nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: State of Mexico Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of Spanish Estado de México. 1. A state of Mexico. Capital: Toluca. The most populous of the 32 federal entities of the country of Mexico, and surrounding Mexico City.
Word: disguiser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From disguise + -er. 1. A person or thing that disguises. Example: A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity. Example: Incense can be used as an odour disguiser. 2. A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker. Labels: archaic, historical Example: 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke (also known as Hall’s Chronicle), London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII,” […] out of a caue in the said Rock came .x. knightes, armed at all poyntes, & faughte together a fayre tournay. And when they were seuered & departed the disguysers dissended from the rock & daunced a great space: & sodeynly the rocke moued & receaued the disguysers, & ymediatly closed agayn. Example: Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various faculties run into the main stream.
Word: disguisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of disguiser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: equilibrioception Part of Speech: noun Etymology: equilibri(um) + -o- + -ception 1. The sense of balance. Labels: uncountable
Word: emphasizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emphasize + -er. 1. One who, or that which, emphasizes. Example: Counterintuitively, the authors are down on the use of please as an emphasizer: “ ‘Would you please remember to include me on the email whenever you respond to a customer?’ conveys a sense of exasperation.
Word: emphasizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emphasizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: emphasiser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From emphasise + -er. 1. Alternative spelling of emphasizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: emphasisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of emphasiser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ineloquence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From in- + eloquence. 1. The state or condition of being ineloquent. Labels: uncountable Example: Specimens of the genre share a low-key naturalism, low-fi production values and a stream of low-volume chatter often perceived as ineloquence.
Word: pommade Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of pomade. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Word: shtreimel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Yiddish שטרײַמל (shtrayml). 1. A fur hat, usually worn by some married Haredi Jewish men on Shabbat and during Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. Labels: Judaism Example: My idea of a walk, influenced by Kazin and honed over these last nine years that I’ve lived in New York, involves a freewheeling thoughtfulness powered by the legs but fed by observation, a physical and mental stream of consciousness nudged this way and that by an infinite number of human variables: an old man doing his esoteric exercises, a lone glove dropped in the middle of a snowy sidewalk, an Orthodox Jew in a shtreimel.
Word: shtreimels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shtreimel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unfamilial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + familial. 1. Not familial. Example: Their film version of the best-selling roman à clef about the distinctly unfamilial lives of Manhattan’s elite has an anthropological perspective, complete with museum-style dioramas of that strange society known as the Upper East Side.
Word: yurta Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of yurt.
Word: Antoni Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan and Polish Antoni, from Latin Antōnius. 1. A surname from Catalan, Polish, or Slovene. Example: Let’s not forget EJ Antoni, whom Trump just nominated to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing former chief Erika McEntarfer for presiding over a disappointing jobs report earlier this month. Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled and incompetent.
Word: synodal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al. 1. A monetary tribute formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest. Example: synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year 2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod. Example: Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?
Word: synodal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English synodal, synodall, from Latin synodālis. By surface analysis, synod + -al. 1. synodic; relating to a synod Labels: not-comparable Example: Your juſtification is but a miſerable ſhifting off thoſe teſtimonies of the ancienteſt Fathers alledg’d againſt you, and the authority of ſome Synodal Canons, which are no warrant to us.
Word: Great Leap Forward Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque from Chinese 大躍進／大跃进 (Dàyuèjìn). Coined by a People's Daily commentator in 1957. 1. A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people). Labels: historical Example: Louti, in Hunan Province, Central China, is one of the numerous small industrial cities that have grown up since liberation, particularly since the big leap forward. Example: In the early 1960s, following the collapse of Mao's Great Leap Forward, Liu and Chang, as party officials in the city of I-pin (120 miles south of Szechwan's capital, Chengtu), vigorously prosecuted those cadres under their jurisdiction who had shown less than wholehearted devotion to that campaign. 2. A theoretical point in human evolution at which point complex tools, weapons, sculptures, etc. began to appear, supplanting previous primitive behaviour.
Word: vivandière Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French vivandière. 1. A female vivandier.
