nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: tonlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tonlet, Old French tonnelet (French tonnelet (“high breeches; keg”)). Pronunciation: /ˈtɔn.lɛt/ 1. A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot. Labels: historical Example: Accordingly, the Greenwich armoury hurriedly prepared a somewhat more conventional suit of foot combat armour made from existing pieces but incorporating newly made symmetrical pauldrons and a tonlet. Example: On some the buttocks and groin are also fully encased in steel; while, on others, these same parts are protected by a tonlet, a deep steel skirt that widens downward to facilitate leg movement (see cat. 37). 2. One of the plates which make up such a skirt. Labels: historical Example: Soon after this the six or eight "tonlets" grow fewer, being continued on the lower edge by the so-called tuilles, small plates strapped to the tonlets and swinging with the movement of the legs. Example: The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.
Word: tonlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tonlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overcoy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From over- + coy. 1. Excessively coy.
Word: overeagerly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English overegreli, ouer egirly, equivalent to overeager + -ly. 1. In an overeager manner.
Word: overcritically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From overcritical + -ly. 1. In an overcritical manner.
Word: postdepression Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + depression. 1. After an economic depression. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postdevaluation Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + devaluation. 1. After a financial devaluation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sepmag Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of separate magnetic (“from the magnetic tape used for recording”). 1. Having a separately magnetically recorded soundtrack running concurrently with the film footage. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: At the appropriate distances (28, 26 and 20 frames) ahead of the JOIN PICTURE HERE line there are rows of squares, circles and triangles which indicate the correct splicing points for 16-mm sepmag, 16-mm sepopt and […] Example: Sound for these two telecines is reproduced from conventional sepmag tape machines.
Word: presleep Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + sleep. 1. Before a period of sleep. Labels: not-comparable
Word: proudful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English proudful, proudvol, equivalent to proud + -ful. 1. Full of pride; excessively proud.
Word: taihoa Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Māori taihoa (“wait; do not hurry”). 1. Slow and cautious; gradual. Labels: New-Zealand, not-comparable Example: He found in office that the taihoa policy was not the creation of his predecessor, but was imposed by the fundamental conditions of the problem to which every Native Minister has to address himself. Example: The main aim of the Liberal government had always been pakeha land settlement, even through the taihoa period.
Word: spewy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spew + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈspjuː(w)i/ 1. Feeling like vomiting; nauseous. Labels: informal 2. Moist; marshy; emitting water. Labels: obsolete, possibly Example: Between two ridges of raised ground and on the falling slope occur spewy springs issuing from the higher ground above, and soaking down the hollow, widening and gathering moisture till the water issues in a small rill at the bottom[…] Example: The ground in places is spewy and boggy from the wet.
Word: subcurative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + curative. 1. Insufficient to effect a cure. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sobful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sob + -ful. 1. Full of sobs; tearful, weeping. Labels: archaic
Word: sazzes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saz Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scalpless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From scalp + -less. 1. Without a scalp. Labels: not-comparable
Word: succahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of succah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tediousome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tedious + -some. 1. Characterised or marked by tediousness; wearisome. Labels: rare Example: "It was an unco pleasant show," said the good-natured Mrs. Blower, "only it was a pity it was sae tediousome; and there was surely an awfu' waste of gauze and muslin." Example: Thus equipped we took our departure for Lake la Pluie, where we arrived on the second of October after a tediousome and disagreable passage[…]
Word: tediousnesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tediousness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tediums Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tedium Labels: form-of, plural
Word: profamily Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pro- + family. 1. In favour of the traditional social construct of the family.
