nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Galápagos hawks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Galápagos hawk Labels: form-of, plural
Word: canlike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From can + -like. 1. Resembling a can (container). Example: They consist of a canlike housing, brackets to support the housing, a light socket and bulb inside, a reflector or diffuser to control the light pattern, and a trim ring to frame the fixture.
Word: loggat Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡət/ 1. A small log or piece of wood. Labels: obsolete Example: The loggat, made of apple-wood, is a truncated cone 26 or 27 inches in length
Word: loggats Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loggat Labels: form-of, plural 2. Alternative spelling of loggets (“game”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em?
Word: gullery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From gull + -ery. 1. An act, or the practice, of gulling i.e. trickery, cheating or fraud. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable 2. A colony of gulls. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it. A single pair that had nested on the outskirts of a gullery were a good deal subject to this annoyance.
Word: ingannation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Italian ingannazione, nominal form derived from ingannare (“deceive, cheat, betray”) from Vulgar Latin ingannāre, from Latin gannō. 1. Cheating; deception. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Thus having been deceived by themselves, and continually deluded by others, they must needs be stuffed with errors […] whereunto whosoever shall resigne their reasons, either from the root of deceit in themselves, or inability to resist such triviall ingannations from others; although their condition and fortunes may place them many Spheres above the multitude, yet are they still within the line of vulgarity, and Democraticall enemies of truth. Example: While I am not able by any kind of searching to find out God, in the sense of the religions, while I get no glimpse whatever of any source of nature, and refuse to beguile myself or others with any ingannation or pretence on the subject, I have nevertheless as deep and as constraining a faith as any theist can possibly have, in the holiness and power which are in nature […]
Word: escamoterie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French escamoterie. 1. cheat; deception Labels: obsolete, uncountable
Word: white-crowned plover Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From white + crowned + plover. 1. a bird, a medium-sized wader, which despite its name is a lapwing rather than a typical plover.
Word: gulleries Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gullery Labels: form-of, plural
Word: white-crowned plovers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of white-crowned plover Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hook in Part of Speech: verb 1. To deceive by luring with a false promise or misleading implication. Labels: transitive 2. To be introduced to; to join up with; to become involved with. Labels: transitive 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: hook.
Word: make an ass of Part of Speech: verb 1. To cause (someone) to appear foolish. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: I ſee their knauery; this is to make an aſſe of me, / to fright me if they could; […] Example: I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."
Word: play off Part of Speech: verb 1. To portray (something) (as unimportant); to dismiss or make light of (a factor in a situation, or one's embarrassment about it); to pretend not to be embarrassed, upset, impressed, or otherwise affected by (it). Labels: often, transitive Example: After tripping, Sara tried to play her embarrassment off by laughing with everyone else. Example: Although he's obviously hungover, he's trying to play it off as food poisoning. 2. To set (other people) against one another: to induce competition between them, especially in a covert way so that they do not realize the degree to which they have been played (manipulated). Labels: transitive Example: Stalin's propensity to play off his subordinates against one another is a well-studied theme. 3. To compete in a play-off; to compete against (an opponent) in a play-off. Labels: intransitive, transitive 4. To display; to show; to put in exercise. Labels: dated, transitive Example: to play off tricks
Word: foist off Part of Speech: verb 1. To fraudulently or disingenuously pass (goods, or ideas) on to. Labels: transitive Example: She was talking big, but the Haruhi of last year would've forced people to attend an explanatory lecture about the brigade, printed huge numbers of flyers, and foisted them off on absolutely everybody. Example: I used to think New Yorkers invented trends and foisted them off on a gullible nation but weren't themselves […] 2. To get rid of (something unwanted) by giving it to someone else. Example: When Zeytuna didn't want to do her chores, she foisted them off on Lidya, who'd spent years being her caregiver and took over without a whisper of complaint. Example: Countries with export surpluses foisted them off by bounties or placed them through unilateral agreements.
Word: much ado about nothing Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: First appears c. the early 1500s, and first found in The Defense of the Aunswere to the Admonition, against the Replie of T. C., a pamphlet (1574) by John Whitgift (Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to 1604). Made popular and particularly known from the title of the comedy play Much Ado About Nothing (1598) by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare had earlier used ado (“business, activity”) in the play Romeo and Juliet (1592) Weele keepe no great adoe, a Friend or two, though it is now frequently used to mean fuss as a contraction of the phrase here; nothing in the title of the play is a wordplay which can also mean noting (“to notice”) besides the usual meaning of nothing. Pronunciation: /mʌtʃ əˈduː əˈbaʊt ˈnʌθɪŋ/ 1. A lot of fuss or bother about something trivial. Labels: idiomatic
Word: noseprint Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nose + print. 1. An imprint of a nose (usually an animal's nose).