Word: vivandier Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French vivandier. 1. A sutler accompanying a continental European army, especially the French army.
Word: bangies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bangy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Napster Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster. 1. Any website that facilitates free distribution of data. Labels: Internet Example: Some in the used-book industry are questioning whether Amazon.com is becoming the Napster of the book business. Example: It would be easy to call the venture-backed, San Mateo-based YouTube the Napster of video, an outlaw startup rocketing onto dotcom radar screens on the backs of rights-holders. But that's a designation that the year-old company desperately wants to avoid.
Word: Napster Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster. 1. To download from Napster. Example: I have done my part this year by buying fewer albums than in any year since, um, 1982 I think it was. No, I haven't been Napstering them, either. I'm catching up to my backlog of listening, listening to the radio, and most-of-all spending a lot of time with demos of friends' bands, and with the tapes I make of my live show every week. Example: I've got the first four albums on vinyl. Nothing on CD, other than a few "napstered" songs. 2. To upload to or as if to Napster. Example: Anyway, I noticed recently that somebody had Napstered the song, and I presume that tapes of the single were floating around long before the internet. Example: Google does the "Napstering"-sharing of public and copyrighted materials they take possession of, online. They are pigs, fascists, as that's what fascists do: take all books in the world, for free, and add sponsor links to the public materials. 3. To shut down, especially for copyright infringement, as Napster was. Example: Don't get me wrong. I am not interested in making that case myself with regard to Debian. On the contrary; I don't want to see Debian get Napstered. Putting obviously infringing stuff onto the mirror network is just begging for trouble. It's not like it's that hard for people to set up their own repositories; let them gamble with their own assets. Example: If you find Youtube^([sic]) as fascinating as I do you may want to step up the searches & viewing since it seems they may be "napstered" in the future.
Word: kbd Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of thousand barrels per day. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of keyboard. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Word: bbls Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See bbl § Etymology. 1. plural of bbl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vivandières Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vivandière Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fenny Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fenny, fenni (“marshy, muddy; of meat: putrid, rotten; of a person: sinful, vile”), from Old English fenniġ (“dirty; marshy, muddy, fenny”), from fen, fenn (“marsh, fen; mud”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist, wet; mud; swamp; water”)) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as fen + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Pronunciation: /ˈfɛni/ 1. Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens. Example: [I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places. Example: [F]or ſo many faire and Nauigable Riuers ſo neere adioyning, and piercing thorovv ſo faire a naturall Land, free from any inundations, or large Fenny vnvvholſome Marſhes, I haue not ſeene, read, nor heard of: […] 2. Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen. Example: A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome. Example: Fillet of a Fenny Snake, / In the Cauldron boyle and bake: […] 3. Muddy; hence, dirty, filthy. Labels: also, figuratively, obsolete Example: Lord vvhat a nothing is this little Span, / VVe call a Man! / VVhat fenny traſh maintaines the ſmooth'ring fires / Of his desires!
Word: fenny Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfɛni/ 1. Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, colloquial
Word: endogene Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From endo- + gene. 1. An endogenous gene
Word: enunciative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin enuntiativus, enunciativus. 1. Relating to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. Labels: not-comparable Example: only proceeds and obtains in respect of the dispositive Words of an Instrument , and not in regard of the enunciative Terms thereof Example: It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
Word: R/P Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of reserves-to-production. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: elephant polo Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of polo played while riding elephants rather than horses. Labels: uncountable
Word: fritanga Part of Speech: noun 1. A restaurant that serves Nicaraguan food. Labels: countable 2. Nicaraguan (fried) food generally. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: fritangas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fritanga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: government take Part of Speech: noun 1. A government's revenue through taxes, royalties and government participation
Word: silver firs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silver fir Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lividness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From livid + -ness, originally after Medieval Latin līviditās. 1. The state or condition of being livid (dark or pallid). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Wellsian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Wells + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics. Example: The real problem is that a true Wellsian time machine would run into itself. The time machine on its pastward journey just after you flip the switch and the time machine sitting there just before you flip the switch will run into each other […]
Word: Wellsian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wells + -ian. 1. An admirer of H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer regarded as a progenitor of science fiction, or his writings or politics. Example: X. is one of those incorrigible Wellsians who reads all the works of the great H. G. as fast as they appear and converts himself with the most protean readiness from one thing to another—student of modern married love—devotee of war-torn England—observer of the invisible king-god—revolutionist in education—friend of Bolshevist Russia—philosophic internationalist—world historian. Example: Most Wellsians of course will be familiar with the majority of these stories.