Word: syndyasmian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek συνδυασμός (sunduasmós, “combination of two, copulation”), from συν- (sun-) + δυάς (duás). 1. Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring. Labels: not-comparable 2. Pertaining to a family structure in which couples pair off (sometimes only temporarily for the rearing of children), but do not practice exclusive cohabitation, instead living with others in a communal household. Labels: not-comparable Example: Two forms of the family had appeared before the syndiasmian, and created two great systems of consanguinity, or rather two distinct forms of the same system, but this third family neither produced a new system nor sensibly modified the old. The syndiasmian family continued for an unknown period of time enveloped in a system of consanguinity, false, in the main, to existing relationships, and which it had no power to break. This was reserved for monogamy, the coming power, able to dissolve the fabric. Example: We should note that matriarchy is easily explained as the almost inevitable successor of syndiasmian marriage or, more generally, of polyandry.
Word: Vehmique Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of Vehmic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Vehmic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Vehm + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to the Vehm, a Westphalian tribunal system during the Middle Ages. Labels: historical, not-comparable
Word: vowless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vow + -less. 1. Without a vow; not having taken a vow. Labels: not-comparable
Word: taxpaid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tax + paid. 1. On which tax has been paid. Labels: not-comparable
Word: squeg Part of Speech: verb 1. To undergo squegging. Labels: transitive
Word: squegs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of squeg Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: squegged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of squeg Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: squelcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From squelch + -er. 1. One who, or that which, squelches. Example: CELLULITE — the dimpled, uneven skin that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere — is a scourge to bikini-wearers and a squelcher of lights-on romps in bed.
Word: squelchers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squelcher Labels: form-of, plural
Word: postdrug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + drug. 1. After a drug is administered. Labels: not-comparable
Word: predrug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + drug. 1. Before a drug is administered. Labels: not-comparable
Word: poculiform Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin pōculum (“cup”) + -iform; compare French poculiforme. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒkjʊlɪfɔːm/, /ˈpɑkjəlɪfɔɹm/ 1. Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup. Example: Poculiform (poculiforme) cylindrically cup-shaped, with the base hemispherical, and but slightly, or not at all, spreading or recurved at the mouth. Example: JASMINUM bracteatum […] Calyx pubescent; tube poculiform, subnervose; segments setaceous, erect, as long as the tube.
Word: poculiform Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin pōculum (“cup”) + -iform; compare French poculiforme. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒkjʊlɪfɔːm/, /ˈpɑkjəlɪfɔɹm/ 1. A variety of snowdrop with petals of the same length. Example: Poculiforms Known since the nineteenth century, poculiform snowdrops derive their name from the Latin poculus ('little cup'), and were named by the Revd. Henry Harpur-Crew (1828–1883). The inner segments are elongated so that all six flower segments are generally equal in length, forming a rounded, bowl-shaped flower. Example: 'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms […] it's not a strong grower.
Word: reccying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reccy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reccied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reccy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: preovulatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + ovulatory. 1. Prior to ovulation. Labels: not-comparable Example: Preovulatory animals, expressing female-like pseudosexual behavior, are characterized by an elevated concentration of E and a moderate concentration of progesterone (P) […]
Word: prepueblo Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + pueblo. 1. Prior to communities based around a pueblo. Labels: not-comparable
Word: rewin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + win. 1. To win again or anew, to win back. Labels: transitive
Word: rewinning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rewin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rewins Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rewin Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: rewon Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of rewin Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: semiraw Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + raw. 1. Partly raw; not yet fully processed. Labels: not-comparable Example: semiraw effluent
Word: torrentuous Part of Speech: adj 1. torrential Labels: archaic
Word: throughother Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Probably from Irish. However, it has parallels in both Goidelic (e.g. Irish trína chéile) and Germanic (e.g. Scots throuither, German durcheinander). 1. untidy Labels: Ireland, dialectal
Word: straphang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From strap + hang. 1. To ride public transport while standing and holding onto a strap. Labels: intransitive Example: Instead of having people coming from the outskirts, straphanging in omnibuses and trains, working in the centre under congested conditions in badly lit, insanitary buildings[…] Example: Unheeding the conductor's warning glare, Mr. Devine straphung, smiling, his lips forming soundless phrases as though he enjoyed a delightful, inaudible conversation.
