nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: trimethylarsine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *médʰu Proto-Hellenic *métʰu Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.? Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der. German -yl German Methylbor. English methyl English trimethyl Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃enyomder. Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam Proto-Iranian *jr̥Hanyam Old Median *zaranyam Old Median *kā Old Median *zaraniyakāder. Middle Persian *zarnīkbor. Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)der. Arabic الزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)bor. Byzantine Greek ἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)der. Latin arsenicumder. Middle French arsenicbor. Middle English arsenik English arsenic Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English arsine English trimethylarsine From trimethyl + arsine. 1. The compound (CH₃)₃As Labels: uncountable
Word: trivalents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of trivalent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bemirror Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mirror. 1. To image or show as in a mirror. Labels: transitive
Word: bemix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + mix. 1. To mix around or about; mingle. Labels: dated, transitive Example: Following a brief visit to Mannheim in January 1777 Lessing, with a heavy heart, abandoned any plans to 'bemix' with its theatre.
Word: besow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English besowen, bisawen, from Old English besāwan (“to sow, sow about”); equivalent to be- + sow. Cognate with Middle High German besǣjen (“to besow”). Pronunciation: /bɪˈsəʊ/ 1. To sow; sow all around or about; scatter; disperse; plant. Labels: transitive Example: [...] is to miss for him all the advantage our civilization is prepared to besow upon his childhood.
Word: beshield Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bischilden, from Old English besċyldian, besċieldian (“to shield, defend”); equivalent to be- + shield. 1. To shield around or about; protect; defend. Labels: archaic, reflexive, transitive Example: Beshield thee with thy troops; find out at will Fresh instruments of war, and unknown gear; For thou shalt not scape death from this my hand, O slayer of the dames, so brave and grand. Example: […]that in that same night Olympia might behold the god Hamon lying beside her, and saying to her thereafter, 'Woman, thou hast conceived him who shall beshield thee. 2. To provide or outfit with a shield. Labels: transitive Example: Our bearers now began to call themselves Natal Kafirs, fearing to say they were Zulus before the young Amaswazi warriors, beplumed, beshielded, bespeared, perched about here and there in picturesque unconsciousness of their picturesqueness.
Word: bespin Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + spin. Cognate with German bespinnen (“to spin over”). 1. To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Here we still have much of the same authority of great texts bespun and sometimes swamped with glosses and notes, of lecturing that approximates dictation, and grammar which still remains, though dictionaries have come.
Word: stoichiometrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of stoichiometric. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: bewallow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English biwalwien, from Old English bewealwian (“to wallow, wallow around”), equivalent to be- + wallow. 1. To wallow around or about; wallow all over. Labels: intransitive Example: We saw paths and narrow beds, trampled and bewallowed, in the mud of the marshes now and then, which were made by the alligators; then, after long stretches of cane-brake and of marsh and willows, we came upon the beauty of Gum Swamp.
Word: syllogiser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of syllogizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bebang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + bang. 1. To bang about. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: bebang Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + bang (“forelock”). 1. To give bangs to; style in bangs. Labels: transitive
Word: cosmetical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of cosmetic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: dendritical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of dendritic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: dendroarcheology Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of dendroarchaeology. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: sycophantical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós) + -al. By surface analysis, sycophant + -ical. 1. Alternative form of sycophantic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: virulency Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of virulence. Labels: alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable
Word: virulencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of virulency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: urgh Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of eurgh. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tim-whiskey Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tim + whiskey, from whisk + -ey. 1. Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse. Labels: historical Example: 1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225, With Two Act Pieces what machines agree? Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis, Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee. Example: It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.
Word: tim-whiskies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tim-whiskey Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of tim-whisky Labels: form-of, plural
Word: swiftering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of swifter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: swiftered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of swifter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sea lemon Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of several species of nudibranchs of the family Dorididae, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body. 2. Ximenia americana, a tree of the tropics, bearing a fruit used for food.
Word: sea lemons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sea lemon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canon bit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”). 1. The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: […] A goodly person, and could menage faire His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit Example: blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit
Word: canon bits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of canon bit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: numismatical Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of numismatic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: decomposites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of decomposite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: siluridan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Silurid + -an 1. silurid. Labels: obsolete
Word: siluridans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of siluridan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impenitents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of impenitent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megalonyx Part of Speech: noun 1. An extinct ground sloth of the genus Megalonyx.
