Barrington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Barringtons
Etymology: * As an English surname, from several placenames, such as the one in Gloucestershire, from the Old English personal name Beorn + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). There is also the placename in Somerset of Norman origin, probably named after Barentin in Seine-Maritime, from Medieval Latin Barentinum, Barentini, of pre-Latin origin, perhaps of Celtic/Gaulish origin and identical with Barenton, both names from a Gaulish word related to water.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), see Barnes, Barron.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3949).
glosses: A placename:
A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which includes the villages of Great and Little Barrington.
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3818).
glosses: A placename:
A small village on the Barrington River, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A locality in Kentish council area, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A rural community in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in the township of Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A suburban village in Cook County and Lake County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Camden County, New Jersey.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Yates County, New York.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A suburban residential town in Bristol County, Rhode Island.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: barringtonite
Great Barrington
Little Barrington
plum-duff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plum-duffs
Senses: examples: text: But late one night we wakes in fright / To see by a pale blue flare, / That cook has got in a phantom pot / A big plum-duff an' a rump-steak hot[.]
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 25:
glosses: A plum pudding.
sticks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stick out
sticking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stick out
stuck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stick out
field of play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of play
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of playing field.
Opp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henry Opp, a lawyer for the L&N railroad.
Senses: glosses: A city in Alabama.
have one's heart in the right place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's heart in the right place
form: having one's heart in the right place
form: had one's heart in the right place
form: had one's heart in the right place
Senses: examples: text: My brother doesn't always do the right thing, but he has his heart in the right place.
text: Mr. Cherry has thought proper to place most of his compliments to England in the mouth of an Irishman, a facetious gentleman, full of generosity and blunders, “with a head that may err, but a heart in the right place"
ref: 1823, Andrew Cherry, The Travellers:
text: No one amongst them, as far as I know, with his heart in the right place, stood up and asked in council, What is to become of the poor who cannot pay these high rents?
ref: 1835, Thomas Chalmers, On the Evils which the Established Church in Edinburgh Has Already Suffered […] :
text: "Why Jack, old fellow, I wronged you!" I exclaimed,—"your heart is in the right place after all."
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, chapter I, in The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: To have good intentions.
Related terms: come from the right place
come from a good place
come from a good place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes from a good place
form: coming from a good place
form: came from a good place
form: come from a good place
Senses: examples: text: “In the 1990s, there was actually tremendous pressure to put women on hormone therapy, and it came from a good place,” Dr. Bates says.
ref: 2009 December 12, Natasha Singer, Duff Wilson, “Menopause, as Brought to You by Big Pharma”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Mar 2014:
text: Ironically, this hesitation to condemn comes from a good place – the part of the British psyche that rightly prides itself on respecting other cultures.
ref: 2011 July 23, Barbara Ellen, “Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh”, in The Guardian/Observer, UK, retrieved 01 Mar 2014:
text: That gushing, glowing, 2,500-word goodbye e-mail does come from a good place. That doesn't make it a good idea.
ref: 2013 August 1, Claire Suddath, “Office Etiquette: The Farewell E-Mail”, in Businessweek, retrieved 01 Mar 2014:
text: [M]y anxiety was my body's way of trying to protect me, to look after me. So the impulse was coming from a good place.
ref: 2014 February 16, Nick Duerden, “Laura Mvula: ‘I don't think I'm good at being a pop star’”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 01 Mar 2014:
glosses: To be motivated by decency, kindness, or good intentions.
Synonyms: come from the right place
have one's heart in the right place
luxury goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luxury good
come from the right place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes from the right place
form: coming from the right place
form: came from the right place
form: come from the right place
Senses: glosses: Synonym of come from a good place.
synonyms: word: come from a good place
Ord
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the dialectal noun ord (“point, place”). Compare Ort.
* As a Scottish Gaelic surname, habitational name from Ord in Peeblesshire or Banffshire, from òrd (“hammer”).
* The city in Nebraska is named after Edward O. C. Ord.
