nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: cathedral city Part of Speech: noun 1. A title awarded to a town in the United Kingdom which, before letters patent, held city status by virtue of having a cathedral within its bounds. 2. A city in a former British colony which resembles an English cathedral city in that it has a relatively small population, an Anglican cathedral, and also holds the title of city.
Word: babions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of babion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: babians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of babian Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baby farms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baby farm Labels: form-of, plural
Word: baby farmers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baby farmer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shower caps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shower cap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chlorion Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chlor- + ion. 1. A chlorine ion. Labels: archaic
Word: juice up Part of Speech: verb 1. To charge, to charge up. Labels: idiomatic, informal Example: I need to juice up my phone because the battery's dead. 2. To make more exciting, interesting or compelling. Labels: idiomatic, informal 3. To kill or seriously injure with a knife. Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang Example: Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher 4. To take a performance-enhancing drug. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: For so long I stayed natural because it was a sense of pride to me that as a natural I was still competing and beating guys who were juicing up. 5. To secrete vaginal juices out of arousal, to get wet. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: With her pussy spread he pressed into her and she bit into her bottom lip. “Damn, shawty,” he moaned. She juiced up even more when she heard how he responded to her.
Word: get one's juices flowing Part of Speech: verb 1. To inspire creativity and thought. Labels: idiomatic Example: Many people think that the best way to make meetings tolerable is to walk into the room and fire away with lots of ideas to get juices flowing. Such ideas goad uncreative colleagues into building more elaborate strategies to conceal their lack of creativity. 2. To sexually excite, to tantalize (a woman). Labels: idiomatic
Word: upscales Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of upscale Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: upscaling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of upscale Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: upscaling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is upscaled; an increase in size or numbers.
Word: if you like Part of Speech: adv 1. Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction. Example: But imagine, if you like, a world where climate change did not exist. Example: If you('d) like to come this way. 2. So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard. Example: This band's genre can be described as, if you like, New Wave or Post-Punk.
Word: tie one on Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From earlier tie a bun on, where bun means “bender, drunken spree” and probably comes from bung. First attested in the 1940s. 1. To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk Labels: colloquial, dated, idiomatic Example: "Let's tie one on!" said Peachy gaily. "Come on, Eve!" Eve said she couldn't drink a thing. "Besides, it's fattening!" Example: Haiti […] was distressed, tropical, ramshackle, overcrowded, poor and on the brink of civil war. […] Its ornate hotels were in a state of decay, yet there was enough alcohol available for a guest to tie one on.
Word: black chamber Part of Speech: noun 1. A government or royal court's cryptanalyst department. Labels: historical, informal
Word: editing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of edit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: editing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/ 1. An act or instance of something being edited. Example: To her, I credit three complete editings, numerous arguments and discussions over an extended period of time, and the incalculable benefit of her great knowledge and love of the English language.
Word: socialisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of socialism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: presex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pre- + sex. 1. Before sex. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Guanhua Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 官話 /官话 (Guānhuà). 1. Mandarin, group of Northern Chinese dialects including Standard Mandarin (Putonghua).
Word: blue chambers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of blue chamber Labels: form-of, plural
Word: GibE Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Gibraltarian English. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: StE Part of Speech: name 1. Abbreviation of Standard English. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Altay Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Kazakh التاي (Altay) and Uyghur ئالتاي (altay), from Mongolic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰃𐱁 (l¹t¹un¹:y¹iš /⁠altun yïš⁠/, literally “Golden Mountain”). 1. Alternative form of Altai. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner. 2. A prefecture in northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China. Example: The Kazaks were struggling in poverty before liberation. Some 2,000 people died of starvation in the Altay Prefecture from 1944 to 1945, and 40 per cent of the Kazak herdsmen in Altay County alone were homeless in 1946. Example: In January 2010, a blizzard of such force which had not occurred in six decades attacked the Altay Prefecture, and the minimum temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. 3. A county-level city of Altay prefecture, in far northern Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Word: Altay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Transliteration of Kazakh التاي (Altay) and Uyghur ئالتاي (altay), from Mongolic, from Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣:𐰖𐰃𐱁 (l¹t¹un¹:y¹iš /⁠altun yïš⁠/, literally “Golden Mountain”). 1. Alternative form of Altai. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: Sea of Okhotsk Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East, whose name is derived from Even окат (okat, “river”). Pronunciation: /ˌsiː əv əˈxɒtsk/ 1. A sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
Word: housewright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From house + wright (“builder”). 1. A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter). Example: The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil. Example: The names of the colonial craftsmen had changed. The joiner and the turner and the housewright had become the cabinet-maker, the chair-maker, and the carpenter.
