nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: quasicoherent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Italic *kʷis Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Italic *kʷoi Latin quam Proto-Indo-European *sóder. Proto-Italic *sei Latin sī univ. Latin quasī̆bor. English quasi- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin haereō Latin cohaereō Latin cohaerēnsder. Middle French coherentder. English coherent English quasicoherent From quasi- + coherent. 1. Belonging to a generalization of coherent sheaves, including the locally free sheaves of infinite rank. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cosheaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From co- + sheaf. 1. The dual of a sheaf.
Word: cosheaves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cosheaf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deprivals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deprival Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deprivatizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deprivatization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: privatizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From privatize + -able. 1. Capable of being privatized. Labels: not-comparable
Word: operative word Part of Speech: noun 1. The key word in a sentence. Example: Planes crash rarely, but for the media the operative word is "crash".
Word: Yangtzean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Yangtze + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river. Labels: not-comparable Example: Natural time, social time, remembered time — these are the three kinds of time, the three lenses, through which I will try to view the Yangtzean world. Example: In China, the Yangtzean (or North China) fauna is equivalent to the shelf biofacies including endemic polymeroid ptychoparioids, corynexochids, redlichiids, etc., […]
Word: club steak Part of Speech: noun 1. strip steak Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: club steaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of club steak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: strip steaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of strip steak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Gangean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ganges + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to the Ganges river. Labels: not-comparable Example: Chinese merchants had traded with India and Roman outposts, and Chinese pilgrims had made overland journeys to the Indus and Gangean valleys, often by way of the Oxus and what is now Afghanistan. Example: Careful interpretation of these indicated that the great Pennine River (Fig 13) evolved from a comparatively minor affair early in the Carboniferous to truly Gangean proportions at about the time that the great ice sheets of the southern hemisphere were accumulating about 330 million years ago.
Word: kyriarchal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kyriarchy + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪɹɪˌɑːkl̩/, /ˈkɪ-/, /ˈkaɪɹiˌɑɹkl̩/ 1. Relating to kyriarchy. Labels: not-comparable Example: Kyriarchal pyramidal political and social systems are evident in modern society and are stratified by social categories such as gender, class, age, race, and socioeconomic status and result in dominance and superiority and subordination and inferiority (Schüssler Fiorenza, 2005).
Word: shagaholic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shag (“to have sexual intercourse with”) + -aholic. 1. A person who is addicted to sex. Labels: UK, slang Example: You young 'uns might not believe this, but Michael Caine burst on to the screen as a bona fide sex symbol thanks to Alfie, about a Cockney shagaholic who made the most of the Swinging '60s. Example: Myers may still be having fun with his shagaholic spy, as well as the rest of the characters he plays, but he's the only one still laughing.
Word: Orinocan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Orinoco + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to the Orinoco river. Labels: not-comparable Example: Industrial capitalism certainly turns over more calories per capita than does the economy of the Yanamamo of the Orinocan rain forest, […] Example: Our vantage point provides incredible views of the Orinocan jungle stretching out to the horizon, a vast carpet of green life that some describe as the earths' verdant lungs.
Word: urelements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of urelement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: upwarps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of upwarp Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Euphratean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin Euphrataeus + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to the Euphrates (river in West Asia). Labels: not-comparable Example: Very little is known about it, and there is very little to know, till the limit of Arabia be passed and the Euphratean delta reached. Example: To those who would not heed the gently flowing stream of Shiloah he spoke by means of the Euphratean flood.
Word: foldase Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fold + -ase. 1. An enzyme that catalyzes protein folding.
Word: foldases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of foldase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baa-lamb Part of Speech: noun 1. A lamb or sheep. Labels: childish 2. Someone who is submissive, especially a husband or boyfriend.
Word: undermixed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of undermix Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undermixing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undermix Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: noncoagulable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + coagulable. 1. Not coagulable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: uncoagulable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + coagulable. 1. Not coagulable.
Word: micronational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + national or micronation + -al. 1. Of or relating to a micronation. Labels: not-comparable Example: I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement.