Word: keylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From key + -like. 1. Resembling a key.
Word: hepatorenal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hepato- + renal. 1. Of or pertaining to the liver and the kidneys Labels: not-comparable
Word: baffed out Part of Speech: adj 1. Worn out, exhausted, in dilapidated condition. Labels: Canada, informal Example: My feet are wet. The Velcro gives when I walk and I have to bend over, with Pete in my arms, in the mall or near the parking meter outside the supermarket, to secure the flap, and it gives again. The boots are baffed out. Example: A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract.
Word: baffed-out Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of baffed out. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: epiphrasis Part of Speech: noun 1. epexegesis
Word: Nieves Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Nieves. 1. A surname from Spanish.
Word: Caridad Part of Speech: name 1. A barangay of Culasi, Antique, Philippines. 2. A barangay of Jamindan, Capiz, Philippines. 3. A barangay of Quezon, Quezon, Philippines. 4. A barangay of Tuburan, Cebu, Philippines.
Word: brown bastard Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of sweet wine. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
Word: lividity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lividite, lyvydite, from Middle French lividité and its etymon Medieval Latin līviditās, from Latin līvidus (“livid”) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns). By surface analysis, livid + -ity. 1. The state or quality of being livid. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers. Labels: countable, usually 3. Livor mortis, suggillation. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Jacinta Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Jacinta. Variant of Jacinda and Jacintha. 1. A female given name.
Word: ACMI lease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ACMI is an initialism of aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance. 1. Synonym of wet lease.
Word: distemperature Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dis- + temperature. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɛmpəɹətj(ʊ)ə/ 1. A state of adverse or unhealthy atmospheric conditions. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. Unhealthy imbalance of bodily humours; a disorder. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Standing waters, thick and ill-coloured, […] cause foul distemperatures in the body and mind of man […]
Word: distemperatures Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distemperature Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mbd Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of million barrels per day. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
Word: addictionology Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From addiction + -ology. 1. The study and treatment of addiction. Labels: uncountable
Word: Jack the Ripper Part of Speech: name Etymology: September 1888, Jack + the + ripper, from the Dear Boss letter. 1. A supposed individual who was an unidentified 19th century serial killer in Whitechapel, London, England, UK; who has become part of folklore. Example: Keep this letter back till I do a bit more work. then give it out straight. My knife's so nice and sharp I want to get to work right away if I get a chance. Good luck. Yours truly ⁠Jack the Ripper Dont mind me giving the trade name Example: Two communications of an extraordinary nature, both signed "Jack the Ripper," have been received by the Central News Agency, the one on Thursday last and the other yesterday morning. The first - the original of which has been seen by Major Smith, the Assistant Commissioner of the City Police - was a letter, bearing the E.C. postmark, in which reference was made to the atrocious murders previously committed in the East-end, which the writer confessed, in a brutally jocular vein, to have committed; stating that in the "next job" he did he would "clip the lady's ears off" and send them to the police, and also asking that the letter might be kept back until he had done "a bit more work." The second communication was a postcard, and as above stated, it was received yesterday morning. It bore the date, "London, E., October 1," and was as follows: - "I was not codding, dear old Boss, when I gave you the tip. You'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work to-morrow. Double event this time. Number One squealed a bit; couldn't finish straight off. Had not time to get ears for police. Thanks for keeping the last letter back till I got to work again." The postcard was sent to Scotland Yard. No doubt is entertained that the writer of both communications, whoever he may be, is the same person.