Word: sledge hockey Part of Speech: noun 1. A version of ice hockey where the players are seated on sledges and have use of two sticks. Labels: uncountable
Word: NVOCC Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of non-vessel-operating common carrier. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: herbose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin herbōsus (“grassy, full of grass or herbs”). Pronunciation: /hɜːˈbəʊs/ 1. Having an abundance of herbage; full of herbs. Labels: not-comparable
Word: herbous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From herb + -ous. 1. Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous
Word: absolute time Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæb.səˌlut taɪm/, /ˌæb.səˈljut taɪm/ 1. The Newtonian concept of an unchanging and unchangeable reference system of time (and spatial) coordinates that is the same for all observers. Labels: uncountable
Word: carry oneself Part of Speech: verb 1. To move, especially emphasizing the manner in which one moves. Labels: idiomatic Example: [Y]et all the vvhile they are the tradeſmens vvives, they endeavour to preſerve the distinction of their fancied character; carry themſelves as if they thought they were ſtill above their ſtation, […] Example: She was thin, but always carried herself bolt upright, and would never even lean back in her chair. 2. To behave, especially with respect to how one's speech, body language, facial expressions, and grooming convey one's opinion concerning oneself. Labels: idiomatic Example: "Do I not carry myself well in the hour of defeat?" / "You do, Your Majesty." / "Am I pale, Le B—?" / "No—no—oh, no, not at all, Sire." / "Tell me the truth, Le B—. We must not let the enemy find us broken when they arrive. How do I look? Out with it." Example: [S]he carried herself with a little touch of hauteur—an air of aloofness, as it were.
Word: absolute space-time Part of Speech: noun 1. The Newtonian concept of an unchanging and unchangeable reference system of time and spatial coordinates that is the same for all observers. Labels: uncountable
Word: body odor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of body odour. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: crack a fat Part of Speech: verb 1. To get an erection of the penis. Labels: idiomatic, slang, vulgar
Word: centrifugated Part of Speech: adj 1. separated by centrifugation; centrifuged Labels: not-comparable
Word: clustercore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cluster + core. 1. The central part of a star cluster, where stars are most densely packed.
Word: extremized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of extremize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: extremized Part of Speech: adj 1. converted into an extreme form
Word: interleavings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of interleaving Labels: form-of, plural
Word: meridionally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From meridional + -ly. 1. In a meridional manner Labels: not-comparable 2. With regard to, or in the direction of a meridian Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonmonotonicities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonmonotonicity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonmonotonicity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + monotonicity. 1. The condition of being nonmonotonic Labels: countable, uncountable Example: By the way, the nonmonotonicity of social data provides an easy formula for news outlets to accentuate the negative.
Word: nonnegativity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + negativity. 1. The condition of being nonnegative Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: nonnegativities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonnegativity Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nonstationarity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + stationarity. 1. The condition of being nonstationary. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: parallelised Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of parallelized. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: rethermalizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rethermalize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unsatisfiability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + satisfiability. 1. The condition of being unsatisfiable Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: back gammon players Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of back gammon player Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backheels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of backheel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: backheels Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of backheel Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: backheeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of backheel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: backheeled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of backheel Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: remords Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɔːdz/ 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of remord Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: ballers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of baller Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balls-ups Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balls-up Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balthazars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balthazar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: balsamic vinegars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of balsamic vinegar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bankrupt carts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bankrupt cart Labels: form-of, plural
Word: get one's head around Part of Speech: verb 1. To understand; fathom; solve. Labels: informal, transitive Example: How did you get this number? / I can't get my head 'round you Example: When my mum did pass away I fell out with God because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us.
