nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: MCQ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of multiple-choice question. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: spondei Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spondeus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stay up Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, up. Example: These trousers are too big around the waist. They won't stay up. 2. To remain awake; to not go to bed. Labels: intransitive Example: My plane leaves at 6:00 in the morning, so I plan to stay up until then and sleep on the plane. Example: She stayed up past her bedtime. 3. To maintain an erection. Labels: euphemistic, intransitive Example: He told his lover he has a problem staying up.
Word: stay-lace Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of staylace. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The shawl in which she had been loosely muffled dropped onto her chair when she advanced to us; and as she turned to resume her seat, we could not help noticing that her dress didn't nearly meet up the back and that the open space was railed across with a lattice-work of stay-lace—like a summer-house. Example: She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation. Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace ?
Word: staymaker Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stay + maker. 1. Someone who makes stays. Example: The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […] Example: Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....
Word: staymakers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of staymaker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jump for joy Part of Speech: verb 1. To exult, rejoice, or feel elation. Labels: idiomatic Example: The whole of England held its breath as [David] Beckham stepped back, looked up, paused, and, well, bent it like Beckham into the top corner. The nation's roofs lifted off. […] I too leapt into the air and jumped for joy when Beckham's shot hit the back of the net.
Word: United States of North America Part of Speech: name 1. The United States. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: The United States of North America in Congress Assembled […] have appointed the honble. John Adams […] to be their Minister Plenipotentiary Example: Communists of the entire Western Hemisphere are living in Havana […] attacking and discrediting the United States of North America.
Word: xenoglossia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From xeno- + -glossia. Pronunciation: /ˌziːnəˈɡlɒsi.ə/, /ˌzɛnəˈɡlɒsi.ə/ 1. Synonym of xenoglossy (“knowledge of a language one has never learned”). Labels: uncountable
Word: cybernation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of cybernetic + automation. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌsaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃən/ 1. The control of an industrial operation or task through processing of information with a computer. Labels: uncountable Example: And the mechanization of a task is done by segmentation of each part of an action in a series of uniform, repeatable, and moveable parts. The exact opposite characterizes cybernation (or automation), which has been described as a way of thinking, as much as a way of doing. Instead of being concerned with separate machines, cybernation looks at the production problem as an integrated system of information handling.
Word: cybernation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyber- + nation. Pronunciation: /ˌsaɪ.bə(ɹ)ˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌsaɪ.bɚˈneɪ.ʃən/ 1. A large online community that operates like a nation, or state. Example: Some cybernations also sell licences for setting up banks, corporations and raising debt bonds. Kingdom of Kerguelon offers bank, corporates and church charters for up to $50,000.
Word: vernine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vernal + -ine. 1. An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Word: deuce coupe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Descriptive compound of deuce sg (noun) + coupe sg (noun). 1. The 1932 Ford Model B coupe. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: drive-in movie Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of cinema where people watch films on a large public outdoor screen from their automobiles
Word: maindrag Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of main drag. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dump on Part of Speech: verb 1. To finish a romantic relationship with (someone). Labels: slang, transitive 2. To complain to (someone) extensively; to (figuratively) transfer one's problems to (someone) by complaining to them. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I came home and dumped on him about everything that was going on at work. 3. To treat (someone) badly. Labels: transitive
Word: bomb around Part of Speech: verb 1. To drive around. Labels: slang
Word: canonist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From canon + -ist. 1. An expert in canon law; canon lawyer.
Word: lay rubber Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of burn rubber.
Word: burn rubber Part of Speech: verb 1. To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire. Labels: idiomatic, informal, intransitive Example: “We’re rammed to the gills with foreigners doing mad shit. You can’t do this to Irish people. I’m getting out of this country, I’m burning rubber. It’s not safe to walk around here.” 2. To move quickly; to go or leave quickly. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, slang
Word: hub cap Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hubcap. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bricole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French bricole, from Late Latin briccola, bricola, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation: /bɹɪˈkəʊl/, /ˈbɹɪkəl/ 1. A kind of traces with hooks and rings, used to drag manoeuvre guns where horses cannot be used. Example: The Bricole, pierced for 60, mounting 44 guns, twenty four and eighteen pounders, ſunk, her captain, officers, and company priſoners. 2. An ancient kind of military catapult. Labels: historical Example: And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible—as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers. 3. the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall Example: Let Ill Conſequences be never ſo Remote, ’tis good however, with the Frogs here in the Fable, to have the Reaſon of Things at Hand. The Deſign of many Actions looks one way, and the Event works another ; as a Young Gameſter’s Couzen’d with a Bricole at Tennis. 4. an indirect action or stroke. Labels: archaic, figuratively 5. A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion before striking another ball.