Word: boyf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of boyfriend. Pronunciation: /bɔɪf/ 1. Clipping of boyfriend. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Word: boyfs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of boyf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canoeable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From canoe + -able. 1. navigable by canoe.
Word: boconcini Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of bocconcini. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: cowy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cow + -y. 1. Resembling a cow, cowlike
Word: zlotych Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Polish złotych. 1. plural of zloty Labels: form-of, plural
Word: worryguts Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From worry + guts. 1. worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
Word: yrivd Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of rive Labels: form-of, obsolete, participle, past
Word: outflew Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of outfly Labels: form-of, past
Word: outfly Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From out- + fly. Pronunciation: /aʊtˈflaɪ/ 1. To fly better, faster, or further than. Labels: transitive Example: She gave thee beauty — shaft of eyes, / That every shaft of war outflies! Example: It shows the peahens that the peacock is strong. And it shows other males that this peacock can outstrut, outfly, outcourt, and generally outcompete them.
Word: pranksome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From prank + -some. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæŋksəm/ 1. Characterised by pranks or pranking; mischievous; prone to pull pranks. Labels: dated, poetic Example: It bore reference to the first detention on mere postal technique, but a man's nose is placed between his eyes that he may smell out what he cannot see into, and knowing "the ways of such people" (Boccacio's phrase in speaking of the pranksome devils depicted by Dante in the Inferno, and quite apropos of Messrs. Stevens, Tobey, Comstock, and the rest), and suspecting the true mischief, I at once wrote to Mr. Chainey, personally a stranger to me, asking the particulars.
Word: pozzy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unclear, perhaps from a southern African language; from late 19thC, revived during World War I. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒ.zi/ 1. Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”). Labels: UK, slang, uncountable Example: ‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’ Example: The Turco used to say: 'Tommy, give Johnny pozzy,' and a tin of plum and apple jam used to be given him.
Word: pozzy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From position + -y (“diminutive suffix”), with spelling shift; variant of possie. Pronunciation: /ˈpɒ.zi/ 1. A firing position. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: 1916, various ANZAC soldiers, The Anzac Book, page 10, […] and Jerry O′Dwyer had shot two crows from the new sniper′s pozzy down at the creek-—and so on. Example: 1942, Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume III: The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916, 13th(?) Edition, page 340, Brown himself, unaware even that there was an officer among his captives, picked up his rifle, went back to his “pozzy,” and dismissed the incident from his mind […] 2. A position or place, especially one that is advantageous. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial Example: So I says to him, no, I can′t go back to the pozzy I′m sharing with Snowy Fisher and the late Pap. Example: Stretching his legs has been good for him, and this Pitt-street pozzy near the GPO is a splendid spot for a sandwich and a good book.
Word: powfagged Part of Speech: adj 1. exhausted Labels: Northern-England, not-comparable
Word: pupigerous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pupa + -gerous. 1. Containing a pupa. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nudzh Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, “an annoying, bothersome person”), from Polish nudzić (“to bore”). 1. A whiner; a complainer. Labels: slang
Word: nudzh Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Yiddish נודזש (nudzh, “an annoying, bothersome person”), from Polish nudzić (“to bore”). 1. To pester. Labels: slang, transitive 2. To whine; to complain. Labels: intransitive, slang
Word: hiphugger Part of Speech: noun 1. Attributive form of hiphuggers. Labels: attributive, form-of
Word: hiphuggers Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of hip-huggers. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: hypophysectomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hypophysis + -ectomy. 1. The surgical removal of the hypophysis (pituitary gland). Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cliquy Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of cliquey. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: government takes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of government take Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fatwahed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of fatwah Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: pickaninnies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pickaninny Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of pickaninnie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dreidl Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of dreidel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dreidls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dreidl Labels: form-of, plural
Word: demanganizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of demanganization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flagless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flag + -less. Pronunciation: /ˈflæɡləs/ 1. Without a flag. Labels: not-comparable Example: On the edge of a grassy field is a low, whitewashed house, with nothing to announce it as a Brotherhood branch. There is a rustic gym behind, and a flagless pole in front.
