nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: ferrouranium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferro- + uranium. 1. A ferroalloy of iron and uranium. Labels: uncountable
Word: ferrotungsten Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferro- + tungsten. 1. A ferroalloy of iron and tungsten. Labels: uncountable
Word: ferroaluminium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferro- + aluminium. 1. A ferroalloy of iron and aluminium. Labels: uncountable
Word: ferroaluminum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ferro- + aluminum. 1. Alternative form of ferroaluminium. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: silicomanganese Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From silico- + manganese. 1. An alloy consisting mainly of manganese and silicon. Labels: uncountable
Word: deminution Part of Speech: noun 1. Rare spelling of diminution. Labels: alt-of, archaic, rare, uncountable
Word: kangeroo Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of kangaroo. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The different patrols, too, are distinguished from each other by the colour of the bunch of ribbons worn on the left shoulder; the lions being yellow and red, the kangeroos red and grey, etc.
Word: kangeroos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kangeroo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: NSBM Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of National Socialist black metal. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Word: nabobism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nabob + -ism. 1. The attitudes or policies of nabobs. Labels: uncountable
Word: bboard Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Shortening. 1. bulletin board (electronic message system)
Word: bboards Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bboard Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sleeper ship Part of Speech: noun 1. A spaceship, all or some of whose passengers are in suspended animation.
Word: macrosegment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From macro- + segment. 1. A portion of a spoken utterance between two pauses. 2. A broad division of a market, encompassing many potential customers.
Word: sleeper ships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sleeper ship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: macrosegments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of macrosegment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fourgrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fourgram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: n-grams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of n-gram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Dyson tree Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Freeman Dyson. 1. A hypothetical genetically engineered plant that could grow in a comet.
Word: Dyson trees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Dyson tree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bioship Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bio- + ship. 1. A spaceship that is partially or wholly composed of biological material.
Word: bioships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bioship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: International Court of Justice Part of Speech: name Etymology: international + court of justice 1. A judicial body of the United Nations, established in 1945 to decide disputes brought by nations.
Word: launch loop Part of Speech: noun 1. A hypothetical maglev cable that would be capable of sending objects into orbit without needing a rocket.
Word: launch loops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of launch loop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lofstrom loop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after American engineer Keith Lofstrom. 1. Synonym of launch loop.
Word: white copper Part of Speech: noun 1. An alloy of copper with zinc and nickel, having the appearance of silver. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: until the last dog is hung Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. until the last moment. Labels: idiomatic
Word: aryballos Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρύβαλλος (arúballos). 1. A small Ancient Greek flask used to hold perfume or oil. 2. An Incan ceramic vessel with long neck, bulbous body, two handles, and pointed bottom.
Word: aryballoi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aryballos Labels: form-of, plural
Word: all Sir Garnet Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Sir Garnet Wolseley (1833–1913), a popular and successful general in the British Army during the second half of the 19th century. Pronunciation: /ɔːl sɜː(ɹ)ˈɡɑː(ɹ)nət/ 1. In order; perfect. Labels: UK, dated, slang Example: Righto; that’s all Sir Garnet. I like to see you civvies act up to your name. Example: Yes, Harry was all Sir Garnet on handles: butt-end loaded with lead, inlaid in all sorts of fancy-work — hearts, shamrocks, monograms and that sort of thing.
Word: armilustrum Part of Speech: noun 1. A festival, in Ancient Rome, in honour of Mars, the god of war. Labels: Ancient-Rome Example: The nine days' sacred rite was then performed again, because a shower of stones had been seen to fall in the armilustrum. Example: In the times of the kings and of the republic it was covered with sumptuous edifices, the armilustrum, the temples of Diana, Juno Regina, Dea bona, Minerva, the atrium of Liberty, the palaces of Sura, of Trajan and the thermæ of Decius.
Word: bloaty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bloat + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈbloʊti/ 1. Characterized by bloat or bloating.
Word: catch on fire Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of catch fire. Labels: alt-of, alternative, informal, proscribed, sometimes
Word: surf clam Part of Speech: noun 1. Spisula solida, is a medium-sized marine clam found around the British and Irish coasts. 2. Spisula sachalinense or Mactromeris polynyma, clams commonly used in sushi.