Word: bug out Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out. 1. To leave (a place) hastily. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Sir, the Prophet is bugging out. Request permission to engage! Example: It's time I bugged out of this town: it ain't safe no more. 2. To leave (a place) hastily. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I'm not gonna bug out on you, I promise. 3. To leave (a place) hastily. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: I go to Stockton High, but normally I bug out. 4. To leave (a place) hastily. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: When it all goes down, you're gonna want to bug out. 5. To cause to bulge. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Kim Goodman holds the world record for bugging out her eyes. 6. To bulge; to protrude. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: The 3D imagery will make your eyes bug out. 7. To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: She gets her nails done every Friday, so I know she's bugging out by now because her polish has moved up from the cuticle just a tiny bit, indicating that her nails ain't fresh. “Mickey, how the hell I'm just gone walk up to someone and[…] Example: "That's 'cause I'm taking the train into the city right now," I said, "and she's bugging out about my missing it." 8. To crash or glitch. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: My PC keeps bugging out and rebooting for no reason.
Word: bug out Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out. 1. A rapid retreat, a rout. Labels: slang
Word: bricoles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bricole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: colorature Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of coloratura. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: oy gewalt Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of oy gevalt. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: OCB Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of oligoclonal band. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of opposite-colored bishop. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 3. Initialism of organized crime bureau. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: misoperate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + operate. 1. To operate incorrectly. Labels: intransitive, usually Example: Our research suggests that many signals could mis-operate during the [solar] storm, but at present we can't say precisely which signals are going to be affected or when the faults would occur.
Word: autochanger Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + changer. 1. A device for playing multiple music media of a certain kind (gramophone records, compact discs, etc.) in a predetermined sequence without user intervention. Example: Cedric [...] opened the record player and showed him the revolving disc and the others poised above it on the auto-changer. 2. An automatic tape loader, for switching automatically between several computer backup tapes.
Word: encephalophagy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From encephalo- + -phagy. 1. The custom of eating brains as food. Labels: uncountable Example: Therefore, by brain-eating in this article is meant cannibalistic encephalophagy, in other words consuming the brain of fellow men.
Word: homeokinetics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homeo- + kinetics. 1. The study of complex systems.
Word: keystone pricing Part of Speech: noun 1. A pricing method where the price is doubled at each level of distribution. Labels: uncountable
Word: terrestial Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare spelling of terrestrial. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: terrestial Part of Speech: adj 1. Rare spelling of terrestrial. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: funemployed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of fun + unemployed. Pronunciation: /ˌfʌnɪmˈplɔɪd/ 1. In a state of enjoyable unemployment. Labels: neologism, not-comparable Example: Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime? Example: Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.
Word: antihypertensives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antihypertensive Labels: form-of, plural
Word: denominationalism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From denominational + -ism. 1. The division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: VGC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of very good condition. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: Meroitic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Meroite + -ic. 1. Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to Meroe, or its kingdom, or the era of Meroe's dominance of Kush (Nubia) Labels: not-comparable
Word: Meroitic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Meroite + -ic. 1. Ellipsis of Meroitic script. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. Ellipsis of Meroitic language. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: laughing heir Part of Speech: noun 1. In the law of inheritance, an heir who is legally entitled to inherit the property of a person who has died, even though that heir is only distantly related to the deceased, and therefore has no reason to feel bereaved over the death.
Word: laughing heirs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laughing heir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laughing heir statute Part of Speech: noun 1. A statute that prohibits inheritance from passing to an heir who is too distantly removed from the deceased.
Word: laughing heir statutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laughing heir statute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jelly roll Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jelly + roll. 1. A cylindrical cake containing jelly (jam). Labels: US 2. An overweight person. Labels: derogatory, slang 3. The female genitalia, sexual intercourse, or a lover. Labels: US, broadly, slang 4. a male hairstyle, common in the 1950s USA, a roll of greased hair longitudinally aligned front to back at the middle of the head 5. An options position consisting of two calls and two puts, which can be seen as a combination of synthetic long and short positions with different expiries, or a combination of a put time spread and a call time spread.
