cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Francien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɹɒ̃.sjã/
Etymology: Borrowed from French francien.
Senses: examples: text: There were about eleven dialects in Old French, but not all were of literary importance, and all were increasingly dominated from the end of the twelfth century by Francien, the language used by the royal court and the centralized administration in and around Paris.
ref: 1996, Timothy James McGee, A. G. Rigg, David N. Klausner, Singing Early Music, →ISBN, page 66:
text: The scarcity of texts localizable to the Ile-de-France region would seem to pose a serious challenge to Francien's privileged status.
ref: 2000, Susan C. Herring, Pieter Th. van Reenen, Lene Schøsler, Textual Parameters in Older Languages, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Conversely, native Francien-speaking poets often displayed a degree of linguistic smugness and superiority.
ref: 2003, Adrian Battye, Marie-Anne Hintze, Paul Rowlett, The French Language Today: A Linguistic Introduction, →ISBN:
synonyms: Francian
glosses: The dialect of Old French spoken in Île-de-France and its surrounding areas.
Francien
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /fɹɒ̃.sjã/
Etymology: Borrowed from French francien.
Senses: examples: text: Grammars of Old French are without exception based on the Francien dialect.
ref: 2000, Susan C. Herring, Pieter Th. van Reenen, Lene Schøsler, Textual Parameters in Older Languages, →ISBN, page 50:
synonyms: Francian
glosses: Of or relating to the dialect of Old French spoken in Île-de-France and its surrounding areas.
uninflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninflammatory
form: most uninflammatory
Etymology: From un- + inflammatory.
Senses: examples: text: As I swung onto the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance between us.
ref: 2002, Jewell Parker Rhodes, The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction:
glosses: Not inflammatory.
multipuncture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + puncture.
Senses: examples: text: This study evaluated the utility of a new simulator system for multipuncture radiofrequency ablation.
ref: 2016 February 5, “Usefulness of a New Three-Dimensional Simulator System for Radiofrequency Ablation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Involving more than one puncture.
rumpologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumpologists
Etymology: From rump + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of rumpology.
rumpologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumpologist
revals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reval
Britishest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of British: most British
Germanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Yes, he was the Germanest kind of German; can you imagine any other kind of man being so single-minded, so devoted, so careless of himself, so patient, so strong?
ref: 1937, Katharine Burdekin, Swastika Night:
glosses: superlative form of German: most German
gaddi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaddis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gadi.
gaddis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaddi
gadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadi
gadrooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadroonings
Etymology: From gadroon + -ing.
Senses: glosses: ornamentation with gadroons
gadroonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadrooning
Frencher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (suffix denoting a person characterized by the root).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of French: more French
Frencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frenchers
Etymology: From French + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (suffix denoting a person characterized by the root).
Senses: examples: text: They were all occupied, except the half reserved for me and the one for the two Frenchers.
ref: 1974, Ulrich Steindorff Carrington, The Making of an American, page 159:
synonyms: Frenchy#Noun
glosses: A French person.
Frenchest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of French: most French
Russianest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This is the Russianest lookin' place I ever saw. An' I went out "investigatin", an' I investigated a Caucasian shop and there I bought a Christmas present for a father to give to his little boy.
ref: 1963, Vincent Sheean, Dorothy and Red:
glosses: superlative form of Russian: most Russian
heraldists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heraldist
kachahri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kachahris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kachcheri.
kachahris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kachahri
polishest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: polish + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of polish
pornify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pornifies
form: pornifying
form: pornified
form: pornified
Etymology: From porn + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: So my primary concern with young married men today (more a concern for their wives, or their future wives in the case of single men) is that they may pornify the marriage bed, bringing a foul pollution […]
ref: 2010, Tim Challies, Sexual Detox: A Guide for Guys Who Are Sick of Porn:
glosses: To make or regard as pornographic.
pornifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pornify
pornifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pornify
monolithicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monolithic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being monolithic.