Word: dandiacal Part of Speech: adj 1. Dandyish; like a dandy. Example: For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled. Example: That open neck that met with Hilton Kramer's bourgeois disapproval, like the Harley Davidson Bob affected, may remind us of that ocker strain which the dandiacal Barry Humphries caught in his comment: "There is no truth in the rumour that Les Patterson has been admitted to a funny farm and has changed his name to Robert Hughes."
Word: leasebacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leaseback Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sentimentalisation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sentimental + -isation. 1. Alternative spelling of sentimentalization. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: sentimentalizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sentimentalization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sentimentalisations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sentimentalisation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sentimentalizer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sentimentalize + -er. 1. One who sentimentalizes.
Word: sentimentalizers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sentimentalizer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: three-finger salute Part of Speech: noun 1. Control-Alt-Delete, a keypress used to reset or interrupt the computer. Labels: humorous Example: THE THREE-FINGER SALUTE … to suddenly find that your keyboard is frozen or to watching the screen fill up with garbage. You may not even be aware of the two different types of crashes, the soft crash (recoverable by the three-finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Del) or the hard crash (big red switch and count to 5 slowly).
Word: three-finger salutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of three-finger salute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sentimentaliser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sentimentalizer. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sentimentalisers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sentimentaliser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unbuffed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + buff + -ed. 1. Not having been buffed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The usefulness of acid leveling copper can be expanded to plate many more unbuffed die castings.
Word: scumware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scum + -ware. 1. malware Labels: derogatory, informal, uncountable
Word: salsalike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From salsa + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of salsa (the spicy tomato sauce). 2. Resembling or characteristic of salsa (the style of music).
Word: bardlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bard + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a bard. Example: Wolfe saw himself in this bardlike role, vanquishing death and oblivion with timeless words.
Word: ObamaCare Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare. Pronunciation: /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/ 1. Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him. Labels: US, neologism Example: For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan. Example: This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.
Word: Obamunism Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Obama + communism. 1. The economic or political policies of the Obama administration, viewed as socialism, communism, or government overreach. Labels: derogatory, neologism Example: Both are interesting choices as poster children for corporate American promoters of Obamunism. Example: More recently, Patrick Michaels, a longtime critic of climate science and policy scholar at the Cato Institute, criticized plans for a cap and trade system to control greenhouse gases as “Obamunism.”
Word: Arthur Daley Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the character of the same name in the British television series Minder. 1. A person who is devious, who cheats people, and who often resorts to confidence tricks. Example: 2003 July 15, in news.bbc.co.uk Tories blast 'Arthur Daley' Blair Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader. Example: He was a bit of a ducker and diver, an Arthur Daley type who sold stuff out of the back of his Volvo, like tracksuits, alcohol and cigarettes.
Word: forearm bones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of forearm bone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Arthur Daleys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Arthur Daley Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pig fucker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pigfucker. Labels: alt-of, alternative, vulgar 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pig, fucker. Labels: vulgar Example: Phillip: Terrance, why would you call me a pig fucker? Terrance: Well, let's see. First of all, you fuck pigs. Phillip: Oh, yeah! Example: If you want to allege an MP is a pig fucker you don't have to produce the pig. You just have to get him to deny it.
Word: pig-fucker Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pigfucker. Labels: alt-of, alternative, vulgar
Word: pig fuckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pig fucker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pig-fuckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pig-fucker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neoclassicist Part of Speech: noun 1. a follower of neoclassicism
Word: neoclassicists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neoclassicist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: absency Part of Speech: noun 1. absence Labels: countable, dated, uncountable
Word: absencies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of absency Labels: form-of, plural
Word: re-express Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of reexpress. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: orphanlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From orphan + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of an orphan. Example: Left orphanlike (his mother dies and his father later moves to Denver and disappears from the novel), he lives with his distinguished uncle...