Word: jelly rolls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jelly roll (alternative spelling of jellyrolls). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jelly roll pan Part of Speech: noun 1. A wide, flat pan similar to a cookie sheet but with deeper sides.
Word: jelly roll pans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jelly roll pan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cookie sheet Part of Speech: noun 1. A wide, flat metal pan suitable for baking in an oven.
Word: cookie sheets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cookie sheet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: edu-babble Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of education + babble, equivalent to edu + babble. 1. Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon. Labels: derogatory, uncountable Example: Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools. Example: Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives
Word: edubabble Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of edu-babble. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Kumanovo Part of Speech: name 1. A city in northern North Macedonia.
Word: Prilep Part of Speech: name 1. A city in southern North Macedonia.
Word: Tetovo Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈtɛtə.voʊ/ 1. A city in northwestern North Macedonia.
Word: TSS Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of toxic shock syndrome. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of total suspended solids: a measure of water quality. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of total sum of squares. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: hippotigrine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + τῐ́γρῐς (tĭ́grĭs, “tiger”) + -ine, describing an equine with tigerlike stripes. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the zebra. Example: Hippotigrine black and white stripe patterns are fairly popular on cushions and furniture
Word: ro-ro Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of roll-on roll-off. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. An individual vehicle of this kind. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: roll-on roll-off Part of Speech: adj 1. Of a form of marine vessel which allows wheeled vehicles to be driven on and off. Labels: not-comparable Example: Stranraer Harbour station was the traditional connection for ferry services. But as competition from roll-on/roll-off traffic intensified P&O Ferries started a new service from Cairnryan in 1973, which reduced the shipping distance.
Word: without loss of generality Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. With a constraining assumption that, however, makes it clear how to apply the proof performed under this assumption to the general case unconstrained by the assumption. Example: We wish to prove two ellipses in the plane intersect in an even number of points or are tangent. Without loss of generality, assume one of them has the equation x²#43;y²#61;1.
Word: littorine Part of Speech: noun 1. A tropane alkaloid found in a variety of plants including Datura and Atropa belladonna. Labels: uncountable
Word: TSH Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of thyroid-stimulating hormone. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: But I had my blood levels taken at the laboratory about a month ago, and I had an unusually high concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)—about ten times the normal amount—which means that the lithium is wreaking havoc on my glands, which means that I could end up in a really bad physical state.
Word: TSH Part of Speech: pron 1. Initialism of Their Serene Highnesses Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: cardias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cardia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: restringes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of restringe Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: baches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bach Labels: form-of, plural
Word: compensation culture Part of Speech: noun 1. A culture (set of social customs) based on a sense of entitlement to legal compensation for one's own or others' mistakes. Labels: derogatory
Word: compensatorily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From compensatory + -ly. 1. In a compensatory way; so as to compensate.
Word: Freelanders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Freelander Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scrappages Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scrappage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apple dumpling shops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apple dumpling shop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ridge Part of Speech: name Etymology: From ridge. Originating from Middle English. 1. A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A male given name transferred from the surname. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: aeroclub Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aero- + club. 1. A flying club; an organization for aircraft pilots. Example: First six production aircraft sold to Iranian civil aeroclubs for pilot training: manufacture of these was in process in mid-2001.
Word: capo tasto Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of capotasto. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: web conference Part of Speech: noun 1. A meeting, presentation or other communication hosted via the World Wide Web. Example: The ABC Company will be hosting a web conference on "Remaining Profitable in a Recession Period".
Word: ridge-runner Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Recorded since 1917; from ridge (reference to the Appalachian mountain chain) + runner. 1. An inhabitant of the Southern Appalachian region. Labels: US 2. A descendant of the above population.