Word: ginglymus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek γίγγλυμος (gínglumos, “hinge”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪŋɡlɪməs/, /ˈdʒɪŋɡlɪməs/ 1. A hinge joint. Example: The Bones of the Fingers are articulated by Ginglymus, and are fifteen in each Hand. Example: The Ginglymus is, when a Bone receives and is received; and the Property of this Sort of Articulation is to admit only of the Motions of the Flexion and Extension: It is called by Tradesmen Charnall, and it is commonly used in Hinges.
Word: gingkos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gingko Labels: form-of, plural
Word: devs Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /dɛvz/ 1. plural of dev Labels: form-of, plural
Word: foureyed Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of four-eyed. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: gooily Part of Speech: adv 1. In a gooey manner.
Word: huzzahing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of huzzah Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: huzzahed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of huzzah Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: hobbledehoyhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hobbledehoy + -hood. 1. The period or time of being a hobbledehoy; awkward adolescence. Labels: uncountable
Word: horoeka Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Māori horoeka. Pronunciation: /hoɹoʊˈikə/ 1. The lancewood tree, Pseudopanax crassifolius. Labels: New-Zealand Example: Horoekas inch their way skyward like this for as many as 20 years before maturing, flowering profusely, and bearing black berries.
Word: green plover Part of Speech: noun 1. The lapwing. Labels: UK 2. Synonym of golden plover. Example: The Green PLOVER is about the bigness of a Lapwing, the colour of the whole upper side is black, thick set with yellowish green spots; the breast brown, spotted with yellowish green; the belly white. Example: THE GREEN PLOVER (Plate 72.) Is rather larger than a Lapwing, and weighs about nine ounces.
Word: red-breasted merganser Part of Speech: noun 1. A species of diving duck, Mergus serrator.
Word: Lewesian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lewes + -ian. 1. Someone from the town of Lewes. Example: He's a proud Lewesian by nature.
Word: Lewesian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lewes + -ian. 1. Relating to the town of Lewes.
Word: chappo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chap + -o. 1. Diminutive of chap (“man”). Labels: Australia, UK, diminutive, form-of, informal Example: 'Did you see those chubby old chappos with their medallions at the discotheque last night?'
Word: mi casa, su casa Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: From the Spanish mi casa es su casa (“make yourself at home”, literally “my house is your house”). Pronunciation: /ˈmiː ˌkɑːsə ˈsuː ˌkɑːsə/ 1. What is mine is yours; a friendly expression of sharing. Example: Girl, why is you lying? Girl, why you Mufasa? / Yeah, mi casa su casa, got a strip there like Gaza / Got so high off volcanoes, now the flow is so lava
Word: one can't hold two watermelons in one hand Part of Speech: proverb 1. One should not attempt to take on more than one can handle.
Word: monticule Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of monticle. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: monticules Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monticule Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hollaback girl Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Originally appeared in Gwen Stefani's song Hollaback Girl, released in 2004, based on the phrasal verb holla back. 1. A woman who responds readily to a come-on; a promiscuous woman. Labels: slang Example: A few times I've been around that track / So it's not just gonna happen like that / 'Cause I ain't no hollaback girl / I ain't no hollaback girl Example: While she might have been accused of being a hollaback girl, she ain't from the holler.
Word: dyor Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Coined by conspiracy theorist Milton William Cooper 1. Initialism of do your own research. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism
Word: red-throat Part of Speech: noun 1. The red-throated diver. Labels: UK
Word: black-throat Part of Speech: noun 1. The black-throated diver (Gavia arctica). Labels: UK
Word: Slavonian grebe Part of Speech: noun 1. A freshwater grebe of Europe, Podiceps auritus.
Word: gangas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ganga Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brasero Part of Speech: noun 1. A brazier. Labels: archaic
Word: souples Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of souple Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balisong Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog balisong. 1. A folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles.
Word: circle jerking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of circle jerk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: circle jerked Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of circle jerk Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: circle jerks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of circle jerk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: circle jerks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of circle jerk Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: butterfly knife Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compound of butterfly + knife from the opening motion of the knife. 1. A folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles.