Word: straphangs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of straphang Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: straphanging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of straphang Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: straphung Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of straphang Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: postfracture Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + fracture. 1. After a bone fracture. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postvagotomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + vagotomy. 1. After a vagotomy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: postgastrectomy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From post- + gastrectomy. 1. After a gastrectomy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: queen regnant Part of Speech: noun 1. A female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning monarch.
Word: Postmaster General Part of Speech: noun 1. A postmaster responsible for an entire mail distribution organization (usually sponsored by a national government).
Word: minister-president Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From minister + president. 1. The head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers.
Word: Princess Royal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A calque translation of French princesse royale, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun. 1. A style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter.
Word: body corporate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English body corporat, body corporate (also body incorperate), equivalent to body + corporate (adjective) and modelled on Middle French corps corporat. 1. A corporation, when viewed as a legal person. Example: The Procureur at Singapore of La Société des Missions Étrangères to be a body corporate [section title] [section] 2.—(1) The said Nicolas Justin Couvreur and his successors for the time being in the office of Procureur at Singapore of "La Société des Missions Étrangères", duly qualified as hereinafter provided, shall be a body corporate, hereinafter called the corporation, and shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have the name of "The Procureur in Singapore of La Société des Missions Étrangères", and by that name have perpetual succession, and shall and may have and use a corporate seal. Example: Section 314 of the 1980 Act provides that a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of a body corporate that has committed particular offences under the 1980 Act will also be guilty of those offences if it can be proved that the offence was committed with the consent or connivance of that officer or is attributable to the neglect of the officer. 2. A legal person. Labels: broadly 3. An organization of individuals that jointly own a shared housing facility such as a condominium or set of townhouses under a community titles scheme. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: Rules governing the behaviour of residents or tenants are set in two ways: by legislation and by the body corporate creating its own rules of management. Example: This commission is not paid by the body corporate and does not come out of the levies paid by lot owners. Rather, it is a commission paid by each lot owner of the apartments that the onsite letting agent manages as real estate agent.
Word: procurator fiscal Part of Speech: noun 1. A local coroner and public prosecutor in Scotland. Example: There was word of the procurator fiscal taking note of his doings, and troth, if they had continued long he must have fled the country. Example: For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
Word: monetary units Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monetary unit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: witticist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Derived from witticism, with + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪ.tɪ.sɪst/ 1. A person who frequently uses witticisms.
Word: copyfighting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of copyfight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stamps out Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of stamp out Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: stamping out Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stamp out Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stamped out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of stamp out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sarissophoros Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek σαρισσοφόρος (sarissophóros, “sarissa-bearer”). 1. A light cavalry unit in Ancient Greece that held a long spear for charging and was equipped with several javelins for harassing the enemy. Labels: historical
Word: sarissophoroi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarissophoros Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prodromos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόδρομος (pródromos, “forerunner”). 1. a skirmisher cavalry unit used in an Ancient Greek army for scouting ahead of the main force Labels: historical
Word: prodromoi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of prodromos Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Osiride Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to Osiris. Labels: not-comparable Example: an Osiride pillar
Word: osmunda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Medieval Latin osmunda (“royal fern”). Compare osmund. 1. A fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern, Osmunda regalis. Example: The fair Osmunda seeks the silent dell, / The ivy canopy, and dripping cell […].
Word: interdependentness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From interdependent + -ness. 1. The quality of being interdependent. Labels: uncountable
Word: windspeeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of windspeed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midflame Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mid- + flame. 1. At half the height of a flame. Labels: not-comparable Example: Wind was measured at midflame height where values might be expected to be somewhat lower than standard 20-foot, open anemometer heights.
Word: cambro Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a trademark of the Cambro Manufacturing Company. 1. An insulated container for keeping food or drink hot. Example: At seven o'clock, on schedule, one of Chef James's staff arrived with the portable insulated containers known to caterers as Cambros. Example: During transportation and set-up, a holding oven, or cambro, is usually required to keep food hot. These are used to keep dinner rolls, roasts, turkeys, chicken breasts and all other hot food at the right temperature[…]
Word: cambros Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cambro Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cambrics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cambric Labels: form-of, plural
Word: asudden Part of Speech: adv 1. of a sudden; suddenly Labels: dialectal, not-comparable, poetic Example: 1941, Gilbert Murray (translating Sophocles), The Antigone Then, all asudden, up a great wind blew, A lifted scourge, an anguish of the air.