Word: noseprint Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nose + print. 1. To take a print of the nose of (an animal). Labels: transitive Example: Dogs can be noseprinted for identification purposes.
Word: noseprints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of noseprint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noseprints Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of noseprint Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: fiery cross Part of Speech: noun 1. A burning cross made of wood, historically used to rally troops.
Word: sacring bell Part of Speech: noun 1. The bell which rings when the Host is elevated at the celebration of High Mass.
Word: note down Part of Speech: verb 1. To write down, especially hurriedly; to make a note of.
Word: scratch out Part of Speech: verb 1. To remove something by scratching. 2. To remove something which was written, by erasing or by putting a mark through it. 3. To eke out; to obtain with difficulty. Example: to scratch out a meagre living
Word: sponge out Part of Speech: verb 1. To clean the inside of (something) by using a sponge. Labels: transitive 2. To remove by using a sponge. Labels: transitive 3. To remove (something, especially debts). Labels: figuratively, transitive
Word: printless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From print + -less. 1. without an imprint. Labels: not-comparable Example: And ye that on the sands with printless foot / Do chase the ebbing Neptune[…] 2. without printing, devoid of printing things. Labels: not-comparable
Word: twattle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Compare tattle, twaddle. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒtəl/ 1. To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic Example: After all, she objected, Do not Men run visiting from House to House, for no other purpose but to twattle, spending their time in idle and fruitless discourse? Example: Tis very well, Mistress, says he, and are you not a fine Gossiping Lady, do you think, to twattle your Husband thus out of his Life and Fortune?
Word: twattle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare tattle, twaddle. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒtəl/ 1. Chatter; twaddle. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Continue, if you choose, your twattle against Homœopathy; distort it, misinterpret it, calumniate and deride its author; the unprejudiced legions will soon be able to decide on which side is the truth. Example: It concedes too much to you Northern fellows; and all the old man said about magnanimity was mere twattle.
Word: twattle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown. Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒtəl/ 1. To cosset; to pet or coddle. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: Never fear her, I warrant you, she that will ask for a weapon is not desperate; get you gone in to her, and twattle her out of the sullens if you can; if not, I'le not long be absent. Example: For se waik an' se silly, an' helpless was I, I was always a tumbling down then, While me mother would twattle me gently, and cry Honey Jenny: tak' care o' thysen.
Word: twattle Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈtwɒtəl/ 1. A dwarf. Labels: archaic Example: PIGMEO, a pigmey, a kinde of little man like a dwarfe, a dandiprat, a twattle, or an elfe. Some thinke that they be but a kind of spirits ingendred of the corruption of the earth, even as the Scarab is bread of horses doung. Example: She had telt him, indignant, 'I am not ten.' 'No? An uncomely twattle, are ye no?' 'A twattle?' she had said. 'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.'
Word: academy figure Part of Speech: noun 1. A drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.
Word: twattles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of twattle Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: twattles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of twattle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: twattling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of twattle Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: twattled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of twattle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: appallingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From appalling + -ness. 1. The quality of being appalling. Labels: uncountable Example: The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors.
Word: Alice band Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass. 1. A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband. Example: She looked, Harry, thought, like somebody’s maiden aunt: squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink Alice band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her robes.
Word: Alice bands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Alice band Labels: form-of, plural
Word: anti-inflationary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + inflationary. 1. Intended to counteract or reverse inflation or its effects. Example: A number of anti-inflationary policies were discussed by the Fed.
Word: Lybian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lybia + -an. 1. Archaic form of Libyan. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
Word: Lybian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lybia + -an. 1. Archaic form of Libyan. Labels: alt-of, archaic
Word: sambhur Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of sambar. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sambhurs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sambhur Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sand bars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sand bar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bibblebabbles Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bibblebabble Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: bibblebabbling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bibblebabble Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bibblebabbled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of bibblebabble Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: blackmarks Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blackmark Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: blackmarking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blackmark Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: aphrodisia Part of Speech: noun 1. A state of sexual desire. Labels: uncountable 2. sexual intercourse Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: Aphrodisian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀφροδῑ́σιος (aphrodī́sios) + -an. 1. Pertaining to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Labels: Greek Example: Near-synonym: Venusian 2. Devoted to sensual love.
