cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anti-abortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiabortionism
Etymology: From anti-abortion + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.
ref: 1991, Mary Nash, “Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain”, in Gisela Bock, Pat Thane, editors, Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s, Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.
Synonyms: pro-lifeism
antiabortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Opposition to contraception was not derived from antiabortionism, which reacted to a common practice in surrounding culture, but arose rather in response to problems in the Christian community.
ref: 1982, Michael J. Gorman, Abortion & the Early Church: Christian, Jewish & Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-abortionism.
flathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: flathes
form: flath
Etymology: From Middle English flathe (“flat fish”), from Old English *flaþa ("flatcake"; found only in compound flæþecomb, fleþecomb (“weaver's comb”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flaþō (“flatcake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Dutch vla, vlade (“baked custard, pancake”), Middle Low German vlade (“flatcake”), German Fladen (“a flatcake, cowpatty”). Related to flan.
Senses: glosses: A flan.
glosses: A ray or skate (fish).
Related terms: flathon
Nakano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nakanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 中野 (Nakano).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Nerima, Toshima, Shinjuku, Shibuya, and Suginami special wards.
pro-abortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proabortionism
Etymology: From proabortion + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They see pro-abortionism and reductions in immigration as the same issue.
ref: 2007, Brian N. Fry, Nativism and Immigration: Regulating the American Dream, LFB Scholarly Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: An ideology or policy of support for the practice and/or legalization of abortion.
baroque piety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baroque + piety, after French piété baroque.
Senses: examples: text: Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety.
ref: 1979, Jean Bérenger, ‘The Austrian Church’, Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, page 101:
text: Post-Tridentine worship was in essence a baroque piety which expressed itself in florid ostentation and which used all the media of communication and the material culture of worship to make a powerful sensorial assault on the life of the spirit.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 94:
text: This shifting stance among both educated elites and secular rulers toward Baroque piety would be a crucial precondition for the spread of enlightened ideas in Catholic Germany [...].
ref: 2011, Helmut Walser Smith, editor, Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, Oxford, page 213:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
Tungabhadra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit तुङ्गभद्रा (tuṅgabhadrā, “Tungabhadra”).
Senses: glosses: A river in South India formed by the union of Tunga and Bhadra rivers, which flows through Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.
proabortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Only "right-to-lifers" caricature the feminist position as dogmatic "proabortionism" or some crazed baby-hatred.
ref: 1985, Rosalind P. Petchesky, Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality and Reproductive Freedom, Verso, published 1985, page 374:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-abortionism.
Nagavali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in South India, flowing through Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Mahanadi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit महानदी (mahānadī)/महानदि (mahānadi).
Senses: glosses: A river in Central India. It has a course of 858 km and flows through the states of Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
pro-lifeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pro-life + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He starts with three strikes against him: Mormonism, Massachusetts-ism and a suspiciously recent conversion to pro-lifeism.
ref: 2007 May 11, Howard Fineman, “The Megastates Gamble”, in Newsweek:
glosses: An ideology or policy of opposition to abortion.
glosses: An ideology of opposition to the legalization of euthanasia.
Synonyms: anti-abortionism
c4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c4s
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: 501(c)
alt: 4
glosses: A 501(c)(4), an organization that conforms to the United States Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)4
spooky PAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spooky PACs
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: c4
coordinate_terms: PAC
super PAC
glosses: A type of political action committee which does not have to reveal its donors' identities, and which does not limit the amount of contributions by donors.
spooky PACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spooky PAC
have the tiger by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the tiger by the tail
form: having the tiger by the tail
form: had the tiger by the tail
form: had the tiger by the tail
form: have a tiger by the tail
Senses: examples: text: "We have the tiger by the tail," Paul whispered. "We can't go down, can't land…and I don't think I can lift us out of this. We'll have to ride it out."
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 238:
glosses: To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.
Synonyms: have the wolf by the ear
have a tiger by the tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a tiger by the tail
form: having a tiger by the tail
form: had a tiger by the tail
form: had a tiger by the tail
form: have the tiger by the tail
Senses: examples: text: "Sounds like you have a tiger by the tail. Hawthorne won't go down without a battle and will probably sue you if he wins," Clair admonished.
ref: 2009, Jack Dalton, A Country Lawyer, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: To be in a difficult or dangerous situation in which one ideally should not remain, but from which one cannot withdraw.
