nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: idioticon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *swé Borrowed from German Idiotikon, Idioticon (archaic), from Late Latin idioticon (chiefly in the titles of works), from Ancient Greek ἰδιωτικόν (idiōtikón), the neuter singular of ἰδιωτικός (idiōtikós, “pertaining to or for a person not engaged in public affairs; private; amateurish”), from ῐ̓δῐώτης (ĭdĭṓtēs, “person not engaged in public affairs; amateur, layperson; ignorant person, idiot”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῐ̓δῐώτης is derived from ῐ̓́δῐος (ĭ́dĭos, “private (as opposed to public); distinct, separate; peculiar, specific”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self (reflexive pronoun)”) + -ώτης (-ṓtēs, suffix forming nouns referring to types of persons). The English word is cognate with Dutch idioticon. The plural form idiotica is derived from German Idiotika, Latin idiotica, and Ancient Greek ἰδιωτῐκᾰ́ (idiōtĭkắ). Pronunciation: /ˌɪdɪˈəʊtɪk(ə)n/, /-kɒn/, /ˌɪdiˈoʊtək(ə)n/, /-ˌkɑn/, [-ɾə-] 1. A dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country. Example: IDIO′TICON. (Gr[eek]) A word of frequent use in Germany, signifying a dictionary confined to a particular dialect, or containing words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country. Example: There exist in Germany several valuable Idiotica.
Word: praecognita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin praecognitus, past participle of praecognoscere (“to foreknow”). See pre- and cognition. 1. Things previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else. Labels: plural, plural-only, rare Example: It having been the common received Opinion amongſt Men of Letters, that Maxims were the foundations of all Knowledge; and that the Sciences were each of them built upon certain præcognita, […] Example: It is not true that we have either innate ideas or moral instincts that impel us to a love of virtue; for in such cases the most savage tribes among mankind would be the most virtuous; their præcognita, or innate ideas, being but little disturbed by foreign ideas, acquired by education or extensive commerce with the world; and their moral instincts as little disturbed by foreign habits acquired from the same causes.
Word: praescient Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of prescient. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Scotistic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to Scotism.
Word: Salvadorians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Salvadorian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Salvadorans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Salvadoran Labels: form-of, plural
Word: præliminary Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of preliminary. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: The Prerogative of Popular Government: A Politicall Discourse in Two Books. The former containing the first præliminary of Oceana, inlarged, interpreted, and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against it under the Notion of Objections; the second concerning ordination, against Dr. H. Hamond, Dr. L. Seaman, and the authors they follow.
Word: præliminary Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of preliminary. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete Example: He writ an excellent Latin Satyr, which I ſince Printed, wherein he excuſes the precipitation of our Intelligence, ſo ſuddenly come to perfection, ſaying, that being to have ſo ſhort continuance, as being begun ſo late, (for we were both full grown Men, and he ſome Years the older) there was no time to loſe; nor was ti’d to conform it ſelf to the example of thoſe ſlow and regular Friendſhips, that require ſo many precautions of a long præliminary Converſation.
Word: ofc Part of Speech: adv 1. Abbreviation of of course. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: Kristine Froseth plays a 26-year-old woman who is new to sex and starts an affair with her older boss. Ofc, drama ensues. 2. Abbreviation of of fucking course. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable, uncommon
Word: between jobs Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Unemployed. Labels: euphemistic
Word: food baby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By a jocular implication that the protruded abdomen is like that of pregnancy. 1. A protruding belly resulting from the consumption of a large quantity of food; the contents of one's digestive system causing the protrusion. Labels: humorous, idiomatic Example: I went to the restroom to give birth to a food baby... Example: JUNO: (in low tones) Dude, I'm pregnant. LEAH: Maybe it's just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?
Word: food baby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By a jocular implication that straining at stool is like straining at labor and delivery (childbirth). 1. A large or painful bowel movement. Labels: humorous, idiomatic, vulgar Example: —Do you need help in there? —I'm having a food baby!
Word: sitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”). 1. A brook; an occasional small waterway: a ditch, a gutter or drain; a ravine. Labels: dialectal Example: This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]
Word: sitch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of situation, with phonetic respelling. 1. A situation. Labels: slang Example: So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high. Example: Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.
Word: sitch Part of Speech: det 1. Pronunciation spelling of such. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: They stops you on the sly in the streets, and tells you to call at their house at sitch a hour of the day, and when you goes there they smuggles you quietly into some room by yourselves, and then sets to work Jewing away as hard as they can, prizing up their own things, and downcrying yourn.
