nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: schizosexual Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From schizo- + sexual, after schizophrenic and terms ending in -sexual (such as homosexual). 1. Someone exhibiting such behaviour. Labels: humorous, nonce-word, rare Example: But once Walter plucks up the courage to fully penetrate Automan, he has a sort of breakdown and becomes a split personality. […] After which this futuristic schizosexual goes cruising through the city streets at night, picking up men.
Word: intactile Part of Speech: adj 1. Not tactile. Labels: not-comparable
Word: paranoidly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From paranoid + -ly. 1. In a paranoid manner.
Word: underbuilder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- (“subordinate”) + builder. Pronunciation: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌbɪldə(ɹ)/ 1. A subordinate or assistant builder. Example: an underbuilder in the house of God
Word: innerly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English inhirly, ynhirly, inderly, equivalent to inner + -ly. Compare Dutch innerlijk, German innerlich, Danish inderlig, Swedish innerlig. 1. Inward; deep-seated. Labels: rare
Word: innerly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English innerly, inderly, inderlich, inderlike, equivalent to inner + -ly. 1. Within; inwardly. Labels: rare
Word: matchy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From match + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈmæt͡ʃi/ 1. color-coordinated, matching, especially to an excess.
Word: mowyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mow + -yer. 1. One who mows; mower. Labels: obsolete 2. The long-billed or sickle-billed curlew (Numenius americanus).
Word: insteep Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From in- + steep. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈstiːp/ 1. To steep or soak; drench. Labels: transitive Example: York, all haggled over, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd, / And takes him by the beard.
Word: roleless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From role + -less. Pronunciation: /ɹəʊl.ləs/, /ɹoʊl.ləs/, [ɹoʊɫ.ləs] 1. Without a role. Labels: not-comparable
Word: œconomizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of œconomize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: There was another mode of œconomizing, which, in his opinion, need only be ſtated to the Houſe to induce them to adopt it. Example: ..in no longer submitting to the pain of absence, they would also derive, what in their situation was of such essential importance, the œconomizing from his army allowance, which in its accumulations could be devoted to the payment and satisfaction of his creditors,..
Word: glass-half-empty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the expression "Is the glass half empty or half full?", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic. 1. pessimistic Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”
Word: unlawful detainer Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of retaining possession of property without legal right. Labels: US 2. A legal action intended to remedy unlawful detainer by restoring possession of property to its owner. Labels: US
Word: glass-half-full Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From the expression Is the glass half empty or half full?, the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic. 1. optimistic Labels: idiomatic, not-comparable Example: Normally she is an extremely positive, glass half-full sort of girl, someone who can find the silver lining in any situation. However, when it came to her breakup, she refused to see the many positive things that could come from it...
Word: have it easy Part of Speech: verb 1. To have favourable conditions for an easy life. Labels: intransitive Example: Kids have it so easy nowadays.
Word: life is like a box of chocolates Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: Appeared in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, when the lead character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) says “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” 1. Life is full of surprises; you never know what will happen next.
Word: Web browser Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of web browser. Labels: alt-of
Word: plain to see Part of Speech: adj 1. Evident; obvious. Labels: not-comparable Example: So what now? It's plain to see we're over And I hate when things are over When so much is left undone
Word: not so fast Part of Speech: phrase 1. Used to tell someone to cease doing something or to call into question what someone has said. Labels: idiomatic 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, so, fast.
Word: next thing one knows Part of Speech: phrase 1. suddenly, out of the blue. Labels: colloquial, idiomatic Example: ([Milton Dosantos]) just said they were on the roof and the next thing they knew, they were flat on their backs Example: He had three fingers on one hand because one of them had been shot off, and he'd sit there doing this and next thing you know, out would come this three-dimensional folded cage or a box or cranes or snails. Really remarkable.
Word: surprise party Part of Speech: noun 1. A preplanned party in which participants secretively gather in a certain location, wait for the arrival of the person they wish to honour and, traditionally, greet the arrival of the honoured person by shouting, "Surprise!".