* The river in Australia is named after Harry Ord.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Valley County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: Two townships in Nebraska, in Antelope County and Valley County.
glosses: A civil parish in north Northumberland, England, that includes the settlements of East Ord, Middle Ord, Ord Mains, South Ord and West Ord.
glosses: A hamlet near Tarskavaig, Isle of Skye, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG6113). From Scottish Gaelic An t-Òrd.
glosses: A settlement next to Invergordon, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7170).
qualifier: Ord River
glosses: A river in Western Australia.
Related terms: Muir of Ord
Ord of Caithness
papissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papissae
Etymology: From Latin pāpissa.
Senses: glosses: A female pope.
Synonyms: word: papess
word: popess
Abantis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Euboea.
Abate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abates
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Abate.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
passthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passthoughts
Etymology: From pass + thought, after the pattern of password.
Senses: examples: text: You step outside, locking your door and activating your home security system merely by visualising an image - it could be the colour of your lover's eyes, an oak leaf, or the hamster you had when you were six - in a biometric passthought keyed to your unique brainwave pattern.
ref: 2008, Nick Sagan, Mark Frary, & Andy Walker, Future Proof: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined, Thriplow, →ISBN, page 6:
text: “It seems Zambini is locked into a spell with a passthought on auto-evolve; it changes randomly every two minutes. One moment it's all about swans on a lake at sunset, the next, spoonbills in the Orinoco delta. […]
ref: 2011, Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast, Harcourt, →ISBN, page 212:
text: He said passthoughts have a number of advantages over traditional passwords, including resistance to shoulder surfing attacks (where someone looks over your shoulder to watch you type) and smudge attacks (where someone can determine your passcode by observing the smudge patterns on your device’s touchscreen).
ref: 2013 April 29, David Jenkins, “Forgotten your password? Don’t worry, soon you’ll be using passthoughts”, in Metro, UK:
glosses: A thought used to gain admittance or access to something.
passthoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passthought
aenigmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aenigma
Aethiopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aethiope
Aethiope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aethiopes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Ethiop.
Alphonsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alphonso
amphibologias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphibologia
-trices
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪsiːz/
Etymology: From Latin -trīcēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of -trix
Derived terms: accusatrices
actrices
adjutrices
administratrices
admonitrices
advocatrices
advotrices
agitatrices
ambassadrices
arbitratrices
assestrices
autocratrices
aviatrices
benefactrices
bisectrices
callithrices
callitrices
causatrices
coadjutrices
co-executrices
commotrices
competitrices
compurgatrices
conciliatrices
concionatrices
concitatrices
confessatrices
congregatrices
conservatrices
consolatrices
consultrices
contemplatrices
co-operatrices
correctrices
corruptrices
creatrices
creditrices
curatrices
desertrices
dictatrices
directrices
dispensatrices
dispositrices
districes
doctrices
dominatrices
donatrices
editrices
effectrices
electrices
emancipatrices
embassatrices
emulatrices
evocatrices
executrices
expenditrices
exterminatrices
factrices
fautrices
fellatrices
formatrices
fornicatrices
fundatrices
generatrices
genetrices
genitrices
gladiatrices
gubernatrices
heretrices
heritrices
imitatrices
imperatrices
impersonatrices
impostrices
impropriatrices
indagatrices
indicatrices
inheritrices
initiatrices
inoculatrices
inquisitrices
inspectrices
inspiratrices
instigatrices
institutrices
interlocutrices
interrogatrices
inventrices
investigatrices
janitrices
lavatrices
legislatrices
liberatrices
liferentrices
mediatrices
meretrices
moderatrices
monitrices
motrices
narratrices
negotiatrices
nominatrices
novatrices
nutrices
observatrices
obstetrices
operatrices
oratrices
ornatrices
osculatrices
ostentatrices
paintrices
patrices
perpetratrices
persecutrices
perturbatrices
precentrices
premeditatrices
preservatrices
primogenitrices
procreatrices
procuratrices
productrices
progenitrices
projectrices
prolocutrices
promotrices
propagatrices
proprietrices
prosecutrices
protectrices
provocatrices
pulveratrices
quadratrices
reconciliatrices
rectrices
regeneratrices
relatrices
rinatrices
sarcomatrices
senatrices
separatrices
sequestratrices
sermocinatrices
servitrices
significatrices
solicitrices
spectatrices
speculatrices
stimulatrices
syntractrices
tectrices
testatrices
tractatrices
tractrices
translatrices
trisectrices
tutrices
usurpatrices
versificatrices
victrices
writrices
zelatrices
balistae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balista
balistarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balistarius
birotulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birotula
homedulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of home + indulgence.