Word: antigenerative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + generative. 1. Opposing generation or procreation. Example: If the seed packets (and the absence of seeds in them) begin to suggest the generative sterility-in-mass-production, the incapacity of those in a female workforce to conceive, the antigenerative quality of this work becomes still more apparent when we consider in greater detail the paper that the mill produces. Example: Her desire is a desire to die, and the dark tomb is described as her bridal chamber. She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.
Word: antigenemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From antigenemia + -ic. 1. Exhibiting or pertaining to antigenemia. Labels: not-comparable
Word: antigenaemic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of antigenemic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: flirtini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of flirt + martini. 1. A cocktail of vodka, champagne and pineapple juice. Example: […]a hot spot for beautiful people who come to drink flirtinis and choose from a dizzying array of seafood dishes. Example: The Flying Frog and the Frog Bar and Deli upstairs mix all manner of funky drinks—the Flirtini with raspberry vodka, the Dirty Cajun with pepper vodka and olive juice, the Gingertini blending vanilla vodka and fresh ginger syrup, and a mimosa made from the juice of the lychee fruit. Kirti says the martinis made with lychee juice have a "rosy nose."
Word: flirtinis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flirtini Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acushlas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acushla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ostensorio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Italian 1. A monstrance.
Word: convexoplane Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From convex + -o- + plane. 1. planoconvex Labels: not-comparable
Word: interpsychic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + psychic. 1. Between psyches. Labels: not-comparable Example: In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…]
Word: juncaceous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Juncaceae + -ous 1. rushy; rushlike
Word: metavanadates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metavanadate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metatungstates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of metatungstate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: metavanadic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meta- + vanadic acid. 1. A vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid. Labels: uncountable
Word: lighttight Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of light-tight. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: ouija Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of Ouija. Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable Example: Mediums — tipping tables — ouijas — all that sort of thing.
Word: ouijas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ouija Labels: form-of, plural
Word: galvanisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of galvanism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dilettantisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dilettantism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kelpy Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kelpie (shapeshifting spirit). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sneaksby Part of Speech: noun 1. A paltry person; a sneak. Labels: obsolete Example: 16??, Isaac Barrow […] such a superstitious fop, such a conscientious simpleton, such a bashful sneaksby […] Example: I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion: I am no proud man, d'ye see, and when the liquor is offered me I whip it off, that they may not take me for a churl or a sneaksby, or think I don't understand myself nor good manners[…]
Word: sneaksbies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sneaksby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: prevue Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French prevue (literally “preview”). 1. Alternative form of preview. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated, rare Example: The new mechanical horse ride did capacity business, and spot's new cocktail lounge was prevued to enthusiastic reception.
Word: prevue Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French prevue (literally “preview”). 1. Alternative form of preview. Labels: alt-of, alternative, dated, rare
Word: prevued Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of prevue Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: prevuing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prevue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pulpless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pulp + -less. 1. Without pulp. Labels: not-comparable Example: In determining when to extract a pulpless tooth, it is necessary to take into consideration many factors.
Word: perhydroisoquinolines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of perhydroisoquinoline Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Stack Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: subabdominal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sub- + abdominal. 1. Beneath the abdomen. Labels: not-comparable Example: The larva has now two serratures, or spines, on the cephalothorax; the legs are the same as in the second stage, but the subabdominal fins are more developed, and the tail has acquired two leaflets on each side[…]
Word: sheeters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sheeter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rebukable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From rebuke + -able. 1. Deserving a rebuke; shameful.
Word: daffodowndillies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of daffodowndilly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: skyman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sky + man. 1. A male aviator. Labels: dated, slang
Word: skymen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of skyman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unrebukable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + rebukable. 1. Above rebuke; honourable.