Word: Tweedledum and Tweedledee Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom. Pronunciation: /ˌtwiːdəlˈdʌm ən ˌtwiːdəlˈdiː/ 1. Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way. Labels: derogatory Example: The radicals said that Nixon and Humphrey were Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 2. A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly. Labels: derogatory Example: Some officers were starting to call Edendale's two detective chief inspectors Tweedledum and Tweedledee, because they were rarely seen except when they were sitting alongside each other at the head of a briefing. Example: With their apparently identikit backgrounds and bland politicians' patter, the contest has sometimes seemed an incestuous choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When even the promised fratricidal war between the Miliband brothers failed to take off, one newspaper cartoonist illustrated a caricature of the contestants with the caption: Who cares who wins?
Word: reäct Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The ä emphasizes the pronunciation of the word with two syllables rather than one syllable. 1. Rare spelling of react. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: hand axe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx, from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī; equivalent to hand + axe. 1. A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle. 2. A hatchet or throwing axe.
Word: hand axes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hand ax Labels: form-of, plural 2. plural of hand axe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: reäction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The diaeresis emphasizes the pronunciation of the word with three rather than two syllables. 1. Rare spelling of reaction. Labels: alt-of, rare
Word: HV Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of high voltage. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 2. Initialism of high velocity. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 3. Initialism of herpesvirus. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of holiday village. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 5. Initialism of healthy volunteer. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 6. Initialism of health visitor. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Word: roger that Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction. 1. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood) Example: 1969 "Capsule Communicator: '11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. You can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK.' Commander (Neil A. Armstrong): 'Roger that. Thank you.' ", Apollo 11 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (Tape 4/5, mission time 5h 16 min), 16 July 1969. Example: 1974 "This is the book for everybody who ever groaned under the onslaught of trivia transmitted by the astronauts ('This sunset is really something, Houston...' 'Roger that...'). review of M. Collins, "Carrying the Fire", Flying Magazine, November 1974, p. 108. 2. Used to acknowledge receipt and understanding of a message Labels: idiomatic
Word: jacent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin jacens, present participle of jacere (“to lie”): compare French jacent. Doublet of jessant. Pronunciation: /ˈdʒeɪsənt/ 1. Lying stretched out. Labels: archaic, not-comparable Example: the jacent posture
Word: jaculator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Latin; see jaculate. 1. One who throws or casts. 2. The archerfish. Labels: archaic 3. A retinaculum
Word: trilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From trill + -y. 1. Having a trill sound. Example: She was a sweet young thing with cheek dimples and a trilly laugh... Example: This bird has a number of calls, but the most common is a loud chuck (Example 3). Immature birds utter a trilly note (Example 4), which is a common marsh sound in mid-summer.
Word: spilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From spill + -y. 1. Prone to spilling. Labels: colloquial Example: Then Jeffry, with heavy-handed humor which ill became him, complained within her hearing that most of his oyster stew, spilly food which he had intentionally ordered, had poured over into his coffee. Example: [He was] very windy, and he was very spilly right from the beginning. Just really spilly after every feed, numerous clothing changes for him and for me.
Word: quilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From quill + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪli/ 1. Pertaining to or resembling a quill. Example: The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts […]; the one is a quilly or finny substance, consisting of several long, slender and variously bended quills or wires, something resembling the veins of leaves […]. 2. With quills; quilled. Example: […] sometimes you may even run across a quilly ball lying right on top of the ledge, or catch one of the numerous porcupine family picking its way leisurely among the rocks.
Word: thrilly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From thrill + -y. 1. exciting, producing a thrill. Example: To know it is to feel it, the clitoris so complicated and so clever, as thrilly as a high-tension wire. In its nest within a nest like the word within a word. The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus. This is carnal knowledge. Example: ...I saw his eyes inside the mask smiling at me and right there at that moment everything became okay, exultant new world vision, a new thrilly freedom down down down in the blue glass light world.
Word: failure to thrive Part of Speech: noun 1. Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers. Labels: uncountable, usually 2. Abnormal weight loss, malaise. Labels: uncountable, usually 3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: Northwest Germanic Part of Speech: name 1. The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of the North Germanic and West Germanic languages combined. This includes all modern Germanic languages, and all ancient Germanic languages except for East Germanic (which includes primarily Gothic). 2. The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Northwest Proto-Germanic or Proto-Northwest Germanic).