Word: megalonyxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of megalonyx Labels: form-of, plural
Word: redundances Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of redundance Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undermix Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + mix. 1. To not mix enough; fail to mix adequately or thoroughly. Labels: transitive Example: It is better to undermix than overmix. If you undermix, the floury spots will probably moisten up in baking.
Word: longitudinals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of longitudinal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: heliometric Part of Speech: adj 1. Of, relating to, or using, a heliometer Labels: not-comparable Example: heliometric observations 2. Related to heliometry. Labels: not-comparable Example: heliometric studies
Word: heliometrical Part of Speech: adj 1. heliometric Labels: not-comparable
Word: twigil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of twin + sigil. 1. A character prepended to a variable name to indicate its scope.
Word: twigils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of twigil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: buryingplace Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From burying + place. 1. The place where a dead person is buried. Example: I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace [translating קֶבֶר (kéver)] with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Word: benifit Part of Speech: verb 1. Misspelling of benefit. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: benifit Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of benefit. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: buryingplaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of buryingplace Labels: form-of, plural
Word: penalty units Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of penalty unit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: potbrownie Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of pot brownie. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: We are tied on never smoking a cigarette, but I trump him in drug taking because I had a really intense potbrownie experience.
Word: pizza box Part of Speech: noun 1. A box designed for carrying pizzas. 2. A wide, flat, square style of computer chassis, similar in shape to a pizza delivery box. Example: Compact "pizza box" personal computers with integrated components are more desirable since they occupy less precious and scarce desktop real estate.
Word: shoe box Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of shoebox. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pot brownie Part of Speech: noun 1. A brownie laced with marijuana, eaten for its psychoactive effects. Example: Niles Crane: Just take a look. Ah, yes, thick and gooey. Ganja in its purest form. Roz Doyle: It's a pot brownie, you idiot.
Word: pot brownies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pot brownie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: potbrownies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of potbrownie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Punic Wars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Punic War Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pizza boxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pizza box Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cirenaike Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of Cyrenaic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: over-old Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Old English ofereald, corresponding to over- + old. Cognate with Dutch overoud, German überalt. Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəɹˈəʊld/ 1. Too old. Example: And one Attalus in Seneca saith, the remembrance of our last friends is as pleasing to us, as bitternesse in wine that is over old[…]. Example: My body over-old for deeds begrudged such government.
Word: ointed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of oint Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: ointing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: intersuck Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + suck. 1. Of cows: to engage in the abnormal behaviour of suckling each other's teats. Labels: intransitive 2. To suck mutually. Labels: rare Example: And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others.
Word: intersuck Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + suck. 1. Between sucks. Labels: not-comparable Example: Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds.
Word: intersucked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of intersuck Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: joke around Part of Speech: verb 1. (procrastinate, fool around, behave immaturely): bowdlerization of fuck around Labels: informal 2. To kid, prank, joke. Labels: informal 3. To say something that is not meant to be taken seriously. Labels: informal
Word: subgenitalia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sub- + genitalia. 1. Something posterior to or beneath the genitals Labels: uncountable
Word: vexillologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From vexillology + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to vexillology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: NuSTAR Part of Speech: name 1. Acronym of Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. Labels: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Word: snoop around Part of Speech: verb 1. To snoop. Example: She's been snooping around asking questions.
Word: muddy the waters Part of Speech: verb 1. To make something unclear and difficult to understand. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: He insisted that the Basque separatist group Eta remained the main line of investigation, and suggested the tape may have been an attempt to muddy the waters. Example: “Thank you for having me on,” Banks began. The one statement he made that sounded genuinely credible. It’s not often that someone accused of electoral fraud gets to muddy the waters on live television ahead of a possible criminal investigation.
Word: technoplegic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From techno- + -plegic, implying paralysis by technology. 1. A person who freezes up psychologically when confronted with new technology or resists technological advance. Labels: informal Example: The technoplegics among you will probably spew your usual twaddle about how Cuba will be a democracy before these advancements hit the street.