Word: æqualls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of æquall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: æqualls Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of æquall Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: æqualling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of æqual Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of æquall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: æqualled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of æqual Labels: form-of, participle, past 2. simple past and past participle of æquall Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: court card Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unlike the numbered cards, these represent people of the kind that might be found at a royal court. 1. A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards. Example: The King, his father, wearing a very white sports shirt open at the throat and a very black blazer, sat at a spacious desk whose highly polished surface twinned his upper half in reverse, making of him a kind of court card. Example: 1999: Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 6: Reasoning, section 5: Plausible Reasonings, page 212 (Oxford University Press, paperback, →ISBN There are fifty-two outcomes possible when we turn up a card, and if we do it from a freshly and fairly shuffled pack, each possibility has an equal chance. Probabilistic reasoning can then go forward: we can solve, for instance, for whether most draws of seven cards involve two court cards, or whatever. 2. A postcard measuring approximately 4·75″ × 3·5″, in use mainly circa 1894–1902. Labels: UK, historical
Word: court cards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of court card Labels: form-of, plural
Word: biocenose Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of biocoenosis. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: biocenoses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of biocenosis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: estes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of este Labels: form-of, plural
Word: at the expense of Part of Speech: prep 1. Paid for by an individual or group. 2. At one's responsibility. Labels: broadly, idiomatic 3. In a way as to harm somebody or something; to the detriment of. Labels: figuratively Example: Bengali, like other Aryan languages of India, has spread, and is still spreading, at the expense of the aboriginal tongues. 4. Of a joke, deriding someone. Labels: figuratively
Word: Republic of Artsakh Part of Speech: name 1. Synonym of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Example: In 1991, the region of about 150,000 people declared independence and since then it has ruled itself – with Armenian support – as the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh.
Word: va-jay-jays Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /vəˈdʒeɪdʒeɪz/ 1. plural of va-jay-jay Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clicking knife Part of Speech: noun 1. A small knife, with a thin, flexible blade, used by clickers to cut leather
Word: East End Part of Speech: name 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end. 2. The east end of London, generally regarded to be east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames. Labels: London, UK, colloquial Example: But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son,[…]with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone’s throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way! 3. A hamlet in Weedon parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8118). 4. A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada. 5. The eastern tip of Long Island, New York. 6. A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Word: Swinging Sixties Part of Speech: name 1. An often nostalgic name for the 1960s. Labels: UK, US, plural, plural-only Example: [Mary] Quant's happy perpetuation of the mythology is hardly surprising as she was part of the Chelsea Set, a group of creative entrepreneurs consisting mostly of upper-class artists, photographers and writers such as Alexander Plunckett-Green and Nell Dunn, who together with (American) mass media such as Time Magazine (scrutinized in Chapter 4), dreamt up what we now conceive of as the Swinging Sixties.
Word: arborcide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From arbor + -cide. 1. Alternative form of arboricide. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: It turned out that a neighbor's ailanthus tree was blocking her view. Ms. Powis's answer was meant to discourage both trespassing and arborcide.
Word: booyakasha Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Of unclear origin, although many spurious theories exist. Possibly of Jamaican origin, as an extended form of boo-ya. Intended as a simulation of a shotgun blast and used in hip-hop, e.g. "Keep Their Heads Ringin’" by Dr Dre (1995) and before that by Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. in the late 1980s. "Booyaka" appears in Shabba Ranks's "Ting a Ling". It was used by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for his character Ali G during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2012 with the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the character Michelangelo replaced his famous cowabunga catchphrase with booyakasha, popularizing the phrase and removing much of the "gangsta" connotation. It was replaced due to Greg Cipes, Michelangelo's voice actor, ad libbing it in the first recording session for the show and executive desire to make the franchise seem more contemporary for a 2010s audience. Cipes says that it comes from Irish and means "all praise to the most high, or basically all glory to love", assumedly referring to buíochas, though most linguists doubt this and say this is folk etymology. 1. Used to express triumph, normally if trying to appear "gangsta". Labels: dated, slang Example: “Boo-yaka-shah.” “OMG!” 2. Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy. Labels: slang
Word: grains of paradise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From medieval spice traders claiming that the spice grew only in Eden, in order to inflate prices. Cf. French graines de paradis. 1. The seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, used as a medicine and spice, especially as a substitute for black pepper and in flavoring alcoholic beverages. Labels: plural, plural-normally Example: ...graynes of paradise, hoote & moyst þey be... Example: When I found it [Two-Penny Drink] left a hot Tang behind it, it gave me just Reason to believe they had used Grains of Paradise, or long Pepper, both which will save Malt. 2. Aframomum melegueta itself, a herbaceous perennial plant native to the swamps of the West African coast. Labels: plural, plural-normally, uncommon
Word: etymologising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of etymologise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: etymologised Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of etymologise Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: etymologises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of etymologise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: the devil Part of Speech: adv 1. Used to add emphasis to a question or statement. Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: What the devil are you doing here at this time of night? Example: VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne, You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne, Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare, And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.
