nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: this year Part of Speech: adv 1. The current year. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Word: cactussed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of cactused. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chartable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chart + -able. 1. Capable of being plotted on a chart.
Word: graphable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From graph + -able. 1. Capable of being plotted on a graph.
Word: polyfills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polyfill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polyfills Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of polyfill Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: scrumtrulescent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: A word coined by Saturday Night Live comedian Will Ferrell when doing an impression of The Actors Studio host James Lipton, in order to describe the performance of actor Charles Nelson Reilly on the Match Game. Perhaps influenced by scrumptious and -escent. 1. Transcendent and fantastic beyond description. Labels: US, rare, slang Example: We don't like to get political with our cakes; we just get scrumtrulescent. Example: When we were finished, Tschick pushed his empty bowl away with both hands and, in the woman's direction, said that it had been a scrumtrulescent meal.
Word: pickguards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pickguard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scratchplates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scratchplate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Pangaean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Pangaea + -an. 1. Of or relating to Pangaea.
Word: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, endemic to South America. Example: Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (C. didactylus) is found east of the Andes Mountains in northern South America.
Word: Guale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain, has been connected to Creek wvhvlv (/⁠wahála⁠/, “south”). 1. A member of a historic Native American tribe of the North American Sea Islands.
Word: Guale Part of Speech: name Etymology: Uncertain, has been connected to Creek wvhvlv (/⁠wahála⁠/, “south”). 1. The language of this tribe.
Word: socio-historical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of sociohistorical. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Eldar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda. 1. An elf, one of a particular group of elves, or an elflike creature. 2. An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.
Word: flashjack Part of Speech: noun 1. The bridled nailtail wallaby. Labels: Australia, informal
Word: laptop hobo Part of Speech: noun 1. A heavy user of freely available Wi-Fi and/or power outlets at coffee shops. Labels: informal Example: Real laptop hobos you'll find in the windows of coffee shops up the street that offer free WiFi and unprotected electrical outlets. Example: Starbucks started the war on laptop hobos (you know who you are, essay/screenplay/blog writers) who camp for the free Wi-Fi, nurse a single coffee for hours and take up valuable real estate.
Word: argaman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְגָּמָן (argaman, “purple, crimson”), from Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “red-purple”). Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ɡəmən/ 1. A particular purple dye or color. Labels: historical, uncountable Example: This purple light of Venus-Sophia-Lucifer was symbolized with purple colour. And this is where argaman purple was needed exclusively: as most crucial part of anointment oil mixture. 2. An Israeli wine grape. Labels: uncountable
Word: artical Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of article. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: articals Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of articles, plural of artical. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: wardoms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wardom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cactused Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cactus + -ed. Australian colloquialism may have originated as a result of the Australian prickly pear plague in the early 20th century, which overran farmland, making it unusable. 1. Featuring a cactus or cacti. Example: I could not imagine Cadwallader Davies the grocer, in his near-to-waking dream, riding on horseback, two-gunned and Cody-bold, through the cactused prairies. Example: On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards. 2. Broken; ruined; no longer working, more recently especially related to a technical system. Labels: Australia, slang Example: My computer is cactused. Example: His high spirits descended temporarily. 'It took me thirty minutes to get her going again. The lift pump is cactused.' 3. In trouble, screwed. Labels: Australia, slang Example: 'Mini — and that's managed by the Germans, by BMW. I tell you, Walshie, a lot of car makers around the world are cactussed. We're not Robinson Crusoe. But if times are tough now, what'll they be like when the Chinese arrive? If the UK's down to one profitable car maker. D'you think we can possibly hold on to four?' Example: Good thing somebody figured out the radio, otherwise you all would have been cactused, in a remote location like that, mate.
Word: speak truth to power Part of Speech: verb 1. To address facts to an authority or a superior, especially in the face of risk to oneself. Example: He was tired of corporate politics and craved a setting where people spoke truth to power, but, he said, it took him a while to get used to dealing with Dalio. Example: “Once, we needed to have a pope who would speak in favour of human rights in Russia and China,” said Massimo Faggioli […]. “You now need someone who can speak truth to American power.”