Word: technoplegics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of technoplegic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: LPO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of loss prevention officer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 2. Initialism of linear pluggable optics, a type of transceiver. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: LPO Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of London Philharmonic Orchestra. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: FDM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of frequency-division multiplexing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of fat in dry matter: a measure of the fat content of cheese. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of fused deposition modeling: a type of additive manufacturing. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable 4. Abbreviation of fuzzy dark matter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, particle, uncountable
Word: FDM Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of Free Download Manager. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: digital-to-analog converter Part of Speech: noun 1. A device that converts a finite resolution digital signal to an infinite resolution analog signal. Example: Coordinate term: analog-to-digital converter
Word: digital-to-analog converters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of digital-to-analog converter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: telefelony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + felony. 1. Criminal action involving telecommunications technology, such as cable theft or telephone fraud. Example: "We mean business," Chuck Blaine, general manager of Group W Cable in West Palm Beach, said at an elaborate press conference staged to publicize the crackdown on what one cable official called "telefelonies" that cost the companies more than $11 million in revenue a year.
Word: telefelonies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telefelony Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tour guide Part of Speech: noun 1. One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours. Example: Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines. Example: Government licensed tour guides would take the groups through the site. 2. Synonym of travel guide. Example: I opened my Bible at the first chapter of the Gospel according to St Mark and as I read, it was as if I were reading a tour guide of my own home district. Example: Using a Tour Guide / Another handy feature you can try when familiarizing yourself with Internet content are the guides provided by Netscape.
Word: transwestite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of transvestite + west. 1. A person who is not a cowboy but dresses in Western-style clothing or costumes. Example: With a tip of the brim of her black cowboy hat, Sam greets her friend. Tonight, Sam's a sweet transwestite in jeans and a black gabardine shirt with front patch pockets and pearl white snaps.
Word: transwestites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transwestite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ispir Part of Speech: name 1. A town and district of Erzurum Province, in eastern Turkey.
Word: İspir Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Ispir. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: diiodine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + iodine. 1. The normal diatomic form of iodine (I₂) Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Two iodine atoms in a molecule Labels: countable, in-compounds, uncountable
Word: desulfhydrase Part of Speech: noun 1. Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of the elements of hydrogen sulfide from a compound
Word: glutathioselenol Part of Speech: noun 1. A derivative of glutathione that is involved in the metabolism of selenium Labels: uncountable
Word: tenpercentery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ten + percent + -ery, from the traditional 10% commission which agents collect from whatever amount their clients earn. 1. A talent agency. Example: Twenty-five years ago, a clutch of agents left the William Morris Agency to form CAA, forever changing the way tenpercenteries conduct business.
Word: tenpercenteries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tenpercentery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dunnarts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dunnart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pig dogs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pig dog Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pig dogs Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pig dog Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: octasulfur Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From octa- + sulfur. 1. The most common allotrope of sulfur (S₈), containing eight atoms in a ring. Labels: uncountable
Word: suboxone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A marketing name, perhaps a blend of Subutex + naloxone. 1. A combination drug of buprenorphine and naloxone, used to treat opiate addictions. Labels: uncountable Example: Not far behind OxyContin is Suboxone, the brand name for a drug whose primary ingredient is buprenorphine, a semisynthetic opioid. Example: I have 8 milligram Suboxone for maintenance in case I go through withdrawals.
Word: bebanged Part of Speech: adj 1. Having or sporting bangs. Example: Price sits down on a weathered tomb strewn with ivy and dead leaves, adjusts his blond bebanged Prince Valiant wig and glances at Ruddigore's Gothic arches heavily encrusted with skulls.
Word: bebanged Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bebang Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: oxydase Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of oxidase. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: tweep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. A chirp or beep. Example: The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps. Example: Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]
Word: tweep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Onomatopoeic. 1. To chirp or beep. Example: A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail. Example: No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
Word: tweep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s. 1. To kill; to assassinate. Labels: US, euphemistic Example: Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
Word: tweep Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”). 1. A user of the Twitter microblogging service. Labels: Internet, slang Example: As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […] 2. A Twitter employee. Labels: slang Example: “I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times.
Word: bewater Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + water. Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɔːtɚ/ 1. To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate. Labels: transitive Example: A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation. Example: For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered.