Synonyms: english: preferred alternative
translation: preferred alternative
word: monolithicity
horn timber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horn timbers
Senses: examples: text: The truncated horn timbers had been led through the transom (exposing end grain to the elements incidentally) and firmly fastened to it.
ref: 1986, Jonathan Watson, Janet, the restoration of a Victorian yacht, page 28:
text: The rabbet for the comparatively horizontal horn timber is taken from the sections in the body plan.
ref: 1993, Robert Steward, Boatbuilding Manual, →ISBN, page 147:
text: The archboard assembly can now be erected, springing aft from the after most frame, and supported by the horn timber.
ref: 2013, Nick Miller, The Lancashire Nobby, →ISBN, page 96:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A timber that angles up from the sternpost to support the overhang of the stern. A single vessel may have multiple horn timbers.
horn timbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn timber
thunderstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderstrokes
Etymology: First known use in 1300s
Senses: glosses: thunderbolt
special teamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special teamers
Etymology: From special team + -er.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A member of a special team.
hyperlinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperlinear
form: most hyperlinear
Etymology: From hyper- + linear.
Senses: examples: text: Atopic patients with ichthyosis vulgaris often have keratosis pilaris and hyperlinear, exaggerated palm creases.
ref: 2015, Thomas P. Habif, Clinical Dermatology, →ISBN, page 165:
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having unusually pronounced creases marking the skin.
examples: text: Indeed, by a profound result of E. Kirchberg, F. Radulescu and N. Ozawa, a group is hyperlinear if and only if it satisfies the Connes embedding conjecture for groups, that is, if and only if its von Neumann algebra embeds into an ultrapower of the hyperfinite II₁ factor R.
ref: 2010, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein, Michel Coornaert, Cellular Automata and Groups, →ISBN, page 277:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Displaying a generalization of sofic that applies to finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
raw_tags: of groups
examples: text: We say that a hyperlinear fuzzy function, f say, strictly separates two fuzzy subsets A and B iff the fuzzy hyperplane determined by f and some point x₀ ϵ X strictly separates A and B
ref: 1986, Functiones Et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Both additive and homogeneous for hyperreal scalars.
raw_tags: of a function of hyperreals
examples: text: We see that hyperlinear convergence doesn't necessarily imply that the series is easy to evaluate for all values of x.
ref: 2007, William H. Press, Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Converging very quickly to a limit so that the ratio of adjacent terms tends to zero.
raw_tags: of a sequence
examples: text: It has been shown in [3] that, at low excitation intensities, the dependence of the emission intensity from a single crystal of AgBr(I) on the excitation intensity is linear while, at high excitation intensities, it becomes hyperlinear.
ref: 1981, Doklady: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR:
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: curve fitting
glosses: Increasing exponentially or as a higher polynomial power.
thunderstrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderstroke
laboratory coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laboratory coats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lab coat.
synonyms: word: lab coat
laboratory coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laboratory coat
treaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treap
of'en
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more of'en
form: most of'en
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of often.
pirlicue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirlicues
Etymology: See purlicue.
Senses: examples: text: [I]f you distaste the sermon, I doubt the pirliecue [footnote: A second sermon.] will please you as little.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 245:
text: A pirlicue which pleased them but little, so that some rode off that they might not be known, and some dourly remained, but were impotent for evil.
ref: 1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure, page 261:
text: Much in the same way would a minister in Thrums, hard up for a pirlicue, never fail to find it in having 'one more whap, my freens, at the Painted Whure of Babylon.'
ref: 1938, Patrick Reginald Chalmers, The Barrie inspiration, page 90:
glosses: A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.
Related terms: purlicue
forehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forehouses
Etymology: From fore- + house.