Word: Northwest Germanic Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to these languages.
Word: joculator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin joculātus. Doublet of juggler and jongleur. 1. A jester; a joker. Labels: obsolete Example: The joculators were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates
Word: judicate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: First attested in c. 1577; borrowed from Latin iūdicātus, perfect passive participle of iūdicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) and possibly partly a clipping of adjudicate. Doublet of judge. 1. To judge; to adjudicate. Labels: ambitransitive, uncommon Example: Parasites and Flatterers, I wyll make so to abound, / That Trueth shalbe defaced, and stand aloofe behinde: / Auarice and Couetousnesse, shall compasse euerie ground, / That fewe shall haue credite, freendship to finde, / Wauerers and Neuters shall houer in the winde, / That Sycophants and brablers, preheminence shall haue, / To predicate and iudicate, before the wyse and graue. Example: And to enter him befoir the saids Provest and baillies of Innernis, to be judicatit be them for his wrange or fact crym he sal commit, to suffer thairfoir according as he sail merit at the discretioun of the Judges, vnder the pain foirsaid: Quhairvpon tuick act.
Word: judicate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First attested in c. 1577; borrowed from Latin iūdicātus, perfect passive participle of iūdicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) and possibly partly a clipping of adjudicate. Doublet of judge. 1. Any of the independent states that took power in Sardinia in the Middle Ages. Labels: historical
Word: judicare Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of judicial + care; compare Medicare, denticare. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒudɪˌkɛə/, /ˈd͡ʒudɪˌkɛɚ/ 1. A form of legal aid in which private lawyers and law firms are paid to handle cases from eligible clients alongside the cases from their own fee-paying clients. Labels: US, uncountable
Word: jugum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowing from Latin jugum (“a yoke, collar; a pair of anything; the summit, ridge”). Doublet of yoke and yuga. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɡəm/ 1. A connecting ridge or projection, especially on a bone. 2. A lobe on the forewing of some moths which interlocks with the hindwing in flight. 3. One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants. 4. A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.
Word: juves Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of juve Labels: form-of, plural
Word: properest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of proper: most proper. Labels: form-of, nonstandard, superlative Example: “Very probably,” answered Partridge; “but if the top of the hill be properest to produce melancholy thoughts, I suppose the bottom is the likeliest to produce merry ones, and these I take to be much the better of the two. […] Example: […] Mr. Rushworth discovered that the properest thing to be done, was for him to walk down to the Parsonage directly, and call on Mr. Crawford, and inquire whether Wednesday would suit him or not.
Word: promptest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of prompt: most prompt Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: profiteered Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of profiteer Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: privatest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of private: most private Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: privater Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of private: more private Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: precisest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of precise: most precise Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: preciser Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of precise: more precise Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: Rabaul Creole German Part of Speech: name 1. Unserdeutsch.
Word: possiblest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of possible: most possible Labels: form-of, nonstandard, superlative
Word: possibler Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of possible: more possible Labels: comparative, form-of, nonstandard
Word: positivest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of positive: most positive Labels: form-of, nonstandard, superlative
Word: pontooned Part of Speech: adj 1. Having a pontoon, or pontoons, attached to it.
Word: pontooned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of pontoon Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: mæanders Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mæander Labels: form-of, plural Example: Above the relief projects also a broader fascia, on which a rich mæander has likewise been painted ; both these mæanders, it seems, were red ; above this last mæander, and separated from it by a bird’s beak moulding decorated with leaves, was another broad fascia between the beams of the roof, with a beautifully twisted palm‐leaf ornament ; upon this was an ovolo painted with eggs, and finally over this last the soffits of the roof.
Word: mæanders Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mæander Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: piggier Part of Speech: adj 1. comparative form of piggy: more piggy Labels: comparative, form-of
Word: piggiest Part of Speech: adj 1. superlative form of piggy: most piggy Labels: form-of, superlative
Word: Lamarckian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lamarck + -ian. Pronunciation: /ləˈmɑːkɪ.ən/, /ləˈmɑɹki.ən/ 1. A supporter or an advocate of Lamarckism. Example: Even after Darwin began publishing, Spencer remained a Lamarckian, a disciple of an earlier advocate of evolution who believed organisms could pass on acquired characteristics to their offspring.