Word: ultraviruses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ultravirus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: umbrines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of umbrine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: axle tooth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English axyltothe, of North Germanic origin, from axyl, from Old Norse jaxl (“a jaw-tooth, grinder”) + Middle English tothe (“tooth”). Cognate with Scots assletuith, asseltuith (“molar, axletooth”). Compare also Danish axeltand (“molar, axletooth”), Swedish oxeltand (“molar, axletooth”). 1. A molar tooth; molar. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal Example: […] to loose an axill tooth or an eye, the death of some speciall friend: to dream of bloody teeth, the death of the dreamer […] Example: Many Women would rather endure the Tooth-ach, than their blackness, which not withstanding the Commonalty regard not: yet such a marcour came upon Metrodorus his sons gums, that both his axle teeth, and also his gums, fell out.
Word: shagaholics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shagaholic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: WIT Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of waterfowl identification test. Labels: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: three green Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From the green indicator lights on the aircraft panel, one for each wheel or set of wheels. 1. A confirmation given by the pilots that the landing gear has gone down successfully and has locked.
Word: Weatherby brow Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Weatherby eyebrow. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When the smoke cleared, two more hogs and a Weatherby brow had been added to the day's tally.
Word: bar-lamb Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From baa-lamb, as a pun. 1. A barrister Labels: humorous, obsolete 2. A customer at a bar (place that sells alcoholic drinks) Labels: humorous, obsolete
Word: banky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bank + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋ.ki/ 1. Hilly; sloping. Labels: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
Word: banky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Baby-talk alteration of blanket. By surface analysis, clipping of blanket + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋ.ki/ 1. A child's blanket. Example: You sound like a little kid wrapped up in his banky watching his favorite t.v. show. Example: His banky, the grubby woollen blanket that he carried with him everywhere, was draped over the rest of his bedclothes.
Word: conkerberry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps from Mayi-Kulan / Mayi-Yapi ganggabarri, with the spelling influenced by conker + berry. 1. A large shrub of the dogbane family: Carissa spinarum, the "bush plum". 2. The berry of this shrub.
Word: conkerberries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of conkerberry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: beclart Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English biclarten, equivalent to be- + clart. Cognate with Scots beclairt (“to soil, splash or cover with filth”). 1. To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: bead tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Since its seeds are used as beads. Compare Unami manshapiàkw (literally “bead tree”). 1. Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.
Word: Stygian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: See stygian. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪd͡ʒiən/ 1. Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology. Labels: Greek Example: But then, what though the mystic Three Around me ply their merry trade? — And Charon soon may carry me Across the gloomy Stygian glade? 2. Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx. 3. Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish. Labels: alt-of, alternative, figuratively Example: Within all was black as the tomb. […] Feeling before him upon the floor with the butt of his spear, Tarzan entered the Stygian gloom. Example: Or maybe Trump has designs on hell, viewing it as a totally unexploited real-estate opportunity to create some kind of Stygian Riviera.
Word: Stygian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See stygian. Pronunciation: /ˈstɪd͡ʒiən/ 1. An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto). Example: Stygians – natives of Styx
Word: euchologion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐχολόγιον (eukhológion). Pronunciation: /juːkə(ʊ)ˈləʊdʒɪən/ 1. A book of prayers or religious ritual.
Word: potassium aluminium sulfate Part of Speech: noun 1. The sulfate double salt of potassium and aluminium KAl(SO₄)₂; occurs naturally as alum Labels: uncountable
Word: contact print Part of Speech: noun 1. A print made by exposing the printing paper to light through a negative that is placed directly onto it.
Word: distributaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distributary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Straddie Part of Speech: name Etymology: Diminutive + -ie. 1. Stradbroke Island Labels: Australia, informal
Word: boat train Part of Speech: noun 1. A travel service with a train timed to arrive at a ferry port in time for the onward travel by ferry (or vice versa). Alternatively, a service scheduled to connect with the arrival or departure of an ocean liner. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: In 1906 the cross-channel service was inaugurated between Fishguard and Rosslare Harbour. For this the Great Southern & Western Railway built two boat trains of corridor stock, with a restaurant car (57½ ft. in length), to run between Rosslare and Cork. Example: With extra traffic, numerous boat trains to and from Southampton Docks, and working of empty stock, his job, like that of most signalmen, is no sinecure.