Senses: examples: text: Had she been in the fore-house, and no passage to go through to get at the street door, she had certainly been gone.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCLXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: It consisted of a forehouse where he had a table, four chairs, a longsettle, a dresser, his pewter and 'other necessarys' which probably included the hearth furniture and cooking utensils; a parlour with chairs, a coffer and a spinning wheel; [...]
ref: 1978, Raymond Fieldhouse, Bernard Jennings, A history of Richmond and Swaledale - Page 247:
text: Central-lobby-entry houses overcame this hardship with a front door from which kitchen and forehouse could be entered independently, and by providing the kitchen with its own external rear door.
ref: 1987, Houses of the North York Moors - Page 80
text: Richard Eltringham of Auckland St Andrew, farmer, had a forehouse or hall with only one chair, one table, two cupboards, along with brass and [...]
ref: 1990, Joan Thirsk, M. W. Barley, Maurice Willmore Barley, Chapters of The Agrarian History of England and Wales - Page 70:
text: “[...] When you get up this way, pick it up, will you?” “Sure thing,” he replied. He looked at his watch, 1140 hours. He turned and started toward the forehouse, smiling to himself, rather surprised at the ease with which he had adapted to the maritime twenty-four-hour clock.
ref: 2009, Roger A. Naylor, The Cobra Conspiracy - Page 285:
glosses: The front or forward part or room of a house; a foyer.
Related terms: lobby
forehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forehouse
disappearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disappearingly
form: most disappearingly
Etymology: From disappearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The number was disappearingly small.
text: A disappearingly faint red oval appeared in front of him.
ref: 1993, David Poyer, The Circle: He Pledged To Serve With Duty And Honor. Instead He Fought ...:
glosses: In a disappearing fashion.
scheisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scheiss
form: Scheisse
form: Scheiße
form: scheiss
form: scheiße
form: shize
Etymology: Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.
Senses: examples: text: Your fathers beat the scheisse out of our fathers with their DDi.ch Va^.n and Da^n Va^.n.
ref: 1996 December 3, El Chino The Great, “Re: Viet Kieu Chong Cong can biet”, in soc.culture.vietnamese (Usenet):
text: Enjoying your walk in Polyglot Park? Watch out for the scheisse!
ref: 1997 February 3, Riffster, “Re: Djorkaeff's The Man”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
text: They would say that it is the return of the old Jim Crow laws or some scheisse (highly technical term) like that.
ref: 1997 December 16, Tommy Gehring, “Re: WI there's TRUE racial equality?”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):
text: What is all this double-spaced scheisse?
ref: 2015 May 12, Scott Lurndal, “Re: boolean string function to determine if the parentheses are balanced”, in comp.lang.c++ (Usenet):
glosses: Euphemistic form of shit.
scheisse
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Scheiss
form: Scheisse
form: Scheiße
form: scheiss
form: scheiße
form: shize
Etymology: Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, scheisse. Talk about some people with idle hands.
ref: 2003 January 30, Noelle, “Re: Idle hands: Baby naming poll”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
ref: 2003 December 12, Chris, “Holy scheisse”, in alt.music.dave-matthews (Usenet):
text: Oh, scheisse! And it turned up in the Guardian within the last fortnight, too, IIRC.
ref: 2004 July 2, Dr Ivan D. Reid, “Clue that raises a smile”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords (Usenet):
text: When will they play Chilliwack? Oh scheisse, when will they play Clamwater®?
ref: 2004 August 4, Gerry Armstrong, “Re: Moonchild - Parsons & Hubbard Off Off Broadway”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: Euphemistic form of shit.
medreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medrese
mutagenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mutagenize
neofascisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neofascism
nonaccess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + access.
Senses: examples: text: In suit for divorce on ground of adultery, testimony of husband as to nonaccess to wife, to his sexual relations with wife, and as to her admissions to him that he was not the father of second child, was inadmissible.
ref: 1967, Atlantic Reporter Digest:
glosses: Absence of access to somebody or something.
outglitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outglitter
outglittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outglitter
outglittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outglitter
pettled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pettle
pettles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pettle
pettling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pettle
the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
put the shoe on the other foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the shoe on the other foot
form: putting the shoe on the other foot
form: put the shoe on the other foot
form: put the shoe on the other foot
form: put the boot on the other foot
Senses: glosses: To reverse the roles or positions of two things.
respectability politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Attempts by marginalized groups to police their own members and show their social values as being compatible with mainstream values, rather than challenging the mainstream for its failure to accept difference.