Word: balisword Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of balisong + sword, to indicate the extensive length of the tool. 1. An exceptionally large balisong knife.
Word: lividities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lividity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antinovelist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From antinovel + -ist or anti- + novelist. 1. A writer of antinovels. Example: The difference between a modern novelist like Roth and an eighteenth-century moralist and antinovelist like Rousseau […] Example: But for Augustine, as for the harsher Puritans who followed him, there is no real point in saying what some humanist antinovelists very much wished to say […]
Word: antinovelists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antinovelist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antigalactic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + galactic. 1. Preventing or reducing lactation. 2. Having to do with an antigalaxy.
Word: antigalactic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + galactic. 1. An antigalactic drug or remedy.
Word: antigalactics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of antigalactic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balisongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balisong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unwormed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + wormed. 1. Not wormed; not treated for worms. Labels: not-comparable Example: The mouth, in some cases of madness, may become so swelled, that the dog cannot close his jaws ; but this may happen in a wormed or unwormed dog equally. 2. Not having had the lytta removed. Labels: not-comparable 3. Not spoiled by worms. Labels: not-comparable, usually Example: Its wooden substructure is solid, its timber unwormed, its royal blue cloth lining unfretted by the worm.
Word: unfretted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fretted. 1. Not fretted or rubbed. Labels: not-comparable 2. Not fretted; without frets. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Megleno-Romanians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Megleno-Romanian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Bauhaus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊhaʊs/, /ˈbaʊˌhaʊs/ 1. A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design. Labels: also, attributive Example: [J]une 22 unanimous approval of the projected bauhaus building, the first of the bauhaus books appears. Example: Not until the 1930's was the American public aware of the significance of the Bauhaus. Several factors contributed to this: American Bauhaus students were returning from Germany; Bauhaus design, as tubular steel chairs and lighting fixtures, were being imported from Germany; […]
Word: winebag Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wine + bag. 1. A leather bag formerly used to carry wine.
Word: winebags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of winebag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Athabaskan Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of Athabascan. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Athabaskan Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Athabascan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Athabaskan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Athabascan. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: lisinopril Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lysine + -o- + -pril (“angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor”). Pronunciation: /lɪˈsɪn.əˌpɹɪl/, /laɪˈsɪn.əˌpɹɪl/ 1. A drug of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor class (trademark Prinivil, Zestril), primarily used in the treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, and certain complications of diabetes. Labels: uncountable
Word: omapatrilat Part of Speech: noun 1. An antihypertensive agent that inhibits both neutral endopeptidase and angiotensin converting enzyme. Labels: uncountable
Word: pindolol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From (iso)p(ropyl) + ind(olyl) + -olol. Pronunciation: /ˈpɪn.də.lɒl/, /ˈpɪn.dəˌlɔl/ 1. A β-adrenergic blocking agent used to treat cardiac arrhythmia and hypertension. Labels: uncountable
Word: usines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of usine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lymphadenectomy Part of Speech: noun 1. The surgical removal of lymph nodes, usually performed as part of the management of cancer Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: lymphadenectomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lymphadenectomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cyanopindolol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cyano- + pindolol. 1. A drug related to pindolol which acts as both a β1 adrenoreceptor antagonist and a 5-HT1A receptor antagonist. Labels: uncountable
Word: azodicarbonamide Part of Speech: noun 1. An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, flour bleaching agent and improving agent, and in foaming plastics. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: To protest the sandwich chain’s use of azodicarbonamide in its bread, Ms. Hari posted a video of herself chewing another item in which the chemical is found: a yoga mat.
Word: iodocyanopindolol Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iodo- + cyano- + pindolol. 1. A drug, related to cyanopindolol, whose radiolabelled derivative has been widely used in mapping the distribution of beta adrenoreceptors in the body. Labels: uncountable
Word: azodicarbonamides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of azodicarbonamide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coryzas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of coryza Labels: form-of, plural
Word: azobisformamide Part of Speech: noun 1. azodicarbonamide
Word: coryzal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From coryza + -al. 1. Pertaining to coryza. Labels: not-comparable
Word: azobisformamides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of azobisformamide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bombyx Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Bombyx, from Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast. 1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries. Example: Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to annouce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire. This situation is true also in the case of insects, for example, in the female of the bombyx butterfly[.]