Word: buddy movies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buddy movie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buddy film Part of Speech: noun 1. A film where two friends of the same sex (often men) are paired as the principal characters. Labels: UK
Word: buddy films Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buddy film Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fanga Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese fanga, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa). Doublet of fanega. 1. A traditional Portuguese dry measure, equal to about 50–75 liters at different places and times. Labels: historical
Word: noreaster Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of northeaster. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: noreasters Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of nor'easters plural of noreaster Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wongay Part of Speech: noun 1. Manilkara kauki, a sapotaceous plant with an edible orange-red fruit Labels: Australia
Word: befel Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of befal Labels: form-of, past
Word: cognisable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cognise + -able. 1. Alternative form of cognizable. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ferulate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferulic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹəleɪt/ 1. A salt or ester of ferulic acid
Word: ferulates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ferulate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: light mill Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By analogy with windmill and water mill. 1. An airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum and a set of vanes, mounted on a spindle, which rotate when exposed to light, providing a quantitative measurement of electromagnetic radiation intensity.
Word: light mills Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of light mill Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monocoloured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + coloured. 1. Of a single colour. Labels: not-comparable
Word: monocolored Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mono- + colored. 1. Alternative form of monocoloured. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: millitorr Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + torr. 1. A unit of pressure equal to one thousandth of a torr. Symbolː mTorr
Word: millitorrs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of millitorr Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kilovoltage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kilo- + voltage. 1. A voltage in the region of thousands of volts.
Word: kilovoltages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kilovoltage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: millivoltage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + voltage. 1. A voltage in the region of one thousandth of a volt.
Word: millivoltages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of millivoltage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kilounit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kilo- + unit. 1. A unit equal to one thousand of another unit.
Word: megaunit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + unit. 1. A unit equal to one million of another unit.
Word: kilounits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kilounit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megaunits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megaunit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: black-jack Part of Speech: noun 1. Sphalerite; zincblende. Labels: UK, obsolete, uncountable 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to colour wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 4. A water oak or barren oak (Quercus nigra). Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 5. A native African longshoreman or sailor working on a boat. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 6. A coalfish (Pollachius virens). Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A larva of a sawfly of species Athalia rosae (syns. Athalia centifolia, A. spinarum). Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Alternative form of blackjack. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: black-jacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of black-jack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cornutoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cornuto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: horti- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From Latin hortus (“garden”) + -i-. 1. Related to growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. Labels: morpheme
Word: goldware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gold + -ware. 1. Anything manufactured from gold. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: silverwares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silverware Labels: form-of, plural
Word: goldwares Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of goldware Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Muskogean Part of Speech: noun 1. Muskogee
Word: Muskogean Part of Speech: name 1. Muskogee
Word: Muskogean Part of Speech: adj 1. Belonging to a language family spoken in the southeastern United States, consisting of Muscogee, Chickasaw, and others. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Muskhogean Part of Speech: noun 1. Muskogee
Word: Muskhogean Part of Speech: name 1. Muskogee
Word: Muskhogean Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to the Muskogee people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Muskogeans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Muskogean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Muskhogeans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Muskhogean Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spaids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spaid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backactions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backaction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cross-tail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cross- + tail. 1. A bar in a steam engine connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
Word: cross-tails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cross-tail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: climacter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare French climactère. 1. A climacteric (period in life, or critical point).
Word: climacters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of climacter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spinies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spiny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: steem Part of Speech: noun 1. A gleam of light; a flame. Labels: obsolete
Word: steem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apheretic form of esteem. 1. Value. Labels: obsolete
Word: steem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Apheretic form of esteem. 1. To value, to esteem. Labels: obsolete Example: His life he steemed dearer than his friend […].
Word: steems Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of steem Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dopper Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dutch doper. 1. An Anabaptist or Baptist. Labels: derogatory Example: This is a Dopper, a she Anabaptist 2. A member of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, a Calvinistic denomination. Labels: South-Africa Example: His Dopper community of the northeastern districts of the Cape Colony was considered more pious and socially conservative than any other community in the colony.