Afro-textured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Afro- + textured.
Senses: glosses: Having a naturally dense texture, like that of certain populations in sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora, Melanesia, Tasmania, Southeast Asia and the Andaman Islands.
raw_tags: of hair
Related terms: fuzzy-headed
chorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Relating to a chorion
Synonyms: chorionic
Derived terms: amniochorial
dichorial
endotheliochorial
epitheliochorial
extrachorial
haemochorial
chashitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chashitsu
Etymology: From Japanese 茶室 (chashitsu, “tea room”).
Senses: glosses: An architectural space designed for Japanese tea ceremony gatherings, typically having shoji windows and sliding doors made of wooden lattice.
standard drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard drinks
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical beverage containing a fixed amount of pure alcohol (varying by jurisdiction), used to gauge alcohol consumption.
Related terms: unit of alcohol
standard drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard drink
unit of alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: units of alcohol
Senses: glosses: 10 millilitres of pure alcohol contained within a beverage.
units of alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit of alcohol
aliyos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aliya
glosses: plural of aliyah
axites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axite
lichenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichenizations
form: lichenisation
Etymology: From lichen + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process by which a fungus becomes a mycobiont of a lichen.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of lichenification.
synonyms: word: lichenification
Related terms: lichenize
relichenization
lichenisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichenisations
Etymology: From lichen + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: For some fungi, lichenisation remains a lifestyle choice; they can live as lichens or not depending on their circumstances.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 97:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lichenization.
neurodermitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neurodermatitis.
cheths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheth
morphosedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From morpho- + sedimentary.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Related to both morphology and sediment or sedimentation.
food halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food hall
food hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food halls
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: The part of a department store that sells food.
Related terms: food court
Bellocian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bellocian
form: most Bellocian
Etymology: From Belloc + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: There were, of course answers to the Bellocian contention.
ref: 1943, Christopher Hollis, “Mr. Belloc's Servile State and the Beveridge Plan”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review:
text: He then proceeded, in pseudo-Bellocian fashion, to divide Europe into the 'Gallo-Latin', the 'Anglo-Saxon' and the 'Austro-German' civilizations.
ref: 2002, Joseph Pearce, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, Ignatius Press:
glosses: Of or relating to Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Anglo-French writer and historian.
Bellocian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bellocians
Etymology: From Belloc + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: in contrast to the political and economic focus of the Bellocians, they were interested in theology and philosophy, and particularly in new voices on the continent, from France and Germany.
ref: 2009, James R. Lothian, The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910–1950:
synonyms: Bellocite
glosses: A follower of Hilaire Belloc's philosophy
fuck your mother
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fuck you, expression of dismay or discontent.
synonyms: word: fuck you
word: expression of dismay or discontent
unforthright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforthright
form: most unforthright
Etymology: From un- + forthright.
Senses: glosses: Not forthright.
lichenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichenization
driving away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drive away
geoclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + climatic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the effect of geological events (e.g. volcanos) upon climate
Related terms: geoclimate
geonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Etymology: From geo- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the physical properties of the earth, including geology and physical geography.
Derived terms: geonomic
adelphopoiia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of adelphopoiesis.
synonyms: word: adelphopoiesis
humanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From human + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide that has neuroprotective and cytoprotective properties.
Kiplingese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kipling + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Language characteristic of the writer Rudyard Kipling, characterized by realism, jingoism, etc.
Related terms: Kiplingesque
Kiplingian
Madden-Julian oscillation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Madden-Julian oscillation
Etymology: Discovered in 1971 by Roland Madden and Paul Julian of the American National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The largest element of the intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere: a large-scale coupling between atmospheric circulation and tropical deep convection, manifesting itself most clearly as anomalous rainfall.