Word: surf clams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of surf clam Labels: form-of, plural
Word: van Stockum dust Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named for Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937, independently of an earlier discovery by Cornelius Lanczos in 1924. 1. In general relativity, an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is generated by dust rotating about an axis of cylindrical symmetry. Labels: uncountable
Word: firmographic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to firmographics. Labels: not-comparable
Word: firmographics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of firm + demographics. 1. The use of sets of characteristics to segment commercial organizations, analogous to demographics for people. Labels: uncountable
Word: Chineses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Chinese Labels: form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, plural Example: On the eighteenth of September, they encountred a great Juncke which they supposed to be Portugals, and after a hot fight forced her, found them Chineses, and were sorrie that they had ignorantly hurt their friends […] Example: He squinted at the idol. "Ain't it funny," he observed, "how them Chineses take God to be an old man with long whiskers! But if that suits 'em, why, I reckon it's all right."
Word: after a fashion Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. In some way; somehow; to an extent. Example: On gray mornings when the jests of the night before had shrunk to ribaldries without wit or dignity, they could, after a fashion, bring out this batch of common hopes and count them over, then smile at each other and repeat, by way of clinching the matter, the terse yet sincere Nietzscheanism of Gloria's defiant "I don't care!" Example: [Henri] Soulé had decided to keep the Pavillon open, after a fashion, by closing down the salle and serving meals only in the bar and the nouvelle salle, with the help of the non-striking members of his staff—two maîtres d’hôtel, twenty-two chefs and cooks, the cashier, the hat-check girl, and a pantryman.
Word: cyclecar Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cycle + car, since considered to fill a market gap between the motorcycle and the car. 1. A small, lightweight, inexpensive car manufactured in the early twentieth century, characterised by the use of basic materials and sometimes fragile engineering.
Word: cyclecars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cyclecar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jambool Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jambul. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jambools Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jambool Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dance the hempen jig Part of Speech: verb 1. To be executed by hanging. Labels: colloquial
Word: Joule's cycle Part of Speech: name 1. The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold chamber and compressed adiabatically until its pressure is equal to that of the air in a hot chamber, into which it is then delivered, thereby displacing an equal amount of hot air into the engine cylinder. Here it expands adiabatically to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigeration.
Word: judge-made Part of Speech: adj 1. Created by judges or judicial decision; used especially of law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as to extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc. Labels: derogatory, not-comparable, sometimes Example: The law of the 13th century was judge-made law in a fuller and more literal sense than the law of any succeeding century has been.
Word: jubbeh Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of jubbah. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: jubbehs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jubbeh Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jubbah Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba). Doublet of jupe. 1. A long outer garment worn by Muslims.
Word: jubbahs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jubbah Labels: form-of, plural
Word: jumping disease Part of Speech: noun 1. jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome Labels: uncountable
Word: pandeist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pandeism + -ist. Pronunciation: /pænˈdiːɪst/ 1. of or relating to pandeism. Example: [Y]ou're drifting somewhere in the Pandeist or Deist dogma, where god is either the Universe itself or is a part of each person. Example: Indeed, most of the staff is either Hindu or Moslem, but they are full of these pan-deist ideas, and even Zahir deliberately used the Christian word "God" rather than "Allah" when talking with me.
Word: pandeist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pandeism + -ist. Pronunciation: /pænˈdiːɪst/ 1. One who believes in pandeism, a blend of pantheism and deism. Example: Is Gordon a pan-deist, or a monotheist? Example: Does that mean that it holds a majority of Christians as its subjects? That it was founded by Christians? That it must hold only to what Christians say, ignoring Jews, Muslims, non-deists, pandeists, and all other non-Christians? 2. one who believes in the truth of all religions Labels: rare
Word: reflectability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From reflect + -ability. 1. The quality of being reflectable; able to be reflected. Labels: uncountable Example: Night time results, for example, in an increase in reflectability, which is why a distant AM commercial broadcast station can often be heard at night but not by day. Example: Such questions as his attitude to garlic and crosses, and his reflectability in mirrors, simply never arise — but he does eventually acquire the power to manifest himself by day.