Word: anal gland Part of Speech: noun 1. A small paired sebaceous gland found near the anus in many mammals, secreting a liquid that is used for identification of members within the species.
Word: bewatered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bewater + -ed. 1. Watered about or all over; wet; hydrated. 2. Covered or filled with water; having much water or abounding in water. Example: [...] boating season is again open, not only in the plentifully bewatered America, but in the sparsely bewatered England, where every river, to the American tourist there, seems but a creek by comparison with his hundred lordly rivers.
Word: bewatered Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bewater + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of bewater Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: tweeps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tweep Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tweeps Part of Speech: noun 1. Twitter followers, especially one's own. Labels: Internet, plural, plural-only, slang Example: "Star magazine says we have a loveless marriage." I told my tweeps not to believe it.
Word: tweeps Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tweep Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: apprentisage Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of apprenticeage. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: tweeple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of Twitter + people. Pronunciation: /ˈtwiːpəl/ 1. plural of tweep (“a Twitter user”) Labels: form-of, plural Example: The catch to achieving a 100 percent FF ratio is that the tweeple you follow don't necessarily follow you back.
Word: bewelter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + welter. Pronunciation: /bɪˈwɛltɚ/ 1. To welter all over; besmear by weltering. Labels: transitive
Word: bewaste Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From be- + waste. 1. To waste utterly or completely. Labels: transitive
Word: cousin-germans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cousin-german. Labels: form-of, plural Example: in the single combate betweene the two Princes, cosin-Germans, in Spaine, the eldest of which[…]overcame easily the dismayed forces of the yonger[…].
Word: cousins-german Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cousin-german Labels: form-of, plural
Word: betined Part of Speech: adj 1. Hedged about. Labels: dialectal
Word: betined Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of betine Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: beturn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English biturnen, from Old English *beturnian, betyrnan (“to turn around; bend the knee, prostrate oneself”), equivalent to be- + turn. 1. To turn round or about. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic 2. To turn around; turn back; return. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic, reflexive Example: To their advises the disdaineful hart / Of this audacious youth beturning plies, […]
Word: Lewandowski Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Lewandowski. 1. A surname from Polish. Example: Kevin Grosskreutz fired over when well-placed in the box, Kagawa did similarly after being put through on goal and then Lewandowski, having rounded Szczesny, was denied by Bacary Sagna's goalline clearance.
Word: Kowalczyk Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kowalczyk. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Jankowski Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jankowski. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Mazur Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Polish Mazur. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Kaczmarek Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Kaczmarek. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Zając Part of Speech: name Etymology: Ultimately from Polish zając (“hare”). 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: Zalewski Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Zalewski. 1. A surname from Polish.
Word: fowl-houses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fowl-house Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jerrybag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Jerry + bag. 1. A woman who consorted with the Germans during the Second World War. Labels: historical, slang Example: I said, ‘Raymond and Horace are killed, and my lovely Liza is a jerry-bag.’ Example: ‘I saw you smiling at those Jerries. I was in the bloody BEF. We saw girls like you in France. A Jerrybag, are you, is that the story?’
Word: jerrybags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jerrybag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrospects Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of retrospect Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retrospects Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of retrospect Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bat one's eyes Part of Speech: verb 1. To signal or feign by fluttering one's eyelids, as romantic interest. Labels: idiomatic
Word: bat one's eyelashes Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of bat one's eyes. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: worksteads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of workstead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polythiazyl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + thiazyl. 1. A polymer of sulfur nitride that is an electrical conductor
Word: Hoddle Part of Speech: name 1. A surname. Example: Which team beat Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham 2-1 in the 2002 League Cup final?
Word: combustion engine Part of Speech: noun 1. An engine that uses the combustion of fuel to produce work (movement).
Word: alveolar dead space Part of Speech: noun 1. The volume of air in the alveoli of the lung which does not partake in the exchange of gas. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Alveolar dead space is herein defined as the difference between the physiologic and anatomic dead spaces.
Word: stem family Part of Speech: noun 1. A family system in which a couple's firstborn child lives with them in the family home, and that child's spouse moves into the home of said in-laws, so that the younger couple's children are raised in the home of their grandparents. Usually, the younger offspring move out upon marriage. The inheritance, depending on the culture, may or may not be the most favorable to the firstborn.