Word: self-study Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + study. 1. Study without the aid of a formal educational institution. Labels: uncountable
Word: self-study Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From self- + study. 1. To study without the aid of a formal educational institution. Labels: intransitive
Word: self-learning Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From self- + learning. 1. Learning done by oneself, without a teacher or instructor. Labels: uncountable
Word: TSRA Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of thunderstorms with rain. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: Rube Goldberg machines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Rube Goldberg machine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sarment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sarmentum (“a twig”). 1. A long slender prostrate stem or runner, such as of the strawberry.
Word: broadwings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of broadwing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioneers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioneer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Peabody Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Pebody, equivalent to pea (“peacock”) + body (“body, person”). Pronunciation: /ˈpibɑdi/, /ˈpibədi/, /ˈpiːbədi/ 1. A surname transferred from the nickname. 2. A place in the United States: 3. A place in the United States: 4. A place in the United States: 5. A place in the United States:
Word: Peabody Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named for George Foster Peabody. Pronunciation: /ˈpibɑdi/, /ˈpibədi/, /ˈpiːbədi/ 1. The Peabody Award, granted annually and internationally for excellence in broadcasting.
Word: regenerant Part of Speech: noun 1. Any material that causes regeneration
Word: regenerator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From regenerate + -er. 1. One who, or that which, regenerates. Example: regenerator of content 2. A type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid.
Word: cassonade Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French cassonade. 1. raw unrefined cane sugar Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable
Word: solidate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin solidatus, past participle of solidare. See solder, consolidate. Pronunciation: /ˈsɒlɪdeɪt/ 1. To make solid or firm; to solidify. Labels: obsolete Example: With the sun's ray, Thy verse does solidate and crystallize
Word: subinfers Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of subinfer Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: subinfer Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From sub- + infer. 1. To infer from an inference previously made. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: it is easily subinfer'd that it is nor lawful for Christian Churches , […]to forsake the communion of each other
Word: obvs Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Clipping of obviously + -s (hypocoristic suffix). Compare blates (“blatantly”), totes (“totally”). Pronunciation: /ɒ(b)vz/, /ɑ(b)vz/ 1. Clipping of obviously. Labels: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang Example: Logan and Zoë had my number, obvs. But for once I wasn't sure that I wanted them to. Example: Like those blockbusters-with-sophisticated-allegorical-aspirations, District 9's greatest asset (beyond excellent visual effects, obvs) is its fascinating setting
Word: in respect of Part of Speech: prep 1. Regarding; concerning; pertaining to; with reference to. 2. On account of; by reason of; because of.
Word: hrmph Part of Speech: intj Pronunciation: /h(ɹ̩)m̩f/ 1. Expressing hesitation. 2. Expressing mild annoyance. 3. Representing clearing one's throat.
Word: cocktail dress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Apparently coined by Christian Dior in the late 1940s to refer to early-evening wear. 1. A type of women's evening dress suitable for semiformal occasions or cocktail parties.
Word: evolutionary biologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of evolutionary biologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cocktail hat Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of small, extravagant women's hat, such as a fascinator, suitable as evening wear or for cocktail parties.
Word: Limburgic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Limburg + -ic. 1. Limburgian, Limburgish (of, from, or relating to Limburg, its people or their language)
Word: Limburgic Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Limburg + -ic. 1. Limburgish (language)
Word: megaretailer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + retailer. 1. A retailer that operates on a very large scale. Example: Mom-and-pop stores gave up ground to a new generation of megaretailers, most of which look pretty much alike. Yet, through it all, one grocery retailer managed to survive—and flourish—by being different. Example: To reignite growth, the megaretailer is pushing into new, faster-growing product and service lines, including organic foods, in-store health clinics, and consumer financial services.
Word: megaretailers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megaretailer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lower Wendish Part of Speech: name 1. Lower Sorbian (language)
Word: Upper Wendish Part of Speech: name 1. Upper Sorbian (language)
Word: unsleek Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sleek. Pronunciation: /ˈʌnˈsliːk/ 1. Not sleek, the opposite of sleek; rough. Example: Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn, Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Uttered a little tender dolorous cry. Example: Bruce Nauman uses neon not to advertise a product or service but to make absurd or insulting proclamations, and his fiberglass is heavy and unsleek.
Word: antijacobin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + Jacobin, after the model of earlier French antijacobin. 1. A political opponent of the Jacobins. Labels: historical Example: For Pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever— Then turned a hearty Antijacobin— Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin.