Word: durka durka Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Imitative reduplication. Introduced in 2001 by the American cartoon South Park in the episode “Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants” and further popularized by the puppet-animated movie Team America: World Police (2004). 1. Mimicking Middle Eastern or Punjabi speech. Labels: ethnic, offensive, slur Example: Muslim extremists will welcome back their best friend and strongest ally, the Clintoons. Durka Durka! Example: A boy. He shouts at me in Arabic. I say ‘Durka durka’ back in answer to him; it’s a piss-take from a movie I saw. I can't speak Arabic and have no intention of learning it, as such I have no idea what he shouts at me.
Word: reflectable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From reflect + -able. 1. Capable of being reflected or thrown back; reflexible.
Word: rewritability Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From rewrite + -ability. 1. The state or condition of being rewritable. Labels: uncountable Example: This is different from the rewritability of DVD-RW and is closer in function to a "removable hard drive" than to an optical disc. Example: The apparent challenges in these methods are the durability of the writings, the toxicity of the inks and the rewritability of the papers.
Word: Tom and Jerryism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A reference to Pierce Egan's 1821 book Life in London, or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, or the subsequent stage play. 1. roistering; noisy drunken behaviour Labels: dated, uncountable Example: […] we have no wish to seduce sundry steady bachelors into the charmed circle of Tom and Jerryism, to the astonishment of their smug landlords and prim landladies […] Example: The nuisance of Tom and Jerryism could not have gained even its ephemeral popularity but for this reason. That England at the close of the reign of George III. had much to learn in the philosophy of social intercourse […]
Word: quadrigram Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From quadri- + -gram. 1. fourgram
Word: quadrigrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of quadrigram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: life hack Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lifehack. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: life hacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of life hack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: traceroutes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of traceroute Labels: form-of, plural
Word: traceroutes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of traceroute Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: jagweed Part of Speech: noun 1. A rude or obnoxious person; a jerk. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: And who was the country club jagweed with her? Example: Granted, getting hooted at by a bunch of mysogynistic jagweeds in a car is different than getting sexually assaulted.
Word: jagweeds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of jagweed Labels: form-of, plural
Word: living statue Part of Speech: noun 1. A street performer who poses like a statue, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time.
Word: living statues Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of living statue Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stonebrood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stone + brood. 1. A disease of honey bees caused by Aspergillus fungi that cover the larvae with a hard layer of powdery spores. Labels: uncountable Example: Stonebrood disease of honey bees is rare and is considered to be of minor importance to beekeepers. Both brood and adult bees are susceptible to attack by several species of fungi belonging to the genus Aspergillus.
Word: chalkbrood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chalk + brood. 1. A fungal disease of honey bees that gives the bodies of affected larvae a white and chalky appearance. Labels: uncountable
Word: spirochaetal Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of spirochetal. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: brucellotic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to brucellosis. Labels: not-comparable
Word: cloudy wing virus Part of Speech: noun 1. An icosahedral virus commonly found in honey bees, especially in collapsing colonies infested with Varroa destructor. Labels: uncountable
Word: deformed wing virus Part of Speech: noun 1. An RNA virus affecting the honey bee, causing shrunken and deformed wings in the pupa. Labels: uncountable
Word: Kakugo virus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese かくご (kakugo, “ready to attack”) + virus. 1. An iflavirus that infects bees. Labels: uncountable
Word: iflavirus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any of the genus Iflavirus of RNA viruses that infect various insects.
Word: iflaviruses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of iflavirus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: wackadoodle Part of Speech: adj 1. Crazy, irrational, or eccentric. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: Within an hour, forty people were stuffed into his apartment, all carrying gifts, dressed for a party, and it quickly became obvious he'd prearranged a party for himself and not told me. Okay. That's a bit wackadoodle. Example: You will discover this soon, if you haven't already: Exposure to pregnancy and moms with newborns often causes otherwise rational people to say and do inexplicably inane things (and don't even get us started on the people who started out not-so-rational; they turn completely wackadoodle).