Word: Christ the Redeemer Part of Speech: name 1. A statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Word: Seven Wonders of the World Part of Speech: name 1. Any of several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. Any of several lists of remarkable natural or man-made places. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: mammatus cloud Part of Speech: noun 1. A cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud.
Word: rosy-lipped batfish Part of Speech: noun 1. Ogcocephalus porrectus
Word: red-lipped batfish Part of Speech: noun 1. A variety of batfish, Ogcocephalus darwini, native to the Galapagos Islands and Peru, which is noted for its bright red lips and inability to swim.
Word: Volkswagens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Volkswagen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chromostereopsis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chromo- + stereopsis. 1. A visual illusion whereby an impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional colour images, usually a combination of red with either green or blue. Labels: uncountable
Word: on deck circles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of on deck circle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Kader Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قادر (qādir, “powerful”). This surname is mostly found in Bangladesh. 1. A surname from Arabic.
Word: conservatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cōnservātrīx. By surface analysis, conservator + -trix. 1. A female conservator.
Word: imperspicuity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From im- + perspicuity. 1. vagueness; lack of clarity Labels: archaic, uncountable
Word: imperspicuous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From im- + perspicuous. 1. vague; unclear; lacking clarity Labels: archaic
Word: you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: From a line in a Bob Dylan song, Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965). 1. One does not require an expert to tell one what one already knows. Labels: figuratively
Word: secretness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From secret + -ness. 1. Quality of being secret. Labels: uncountable 2. Secrecy. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: Now the continualness, the secretness, yet the always present domesticness of our love; how may we best compass that, without jeopardizing the ever-sacred memory I hinted of?
Word: do one's block Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A loose usage of do with block (“(slang) head”). 1. To lose one's temper; to get angry. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, slang Example: Ma looked out the door agrily, but a little anxiously as well, because she was sensitive about being overheard doing her block by visitors, especially anyone as important as the local undertaker. Example: Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.
Word: show one's cards Part of Speech: verb 1. To reveal something known to oneself but previously concealed from others, especially regarding one's own plans or resources. Labels: idiomatic
Word: out with it Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to tell somebody to reveal a secret. Example: “What’s your name, youngster? Out with it!” cried Laballière, striving to shake the little free mulatto into speech; but he stayed dumb as a mummy. Example: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, "Come, out with it," said the Doctor. "It's rather hard, you see," said Bobbie, "to out with it; because of what Mother said."
Word: at no time Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Never. Example: The standing instructions of our representatives at Madrid and Havana have for years been to leave no effort unessayed to further these ends, and at no time has the equal good desire of Spain been more hopefully manifested than now. Example: At birth genitals are thus viewed as symbolically and literally revealing the truth of gender. At no time are the connections between genitals and gender more evident than when the genitalia of an infant either do not signal or else missignal sex.
Word: theater in the round Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of theater-in-the-round. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: theatre-in-the-round Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of theater-in-the-round. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: theatre in the round Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of theater-in-the-round. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: scyphus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek σκῠ́φος (skŭ́phos). 1. A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people. 2. The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers. 3. A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.
Word: scyphi Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of scyphus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: scyphos Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of skyphos. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: consessus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin consessus. Pronunciation: /kənˈsɛ.səs/ 1. An assembly or congregation of people, especially in religious contexts. Labels: obsolete Example: And to the same purpose he writes concerning Numidicus, Ep. 40, viz. that his will was that Numidicus should be listed in the number of Carthaginian Presbyters, and sit with him," no doubt in the [consessus] in the consistory or Ecclesiastical senate. Example: The consessus of Haririus present an analogy to this; and the traditional סיעה at the court of Hezekiah.
Word: green woodpeckers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of green woodpecker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: northern flicker Part of Speech: noun 1. Colaptes auratus, a medium-sized member of the woodpecker family, native to most of Central and North America.
Word: across the line Part of Speech: prep_phrase 1. Describing the action of a batsman in moving the bat in a direction lateral to that of the incoming ball
Word: northern flickers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of northern flicker Labels: form-of, plural
Word: consocies Part of Speech: noun 1. A consociation. Example: The consocies grows to an average maximum height of 15 feet, the canopy formed being well knit, but allowing entrance to a large percentage of the light. Example: These weeds grow in abundance and thrive with notable vigor in these locust stands, but are almost or entirely absent in the consocies of scrub pine, tulip poplar, and in the mixed hardwood forest tending toward the climax type.