Senses: examples: text: The move to “homedulgence” is one way consumers can ride out the recession and it is predicted it will soon extend to many other areas of life, such as mix-your-own cocktails evenings and home dining clubs.
ref: 2009 January 29, Louise Jack, “Hair removal brands take on the recession with 'homedulgence'”, in Marketing Week:
text: Alternatively, it could be a great home cinema or relaxation room for the growing 'homedulgence' trend for living the high life without going out as we spend more leisure time at home with friends and family.
ref: 2009 March 26, “Housing boost is good sign”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: Our latest comms platform for our premium range of Allure cooking appliances saw PR creating the 'kitchen theatre' platform, borne out of the trend for 'homedulgence', where kitchen living is replacing lounges.
ref: 2011 November 23, Nikki McReynolds, “A foot in both camps”, in PRWeek:
glosses: The phenomenon or practice of consumers spending leisure time at home instead of going out.
astrophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astrophilic
form: most astrophilic
Etymology: From astro- + -philic.
Senses: examples: text: […] is it specks on my glasses instead of lines of kids that I see in front of the movie houses hereabouts showing Brewster McCloud, the asinine tale of an astrophilic adolescent holing up in Houston's Astrodome; […]
ref: 1971, New Guard, volumes 11-12, page 24:
text: The cosmos is limitless. The theater, with its four pesky walls, is not. The contrast might faze many an astrophilic thespian, but British performer Andrew Dawson has embraced it.
ref: 2012 May 2, “Space Panorama”, in Philadelphia City Paper:
text: For me, this urge to gather and the draw of the night sky combine to create an iconic vision: a lineup of telescopes, with a nebula in this one, a star cluster in another and a planet in yet another, and people moving from one to the other to savor a view, then returning to their own scope to locate and view a different object and share again. It’s an astrophilic breaking of bread, an astronomical movable feast!
ref: 2012 October, Frank Baratta, “An Astronomical Movable Feast”, in Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society, volume 29, number 10, page 2:
glosses: Related to or exhibiting astrophilia.
cacoethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacoethes
Chai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chaim
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of chai (“Jewish symbol”).
Chai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 柴 (Chái), Mandarin 翟 (Zhái), Hakka 蔡 (Chhai), etc.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Chai Nat
Chai Wan
Kiong Hee Huat Chai
Wan Chai
Wan Chai Gap
conchae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑŋˌki/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋˌkaɪ/
Forms: form: conchæ
Senses: glosses: plural of concha
Afro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afros
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of afro.
Afros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro
Alpini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpino
Senses: glosses: The specialist mountain infantry of the Italian army.
Alpino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alpini
Senses: glosses: singular of Alpini
ligures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligure
carry forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries forward
form: carrying forward
form: carried forward
form: carried forward
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To transfer to a new page, column, ledger, or similar entity.
raw_tags: of a balance
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To apply to the taxable income of following years, thereby easing the overall tax burden; carry over.
raw_tags: of an operating loss or other legal credit
Derived terms: error carried forward
armillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armillate
form: most armillate
Senses: glosses: Synonym of armillary.
synonyms: word: armillary
cattle cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle cakes
Senses: glosses: A type of animal feed for cattle, in the form of blocks.
Fillmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English full (“filled, fertile”) + mere (“lake”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in the Regional Municipality of Fillmore No. 96, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
glosses: A small city in Ventura County, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A town in Marion Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lee County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A tiny city in Andrew County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in Allegany County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Johnston County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Millard County, Utah, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Fillmore County
homuncule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homuncules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of homunculus.