Word: Finnhorse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Finn + horse. 1. A Finnish breed of horse with both riding and draught horse characteristics.
Word: Finnhorses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Finnhorse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Finnish horse Part of Speech: noun 1. A breed of horse, the Finnhorse.
Word: schizophytes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of schizophyte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: purparties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of purparty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pulpous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pulp + -ous. Cf. also Late Latin pulpōsus. 1. pulpy, soft Example: A method of coating a core in strand form with pulp, which consists in collecting pulpous material from liquid suspension, positioning the core adjacent said material, depositing additional pulpous material on the core[…]
Word: mitey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mite + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪti/ 1. Of or pertaining to mites. 2. Infested with mites. Example: Mr. Robert Farquhar paid the town's people in old mitey meal for his soldiers entertainment, who had continued there a long time. Example: A few specimens transferred from a mitey cheese to an old cheese not mitey, will soon colonize it thoroughly.
Word: mitey Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mighty. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪti/ 1. Eye dialect spelling of mighty. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling Example: He ain' got nuttin tall cep'n some mitey good nabors dat come by fer him ever day an' caird him up to lay him down by de back do' er dat air rich man, dat air Mr. Dives. Example: "I knowed your great-grandpaw mitey well, son, and your grandpaw and your own daddy.[…]"
Word: mitey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From matey. Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪti/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of matey. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: Above him a frowsy head looked out and a sleepy voice with a cockney accent said, "Hallo, mitey," and vanished.
Word: adjacents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of adjacent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heroicomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of heroic + comic. 1. Alternative form of heroicomical. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: heroicomical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of heroic + comical. 1. Blending heroic and comical elements. Example: a heroicomical poem
Word: quizzery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quiz + -ery. 1. Mockery; teasing or playing pranks. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: quizzeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quizzery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nontemporary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + temporary. 1. Not temporary. Labels: not-comparable
Word: non-temporary Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of nontemporary. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: serveable Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of servable. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: softgoods Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From soft + goods. 1. Soft products manufactured from textiles, such as clothes, mats, curtains, and cushions. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: semihigh Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + high. 1. Moderately high. Labels: not-comparable Example: a semihigh bridge Example: semihigh speed
Word: seldseen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English seldscene, seltsene (“rarely encountered, seldom seen; rare; as adv. seldom, rarely”), from Old English seldsīene, seldsēne (“rare, extraordinary, unfamiliar, uncommon”). Cognate with Old High German seltsāni, Modern German seltsam. 1. seldom seen, rare, uncommon Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: And seldseen costly stones of so great price. Example: […] and awakening, saw a serpent like a dragon, a seldseen sight.
Word: misdistribution Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + distribution. 1. Incorrect or unfair distribution. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: misdistribution of trust funds Example: a misdistribution of iron in the body
Word: misdistributions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misdistribution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: remercied Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of remercy Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: remercying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of remercy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: Digiboxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Digibox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misdistribute Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From mis- + distribute. 1. To distribute incorrectly or unfairly. Labels: transitive Example: Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly. Example: It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
Word: misdistributing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of misdistribute Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: misdistributes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of misdistribute Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: misdistributed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of misdistribute Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: redist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of redistributable. 1. A redistributable software component. Labels: informal Example: There are a handful of allowed ways to update system files (service packs, hotfixes, MS update, redists like MDAC) and people building install packages just need to figure out which redist or SP gets the files updated to the level they think they need.
Word: redists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of redist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wiener filter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Norbert Wiener. 1. A filter that takes a statistical approach to filtering out noise that has corrupted a signal.
Word: depacketizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From depacketize + -er. 1. A circuit or system that depacketizes.
Word: depacketizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of depacketizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mattresslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mattress + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a mattress. Example: You should be more mattresslike [the speaker, 'Zem', is a mattress]
Word: mattressy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mattress + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a mattress; large, soft, and yielding. Labels: informal Example: “You try it Mister, and so help me God I will make sure you spend the rest of your non-adult life bouncing off the mattressy walls of a psych ward.”