Word: antijacobins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antijacobin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oviductal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From oviduct + -al. 1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the oviduct. Labels: not-comparable Example: Next Reports Eight Calves Cloned from Somatic Cells of a Single Adult Yoko Kato, Tetsuya Tani, Yusuke Sotomaru, Kazuo Kurokawa, Jun-ya Kato, Hiroshi Doguchi, Hiroshi Yasue, Yukio Tsunoda * Eight calves were derived from differentiated cells of a single adult cow, five from cumulus cells and three from oviductal cells out of 10 embryos transferred to surrogate cows (80 percent success). Example: Eggs were collected 13 to 15 hours after the hCG injection from the oviductal ampulla region under paraffin and were placed in a 400 µl drop of TYH medium (24) equilibrated with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C. Zona-free eggs were prepared by acidic tyrode according to the method described [B. Hogan, F. Costantini, E. Lacy, Manipulating the Mouse Embryo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1986)].
Word: untinted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tinted. 1. Not tinted; having a plain or default colour. Labels: not-comparable Example: The hideous exposure is not untinted with fairer lines; and we see traits here and there of true devotion, mistaken but heroic. Example: A large map of Virginia and a series of hunting prints hung on the untinted walls, and there were racks for guns, and a work-bench at one end of the room, where guns might be taken apart and cleaned.
Word: balsamy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From balsam + -y. Doublet of balsamic and balmy. Pronunciation: /ˈbɑlsəmiː/ 1. Like balsam, as of balsam. Example: Autumn was in the land, and the trees were golden and crimson, And from the luminous boughs of the over-elms and the maples Tender and beautiful fell the light in the worshippers' faces, Softer than lights that stream through the saints on the windows of churches, While the balsamy breath of the hemlocks and pines by the river Stole on the winds through the woodland aisles like the breath of a censer. Example: Beyond that there was a lane between ranks of young, balsamy, white-misted firs and then an open pasture field, sere and crispy.
Word: unmerry Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English unmyriġe (“unpleasant”), from un- + myriġe (“pleasant”). By surface analysis, un- + merry. 1. Not merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy. Example: "Yea, much," she said; "it seems joyous to me: and I shall tell thee that I have mostly dwelt in unmerry houses, though they were of greater cost than this." Example: But the Maiden, though she might hope the more to see her friend come back whole and sound, was unmerry at the tidings, she could scarce tell for why; neither did the Carline blame her therefore.
Word: pravity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French pravité, and its source, Latin prāvitās (“crookedness; depravity”), from prāvus (“prave”). 1. Perversion, depravity; wickedness. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Doubt not but that sin Will reign among them, as of thee begot; And therefore was law given them, to evince Their natural pravity, by stirring up Sin against law to fight[…]. Example: […] they alledged, That becauſe I had ſome Rudiments of Reaſon, added to the natural pravity of thoſe Animals, it was to be feared, I might be able to ſeduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the Country, and bring them in Troops by night to deſtroy the Houyhnhnms Cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averſe from Labour.
Word: despumate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1651; borrowed from Latin dēspūmātus, perfect passive participle of dēspūmō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + spūmō (“to foam, froth”), spūma (“foam, froth, scum”) + -ō. Doublet of despume. 1. To skim the froth or other impurities from a liquid, to clarify, purify. Labels: transitive 2. To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam. Labels: intransitive 3. To throw off as foam, froth. Labels: transitive
Word: revealment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reveal + -ment. 1. The act of revealing something; revelation. Example: I know Marianne's heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible. Example: Alas! how much guile did that seeming desperation hide, which, as the result has now shown, though it may have come from the heart, never afterward returned to the same, and made manifest later that its revealment on the face was only a lure and a delusion!
Word: hereaway Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From here + away. 1. hereabouts, around here Labels: not-comparable, regional Example: The Bat Black-black-bearaway Coom doon by hereaway. Example: "It's a purty big raigion hereaway," said Flaggan, during a brief halt to recover breath; "why shouldn't I steer for the Great Zahairy, an' live wi' the Bedooin Arabs?
Word: animesque Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anime + -esque. Pronunciation: /ˌæn.ɪ.meɪˈɛsk/, /ˌænɪˈmɛsk/ 1. Resembling or with aspects characteristic of anime. Example: Whilst it doesn't include anything specifically anime, there are a variety of animesque elements to the event and I'm sure some of you will find something of interest there... Example: His blush increasing to truly animesque proportions, the younger conjoined mutant/immortal scuffs one toe against the floor...