Word: Lamarckian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Lamarck + -ian. Pronunciation: /ləˈmɑːkɪ.ən/, /ləˈmɑɹki.ən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Lamarckism. Labels: not-comparable
Word: distinguishment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From distinguish + -ment. Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɪŋɡ.wɪʃ.mənt/ 1. A distinction; observation of difference. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: "We notice what we notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes." Example: "And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons... 2. The quality of being distinguished or dignified. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: distinguishments Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of distinguishment Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stœchiometrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of stoichiometrical. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: antisocial personality disorder Part of Speech: noun 1. A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: pastophorus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin pastophorus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παστοφόρος (pastophóros), from παστός (pastós, “ceremonial curtain”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearer”), a loose calque of Demotic Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ, from Egyptian jrj-ꜥꜣ (“doorkeeper”), from jrj (“keeper”) + ꜥꜣ (“door”). An old interpretation of the Greek term as ‘shrine-bearer’ is now rejected. Pronunciation: /pastəˈfɔːɹəs/ 1. A type of lesser priest in ancient Egypt, originally serving as a doorkeeper to a temple. Labels: historical
Word: pastophori Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pastophorus Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Ure Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara. 1. A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale 2. A surname.
Word: Urs Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Arabic عرس (literally “wedding”) 1. The death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the dargah.
Word: super-injunction Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From super- + injunction. 1. A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public. Labels: UK Example: Miss Perroncel was at the centre of a legal row in January when former England captain John Terry took out a super-injunction – a court order so secret that no one was supposed even to mention its existence – to stop any publication of allegations that he had had an affair with her. Example: BBC presenter Andrew Marr said on Tuesday he had taken out a superinjunction to protect his family's privacy.
Word: taxative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Related to taxation and taxing. Compare the German taxativ. 1. Relating to taxation. Labels: not-comparable Example: We gather from this that the taxative machinery of the exchequer — that is, the visits of the barons to the different towns and county courts for the purpose of rating the feudal aids and assessing Danegeld — […] 2. Exhaustive, comprehensive. Labels: not-comparable Example: They are merely demonstrative, not taxative. Example: It was held that the description was indicative of the identity of the lands, but not taxative as to the extent.
Word: open bite Part of Speech: noun 1. A configuration of a mouth wherein the front top teeth are separated vertically from the front bottom teeth even while the back top teeth are resting directly upon the back bottom teeth.
Word: open bites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of open bite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: literatus Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līterātus, litterātus. Doublet of literate and literato. Pronunciation: /lɪtəˈɹɑːtəs/ 1. A learned person; especially one acquainted with literature. Labels: in-plural Example: Now, we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be married,—in fact, Mr. [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge agrees to allow him a wife.
Word: literata Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin līterāta, litterāta. 1. Female equivalent of literatus Labels: feminine, form-of Example: Miss Munro was a literata, and passed through the various struggles of authorship—from the cold ice-touch of the commercial publisher, who sees no beauty in any MS. unless it can be freely transmuted into gold, till she gained the summit of her literary ambition, when her power as a writer was felt, acknowledged, and rewarded, and she was eventually enabled to spend her days in comfort at Oldmaidenhood, somewhere down in Devonshire. Example: About this time also she [Lady Randolph Churchill] made her first appearance as a literata in an article on the social life of Russia, based on the observations she had made while in St. Petersburg with her husband.
Word: literatae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin līterātae. 1. plural of literata Labels: form-of, plural
Word: litterati Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin litterātī. 1. Uncommon form of literati. Labels: form-of, plural, plural-only, uncommon Example: To theſe Apollo anſwered, That the onely means whereby to make the way to the Liberal Arts eaſie, was the fervent love of learning, the taking delight in reading the fruitful labours of his Litterati, and to ſtudy out of pleaſure; […] Example: Pray do not betray my ignorance: the reviewers and such litterati have called me a learned and ingenious gentleman.