Word: Doppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Purkinje neuron Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of Purkinje cell.
Word: Purkinje neurons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Purkinje neuron Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Purkinje fiber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869). 1. One of a group of fibers in the heart, consisting of specialized cardiomyocytes, that allow the heart's conduction system to create synchronized contractions of its ventricles and thus maintain a consistent rhythm.
Word: Purkinje fibers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Purkinje fiber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Purkinje image Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869). 1. Any of various reflections of objects within the structure of the eye.
Word: Purkinje images Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Purkinje image Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Purkinje shift Part of Speech: noun 1. Purkinje effect
Word: Purkinje effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869). 1. The tendency for the peak luminance sensitivity of the human eye to shift toward the blue end of the spectrum at low illumination levels.
Word: Purkinje fibre Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Purkinje fiber. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Purkinje fibres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Purkinje fibre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Boerhaave syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First documented by the 18th-century physician Herman Boerhaave. 1. Rupture of the esophageal wall. Labels: uncountable
Word: Ukrainianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ukrainian + -ism. 1. Ukrainian nationalism. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A word or phrase characteristic of Ukrainians. Labels: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Example: the presence of Ukrainianisms in Russian
Word: Ukrainianisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Ukrainianism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biggon Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of biggin (“hat”). Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: biggons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biggon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cantel Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of cantle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cantels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cantel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: facilize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From facile + -ize, originally after Italian facilitare. 1. To make something easy; to facilitate. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: Wherefore in these, it is behooffull not to worke for proper commoditie, but for publike benefit; for that in this maner euery one as interessed, doe agree to effect and facilize the obtaining of that good which is desired.
Word: squir Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /skwɜː(ɹ)/ 1. To throw with a jerking motion; to skim. Labels: obsolete Example: We took a turn or two more, when, to my great surprise, I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames
Word: base on Part of Speech: verb 1. To ground (an opinion, a conclusion, etc) on. Labels: ditransitive 2. To derive (a work) from. Labels: ditransitive
Word: shapoo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tibetan [script needed] (sha-pho). 1. The urial (subspecies of sheep). Labels: dated
Word: shapoos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shapoo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: punctoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of puncto Labels: form-of, plural
Word: base upon Part of Speech: verb 1. To base on. Labels: ditransitive, formal
Word: colleys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of colley Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bernicle Part of Speech: noun 1. A barnacle goose. 2. A form of torture in which the legs were crushed between pieces of wood. Labels: historical, in-plural
Word: bernicles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bernicle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: houss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French housse. Pronunciation: /haʊs/ 1. A covering, usually of textile (or mail) and attached to a saddle; a saddlecloth. Labels: obsolete Example: And where man ended, the continued vest, Spread on his back, the houss and trappings of a beast.
Word: houss Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /haʊs/ 1. Obsolete spelling of house (“abode”). Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: manichords Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manichord Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiproblematic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + problematic. 1. Problematic in multiple ways. Labels: not-comparable
Word: facilizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of facilize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: facilizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of facilize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: facilized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of facilize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: facilization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From facile + -ization. 1. The act of facilizing; the act of making something easy.
Word: facilizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of facilization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: room-temperature IQ Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A room-temperature IQ would be around 20 (Celsius) or 68 (Fahrenheit), both well below the average IQ of 100. 1. A below average IQ. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. A dull or unintelligent mind. Labels: broadly, derogatory, figuratively, slang Example: It's the proverbial two-way street; treat a guide like he has more than a room-temperature IQ, and he'll do likewise. Example: “The guy's got a room-temperature IQ. He dropped out of grade school. To him, DNA is probably just three letters.”
Word: room-temperature IQs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of room-temperature IQ Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arselings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of arseling. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: arselings Part of Speech: adv 1. Alternative form of arseling. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: arseling Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”). Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings. By surface analysis, arse + -ling. 1. Backwards. Labels: East-Anglia, Scotland, UK, dialectal, especially, not-comparable
Word: arseling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arse + -ling. 1. A petty and obnoxious person. Labels: UK, derogatory, rare, slang Example: Defiant arselings is what you all are. You think you know best, gallivanting off with pirates? Example: "Ah, the arselings Leif Kolskeggson and Sterkur death-in-the-eye," Svik said.