Word: calamancoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calamanco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: calamancos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calamanco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: feudalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From feudal + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəlɪst/ 1. An advocate or practitioner of feudalism. Example: The author is not a monarchist, an aristocrat, a democrat, a feudalist, nor an advocate of what are called mixed governments like the English, at least for his own country; but is simply an American, devoted to the real, living, and energizing constitution of the American republic as it is, not as some may fancy it might be, or are striving to make it. Example: His revolt is not a revolt of the commercialist against the feudalist, of the Nonconformist against the Churchman, of the Free-trader against the Protectionist, of the Liberal against the Tory.
Word: feudalist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From feudal + -ist. Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːdəlɪst/ 1. Advocating or practising feudalism, or in which feudalism is practised. Example: The sole object of Caesar was, while making use of the existing dynastic, feudalist, and hegemonic divisions, to arrange matters in the interest of Rome, and to bring everywhere into power the men favourably disposed to the foreign rule. Example: The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns.
Word: noncompete clauses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noncompete clause Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unenabled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + enabled. Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈneɪbəld/ 1. Not having been enabled. Labels: not-comparable Example: They too would employ only unindividuated and unenabled blastocysts.
Word: Spanish practices Part of Speech: noun 1. Irregular practices in favour of the workers at a place of work, which are implied, but not specified, in the work contract. Labels: UK, plural, plural-only Example: Many in the newspaper business – including some who criticised Murdoch at the time – now concede that the end of Fleet Street's Spanish practices probably helped prolong the life of the British press by a good few decades.
Word: Kransky Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Slovene Krȃnjskā klobasa (“Carnolian sausage”). 1. A Slovenian-style sausage. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: Just frying up a shitload of blinis. Fried up some kranskies to put on them. Just trying to figure out which vodka to drink with them. It's a tough life. Example: At a food vendor's stall I bought a Kransky to munch on as Sally and I walked through the cavernous terminal...
Word: dominae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dominae. 1. plural of domina Labels: form-of, plural
Word: epulis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin epūlis. Pronunciation: /ɪˈpju.lɪs/ 1. A hard tumour or tumorous growth developed from the gums.
Word: Gala Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipping of Galashiels. Pronunciation: /ˈɡælə/, /ˈɡeɪlə/, /ˈɡɑːlə/ 1. Galashiels, a town in Scotland. Labels: informal
Word: Gala Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡælə/, /ˈɡeɪlə/, /ˈɡɑːlə/ 1. A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious.
Word: Gala Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Turkish Gala. Pronunciation: /ˈɡælə/, /ˈɡeɪlə/, /ˈɡɑːlə/ 1. Galatasaray S.K. (a Turkish sports club best known for its football team)
Word: eicosenoic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any monounsaturated fatty acid that has 20 carbon atoms Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: New Journalism Part of Speech: name 1. A style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. Example: In some ways the New Journalism of the sixties was a response to the gap left by writers who wrote intensely subjective experimental fiction, like Burroughs, or who made use of fable and myth to create new fictional forms, like Barth and Hawkes. Example: A fan of the New Journalism, she put a premium on lively prose and colorful detail, throwing overboard the pompousness of the professional gourmets who dominated the profession.
Word: E'd up Part of Speech: adj 1. Under the influence of the recreational drug Ecstasy. Labels: slang Example: Ah should've got E'd up the first time ah made love tae Heather, eh. Example: With its churning centrifugal groove and almighty turbine-roar guitar, the song sounds exactly like the panic rush of an E'd-up raver wondering how and why the rave dream's dying all around him.
Word: eudysmic ratio Part of Speech: noun 1. A ratio expressing the difference in pharmacologic activity between the two enantiomers of a drug.
Word: eudismic ratio Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of eudysmic ratio. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: eudismic ratios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eudismic ratio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eudysmic ratios Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eudysmic ratio Labels: form-of, plural
Word: eutomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eu- + enantiomer. 1. The more pharmacologically active of the enantiomers of a drug.
Word: eutomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of eutomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: distomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: dis- (or dys-?) and enantiomer 1. The less pharmacologically active of the enantiomers of a drug.
Word: distomers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distomer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emery bag Part of Speech: noun 1. A small bag filled with emery into which a pin can be jabbed to remove rust.