Word: white boy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of whiteboy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fuck-a-doodle-doo Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Blend of fuck + cock-a-doodle-doo. 1. Expression of frustration, contempt or boredom. Labels: UK, vulgar 2. Conveys sarcastic admiration or happiness; whoop-de-doo. Labels: UK, vulgar Example: - I can play 'Don't Look Back in Anger' on guitar. - Well fuck-a-doodle-doo.
Word: deselection Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + selection. 1. The process or act of deselecting. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lumberjack shirt Part of Speech: noun 1. A shirt of flannel or similar material with a plaid pattern, traditionally worn by lumberjacks.
Word: grandbabies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grandbaby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfalsifiably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unfalsifiable + -ly. 1. In an unfalsifiable way. Labels: not-comparable
Word: ogin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear. Among various suggestions, it may be a corrupted form of hogwash (“swill”), of noggin (“a small measure of an alcoholic drink”), or of ocean. Pronunciation: /ˈɑɡɪn/, /ˈɒɡɪn/ 1. A large body of water including the sea or the ocean. Labels: UK Example: Nobody has yet put up a suitable argument for *never* going into the ogin to help someone who can't raise their own head above the surface...
Word: outdoer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From outdo + -er. 1. One who, or that which, outdoes.
Word: outdoers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outdoer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: compass points Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of compass point Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hackintosh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of hack + Macintosh. Pronunciation: /ˈhækɪntɒʃ/ 1. A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS). Labels: informal
Word: fromageries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fromagerie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: touch move Part of Speech: noun 1. The rule, in chess, that a piece touched must be moved or captured if possible. Labels: uncountable
Word: careerless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From career + -less. 1. Without a career. Labels: not-comparable
Word: mirasol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mirasol (“sunflower”) Pronunciation: /ˈmɪɹəsɒl/ 1. A variety of chili; when dried, the chilis are called guajillos.
Word: storax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English storace, storage, storax, storaxe, storrax, from Latin storax, styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax). Doublet of styrax. 1. Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge. Example: Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
Word: storaxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of storax Labels: form-of, plural
Word: perfs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oriental sweetgum Part of Speech: noun 1. A deciduous tree native to the eastern Mediterranean region, Liquidambar orientalis.
Word: metastyrol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + styrol. 1. Polystyrene. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: coinlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From coin + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a coin.
Word: paperlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From paper + -like. 1. Similar to paper in some way or most ways.
Word: familyless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From family + -less. 1. Without a family. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls! Example: […] they all sat in one small room with a radio playing foreign music, three other sailors and himself and the four brown, queerly familyless women (it seemed to him) in their slippery dresses and no underwear,
Word: kinless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From kin + -less. 1. Without kin; familyless. Labels: not-comparable Example: And old friendships and all connexions forgotten, when you go to seek an office from him! “A kinless loon,” as the Scotch said of Cromwell’s new judges, — intent on mere indifferent fair-play!
Word: imaret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish عمارت (ʼimaret), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra). 1. An Ottoman soup kitchen built between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, often part of a larger complex or waqf. Labels: historical Example: Yıldırım Bayezid had located his imaret in the opposite direction, some two kilometers to the east of the city. Mehmed I chose a site closer to the center, between the imarets of Orhan Gazi and Yıldırım Bayezid. Example: It was originally built as a zaviye, or hostel, for members of the Ahi Brotherhood of Virtue; later it became an imaret, serving free food to the poor of Iznik.
Word: imarets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imaret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jetsetting Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jet-setting. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: jetsetting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of jetset Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: expresso Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɛkˈspɹɛsəʊ/, /ɪkˈspɹɛsoʊ/, /ɛkˈspɹɛsoʊ/ 1. Alternative form of espresso. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, proscribed, uncountable
Word: expressos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of expresso Labels: form-of, plural
Word: laminator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From laminate + -or. 1. A person who laminates. Example: That first offer turned out to be a job as a laminator at Interior Form Tops, a countertop manufacturing firm […] 2. A device that laminates.