Word: anatomic dead space Part of Speech: noun 1. The volume of conducting airways of the lung, as measured by a cast of the airways. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The volume of inspired gas that does not mix with alveolar gas, as measured in vivo by gas dilution, by the method of Fowler. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: paternal grandchild Part of Speech: noun 1. the child of one's son: a grandchild to whom one is the paternal grandparent Example: Men who become fathers later in life may pass a mark of longevity down to their paternal grandchildren.
Word: maternal grandchild Part of Speech: noun 1. the child of one's daughter: a grandchild to whom one is the maternal grandparent
Word: floosies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of floosie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hipstery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hipster + -y. 1. Characteristic of hipsters. Labels: informal
Word: enemy combatants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of enemy combatant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leaman Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of leman. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Hid thee, my leaman; and I will goe plead for our loue, our loue. Example: Yea in an honest manner, thou mightest sooner have got a tooth from him than money. Thus the Alchymist was provided for, who was in no danger, but that he wanted something to give his leaman.
Word: withbear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English withberen, equivalent to with- + bear. 1. To carry or bear (something) away. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: For he knew nat what she was that spak with hym / and neuertheles he ansuerde to her: 'My dere lady, nought of myn owne ye withbere / but only that ye passe & goo thrugh my land / and it is grett shame to me. Example: Yf she be hable to make any power at home, she shall be withborne and herself keapt from all other comfort than her own nobilitie. 2. To bring or gather in, as of crops; bring together. Labels: obsolete, transitive 3. To bear with; endure. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: have a crow to pull Part of Speech: verb 1. To have a point of contention (with someone); to have a bone to pick. Labels: obsolete Example: Philip, the King of Macedon, who had so many crowes to pul with the Romanes, […] resolved at last to seize upon al their children whom he had caused to be murthered, that so he might day by day one after another rid the world of them, and so establish his safety.
Word: forleave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forleven; equivalent to for- + leave. Compare Old High German firleiban. 1. To depart from (someone); leave (someone) behind; abandon; forsake; desert; give up; relinquish. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete
Word: Jurie Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of Jewry. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: forlead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forleden, from Old English forlǣdan (“to mislead, seduce; lead off and away”), from Proto-West Germanic *fralaidijan, equivalent to for- + lead. Cognate with Dutch verleiden (“to seduce, tempt, entice”), German verleiten (“entice, mislead”), Old Saxon farlēdian. 1. To mislead; seduce. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: forlead Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From for- (“fore-”) + lead. 1. Alternative form of forelead (“lead forward, lead before”) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tweeping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tweep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tweeped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of tweep Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Congos Part of Speech: name 1. plural of Congo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decrepity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French décrépité, from Latin dēcrepitās. 1. Decrepitude. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: being demanded what his studies would stead him in his decrepity, [he] answered; that he might the better, and with more ease leave this world.
Word: forefeeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of forefeel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: forefeeling Part of Speech: noun 1. A presentiment. Labels: archaic Example: 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9, https://archive.org/details/utopia__00moreuoft For this they take for a verye evel token, as thoughe the soule beynge in dispaire and vexed in conscience, through some privie and secret forefeiling of the punishement now at hande were aferde to depart. Example: The account of the earthquake in Calabria, in 1783, contains curious particulars of that calamitous event. […] 'Much more remarkable undoubtedly were the presentiments which were seen in living creatures. Man alone remained free from these forefeelings; neither on his body nor on the chearfulness of his mind had it the smallest influence […]'
Word: vehicularly housed Part of Speech: adj 1. Homeless and living in a car, van, or other type of vehicle. Labels: euphemistic, not-comparable Example: Guinea Apollos, in the polite terms of San Francisco's homeless advocates, is a "vehicularly housed resident."
Word: vehicularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From vehicular + -ly. 1. In or with a vehicle. Labels: not-comparable Example: "Are you aware that a loaded, vehicularly concealed weapon constitutes a misdemeanor offense in this state?"
Word: acs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sulfoselenide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sulfo- + selenide. 1. Any compound (or mineral) that is both a sulfide and a selenide.