Tubuai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tupua'i
Etymology: Possibly from Austral [Term?] or Tahitian [Term?], as those are the two native languages of peoples from the island.
Senses: glosses: The main island of the Tubuai Island group, Austral Islands, French Polynesia.
avoidance speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From avoidance + speech.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a special restricted speech style in certain languages used to refer to taboo subjects, or as a sign of respect in the presence of certain people, while doing certain activities, following a death, etc., distinguished by a specialized lexicon.
Synonyms: avoidance language
Marotiri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of uninhabited volcanic rocks with a total surface of 4 ha in the Bass Islands at the southeastern end of the Austral Islands of French Polynesia.
Synonyms: Bass Rocks
Sesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: A river in Piedmont, Italy.
microecosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microecosystems
Etymology: From micro- + ecosystem.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small ecosystem
Mendeleev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛndəlˈeɪəf/
Forms: form: Mendeleyev
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Менделе́ев (Mendeléjev).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Менделе́ев (Mendeléjev), usually applying to Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.
Derived terms: Mendeleevian
mendelevate
mendelevium
Mendeleyev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mendeleev.
qama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian قمه (qamma).
Senses: glosses: A Persian shortsword.
snackadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snackadiums
Etymology: Blend of snack + stadium
Senses: glosses: A party platter with various snack items arranged in the shape of a football stadium.
gorram
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A corruption of goddamn, attested since at least 1963. Popularized by the 2002 television series Firefly.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:gorram.
glosses: A minced oath for goddamn.
wikipedia: Firefly (TV series)
mesological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mesology.
mesoecosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoecosystems
Etymology: From meso- + ecosystem.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A medium-sized ecosystem
Spencerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spencer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Platt Rogers Spencer, US business school activist, or the style of handwriting he developed.
glosses: Of or relating to Herbert Spencer, British social and political theorist, or his ideas on social Darwinism.
Nikumaroro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati
Synonyms: sense: previous names
word: Gardner Island
word: Kemins' Island
word: Kemis Island
word: Motu Oonga
word: Motu Oona and Mary Letitia's Island
one-nation conservatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Refers to the fact that all classes are part of the same nation.
Senses: examples: text: All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. So does (with Thatcher as the exception that proves the rule) his eagerness – on full display in his remarks in Downing Street on Friday – to employ that emptiest of empty signifiers, “one-nation Conservatism”.
ref: [2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A pragmatic paternalistic form of conservatism, conscious of working-class issues.
Synonyms: one nation
one-nationism
Tory Democracy
Related terms: one-nation conservative
one-nation conservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-nation conservatives
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A follower of one-nation conservatism.
fuccboi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuccbois
Etymology: From fucc + boi.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of fuck boy.
my very educated mother just served us nachos
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of my very educated mother just served us noodles.
synonyms: word: my very educated mother just served us noodles
my very educated mother just served us noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From the initial letters of the names of the eight planets.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: my very educated mother just served us nachos
coordinate_terms: my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins
glosses: Used to remember the order and names of the eight planets of the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
reichtard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reichtards
form: Reichtard
Etymology: From Reich + -tard.
Senses: glosses: A racist and ignorant rightist.
pyelo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πύελος (púelos, “pelvis, wash basin”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Forms terms relating to the renal pelvis, such as pyelonephritis, pyelography, and others.
Derived terms: pyelectasis
pyelic
pyelocaliectasis
pyelocalyceal
pyelocutaneous
pyelocystitis
pyeloduodenal
pyelogram
pyelon
pyelopathy
pyelophlebitis
jorb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jorbs
Senses: examples: text: I uh, I say you did a great jorb out there.
ref: 2001 March 2, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “A Jorb Well Done”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Coach Z (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of job.
jäger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jägers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Jäger.
repudiatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repudiatingly
form: most repudiatingly
Etymology: From repudiating + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I fondled this thought sentimentally, and each time I still hoped for a possible succour I whispered repudiatingly: "You fool, you have already begun to die.".