Word: laminators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of laminator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shrinkwraps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of shrinkwrap Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: shrinkwrapping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shrinkwrap Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shrinkwrapped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of shrinkwrap Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: uncleannesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of uncleanness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unblessedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unblessed + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being unblessed. Labels: uncountable
Word: culdoscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der. Proto-Italic *kūlos Latin cūlus Old French cul Middle French cul French cul Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old French de Middle French de French de Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor. Latin saccus Old French sac French sac French cul-de-sacbor. English cul-de-sac English Douglas English culdo- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scope English culdoscope From culdo- + -scope. 1. A kind of endoscope used in culdoscopy. Example: Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
Word: culdoscopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of culdoscope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: culdoscopy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From culdo- + -scopy. 1. Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Decker had just introduced his culdoscope and was advocating culdoscopy. I actually saw two peritoneoscopies during training but it had not achieved wide use.
Word: culdoscopies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of culdoscopy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: culdoscopic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From culdoscopy + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to culdoscopy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Wemba-Wemba Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈwembə wembə/ 1. A group of indigenous Australians, found in north-western Victoria and south-western New South Wales. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: Wemba-Wemba Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈwembə wembə/ 1. An extinct Pama-Nyungan language formerly spoken by the Wemba-Wemba.
Word: rectouterine Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From recto- + uterine. 1. Located between the rectum and uterus. Labels: not-comparable
Word: romanceless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From romance + -less. 1. Devoid of romance; loveless, unromantic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: hill station Part of Speech: noun 1. In South and Southeast Asia, a small community located at a relatively high elevation which serves as a retreat or vacation location during the hot summers; historically, a village or military post so used by colonial officials. Labels: Myanmar, South-Asia, UK Example: The message flashed to the Hill stations. — “Cholera — Leave stopped — Officers recalled.” Example: In 1854, General Barter, C.B., was a subaltern in the 75th Regiment, and was doing duty at the hill station of Murree in the Punjaub.
Word: kinlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kinless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being kinless. Labels: uncountable
Word: careerlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From careerless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being careerless. Labels: uncountable
Word: familylessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From familyless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being familyless. Labels: uncountable
Word: leaderlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From leaderless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being leaderless. Labels: uncountable
Word: hill-station Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of hill station. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: brotherlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brotherless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being brotherless. Labels: uncountable
Word: motherlessness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From motherless + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being motherless (not having a (living) mother). Labels: uncountable
Word: carton-pierre Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French carton-pierre (literally “stone cardboard”). Pronunciation: /kɑː(ɹ)ˌtɒn.piˈɛə(ɹ)/, /ˌkɑː(ɹ)tɒnˈpjɛə(ɹ)/ 1. Papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration. Labels: uncountable Example: There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth; there was a sideboard robbed out of the carved work of a church in the Low Countries, and a large brass cathedral lamp over the round oak table; there were old family portraits from Wardour Street and tapestry from France, bits of armour, double-handed swords and battle-axes made of carton-pierre, looking-glasses, statuettes of saints, and Dresden china—nothing, in a word, could be chaster. Example: “[…]Your talent is so great that it is in everything you do, in what's less good as well as in what's best. You've some forty volumes to show for it—forty volumes of life, of observation, of magnificent ability.” “I'm very clever, of course I know that,” St. George replied, quietly. “Lord, what rot they'd all be if I hadn't been! I'm a successful charlatan—I've been able to pass off my system. But do you know what it is? It's carton-pierre.”
Word: unanimated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + animated. 1. Inanimate. 2. Not animated; lacking vivacity.
Word: cringeling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cringe + -ling. 1. One who cringes and fawns; a submissive toady.
Word: cringelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cringeling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mosquelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mosque + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a mosque.
Word: substandardly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From substandard + -ly. 1. In a substandard way.
Word: moustachelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From moustache + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a moustache.
Word: beardlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beard + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a beard.
Word: mustachelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mustache + -like. 1. Alternative spelling of moustachelike. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: beardy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɪədi/ 1. Bearded. Example: The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes. Example: His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face. 2. Manly, masculine. Example: The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.