Word: litterate Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete form of literate. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: That and if they want ſuche farre fetched vocables, than ſerche they out of ſome rotten Pamphlet foure oꝛ fyue diſuſed wooꝛdꝭ of antiquitee, therewith to darken the ſence vnto the reader, to the ende, that who ſo vnderſtandeth theim, maie repute hym ſelfe foꝛ moꝛe cunnyng, and litterate: and who ſo dooeth not, ſhall ſo muche the rather yet eſteeme it to be ſome high mattier, becauſe it paſſeth his learnyng. Example: For wretched avarice and beſtiality of luſt, hee was knowne to be moſt diſſolute, and hee was ſo ill bred, and extravagantly drowned in ignorance, that he became an enemy of all litterate and learned men, terming them the skum and filth of men, endeavouring by all meanes that men ſhould ſhun and avoid them as a poyſon or a contagious plague.
Word: lychnis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. Pronunciation: /ˈlɪknɪs/ 1. Any of the genus Lychnis of flowering plants.
Word: egg timers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of egg timer Labels: form-of, plural
Word: death masks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of death mask Labels: form-of, plural
Word: majusculae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin majusculae, feminine plural form of majusculus (“somewhat greater or great”), diminutive of major, majus. 1. capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: maiuscule Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of majuscule. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: maleficiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”). 1. cursed; bewitched
Word: maleficiate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”). 1. To bewitch; to harm or curse. Labels: obsolete Example: every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth to be a Devil, every person comes near him is maleficiated
Word: vote mob Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From vote + mob, by analogy with flash mob. 1. A gathering of usually young people assembled for the purpose of voting in an election or encouraging youth participation in it and often organized through social media. Labels: Canada Example: At the University of Guelph, some students took Mercer's rant rather seriously. They used the concept of flash mobs[…]and created vote mobs.[…]In particular, the event has also been called a "surprise party," as evidenced by a You-Tube video in which a vote mob comes out of the woods and rolls out a banner that reads, "Surprise! We are voting!"
Word: cœmeterium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: An unadapted adoption of the Latin coemētērium. Doublet of cemetery. 1. An ancient cemetery, churchyard, or burial ground. Example: After the rediscovery and opening of the other cœmeteria, the name belonging to this one cœmeterium was applied to all.
Word: whore's eyes Part of Speech: noun 1. Argyll Robertson pupils. Labels: plural, plural-only, slang
Word: Argyll Robertson pupils Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s in the context of neurosyphilis. 1. Pupils which narrow to track an object as it approaches the face, but which will not narrow in reaction to increased light ("accommodating, but not reactive"); a symptom of the neurosyphilis stage syphilis infection. Labels: uncountable
Word: mancipatio Part of Speech: noun 1. In Ancient Rome, a solemn verbal contract by which the ownership of certain types of goods (res mancipi) was transferred. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: mannas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manna Labels: form-of, plural
Word: materiate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin materiatus. 1. Consisting of matter; material. Labels: not-comparable, obsolete Example: After long enquiry of things immersed in matter, to interpose some subject which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
Word: membrification Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From member + -ification. 1. The formation of members or limbs.
Word: mentalis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin mentālis, ellipsis of musculus mentālis (“the chin muscle”). Pronunciation: /mɛnˈteɪ.lɪs/ 1. A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.
Word: mercurie Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of mercury (“a silvery metallic element”). Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: When therfore they perceaue a ſufficient quantitie of golde thus remaynynge on the tables, they gather it with diligence and put it in a tray or great ſhallowe dyſſhe of wod […] they beate or mixte (or amalgame it as they caule it) with Mercurie or quickſyluer, […] 2. Obsolete spelling of mercury (“a plant: annual mercury or herb mercury; any of several plants of the genus Mercurialis, like dog's mercury; any of several similar plants, like allgood”). Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: This herbe is called […] in Engliſh, Good Henry, and Algood: of ſome it is taken for Mercurie. Example: Engliſh Mercurie, or good Henrie. […] It is taken for a kinde of Mercurie, but vnproperly, for that it hath no participation vvith Mercurie, either in forme or qualitie, except yee vvil call euery herbe Mercurie vvhich hath povver to looſe the bellie.
Word: modificator Part of Speech: noun 1. That which modifies. Example: What peculiar types of people do such behavior modificators treat that may be different from patients who will seek psychotherapy or group therapy?