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part II”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 133:
glosses: In a repudiating manner.
Related terms: repudiate
repudiating
strophiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophium
subligaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin subligaria.
Senses: glosses: An intricately folded cloth used as underwear by both men and women in Ancient Rome.
Related terms: subligaculum
dindu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dindus
Senses: examples: text: How much nothing can a dindu do / If a dindu dindu nothin'? / How much money could a dindu make / If a dindu did all the things that you wish to?
ref: 2015, Amala "Doja Cat" Dlamini, “Dindu Nuffin”:
glosses: Clipping of dindu nuffin.
dindu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of didn't do.
Hawaiian appliqué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian appliqués
form: Hawaiian applique
Senses: examples: text: Nancy is a quilting instructor and designer, specializing in miniature quilts and Hawaiian appliqué.
ref: 2002, Cindy Walter, Gail Baker Rowe, Basic Appliqué, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The symmetry of the appliqué is achieved using a variation of the fold-and-cut technique of traditional Hawaiian appliqué, although the shape is inspired by mid-century modern starburst mirrors.
ref: 2014, Alexandra Ledgerwood, Improvising Tradition, →ISBN, page 85:
text: The stitch used in Hawaiian appliqué was simply a hemming stitch, Midori explained.
ref: 2011, Jennifer Chiaverini, The Aloha Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: A style of appliqué characterized by large-scale designs with symmetry generated by folding the fabric into eighths when cutting.
examples: text: A roundrobin challenge allowed me to use this Hawaiian appliqué as a centerpiece.
ref: 2011, Sheila Sinclair Snyder, Perfect-Fit Pieced Borders, →ISBN:
glosses: A piece of handiwork constructed using Hawaiian appliqué.
Hawaiian appliqués
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawaiian appliqué
Hawaiian applique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawaiian appliques
Senses: examples: text: The Hawaiian applique design is made by folding a piece of fabric into eighths.
ref: 1993, Ann Boyce, Applique the Ann Boyce Way, →ISBN, page 134:
text: The Hawaiian applique style was established during the second missionary generation (c. 1840-1860) (Hammond 1986b:278; Schleck 1987, pers. comm.).
ref: 2006, Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, page 29:
text: Unlike most Hawaiian appliques, this quilt, which represents Ka'iulani's hair combs, is plainly quilted by machine in a grid pattern rather than with hand-done contour quilting that echoes the outlines of the applique.
ref: 2009, Robert Shaw, American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007, →ISBN, page 181:
text: Each quilter was assigned a quilt technique, such as Log Cabin style, Hawaiian applique, paper piecing, and so on.
ref: 2010, Annie Smith, The Ultimate Applique Guidebook, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Hawaiian appliqué.
Hawaiian appliques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawaiian applique
pale face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale faces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleface.
pectocellulosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pectocellulose + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of pectocellulose
pectocellulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectocelluloses
Etymology: From pectin + -o- + cellulose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of cellulose once thought to be a component of pectin.
Derived terms: pectocellulosic
Enza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Enza, from Latin Incia.
Senses: glosses: A river in Emilia-Romagna.
Panaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panaros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Panaro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Misa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Misas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Morane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The uninhabited, southernmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia.
Synonyms: Barstow's Island
Cadmus
Aso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 麻生 (Asō).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
unicoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + coloured.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unicolored.
knifecrime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knifecrimes
Etymology: From knife + crime.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knife crime.
knifecrime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knifecrimes
form: knifecriming
form: knifecrimed
form: knifecrimed
Etymology: From knife + crime.