Word: vanillafy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From vanilla + -fy. 1. To make generic, tame, or anodyne. Labels: informal, transitive Example: In Carver's words, the interior had been "vanillafied" into a colorless muddle that, while perhaps fitting for a modern pharmacy, was not the right kind of environment for a store that emphasized beauty and sensuality. Example: They WILL be exposed to different cultures, unless specific measures are taken to vanillafy their experiences.
Word: vanillafies Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of vanillafy Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: vanillafying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of vanillafy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vanillafied Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vanilla + -fy + -ed. 1. Generic, safe, or anodyne. Labels: informal Example: Well, look no further. "The First Wives Club," which opens Friday, is the latest and arguably the slickest chick flick to reduce its adult male characters to inconsequential quivery-lipped milksops. It's not so much male-bashing as all-out male-demolition, a happy-faced Hollywood excuse to trot out one vanillafied stereotype after another. Men are stupid! Men are venal! Men are libidinous reptiles! Example: Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.
Word: vanillafied Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From vanilla + -fy + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of vanillafy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: anticlinal vertebra Part of Speech: noun 1. The vertebra in a vertebral column which has a spinous process (spine) towards which the spines of all the other vertebrae are inclined; the vertebra at which the spine orientation changes.
Word: Sadakhlo Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian სადახლო (sadaxlo), from დახლი (daxli, “counter”). 1. A village in Georgia, near the border of Armenia.
Word: Kadesh Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Semitic q-d-š (“holy”), thus being "the holy city" in reference to the followers of Qetesh. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪˌdɛʃ/ 1. An ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes river. 2. Alternative spelling of Qetesh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Cardinal Virtues Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cardinal virtues. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: unfat Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fat. 1. Not fat. Example: Mainly, unfat people believe that there is no real problem here — only a lack of basic self-control and personal pride. The great myth about overeaters is, "They could lose weight if they really wanted to." Example: Unfat people tend to blame us for our burden—even though it's our burden, not theirs. Not only do many people disapprove of us for being fat; they feel perfectly free to show it.
Word: ignorantia juris non excusat Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ignōrantia factī excūsat, ignōrantia jūris nōn excūsat (“ignorance of fact excuses, ignorance of law does not excuse”). 1. Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse. Example: […] it is an offence against the duty of his place, and a forfeiture of his office; though I do believe Dr. Bury did not intend upon this to affront the bishop, but ignorantia juris non excusat; if the law be so, we cannot alter it. Example: Dr Killen noted that while ignorantia juris non excusat (ignorance of the low is no excuse) may apply the advice showed that his father, the late Mr G. L. Killen, who was chairman and managing director of Marra at the time, was entitled to believe he was acting lawfully and properly.
Word: Rusian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian. 1. related to the Rus (people) Labels: not-comparable 2. from or related to the medieval state of Kievan Rus Labels: not-comparable Example: And finally, in keeping with the argument e silentio, one would be forced to conclude that the entire branch P of the Paterik Skitskij is of Rusian origin, i.e. that its chapters A–1 and B–G were added in Rusian translation to the body of chapters 2–22 and H–J transmitted in South Slavic manuscripts, so that the syntax, lexicon and morphology of the Story of the Merciful Nestor should be evaluated as Rusian.
Word: Rusian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian. 1. Old East Slavic.
Word: Mahnmal Part of Speech: noun 1. a Mahnmal Example: A Mahnmal seeks to transmit the more forceful urgency of a warning, an admonition or an exhortation. […] Though Mahnmals are most often associated with the sites of former concentration camps and other Holocaust memorials, they also may bear an antiwar message, […]
Word: Mahnmals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Mahnmal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: abastardise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of abastardize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: abastardised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of abastardise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: academise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of academize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: academises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of academise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: academising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of academise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: academised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of academise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: accustomise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of accustomize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: accustomized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accustomize Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: accustomizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accustomize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accustomizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accustomize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accustomising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of accustomise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: accustomises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of accustomise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: accustomised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of accustomise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: acetalise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From acetal + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acetalize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: acetise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acetize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: acetalized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acetalize Labels: US, form-of, participle, past
Word: acetised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acetise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: acetalised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acetalise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: adnominalise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adnominalize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: adnominalised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of adnominalise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: FIRE Part of Speech: noun 1. Acronym of financial independence and retire early. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable 2. Acronym of finance, insurance and real estate, a class of businesses. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable Example: As Figure 2.1 demonstrates, total income acquired by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector has been increasing since the early 1980s. While in the 1952–1980 period, the share of national income that went to the FIRE sector hovered between 12 and 14 percent, by the 2000s it had approached 20 percent.