Synonyms: have the wolf by the ear
smishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of SMS + phishing.
Senses: examples: text: The FBI warns a threat moving across America “from state to state" targets citizens via malicious SMS (smishing) texts, teling^([sic]) iPhone, Android users to “delete any smishing texts received.”
ref: 2025 March 11, Zak Doffman, “FBI Warning—Delete These Texts On Your iPhone, Android Phone”, in Forbes:
text: With smishing scams evolving and spreading at an alarming rate, authorities continue to emphasize vigilance.
ref: 2025 March 12, Ariel Zilber, “FBI’s warning to iPhone, Android users: Delete these ‘smishing’ texts now”, in New York Post:
glosses: A type of identity theft committed by means of a malicious link that is contained within a text message.
Hypernyms: phishing
Coordinate terms: vishing
ptyaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ptyalin.
huauzontle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish huauzontle.
Senses: synonyms: Aztec broccoli
pitseed goosefoot
glosses: A flowering plant of the goosefoot family, Chenopodium berlandieri, consumed primarily for its edible inflorescence.
banting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after William Banting.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Clark, alarmed at her increasing stoutness, was doing a course of what is popularly known as banting.
ref: 1932, Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems:
glosses: A diet aimed at losing weight, mostly accomplished by avoiding carbohydrates and sweet foods.
Related terms: Bantingism
Bantingize
chirographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirographers
Etymology: From chiro- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chirographist.
chirographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chirographer
ramee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramees
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ramie.
filigraned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filigrane + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of filigreed.
recremental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recremental
form: most recremental
Etymology: From recrement + -al.
Senses: glosses: recrementitious
lapsus auris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapsus auris
Etymology: From Latin lāpsus auris (“lapse of the ear”). Compare lapsus linguae, lapsus oculi.
Senses: examples: text: Baudouin deems it necessary to exclude from that domain such phenomena as established alternations, sound correspondences in different languages, lapsus linguae and lapsus auris, as well as sound substitutions due to dialect mixture and analogy (including hypercorrection).
ref: 1997, Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak, “Baudouin de Courtenay on Lautgesetze”, in Raymond Hickey, Stanisław Puppel, editors, Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, volume I (Language History), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 913:
glosses: An instance of mishearing, an error in hearing something correctly.
Related terms: mishearing
God-wink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God-winks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of God wink.
flathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flathons
Etymology: From Middle English flathon, probably representing Medieval Latin fladon-, stem form of flado (“a flat-cake”), from Frankish *flaþō (“flat-cake”). Cognate with Middle English flathe (“a flat-cake, flat fish”). More at flathe.
Senses: glosses: Flathe; flan.
Marechal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Maréchal.
Senses: glosses: A French surname.
Derived terms: Marechal-Rosin test
Marechal's test
market order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market orders
Senses: topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: An instruction to a stock broker to sell stocks immediately, at whatever price reflects the current value of the stock.
market orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of market order
stop-loss orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop-loss order (alternative spelling of stop loss orders).
stop loss orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stop loss order
Marechal's test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A test for the presence of bile pigments in urine in which a solution of iodine produces a bright green colouration
Synonyms: Marechal-Rosin test
bedrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedrives
form: bedriving
form: bedrove
form: bedriven
Etymology: From Middle English bidriven, from Old English bedrīfan (“to drive; beat; strike; assail; follow up; pursue; surround; cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *bidrīban, equivalent to be- + drive. Cognate with Dutch bedrijven (“to commit, perpetrate”), German betreiben (“to operate, conduct, pursue”), Swedish bedriva (“to manage, carry on, prosecute”).
Senses: examples: text: But when every human help ceased, that they might trust more to divine help, they then first began to fight against their foes, who for many years before harried and plundered on them, and they then made a great slaughter among them, and bedrove them home, and had a victory.
ref: 1852, Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great:
glosses: To drive or toss about; drive out, off, back, or away; defeat.
examples: text: And every man that standeth here would well bethink him what he hath done and bedriven in his days, he should the better have patience and pity on Reynart.
ref: 1889, Henry Morley, Early prose romances:
glosses: To effect; do; commit; perpetrate; experience.
Related terms: bedrift
Mauriceau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Mauriceau.
Senses: glosses: A French surname.
Derived terms: Mauriceau's maneuver
mulga wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulga wire
Mauriac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Mauriac.