Horatios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Horatio
bituberculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + tuberculate.
Senses: glosses: Having two tubercles.
brachycephali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Brachycephalic people.
brevicaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: longicaudate
glosses: Having a short tail.
lagopode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagopodes
Etymology: From Latin lagōpūs, from λαγώπους (lagṓpous), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: glosses: A ptarmigan.
Campani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Campanian people.
Minervas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Minerva
nuchae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucha
partibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partibuses
Etymology: From Latin partibus.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A note in the margin of a summons, giving the name and designation of the pursuer.
Related terms: in partibus infidelium
cyanelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanelles
Senses: glosses: A kind of chloroplast found in glaucophytes.
Synonyms: cyanoplast
dalmaticae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalmatica
dalmaticas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dalmatica
radulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radula
Rufos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rufo
taeniolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taeniola
Veneres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Venus
Veneres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Venus
halophilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halophila
thundershock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundershocks
Etymology: From thunder + shock.
Senses: examples: text: The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!
ref: 1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:
text: The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.
ref: 1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158:
text: Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.
ref: 1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13:
text: The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.
ref: 1989, R. G. Prinn; B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:
text: Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.
ref: 2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63:
glosses: A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock.
Related terms: thunderbolt
thundershocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thundershock
Crimean War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Crimean War
Senses: examples: text: He also thought nothing of laying down a railway in a war zone. For example, he was one of those behind the Grand Crimean Central Railway, built during the Crimean War [...].
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: A conflict held mostly in the Crimean Peninsula between October 1853 and February 1856, in which Russian troops were defeated to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.
Nagy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnæɡi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Nagy.
Senses: glosses: A Hungarian ethnic surname from Hungarian, equivalent to English Grand.
cribless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crib + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a crib.
bibless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bib + -less.
Senses: examples: '
However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest […]
glosses: Without a bib.
cotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cot + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In the name of justice and decent beds, we who were cotless formed a raiding party that very night — led by Boombaw, and with DeMal as advance scout.
ref: 2001, Gil Murray, The Invisible War, page 173:
glosses: Without a cot.
Cooperian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cooperian
form: most Cooperian
Etymology: From Cooper + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American writer of historical romances dealing with frontier and Indian life.
popcorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of popcorn
Media Luna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of four departments in Bolivia – Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, and Tarija – which became the geographic area of opposition to the national government led by Evo Morales and the Movement for Socialism.
Meinongian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Meinongian
form: most Meinongian
Etymology: From Meinong + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alexius Meinong (1853–1920), Austrian realist philosopher.
Derived terms: Meinongianism
Meherrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meherrin
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of Native Americans of rural northeastern North Carolina.
Meithei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur in India.
Synonyms: Meitei
Meetei
Manipuri
melkhout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melkhouts
Etymology: From Afrikaans melkhout.
Senses: glosses: The milkwood tree.
melkhouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melkhout
media center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: media centers
form: media centre
Senses: glosses: A dedicated software application or hardware device for playback of audiovisual media in the home.
glosses: A school library that incorporates information technology as well as traditional print publications.
chig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chigs
form: chigging
form: chigged
form: chigged
Senses: glosses: To chew.
chig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chigs
Senses: glosses: A piece of chewing tobacco; a quid.
chig
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: So I'm slicing beans one after the other—chig, chig, chig, chig, chig—and everybody's giving me the beans, and I'm going like sixty when the boss comes by and says, "What are you doing?"
ref: 1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, page 140:
text: She dragged him along the wide bitumen path and past the slow chig-chig-chig of a lawn sprinkler. Deep inside the school the insect chorus buzzed and drilled: chairs scraping, kids yelling, a teacher's voice calling the roll.
ref: 1994, Glyn Parry, Monster Man, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Juniper, →ISBN, page 133:
text: No one had spoken in the taxi. The only sounds were those of the London rain pattering teasingly against the vehicle's rolled-up windows and the ever-present chig-chig-chig of the diesel engine as this silent threesome made their way north towards Mill Hill.