Word: wackadoodle Part of Speech: noun 1. A crazy, irrational, or eccentric person. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: "It's not funny, Mom! I use that mitt all the time. What kind of wackadoodle poops in her sister's baseball glove, for crying out loud?" Example: Once I was in the program, I was assigned a psychologist for psych testing to determine whether I was a true wackadoodle.
Word: wackadoodles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of wackadoodle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: repudiatest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: repudiate + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of repudiate Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: repudiateth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: repudiate + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of repudiate Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: broodest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: brood + -est 1. second-person singular simple present indicative of brood Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular
Word: broodeth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: brood + -eth 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of brood Labels: archaic, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: manographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PV diagram Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of pressure volume diagram. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: indicator diagram Part of Speech: noun 1. pressure volume diagram Labels: dated
Word: indicator diagrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of indicator diagram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: PV diagrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of PV diagram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pressure volume diagram Part of Speech: noun 1. A diagram used to describe corresponding changes in volume and pressure in a system, commonly used in thermodynamics and physiology.
Word: pressure volume diagrams Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pressure volume diagram Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + -graph. 1. An optical device for making pressure volume diagrams for high-speed engines, involving a light-tight box or camera having at one end a small convex mirror reflecting a beam of light onto the ground glass or photographic plate at the other end. The mirror is pivoted so that it can be moved so as to copy the motion of the engine piston on a smaller scale. Example: In addition to the ordinary type of indicator, the Author describes the Hospitalier and the Schultze manographs, in which the diagram is produced photographically by reflecting a beam of light from a mirror attached to a diaphragm […]
Word: manteletta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian mantelletta. 1. A long silk or woollen vestment, fastened in front, with a low collar and no sleeves, worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court.
Word: mantelettas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manteletta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: electronicky Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From electronic + -y. 1. Somewhat electronic. Labels: informal Example: Those visiting British A&R men realized that it would be hard to package the Detroit music they were hearing as house: it was colder and more electronicky, its lineage was not disco, and it was more obviously conceptualized […]
Word: master vibrator Part of Speech: noun 1. In an internal combustion engine with two or more cylinders, an induction coil and vibrator placed in the circuit between the battery or magneto and the coils for the different cylinders, which are used without vibrators of their own.
Word: master vibrators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of master vibrator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: matajuelo Part of Speech: noun 1. A large squirrelfish of Florida and the West Indies, of species Holocentrus adscensionis.
Word: matajuelos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of matajuelo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: matajuelo blanco Part of Speech: noun 1. A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri), a type of tilefish. Labels: archaic
Word: well-formedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From well-formed + -ness. 1. The property of being well-formed. Labels: uncountable
Word: ill-formedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ill-formed + -ness. 1. The property of being ill-formed. Labels: uncountable
Word: mavournin Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of mavourneen. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Gayly-dressed mavournins and blaring bands stepped lively along Fifth Avenue.
Word: mavournins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mavournin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: ill-formed Part of Speech: adj 1. Poorly formed. 2. Not well-formed.
Word: Klaroline Part of Speech: name Etymology: Blend of Klaus + Caroline. 1. The romantic pairing of the characters Niklaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries. Labels: slang Example: The flirtatious energy was fun, and we made a very conscious effort to evoke some of the "Klaroline" energy from previous seasons. Example: We caught up with Candice Accola to get some information about just how bad Markos is, and what she thinks about Steroline, Klaroline, and more: […]
Word: microbarograph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + barograph. 1. An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.
Word: microbarographs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microbarograph Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microbarographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From micro- + barographic. 1. Relating to microbarography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: microbarography Part of Speech: noun 1. measurement with a microbarograph Labels: uncountable
Word: semifixed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + fixed. 1. Somewhat or partly fixed; having limited mobility. Labels: not-comparable Example: Fixed and semifixed fire protection systems are used extensively in industry to protect critical equipment and processes and to mitigate damage from fires should they occur.