Word: crapstorm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From crap + storm. 1. Euphemistic form of shitstorm (both senses). Labels: euphemistic, form-of, informal, mildly, vulgar Example: Watergate and that creep Nixon; the sheriff drove north through the night listening to every detail of the national crapstorm cascading down on anything Republican, the moment at last arriving when […] Example: 2020 was one long, howling, Category 5 crapstorm.
Word: go round Part of Speech: verb 1. To physically swirl or rotate. 2. To rotate, to move in a circle. 3. To travel around (something) physically. Labels: transitive 4. To circumvent, evade or outmanoeuvre. Labels: figuratively, transitive 5. To circulate, to move aimlessly. Labels: figuratively, transitive 6. To pass around, to circulate. Example: They say a new deadly virus is going round in South America. 7. To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone. Labels: intransitive Example: "Perhaps we may at least all sit down," suggested Ellerslie, to break the silence. "There are rather a lot of us, but I think the chairs will go round." 8. To go to another person's home or a public event. Example: I went round and told him what I thought of him. 9. To live behaving in a certain way, doing something regularly (followed by specification). Example: You can't go round stealing from unlocked cars!
Word: leap in the dark Part of Speech: noun 1. An act or attempt without any idea about what the result will be and that commits the chooser to consequences that matter. Example: Near-synonyms: leap of faith, act of faith, shot in the dark, stab in the dark
Word: make after Part of Speech: verb 1. To chase.
Word: macarena Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Macarena. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Kaws Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Kaw Labels: form-of, plural
Word: attritus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin 1. material pulverized by attrition Labels: uncountable
Word: balywick Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of bailiwick. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: tattis Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tatti Labels: form-of, plural
Word: woma Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Dieri woma. 1. Ellipsis of woma python Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Word: commodate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin commodātum (“something lent, a loan”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). 1. A gratuitous loan.
Word: commodate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in 1595; borrowed from Latin commodātus, perfect passive participle of commodō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). 1. To put in order, adjust, arrange. Labels: obsolete 2. To suit, accommodate (to). Labels: obsolete 3. To lend. Labels: obsolete
Word: flag days Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flag day Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fish fingers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fish finger Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fiscal conservatives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fiscal conservative Labels: form-of, plural
Word: flag carriers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of flag carrier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: plecs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plec Labels: form-of, plural
Word: actuose Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (“active”). 1. Very active. Labels: Late, Modern, rare Example: When I say that the soul is actuose, this is to emphasize once more that it is not to be thought of as a substance, an existing entity or being, but as ongoing enactment or performance.
Word: Colossus of Rhodes Part of Speech: name 1. A statue of Greek god Helios in ancient Rhodes, Greece. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Word: Aphrodisia Part of Speech: name 1. A festival celebrating the goddess Aphrodite, held throughout Ancient Greece, but of particular importance in Attica and Cyprus. Labels: historical
Word: go along Part of Speech: verb 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, along. 2. To participate, cooperate, or conform. Example: I refuse to go along with another of his dangerous schemes. 3. To move along or proceed.
Word: goldfish bowl Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ ˈboʊl/ 1. A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept. Example: It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor. 2. Any place that lacks privacy, especially a room with a large window facing a public area. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: "Because East Midlands Railway's HQ is here in Derby, we're rather in a goldfish bowl... and now there's the announcement that Derby will be the Great British Railway headquarters, so the goldfish bowl is about to get a whole lot bigger," he says.
Word: golf cart Part of Speech: noun 1. A small four-wheeled motorized vehicle, archetypally used to travel around a golf course and also often used for other casual, low-speed transportation.
Word: peacefullest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of peaceful: most peaceful Labels: form-of, superlative Example: They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
Word: behalfs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of behalf Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Yellow Boy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the golden yellow colour of its receiver. 1. A Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifle. Labels: informal
Word: rigourous Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of rigorous. Labels: alt-of, misspelling 2. Alternative form of rigorous. Labels: alt-of, alternative, archaic, rare
Word: rigourously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From rigourous + -ly. 1. Nonstandard spelling of rigorously. Labels: alt-of, nonstandard
Word: laned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lane + -ed. 1. Divided into lanes, as with a road. Labels: not-comparable
Word: dead soldiers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dead soldier Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vacuate Part of Speech: verb 1. To empty; to clear out. Example: Mr. Toynbee recommends, in cases of ruptured membrane tympani, "directing the stream of water [in syringing] through the orifice of the membrane into the tympanum in order to vacuate the latter cavity of its contents."