ref: 2001, Mitzi Szereto, “Melinda”, in Kerri Sharp, editor, Wicked Words 4: A Black Lace short-story collection, London: Black Lace, →ISBN, page 174:
text: The old trading-boat's continuous chig-chig-chigging was a friendly sound, and, by daylight, Su-Li took turns to steer the boat; yet there was often sufficient time for the boy to watch the water-buffalo in the plantations of the Red Basin, the patient stooping of the peasants, and, elsewhere, the bustle of the towns, their fishermen and their overcrowded ferries.
ref: 2004, John Chappell, “Su-Li, the Yangtse Boat Boy”, in 21 Fairy Tales and Other Tales, Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Fun fact: The red-bellied woodpecker has a loud, harsh, rich "quirrr" call. It can also be heard calling a "chig-chig" series of notes in a descending chuckle.
ref: 2016 February 18, “Species Spotlight: Red-bellied woodpecker”, in Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Gannett Co., Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
glosses: Representing a sharp and repetitive sound.
lad mag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lad mags
form: lads' mag
form: lad's mag
Senses: examples: text: FHM and Zoo are to close by the end of the year, marking the end of the lads’ mag era that dominated UK magazine publishing in the late 90s and early 2000s.
ref: 2015 November 17, Jasper Jackson, “FHM and Zoo closures mark end of lads' mag era”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: ladymag
glosses: A magazine aimed at young men, typically containing suggestive photographs of female models and articles about cars, tools, music, film, sport, and sexual encounters.
Related terms: laddish
laddism
lad mags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lad mag
lifestyle drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifestyle drugs
Senses: glosses: Any medication that treats a non-life-threatening and non-painful condition such as baldness, impotence, or wrinkles.
meconium ileus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition where the meconium becomes thickened and congested in the ileum, often the first sign of cystic fibrosis.
memoranduming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From memorandum + -ing.
Senses: examples: June 27, 1855, Charles Dickens, Speech about Administrative Reform
I dare say there was a vast amount of minuting, memoranduming, and dispatch-boxing, on this mighty subject.
glosses: The writing of memoranda.
Bosman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bosman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Derived terms: Bosman ruling
Bosman transfer
Bosman's potto
Bosman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.
unedgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unedgy
form: most unedgy
Etymology: From un- + edgy.
Senses: glosses: Not edgy.
planktonologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planktonologists
Etymology: From planktonology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planktologist.
planktonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plankton + -ology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planktology.
Derived terms: planktonologist
planktonologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planktonologist
planktonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of planktological.
adjectivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjectivizations
form: adjectivisation
Etymology: From adjective + -ization.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process or result of adjectivizing; conversion into an adjective.
Synonyms: adjectivation
adjectivalization
Related terms: adverbialization
nominalization
substantivation
substantivization
verbalization
verbization
adjectivizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjectivization
administratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: administrative
filesnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filesnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of file snake.
filesnakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filesnake
stone cress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone cresses
form: stonecress
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Aethionema.
copperleafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copperleaf
acalypha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acalyphas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Acalypha.
Senses: examples: text: Stumping my way through a welter of staghorns and acalyphas I made the steps, made the hill.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 17:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Acalypha of flowering plants, found in tropical and subtropical environments.
acalyphas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acalypha
andrachne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andrachnes
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Andrachne of flowering plants.
andrachnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andrachne
ace boon coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ace boon coons
Senses: examples: text: Soon David and "Scottster" are "ace boon coons," as my mother used to say, golfing together and making plans for joint ventures in computer programming.
ref: 1999, Kristal Brent Zook, Color by Fox, page 31:
text: Roslyn "SugarBay" Mcintosh, thanks for your prayers, and to my ace boon-coons Willona Carrington and Charron Williams — thanks for being there through thick and thin.
ref: 1999, Karu F. Daniels, Brandy: An Intimate Look, page 7:
glosses: A close friend.
ace boon coons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ace boon coon
Abernethian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Abernethian
form: most Abernethian
Etymology: From Abernethy + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Abernethy (surgeon) (1764–1831).
cerebroatrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + atrophic.