Word: microtomical Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to the microtome or microtomy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: microtomic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From microtome + -ic or microtomy + -ic. 1. Relating to the microtome or microtomy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Montessorianism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Montessorian + -ism. 1. The Montessorian style of education. Labels: uncountable
Word: turdy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From turd + -y. 1. Resembling a piece of excrement. Labels: informal Example: He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
Word: MFN Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of most favored nation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: most favored nation Part of Speech: noun 1. A nation accorded a certain level of treatment in international trade. When a nation A is a most favored nation of another nation, B, then B undertakes not to treat A any less favorably (in terms of taxes, exports, etc.) than any of B's other most favored nations.
Word: most favored nations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of most favored nation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: MFNs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of MFN Labels: form-of, plural
Word: motographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From motograph + -ic. 1. Relating to the motograph. Labels: not-comparable
Word: muscle reading Part of Speech: noun 1. A mentalist's technique to determine the thoughts or knowledge of a subject by observing subtle, involuntary movements in response to speech or other stimuli. Labels: uncountable
Word: Hellstromism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Hellstrom + -ism, after Axel Hellstrom. 1. muscle reading Labels: uncountable
Word: Cumberlandism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Cumberland + -ism, after Stuart Cumberland. 1. muscle reading Labels: uncountable
Word: myxedemic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From myxedema + -ic. 1. Relating to myxedema. Labels: not-comparable
Word: myxoedemic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of myxedemic. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: myxoedemas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of myxoedema Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mutessarifat Part of Speech: noun 1. In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.
Word: mutessarifats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mutessarifat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mousquetaire cuff Part of Speech: noun 1. A deep flaring cuff on clothing.
Word: mousquetaire glove Part of Speech: noun 1. A woman's glove with a long, loose-fitting wrist section.
Word: mousquetaire gloves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mousquetaire glove Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mousquetaire cuffs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mousquetaire cuff Labels: form-of, plural
Word: motiles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of motile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mucoids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mucoid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mucinlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mucin + -like. 1. Resembling mucin.
Word: googly moogly Part of Speech: intj 1. Alternative form of googly-moogly. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
Word: Wiganer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Wigan + -er. 1. A person from Wigan in northern England.
Word: Wiganers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Wiganer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: northern soul Part of Speech: noun 1. A music and dance movement of northern England in the late 1960s, mainly based around black American soul music. Labels: uncountable Example: The overwhelmingly young population involved in northern soul needed to find a way out of the depression slowly taking over the UK in the seventies. Speed gave them the edge they needed to rise above all the pain and frustration of a country losing its way. Example: Meanwhile more people were either leaving behind the Northern Soul scene and enjoying the jazz-funk scene, or combining the two.
Word: aspersor Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of asperser. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: fairy butter Part of Speech: noun 1. A food made from butter and egg yolks mixed with sugar and orange flower water. Labels: uncountable 2. Certain gelatinous fungi, the tremellas. Labels: UK, dialectal, uncountable Example: "A woman," he says, "who had been in their society challenged one of the guests whom she espied in the market selling fairy-butter."
Word: fanchonette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French. 1. A French cake made with puff pastry and a cream filling.
Word: fanchonettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fanchonette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bindaloo Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of vindaloo. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: chittack Part of Speech: noun 1. An old Indian unit of weight, equal to five siccas or one sixteenth of a seer. Labels: historical
Word: chetak Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chittack. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: chittacks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chittack Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chetaks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chetak Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sally Lunns Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Sally Lunn Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dredgerman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dredger + -man. 1. A man who fishes with a dredge.
Word: dredgermen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dredgerman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lady Curzon soup Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Lady Curzon (1870-1906), wife of Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, the viceroy of India. 1. A soup made with sea turtle meat (or now sometimes mussels), cream, curry powder, and sherry. Labels: uncountable
Word: fig-sue Part of Speech: noun 1. An old English dish of ale boiled with bread and figs. Labels: uncountable Example: It may not be amiss to notice that this fig-sue is a perfect cure for colds and coughs, if taken at bedtime.