Word: FIRE Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the aim of protecting free speech rights on college campuses in the United States. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Example: “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement.
Word: pilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pill + -y. In some cases, pill is a clipping of a longer word. 1. Covered in pills (particles created by mechanical wear). Example: After many washings, my favorite sweater is faded and pilly. Example: I gave the superintendent a deposit and I got a room on the third floor with a bed that had sheets and a pilly blanket and a pillow so flat you had to fold it over to rest your head on it. 2. Characterized by or involving many pills. Example: Paiuline Eichstadt spent a week at home womewhat indisposed with Eddie as doctor and nursemaid. A pilly and puny vacation he spent.
Word: pilly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pill + -y. In some cases, pill is a clipping of a longer word. 1. Pill. Labels: informal Example: Billy Willy is a dilly, He took a pilly And turned silly Example: Let's tak a little pilly here...I, I need it. 2. A pillhead. Labels: informal 3. The lilly-pilly. Labels: informal Example: Withdrawing the smaller blade from his belt, Speezer rolled a pilly pod from the tray and sliced it open With his sharp knife. 4. Pilchard. Labels: informal Example: When buying pillies look for IQF fish. Example: I prefer to have a range of thee different sizes and colours in squid jigs, but you could also try using squid fish spikes and put a pilly on it. 5. One who rides pillion. Labels: informal Example: I attended quite a few other social-group events, made new friends, registered with other motorcycle groups as a pillion, and got out on a few rides. I was really enjoying the riding but sometimes felt frustrated if nobody was available to take a 'pilly' out.
Word: pilly Part of Speech: noun 1. pillow Labels: Scotland Example: Kattie! There's another coming. Another mattress and a pilly. Where can we put him? Example: She will have to dig a mattress and a pilly from the stair-well.
Word: acronymise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From acronym + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acronymize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: acronymised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acronymise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: acronymises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of acronymise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: acronymising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of acronymise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: adjectivise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From adjective + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adjectivize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: adjectivised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of adjectivise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: adjectivising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of adjectivise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: adjectivises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of adjectivise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Slavia Orthodoxa Part of Speech: name 1. Slavic countries that are predominantly under Eastern Orthodox Church and use Cyrillic script
Word: Slavia orthodoxa Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Slavia Orthodoxa. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Slavia Romana Part of Speech: name 1. Slavic countries that are predominantly under Catholic Church and use Roman script
Word: Slavia Latina Part of Speech: name 1. Slavic countries that are predominantly under Catholic Church and use Roman script
Word: Slavia romana Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Slavia Romana. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Slavia latina Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Slavia Latina. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Machi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Italian Machi or Machì, a surname of unexplained origin. * Borrowed from Japanese 真地 (Machi), an uncommon surname in Japan. 1. A surname.
Word: real axes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of real axis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imaginary axes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imaginary axis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coordinate axis Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the lines in the coordinate system that represents one of the dimensions.
Word: coordinate axes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coordinate axis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: co-ordinate axes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of co-ordinate axis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: co-ordinate axis Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of coordinate axis. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Cappadocian Greek Part of Speech: noun 1. a language formerly spoken in Cappadocia by Cappadocian Greeks Labels: uncountable
Word: chronolect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chrono- (“time”) + -lect (“[language] variety”). Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒnəʊlɛkt/ 1. A specific variety of a language at a given time in its history of development. Example: Koine and Byzantine are chronolects of Greek. Example: Taking lect in the sense of ‘variety’ (and not ‘social variety’), I have coined spatiolect ‘spatial variety’, chronolect ‘chronological variety’, communolect ‘variety of a community (however defined)’, ecolect ‘variety of an economic class’, ethnolect ‘variety of an ethnic group’, religiolect ‘variety of a religious group’, sexlect ‘variety of one of the sexes or of people with a certain sexual orientation’, urbolect ‘urban variety’, and rurolect ‘rural variety’.