Senses: glosses: Involving atrophy of the cerebrum; applied to Rett syndrome.
retromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Yet they too offer a welcome alternative to the plainer, more severe Modern pieces we have become accustomed to; and they avoid both mindless retromania and forced obscure references to past architectural styles.
ref: 1986, Richard Horn, Memphis: objects, furniture, and patterns:
glosses: enthusiasm for retro styles
cointegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cointegrates
form: cointegrating
form: cointegrated
form: cointegrated
Etymology: From co- + integrate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To exhibit cointegration.
cointegrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cointegrates
Etymology: From co- + integrate.
Senses: glosses: The intermediate molecule which donor DNA and target DNA covalently bind during the formation of a Holliday junction.
cointegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cointegrate
cointegrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cointegrate
revirginization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revirginizations
Etymology: From re- + virgin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of revirginizing.
revirginizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revirginization
mono no aware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒnəʊ nəʊ əˈwɑːɹeɪ/
Etymology: Japanese 物の哀れ, literally "the pathos of things".
Senses: glosses: A wistful awareness of the impermanence or transience of things.
Kossuth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A village in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Kossuth County
Kossuth hat
Kossuthian
Montague grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American logician Richard Montague.
Senses: glosses: An approach to natural language semantics based on formal logic.
pebblesnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebblesnails
Etymology: From pebble + snail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various freshwater snails in the families Hydrobiidae and Lithoglyphidae in superfamily Truncatelloidea.
Derived terms: alt: Somatogyrus nanus
word: dwarf pebblesnail
alt: Lepyrium showalteri
word: flat pebblesnail
taxonomic: Pyrgulopsis avernalis
word: Moapa pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus obtusus
word: moon pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus sargenti
word: mud pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus tennesseensis
word: opaque pebblesnail
alt: †Somatogyrus amnicoloides
word: Ouachita pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus excavatus
word: ovate pebblesnail
alt: Fluminicola merriami
word: Pahranagat pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus virginicus
word: Panhandle pebblesnail
alt: Somatogyrus crassus
word: stocky pebblesnail
pebblesnails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pebblesnail
moombahton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːm.bə.tɒn/
Etymology: Blend of Moombah (the name of a track by Surinamese-born Dutch musician DJ Chuckie) and reggaeton.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fusion genre of house music and reggaeton.
wikipedia: DJ Chuckie
Derived terms: moombahcore
Chiantishire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈantɪʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɪˈantɪʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: 1980s, first seen in The Independent. From Chianti + -shire, treating the Tuscan wine region as if it were an English county.
Senses: glosses: An area of Tuscany, Italy, favoured by upper-class British citizens.
wikipedia: The Independent
mood board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mood boards
form: moodboard
Senses: examples: text: Her latterday output has stuttered somewhat, but for Madame X the stars have aligned with Madonna’s Pinterest mood board once again. There are hot climates and a piratical eye-patch; shape-shifting to the sounds of the Portuguese diaspora, trap-pop and reggeaton^([sic]).
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
text: Look, these niggas be my sons. Without me, they'd be done / Where the fuck would you get all your mood board pictures from?
ref: 2021, Aminé, “Charmander”, in TWOPOINTFIVE:
text: As if answering our prayers, her [Sabrina Carpenter's] team just posted an official mood board for Short n' Sweet Tour outfits. The vibe? Pastel colors, platform shoes, babydoll dresses, sparkles, and heart and kiss motifs.
ref: 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A collage created by a designer to convey a concept or theme.
mood boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mood board
moral compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral compass
rhipidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhipidate
form: most rhipidate
Senses: examples: the rhipidate floral arrangement
glosses: fan-shaped
Montezuma quail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montezuma quails
form: Montezuma quail
Senses: synonyms: Mearns quail
glosses: Cyrtonyx montezumae, a stubby, secretive New World quail of Mexico and nearby parts of the United States.
monoao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dracophyllum subulatum.
glosses: Halocarpus kirkii, a native tree of New Zealand resembling a kauri.
glosses: Manoao colensoi, a native conifer of New Zealand.