Word: plague water Part of Speech: noun 1. A drink made with various herbs, supposed to ward off the plague. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: stepony Part of Speech: noun 1. A cooling drink made with raisins and sugar. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: bee wine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The lumps of yeast in the fermenting mixture were supposed to resemble bees. 1. A home-made wine made by fermenting sugar with yeast. Labels: uncountable
Word: stitchback Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stitch + back. 1. strong ale Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: steponey Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of stepony. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: old ale Part of Speech: noun 1. Any dark, malty, relatively strong beer. Labels: UK, countable, uncountable 2. Any dark ale. Labels: Australia, countable, uncountable
Word: old ales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old ale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: egg of Columbus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the Americas was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. When they give up, he does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip. 1. A brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple after the fact.
Word: eggs of Columbus Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of egg of Columbus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Columbus egg Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Presumably in reference to the apocryphal story behind the egg of Columbus, since the eggs in this dish would have their ends crushed to allow them to stand upright like bowls. 1. A hard-boiled egg cut in half and filled with a mixture of its yolk with ham, cream, and nutmeg.
Word: Columbus eggs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Columbus egg Labels: form-of, plural
Word: blanks and prizes Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional English stew with pieces of meat (the "prizes") and peas or beans (the "blanks"). Labels: uncountable
Word: busbayne Part of Speech: noun 1. A seasoned stew of chicken and pork with egg yolks. Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: ben-joltram Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional ploughboy's breakfast of brown bread in milk. Labels: UK, obsolete, uncountable
Word: tatie pot Part of Speech: noun 1. A traditional hotpot made with lamb, black pudding, sliced potatoes, onions, etc.
Word: tatie pots Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tatie pot Labels: form-of, plural
Word: taties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tatie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shearer's stew Part of Speech: noun 1. A stew of lamb and vegetables. Labels: uncountable
Word: poor man's goose Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various traditional dishes of baked meat and vegetables, cheaper than genuine goose. Labels: uncountable
Word: poacher's pot Part of Speech: noun 1. A game stew or hotpot. Labels: uncountable
Word: panackelty Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pan haggerty. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: pan haggerty Part of Speech: noun 1. A casserole dish of northern England, containing meat, vegetables, and sometimes cheese. Labels: uncountable
Word: Exeter stew Part of Speech: noun 1. A stew of beef and vegetables. Labels: uncountable
Word: unconcise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + concise. 1. Not concise.
Word: unverbose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + verbose. 1. Not verbose.
Word: Devonshire stew Part of Speech: noun 1. A stew of meat, onion, cabbage, etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: rumbled eggs Part of Speech: noun 1. scrambled eggs Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only
Word: pamperdy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French pain perdu. 1. A form of eggy bread or French toast, the egg mixture being poured onto the bread during cooking. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: […] pies of divers kinds, as warden-pie, olive-pie, pippin-pie, mince-pie, and baked chewets; hog-liver puddings, veal-toasts, carponadoes, pamperdy, links, fritters, tansies, and quelques-choses; jumbals, leach-lombards, custards, or dowsets; suckets, wet and dry; March-pane, sugar-bread; jellies of all colours, marmalades, and florentines; as well as juncates, and dainty confections, spiced and richly sweetened, of quinces, pomegranates, oranges, and other fruits, with cream of sugar.
Word: friar's omelette Part of Speech: noun 1. A dish of beaten eggs fried with apples and breadcrumbs.
Word: herbelade Part of Speech: noun 1. A dish of meat broth with egg and herbs, sometimes in pastry. Labels: obsolete
Word: herbelades Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of herbelade Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harico Part of Speech: noun 1. Archaic form of haricot. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: haricos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of harico Labels: form-of, plural
Word: key-fruit Part of Speech: noun 1. A samara. Example: From February 23 to April 30 a flock of about one hundred visited the University campus daily, feeding principally upon the samara or key-fruits of the box-elder trees, also the seeds of sugar-maples, and leaf buds.
Word: key-fruits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of key-fruit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: keta Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Evenki [Term?]. 1. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America. Example: The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.
Word: ketas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of keta Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kinetophone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kineto- + -phone. 1. A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. Labels: historical Example: Shortly thereafter, many parlors installed kinetophones, in which patrons, after putting a coin in the slot, could peer through an eyepiece at moving pictures and, at the same time, by means of ear-tubes somewhat similar to the physician's stethoscope, listen to a sound accompaniment.