Senses: examples: text: Is it just my imagine, or has teh yoof on the left of the top bit just knifecrimed someone?
ref: 2008 August 8, Dave Larrington, “Buck Uni spelling”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
text: Is this not just another example of racist stereotyping - the little gollies are basically criminals, probably going around doing lots of knifecriming.
ref: 2009 February 5, Will, “Summary apology from a celebrity”, in alt.usage.English (Usenet):
text: Jack: "Oi, don't you talk to my fuckin' bird like that you paedophile bastard or I'll fuckin' knifecrime you."
ref: 2009 July 11, alt-f4, “Mansfield Cathokic Comprehensive”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
synonyms: word: ching
word: shiv
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To stab
crapmeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapmeisters
Etymology: From crap + -meister.
Senses: glosses: A person who is worthless or who says nothing of value.
on TV
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Broadcast through the medium of television.
Related terms: on air
on camera
editio princeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˌdɪʃɪoʊ ˈprɪnsɛps/
Forms: form: editiones principes
Etymology: From New Latin ēditiō prīnceps (“first edition”), 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: A caller interrupted me yesterday, a most persistent fellow and a dangerous one to the purse of the tyro collector of Americana, though not to me. He was a man of some pretence to classic education, and superficially versed in lore of title, date, and editio princeps.
ref: 1903, Mabel Osgood Wright, People of the Whirlpool:
text: The extract from the Missal of Constance, which was printed before the editio princeps […] does not contain the formulae for Advent, Sundays after Epiphany, Lent and the Sundays after Easter and Pentecost; […]
ref: 2004, Thomas Fisch, editor, Primary Readings on the Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 34:
text: If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.
ref: 2007, Terence Bailey, Alma Colk Santosuosso, editors, Music in Medieval Europe […] , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 199:
topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: humanities
glosses: The first printed edition of a work previously only published in manuscript form.
Related terms: word: incunabulum
english: first translation
translation: first translation
word: translatio princeps
editiones principes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of editio princeps
vitellines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitelline
Edison bulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Edison bulbs
Etymology: From Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, due to the appearance of the light bulb, filament, and light produced, mimicking the appearance of bulbs produced during Edison's era.
Senses: glosses: a type of lightbulb that mimics the appearance of bulbs and filaments and light produced by early light bulbs of Edison General Electric during the introductory period of electric lighting
glosses: the light bulbs produced by Thomas Edison and companies from the early era of electric lighting
Synonyms: Edison light bulb
Edison light-bulb
Edison lightbulb
Coordinate terms: Victorian bulb
Victorian light bulb
Victorian light-bulb
Victorian lightbulb
fleest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: flee + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of flee
Magrittian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Magrittian
form: most Magrittian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Magrittean.
w33d
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weed (marijuana)
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of weed (“marijuana”).
box coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box coats
Senses: glosses: A heavy overcoat worn by coachmen riding on the box seat.
box coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box coat
Liri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Liri.
Senses: glosses: A river in central Italy that rises in the Monti Simbruini and joins the Gari to form the Garigliano.
Guion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guions
Etymology: From French Guion.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Guy
Guyon
Paglia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Pallia.
Senses: glosses: A river in Tuscany
Derived terms: Paglian
leggiadrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leggiadrous
form: most leggiadrous
Etymology: From Italian leggiadro.
Senses: glosses: graceful, elegant
Cornia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cornias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Cornia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
gravity wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravity waves
Senses: glosses: A wave for which gravity is the restoring force.
glosses: A gravitational wave.
Edison bulbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Edison bulb
anamniotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anamniote
Vara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Vara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Alcantara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alcantaras
form: Alcántara
Etymology: Spanish Alcántara
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Spain
glosses: A surname from Spanish
Related terms: Alcántar
Alcantar
Chinese edible frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese edible frog
Murathee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Marathi.
Murathee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Murathee
form: most Murathee
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Marathi.
chickens of the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken of the woods
Punekars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punekar
Burmese rosewoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burmese rosewood
cryptocliduses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptoclidus
crucian carps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crucian carp
Naro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Naro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
morphothion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morpho(line) + -thion.