Word: emery bags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emery bag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: English wheel Part of Speech: noun 1. A manually-operated metalworking apparatus used to form smooth, compound curves from flat sheets of metal.
Word: English wheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of English wheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phonemark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of phone + earmark. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊn.mɑːk/, /ˈfoʊnˌmɑɹk/ 1. A non-legislative designation by a telephone call from a legislator, of specific projects for funding as part of funding for more general programs. Example: They were earmarks by another name. The techniques employed included “lettermarks,” members writing to administrators to urge that home-based projects be funded; “phonemarks,” calling executive officials to request money for projects in their states or districts; and "soft marks." simply "suggesting" to agency officials that money should be spent on the lawmaker's project. Example: The current system has also allowed political interference we didn't expect. Some officials in the executive branch and others, including members of Congress, have kept the earmark tradition alive with less transparency by pressuring agencies to fund particular projects through phone calls (or "phonemarks"), letters ("lettermarks") and meetings.
Word: phonemark Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Blend of phone + earmark. Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊn.mɑːk/, /ˈfoʊnˌmɑɹk/ 1. To apply pressure on a government agency to fund a specific project as part of a more general program. Labels: US, transitive Example: Or worse, without earmarks the members of the spending committees can "phonemark" projects without anyone ever knowing
Word: egestive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From egest + -ive. 1. Of or pertaining to egestion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dead key Part of Speech: noun 1. A special modifier key on a typewriter or computer keyboard, typically used to attach a specific diacritic to another character.
Word: dead keys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dead key Labels: form-of, plural
Word: YUP Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Yale University Press. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: YUP Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of young urban professional. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: yvory Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of ivory. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Yt framed was of precious yvory.
Word: yups Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /jʌps/ 1. plural of yup Labels: form-of, plural
Word: yups Part of Speech: particle Pronunciation: /jʌps/ 1. Yes. Labels: informal
Word: dyssynergia Part of Speech: noun 1. Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: dysynergia Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dyssynergia. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: dyssynergias Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dyssynergia Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deviationism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deviation + -ism. 1. Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: rockathon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rock + -athon. 1. A prolonged session of playing or listening to rock music. Labels: slang
Word: rockathons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rockathon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rockabillies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rockabilly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boogie-woogies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boogie-woogie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: judications Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of judication Labels: form-of, plural
Word: controlment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From control + -ment. 1. Control. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: What is Lauinia then become so loose, Or Bassianus so degenerate, That for her loue such quarrels may be broacht, Without controulement, Iustice, or reuenge? Example: , II.12, If he in any sort have communicated himselfe vnto thee, it is not to debase himselfe, or stoope to thy smalnesse, nor to give thee the controulment of his power.
Word: urad Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi उड़द (uṛad), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *uẓuntu Pronunciation: /ʊˈɹʌd/ 1. Vigna mungo, a South Asian bean used to make dal. Labels: India, uncountable Example: A lasagne that feels like lasagne except made from mung and urad beans; the whole thing is then served – as if to remind you, again, of what it is not – with a thumb of cucumber.
Word: uracyls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of uracyl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: imarti Part of Speech: noun 1. An Indian dessert made by deep-frying urad flour batter in a kind of pretzel which is then soaked in sugar syrup. Labels: India Example: A sudden concentration on food followed. Uncle said, have an imarti, they're hot and good. Example: […] fill a small basket of fresh, hot imartis.
Word: imartis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imarti Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Nobel Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Swedish Nobel. Pronunciation: /nəʊˈbɛl/, /ˈnəʊ.bɛl/, /-bəl/, /noʊˈbɛl/, /nəʉˈbel/ 1. A surname from Swedish, especially referring to Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and philanthropist.
Word: Nobel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Swedish Nobel. Pronunciation: /nəʊˈbɛl/, /ˈnəʊ.bɛl/, /-bəl/, /noʊˈbɛl/, /nəʉˈbel/ 1. A Nobel Prize. Example: a Nobel-winning author Example: Nobel prizewinners of the year
Word: kobos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kobo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cressy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cress + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛsi/ 1. Abounding in cresses. Example: Between the copse and the brook, the slope was covered with pale lilac lady's-smocks, each standing separately in the grass, a frail stalk of bloom above a spread of cressy leaves. 2. Resembling or characteristic of cress. Example: a slightly cressy flavor
Word: curver Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From curve + -er. 1. A person or thing that curves.
Word: bepearl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + pearl. 1. To deck with pearls or shiny objects resembling pearls.