Word: deaffrication Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From de- + affrication. Pronunciation: /diːæfɹɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. The reverse process of affrication; the process of turning an affricate into a plosive or a fricative. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: debuccalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Celticbor.? Latin bucca Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English buccal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English debuccalization From de- (“from, off”) + buccal (“pertaining to the mouth”) + -ization. Literally meaning “removal from the mouth”. Pronunciation: /diːˌbʌ.kə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /dɪ-/, /-ˌbʊ-/, /-lɪ-/ 1. A sound change in which a consonant loses its original place of articulation and becomes glottal [h] or [ʔ]. Labels: British, Canada, English, Oxford, US, uncountable, usually
Word: Nancy Reagan gaze Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the attentive look Nancy Reagan was noted for fixing on her husband, Ronald Reagan, U.S. President from 1981 to 1989, when he made public appearances. 1. A transfixed look upon a person taken as showing absolute devotion or affection. Example: Pat Nixon held the title for most stoic [Washington] wife until Maureen Dean gave an Oscar-winning performance during her husband's Watergate testimony, sitting primly behind him, blond hair pulled back, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze. Example: Peter Chernin, the head Fox TV programmer, … will titularly replace Roth and serve as Murdoch's malleable functionary. He looks at his boss with a sort of adoring Nancy Reagan gaze.
Word: fortition Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fortis + -ition; compare lenition. Pronunciation: /fɔːˈtɪʃən/, /fɔɹˈtɪʃən/ 1. A sound change in which a consonant becomes more fortis. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 1988, Sylvia Moosmüller, Sociophonology, Peter Auer, Aldo di Luzio (editors), Variation and Convergence: Studies in Social Dialectology, page 76, The two process types following from these assumptions, lenition processes, aiming at articulatory ease at the expense of perception, and fortition processes, resulting in articulatory difficulty in favor of better perception, were further modified by Dressler & Drachman (1977), as lenitions need not necessarily impede perception; similarly fortitions need not necessarily result in articulatory difficulty. Example: In order to distinguish between the two kinds of voiceless final stops the terms 'final devoicing' and 'fortition after sonorants' are used here. Although fortition after sonorants is quite well attested for present-day contact English and in general Irish English, the significance of fent, spent, trent in terms of interference is slight as fortition after /n/ is common in mainland varieties of Middle English as well. Especially in late Middle English many instances of a preterite in /d/ after /n/ changing to /t/ with simultaneous loss of the preterite ending are recorded. 2. Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: No rotation; no appointment by lot; no mode of election operating in the spirit of fortition or rotation, can be generally good in a government conversant in extensive objects.
Word: allœopathy Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of allopathy. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: For my own part, so absolute had my loss of faith in the old school become (although its leading men personally commanded my entire respect) that I felt that if every member of my family were to succumb under fatal diseases, in homœopathic hands, I should feel that I had done my best for them. There was no alternative, in my mind between allœopathy and homœopathy.
Word: congenerousness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From congenerous + -ness. 1. The state or property of being congenerous or congeneric. Labels: uncountable
Word: yoak Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of yoke. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: God doth not need / Either man's work or his own gifts, who best / Bear his milde yoak […]
Word: banisht Part of Speech: verb 1. Obsolete spelling of banished; simple past and past participle of banish. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: Robert of Artoys banisht though thou be
Word: meet halfway Part of Speech: verb 1. To compromise; to achieve a mutual accommodation. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive Example: Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway. Example: In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill in the rest. 2. To compromise with or to accommodate. Labels: idiomatic, transitive Example: So please, dear, won't you let us come up and talk nicely together? . . . [W]e can get you out of this scrape if you will meet us halfway and be a nice sensible boy. Example: [T]imes are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet it halfway with the glad hand. 3. To settle (contrary opinions, etc.) by making concessions. Labels: idiomatic, rare, transitive Example: Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway."
Word: Bay Stater Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Bay State, a nickname name given to Massachusetts due to the geographical features of Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay and Narragansett Bay, + -er. 1. A native or resident of the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America.
Word: cave bear Part of Speech: noun 1. A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus. Example: The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos. Example: It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?
Word: play Nostradamus Part of Speech: verb 1. To predict, or to try to predict, the future.