Word: I want to go to the toilet Part of Speech: phrase 1. Indicates that the speaker feels the urge to go the toilet.
Word: raygne Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of rain. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. Obsolete spelling of reign. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: raygne Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of reign. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rych. ye raygne as kyngꝭ with out vs: ãd I wold to god ye did raygne / that we myght raygne with you. 2. Obsolete spelling of raign. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: attack dog Part of Speech: noun 1. Any dog bred, trained or used for the purpose of attacking a target, either on command or on sight; trained either as a specialized form of police dog or a security force dog. 2. A dog used in the bloodsport of dogfighting. 3. A person who engages in rhetorical attacks on behalf of another. Labels: figuratively Example: It was, however, as Charles Darwin's alter ego, an attack dog for the theory of evolution, that Huxley gained his greatest notoriety. 4. A person or other entity who fights physically on behalf of another. Labels: figuratively Example: In the middle of the night, snow falling all around, the Hound digs the family a grave. We didn’t need this episode to know the Hound has changed. Even if we hadn’t seen his relationship with Arya start to work its magic on him, the Hound’s time with the septon who saved him shows how far he’s come from the Lannisters’ attack dog.
Word: half staff Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of half-staff. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: halfstaff Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of half-staff. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: roller dockers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roller docker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: snap it up Part of Speech: verb 1. To hurry, to proceed quickly. Labels: US, dated, idiomatic Example: "Come now, let's snap it up! Faster! Faster! Think fast! Let's go!" Example: President hopes to Push Wealth Taxes Through in a Month.
Word: Somethingism Part of Speech: name Etymology: From something + -ism. 1. an unspecified belief in some higher force.
Word: Hartogs number Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After German-Jewish mathematician Friedrich Hartogs (1874–1943). 1. For a given set X, the cardinality of the least ordinal number α such that there is no injection from α into X. Example: 1973 [North-Holland], Thomas J. Jech, The Axiom of Choice, 2013, Dover, page 160, Let p be an infinite cardinal, |X|=p and let א=א(p) be the Hartogs number of p. Example: 1995, The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Volume 1, Association for Symbolic Logic, page 139, If the Power Set Axiom is replaced by "א(x) is bound for every x" where א(x)={a|∃f(f is one-to-one function from a into x)}, then the theory is denoted by ZFH (H stands for Hartogs' Number).
Word: Hartlepudlians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hartlepudlian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grubbies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of grubby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: grubbies Part of Speech: noun 1. Clothes that are grubby. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only
Word: mislocation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mis- + location. 1. misplacement Labels: countable, uncountable 2. incorrect specification of a location Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: mislocations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mislocation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trully Part of Speech: adv 1. Obsolete form of truly. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: roadcraft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From road + craft, coined by the British police as a title for some driving handbooks. 1. The skill of driving a road vehicle. Labels: uncountable
Word: oxysulfate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oxy- + sulfate. 1. A compound containing both an oxide and a sulfate anion. Example: Magnesium oxysulfate cement is formulated by the reaction between magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate solution, and like that of magnesium oxychloride it has very good binding properties.
Word: oxysulphate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From oxy- + sulphate. 1. Alternative form of oxysulfate. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: third screen Part of Speech: noun 1. The screen of a mobile device (as opposed to earlier television and computer screens), regarded as a means of transmitting advertisements etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: oxysulphates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxysulphate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oxysulfates Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxysulfate Labels: form-of, plural
Word: intraquartile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intra- + quartile. 1. Within a quartile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: alphamerics Part of Speech: noun 1. alphanumeric characters Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: videoframe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From video + frame. 1. A frame of video data; a screenful.
Word: videoframes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of videoframe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: viewdatas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of viewdata Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Wiener filters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wiener filter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: X-junctions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of X-junction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cambro-Briton Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cambro- + Briton. 1. A Welsh person. Example: This eminent and ever-memorable Cambro-Briton, Vavasoh Powell, was a native of Radnorshire, of no mean origin, or ignoble descent, being related to some of the best families in that county, and also in those of Montgomery and Salop.