Senses: glosses: The insecticide O,O-dimethyl S-morpholinocarbonylmethyl phosphorodithioate
swivvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivvets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swivet.
swivvets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swivvet
Abreu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abreus
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Abreu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Derived terms: abreugraphy
Alves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1362).
glosses: A surname.
oophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting oophagy
Kevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish, variant of Kevin.
glosses: A surname.
bamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bama
chaoushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaoush
Two-Buck Chuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Charles Shaw wine, a brand of inexpensive wine.
set the world afire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the world afire
form: setting the world afire
form: set the world afire
form: set the world afire
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of set the world on fire.
musicographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicographers
Etymology: From musicography + -er. Late 19th century. Earliest use found in The Leeds Mercury.
Senses: glosses: A writer on musical subjects.
Related terms: musicographic
musicographical
musicography
musicographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musicographer
Soph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I’m Soph, not Sophie. When I order a coffee from Starbucks and I tell them my name is Soph, they reply with ‘Is that Sophie?’ When I sign off an email ‘Best Wishes, Soph’ and the reply is ‘Thanks for your email, Sophie’ – I don’t recall saying Sophie, so STOP. It’s Soph. Just Soph. Obviously if you want to get into the nitty gritty of it, my passport says Sophie, and my mum calls me Sophie when I’m in trouble, but unless you’re my passport or my mum, Soph will do! I find it’s more approachable and friendly and makes me feel good.
ref: 2023 April 6, Soph Galustian, “Introduction”, in No Worries If Not: A Funny(ish) Story of Growing Up Working Class and Queer, London: Radar, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Sophie or Sophia.
grasshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grasshops
Etymology: From Middle English grashoppe, grashope, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). More at grasshopper.
Senses: examples: text: But by the scorched bank-sides i' thy footsteps still I go plodding: Hedge-rows hot do resound with grasshops mournfully squeaking.
ref: 1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the literature of Europe, Volume 2:
text: I don't want grasshops tew giv [sic] entirely out, not if they are a blessing, but i hav thought (to myself) if they would let the grass and cornstalks be, and pitch onto the burdoks and Canada thissells, i would bet a few dollars on the thissells, jist tew encourage the fight, and wouldn't care a cuss if they both got finally licked.
ref: 1868, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings on Ice and Other Things:
text: The margin was illumined all with golden rails And bees, enpictured with grasshops and wasps, With butterflies and fresh peacock tails, Engloried with flowers and slimy snails; [...]
ref: 1930, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania - Volume 2 - Page 58:
text: [...] between a gulp and a vomit, when they're looking at you like you're the dumb one so you can't keep on staring at them. Maybe she ate grasshops. Maybe somebody put out food. I put out food.
ref: 1995, G. Lish, The Quarterly - Volumes 29-30 - Page 18:
glosses: A grasshopper.
grasshop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasshops
form: grasshopping
form: grasshopped
form: grasshopped
Etymology: Back-formation from grasshopper.
Senses: examples: text: It grasshops over the grass and bounds skyward. A matron crams a fresh stick of gum into her mouth and chews her words up with it.
ref: 1935, Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair - Volume 43, Issue 6 - Page 35:
text: He had to grasshop her, using long poles cabled to a donkey-engine capstan. Slowly, laboriously the ship inched backward, her fireboxes glowing orange-red, the crack of blocks and the booming slam of her engines shattering the night.
ref: 2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike:
glosses: To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper.
grasshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grasshop
grasshops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grasshop
reference library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference libraries
Senses: examples: text: The amenities of the institute include a well-arranged open-access library of 18,000 volumes, and a small but valuable reference library of railway literature; the present writer is Librarian.
ref: 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
synonyms: reading room
glosses: A library that exclusively collects reference books (which may not be lent out to the general public).
reference libraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reference library
economic migrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economic migrant
economic emigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic emigrants
Senses: glosses: An economic migrant.
economic immigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economic immigrants
Etymology: From economic + immigrant.
Senses: glosses: An economic migrant.
economic emigrants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of economic emigrant