Word: plays Nostradamus Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of play Nostradamus Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: playing Nostradamus Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of play Nostradamus Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: played Nostradamus Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of play Nostradamus Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: comparative linguist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Back-formation from comparative linguistics. 1. linguist whose field is comparative linguistics.
Word: no rights reserved Part of Speech: phrase Etymology: Modelled on earlier all rights reserved. 1. The owner of a work, or other copyright holder, releases the work into the public domain.
Word: air biscuit Part of Speech: noun 1. Flatus; an emission of digestive gases from the anus. Labels: slang
Word: trouser cough Part of Speech: noun 1. A flatus; an emission of digestive gases from the anus. Labels: euphemistic, humorous
Word: mordentes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of mordente Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palliative care Part of Speech: noun 1. A specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients. Labels: uncountable
Word: threatener Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From threaten + -er. 1. One who threatens. Example: If the threatenee says that the plan makes them feel safe, the threatener may come back into the mainstream of the school under the conditions of the plan.
Word: nexum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nexum. 1. A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).
Word: brown outs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brown out Labels: form-of, plural
Word: browns out Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of brown out Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: browning out Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of brown out Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: browned out Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of brown out Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: notabilia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Neuter plural of Latin notabilis (“notable”). 1. Things or people worthy of notice. Labels: archaic, plural, plural-only
Word: notanda Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of notandum Labels: form-of, plural
Word: notandum Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin, from notare (“to observe”). 1. Something to be noted or observed; a notable fact. Labels: in-plural
Word: tyrociny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin tirocinium (“first service, trial”). Doublet of tirocinium. 1. The condition of being a tyro or beginner; apprenticeship. Labels: uncountable
Word: nubecula Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūbēcula, diminutive of nūbēs (“cloud”). 1. A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds. 2. A slight spot on the cornea. 3. A cloudy object or appearance in urine.
Word: nubeculae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nubecula Labels: form-of, plural
Word: numismata Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of numisma Labels: form-of, plural
Word: choreiform movement Part of Speech: noun 1. repetitive and rapid, jerky, involuntary movement that appears to be well-coordinated; often seen in Huntington's disease. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Xenaverse Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Xena + -verse. 1. The fictional universe depicted in the Xena: Warrior Princess series. Labels: slang Example: Guess things are different in the Xenaverse. Maybe Ares and the other gods don't like competition? Example: The show is an amazing foray into women's expressions of rage — there's a lot of other women in the Xenaverse with a penchant for feats of arms […] 2. The fandom of Xena: Warrior Princess. Labels: slang Example: Many wonderful people and events have come into our lives from being part of the Xenaverse. Example: The task of mapping the online Xenaverse is, of course, an impossible one. The Xenaverse is too expansive, too unstructured, too fluid and fast moving to be charted; […]
Word: objicient Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin obiiciēns, present participle of obiiciō (“to object”). Pronunciation: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɪʃənt/, /ɒbˈd͡ʒɪsiənt/ 1. One who makes objection; an objector. Labels: obsolete Example: To this objection, my answer stands as might be expected, admitting my own major, and denying the minor which the objicient has appended to it.
Word: HS1 Part of Speech: name 1. Initialism of High Speed 1, a high-speed railway between London and the Channel Tunnel. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: playoff beard Part of Speech: noun 1. A beard grown by members of a sports team as a sign of unity or good luck during the postseason. Labels: Canada, US Example: In the closing credits of the documentary, Boston players were asked to rate and rank the best playoff beards on the team.
Word: pænultimate Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of penultimate. Labels: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable Example: […] pereiopods 5 — 7 slender, with slender, drepaniform fingers, and with the pænultimate joints each provided with a spine on the hind margin […] Example: Whether the manuscripts were ‘Original’ or simply copies, the last half of the statement is certainly true, since this edition first prints a version of “for a’ that,” called “the bonniest lass” in ed. 1959, p. 69, which all critics agree is unquestionably by Burns, and which is, in that case, the closest he ever came to an apology or tu quoque for his erotic songs, in the pænultimate chorus on King Solomon: ‘The smuttiest sang that e’er was sung, his Sang o’ Sangs is a’ that.’