Word: bepat Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + pat. 1. To beat upon (as on a drum); patter upon.
Word: benote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + note (“notation, mark”). 1. To annotate or make notes upon, especially excessively. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive
Word: sleeping partner Part of Speech: noun 1. A business partner who doesn't play an active role in running the day-to-day operations of a business, who instead, finances the business in the form of capital investment. Labels: Ireland, UK Example: Somewhat later, the Frenchman Charles Fourier was ridiculed for expecting day by day the sleeping-partner to turn up who would invest in his Phalanstère plan, which was based on ideas very similar to those sponsored by one of the greatest contemporary experts on finance.
Word: tombal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tomb + -al. Pronunciation: /ˈtuːmbəl/, /ˈtuːməl/, /ˈtɒmbəl/ 1. Of or relating to tombs. Labels: not-comparable Example: the tombal function of an Egyptian pyramid
Word: putter around Part of Speech: verb 1. To engage in meaningless activity. Labels: US Example: I can't wait until I'm old enough to "putter around".
Word: awluz Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of always. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Word: Galician-Portuguese Part of Speech: name 1. The division of Romance languages that encompasses Galician, Portuguese, Eonavian and Fala. 2. The common ancestor of these languages, spoken in the Middle Ages, also called Old Portuguese.
Word: WJHC Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of World Junior Hockey Championships — the world IIHF under-20 championship for ice hockey. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: editorial we Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of plural of modesty (“speaking of oneself as if multiple people, intending to seem modest”). 2. The first-person plural pronoun used by an editor or other spokesperson when speaking with the authority of their publication, profession, organization, or company. 3. The practice, common in mathematical and scientific literature, of referring to a generic third person by we (instead of the more common one or the informal you), or of implying that the writer and the reader, or all of humanity, are united as collaborators in thinking the sequence of thoughts that the narrative describes.
Word: STOLport Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of STOL + airport. 1. An airport designed for STOL or short-field operations.
Word: x-ray vision Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of X-ray vision. Labels: alt-of
Word: x-ray visions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of x-ray vision Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sanna Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Konkani सान्नां (sānnā̃). 1. A spongy steamed rice cake, popular in parts of India.
Word: island-hopped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of island-hop Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: island-hopping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of island-hop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: island-hops Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of island-hop Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: mutton bird Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various seabirds whose flesh is said to taste like mutton when cooked, especially Puffinus griseus, Puffinus tenuirostris, or a petrel of the genus Pterodroma. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand Example: He dubbed them mutton-birds, for they came like lambs to the slaughter. Example: Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) Ornithosis Early in 1953 Dr. D. L. Serventy sent us twelve mutton birds from the Bass Strait Islands for another investigation. One of these birds died shortly after reaching Adelaide.
Word: mutton birds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mutton bird Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fauxnetic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Blend of faux + phonetic. Pronunciation: /ˌfəʊˈnɛtɪk/ 1. Of a pronunciation respelling system, in contrast to a phonetic alphabet. Labels: humorous, not-comparable Example: George H.'s use of "ah" is, strictly speaking, erroneous, although we can't expect much more from a fauxnetic transcription.
Word: swamp gum Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. Example: Two years before, under the swamp-gum in their Mosman garden, away from the children's ears, they had talked of separating […]. 2. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. 3. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. 4. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. 5. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. 6. Any of various species of Eucalyptus native to Australia. 7. Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States. 8. Either of two species of Nyssa native to the southeast United States. Example: This area was formerly covered by cypress but this is now replaced by a dense growth of swamp gum, swamp maple and similar trees, closely interwoven with Smilax and Toxicodendron, forming an impenetrable tangle […]
Word: social ladder Part of Speech: noun 1. The hierarchy of a society. Labels: idiomatic
Word: declimb Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + climb. 1. To climb down. Labels: ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare Example: It has saddled us with an insoluble puzzle: How to declimb from heights that make us dizzy and that we cannot endure forever without slipping into an incalculable slide that we can [not] arrest with all existing brakes[…] Example: I had been told that, if the principal really didn't like you, he would assign you five classrooms, one for each period and each on different floors, so that you might find yourself climbing and declimbing four flights of stairs, plus descending to the half basement, whose windows were half-covered with snow during the winter and tall grass the rest of the time.
Word: light novel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ライトノベル (raito noberu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from light + novel. 1. A Japanese novel primarily targeting young adults, typically illustrated (in an anime/manga style) and containing not more than 50,000 words.