Word: air photo Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of aerial photograph. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of aerial photography. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: unskiable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + skiable. 1. Not skiable; unsuitable for skiing. Example: The steepest side of the mountain was regarded as unskiable.
Word: gloominesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gloominess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reëxpress Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of reexpress. Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: Since, as Baer-Hasse show, (𝐹) holds for subgroups of 𝐴 of finite index and the corresponding finite adjunctions onto the rational domain 𝕽, we can reëxpress their formulae […] Example: […] to explain how he was able to absorb and reëxpress intellectual currents of the greatest complexity and diversity.
Word: reëxpressed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reëxpress Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: phaenomenon Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic spelling of phenomenon. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: phaenomena Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phaenomenon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ficklenesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fickleness Labels: form-of, plural
Word: misanthropies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of misanthropy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: neglecter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: * from neglect + -er 1. A person who neglects, or takes no notice of something Example: Handel resembles Lully somewhat in his reputation for being a lover of the table and a neglecter of womankind.
Word: neglecters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of neglecter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Gogolian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Gogol + -ian, from Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ) from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”), from Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ) < Proto-Slavic *gogolĭ. 1. Of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works. Example: Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal interests centred on the solution of certain great social problems,—the arrangement of the relations between the sexes, the abolition of serfdom, the abrogation of all individual property in land for the good of the community.
Word: hosehead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: After Hosehead, the dog in The Great White North, a recurring SCTV sketch featuring Bob and Doug McKenzie. 1. An alcoholic. Labels: derogatory, slang 2. A person from Canada. Labels: derogatory, slang
Word: sundews Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sundew Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sunfast Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sun + fast. 1. Colorfast in a way that will not fade in sunlight. Labels: US
Word: sungazer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + gazer. 1. One who takes part in sungazing, staring at the Sun. 2. Smaug giganteus, a large burrowing lizard of South Africa.
Word: sungazers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sungazer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: suntrap Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sun + trap. 1. A warm place that captures the heat of the sun. Example: Limestone absorbs the heat, making this south-facing coastline a suntrap, with temperatures as much as 10 degrees higher than in nearby Sorrento.
Word: suntraps Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suntrap Labels: form-of, plural
Word: relisten Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + listen. 1. To listen again. Labels: intransitive
Word: relistening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of relisten Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: relistens Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of relisten Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: relistened Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of relisten Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: relitigation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re- + litigation. 1. The act or process of relitigating. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: relitigations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of relitigation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: retained mode Part of Speech: noun 1. A mode in which the application updates a set of graphical objects which are stored and displayed by the graphics library, contrasting with immediate mode. Labels: uncountable
Word: immediate mode Part of Speech: noun 1. A mode in which the application is directly responsible for rendering graphics to the display, contrasting with retained mode. Labels: uncountable
Word: farthingale Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Hobson-Jobson of earlier forms vardingale, etc., borrowed from Middle French verdugale, from Spanish verdugado, from verdugo (“rod”). Pronunciation: /ˈfɑːðɪŋɡeɪl/, /ˈfɑɹðɪŋɡeɪl/ 1. A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat. Labels: historical Example: women […] make trunk-sleeves of wyre and whale-bone bodies, backes of lathes, and stiffe bumbasted verdugals, and to the open-view of all men paint and embellish themselves with counterfeit and borrowed beauties[…]. Example: As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style with high-backed Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions.
Word: farthingales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of farthingale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bits and pieces Part of Speech: noun 1. A random assortment of things; small remaining pieces and things. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only Example: “I mean, what is she even talking about? Got her pregnant at the Halloween party? What does that mean? I don't even remember that party. I was wasted.” “Yeah, me too. I browned out that evening.” “"browned out"? What's "browned out"?” “Oh, it's when you drink so much that everything goes brown. It's not as severe as a blackout, 'cause I remember bits and pieces. I like to call it "browning out."” Example: Fortunately, Dad was an ingenious sort. He had found lots of the bits and pieces he needed for the van from the rubbish dump.