Word: arselong Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Alteration (after headlong) of arseling, from Middle English *arsling, from Old English earsling (“backwards, on the back”), equivalent to arse + -ling. Cognate with Dutch aarzeling, aarzelings, German ärschling, ärschlings. 1. Backwards; on one's arse. Labels: UK, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Heave they did, all unopposed, and tumbled arselong when the bar came about. Even as they rolled and cursed, the whistling petered; [...]
Word: between-times Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of between-time Labels: form-of, plural
Word: room temperature IQ Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of room-temperature IQ. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Lurking at the bottom, driving the whole godforsaken thing, is the possibility that the room temperature IQ that informs every groove of Neurotica may very well be the real thing. Example: “There used to be a Sergeant Henkels in Central Cell Room,” Pekach volunteered. “If it's the same guy, he has a room temperature IQ.”
Word: room temperature IQs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of room temperature IQ Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hawkling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hawk + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature hawk. Example: The young nestlings of hawks; these hawklings being untrained, and good for little in falconry. Example: The day's tragedies had begun; the east was warm with color, and streamers of light were woven through the clouds; but I thought that, somewhere near me, the mocker's' mate was sitting on her nest, and that somewhere, further away, there were young hawklings who, also, have a right to life.
Word: hawklings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hawkling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: room temperature I.Q. Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of room-temperature IQ. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: […] She was perfectly safe; Mitzi says he's got room temperature I.Q., but Peyton didn't know that.” Example: Logical folks for good reason like to joke about room temperature I.Q. juries, but this hot coffee case is truly incredible.
Word: vultureling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vulture + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature vulture. Example: Next morning at breakfast the supposed vultureling is found to be subdued and silent, […] Example: […] Vamos, vultureling and eaglet," broke in the Maestro. "We have enough measured now for a while, and to-morrow you can bait your hooks for the Big Fish. Ay !
Word: calfling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From calf + -ling. 1. A small, young, or miniature calf. Example: Nick observes the whale both with her calfling, and with Marty, but he does not communicate with her. Example: It was beautiful—the silver moon shone on the calfling while Dark- Eye licked her and I rubbed her with grass, and everything was shiny.
Word: calflings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calfling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: toadling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From toad + -ling. 1. A young, immature, or miniature toad. Example: After the young ones have acquired their perfect shape, they appear to leave the water, and frequently the roads and paths are so covered with minute but well-formed toadlings, that it is impossible to put your foot down without crushing some [...] Example: A glob of pea green toadling spit splattered against my upraised arm, burning like holy hell.
Word: toadlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of toadling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crabling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crab + -ling. 1. A small, young, or baby crab. Example: The juvenile members of most of our seaside communities are much given to crab-fishing, and may be seen from early morn to evening late, dangling their legs over some convenient rock, sea-wall, or landing-steps, and with a piece of twine to which a dainty morsel of fish offal has been tied, doing their best to induce some greedy young crabling to grasp it with his nippers, [...] Example: This was, after all, the easiest kind of life a simple-minded crabling such as he could hope to achieve, and so Galoo's words did well to play upon his fears. the sea-swindler went on to say, giving the crabling a slight push to go.
Word: crablings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crabling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shrimpling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shrimp + -ling. 1. A young or miniature shrimp. Example: […] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […] Example: Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]
Word: shrimplings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shrimpling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lobsterling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lobster + -ling. 1. A young or miniature lobster. Example: In the first few days of the fourth stage the lobsterlings are good swimmers — this is their "redeeming vice" — but the swimming is strong and bears no comparison to the aimless drifting movement characteristic of larval stages. Example: The approach of the molt seems to start the lobsterling on its course to the bottom; accordingly when this is delayed until after the fourth stage, it probably does not often occur until the approach of the succeeding molt.