Word: vehicularly challenged Part of Speech: adj 1. Without a vehicle. Labels: euphemistic Example: I shot off an e-mail to Hunter, saying I had to cancel tomorrow because I would be vehicularly challenged.
Word: bird of passage Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably a calque of Middle French oiseau de passage: oiseau (“bird”), passage (“part of a journey or route, passage”). Pronunciation: /ˌbɜːd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/, /ˌbɝd əv ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ 1. A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”). Example: There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of ſome plants, and the arrival of certain birds of paſſage. [Carl] Linnaeus obſerves that the wood anemone blows in Sweden on the arrival of the ſwallow; and the marſh mary-gold, Caltha, when the cuckoo ſings. Example: And now the ladies, with their gay plumage, have flown away like foreign birds of passage, and the jolly old priests of Bacchus, in the parlour, make their libations of claret; […] 2. Someone passing through a place and only staying for a short time; an itinerant. Labels: figuratively Example: The muſick and entertainments of Bath are over for this ſeason; and all our gay birds of paſſage have taken their flight to Briſtol-vvell, Tunbridge, Brighthelmſtone, Scarborough, Harrovvgate, &c. Example: —one of those adventurers who deem their fortune never lies at home, and encounter great risks for the sake, not so much of their gains, as for themselves,—human birds of passage, who make life one perpetual journey in search of wealth, but who never die rich.
Word: passage migrant Part of Speech: noun 1. A bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration.
Word: zitcom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of zit + sitcom. 1. A sitcom aimed at a teen audience or revolving around teen characters. Example: Each of these youngsters was given a TV show — the so-called zitcom — followed usually by a recording contract with Disney-owned Hollywood Records, songs in heavy rotation on Radio Disney and on Disney-movie sound tracks, a concert tour with Disney-owned Buena Vista Concerts and tie-in merchandise throughout the Disney stores.
Word: zitcoms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zitcom Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fleur-de-lysed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fleur-de-lys + -ed. 1. Decorated with fleur-de-lys.
Word: thionate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From thionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). 1. Any salt or ester of a thionic acid.
Word: thionic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any oxyacid of sulfur of the form H₂SₙO₆ (examples are known having n from 2 to 6) 2. Any thiocarboxylic acid
Word: umagite Part of Speech: noun 1. A mineral selenide of copper Cu₃Se₂ Labels: uncountable
Word: cryoscopies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cryoscopy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: glycolyses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of glycolysis Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oxydases Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oxydase Labels: form-of, plural
Word: weddingmoon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of wedding + honeymoon. 1. A combined wedding and honeymoon, with the wedding ceremony taking place at the couple's vacation destination. Example: One day Dean called to ask if we would mind if he married Andrea in Bermuda that May in what is called a "weddingmoon," where marriage ceremony and honeymoon are combined.
Word: weddingmoons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of weddingmoon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: churchwarden's pew Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of church pew, typically on the west side, originally reserved for the churchwarden, and often decorated or engraved.
Word: yestersol Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday. 1. On the sol (Martian day) before the present one. Labels: not-comparable Example: But yestersol he took Mother into the old middle-pressure greenhouse (the little one they built when they first arrived here) and got her involved in a long discussion.
Word: yestersol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday. 1. The sol (Martian day) before the present one. Example: "We'll basically be waking up in the Mars morning, which will be 47 minutes later each day, and uploading our commands from 'yestersol,'" he said.
Word: wheredunit Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of detective story in which significant focus is placed on the location in which the crime was committed. Example: "The Chaser" is less whodunit than wheredunit, perversely withholding the location of Young-min's home from everyone but the viewer, who gets to know Seoul's Mangwon district quite intimately as Jung-ho, his bumbling sidekick Meathead (Koo Bon-woong) and other cops run around it in infuriating circles.
Word: wheredunits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wheredunit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fuck-you lizards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fuck-you lizard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leaves of three, let it be Part of Speech: proverb 1. Don't touch a plant with a cluster of three leaves because it might be poison ivy or poison oak.
Word: mom and apple pie Part of Speech: noun 1. Wholesomeness and traditional (American) values. Labels: US, uncountable 2. Something that cannot be questioned because it appeals to universally-held beliefs or values. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: difluorine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From di- + fluorine. 1. The normal diatomic form of molecular fluorine, F₂.