Word: kinetophones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kinetophone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kineto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂-der. Ancient Greek κῑνέω (kīnéō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek κῑ́νησῐς (kī́nēsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κῑνητῐκός (kīnētĭkós)der. English kineto- Derived from Ancient Greek κῑνητῐκός (kīnētĭkós). Compare kinetic. 1. motion; movement. Labels: morpheme Example: Near-synonyms: kinesio-, kine-
Word: paperchain Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of paper chain. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: paperchains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paperchain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paper chain Part of Speech: noun 1. A chain made from interlinked loops of coloured paper, used as a hanging decoration.
Word: paper chains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paper chain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kneippism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Kneipp + -ism, after Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897), German priest. 1. The treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, such as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc. Labels: dated, uncountable
Word: kolinski Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of kolinsky. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The more important fur-bearing Carnivora are bears, cats, ermines, fishes, fitch, foxes, fur seals, hair seals, kolinskis, leopards, lions, lynxes, martens, minks, ocelots, otters, raccoons, sables, skunks, tigers, weasels, wolverines and wolves.
Word: kolinskis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kolinski Labels: form-of, plural
Word: konseal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Old trade name, presumably from conceal. 1. A capsule for enclosing a dose of medicine. Labels: dated
Word: konseals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of konseal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tlinkit Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of Tlingit. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Tlinkit Part of Speech: name 1. Dated form of Tlingit. Labels: alt-of, dated
Word: Tlinkit Part of Speech: adj 1. Dated form of Tlingit. Labels: alt-of, dated, not-comparable
Word: Koluschan Part of Speech: noun 1. Tlingit
Word: Koluschan Part of Speech: name 1. Tlingit
Word: Koluschan Part of Speech: adj 1. Tlingit Labels: not-comparable
Word: Kolushan Part of Speech: noun 1. Tlingit
Word: Kolushan Part of Speech: name 1. Tlingit
Word: Kolushan Part of Speech: adj 1. Tlingit Labels: not-comparable
Word: Tlinkits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Tlinkit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Koluschans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Koluschan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kolushans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Kolushan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kinit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare kinetic. Proposed by J. D. Everett, an English physicist. 1. A unit of force equal to the force which, acting for one second, will give a pound a velocity of one foot per second. Labels: obsolete
Word: kinits Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kinit Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kruppize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Krupp + -ize. 1. To treat by, or subject to, the Krupp process. Labels: transitive
Word: kruppizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of kruppize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: kruppizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of kruppize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: kruppized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of kruppize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fasiqun Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fasiq Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Krupp process Part of Speech: name Etymology: Named after its originator Friedrich Krupp, from Essen, Germany. 1. A process for washing pig iron, differing from the Bell process in using manganese as well as iron oxide, and performed in a Pernot furnace. 2. A process for the manufacture of steel armor plates, involving the addition of chromium and nickel to the metal, and a treatment resembling the Harvey process but using a carbon-rich gas rather than solid fuel.
Word: twelvish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From twelve + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛlvɪʃ/ 1. Of about twelve years of age. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: His twelvish son is introduced as a pyromaniacal, foul-mouthed shifty operator. His fourteenish daughter dresses in a manner that would be deemed inappropriately suggestive for a twenty-year-old, and has no worthy interests or social graces. Example: The young men were in their shirtsleeves, with their collars open, and Miss Tillie was wilting in her chair, fanned by a twelvish black girl who looked unutterably bored.
Word: twelvish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From twelve + -ish. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɛlvɪʃ/ 1. Any time close to 12 o'clock. Labels: colloquial, uncountable
Word: knife switches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knife switch Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kilkenny cat Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Referring to an old story about two cats who fought to the death and ate each other up such that only their tails were left. 1. A tenacious fighter. Example: Yet for my father the war was a source of considerable inner conflict; much as he detested Nazism he was psychologically incapable of desiring a British victory. (Very likely his secret wish was that Germany and Britain should do a Kilkenny cat act. Example: Even pirate crews and bands of robbers prefer a peaceful settled understanding as to the division of their plunder to the Kilkenny cat plan.
Word: Kilkenny cats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Kilkenny cat Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kern-baby Part of Speech: noun 1. A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., traditionally carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest home.