Word: lobsterlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lobsterling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharkling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From shark + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature shark. Example: A sharkling is more easily disposed of, for his teeth will set him free, though the hook be attached to the stoutest gimp, and as he fights madly he is pretty certain in a few moments to have severed the gut. Example: Now for many days she has no rest at all With the solicitude of the mother hen for her chicks she watches over that group of sharklings, shepherded by the pilot whom they are rapidly outgrowing, sheltered in her bosom and fed, yes fed, though often the mother feels as if vultures were tearing at her liver.
Word: sharklings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sharkling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nicelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of niceling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: poetling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poet + -ling. 1. A young, immature, inexperienced, petty, or insignificant poet. Example: Mr. Knowles goes farthest astray, however, in making selections from contemporary poetlings, to whom he allots oue third of his volume. Example: The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master.
Word: poetlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of poetling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lizardling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lizard + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature lizard. Example: Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle. Example: [...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings.
Word: lizardlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lizardling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: newtling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From newt + -ling. 1. A young or miniature newt; eft. Labels: rare
Word: sparrowling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sparrow + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature sparrow. Example: The poor sparrowling struggled bravely, but every attempt ended in failure [...] Example: Here was a saintsend of young girls and a bucket of boisterous boys as full of life as sparrowlings in summer[.]
Word: sparrowlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sparrowling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: holluschick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See holluschickie. 1. A "bachelor seal"; a holluschickie.
Word: attagen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin attagēn. 1. A grey partridge (Perdix perdix) of Eurasia. Labels: obsolete 2. A Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) of Central Asia and occurring as a vagrant in Europe. Labels: obsolete
Word: attagens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of attagen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stavesacres Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stavesacre Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ciliotoxicity Part of Speech: noun 1. The quality of being ciliotoxic. Labels: uncountable
Word: ciliotoxic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cilio- + toxic. 1. toxic to the cilia in the lungs
Word: triboulets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of triboulet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baa-lambs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baa-lamb Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dime piece Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Suggesting a score of ten out of ten on the informal scale of beauty, since a dime is worth ten cents. Possibly in imitation of timepiece. 1. A beautiful woman. Labels: slang Example: You're not a dime piece, you're a diva Example: Carmiesha "Lil' Muddah" Vernoy had been with me since back in the day. She was more than a dime piece. She was drop-dead gorgeous and had the best pussy in the world.
Word: qere Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic קְרֵי (qərê). 1. In the liturgical use of the Tanakh, a spoken reading that diverges from the written word (the ketiv); an indication of such a reading.
Word: single-lens reflex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From single + lens (contrasted with a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted. 1. Denoting or relating to a type of camera which allows the photographer to view the subject through the same lens that will be used to take a photograph, usually by incorporating a moving mirror and prism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: single-lens reflex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From single + lens (contrasted with a twin-lens reflex camera, TLR), and reflex (“reflection”), the principle by which the image path is diverted. 1. Ellipsis of single-lens reflex camera. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: gable end Part of Speech: noun 1. The side of a building which is topped by a gable
Word: BIMBO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of buy-in management buyout. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: need-fires Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of need-fire Labels: form-of, plural
Word: isocheimenal Part of Speech: adj 1. isocheimal Labels: not-comparable
Word: isochimenal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French isochimène, from iso- + Ancient Greek χειμαίνω (kheimaínō, “to be wintry”), from χεῖμα (kheîma, “winter”). 1. isocheimal Labels: not-comparable
Word: isochimenal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French isochimène, from iso- + Ancient Greek χειμαίνω (kheimaínō, “to be wintry”), from χεῖμα (kheîma, “winter”). 1. An isocheim.
Word: kobs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kob Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sing-sing Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of antelope; the kob. Labels: dated Example: The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle; and hardly a flock is seen without having one or two sing-sings along with it. Example: […] the N'samma Antelope, which appears to be the native name in Uganda for the Kobus sing-sing.
Word: sing-sing Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tok Pisin singsing. 1. An annual gathering of tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea in order to share dance, music, and culture.