Word: polygynies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of polygyny Labels: form-of, plural
Word: h'lo Part of Speech: intj 1. Abbreviation of hello. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, informal Example: “H'lo,” said Robert. “Mary Lee!” her mother called and there were light steps upstairs.
Word: Green Beret Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the color of the beret worn by them. 1. A member of the United States Army Special Forces. Labels: US Example: A former Green Beret wearing a tactical vest struck an officer in the face with a flagpole he was wielding like a spear during the Capitol riot, according to new court filings from the government and the F.B.I.
Word: Green Berets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Green Beret Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Sousa Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Sousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese Sousa. 1. A surname from Portuguese.
Word: lagman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish lagman. Doublet of lawman. 1. In medieval Scandinavia and parts of the Danelaw: a district official, magistrate or judge; a lawspeaker. Labels: historical Example: There was a ſucceſſion of thirty-eight lagmans, which continued till 1262, when the republic [the Icelandic Commonwealth] was deſtroyed by the Danes. 2. The presiding justice of the supreme court; a lawman. Labels: Orkney, Shetland, historical
Word: lagman Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of laghman. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually
Word: western gorilla Part of Speech: noun 1. Gorilla gorilla, a great ape and the most populous species of the genus Gorilla.
Word: western gorillas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of western gorilla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: great apes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of great ape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spyhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From spy + hole. 1. Synonym of peephole. Labels: UK Example: Then there is a shuffling sound, and the quiet slide of a spyhole cover.
Word: spyholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spyhole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spraddled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of spraddle Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: rhesus macaques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhesus macaque Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mantegars Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mantegar Labels: form-of, plural
Word: silvery gibbons Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of silvery gibbon Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spider monkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spider monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squirrel monkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squirrel monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: rhesus monkeys Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rhesus monkey Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cebines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cebine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Roosmalens' dwarf marmosets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Roosmalens' dwarf marmoset Labels: form-of, plural
Word: diademed sifakas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of diademed sifaka Labels: form-of, plural
Word: spraddle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from sprad, an obsolete dialectal past participle of spread; or a blend of sprawl + straddle or spread + straddle, or perhaps from Middle English *spraddelen; a frequentative form of Middle English spradden, spraden, sprēden (“to lay flat, spread; to distribute, scatter, sow”), from Old English sprǣdan (“to expand, spread; to outspread, stretch forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, sprinkle, strew”), equivalent to spread + -le. Compare also dialectal Norwegian spradla (“to flail, squirm, thrash about”). Pronunciation: /ˈspɹædl̩/ 1. To spread apart (the legs). Labels: transitive Example: [T]hey [scorpions] rely on pressure-sensing organs near the ends of each of their eight walking legs to detect subtle shock waves that propagate outwards, even through sand, when another creature passes by on the desert floor. According to [Philip H.] Brownell, the scorpion orients itself toward the focus of any such disturbance by gauging the minuscule differences in the times at which the shock wave reaches each of its eight spraddled legs. 2. To spread apart the legs of (someone or something). Labels: transitive Example: She brought the quail back, and while it was still alive, she split it from breastbone to tail, and spraddled it, kicking, over Granpa's snake bite. She held the kicking quail on Granpa's hand for a long time, and when she took it off, the quail had turned green all over its inside. 3. To lie, move, or stand with legs spread. Labels: intransitive Example: Horace slunk into the kitchen. The stove, spraddling out on its four iron legs, was gently humming. Aunt Martha had evidently just lighted the lamp, for she went to it and began to twist the wick experimentally. Example: I spraddled along the wharf and nearly fell into the water. I glanced at Charmian, and the way she walked made me sad. The wharf had all the seeming of a ship's deck. It lifted, tilted, heaved and sank; and since there were no handrails on it, it kept Charmian and me busy avoiding falling in.
Word: spraddle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from sprad, an obsolete dialectal past participle of spread; or a blend of sprawl + straddle or spread + straddle, or perhaps from Middle English *spraddelen; a frequentative form of Middle English spradden, spraden, sprēden (“to lay flat, spread; to distribute, scatter, sow”), from Old English sprǣdan (“to expand, spread; to outspread, stretch forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, sprinkle, strew”), equivalent to spread + -le. Compare also dialectal Norwegian spradla (“to flail, squirm, thrash about”). Pronunciation: /ˈspɹædl̩/ 1. A manner of walking with the legs spread out.