Española
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Espanola
Etymology: From Spanish Española (“Little Spain”), from España (“Spain”) + -ola (“-ule: forming diminutives”). In reference to the Ecuadorian island, bestowed in 1892 in honor of the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, during which he reached Hispaniola. Doublet of Hispaniola.
Senses: glosses: A city in New Mexico, United States.
glosses: An island of San Cristobal canton, Galapagos, Ecuador.
glosses: Alternative form of Hispaniola, an island of the Caribbean.
Española
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Españolas
form: Espanola
Etymology: From Spanish española. Doublet of espagnole.
Senses: examples: text: Doctor Southey, in his “Letters from Spain,” expresses his disappointment in the Españolas, and even disparages the beauty of Spanish eyes, contending that they are inferior to blue as the pupil, being of one colour, admits of no visible contraction or dilatation.
ref: 1839, [George Dennis], A Summer in Andalucia, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 401:
text: […] waxing floors, and restoring furniture to the places it occupied before the invasion of the Españolas in January. Meantime, these same Spaniards are “suffering examinations,” as they aptly say, in Madrid; Miss Webb is with them and writes of their progress. Some of the professors are friendly, and all are interested in the señoritas who present themselves for the trying examinations.
ref: 1903, Life and Light for Heathen Women, volume 33, page 397:
text: […] the Españolas of the better class hardly ever take a full glass of champagne; neither do the men drink strong liquors; they like ices and lemonade, but not wine.
ref: 1955, The American Book Collector, volume 6, page 15:
text: There were, however, relatively few Españolas in the eighteenth-century Californias, and, as will be later demonstrated and despite the established legal recourse that Spanish women had and accessed in Spain and other centers of urban life in the Spanish Americas, in this colonial frontier the urgency of colonial control over the region dictated the degree to which these women were bound by Spanish codes of honor and virtue.
ref: 2009, Bárbara O. Reyes, Private Women, Public Lives: Gender and the Missions of the Californias, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 4:
text: an enjoyable afternoon with the Españolas yesterday. Lera from Málaga, and Marisol from Madrid...
ref: 2011, James Timberlake, Sons of Thunder, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 37:
text: When some borracho Mexican men started speaking in terms of the pinche Gringos monopolizing the Españolas, Sonia and the other Spanish girls were quick to admonish them. […] The borrachos showed up at the Entre Amigos gate to drunkenly serenade the Españolas.
ref: 2023, Russell James Ray, Canyons of the Mind, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
synonyms: Spaniardess
glosses: A Spanish woman.
Espanola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Española, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Española in its various senses.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Florida.
glosses: A town in Ontario.
hotchiku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotchiku
form: hocchiku
form: hochiku
Etymology: From Japanese 法竹 (hotchiku).
Senses: glosses: An end-blown vertical bamboo flute used in traditional Japanese music, similar to the shakuhachi.
ryūteki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryūteki
form: ryuteki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 龍笛 (ryūteki).
Senses: glosses: a transverse flute used in the gagaku music of Japan
ryuteki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ryuteki
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ryūteki.
goregrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gore + grind.
Senses: glosses: A musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal.
pornogrind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porno + grind.
Senses: examples: text: "Are you fucking with me?"
"No. It's screamo, blended in with some kawaii metal, with a touch of pornogrind."
ref: 2019, Simone Rivers, One Hit Wonder:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical subgenre of grindcore and death metal that deals with sexual themes.
tunicae albugineae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunica albuginea
shinju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 真珠, literally "pearl".
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The binding of the female breasts.
shinju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 心中.