Word: sing-sings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sing-sing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glosers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gloser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: straw in the wind Part of Speech: noun 1. A premonitory sign. Labels: in-plural Example: There were little hints then that I did not take, little straws in the wind that I did not see, little incidents the gravity of which I did not realize. Example: […] and the decision of the United States Supreme Court virtually commanding the Florida Supreme Court to reverse its ruling banning Negroes from playing on a city-owned golf course in Miami are straws in the wind showing that segregation is becoming more and more unworkable.
Word: Geez Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ge'ez. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dovelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of doveling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Riegels Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Riegel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lambling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lamb + -ling. 1. A young or little lamb. Example: I have seen the lamblings skipping / In sunshine and in mist; […] Example: These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard […]
Word: lamblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lambling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lordlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lordling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: budling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bud + -ling. 1. A small, young, or immature bud. Example: When, with the entire population of 389 trees, budling size was correlated with total five-year yield of fruit per tree in the eight-year-old orchard, the coefficient was +0.517 ± 0.025; and with variants removed this was reduced to - 0.233 ± 0.034. Example: "Seeing the new budling reminds me life goes on, that's all. ... Not even Temat should have to listen to him maundering on so, let alone the budling-keeper, whose biggest responsibility was making sure his charges did not kill one another [...]"
Word: budlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of budling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: GALEX Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a spacecraft of NASA. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: liefling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Equivalent to lief + -ling (compare darling = dear + -ling), perhaps from or modelled after Afrikaans liefling (“darling”), German Liebling (“darling”). Compare also loveling. 1. One held as lief or dear; a darling. Labels: South-Africa Example: 'Really, liefling?' she says. Tell me what happened.' Example: "Listen, liefling, this has got nothing to do with them," he said. I shook my head. " It's not that, Riaan... it's Peter.
Word: heartling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From heart + -ling. 1. A term of endearment, similar to darling. Example: HOME IN THE STORM HEART, find in my heart, home — The wild rain is on the roof, Heart, heart, my heartling, come, For the bright stars stand aloof, And the night is smashed and torn And the wind howls down the wall, […] Example: Kissing the top of her head, he whispered tenderly, “We are well-matched, heartling. Do you not agree?” “Heartling. I like that.”
Word: Talossan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Talossa + -an. 1. A member of the micronation Talossa. Labels: countable Example: In the angry fallout that followed, nearly all the original Talossans washed their hands. 25 years was enough. The website was taken down, the people left. After 25 years, Talossa died.
Word: Talossan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Talossa + -an. 1. A constructed language created in 1980 by Robert Ben Madison for the micronation of Talossa. Example: This gave me the opportunity to draw maps and flags, and even to design my own Talossan language.
Word: Talossan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Talossa + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to Talossa. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Talossans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Talossan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Talossa Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Talossan Talossa, from Finnish talossa (“inside the house”). 1. The Kingdom of Talossa, one of the oldest micronations still in existence. Example: But Talossa was an amazing ride for 25 years. Talossa was a micronation, a self-proclaimed “sovereign, independent state” located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1979 till its collapse in 2005. Example: Delafontaine says most new micronations, like the Kingdom of Talossa, exist primarily online.
Word: ladyling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lady + -ling. Compare lordling. 1. A young, petite, or unimportant lady. Example: I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...] Example: All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]
Word: ladylings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ladyling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: treeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tree + -ling. 1. A young, small, or miniature tree. Example: The following table shows for the school year 1922-23 the number of schools with nurseries, the number of treelings and plantlings distributed by school nurseries, the number of treelings and plantlings set out by pupils at their homes, [...] Example: When Nahton finally knelt beside one of the potted treelings and wrapped his fingers around the scaled trunk, he sent his thoughts through telink, connecting with the worldforest, searching through a million thought-lines.
Word: treelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of treeling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plantling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plant + -ling. 1. A small, young, or miniature plant. Example: Thus, the scheme described above is cost effective, with small numbers of high-cost plantlings being used to produce very large numbers of lower cost stecklings . An alternative is to use 100 percent plantlings.