Word: snap shot Part of Speech: noun 1. A hard shot without much planning. Example: But the League One side's early endeavours brought only two well-struck but off-target free-kicks and a snap shot from Rickie Lambert. 2. A quick shot executed by moving the stick parallel to the ground and ending with a snap of the wrist. Example: The other maior shot is the snap shot. It is like a cousin of the wrist shot. It is a little faster than the wrist shot and requires less movement with the stick. 3. A shot taken quickly, without time for careful aiming. Example: Oh, i thought, a mistake, a bad one, a dumb one. i shouldn't have made the snap shot. i took a few more steps, looking for possible new blood from my hasty shot—fearing the worst—and found some. 4. Alternative form of snapshot. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Tentatively, the market sentiment on May 5, 2004 could be described as favoring greater stability around the forward, however with a bias for a dollar depreciation. This is only a snap shot of expectations. Example: The people in the family are alive and dynamic and change whereas the snap shot is a fixed image of how they appeared in the past.
Word: snap shot Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of snap shoot Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: roar on Part of Speech: verb 1. To cheer loudly for. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: With the game crying out for width, the home fans roared on winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain whenever he touched the ball, but he was unable to show why he is a £10m target for Liverpool and Arsenal.
Word: Gulls Part of Speech: name Etymology: As a seaside town, Torquay has many seagulls. 1. Torquay United F. C., a football club from Torquay, England. Labels: informal Example: Gulls keeper Scott Bevan kept his side in the game by saving a Tubbs penalty after Chris Zebroski was sent off.
Word: exscribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excribere; ex (“out, from”) + scribere (“to write”). 1. To copy down onto paper; to transcribe. Labels: obsolete Example: 1640-41, Ben Jonson, A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth, I that have been a lover, and could show it/ Though not in these, in rhymes not wholly dumb/ Since I exscribe your sonnets, am become/ A better lover, and much better poet.
Word: pull out of the hat Part of Speech: verb 1. To select at random, or seemingly at random. Labels: idiomatic Example: Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw. Example: Ever get the feeling that these guys don’t understand what the actual problems are, and instead turn to pulling random bullshit out of a hat to get views?
Word: interscribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin interscribere; inter (“between”) + scribere (“to write”). By surface analysis, inter + scribe. 1. To write or draw between. Labels: transitive
Word: roll back the years Part of Speech: verb 1. To produce a sense of nostalgia. Labels: idiomatic 2. To demonstrate a performance later in life as good as in one's prime. Labels: idiomatic Example: Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.
Word: effrenate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin effrēnātus (“unbridled, let loose”), past participle of effrēnō (“unbridle, let loose”). 1. Unrestrained. Labels: obsolete
Word: excellenter Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of excellent: more excellent Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: possibilitates Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of possibilitate Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: possibilitate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Classical Latin possibilis + -itate. By surface analysis, possibility + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Medieval Latin possibilitō and Spanish posibilitar. 1. To make possible. Labels: rare Example: […]but ſhew mercy on them, that they may be in poſſibility of repentance, pardon, and grace, which interceſſion anſwereth Chriſts dying, as it reſpecteth all, which was to poſſibilitate their Salvation. Example: It was ‘manifestly impossible,’ said the statement, ‘to provide a course of professional education for the ministers of religion of those congregations who do not belong to the established church.’ But that this object has been possibilitated, must be understood from a resolution recently past,—‘[…].’
Word: stannide Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From stann- + -ide. 1. Any binary compound of tin and a more electropositive element; the tin anion in such a compound.
Word: Accy Part of Speech: name Etymology: Clipped form + -y. 1. The English town of Accrington. Labels: UK, slang 2. The football team Accrington Stanley F.C.. Labels: UK, slang
Word: Bee Part of Speech: noun 1. someone connected with Barnet Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. 2. Alternative letter-case form of bee. Labels: alt-of
Word: Bee Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the female given name Beatrice. 2. A surname.
Word: Bantam Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative form of Banten (“province of Java”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Bantam Part of Speech: noun 1. Someone connected with Bradford City A.F.C, as a fan, player, coach etc. Example: The Bantams bridged the gap between the bottom division of English league football and the Premier League to secure a place at Wembley, despite a 2-1 second-leg defeat.
Word: Bantam Part of Speech: name 1. The largest settlement on the Cocos Islands (Australia). 2. A borough in the town of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. 3. An unincorporated community in Tate Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States.