Word: pathognomonics Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of characteristic indications (pathognomonic signs) of particular diseases. Labels: uncountable Example: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
Word: æsculin Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of esculin. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: procatarctic Part of Speech: adj 1. Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. Labels: not-comparable 2. Descriptive of an existing condition or state that caused, predisposed for or excited a present condition. Labels: not-comparable Example: Procatarctic cause, called also primitive and incipient cause, is either an occasion which of its own nature does not beget a disease, but, happening on a body inclined to diseases, breeds a fever, gout &c. (such as are watching, fasting, and the like); or an evident and manifest cause, which immediately produces the disease, as being sufficient thereto, such as is a sword in respect to a wound.
Word: procatarctics Part of Speech: noun 1. The study of procatarctic causes. Labels: uncountable Example: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
Word: etiologics Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of aetiologics. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: aetiologics Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From aetiology + -ics. 1. The study of aetiologies. Labels: uncountable
Word: ætiologics Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of aetiologics. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Example: Without that, 'tis vain to harangue the world with the formal and formidable pomp of ætiologics, pathognomonics, procatarctics, prognostics...
Word: aetiologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aetiology + -ic. 1. Of or pertaining to an aetiology. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Œdipal Part of Speech: adj 1. Obsolete spelling of Oedipal. Labels: alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete
Word: stœchiometry Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of stoichiometry. Labels: alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: It is possible to know something of theoretical chemistry, and to even do some successful and correct laboratory work in chemistry by strictly obeying the directions laid down in reliable books, without possessing a thorough mastery of the construction and use of chemical equations and of stœchiometry ; but the chemical work done by operators who can not of their own knowledge and skill write and balance chemical equations and make correct stœchiometric calculations must always be untrustworthy.
Word: kneeling chairs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kneeling chair Labels: form-of, plural
Word: didie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Alteration of diaper. Attested from the early 20th century. Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.di/ 1. A diaper. Labels: Canada, US, childish Example: I looked the baby over, and then suggested to the mother that she take his “didy” off, at which she remarked, “Doctor, there is no trouble there; the child has been circumcised.” Nevertheless, I insisted upon seeing the little fellow’s penis Example: Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.
Word: Rhætians Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Rhætian Labels: form-of, plural Example: Tiberius under your lucky Auſpices, in a pitch’d Battle, attacked the formidable Rhætians, and cut them to Pieces.
Word: officinae Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin officīnae. 1. plural of officina Labels: form-of, plural
Word: officinas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of officina Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Hamite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ham + -ite. Coined in the first half of the 19th century along with Semite and Japhetite and the adjectives Hamitic, Semitic, Japhetitic. 1. A descendant of Ham, son of Noah, a member of the nations or peoples supposedly descended from Ham, i.e. the North African and the Horn African peoples. Example: And when in history he was taught about the Africans as Hamites who had been cursed by Noah, everything including his family, his people and the priests fell into place.
Word: Hamites Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Hamite Labels: form-of, plural
Word: orsum Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of awesome. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, alt-of, alternative, especially, slang Example: I'm absolutelly effing orsum. Example: fucken orsum weekend, with no liquor ban... cops not pulling anyone over for doing skids in the street etc.
Word: -ites Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From -ite + -s (regular plural suffix). Pronunciation: /-aɪts/ 1. plural of -ite Labels: form-of, morpheme, plural
Word: -ites Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: Analoguous to words such as thesis (whose plural is theses). Pronunciation: /-ˈaɪtiːz/ 1. plural of -itis Labels: form-of, morpheme, plural, rare Example: conjunctivitis → conjunctivitises Example: appendicitis → appendicites
Word: GTIN Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of global trade item number. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: GTINs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of GTIN Labels: form-of, plural
Word: super injunction Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of super-injunction. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: superinjunction Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of super-injunction. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gatch Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Named after Willis Dew Gatch. 1. To arrange (a patient's bed) so that its sections bend at the joints, to assist blood flow etc. Labels: transitive Example: If the bed is to be gatched, the board must be hinged, or two or more boards must be used with breaks correctly placed. Example: Answer 1 is incorrect because gatching the bed in the area of the knees reduces venous return.
Word: gatch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Persian [Term?]. 1. A form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia. Labels: uncountable
Word: wedmin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of wedding + admin. 1. The administration and planning associated with a wedding. Labels: informal, rare, uncountable