Word: kern-babies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kern-baby Labels: form-of, plural
Word: harvest home Part of Speech: noun 1. The gathering and bringing home of the harvest. 2. A feast held at the time of gathering and bringing home the harvest.
Word: kefir grain Part of Speech: noun 1. A small hard yellowish aggregation found in the Caucasus region, containing various yeasts and bacteria, and used as a ferment in preparing kefir.
Word: kefir grains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kefir grain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knight's fee Part of Speech: noun 1. A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession. Labels: historical 2. The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides. Labels: historical
Word: kissing string Part of Speech: noun 1. One of the strings of a cap or bonnet, made long to tie under the chin. Labels: historical, plural-normally
Word: kissing strings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kissing string Labels: form-of, plural
Word: knockout drop Part of Speech: noun 1. A drop of a drug used to make a person fall asleep or become unconscious or stupefied for the purpose of robbery, etc., typically by mixing it into a drink. Labels: US, plural-normally, slang
Word: knockout drops Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of knockout drop Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kurosiwo Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Kuroshio. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kuro Siwo Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Kuroshio. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kuro Shio Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Kuroshio. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: unevaluable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + evaluable. 1. Not evaluable. Labels: not-comparable
Word: evaluably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From evaluable + -ly. 1. In a way that can be evaluated. Labels: not-comparable
Word: evaluability Part of Speech: noun 1. Ability to be evaluated. Labels: uncountable
Word: planogamete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From plano- + gamete. 1. One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants and green algae.
Word: planogametes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of planogamete Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zoogametes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of zoogamete Labels: form-of, plural
Word: zoogamete Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From zoo- + gamete. 1. planogamete
Word: plowter Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of plouter. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
Word: plowter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of plouter. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: plowtered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of plowter Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: plowters Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of plowter Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: plowtering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plowter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pluviography Part of Speech: noun 1. The use of a pluviograph; the automatic recording of precipitation. Labels: uncountable 2. The graphic presentation of precipitation data. Labels: uncountable
Word: pluviographic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pluviography + -ic. 1. Relating to pluviography. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pogamoggan Part of Speech: noun 1. A Native American weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle.
Word: pogamoggans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pogamoggan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polyphaser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From poly- + phaser. 1. A machine generating more than one pressure wave.
Word: multiphaser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From multi- + phaser. 1. Synonym of polyphaser.
Word: polyphasers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polyphaser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiphasers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of multiphaser Labels: form-of, plural
Word: polytypisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polytypism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bracingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bracing + -ness. 1. The quality of being bracing. Labels: uncountable Example: the bracingness of the sea air
Word: fecality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fecal + -ity. 1. The quality of being fecal. Labels: uncountable Example: Notwithstanding these admonitions, she did eat sixteen quarters, two bushels, three pecks and a pipkin full. O the fair fecality wherewith she swelled, by the ingrediency of such shitten stuff! Example: Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express. The vision is not simply of a jungle of wild copulations, but of filth, fecality, bestiality.
Word: faecality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From faecal + -ity. 1. Alternative form of fecality. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: pluvioscope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pluvio- + -scope. 1. rain gauge
Word: pluvioscopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pluvioscope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pluviometry Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pluvius (“rain”) + -metry. 1. The scientific measurement of rainfall. Labels: uncountable
Word: phototelescope Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From photo- + telescope. 1. A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
Word: phototelescopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phototelescope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phototelescopic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. English tele- Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai) Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Hellenic *-ós ▲ Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ. Ancient Greek -ός (-ós) Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der. English -scope Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -scopic English telescopic English phototelescopic From photo- + telescopic. 1. Relating to the phototelescope. Labels: not-comparable
Word: photomezzotype Part of Speech: noun 1. A photomechanical process similar to collotype. 2. A picture produced by this process.
Word: photomezzotypes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photomezzotype Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photographone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. English -phone blend English photographone Blend of photograph + -phone. 1. A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone. Labels: dated
Word: photographones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photographone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photoluminescences Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photoluminescence Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photoetchings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of photoetching Labels: form-of, plural
Word: photochromotypy Part of Speech: noun 1. The art of making photochromotypes. Labels: uncountable