Senses: glosses: A French surname.
Derived terms: Mauriac's syndrome
Mauriac syndrome
flaysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaysome
form: most flaysome
form: fleysome
form: fleesome
Etymology: From flay + -some.
Senses: synonyms: word: affreux
word: alarming
word: spine-tingling
word: appalling
word: awful
word: buggish
word: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: dismayful
word: dreadful
word: fearful
word: flaysome
word: flesh-crawling
word: formidable
word: freaky
word: frightening
word: frightensome
word: frightful
word: ghastly
word: ghostly
word: grisly
word: hair-curling
word: hair-raising
word: horrible
word: horrid
word: horrific
word: horrifying
word: horripilating
word: pulse-pounding
word: scaring
word: scary
word: shocking
word: skin-crawling
word: terrible
word: terrifying
word: terrorsome
glosses: Terrifying; frightful.
labourage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The loading or unloading of a ship's cargo.
glosses: The wage for labour.
examples: text: The Commissars of Edinburgh were found not to have Right to confirm the Testament of a person dying in Edinburgh, albeit he had dwelt there half a year, and had a house taken for a year, furnished with his own plenishing, and his wife and whole children there, not being in it animo remanendi, but about his aflairs, but that the confirmation was to be where his chief Residence, or his labourage, and most of his servants were, February 7, 1672.
ref: 1687, The Decisions of the Lords of Council & Session:
glosses: Workplace; the place where one labors.
requisitioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: requisitioners
Etymology: From requisition + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, requisitions.
requisitioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of requisitioner
river god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvə ˌɡɒd/
Forms: form: river gods
Senses: examples: text: It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream.
ref: 1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Three Ways”, in The Horizon History of China, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113, column 2:
text: From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife.
ref: 1995, Jeannete Faurot, Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends, Touchstone, published 1995, page 219:
text: Some weeks, alas, we return to camp with six dead minnows and a dripping hemp bag full of dodgy clams, but this week, praise be, the river god has smiled on us [...].
ref: 2011 October 13, Tom Meltzer, The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The tutelary deity of a river.
Synonyms: naiad
river gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of river god
comingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: comingles
form: comingling
form: comingled
form: comingled
Etymology: From co- + mingle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of commingle.
passementeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passementerie
albitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albitizations
Etymology: From albite + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: conversion into albite
Related terms: albitize
albitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albitization
apophanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apophanous
form: most apophanous
Etymology: From apophany + -ous.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to apophany.
apophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apophenia.
Related terms: apophanous
autoperformance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoperformances
Etymology: From auto- + performance, coined by Michael Kirby in 1979.
Senses: glosses: The performance of a work by its own creator or author.
Related terms: autoperformer
autoperformances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoperformance
flerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɜːd/
ipa: /flɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
homophone: flurred
Forms: form: flerds
Etymology: Blend of flock + herd.
Senses: examples: text: Dean M. Anderson, research animal scientist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is bonding sheep to cattle into a cohesive unit termed a "flerd."
ref: 1996, Small Farm Today, Clark, Mo.: Missouri Farm Pub., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Flerds can help reduced coyote predation of small ruminants because cows will instinctively intimidate approaching canines. […] Even though dietary differences among flocks, herds and flerds remain similar on arid landscapes with abundant standing crop, animal distribution does differ.
ref: 2010, D[ean] M. Anderson, R. E. Estell, “Behavior – the Keystone in Optimizing Free-ranging Ungulate Production”, in Victor R. Squires, editor, Range and Animal Sciences and Resources Management (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), volume 1, [Oxford?]: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, page 335:
text: Sheep and goats often co-graze with other animals, such as cows or horses. This grouping of species is sometimes called a flerd.
ref: 2015, Dina Rudick, Erik Jacobs, “Sheep & Goats”, in Barnyard Kids: A Family Guide for Raising Animals, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, Quarto Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A mixed group of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle.
wikipedia: Adriaen van de Velde
Dulwich Picture Gallery
avant-metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of avant-garde + metal
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of heavy metal music characterized by experimental and unconventional elements.
jetskier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetskiers
Etymology: From jetski + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who jetskis.
jetskiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetskier
Satanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Satanian
form: most Satanian
Etymology: From Satan + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Satan; Satanic.
Satanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Satanians
Etymology: From Satan + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: And so the Satanians believed Satan, feared him, worshipped him, called upon him, honoured him with all their mind, soul, and strength, and served him truly all the days of their life […]
ref: 1896, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 10, page 373:
glosses: A Satanist, or Devil-worshipper.
triboelectrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribo- + electrification.
Senses: glosses: Electrification (formation of electrical charge) caused by friction.
dogly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogly
form: most dogly
form: doggly
Etymology: From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.
Senses: examples: text: I had a little dog who practiced all the dogly virtues. He never tried to get into any chairs or on any couches.
ref: 1908, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, The Outlook:
text: [Seminole Sam to the Dog:] It ain't dogly to bark "ahem".
ref: 1959 June 4, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 47:
text: If a chicken invades your garden to steal seed and your dog barks at it in the line of dogly duty, the chicken's owner has the legal right to kill your dog.
ref: 1966, Kiplinger's Personal Finance:
text: It was a halfhearted attempt to get him to stop, because truly, I was hoping the dog would do the dogly thing and chew up the Frisbee.
ref: 2006, Linda Johns, Hannah West in Deep Water:
glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to dogs or the dog family; canine.
Derived terms: dogliness
dogly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dogly
form: most dogly
form: doggly
Etymology: From Middle English *dogly, *doglich, equivalent dog + -ly. Compare doglike.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a dog.
upender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upenders
Etymology: From upend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the status quo upenders, the ones who wrestle with God until they walk with a limp.
ref: 2020, Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things, page 1:
glosses: One who upends something.
glosses: A mechanical device for rotating goods into another orientation.
upenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upender
fakirism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fakirisms
form: faqirism
Etymology: From fakir + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practices of fakirs.
faqirism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faqir + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fakirism.
lycopode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French lycopode.
Senses: glosses: lycopodium powder (an inflammable yellow powder found in species of lycopodium, or club moss).
sea thong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea thongs
Senses: glosses: A kind of blackish seaweed (Himanthalia elongata) found on the northern coasts of the Atlantic, with a thong-like forking process rising from a top-shaped base.
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon
Senses: examples: text: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, / My oh my, what a wonderful day / Plenty of sunshine headin' my way / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
ref: 1946, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, Ray Gilbert (lyrics), Allie Wrubel (music):
text: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! What a treat this movie was for kids and adults alike.
ref: 1990 March, Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits, New York: Billboard Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 60:
text: If the newspapers and broadcasts are blaring “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-a/My, oh my, what a wonderful day” over and over, there’s a tendency to go down the road humming that tune, too, because you can’t get it out of your head. Are business conditions good? Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!
ref: 2000, Jim Hightower, If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL:
text: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," Kate said. "This is better." She held her half-empty glass up.
ref: 2004 March 17, Donley Watt, Dancing With Lyndon, Fort Worth: TCU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 135:
glosses: An exclamation of happiness.
zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon
Senses: examples: text: It happened on one o' dem zip-a-dee-doo-dah days. Now that's the kind of day when you can't open your mouth without a song jump right out of it.
ref: 1946, Song of the South (Film), spoken by Uncle Remus (James Baskett):
text: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! Only one place in the world can give you that Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah feeling day after wonderful day.
ref: 1987, “(advertisement)”, in National Geographic, volume 172, page 280:
text: Repeat after me: If you're having a zip-a-dee-doo-dah day, I don't want any part of it.
ref: 2006 November 1, B. Elwin Sherman, Caught in the Shower Without a Pencil -- Baby Boomer Humor, And Other Maturity Problems, Lulu, →ISBN, →OL, page 36:
glosses: Characteristic of such a feeling.
procatarxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προκαταρκτικός (prokatarktikós, “first beginning”), from προκατάρχω (prokatárkhō).
Senses: examples: text: a sudden , ſolemn , and invincible cause, without any previous Disposition or Procatarxis
ref: 1685, Thomas Willis, The London Practice of Physick:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The kindling of a disease into action; the procatarctic cause.
saltatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: saltatorial exercises
glosses: Relating to leaping; moving by leaps; saltatory.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the fomer division of insects Saltatoria; orthopterous.