Word: pillier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of pilly: more pilly Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: pilliest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of pilly: most pilly Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: boxing in Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of box in Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: boxes in Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of box in Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: becrawl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl. 1. To crawl about; crawl all over. Labels: ambitransitive Example: "Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away. Example: Nor becrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.
Word: acidise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From acid + -ise. 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of acidize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: acidised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of acidise Labels: UK, form-of, participle, past
Word: adrenalectomise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adrenalectomize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: adrenalectomised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of adrenalectomise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: first-timer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From first time + -er. 1. a person engaging in any activity for the first time
Word: gun line Part of Speech: noun 1. the tactical firing position of artillery or naval guns Example: The guidon-bearer was placed by the battery commander to mark the right of the gun line, with the gun platoon aligned to his left. Example: As soon as Lee reaches the Command Post, Matthew directs him forward to the gun line where the crews are preparing the Light Guns.
Word: laptop hobos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laptop hobo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neosuchian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Neosuchia + -an 1. A member of the clade Neosuchia of crocodilian and related reptiles.
Word: Waganda Part of Speech: noun 1. The Ganda people of Uganda. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: kidfic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kid + fic. 1. A fanfic which focuses on a character, and possibly their partner(s), raising a child or children. Labels: countable, slang Example: It's just yet another idea for a kidfic I had. I hope you don't mind it. Example: I’ve had this idea for a long time and Cathey said to write a kidfic so this is what happened. 2. Such fan fiction collectively. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Ok, so we'll never get this scenario on the show, but I thought it would be interesting to try something other than Requiem babyfic and more along the lines of "kidfic." I found myself wondering what Mulder and Scully's son might be like and how Scully would handle the awesome responsibility of raising him alone. Example: I knew EXACTLY why you were asking such a stupid ass question. Only someone writing/reading kidfic would even care. Next time, try asking on the fic list. 3. Children's literature. Labels: uncountable Example: I also have three shelves of paperback children's fiction in the bedroom, some Madeliene L'Engle kidfic and an entire shelf of American Girls books (plus History Mysteries) in the spare room. Example: What got and still gets me is the incessant message you still find in a lot of kidfic, namely "Don't tell your parents about anything wierd^([sic]) because they won't believe you and it'll only get you into trouble with them."
Word: kidfics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kidfic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Slavisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Slavism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aerobicise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From aerobic + -ise. 1. Alternative spelling of aerobicize. Labels: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncommon
Word: aerobicised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of aerobicise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: aerobicising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of aerobicise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: adulterise Part of Speech: verb 1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adulterize. Labels: UK, alt-of, nonstandard
Word: babyfic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baby + fic. 1. A fanfic which focuses on one or more characters welcoming and/or caring for a baby. Labels: countable, slang Example: I wrote a true "babyfic", but I’m a sap at heart and this probably shows my true sappiness. :-) Example: Hoo boy... who ever thought I would write a babyfic either? CC made me do it! 2. Such fan fiction collectively. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: This is babyfic with a realistic drooly biting babbler in the starring role. Example: Yep, we're headed for an onslaught of sappy babyfic. Hang onto your hats, girls and boys! <g>
Word: babyfics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of babyfic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lubber line Part of Speech: noun 1. A fixed line on a compass corresponding to the direction of movement.
Word: estruate Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of oestruate. Labels: US, alt-of, alternative
Word: representative fraction Part of Speech: noun 1. The scale of a map expressed as a fraction. For example, 1/63,360 or 1:63,360 indicates a scale of one inch to the mile.
Word: noromo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a shortening of no romance. 1. A person who opposes the idea of a romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Example: Being a hard-core "noromo" (parlance for "no romancer," someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, "Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state budget office?" Example: There had always been a separation between the noromos and the shippers, but at the start of the eighth season, another significant division was born.