Word: flag, motherhood and apple pie Part of Speech: noun 1. Patriotism and traditional US values. Labels: US 2. Something that cannot be questioned because it appeals to patriotism and widely-held American traditional values. Labels: US
Word: overleave Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English overleven, from Old English oferlǣfan (“to leave over; be left over, remain”), equivalent to over- + leave. 1. To leave (something) over; cause to remain or be left. Labels: transitive Example: And of such force was this verity, so fresh and recent in men's memory, that amongst so many enemies of his, that lay in wait to overleave him with lies, no one was thenceforth found who could refell [deny] these words of Campion. 2. To remain; be left over. Labels: intransitive
Word: overleave Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + leave (“permission, furlough”). 1. A leave which exceeds the approved or prescribed amount of time. Labels: uncountable Example: [...] Absence without leave (including overleave and desertion). Example: “Didn't you threaten to bobtail one of your sergeants for being drunk and overleave in Shanghai last week?
Word: eka-iodine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From eka- + iodine: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to astatine prior to its discovery, from the fact that it lies below iodine in the periodic table. 1. astatine Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: tazi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Persian تازی (tâzi, “dog breed”). 1. An Afghan Hound. Labels: India 2. A favourite variety of horse, usually of Indian breed. Labels: India
Word: forjudge Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forjugen; in sense 1, from Old French fourjugier (“to judge illegally, dispossess”); in sense 2, from Middle English for- + jugen (“to judge”), equivalent to for- + judge. Compare fordeem. 1. To exclude, oust, or dispossess by a judgment; prohibit (from). Labels: transitive Example: And it is enacted by the ſtatute 5 Edw. III. c. 9 that no man ſhall be forejudged of life or limb, contrary to the great charter and the law of the land: and again, by ſtatute 28 Ed. III. c. 3, that no man ſhall be put to death, without being brought to anſwer by due proceſs of law. 2. To condemn judicially (to a penalty). Labels: dialectal, transitive
Word: fordeem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fordemen, from Old English fordēman (“to condemn, sentence, doom; prejudice; decide”), from Proto-Germanic *fradōmijaną (“to condemn, damn”). By surface analysis, for- + deem. Cognate with Old High German fortuomen, furtuomen, Icelandic fordæma (“to condemn”), Dutch verdoemen. 1. To condemn. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Under Islamic canon law, known as sharia, fordeeming a man of rape needs the testimony of at least four muslim men as eyewitnesses to the deed of penetration.
Word: security camera Part of Speech: noun 1. A video camera used to protect a building from intruders and to detect crime and other issues.
Word: ragier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of ragey: more ragey Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: amniotic sacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of amniotic sac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: churchwarden's pews Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of churchwarden's pew Labels: form-of, plural
Word: passage migrants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of passage migrant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: birds of passage Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bird of passage Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bucksome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English buxum, buhsum (“flexible, bendsome”). Often analysed, due to confusion with the verb buck (“to spring, buckle, kick violently”) and buck (“he-goat”), as though from buck + -some. Doublet of buxom. 1. Archaic form of buxom. Labels: alt-of, archaic 2. Marked by bucking or bucking up; (by extension) lively; brisk; jocund. Example: Shee now begins to grow bucksome as a lightning before death. 3. Spirited or lively, like a buck. Example: "Bucksome," repeated Peace, with the picture of a bucking billy goat uppermost in her mind, and wondering how a maiden could be bucksome.