Word: bombyxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bombyx Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bombax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin [Term?]. 1. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
Word: bombaxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bombax Labels: form-of, plural
Word: subsumer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From subsume + -er. 1. One who, or that which, subsumes.
Word: antibug Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + bug. 1. Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects). Labels: not-comparable Example: The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder... Example: Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio. 2. Serving to counteract bugs (audio or audiovisual surveillance devices). Labels: not-comparable Example: antibug measures Example: The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.
Word: chervonets Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Russian черво́нец (červónec), derived from черво́нное зо́лото (červónnoje zóloto), "red gold". 1. Any of several former currencies of Russia: applied to various foreign gold coins prior to the reign of Peter I of Russia, then to a Russian gold coin of 1701-1757, and finally to a 1922 currency of the Soviet Union.
Word: chervontsy Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chervonets Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tchervonets Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See under chervonets. 1. Alternative spelling of chervonets. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tchervontsy Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tchervonets Labels: form-of, plural
Word: larges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of large Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apogeic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From apogee + -ic. 1. Pertaining to the apogee. 2. Climactic. Labels: figuratively
Word: catafalcoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of catafalco Labels: form-of, plural
Word: coky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From coke + -y. 1. Resembling or containing coke (coal residue).
Word: repagination Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From repaginate + -ation. 1. The act or process of repaginating. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: repaginations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of repagination Labels: form-of, plural
Word: deev Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of daeva. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: In the opposite kingdom of darkness Aherman is supreme, and his throne is encompassed by the six Arch-Deevs, and the numerous hosts of inferior Deevs.
Word: deevs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deev Labels: form-of, plural
Word: elmy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From elm + -y. 1. Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow. Labels: poetic, rare Example: The appearance is such that I might compare it to that of the checkered moonlight admitted through an elmy overarching grove... Example: Strange faint hushes / Rose slowly round him / And an elmy breeze / Sighed as waters of day / Far away.
Word: duxelles Part of Speech: noun Etymology: French d' + Uxelles; the dish is said to have been named for Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles, maréchal de France. Pronunciation: /dʊkˈsɛl/, /dʌkˈsɛl(z)/ 1. A finely chopped mixture of mushrooms, onions, shallots and herbs sautéed in butter and reduced to a paste, used in stuffings and sauces (as in beef Wellington) or as a garnish.
Word: canvaslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From canvas + -like. 1. Resembling canvas (the fabric).
Word: canvassy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From canvas + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of canvas (the fabric).
Word: countercry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + cry. 1. A cry raised in opposition to another.
Word: countercries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countercry Labels: form-of, plural
Word: countercall Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From counter- + call. 1. A call raised in opposition or response to another call.
Word: countercalls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of countercall Labels: form-of, plural
Word: decrepitly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From decrepit + -ly. Pronunciation: /dɪˈkɹɛpɪtli/ 1. In a decrepit way.
Word: camanachd Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic camanachd, from caman (“shinty stick”). Cognate with Irish camánacht. 1. The game of shinty. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: cumecs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cumec Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forwhy Part of Speech: conj Etymology: From Middle English forwhy, forwhi, from Old English forhwī, forhwȳ (“why, wherefore”). Equivalent to for + why. 1. Because; for the reason that. Labels: obsolete Example: Then did he cast to steale her thence away, / And with him beare where none of her might know: / But all in vaine, for-why he found no way / To enter in […] Example: But of the day—and of the weeks bygone, and of many other things—this deponent saith nil, whereby and forwhy he is going to bed.
Word: extatic Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of ecstatic. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length. Example: His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; […] 2. Misspelling of ecstatic. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: damfool Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of damnfool. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: While the Irish in me finds it entertaining, the Yankee thinks it’s a damfool waste of time.