Word: noromos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noromo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: NoRomo Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of noromo. Labels: alt-of Example: The former, called "Shippers" (i.e. those who seek a love relationship depicted), are opposed by "NoRomos," who do not want romance to take over the series. Example: Viewers also spent years trying to decipher whether there was a romantic attraction between the duo. Among the growing number of internet fan bases devoted to the relationship, subgroups of "relationshippers" and "NoRomos" emerged.
Word: NoRomos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of NoRomo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: propenultimate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + penultimate. 1. Synonym of antepenultimate: two places before last. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: “Halnaker is the family name?” “Yes. Spelt H-a-l-n-a-k-e-r and pronounced Hannaker, with the accent on the Hann—the pro-penultimate, as we were taught to call it at school. The propenultimate, if you please. What unmitigated nonsense! Why not the last-but-two?” Example: In Latin polysyllabic words are stressed on the penultimate syllable if this is long; otherwise on the propenultimate syllable, provided that there is one.
Word: ecofact Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of eco- + artifact. 1. A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation. Example: The fact that two periods of occupation are in evidence, both having similar ecofact and material remains, suggests that the occupation and the behavior carried on there are part of an established cycle of seasonally based behavior. Example: Ecofact is a term archaeologists invented to classify natural objects used by humans without modification. Animal bones left for dinner or pollen from gathered plants are ecofacts. … Even phosphates or other chemicals in the soil are ecofacts showing that people threw their organic waste on the ground.
Word: ecofacts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ecofact Labels: form-of, plural
Word: MUSD Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of million United States dollars. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
Word: wringle-wrangle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wrangle by ablaut reduplication. 1. A verbal argument. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: ‘I can propose it,’ van Rijn said carefully. ‘After a month's wringle-wrangle, I get voted no. They won't believe either, SI would do something so bad like that, for some sternly commercial reason.’ Example: A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment. The combination ITS troglodyte was flung around some during the Usenet and email wringle-wrangle attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with pride.
Word: wringle-wrangle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From wrangle by ablaut reduplication. 1. To argue. Labels: slang Example: You know the foolishness of fighting; here is a haven of rest; and you must needs go back to wringle wrangle among the literary men of London.
Word: snuff-and-butter Part of Speech: noun 1. An individual of mixed racial heritage. Labels: dated, derogatory, ethnic, slur Example: Your sweetheart fell in love with you in the Port of London, and presently afterwards with another pretty woman in the Port of Calcutta, which is generally the way with poor Tom Bowling. She was a snuff-and-butter, because at Calcutta they are as plenty as blackberries; and when young, snuff-and-butter is not to be despised, having bright eyes; […] Example: In the event of the beasts failing us, we took also ten of the best of those Strathmuir men who had accompanied us on the sea-cow trip, to serve as bearers when it became necessary. It cannot be said that these snuff-and-butter fellows—for most, if not all of them had some dash of white blood in their veins—were exactly willing volunteers. Indeed, if a choice had been left to them, they would, I think, have declined this adventure.
Word: quagmirical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quagmire + -ical. 1. Having the characteristics of a quagmire
Word: indentedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From indented + -ness. 1. the state or property of being indented Labels: uncountable
Word: yaller dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog (“a worthless item”). Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling 2. Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog (“a Carolina dog”). Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: yallar dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Pronunciation spelling of yellow dog. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: yaller dogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yaller dog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Carolina dog Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After the Carolinas, where the dogs were first discovered or rediscovered in the modern era. 1. A type of dog, thought to have reached the North American continent before Europeans (and European dogs), which has a fawn, black, white, or piebald coat and which naturally roams the cypress swamps of the Carolinas, but may be domesticated.
Word: Carolina dogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Carolina dog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yellow dog Democrat Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Yellow Dog Democrat. Labels: alt-of
Word: yellow dog Democrats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yellow dog Democrat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cold sweat Part of Speech: noun 1. Perspiration which feels chilly to the person perspiring, and which indicates debilitating illness, shock, or the experiencing of an intense emotion such as despair, anxiety, or, especially, fear. Example: . . . And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Ne rot, ne reek did they; The look with which they look'd on me, Had never pass'd away. Example: He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. A mist came before his eyes; the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face.