Senses: glosses: In Japan, an act of joint suicide by two or more people bound by love, such as romantic partners or family members.
pansophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pansophy.
glosses: The 17th-century movement of the pansophists, who wished to organize all human knowledge.
owdaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From owdacious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of audaciousness.
owdacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more owdacious
form: most owdacious
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, as fur that matter, he ’ll learn devilment soon enough anywhere,” snapped Mrs. Warren, “with that owdacious father o’ his before him.[…]”
ref: 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter III, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of audacious.
Derived terms: owdaciousness
papris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papri
pancreatotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pancreatotomies
Etymology: From pancreato- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: surgical incision into the pancreas
pancreatotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreatotomy
shojis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoji
chapter book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapter books
Etymology: Such books are typically divided into short chapters, to suit limited attention spans.
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: An illustrated storybook intended for intermediate readers, generally aged from 7 to 10.
pain de mie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French pain de mie.
Senses: glosses: A type of soft bread made with sugar, with a soft crust and interior.
Hypernyms: sandwich loaf
sandwich bread
Coordinate terms: Pullman loaf
white bread
rose bengal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: 4,5,6,7-tetrachloro-2',4',5',7'-tetraiodofluorescein, a stain whose sodium salt is commonly used in eyedrops to stain damaged cells and thereby identify damage.
rosh yeshivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosh yeshiva
rollercoastering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rollercoastering
form: most rollercoastering
form: rollercoasting
Etymology: From rollercoaster + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity.
ref: 2006, Joseph Armstead, Nightflesh, page 18:
text: This club was crammed full of men who'd lived through the afternoon's rollercoastering emotions.
ref: 2011, Mark Fleming, Brainbomb, page 101:
glosses: Moving rapidly and unpredictably.
rolliche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolliches
form: rollichie
Etymology: Dutch rolletje (“a little roll”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam.
rolliches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rolliche
Roman cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman cements
Senses: glosses: A natural cement made by burning septaria and mixing in sand.
Hypernyms: cement
Coordinate terms: concrete
hydraulic lime
mortar
Related terms: Portland cement
Roman concrete
Rome Beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rome Beauties
Senses: glosses: A glossy red variety of cooking apple originating near Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, in the early 19th century.
Caballerial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæbəˈlɛɹiəl/
Forms: form: Caballerials
Etymology: Blend of Caballero + aerial, after Steve Caballero, who invented the trick in the early 1980s.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A 360-degree ollie while riding fakie.
Caballerials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caballerial
macroplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroplanktons
Etymology: From macro- + plankton.
Senses: examples: text: Morphological details of individual organisms of macroplanktons are easily discernible due to their large sizes while the same is not possible with the naked eyes for femtoplanktons and other microscopic planktonic forms.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Plankton”, in Biology Online:
glosses: Plankton ranging in size from 2 to 20 centimetres in maximal dimension.
Coordinate terms: alt: >20cm
word: megaplankton
word: macroplankton (2-20 cm)
word: mesoplankton (0.2-20mm)
word: microplankton (20-200μm)
word: nanoplankton (2-20μm)
word: picoplankton (0.2-2μm)
alt: <0.2μm
word: femtoplankton
macroplanktons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroplankton
Plutarchan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plutarchan
form: most Plutarchan
Etymology: From Plutarch + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Plutarch, an Ancient Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
poli sci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑ.liˌsaɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɒ.liˌsaɪ/
Forms: form: polisci
Senses: examples: text: These guys probably had a crudload of sand kicked in their faces in grade school, and now carry this primal sandbox grudge to the poli sci classroom, where they finally have the power over us durn bratty schoolkids.
ref: 1994, James A. Wiggins, Beverly B. Wiggins, James Wilfrid Vander Zanden, Social Psychology, 5, illustrated edition, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 176:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: Clipping of political science.
Pokot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokot
form: Pökoot
Senses: glosses: A member of a people living in West Pokot County and Baringo County in Kenya and in the Pokot District of the eastern Karamoja region in Uganda.
Pokot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pökoot
Senses: glosses: Their Southern Nilotic language.
pogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogonias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Pogonia of orchids.