Word: damfool Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of damnfool. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fryable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From fry + -able. 1. That can be fried. Labels: not-comparable Example: Olestra is a thermally stable, fryable fat substitute that can substitute for all of the oil in a product, contributing essentially no fat and no calories […]
Word: evadable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evade + -able. 1. That can be evaded.
Word: evadible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evade + -ible. 1. That can be evaded.
Word: evasible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From evade + -ible. 1. That can be evaded.
Word: bitchlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bitch + -like. 1. Like a bitch (malicious woman).
Word: flapless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flap + -less. 1. Without a flap or flaps. Labels: not-comparable
Word: forcepslike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From forceps + -like. 1. Resembling a forceps.
Word: forcipes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forceps Labels: form-of, plural
Word: forcepses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forceps Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hypersexually Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From hypersexual + -ly. 1. In a hypersexual way.
Word: faunlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From faun + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a faun. Example: Little Sea grumbled in her sleep, while Desire, with wide-open, faunlike eyes, stared queerly at me. Example: WASPy GWM, impractically educated, clever but uncynical, slender physique but good torso (otherwise mildly unprepossessing) — 30ish but the skinny beardless faun-like demeanor is initially deceptive.
Word: deerlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From deer + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a deer. Example: Near-synonym: cervid (in attributive use)
Word: floodlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From flood + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a flood.
Word: doelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From doe + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a doe; submissively tender.
Word: shoelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shoe + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a shoe.
Word: bootlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From boot + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a boot (footwear).
Word: chairlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κατά (katá) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English chairlike From chair + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a chair. Example: In contrast, Liliana Dirks-Goodman’s “house/home” was based on solid objects of beauty: a woven blanket, a chairlike sculpture.
Word: druglike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From drug + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a drug.
Word: waterlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From water + -like. 1. Resembling water.
Word: milklike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From milk + -like. 1. Resembling milk.
Word: broadspectrum Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of broad-spectrum. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: untendered Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + tendered. 1. Not tendered. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unlicked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + licked. 1. Newborn (of an animal), not yet licked into shape; (by extension, of a person) naïve, inexperienced, unrefined. Labels: not-comparable Example: Rachel was an unlicked girl, no doubt prolific of confidences, the very first of which would be: ‘You see, I don't get on with my father.’ 2. Crude, unpolished; not skilfully formed or finished. Labels: not-comparable Example: [M]uch which I have heard objected to my late friend’s writings was well-founded. Crude they are, I grant you—a sort of unlicked, incondite things—villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. 3. Not licked (by the tongue). Labels: not-comparable 4. Unbeaten, undefeated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: doom-and-gloomer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From doom and gloom + -er. 1. A person who predicts doom and gloom; a pessimist, naysayer, or Cassandra. Labels: informal
Word: flexihours Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of flexible + hours. 1. Flexitime. Labels: uncountable
Word: virusoid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From virus + -oid. 1. A circular single-stranded RNA, similar but not identical to a viroid, dependent on plant viruses for replication and encapsidation.
Word: virusoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of virusoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gheraoes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gherao Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hudibrastics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hudibrast + -ics. 1. The use of the Hudibrastic style. Labels: uncountable
Word: harpylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From harpy + -like. 1. Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
Word: shrewishly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From shrewish + -ly. 1. In a shrewish way.
Word: harpyish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From harpy + -ish. 1. Resembling a harpy; ravenous or shrewish.
Word: hieing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hie Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: jamlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From jam + -like. 1. Resembling jam (the sweet spread).
Word: jammily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From jammy + -ly. 1. In a jammy or jamlike way. 2. Luckily, flukily.
Word: flukily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fluky + -ly. 1. In a fluky way; with unexpected luck.
Word: jamminess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From jammy + -ness. 1. The state or condition of being jammy or jamlike. Labels: uncountable 2. Unexpected luck; flukiness. Labels: slang, uncountable
Word: gorefest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gore + -fest. 1. An event, situation, film, novel, etc., that is characterised by a copious amount of gore. Labels: informal Example: This horror novel is a real gorefest: everybody gets decapitated.
Word: gorefests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gorefest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miaous Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of miaou Labels: form-of, plural
Word: miaous Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of miaou Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person