Word: Yellow Dog Democrat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the claim that such Democrats would sooner vote for a yellow dog, if it ran on the Democratic ticket, than a Republican. 1. A Democrat, especially a Southern one, who votes a straight party ticket; one who invariably votes for Democratic candidates. Labels: US, dated
Word: Yellow Dog Democrats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Yellow Dog Democrat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: walimu Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mwalimu Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beed Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of was. Labels: dialectal, informal 2. Synonym of were. Labels: dialectal, informal
Word: Palenque Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Spanish Palenque, from palenque (“palisade”). 1. Any of several towns in Latin America; most famously, a Maya site in Chiapas, Mexico.
Word: Yellow Dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of yellow dog, chiefly used when the word has the sense "Carolina dog" or the sense "Yellow Dog Democrat". Labels: alt-of
Word: Yellow Dogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Yellow Dog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jianzhi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 剪紙 /剪纸 (jiǎnzhǐ), from 剪 (jiǎn, “to cut with scissors”) + 紙 /纸 (zhǐ, “paper”). Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiænˈd͡ʒiː/ 1. Chinese traditional paper cutting. Labels: uncountable
Word: Broken Glass Republican Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the claim that such Republicans would crawl through broken glass in order to vote Republican. 1. A Republican who invariably votes for Republican candidates. Labels: US, uncommon
Word: yellow dog contracts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of yellow dog contract Labels: form-of, plural
Word: NMC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of nickel-manganese-cobalt, a type of lithium cell chemistry. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: terribad Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of terrible + bad. Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəˌbæd/ 1. Extremely bad. Labels: slang Example: You simply should not only put in the re-raise with only a straight. That is terribad poker. Example: Are you tired of waiting hours just to get a terribad group, doing less deeps than a lvl 69 in greens?
Word: cold cash Part of Speech: noun 1. Money, regarded as an incentive that can override any doubts or ethical concerns. Labels: idiomatic, uncountable 2. Ready money. Labels: uncountable Example: "Promises, especially from Joe Larkin, will go a long way, though they don't rouse the white hot enthusiasm that cold cash in the pocket does." Example: "I wouldn't cross that rock wall for a hundred thousand dollars in cold cash." 3. Specie (as contrasted with paper money). Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: withstrained Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of withstrain Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: withstraining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of withstrain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: vertical interval Part of Speech: noun 1. The vertical distance on the ground which separates adjacent contour lines on a map.
Word: KDs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of KD Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wudn't Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /wʊdnt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of wouldn't, contraction of would not. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
Word: wudn't Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /wədnt/, /wʌdnt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of wasn't, contraction of was not. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Example: He wudn't about to leave.
Word: dead ground Part of Speech: noun 1. an area of ground hidden from an observer due to undulations in the land Labels: uncountable 2. the portion of a vein in which there is no ore Labels: uncountable
Word: climbing gouramis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of climbing gourami Labels: form-of, plural
Word: climbing gourami Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From climbing + gourami. 1. Any fish of the taxonomic family Anabantidae. Example: Ananantidae. This family, known as the climbing gouramis, contains three genera, Anabas (1 species), Cteropoma (at least 25 species) and Sandelia (2). Example: The anabantids, or climbing gouramis (Channa), are adapted to freshwater wetlands.
Word: labyrinth organs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of labyrinth organ Labels: form-of, plural
Word: labyrinth organ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From labyrinth + organ. 1. An organ common to fish of the suborder Anabantoidei that enables them to breathe air. Example: The labyrinth organ may work a bit like a lung, but it is an entirely different solution to the problem of how to remove oxygen from air.[…]The labyrinth organ is an effective adaptation to low-oxygen habitats. Example: The labyrinth organ fills most of the opercular cavity and is positioned behind and above the gill chamber and extends into the suprabranchial space; hence the name suprabranchial organ.