Word: poynard Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of poniard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: withsaw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English withsawe, withsahe, withsau, from Old English *wiþsagu (“renunciation, contradiction”); equivalent to with- + saw (“saying”). 1. A contradiction. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: speakworthy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From speak + -worthy. Compare speechworthy. 1. Worthy of mention; worthy of being spoken; mentionable. Example: Poppy geueth no ſpekeworthy noriſhment vnto the body. Example: Here it is useful to invoke Saussure's principle, remarking that when it is encountered in a book the chief nuance of the non-speakworthy word is to call attention to some special quality — no matter what — […]
Word: besorrow Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bisorȝen, from Old English besorgian (“to regret; be anxious about, dread, shrink from”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisorgōn, equivalent to be- + sorrow. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bisúurgje (“to obtain, get, take care of”), West Frisian besoargje (“to provide, deliver”), Dutch bezorgen (“to provide, deliver, take care of”), German besorgen (“to procure, acquire, attend to, take care of”), Swedish besörja (“to deal with, attend to”). 1. To sorrow about or over; care about; fill with care or sorrow; make sad. Labels: ambitransitive Example: Then to the woman, for her offence, God did pronounce this sore sentence: All pleasure that you had'st besorrow Shall changed be in lasting sorrow. Example: The land of the West holds a maiden sweet, And the fairest face has she; But, oh! she has also Chicago feet, And that's what besorrows me.
Word: tsugas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tsuga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fordim Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fordimmen, from Old English fordimmian (“to obscure, darken”), equivalent to for- + dim. 1. To dim; darken; obscure. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: fordrench Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English fordrenchen, from Old English fordrenċan (“to make drunk, intoxicate”), equivalent to for- + drench. Cognate with Middle Low German vordrenken. 1. To make drunk; intoxicate. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To drown. Labels: ambitransitive, obsolete
Word: fordote Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From for- + dote. 1. To make foolish or doting. Labels: archaic, transitive
Word: forcurse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forcursien, from Old English forcursian (“to curse, curse up”), equivalent to for- + curse. 1. To curse utterly or completely; place under a heavy curse. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: The bishops were ever cursing them, but they cared nought therefor, for they were all forcursed and forsworn and forlorn [...]
Word: shrink up Part of Speech: verb 1. To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]
Word: forburn Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forburnen, forbrinnen, from Old English forbirnan (intransitive) and forbærnan (transitive), equivalent to for- + burn. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbaadenje, ferbaanje (“to burn up”), West Frisian ferbarne (“to burn up”), German Low German verbrannen (“to burn up”), German verbrennen (“to burn up, incinerate”). 1. To destroy or damage by burning. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [He] sent then a host thither and bade slay all the town-ship, and forburn the town. 2. To burn; to be consumed by fire. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: forbuyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English forbier, forbyar, equivalent to forbuy + -er. 1. Redeemer. Labels: obsolete
Word: forburst Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forbersten, forbresten, from Old English forberstan (“to break, burst asunder, vanish, fail; let go by default”), equivalent to for- + burst. 1. To burst asunder; break; shatter. Labels: intransitive
Word: black beetle Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, beetle. 2. A black scarab beetle, later specifically the African black beetle (Heteronychus arator), a serious pest of grasses in New Zealand. 3. The oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), a large roach from the family Blattidae. Labels: UK Example: ‘I'm not afwaid of anything except black-beetles,’ said the Pussum […]. 4. A similar roach native to New Zealand, of species Maoriblatta novaeseelandiae (syn. Platyzosteria novaeseelandia); the Māori bug. Labels: New-Zealand 5. Any of various other species of beetle that are black in color, including: 6. Any of various other species of beetle that are black in color, including:
Word: forhush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English forhuschen, equivalent to for- + Old English hysċan (“to jeer at, reproach; rail; revile”). 1. To deride. Labels: obsolete, transitive
Word: forhungered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English forhungred, forhongred, forhyngrede (“famished, lean”), equivalent to for- (“exceedingly, very”) + hungered. Compare Dutch verhongerd (“starving, famished”), German verhungert (“starving, famished”). 1. Very hungry; dying of hunger; starving. Labels: archaic Example: They take like lean forhungered hounds, And for a while their praise resounds […] Example: He died forhungered.
Word: pink snappers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pink snapper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: black beetles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of black beetle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: overboldness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English overboldnesse, equivalent to over- + boldness, after overbold. Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈbəʊldnəs/ 1. The state or fact of being too bold; audacity. Labels: uncountable Example: nothing did him so much good toward the people (to whom he appealed) to make him obtain his suite, as the sharpnes and over boldnes which Cæsar had declared in that judgement. Example: Contrary to accepted wisdom, the qualities usually thought of as entrepreneurial - risk-taking, breakthrough creativity, foresight, grand ambition, power and administrative abilities - are all secondary. Indeed, over-boldness may be a handicap.