Word: cinnabars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cinnabar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: streetful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From street + -ful. 1. As much as a street will hold. Example: It took the police an hour to arrest the whole streetful of rioters.
Word: streetsful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of streetful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: streetfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of streetful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: streetfight Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of street fight. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: streetfights Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of streetfight Labels: form-of, plural
Word: streetlit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: streetlight + lit 1. Illuminated by streetlights. Labels: not-comparable Example: We squinted at the streetlit scene. They were all holding rifles! Example: He began emptying another bag, placing food on the streetlit patch of sidewalk, just out of reach of the hatch.
Word: streetlighting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From street + lighting. 1. Illumination by streetlights. Labels: uncountable
Word: hackery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”). 1. A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight. Labels: India Example: Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. 2. A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people. Labels: India, Sri-Lanka
Word: hackery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”). 1. Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction. Labels: derogatory, slang, uncountable 2. The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques). Labels: slang, uncountable Example: All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.
Word: hackeries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hackery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: altarwise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From altar + -wise. 1. Placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall. Labels: not-comparable Example: But usually, when not used, the tables stood altarwise against the east wall.
Word: leg man Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of legman. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [page 136] This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers [...] Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. [...] [page 140] City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations. Example: During the nine-month Great Lakes shipping season, the ore hogs—shovelers, "larry" car weighers, bulldozer operators, car pushers and "leg" men—unite in this miracle of supply that stock-piles enough iron ore to last through the winter. The leg man on a Hulett iron-ore unloader must possess a special blend of brawn, brains and a "go for broke" attitude. He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leg, man.
Word: unbathed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + bathed. 1. Not bathed; unwashed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: flotel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of float + hotel. Pronunciation: /fləʊˈtɛl/, /ˈfləʊtl̩/, /floʊˈtɛl/ 1. a ship converted to a permanently moored hotel. 2. living quarters built on a floating platform, such as near an offshore oil rig.
Word: junkiedom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From junkie + -dom. 1. the state of being a junkie Labels: uncountable
Word: junkiehood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From junkie + -hood. 1. the state of being a junkie Labels: uncountable
Word: junkieness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From junkie + -ness. 1. the state of being a junkie Labels: rare, uncountable
Word: niggerdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nigger + -dom. 1. The collective, realm, sphere, or activity of niggers. Labels: offensive, uncountable Example: It proved to niggerdom what a good nigger could be if he only fear God and obey his master in all things. Example: We were assured therefore, by the learned doctors, that the Thebans were not Africans, but a nobler race, and had none of the particularities of niggerdom. 2. The state of being a nigger. Labels: offensive, uncountable Example: That is the other side of the shield; is the price the hired nigger pays for his occasional freedom from his niggerdom, It is not in the least material however that we should settle which of the two slaveries is best or worst. Example: Suddenly feeling his “niggerdom” in a white environment, he determined to live in a black society.
Word: niggerness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nigger + -ness. 1. The state or period of being a nigger (all senses). Labels: offensive, uncountable Example: Now if this scourge, this blues, this niggerness is so terrible; if it has been inflicted upon us for all these years; if it has infected the whole social and political body of this country and damaged its soul in the process, and if we have survived because we were “too damn mean to cry,”—not only because we “got good religion,” but because we “got good bread,” then we shouldn't even forget the experience, because it is a part of our uniqueness. We shouldn't ever forget the experiences of niggerness—the whole range of it. Example: The new millennium brings a new appreciation of niggerness not as resistance but collective embrace. Moreover, much like the Pet Rock or Pokémon fads that have captivated commercialized America, Dela declares that blackface has a craze that sweeps the nation.
Word: slutdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slut + -dom. 1. The state or quality of being a slut. Labels: offensive, sometimes, uncountable Example: I don't really feel much like watching my descent into slutdom captured on tape after I've carried Lys back into her room. Example: She thinks I'm one mass of inhibitions and hang-ups just because I prefer serial monogamy to perpetual slutdom. 2. The world of sluts; sluts collectively. Labels: offensive, sometimes, uncountable Example: She is the Grand Poobah of slutdom.