Word: plantlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plantling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plumbocalcite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plumbo- + calcite. 1. A variety of calcite that contains some lead carbonate. Labels: uncountable
Word: houselings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of houseling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weirdling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From weird + -ling. Compare oddling. 1. Someone or something which is odd, weird, strange, or unusual; oddball; weirdie; weirdo. Example: It was a dusky grey haze — a weirdling, impossible, unreal haze like no sky anyone anywhere had ever seen or will ever see: it was a sky made from grey mother of pearl and stale brackish water. Example: The real trick was getting it out of the water before a weirdling homed in; now and then someone would pull up a half-eaten channelmouth a weirdling had devoured while it was on the line.
Word: weirdling Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From weird + -ling. Compare oddling. 1. Strange.
Word: weirdlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weirdling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oddling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From odd + -ling. 1. One who is odd or eccentric; an oddball. Example: One of the most influential acts of servanthood my parents displayed would be to invite strangers, or what I would call "oddlings," to our house for a meal or to stay for a while. And these oddlings were people who were the most down and out — the broken, the depressed, the dirty, the lonely, the lost — and they all seemed to enter our house under a cloud of hopelessness.
Word: oddlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oddling Labels: form-of, plural 2. The particulars, as leading to a certain outcome. Labels: UK, Yorkshire, archaic, dialectal Example: I tell'd 'em t' oddlings on 't.
Word: manilio Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /məˈnɪljəʊ/ 1. Alternative form of manilla (“type of armlet”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: chained with manilio and armolets of ſilver, braſſ, ivory, and the like
Word: manilios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manilio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prian Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pryan. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, uncountable
Word: dumbling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dumb + -ling. 1. One who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot. Example: Gaignebet does not find savage irony in the punchlines about poor protagonists who are such dumblings they do not know that penises do not grow back. Example: The self-described "dumbling" plowed through Les Miserables, perhaps identifying with the persecuted Jean Valjean, but each time he closed the book, there were the mug, the bucket, the chamber pot, the bars.
Word: dumblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dumbling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: porcellaneous Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to porcelain; resembling porcelain. Example: porcellaneous shell Example: porcellaneous rock 2. Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; said of certain Foraminifera. Example: porcellaneous content
Word: rhatanies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhatany Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhatany Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Spanish ratania 1. Root of Krameria, previously used in medicine and to colour port (wine). Labels: uncountable 2. Any in genus Krameria of plants. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sardoin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sardoyne, sardone, from Old French sardoine, sardone (whence Modern French sardoine) or Anglo-Norman sardonie, ultimately from Latin sardonyx. Doublet of sardonyx. 1. sard; carnelian Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: sardoins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sardoin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sheelies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sheely Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sheely Part of Speech: noun 1. A shilfa, or chaffinch. Labels: obsolete
Word: oldling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From old + -ling. Compare youngling. 1. One who is old or advanced in years; elder. Example: For the oldlings like the younglings, And they cannot say them "nay," And the oldlings and the younglings Keep God's full-grown man away […] Example: Each day Zork sent an email to his oldlings to tell them what he was doing and to let them know that he was safe and well.
Word: oldlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oldling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sus laws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sus law Labels: form-of, plural
Word: smartling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From smart + -ling. 1. One who is smart, shrewd, or clever; a smart-aleck. Example: And smartlings think it witty to blaspheme [...] Example: And Smartlings think it Wit to play the Fool, [...]
Word: smartling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle of smartle Labels: form-of, participle, present
Word: smartlings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of smartling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bishoping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bishop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bishoped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bishop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scholied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of scholy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: scholy Part of Speech: noun 1. A scholium. Labels: obsolete Example: He therefore which made us to live hath also taught us to pray , to the end that speaking unto the Father in the Son's own prescript form without scholy or gloss of ours, we may be sure that we utter nothing which God will either disallow or deny.
Word: scholy Part of Speech: verb 1. To write scholia; to annotate. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: 16th century, Richard Hooker The preacher should want a text, whereupon to scholy. […] his words therefore must be thus scholied […]
Word: excambie Part of Speech: verb 1. To excamb. Labels: Scotland, obsolete
Word: excambying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of excambie Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present