Word: light novels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of light novel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: part with Part of Speech: verb 1. To let go of; to give up; to relinquish. Example: I really love this new stereo system but I'm not willing to part with the cash to buy it. Example: Celia, for thy sake, I part / With all that grew so near my heart.
Word: Duck Part of Speech: name Etymology: The surname is originally a nickname from Middle English doke (“duck”). See duck. Pronunciation: /dʌk/ 1. A surname transferred from the nickname. 2. A town in North Carolina. 3. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Word: radiodiffusions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of radiodiffusion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: works of fiction Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of work of fiction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misíthra Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mizithra. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: nork Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious. Pronunciation: /nɔːk/, /nɔɹk/, /noːk/ 1. A woman's breast. Labels: in-plural, slang Example: I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork. Example: Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks.
Word: renversements Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of renversement Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pigface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pig + face. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡfeɪs/ 1. Any of various mesembryanthemums of the genus Carpobrotus, native to coastal areas of Australia, and producing edible fruits. Example: The road cut through sand dunes spread patchily with pigface and tumbleweeds and led obliquely to the sea […] Example: that other fleshy plant, the one called pig-face, had lain across a corner of the cliffs like vivid pink shantung flung across a draper's counter. 2. Term of abuse for an ugly person. Labels: derogatory, informal Example: Near-synonym: dogface Example: Shut up, pigface!
Word: crissa Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crissum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cramponné Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cramponee. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: looard Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Alteration of leeward. 1. leeward Labels: not-comparable Example: So my great-uncle, who were bosin, made an observation, and says he, 'There's just ten days' provision for seven men, and we're twenty days to looard of Silly Bes (Celebes), if we only row ten miles a day. Example: "Keep away, boy--keep to looard.
Word: destituent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēstituēns (“abandoning”), present participle of dēstituō (“to forsake, to abandon”). Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɪtjʊˌənt/, /dəsˈtɪt͡ʃuˌənt/ 1. Deficient; lacking. Labels: obsolete Example: a destituent condition Example: When any condition intrinsically and in the nature of the thing included in an affirmative precept is destituent or wanting , the duty itself falls without interpretation
Word: entractes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entracte Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sarments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sarment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cassonades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cassonade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kadaitcha Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kurdaitcha. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gwarder Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of gwarda. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gwarda Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Nyunga gwanda, gunda. Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑːdə/ 1. A very venomous Australian snake, Pseudonaja nuchalis. Example: At the time he was recovering from another snake bite, a gwarder, and not himself.
Word: gwardas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gwarda Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white willow Part of Speech: noun 1. A willow native to Europe and western Asia (Salix alba). Example: Here, Tess interjected. Follow me, and she took them to a clearing filled with willow: I think these are white willows and by spring they will flourish, don’t they look kind of feminine? The male and female flowers grow on separate trees.
Word: white willows Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white willow Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pay one's debt to society Part of Speech: verb 1. To serve time in prison or a similar correctional facility. Labels: idiomatic
Word: correctional facilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of correctional facility Labels: form-of, plural
Word: correctional institutions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of correctional institution Labels: form-of, plural
Word: done time Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of do time Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: does time Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of do time Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: doing time Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of do time Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: did time Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of do time Labels: form-of, past
Word: Ganai Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Gunai. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Ives Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the medieval English given name mostly found in the Latinate form Ivo today. Pronunciation: /aɪvz/ 1. A surname originating as a patronymic. 2. An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States, named after John Ivester.
Word: wendy Part of Speech: noun 1. A wuss; someone who is particularly cowardly. Labels: UK, derogatory, slang Example: Toughen up, you big wendy.
Word: Alvis Part of Speech: name 1. An American surname. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. Example: It was not easy growing up with a first name like Alvis. Every year on the first day of school when the teacher would read off her seating chart, Alvis, all the snotty little kids in my class would laugh.