Related terms: ambulatorial
cursorial
fossorial
gressorial
natatorial
raptorial
scansorial
pock-pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pock-puddings
Senses: glosses: A bag pudding.
examples: text: "Devil take that old man," said M'Aulay, "he would tell every thing, were it to cost one one's life; but it's no jesting matter to you neither, my Lord, for I reckon on your friendly and fraternal benevolence, as a near kinsman of our house, to help me out with the money due to these pock-puddings; or else, to be plain wi' ye, the de'il a M'Aulay will there be at the muster, for curse me if I do not turn Covenanter rather than face these fellows without paying them; and, at the best, I shall be ill enough off, getting both the scaith and the scorn."
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: An English person.
hypochondries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondry
hypochondry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochondries
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hypochondria.
stillstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stillstands
form: stillstanding
form: stillstanded
form: stillstanded
Etymology: From still + stand.
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting in these circumstances to look for the 'smoking gun'-a mechanism whereby glaciers from both the local Cairngorm ice cap, and the much larger Scottish Ice Sheet could stillstand, or even readvance for a period of 1 kyr, during deglaciation.
ref: 2005 October 25, Jeremy Everest, P. Kubik, “The deglaciation of eastern Scotland: cosmogenic ¹⁰Be evidence for a Lateglacial stillstand”, in Journal of Quaternary Science, volume 2, number 1, Wiley, →DOI, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2021, pages 95-104:
text: The base of the stratigraphic successions consists of outwash fan deposits emplaced in the early deglaciation when ice margin stillstanded immediately beyond the depositional area.
ref: 2016 April, Pierre Dietrich, Jean-François Ghienne, Alexandre Normandeau, Patrick Lajeunesse, “Proglacial deltaic landforms and stratigraphic architecture as a proxy for reconstructing past ice-sheet margin positions”, in EGU Geophysical Research Abstracts, volume 18, EGU General Assembly 2016, 17-22 April, 2016, Vienna Austria: European Geosciences Union, EPSC2016-2851, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023:
text: Ice-contact depositional systems formed when the LIS was stillstanding along the Québec North Shore.
ref: 2017 December 5, Pierre Dietrich, Jean-François Ghienne, Alexandre Normandeau, Patrick Lajeunesse, “Reconstructing ice-margin retreat using delta morphostratigraphy”, in Scientific Reports, volume 7, number 16936, Nature Portfolio, →DOI, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.
stillstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillstand
dandyize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dandyizes
form: dandyizing
form: dandyized
form: dandyized
Etymology: From dandy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.
dandyized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dandyize
dandyizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dandyize
dandyizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dandyize
sphaceli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphacelus
sphacelus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphaceli
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σφάκελος (sphákelos).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: gangrenous part
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: gangrene; slough
Related terms: sphacel
sphacelate
sphacelation
gibstaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibstaffs
Etymology: From the dialectal term gib (“hooked stick”) + staff.
Senses: examples: text: The house boats of the Mohannas are called “Doondees“. One family may live in the same small boat for as long as half a century. These “Doondees“ range in size between 6 m long and 2 m wide up to a length of 14 m and a width of 4 m in the middle of the boat. The boat is basically steered by a gibstaff.
ref: 1987, G. Mustafa Shar, “The Mohanna — An Unknown Life on the Indus River”, in Reports on Field Work Carried out at Mohenjo-Daro: Interim Reports, volume 2 (1983–84), →ISSN, page 173:
glosses: A staff to gauge water, or to push a boat.
glosses: A staff used in stick fighting; a quarterstaff.
tail-bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail-bays
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder.
topics: architecture
glosses: The space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor.
glosses: The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
Related terms: case-bay
tail-bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tail-bay
ENGO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENGOs
form: eNGO
Senses: examples: text: In Indonesia, for example, ... ENGOs must register with the Ministry of Home Affairs, and all sources of ENGO funding must be approved by the state; the law even permits the state to ban any ENGO without explanation.
ref: 1997, Raymond L. Bryant, Sinéad Bailey, Third World Political Ecology, page 145:
glosses: Initialism of environmental non-governmental organization.
synanthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + anthesis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.
Related terms: synanthetic
red car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red cars
Senses: examples: text: My father used to talk about how you could take a red car just about anywhere in the Los Angeles area.
glosses: A streetcar of the former Pacific Electric Railway mass transit system that went all across Greater Los Angeles.
examples: text: The red car operated from 1901–1961.
glosses: The entire now-defunct corporation and system of the Pacific Electric Railway.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, car.
Subcarboniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sub- + Carboniferous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures; a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone.
kohling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kohl
gynemimetophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: A sexual attraction to trans women or to men who look and act like women.
topics: lifestyle
sexology
sexuality
glosses: A sexual attraction to transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
Related terms: gynemimetic
gynemimesis
andromimetic
andromimesis
transgender
bipinnaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.pɪˈnɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ.pɪˈnɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Latin bis (“twice”) + pinna (“feather”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free-swimming stage.
Derived terms: bipinnarial
hoveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒvələ(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hovellers
form: hoveler
Senses: examples: text: How it was that the fishermen, and hovellers, and smugglers got an inkling of what we were about, I don't know.
ref: 1839, George Payne Rainsford James, Charles Tyrrell: Or, The Bitter Blood:
glosses: One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
glosses: A small boat used on the coast.
hovellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoveller
tiger mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger mothers
form: tiger mom
form: tiger mum
Etymology: The sense of the ambitious mother was popularized by the parenting memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (2011) by Amy Chua.
Senses: examples: text: […] I spent all last night on my knees, beseeching the Great Physician to hear me and heal my boy. […] but the instinct of the tiger-mother is tearing my heart to pieces […].
ref: 1907, Elizabeth Fremantle, Comrades Two, William Heinemann, page 237:
text: When she was in her busy mood, domineering and protecting me, I used to think what a dolls' generalissimo she must have been in childhood. "And where you're concerned," she would say, "I'm a tiger-mother and a regular Fury. […]"
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking:
text: "My sister calls us 'tiger mothers', because we're so protective," she says.
ref: 2005 May 8, Jane Hutchinson, “Be my baby”, in Sunday Telegraph Magazine:
synonyms: mama bear
mama grizzly
coordinate_terms: wolf father
glosses: A woman who is fiercely protective of one or more people in her care.
examples: text: I would like to see Oxford and Cambridge turned into graduate universities entirely devoted to research, which at a stroke would cool the ardour of the "tiger mothers" of Holland Park and Hampstead determined to set their three-year-olds on the path to Oxbridge, whatever the human cost.
ref: 2005 May 9, J. G. Ballard, “Now parliament is just another hypermarket”, in New Statesman:
text: If you have tiger mother tendencies, the very worst thing you can do is visit China. It will only increase your determination to squeeze some achievement out of your young.
ref: 2011 November 2, Anne McElvoy, “Take care, children: China's tiger cubs are on your tail”, in London Evening Standard:
text: Tiger mothers and $125-an-hour tutors proliferate, and parents scrimp and struggle to pay up to $40,000 a year in tuition to private secondary schools that then put them on the spot for supplemental donations, lest the soccer field turn brown and the Latin club languish.
ref: 2012 April 28, Frank Bruni, “The Imperiled Promise of College”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: eagle dad
glosses: A mother who drives her child or children very hard to succeed in school or in extracurricular studies, such as learning a musical instrument.
tiger mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger mother
homoeothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homoiothermal.
hoveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hovelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoveller.
hovelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoveler
sun-burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun-burners
Senses: glosses: A circle or cluster of gas burners, once for lighting and ventilating public buildings.
sun-burners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun-burner
phalaenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalaenids
Etymology: Ancient Greek a kind of moth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any moth of the former family Phalaenidae, now mostly classified in the Noctuidae and related families.
phalaenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalaenid
whateffer
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of whatever.
tiger mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger moms
Senses: examples: text: The message to tiger moms: telling your kids that failure is not an option does not set them up for success.
ref: 2012 March 30, Stefanie Weisman, “Taming the Tiger of Achievement”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 May 2012:
glosses: A tiger mother.
VMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VMCs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of visual meteorological conditions.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of vertical machining center.
VMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Venus Monitoring Camera.
tiger moms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger mom
VEX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Venus Express.
VIRTIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer.
PFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of perfect forward secrecy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of progression-free survival.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of pyoderma fistulans sinifica.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of post-finasteride syndrome.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of post-viral fatigue syndrome.