Word: Cambro-Britons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Cambro-Briton Labels: form-of, plural
Word: inclined planes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of inclined plane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: AM-GM Inequality Part of Speech: name Etymology: From arithmetic mean – geometric mean inequality. 1. The fact that the arithmetic mean of nonnegative numbers is not less than their geometric mean, and is more if some of the numbers are distinct.
Word: predicand Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From predicate + -and. 1. What a clausal predicate, predicative complement or adjunct relates to. Example: In, "downhearted, he left," the predicand for downhearted is the person denoted by he (cf. he was downhearted). 2. The referent of the phrase of which another constituent (the predicate) is predicated. Example: For example, in They appear uneasy, the property of being uneasy is predicated of (the referent of) they, which is therefore the predicand.
Word: paraspecies Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From para- + species. 1. A species that gave rise to daughter species without itself becoming extinct Labels: uncountable
Word: in dutch Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of in Dutch. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: no hell Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of no screaming hell. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: peameal bacon Part of Speech: noun 1. Back bacon that has been brined and coated with fine cornmeal or with a meal made of ground, dried peas. Labels: Canada, uncountable
Word: mithridatic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: General application of Mithridatic, q.v. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪθrɪˈdeɪtɪk/ 1. Of or related to mithridates, universally curative against all poisons. Labels: historical 2. Of or related to mithridatism, the gradual acquisition of immunity to poison through repeated exposure. Example: He turned the pages slowly, moving on to other metropolitan catastrophes, the next mithridatic outrage, the pages fluttered behind the front page but the headline remained the same, in the same place hovering across from her.
Word: mithridatic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: General application of Mithridatic, q.v. Pronunciation: /ˌmɪθrɪˈdeɪtɪk/ 1. Synonym of antidote: a treatment which functions like a mithridate. Labels: archaic
Word: toast of the town Part of Speech: noun 1. A person, male or female, who is admired and very popular in local society, and who is sought after to attend parties, public events, etc. Labels: dated, idiomatic Example: I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said among them a', "Ye are na Mary Morison." Example: Miss Moore was the toast of the town, and numerous were the advantageous opportunities of matrimony of which she was the recipient.
Word: manœuvrability Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of manoeuvrability. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon, uncountable Example: After a week's manœuvrability tests at Winwick, the locomotive was to undergo three weeks' trials, light engine and loaded, between Whitchurch and Tattenhall Junction.
Word: manœuvrable Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of maneuverable. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: colonizable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Latin colōnus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin colōniader. Middle English colane English colony Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English colonize Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English colonizable From colonize + -able. 1. Capable of being colonized. Example: Gazing at the magniscreen, he rubbed his palms together in satisfaction. His ship was swinging smoothly in an orbit high above a newly-discovered planet, and the magniscreen was focused on the landscape below. No Dal ship had ever been in this part of the galaxy before, and it was comforting to have discovered a colonizable planet so quickly.
Word: Paganini Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian Paganini. 1. One of a set of blocks for raising the height of a person or equipment. Example: Hannah King stands on 'paganinis' (wooden blocks) to embrace Patrick Ryecart […] Example: […] a small wedge of wood used to hold open doors and level furniture on the set. Usually carried by the stagehands, standby carpenters, etc., its use is more precise than Paganinis.
Word: right identities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of right identity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leg spinners Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leg spinner Labels: form-of, plural
Word: soss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool. Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: soss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sosse, sos, soos (“hounds' meat; a mess of food”), of uncertain origin. See sesspool. Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. To soil; to make dirty. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: soss Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare souse. Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. To fall suddenly into a chair or seat; to sit lazily. Example: sossing in an easy chair 2. To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. Example: the coach sosses up and down as one goes that way
Word: soss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare souse. Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. A lazy fellow. Labels: obsolete 2. A heavy fall. Example: wi a soss aboon the claiths Ilk ane their gifts down flang
Word: soss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. A sausage (food product). Labels: slang Example: "Where's Bozz? He never misses a soss sizzle."