Word: press tits Part of Speech: verb 1. To initiate a start-up sequence. Labels: UK, slang Example: 'Press tits at four thirty a.m.' Example: […] For the rest of my life / I'd take me a wife / A Wimpy bomb-aimer, / For he'd press a tit, / And I'd press a tit, / We'd all press tits together, […]
Word: subintrant Part of Speech: adj 1. With paroxysms succeeding one another so fast as to be almost continuous. Labels: not-comparable
Word: sustentatio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin sustentātiō. Doublet of sustentation. 1. Suspense. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable
Word: vectigal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vectīgal, from Latin vect(is) (“lever, leverage”) + Latin ig(ō) (“act, make, do, go”) + -al. 1. A tax. Labels: obsolete
Word: fordrive Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fordriven, from Old English fordrīfan (“to drive, sweep away, drive on, impel, compel, drive away, expel, overtax”), from Proto-West Germanic *fradrīban, from Proto-Germanic *fradrībaną (“to drive away, drive out, expel”), equivalent to for- + drive. Cognate with West Frisian fordriuwe, ferdriuwe (“to expel”), Dutch verdrijven (“to expel”), German Low German verdrieven (“to drive away”), German vertreiben (“to expel, drive out, banish”), Danish fordrive (“to oust, expel”), Swedish fördriva (“to drive away, drive out, banish”). 1. To drive away; expel. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive 2. To drive about; drive here and there; drive astray. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: narmean Part of Speech: phrase 1. Pronunciation spelling of do you know what I mean. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: fordread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fordreden, from Old English fordrǣdan (“to terrify”), equivalent to for- + dread. 1. To be in dread of. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 2. To terrify greatly. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: commuter marriage Part of Speech: noun 1. a voluntary arrangement where dual-career couples maintain two residences in different geographic locations and are separated at least three nights per week for a minimum of three months
Word: horaries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of horary Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acorn woodpecker Part of Speech: noun 1. A woodpecker native to the area from the southwestern United States to Colombia, of species Melanerpes formicivorus.
Word: acorn woodpeckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acorn woodpecker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wampi Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of wampee. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: wampis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wampi Labels: form-of, plural
Word: clapper board Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of clapperboard. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: thingman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of Old Norse thingman, which is þing (“thing”) + maðr (“man”), or else a back-formation from "thingmen", which was borrowed morpheme for morpheme from þingmenn (“thingmen”). 1. One of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt. Labels: historical, plural-normally Example: Now if the debtor pleads that "I do not know the law but I will comply with whatever the thingmen think lawful," he [the creditor] must summon him before the thing after five nights, at the shortest, and five times five at the longest, if he knows when the thing is to meet; […] it is then the duty of the thingmen to decide the matter and to award him his money. 2. (One of several) men serving as the army, particularly the mercenary army, (of a specific ruler). Labels: historical, plural-normally Example: A thingman and chieftain owed each other duties of support. […] The ideal is well stated by Eyjolf to his own thingmen as he requests their support in his struggles against the Ljosvetning kin group […]
Word: thingmen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of thingman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: there is nothing new under the sun Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: Calque of Latin nihil sub sōle novum, itself a calque from the Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (en kol chadásh táchat hashámesh, “there is nothing new under the sun”) found in Ecclesiastes 1:9. 1. There is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of precedent or echo from the past.
Word: LSC Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Local Supercluster. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of Legal Services Commission. Labels: England, Wales, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 3. Initialism of Legal Services Corporation. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: LSC provides grants to nonprofits nationwide that in turn provide civil legal aid to those who otherwise can't afford it. The beneficiaries of LSC funding include homeless veterans, low-income workers and victims of domestic abuse.
Word: LSC Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of large surface combatant Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Initialism of lichen simplex chronicus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: Local Supercluster Part of Speech: name Etymology: Coined by Gerard de Vaucouleurs in 1958. Pronunciation: /ˌloʊkl̩ ˈsupɚˌklʌstɚ/ 1. The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy. 2. The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy.
Word: Virgo Supercluster Part of Speech: name Etymology: Virgo + supercluster; from where the supercluster is centered, on the Virgo Cluster in the Virgo Constellation Pronunciation: /ˈvɚɡoʊ ˈsu.pɚˈklʌstɚ/ 1. The supercluster that includes the Milky Way galaxy. Example: Holonyms: Laniakea < Universe Example: Meronyms: Earth < Solar System < Orion Arm < Milky Way < Local Group
Word: VirSC Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Virgo Supercluster. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Virgo SC Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of Virgo Supercluster. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: UN*X Part of Speech: noun 1. A Unix-like operating system (e.g., Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc.).
Word: notspot Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of not + hotspot. 1. An area where wireless Internet access or mobile phone access is not available. Labels: informal Example: The exchange enablement phase of the RIBS programme was completed in July 2007. Now seeking to address broadband notspots. Example: 2009, Jane Wakefield (BBC News), Need to tackle 'social' notspots Some 17 million people in the UK - 30% of the population - are estimated to be offline because they simply don't want it. Some have opted out for economic reasons while others believe broadband has no relevance to their lives.
Word: notspots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of notspot Labels: form-of, plural