Word: sluthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slut + -hood. 1. The state or period of being a slut. Labels: offensive, sometimes, uncountable Example: Race enters into it only insofar as race enters into the Blue Angel Syndrome; the combination of a white woman and a black man has traditionally been "proof" of her sluthood […] Example: Somewhere I started drinking again but because of my beliefs and the fact I have a wonderful women for a wife, I managed not to return to my days of male sluthood.
Word: slutness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slut + -ness. 1. The state of being a slut. Labels: offensive, rare, sometimes, uncountable Example: Annie Sprinkle, the lover of men and women alike, the oversexed goddess who celebrates her slutness finally announces after an hour of packing, primping and phoning that she is now ready to leave. Example: […] it had been long enough since the sexathon in Budapest that I had the energy for full-time slutness.
Word: loserhood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loser + -hood. 1. The state of being a loser. Labels: uncountable Example: When Nietzsche sees the Judeo-Christian emphasis on the other world or God or the true life, he sees the resentment of losers who elevate “loserhood” to place themselves above the true winners in the world.
Word: cunthood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cunt + -hood. 1. The state or period of being a cunt. Labels: uncountable, vulgar
Word: cuntdom Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cunt + -dom. 1. The state or period of being a cunt. Labels: uncountable, vulgar
Word: hosebags Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hosebag Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hoseheads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hosehead Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sluttiness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From slutty + -ness. 1. The characteristic or state of being slutty. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: As a teenager, she dresses like a punk rocker in outfits "ingeniously designed to disguise sluttiness as irony" yet still finds she cannot bring herself to spit her gum on the sidewalk, her rebellion stifled by the fact that she "cared too much about making other people cross with her."
Word: Senatical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Senate + -ical. 1. Of, by, or pertaining to the Senate of Ancient Rome. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is to be obſerved, that what overthrows Monarchy, the ſame overthrows a Senatical Government.
Word: cestui Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Anglo-Norman. 1. That person; the person in question. Labels: obsolete
Word: wikilike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From wiki + -like. 1. In the style of a wiki (collaborative website edited in a browser). Example: So, in 1999 a wikilike crowd of people, including chess champions, gathered to play Kasparov in an online game called "Kasparov versus the World." Example: Additionally, we already are seeing the use of wikilike features in new online software. For example, Google Docs, the free online document processing program from Google, archives changes in a way that allows users to revert to previous versions.
Word: deporter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From deport + -er. 1. One who deports. Example: Domingo Garcia , president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, took issue with that critique. “The Obama and Biden administration were terrible in their first term,” he said. “His title of deporter in chief was earned.”
Word: trophæal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the Latin tropaeum, trophaeum (“trophy, monument to victory in war”); suffixing to the stem trophæ- the suffix -al. Pronunciation: /tɹəʊˈfiːəl/, /tɹoʊˈfi.əl/ 1. Pertaining to a trophy or to trophies. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: He stiled himself thus Augustus Cæsar Octavianus Trophaeall. 2. Adorned with trophies. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: Her streets of old did shine with trumphing Cæsars and Consuls in their trophæal Chariots. 3. Erected without Senatical grant by a prevailing general as a trophy (or tropæum) commemorating a battle in which he was victorious; compare triumphal. Labels: Roman, historical, not-comparable Example: This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller. Example: […H]e would have ſeen with what an endeavour at accuracy (in pages 36, 7, 8) I have diſtinguiſhed trophæal monuments, erected on the fields of battle by the generals and their armies, from triumphal arches, erected by the authority of government, after theſe generals had been admitted to the honour of a triumph. 4. Exhibited as a trophy of victory in war. Labels: not-comparable
Word: as for Part of Speech: prep 1. Regarding; about; concerning. Example: I can't teach that class today: I'm sick. As for the rest of the teachers, they are still on leave. Example: As for you, we believe in you.
Word: teleoperator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + operator. 1. One who operates a robot, etc. remotely.