Word: kitefin shark Part of Speech: noun 1. A small sharks of the family Dalatiidae, especially of species Dalatias licha. Example: Kitefin sharks (Dalatias licha) have been known about since the 18th century, but it was only in January 2020 that scientists saw them glowing in the dark for the first time.
Word: kitefin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kite + fin. 1. kitefin shark
Word: nyctemeral Part of Speech: adj 1. Misspelling of nychthemeral. Labels: alt-of, misspelling, not-comparable
Word: nycthemeral Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of nychthemeral. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: Costen's syndrome Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after James B. Costen, who wrote extensively about this condition. 1. A set of symptoms thought to involve hearing difficulties, facial pain, tinnitus, and dizziness, of unclear scientific validity. Labels: uncountable
Word: representative element Part of Speech: noun 1. main group element
Word: skin movie Part of Speech: noun 1. A pornographic film. Labels: slang
Word: air-shot Part of Speech: noun 1. A failed attempt to strike the ball. Labels: usually Example: A comical Bendtner air-shot then brought ironic cheers from the 5,000 Huddersfield fans massed behind the Clock End goal, before the Dane was involved in a fortuitous Gunners' opening goal.
Word: body-check Part of Speech: verb 1. To perform a body check; to shove. Example: The young defender dispossessed Arshavin for the first time in the game and set on a rampaging run through the Gunners' midfield, which ended when he was blatantly body-checked by last man Squillaci, who was duly sent off.
Word: tick away Part of Speech: verb 1. To count down to zero (i.e. signaling the end (or start) of something). Example: Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day Example: With time ticking away, Nenad Milijas fell in the box under Huth's challenge, but Sorenson saved the midfielder's spot kick to send the Potters through.
Word: long throw Part of Speech: noun 1. A long throw-in into the goal area. Example: In the fifth minute he could have added to an impressive record of 11 goals in 10 FA Cup ties for parent club Aston Villa but his flicked header from Rory Delap's long throw was pushed past the post by Marcus Hahnemann.
Word: throw-out Part of Speech: noun 1. A discard, rejection. 2. An item that is thrown out to an audience or crowd, usually for dramatic effect. 3. An overarm throw of the ball from a goalkeeper. 4. A put-out caused by a throw to a base of a fielded ground ball. 5. A folded paper in a publication, such as a book or a greeting card, that is intended to be unfolded for use outside the normal form factor of the publication. 6. A mechanism to rapidly disengage a portion of a machine from the source of its motion, as an automotive clutch.
Word: nibbly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nibble + -y. 1. Prone to, or suitable for, nibbling. Labels: informal Example: Toss in wine and nibbly things to munch and it adds up to a unique shopping experience.
Word: nibbly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From nibble + -y. 1. Any food suitable for nibbling, snack food. Labels: informal Example: The dumbstruck crowd parted as the murderer made his way to the nibblies […]
Word: zelatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin zēlātrīx (“female zealot; zealous female”). By surface analysis, zelator + -trix. 1. A nun who oversees the behavior of young nuns. Example: An intelligent and active zelatrix should be at the head of each circle, or one zelatrix may have several circles under her care. Example: But, we still have to ask what benefits Teresa herself perceived in the chapter of faults and other similar corrective measures: the role of the zelatrix or monitor for instance?
Word: here below Part of Speech: adv 1. In this world; in our mortal time on the earth. Labels: not-comparable Example: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow / praise Him, all creatures here below / praise Him above, ye heavenly host / praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Example: The earth shall soon dissolve like snow / The sun forbear to shine / but God who called me here below / will be forever mine.
Word: come of Part of Speech: verb 1. To result from. Labels: idiomatic Example: What ever came of that? — Don't worry, I don’t think anything will come of it. Example: [see title]
Word: usurpatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ūsūrpātrīx. By surface analysis, usurpator + -trix. 1. A female usurper. Labels: rare
Word: up above Part of Speech: noun 1. An upward location. (Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, above.) Example: Some strange noises were coming from up above, but I continued to climb. 2. In heaven.
Word: tractatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tractātrīx. By surface analysis, tractator + -trix. 1. A female shampooer. Labels: rare
Word: bloody well Part of Speech: adv 1. Damn well. Labels: not-comparable Example: I dragged myself upright and glared after the departing truck. ‘If I want to blow myself up, then I bloody well will,’ I yelled hysterically. Example: "[…] Nobody I've met says it is OK as it is - because it bloody well isn't."