Word: beardy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beard + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbɪədi/ 1. A bearded person or animal: Labels: informal Example: His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’ Example: Seven such social groups were present at the two festivals: Beardies; Jammers; Irish Fiddlers; Poets; Dancers; Campers an Vanners.[…]The Beardies are men, mainly heavily bearded; described by David as ‘the traditionalists and fundamentalists of the folk scene’ who are often heads of folk club[s], the older generation and the highly respected (Figure 15.1). 2. A bearded person or animal: Labels: informal Example: The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills. 3. A bearded person or animal: Labels: informal Example: But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…]. Example: It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures. 4. A bearded person or animal: Labels: informal Example: Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one. Example: Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time. 5. A bearded person or animal: Labels: informal Example: Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.
Word: nonsimulation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + simulation. 1. That is not, or does not pertain to, a simulation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unsimulated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + simulated. 1. Not simulated; real, authentic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: vibratingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From vibrating + -ly. 1. In a vibrating way; accompanied by vibrations. 2. In a way or to an extent that makes one vibrate. Example: It is interesting that someone who spends "maybe...ten minutes per month" with men can take to hating them with such zeal […] It must be a very vibratingly intense 10 minutes with some very nasty men.
Word: necessitously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From necessitous + -ly. 1. In a necessitous way.
Word: uninvaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + invaded. 1. Not invaded. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unbesieged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + besieged. 1. Not besieged. Labels: not-comparable
Word: on the face of it Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Seemingly; to all appearances; as far as can be seen or determined without deeper investigation or analysis. Labels: idiomatic Example: On the face of it, his case seemed hopeless. But appearances can be deceptive.
Word: pocket gopher Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America. Example: The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980). Example: Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.
Word: quirkyalones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quirkyalone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pocket gophers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pocket gopher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: slutlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From slut + -like. 1. Like a slut; slutty, promiscuous. Labels: rare
Word: transderivational Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From transderivation + -al. 1. Of or pertaining to transderivation.
Word: Becki Part of Speech: name Etymology: A fanciful respelling of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca. Pronunciation: /ˈbɛki/ 1. A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky.
Word: ostrichlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ostrich + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of an ostrich; struthian 2. Ignoring an imminent threat or unpleasant reality; head-in-the-sand Example: Should our response to these paradoxes of the modern world be to maintain our comfort level with an ostrichlike denial of the evidence, or to hold an alarmist and paranoid discourse?
Word: charbroiler Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From charbroil + -er. 1. A device for charbroiling; a chargrill.
Word: charbroilers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of charbroiler Labels: form-of, plural
Word: peanutlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From peanut + -like. 1. Resembling a peanut.
Word: wild boars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wild boar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Gricean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Grice + -an. 1. Of or pertaining to Paul Grice (1913-1988), British-educated philosopher of language, who helped to found the linguistic field of pragmatics. Example: Comedy often relies on flouting the norms of Gricean communication.
Word: trustless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trust + -less. 1. Lacking trust; untrusting. Labels: not-comparable 2. Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party. Labels: not-comparable Example: A trustless network can run even if none of its nodes trusts another. Example: In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions. 3. Untrustworthy; not deserving to be trusted. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: But thinks it not that[…]the voice which the spirit uttereth when he is gone from man[…]is a voice proceeding from the spirit which is in earthly, ignorant, and overclouded man; and therefore a trustles and not to be-believed voice?
Word: unfishlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fishlike. 1. Not fishlike; unlike a fish.
Word: gametangium Part of Speech: noun 1. A gamete-producing organ or cell found in many multicellular protists, algae and fungi, and in the gametophytes of plants. Example: Gymnoascus and its allies; the gametangia are not much differentiated; both, like the mycelial cells, are multinucleate (it is difficult to gauge the significance of this character in Fungi) and the oogonium, or an outgrowth from it becomes septate after fertilization and gives rise to ascogenous hyphae.
Word: gametangia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gametangium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: azhdarchid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scientific Latin Azhdarchidae (family name), ultimately from Persian اژدر (“mythological serpent”). 1. Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time. Example: There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids. Example: Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the largest-ever living flyers, bigger and lighter than Orville and Wilbur Wright's early aeroplanes, glided overhead.