Word: teleoperators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of teleoperator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: telepathies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of telepathy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: teleprogramming Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From tele- + programming. 1. The programming of a robot, etc. remotely. Labels: uncountable
Word: teleprogrammed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From tele- + programmed. 1. Programmed remotely. Labels: not-comparable Example: The entire facility can be teleprogrammed in Java from any location on the Internet.
Word: ammunitions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ammunition Labels: form-of, plural
Word: immeasurability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From im- + measurability. Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɛʒəɹəbɪl.ə.ti/, /ɪˈmɛʒɹəbɪl.ɪ.ti/ 1. Synonym of immeasurableness. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: As we have become resident, we are proscribed under the title of absentees: as we have grown poor, we are taunted with the immeasurability of our wealth. Example: The Italian sailors of the Mediterranean, and the Greeks of the Archipelago, who very rarely leave behind them the pillars of Hercules, are for the most part married, because their voyages are of short duration, and they can often return to the bosoms of their families: but the English, who by the immeasurability of their commerce are citizens of the world, would, if they were married, too seldom enjoy their home.
Word: immeasurabilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of immeasurability Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tropæum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the Latin tropaeum (“trophy”, “tropæum”). Doublet of trophy. Pronunciation: /tɹəʊˈpiːəm/ 1. A monument erected (originally on the field of battle) by the prevailing army (without Senatical grant — contrast triumph) to commemorate victory in war, featuring spoils taken from the enemy (especially the personal arms of the vanquished general), and dedicated to an appropriate god (such as Mars). Labels: historical
Word: midface Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + face. 1. The middle portion of the face.
Word: midfaces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of midface Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trophaeall Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of trophæal. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: tropheal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of trophæal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: trophaeal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of trophæal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Example: I want to conclude with an observation based on a contrast between the art of the First Johannesburg Biennale and the trophaeal art that almost concurrently went on display at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg — art the Russian troops had taken away from a Germany defeated as an emblem of that defeat.
Word: hard pill to swallow Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of bitter pill to swallow. Labels: idiomatic Example: That my own son could have done something so horrible is a hard pill to swallow. 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, pill, to, swallow.
Word: suspend one's disbelief Part of Speech: verb 1. To willingly accept the premise of a story or work of art, usually for the sake of enjoying it. Labels: idiomatic Example: Although the novel was quite far-fetched, I was willing to suspend my disbelief.
Word: go so far as Part of Speech: verb 1. To reach an unexpected extent in doing something. Labels: idiomatic Example: I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn't go so far as to kill himself? Example: Sure he's clever, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a genius.
Word: kraul Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of kraal. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: Shevchenko Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ukrainian Шевче́нко (Ševčénko). Pronunciation: /ʃeɪvˈtʃɛnkɔː/, /ʃeɪvˈtʃɛnkəʊ/ 1. A surname from Ukrainian 2. A surname from Ukrainian 3. A rural settlement in Horkoho rural rada, Mykolaivka rural hromada, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Word: nidifying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of nidify Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: invulnerate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: First attested in 1680; borrowed from Latin invulnerātus (“unwounded”), from in- (“not”) + vulnerātus see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). 1. Invulnerable or unscathed. Labels: obsolete Example: For horns (like horny callouses) are found / to grow on sculls that have receiv'd a wound, / are crackt, and broken; not at all on those / that are invulnerate and free from blows.
Word: hear of Part of Speech: verb 1. To become aware of (a subject, person) through second-hand knowledge, or not through personal experience. Example: I first heard of the Electra complex when I was studying psychology. Example: Who is Tamara Williams? I've never heard of her. 2. To permit or tolerate. Labels: usually Example: All the universities are sending in long petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility. But the R. U. R. shareholders, of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on the other hand, are clamoring for an increase in production, to raise the standards of their armies. And all the manufacturers in the world are ordering Robots like mad. Example: “The furniture – whatever could we possibly do about all this furniture? I refuse to sell it, Rachel. I won't hear of it.”