Word: stimulatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stimulātrīx. By surface analysis, stimulator + -trix. 1. A female who stimulates. Labels: rare Example: I think it but reasonable to attribute them [tides] to her [the Moon's] agency, as the stimulatrix and supplier of that electric principle by which land and water, for certain lengths of space and for certain times, mutually attract and repel each other, which is the proper definition of tide.
Word: look who's talking Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to highlight someone's hypocrisy by pointing out that the critic is guilty of the same fault that they attribute to or condemn in another. Labels: derogatory
Word: you can talk Part of Speech: intj 1. Synonym of look who's talking.
Word: speculatrix Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin speculātrīx. By surface analysis, speculate + -trix. 1. A female speculator.
Word: microforms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microform Labels: form-of, plural
Word: noncytochrome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + cytochrome. 1. Not being or pertaining to a cytochrome. Labels: not-comparable
Word: nondamaging Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + damaging. 1. Not damaging. Labels: not-comparable
Word: noncyclonic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From non- + cyclonic. 1. Not cyclonic. Labels: not-comparable
Word: noncyclically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From noncyclical + -ly. 1. In a noncyclical fashion. Labels: not-comparable
Word: you know what they say Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to introduce, or alluding to, an apt adage. Example: Near-synonym: as the saying goes Example: You know what they say about fish and company. After three days, you start to stink. -- but after three decades of Hosni Mubarak, the stench has become unbearable.
Word: if you know what I mean Part of Speech: phrase Pronunciation: /ɪf ju ˌnoʊ wʌt aɪ ˈmin/, [ɪfjəˌnowʌɾaɪˈmin] 1. Used to allude to something unsaid or hinted at. Labels: disjunctive Example: He seemed a little too interested in the details, if you know what I mean [implying that perhaps he had ulterior motives]. Example: "[…]Now what time did you retire to bed last night?” “We went early. Somehow or other the party didn’t seem to ‘go’ if you know what I mean, superintendent. We went up about half-past ten, I should say.” 2. Used as a rhetorical question to confirm attention, understanding, or agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof; synonym of do you know what I'm saying. Labels: informal Example: Then you've got to jiggle it just right, if you know what I mean, before you can get it to come out of there.
Word: antifarming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + farming. 1. Opposing farming. Example: Right-to-farm (RTF) laws or declarations are designed to protect farmers from nuisance suits and antifarming ordinances.
Word: monasterylike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From monastery + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a monastery.
Word: calmecac Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl calmecac (“house of the lineage”). 1. A school for the children of Aztec nobility. Labels: historical
Word: calmecacs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of calmecac Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tutrice Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of tutrix. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: pamoic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. A derivative of naphthoic acid, whose salt form can be used in pharmacology to increase the solubility of a drug in water. Labels: uncountable
Word: incisivity Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Formed as incisiv(e) + -ity. Pronunciation: /ɪnsaɪˈsɪvɪtɪ/ 1. The quality of being incisive; penetrating trenchancy; incisiveness. Labels: uncountable Example: The remarkable tenor qualities of De Muro, especially in the ardent incisivity of his high register, the manly warmth of his tone and his exceptional breathing (Fiato), as well as his uncommon qualities of interpretation, capable of violent dramatic impulse and of lyric inflexion, remain documented in the excerpts he recorded of “Isabeau” in 1912, a testimony, at least auditive, of what was his legendary Folco. Example: A true witness of his times and the men that have lived in them, [Al. Rosetti] has sketched with a firm hand unforgettable portraits of an illustrious series of friends, in a ‘White Book[’], and has never disclosed the virulent pages in which he describes human larvae with the incisivity of steel engravings for a possible Black Book.
Word: earth up Part of Speech: verb 1. To cover the stem or leaves of plants with soil, as to encourage root growth or protect from cold. Labels: transitive Example: Earth up a potato crop several times during the season to encourage more tubers to grow.
Word: insanos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of insano Labels: form-of, plural
Word: apostolado Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish apostolado. Doublet of apostolate. Pronunciation: /əˌpɒstəˈlɑːdəʊ/, /əˌpɑstəˈlɑdoʊ/ 1. A series of portraits of the apostles, sometimes also including those of Jesus Christ or other close disciples of Christ.
Word: apostolados Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of apostolado Labels: form-of, plural
Word: disharmonizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of disharmonize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: disharmonizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of disharmonize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: disharmonized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of disharmonize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: queer theory Part of Speech: noun 1. A field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of LGBT studies and feminist studies, a kind of interpretation devoted to queer readings of texts. Labels: uncountable