PFS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: ESA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Planetary Fourier Spectrometer.
tiger mum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger mums
Senses: examples: text: "I was never a tiger mum!" Eu says with a laugh. "My kids started boarding school at nine, so they learnt to be independent from young. […]
ref: 2012 April 8, Chin Mui Yoon, “From homemaker to head honcho”, in The Star, Malaysia:
glosses: A tiger mother.
tiger mums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger mum
made a leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make a leg
fill or kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fill or kills
Senses: topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: A type of stock market or financial derivative order, signifying that the order is to be presented for execution, and if not executed ("filled") immediately (traditionally within a few seconds) is to be cancelled.
Derived terms: FOK
fill or kills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fill or kill
multicolour yawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicolour yawn
lamaserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamaseries
Senses: glosses: Dated form of lamasery.
ad verecundiam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad verecundiams
Etymology: Shortened from Latin argumentum ad verecundiam (“argument to modesty”).
Senses: glosses: Appeal to authority, argument from authority.
Synonyms: sense: a fallacious objection
word: appeal to authority
word: credentialism
word: groupthink
word: ipse dixit
Related terms: ad hominem
ad verecundiam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ad verecundiam
form: most ad verecundiam
Etymology: Shortened from Latin argumentum ad verecundiam (“argument to modesty”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's an ad verecundiam argument.
glosses: Of or relating to ad verecundiam.
ad verecundiam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ad verecundiam
form: most ad verecundiam
Etymology: Shortened from Latin argumentum ad verecundiam (“argument to modesty”).
Senses: examples: text: He tried to make his case by arguing ad verecundiam.
glosses: In an ad verecundiam manner.
email ombrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French émail ombrant (“shaded enamel”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The art or process of flooding transparent coloured glaze over designs stamped or moulded on earthenware or porcelain
snast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snaste.
snasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snast
inanitiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Archaic form of inanition.
flower-gentle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower-gentles
Senses: glosses: A species of amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor).
flower-gentles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower-gentle
tartrelic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tartar (“the chemical compound”). Borrowed from French tartrélique.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anhydride, C₄H₄O₅, of tartaric acid.
clechy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleché.
oxoglutarates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxoglutarate
depurition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depuritions
Senses: glosses: rare spelling of depuration
depuritions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depurition
Bonchrétien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bonchrétiens
Etymology: French, literally "good Christian".
Senses: glosses: Any of several varieties of pear, such as the Williams pear.
Related terms: Bartlett
Bonchrétiens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bonchrétien
polatouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polatouches
Etymology: From French polatouche.
Senses: glosses: A Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans, syn. Sciuropterus volans), native to much of boreal Eurasia, from Finland east.
Synonyms: sense: Pteromys volans
word: minene
polatouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polatouche
lithodomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lithodomous
form: most lithodomous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to, or relating to, the former genus Lithodomus; lithophagous.
noncontaminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contaminative.
Senses: glosses: Not contaminative.
renovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renovels
form: renoveling
form: renovelling
form: renoveled
form: renoveled
form: renovelled
form: renovelled
Etymology: French renouveler (“to renew”).
Senses: glosses: To renew; to renovate.
renovelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renovel
renovelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renovel
renovels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renovel
ostent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɛnt/
Forms: form: ostents
form: ostenting
form: ostented
form: ostented
Etymology: From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).
Senses: glosses: To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.
ostent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɛnt/
ipa: /ɒˈstɛnt/
ipa: /ɑˈstɛnt/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /ˈɒstɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɛnt/
Forms: form: ostents
Etymology: From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Vſe all the obſeruance of ciuility, / Like one well ſtudied in a ſad oſtent / To pleaſe his Grandam, neuer truſt me more.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Be merry, and employ your cheefeſt thoughts / To Courtſhip, and ſuch faire oſtents of loue, / As ſhall conueniently become you there.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:
text: In every object, mountain, tree and star—In every birth and life, / As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent, / A mystic cipher waits infolded.
ref: 1891, Walt Whitman, “2d Annex. Good-Bye my Fancy: Shakespere-Bacon’s Cipher”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 412:
glosses: A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.
glosses: A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.
ostent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɛnt/
ipa: /ɒˈstɛnt/
ipa: /ɑˈstɛnt/
ipa: /ə-/
Forms: form: ostents
form: ostenta
Etymology: From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.
Senses: examples: text: We ask'd of God that some ostent might clear / Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
text: Latinus, frighted with this dire ostent, / For counsel to his father Faunus went,
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A portent, a token.