Word: deporters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of deporter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chimney pots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chimney pot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cuddlicious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cuddle + -licious. 1. Pleasant to cuddle. Labels: informal, rare Example: So why is it that Rand can't swing an Oath Rod without making a cuddlicious dame with fantastic powers fall in love with him? Example: I quite liked being a bit cuddly, just not as cuddlicious as I got in the summer.
Word: autocovariance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From auto- + covariance. 1. The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: deblurring Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /diːˈblɜːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ 1. The removal of blur from a digital image, or of noise from a digital signal Labels: uncountable
Word: defaultable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From default + -able. Pronunciation: [dɪˈfɔːɫtəbəɫ] 1. That is subject to default
Word: deshelving Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + shelving. 1. The removal of goods for sale at a shop from display and availability. Labels: uncountable Example: Hence the uproar over the Olympia Food Co-op's institutional boycott of Israeli products through deshelving. 2. The process in which electrons change to an orbital with a lower, intermediate level of excitation. Labels: uncountable Example: controlled optical deshelving
Word: nondiagonal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + diagonal. 1. Not diagonal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nonhorizontal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + horizontal. 1. Not horizontal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dileptonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From di- + leptonic. 1. Of or pertaining to dileptons, or to systems of two leptons Labels: not-comparable
Word: endohedrally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From endohedral + -ly. 1. In the manner of an endohedral. Labels: not-comparable
Word: endohedrals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of endohedral Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fermionize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From fermion + -ize. 1. To treat a system as if it were composed of fermions
Word: with both hands Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Willingly; readily. Labels: idiomatic 2. William Shakespeare, editing and notes by Brian Gibbons (2006), Measure For Measure, page 45: “Escalus calls on Lucio to help when 'Lodowick' seems to resist, and Lucio takes the opportunity with both hands for a physical assault.” 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see with, both, hands.
Word: intercalant Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French intercalant, from Latin intercalantem, accusative of intercalans. 1. Any molecule that intercalates, or is inserted, between two others
Word: ostrige Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of ostrich. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Against the fourth Bulwarke , that is the Taste , Was , as the rest , a grysie rablement ; Some mouth'd like greedy oystriges
Word: interionic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + ionic. 1. Between ions Labels: not-comparable
Word: inversionless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inversion + -less. 1. That does not involve inversion
Word: irredundant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ir- (“not”) + redundant. Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdʌn.dənt/ 1. Containing no redundant constraint. Labels: not-comparable Example: Theorem 4.23 The following conditions on a finite permutation group are equivalent: (a) all irredundant bases have the same size; (b) the irredundant bases are invariant under re-ordering; (c) the irredundant bases are the bases of a matroid. Example: We say a set S#92;subsetV is irredundant if for any v#92;inS there exists a vertex u#92;inV such that v dominates u and S#92;setminus#92;left#92;#123;v#92;right#92;#125; does not dominate u. We call any such vertex u a private vertex for v. An irredundant set is called inclusion–maximal if it is not a proper subset of any other irredundant set. Note that an inclusion–maximal irredundant set does not necessarily have to dominate the whole vertex set of G as in Figure 1.
Word: isocyanic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From iso- + cyanic. 1. Of or pertaining to isocyanic acid, and to its salts (the isocyanates) Labels: not-comparable
Word: ostriges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of ostrige Labels: form-of, plural
Word: isocyanic acid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From iso- + cyanic acid. 1. The unstable compound H-N=C=O that is metameric with cyanic acid; the imide of carbonic acid Labels: uncountable
Word: metricity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From metric + -ity. 1. The degree of a metric
Word: multifragmenting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + fragmenting. 1. That fragments into many parts. Labels: not-comparable
Word: multifragmenting Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + fragmenting. 1. Fragmentation into many parts. Labels: uncountable
Word: multispin Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From multi- + spin. 1. Involving multiple spins Labels: not-comparable
Word: polaritonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From polariton + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to polaritons. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pseudoinverse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pseudo- + inverse. 1. Any of several structures, similar to inverses, related to complex matrices