Word: soss Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phonetic spelling of a clipping of sausage Pronunciation: /sɒs/ 1. eye-dialect spelling of sauce Labels: countable, rare, uncountable
Word: proscænium Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of proscenium. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The square whose side is nearest to the “scaena,” and cuts off a segment of the circle, determines by this line the limits of the “proscænium” (A–B).
Word: Zell Part of Speech: name 1. Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands. Example: I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […] 2. Ellipsis of Zell am See, a town in Salzburg, Austria. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: vocaliser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of vocalizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: visualiser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of visualizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: OCP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of oral contraceptive pill. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Open Closed Principle. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: open/closed principle Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of open-closed principle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sunly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Sun; solar. Example: Aside he flung his sunly symbols. Like a falling star, from the Vale of Gods He dropp'd, like a falling star shot through the Shoreless space; like a golden morning reach'd The earth, —reach'd the lake. Example: "Nay, The sun is single, but her eyes are twain, — Twain firmaments that mock with heavenlier hue The heavens' less lordly and less gracious blue, And lit with sunlier sunlight through and through." 2. Sane. Labels: broadly Example: [...] than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky [...]
Word: sunly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English sonnelych, sunnelich, from Old English sunlīċ (“of the sun, solar”). Equivalent to sun + -ly. 1. In a sunly manner. Example: Hopes that beam the sunliest, Like the wavelet's silver crest, [...]
Word: plain-woven Part of Speech: adj 1. Woven with the most basic textile weave, called plain weave. Labels: not-comparable
Word: moonly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English monelich, from Old English mōnlīċ (“lunar”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānalīk (“pertaining to the moon, moon-like”), equivalent to moon + -ly. Cognate with Middle Dutch maenlijc (“moonly, lunar”), German mondlich (“lunar”). 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Moon; lunar; moonlike. Labels: archaic Example: Here and there were young moonly faces selling refreshments. Example: Then, the regenerative process will be changed; the moonly changes will begin to go the reverse way around the zodiac. Ladies will observe that the time of their moonly weakness will come one sign earlier or about two and a half days […] 2. Lunatic. Labels: archaic, broadly
Word: starly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral. Labels: nonstandard Example: [...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...] Example: If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above.
Word: starly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly. 1. In a starly manner. Labels: nonstandard Example: For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them. Example: [...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]
Word: mouthly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mouth + -ly. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral. Labels: rare Example: Wherefore if in very deed they eat the Substance of the Flesh and Blood of Christ, they are not far from the mouthly eating of the Lutherans, […] Which if any one deny, the whole Building of the Mass and Transubstantiation falls to the ground, together with the mouthly and real Eating of the Substance of the Flesh and Blood of Christ. Example: Gerhard Botz organised an exploratory half-day session on oral history (or more precisely, 'mouthly history') […]
Word: Shaftesburian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Shaftesbury + -an. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, of his writings, or of his philosophical doctrines. Labels: not-comparable Example: Johnſon bore [the 3rd Lord Shaftesbury] no good will, neither did he ſeem at all to reliſh the cant of the Shafteſburian ſchool.
Word: Shaftesbury Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English Sċeaftesburg. Pronunciation: /ˈʃæftsbɹɪ/ 1. A town and civil parish with a town council in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8623). 2. A community and ward in Newport, Wales. 3. An English earldom.
Word: footly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English *fotlich, from Old English fōtlīċ (“on foot, pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + -ly. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the foot or feet. Labels: not-comparable Example: It has been officially confirmed that this refers to the four-legged variety and is in no way connected with any footly revival of Aneurin Bevan's previous detection about the place of two-legged dextral vermin. 2. Pedestrian; on foot. Labels: nonce-word, not-comparable Example: All footly were the Illiterates, […]