Word: labyrinth fishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of labyrinth fish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: labyrinth fish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From labyrinth + fish; see also labyrinth organ. 1. Any fish that has a labyrinth organ, a fish of the suborder Anabantoidei, an anabantoid. Example: Labyrinth fish have another peculiarity, in that all the internal organs are compressed into the front part of the body, so that the rear of the body contains only the spine and muscles.[…]Labyrinth fish are nearly all predatory, and many are unsuitable for the community tank. Example: Labyrinth fish belong to different but related families of fish; they live in southwestern Africa and throughout much of southern and eastern Asia.
Word: climbing gouramies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of climbing gourami Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gouramies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gourami Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brakeforce Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brake + force. Pronunciation: [bɹeɪkfɔː(ɹ)s] 1. The force applied to a vehicle's brakes. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: brakeforces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brakeforce Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anabantoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of anabantoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anabantoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the suborder name Anabantoidei. 1. A fish of the suborder Anabantoidei, a labyrinth fish. Example: The anabantoids are called ”labyrinth fishes” because every species in the entire suborder possesses paired suprabranchial chambers that function for air breathing (Das, 1927; Bader, 1937; Peters, 1978)[…]Early discussions of the form and possible function of the anabantoid labyrinth organ are contained in Peters (1846, 1853), Zograff (1886, 1888), and Henninger (1907). Example: The blue, pearl, kissing, and dwarf gouramies are well-known anabantoids. Less familiar anabantoids are the climbing perches and bushfish.[…]Anabantoids are commonly known as labyrinth fishes, referring to a specialized bone above the gill chamber. This structure starts out small in baby anabantoids, where it is called the epibranchial bone.
Word: gungho Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of gung ho. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sausos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sauso Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sauso Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From saus(age) + -o. 1. A sausage. Labels: Australia, slang Example: No one notices as I stick the newly created sausos into my pocket. Example: Heap in the sausos and the rashers and boil the living shit out of them.
Word: sauso Part of Speech: noun 1. A South American shrub known for forming thick hedges along river banks. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The large quadrupeds of those regions, the tigers, tapirs, and pecaris, have made openings in the hedge of sausos which we have just described. Example: When they are disturbed by a passing Indian canoe, and are about to retreat into the forest, they do not attempt to rush violently through these hedges of sauso, but proceed deliberately along the bank, between the hedge and the river, affording the traveller the gratification of watching their motions for sometimes four or five hundred paces, until they disappear at the nearest opening.
Word: caji Part of Speech: noun 1. A fish, the schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus).
Word: idn't Part of Speech: contraction Pronunciation: /ɪdnt/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of isn't, contraction of is not. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Example: It idn't over here.
Word: Red Army Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Russian Красная а́рмия (Krasnaja ármija). The red was the traditional color of the communist movement which was the official ideology of the Soviets at the period. 1. Name of the Soviet army in the period 1918–1946. Labels: historical 2. The Soviet Armed Forces, including those of 1947–1991. Labels: historical, informal 3. The Chinese Red Army. Labels: historical Example: If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949. 4. The Russian Armed Forces, especially the Ground Forces component. Labels: informal
Word: zarbi Part of Speech: noun 1. A rhythmic realization of a gushe. Labels: Persian
Word: spotted hyenas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spotted hyena Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mombasa Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Swahili Mombasa. 1. A large coastal city in Kenya, the second-largest city in Kenya. 2. A county of Kenya.
Word: Anglo-America Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Anglo- + America. 1. A region in the Americas in which English is a main language, including for example the United States and Canada.
Word: fibrocaseous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fibro- + caseous. 1. Having fibrous, cheesy tissue Labels: not-comparable
Word: Red Army man Part of Speech: noun 1. The lowest military rank of the Red Army. Labels: historical
Word: Red Armyman Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Red Army man. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: agitos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of agito Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soliferrums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of soliferrum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Manchurian wild rice Part of Speech: noun 1. A cereal grass that grows mostly in China, whose stem is eaten as a vegetable; Zizania latifolia. Labels: uncountable
Word: Mopan Part of Speech: name 1. A Mayan language spoken in Belize and Guatemala. 2. Mopan River
Word: Mopan Maya Part of Speech: name 1. A Mayan language spoken in Belize and Guatemala.
Word: pro-rata Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of pro rata. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: community interest company Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of non-profit organization in the UK, designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for the public good.
Word: Bukhoro Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Uzbek Buxoro. 1. Alternative form of Bukhara. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Bokhara Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Bukhara. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: silvertail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silver + tail. 1. A wealthy person. Labels: Australia, slang
Word: potter's wheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of potter's wheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: HEALPix Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of hierarchical equal-area isolatitude pixelation (or pixelization) of the sphere. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: misascription Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + ascription. 1. The act or process of misascribing. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Despite frequent misascription to Tycho, the work is in fact by Paul Wittich. 2. The result thereof: an incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The idea that Tycho wrote it was a misascription.
Word: misascriptions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misascription Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mganga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili mganga. Doublet of inyanga and ngaka. 1. An African medicine man.
Word: waganga Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mganga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tambo Part of Speech: noun 1. A tambourine player in a black minstrel troupe.
Word: tambo Part of Speech: noun 1. A lodging house or inn.
Word: Shimada Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島田 (Shimada). 1. A place name in Japan including the city of Shimada in Shizuoka, Japan. 2. A surname from Japanese.
Word: shauri Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Arabic شَوْر (šawr)bor. Swahili shauri English shauri From Swahili shauri, borrowed from Arabic شَوْر (šawr, “advice, counsel”). 1. A consultation, usually between a bwana and a local African. Labels: Africa, dated Example: Strangers were few before they saw us, and we had shauri after shauri with them. Example: The poor guide had been sitting through the shauri open-eyed and open-mouthed, intensely puzzled by the whole performance. 2. One's problem; concern. Labels: Kenya Example: Whether these people will be taken on or not is not my shauri.
Word: cryptolects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cryptolect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cryptolectal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cryptolect + -al. 1. Of or relating to a cryptolect.
Word: bizzarely Part of Speech: adv 1. Misspelling of bizarrely. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Cherie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Variant of Cheri. 1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
Word: Le Roy Part of Speech: name Etymology: A common spelling variant of Leroy. 1. A male given name transferred from the surname. 2. A surname from French.
Word: LeRoi Part of Speech: name Etymology: A spelling variant of Leroy. 1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: Le Roi Part of Speech: name Etymology: A spelling variant of Leroy. 1. A male given name transferred from the surname. 2. A surname from French.
Word: Leeroy Part of Speech: name Etymology: A less common spelling variant of Leroy. Pronunciation: /ˈliːˌɹɔɪ/ 1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: Leeroy Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A less common spelling variant of Leroy. Pronunciation: /ˈliːˌɹɔɪ/ 1. Alternative letter-case form of leeroy. Labels: alt-of
Word: LeeRoy Part of Speech: name Etymology: A less common spelling variant of Leroy. 1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: Lee Roy Part of Speech: name Etymology: A less common spelling variant of Leroy. 1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
Word: reoperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + operate. Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɒpəˌɹeɪt/ 1. to operate (surgically) again (on the same thing as a previous operation). Labels: intransitive Example: When a problem reoccurs after surgery, it might be necessary to reoperate on a patient. 2. to begin to operate or function again. Labels: intransitive Example: As soon as the spaceship was completely repaired, it started reoperating. 3. to bring back (something) into operation. Labels: transitive Example: Antoní and Consuela reoperated the factory's candy machine that had been stored in the storage room for over a decade.
Word: foredraw Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fore- + draw. 1. To draw beforehand or in advance; draw forward. Labels: transitive Example: Our Lord foredrew the character of those who would reject his gospel on so groundless and awful a plea, when he descrihed the unprofitahle servant, … Example: [...] him who, single-handed, Had wrested from the tyrants 'gainst him banded Populous Naples and broad Sicily, And given them to triumphant Italy: Cavour, Mazzini, who so well In his large soul foredrew the nation's span, [...]
Word: dikka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Arabic دِكَّة (dikka). 1. A tribune raised upon columns from which the Qur'an is recited and prayers are intoned by the Imam of a mosque.
Word: Lotus Part of Speech: name 1. A British manufacturer of cars. 2. A few places in the United States: 3. A few places in the United States: 4. A few places in the United States: 5. A few places in the United States: