nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: plum trees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of plum tree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unshape Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + shape. 1. To deprive of shape; throw out of form or into disorder. Labels: transitive 2. To confound; derange. Labels: transitive
Word: unshapen Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Past participle of unshape. 1. Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
Word: unshapen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Past participle of unshape. 1. past participle of unshape Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unshapen Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + shapen. 1. Synonym of unshape. Labels: rare Example: In determining this matter by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while the lower ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees. Example: In the gap of twenty years between girl and woman, what devastating life forces might have been at work, wiping bloom from cheek, dulling gleam from eves, distorting lips, smiting haggard lines on face, hardening or unshapening sweet and beloved contours, hardening, too, the mind, drying up the heart, arresting the development of the soul?
Word: unsightable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + sight + -able. 1. Invisible.
Word: glue gun Part of Speech: noun 1. Any gun-shaped device used to apply glue. 2. A hot glue gun.
Word: unright Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unright, unriȝt, unriht, from Old English unriht (“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”), equivalent to un- (“absence of”) + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“wrongdoing, injustice”), Dutch onrecht (“injustice, inequity, wrong”), German Unrecht (“injustice”), Swedish orätt (“injustice, wrong, sin”). 1. That which is not right; wrong; injustice. Labels: archaic, uncountable, usually
Word: unright Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English unrighten, from unright (“unright”, adj.). 1. To make wrong. Labels: transitive
Word: unright Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right. 1. wrong
Word: unright Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English unright, unrighte, from Old English unrihte (“wrongly, crookedly, unjustly”), equivalent to un- + right. 1. Wrongly. Labels: archaic, obsolete
Word: half blood Part of Speech: noun 1. A person who shares one parent with another; a half-sibling. 2. Someone whose parents are of different races; a half-breed.
Word: half bloods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of half blood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: half-blood Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From half- + blood. 1. Related by sharing descent from one parent. Labels: not-comparable
Word: half-blood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From half- + blood. 1. Alternative form of half blood. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
Word: step-sibling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stepsibling. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Northern Wintun (16a) utilizes a term, also applied to co-wife or co-husband, which signifies parallel cousin of like sex and step-sibling of like sex; the four usual sibling terms are also employed.
Word: step-siblings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of step-sibling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unrespect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + respect. 1. A lack or absence of respect, reverence, or courteous behaviour; disrespect; disesteem. Labels: uncountable Example: Passionate with rains and sunshine, and, unheard, Have audience of your voices, but as one Who in a temple passes unrespect Between the kneeling suppliant and the saint, Meeting the uplifted face and the rapt eyes That look beyond? Example: Didyou not but yesterday prostrate upon the ground the young man for that he speak with unrespect of your Vashintone?
Word: unrepair Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + repair. 1. An unsound state, as that of a building; dilapidation. Labels: uncountable
Word: fundoshi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 褌 (fundoshi). 1. A traditional Japanese men's and women's undergarment made from a length of cotton.
Word: M16 Part of Speech: name Etymology: From M16 0RA, the postcode of Old Trafford football ground. 1. Old Trafford, or (by extension) Manchester United generally. Labels: metonymically Example: These were the sort of words which would endear any player to United fans, particularly the news that he had snubbed their most bitter rivals for a move to M16. Example: It cost Louis van Gaal dearly, too. His two-year stay in M16 drew to a close.
Word: M16 Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From M16 0RA, the postcode of Old Trafford football ground. 1. Alternative form of M-16. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: upsend Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + send. Cognate with Scots upsend (“to ascend”), Dutch opzenden (“to redirect, forward”), Low German upsenden (“to send up, deliver (mail)”), Swedish uppsända (“to offer up”). 1. To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit. Labels: archaic, transitive Example: And now upsend afar a deaf'ning shout [...] Example: Hermes and Earth and Thou, Monarch of Hades, do ye now His spirit to the light upsend; [...] 2. To ascend; climb up. Labels: Scotland, US, intransitive Example: But when the sun of the fifth day had risen, The Keepers of the Faith, upon a pyre Built near the council-house, with solemn rites Burnt the White Dog, upsending with the smoke The message of their loyalty and thanks.
Word: upsend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English upsenden, equivalent to up- + send. Cognate with Scots upsend (“to ascend”), Dutch opzenden (“to redirect, forward”), Low German upsenden (“to send up, deliver (mail)”), Swedish uppsända (“to offer up”). 1. The ability to send up, or transmit. Labels: uncountable Example: The Trans-Vista 2000 offers Mosler options like upsend capability, automatic carrier return and fast, accurate customer identification. Example: For example, with a variety of upsend and downsend customer units, and upsend and downsend teller units, we can mix-and-match standard components to create the custom configuration designed to best meet your unique operational […]
Word: upseek Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + seek. Cognate with Dutch opzoeken (“to visit, search, seek out”), German aufsuchen (“to visit, go to, see”). 1. To seek or strain upward. Labels: intransitive
Word: FN-FAL Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of Fabrique Nationale - Fusil Automatique Léger 1. The NATO standard assault rifle.
Word: FN FAL Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of FN-FAL. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: FAL Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Initialism of Fusil Automatique Léger. 1. FN-FAL (the NATO standard rifle)
Word: footbinding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From foot + binding. 1. The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: More recent studies have shown that foot-binding was likely practiced not purely for the sake of marriage, but also to keep girls at home and engaged in handicrafts, such as spinning cotton, in order to contribute to their family’s income. 2. The material used to bind feet for this reason. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: cocite Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From co- + cite. 1. To cite along with another
Word: Fn Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of fn (“function”). Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: a good deed is its own reward Part of Speech: proverb 1. One should not expect a reward for good deeds, but should perform them merely for the satisfaction of doing so.
Word: creative energy Part of Speech: noun 1. creativity Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: insalivate Part of Speech: verb 1. To mix with saliva, as when eating. Labels: transitive Example: The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.
Word: bromelain Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From translingual Bromelia + -in with simplification. 1. Either of two proteolytic enzymes, found in pineapples, that are used as meat tenderizers. Example: I let her in and left her sitting on the sofa while I microwaved some Chinese rice and poured pineapple juice into a glass. It was her comfort meal – grease and bromelain. She had often lectured me on pineapple’s anti-inflammatory properties, how it helped prevent cataracts and heart disease.
Word: duopsony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: By analogy with monopsony based on Ancient Greek δύο (dúo, “two”) + ὀψωνία (opsōnía, “purchase”). 1. An economic condition in which two buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity. Example: In this paper we will utilise a simple Hotelling-style duopsony model of the labour market to analyse the link between gender differences in mobility patterns, the gender pay gap, and Robinsonian discrimination.
Word: bunches of fives Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bunch of fives Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uprun Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + run. 1. To run up; ascend. Labels: transitive
Word: uprouse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + rouse. 1. To rouse up; rouse from sleep; awake; arouse. Labels: transitive
Word: uprootal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From uproot + -al. 1. The act or process of uprooting; the state of being uprooted. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Surely even the most uncompromising of those marching under the banner of civilisation must hesitate before they condemn this deep-rooted system to instant uprootal.
Word: uproll Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + roll. Compare Dutch oprollen (“to roll up”), German aufrollen (“to roll up”). 1. To roll up. Labels: transitive
Word: uprist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English uprist, opriste, from Old English *ūprist (“uprising”), from *upp (“up”) + *ristiz (“ascension, rise”); equivalent to up- + Old English rist (“a rising”). Compare Old English ǣrist (“rising, rising up, resurrection, awakening”), Old High German urrist (“resurrection”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (urrists, “resurrection”). 1. Uprising. Labels: obsolete 2. The Resurrection. Labels: obsolete
Word: suplexes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of suplex Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kidney vetch Part of Speech: noun 1. A medicinal plant, of species Anthyllis vulneraria, in the pea family.
Word: robinia Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name. 1. Any member of the genus Robinia. Example: The remarkable feature of the woody planting at Buttes-Chaumont is the ‘profuse use’ of silver-leafed cedars, yellow-leafed robinias and copper-leafed beech trees.
Word: quick on the draw Part of Speech: adj 1. Characterized by rapid response, as to a verbal remark or to a new situation; quick to act. Labels: idiomatic Example: Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best. Example: Quick on the draw with a slogan, Mr. Mandelson said he would create a project deserving cheers, not jeers, and promptly changed the sinister-sounding name of the publicly owned managing company, Millennium Central.
Word: rache Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of rach. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: raches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of rach Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bromelains Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bromelain Labels: form-of, plural
Word: leptins Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of leptin Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loose lip Part of Speech: noun 1. The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential. Labels: idiomatic Example: Loose lips might sink ships. Example: In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. . . . Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into a fat one.
Word: integraph Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of integral + graph. Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹɑːf/, /ˈɪn.təˌɡɹæf/ 1. A device that determines the value of an integral by measuring the area under a curve (and drawing the curve of its integral)
Word: put lipstick on a pig Part of Speech: verb 1. To superficially alter something in the hope of making it seem more appealing than it is in actuality. Labels: idiomatic, slang Example: Near-synonyms: polish a turd, sugarcoat the pill Example: That new box is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still the same buggy program inside.
Word: chesterfield rugby Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chesterfield, a generic term for "sofa" in Canadian English, and rugby, a contact sport, alluding to the physical nature of sex. 1. Sexual activity. Labels: Canada, euphemistic, idiomatic, uncountable Example: As to necking and petting, as a kind of part time recreation, frankly, it's a failure. You'll do better to dance together or play tennis than to use up all that ebulience in what we used to call chesterfield rugby. Example: "There are so many adults with fitness problems today because, other than a little chesterfield rugby, they never exercise," said Allan Little, Edmonton YMCA supervisor.
Word: lese majeste Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lèse-majesté. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: And that movement, while it was eventually crushed through the extensive use of the draconian lese majeste law, shattered the taboo, by calling openly, for the first time, for the powers and financing of the monarchy to be accountable.
Word: knock boots Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps from the notion that boots placed beneath one's bed knock one another due to the shaking of the bed during sex. 1. To have sexual intercourse, especially recreationally if not casually. Labels: euphemistic, slang Example: You ain't knocking boots/ You ain't treating me like no prostitute Example: Of course they fall madly and deeply in love, as Biker Dude learns to respect a girl who won't knock boots on the first date.
Word: bump nasties Part of Speech: verb 1. Synonym of bump uglies. Labels: slang, vulgar Example: I told her it better not be those losers Felipe or Marco or even Chupo, because he had kind of a temper when he got drunk, but that she had my blessing to go and bump nasties with Pedro anytime she liked […]
Word: samlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Either a contraction of salmon + -let or a modification of earlier salmonet either on that basis or with dissimilation of /mn/ (as in chimley, a common dialectal form of chimney). Pronunciation: /ˈsamlət/ 1. A young salmon. Example: Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
Word: samlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of samlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: gemel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛməl/ 1. A twin (also attributively). Labels: archaic Example: half a million which Demon considered henceforth as a loan his cousin should certainly refund him if sanity counted for something on this gemel planet. 2. One of a pair of small bars placed together. Example: two gemells silver between two griffins passant 3. A finger ring which splits into two horizontally. Labels: historical 4. A pair of trees that fuse together, or are contained in the same trunk.
Word: gemel Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛməl/ 1. Coupled; paired. Labels: not-comparable Example: A bar gemel / Two bars gemels, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.
Word: gemels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gemel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lunel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Lunel, a town in southern France. Pronunciation: /luːˈnɛl/ 1. A type of sweet muscat wine. Labels: uncountable Example: Van looked through his raised lunel at the honeyed sun.
Word: lunel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French lunel, a heraldic term based on lune (“moon”). Compare Spanish lunel, Italian lunello. 1. A charge formed by four crescents in cross with their horns pointing inwards.
Word: proofs by contradiction Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of proof by contradiction Labels: form-of, plural
Word: uphelm Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From up- + helm. 1. To put the helm to windward. Labels: intransitive
Word: roboroach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From robo- + roach. 1. A cockroach that is part organic and part machine; a cyborg cockroach.
Word: roboroaches Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of roboroach Labels: form-of, plural
Word: turrible Part of Speech: adj 1. Pronunciation spelling of terrible. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Word: turrible Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of terrible. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: "It's turrible purty," observed Jim; and so it was.
Word: interfoliate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From inter- + Latin folium (“leaf”). 1. Between leaves or leaf-like structures. Labels: not-comparable Example: Another interesting feature in the species before us is the presence of interfoliate scars similar to those of other species of Sigillaria, especially the Tessellata and Facularia groups. Example: The layers are separated by gaps, the interfoliate spaces. The ensemble consituted by a layer and an interfoliate space constitutes the structural unit of clay.
Word: interfoliate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From inter- + Latin folium (“leaf”). 1. To interleave. Example: August 7 1696, John Evelyn, letter to Mr. Place I will take care to send you with my interfoliated copy Example: interfoliating her narratives with descriptions of her troubles with her dress, chafed feet, sweating,
Word: ritsu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Japanese 律 (ritsu). 1. An anhemitonic pentatonic scale used in a Japanese Buddhist chant, and built up by intervals of major second, minor third, major second, major second, minor third. Labels: uncountable
Word: Buridan's Ass Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Buridan's ass (“the hypothetical donkey who is the subject of a philosophical paradox concerning choices of equal value”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Buridan is best-known to philosophers for the example of "Buridan's Ass," starving to death between two equidistant and equally tempting bales of hay, [...] Example: They remain like Buridan's Ass, in a kind of frozen indecisiveness, between total freedom and total regulation.
Word: runestone Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *rūnābor.? Proto-Germanic *rūnō Proto-Germanic *rūnǭ Proto-Norse ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo) Old Norse rúnbor. English rune Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos Proto-Germanic *stainaz Proto-West Germanic *stain Old English stān Middle English ston English stone English runestone From rune + stone. Pronunciation: /ˈɹunˌstoʊn/ 1. An ancient monument consisting of a typically raised stone with a runic inscription. 2. A small tile-shaped stone or tablet with a single rune inscribed on it, used for divinatory and esoteric purposes.
Word: runestones Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of runestone Labels: form-of, plural
Word: antispatter Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + spatter. 1. Preventing spattering. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some cleaners also will spray or dip the nozzle into antispatter material to reduce the frequency of cleaning required.
Word: dacryostenosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dacryo- + stenosis. 1. Obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct. Labels: uncountable
Word: hetsex Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Clipping of heterosexual. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛtsɛks/ 1. Heterosexual. Labels: informal, not-comparable Example: Certainly in the Fleet, with its emphasis on tolerance and so on, with its prohibition of any kind of xenophobe, I like to think that same-sex pairings, as long as they didn't violate, say, the officer/enlisted rule, or the rule against harrassment^([sic])/stalking, would be tolerated as much as het-sex pairings.
Word: hetsex Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of heterosexual. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛtsɛks/ 1. Heterosexual sexual intercourse. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: Specifically, when you tell a gay man he just hasn't met the right woman, and should try hetsex to see what it's like, or when you imply that it's inferior not to like both sexes, you're starting from an assumption that everybody likes hetsex since it's such a wonderful thing, etc., etc. Example: The problem with an overly broad definition of rape is that it creates a slippery slope. If you can really convince a young man that any act of hetsex is rape, you blur the line and increase the probability that he will consider the question of consent irrelevant.
Word: windblast Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From wind + blast. 1. A sudden rush of air or gas; often, such a blast due to the collapse of a void, especially in mining. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: windblasts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of windblast Labels: form-of, plural
Word: romset Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From ROM + set. 1. A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game. Example: I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries). Example: You are right re the romsets, MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.
Word: romsets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of romset Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aguinaldo Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo. Pronunciation: /ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/ 1. A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A gift given on any other holiday or occasion. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A Christmas carol. Labels: Latin-America, countable, uncountable 5. A song performed in this style. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro. 6. A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: aguinaldos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aguinaldo Labels: form-of, plural
Word: brookie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From brook + -ie (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʊki/ 1. A brook trout. Labels: informal Example: The brookie Bill dismissed as “another small one” was 16 inches long, thick and weighed about two pounds.
Word: brookie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of brownie + cookie. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʊki/ 1. A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie. Example: We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively). Example: They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).
Word: brookie Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʊki/ 1. Short pants; shorts. Labels: South-Africa Example: And the few skirts which are past remaking are carefully cut down into small brookies for the young hopeful, who will get the last ounce of wear out of them. Example: […] you cannot do a poopy in your brookie, […]
Word: brookies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of brookie Labels: form-of, plural
Word: squaretail Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From square + tail. 1. A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans. 2. The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America. Labels: Maine
Word: squaretails Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of squaretail Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hutongs Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of hutong Labels: form-of, plural
Word: midstorm Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mid- + storm. 1. During a storm. Labels: not-comparable
Word: midstorm Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From mid- + storm. 1. During a storm. Labels: not-comparable
Word: midstorm Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mid- + storm. 1. A point in time during a storm. Labels: uncountable Example: Sometimes we had to stop in midstream and midstorm because the sheets of rain made the passages between rocks invisible. Example: These gusts are responsible for the many recorded incidents of wind-measuring devices disappearing from weather bureau roofs in midstorm.
Word: Orrin Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from Irish of obscure origin, possibly a variant of Oren or Oran. Example: During the press conference, Orrin Hatch and the others spoke very graciously about our extraordinary efforts in getting this bill passed […] Example: On June 3, 1931, she married Orrin Frink, Jr., who had joined the mathematics faculty at Penn State in 1928 as an assistant professor.
Word: outgrossed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of outgross Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: outgrosses Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outgross Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outgrossing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outgross Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squeeing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squee Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squeed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of squee Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: spaceling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From space + -ling. 1. A creature from outer space. Example: Thanks to the latest graphics technology, almost all of those spacelings will be ready for their close-ups.
Word: spacelings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of spaceling Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unmatted Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. simple past and past participle of unmat Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unmatted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + matted. 1. Not matted. Example: Instead of spending hours untangling hair, they could bond with friendly conversation (“Your hair looks so unmatted today!”) or by picking apart someone else’s behavior (“Yeah, he was supposed to share the wildebeest, but I heard he kept both haunches”).
Word: cedary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From cedar + -y. 1. Resembling or characteristic of cedar. Example: Many of the 25 the wine panel tasted also exhibited vegetal, cedary, herbaceous, roasted and crushed-fruit flavors.
Word: Cyprus cedar Part of Speech: noun 1. Cedrus brevifolia, a conifer native to central Cyprus.
Word: cypselae Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cypsela Labels: form-of, plural
Word: cypselas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of cypsela Labels: form-of, plural
Word: synantherologist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From synantherology + -ist. 1. One who studies or practises synantherology.
Word: synantherologists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of synantherologist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kashkaval Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قاشقوال (kaşkaval), from Sicilian cascavaḍḍu. Doublet of caciocavallo. 1. A group of various traditional yellow cheeses from Turkey and the Balkans. Labels: uncountable Example: Serve plain, or with a tangy cheese such as kashkaval, kasseri or Manchego.
Word: oversauce Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From over- + sauce. 1. To cover (food) with too much sauce. Labels: transitive Example: I am not suggesting that we return to oversauced baked ziti with sausages, mozzarella-laden lasagna or spaghetti under three handball-size meatballs.
Word: oversauces Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of oversauce Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: oversaucing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of oversauce Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: oversauced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of oversauce Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: datacaster Part of Speech: noun 1. A broadcaster of datacasts. Example: However, a datacaster can transmit a category A or B program, provided it is no longer than ten minutes in duration and is not combined with another category A or B program, respectively, which would constitute a program longer than ten minutes.
Word: datacasters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of datacaster Labels: form-of, plural
Word: oversaturations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of oversaturation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: advancedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From advanced + -ness. 1. The quality of being advanced. Labels: uncountable
Word: pictorialist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pictorial + -ist. 1. An artist working in the style of pictorialism. 2. One who subscribes to the theory of pictorialism regarding mental imagery.
Word: pictorialist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From pictorial + -ist. 1. In the style of pictorialism. Example: Steichen’s pictorialist period ended in 1917, when he joined the United States Army and created an aerial photography unit in northern France to gather intelligence about artillery positions and troop movements behind enemy lines.
Word: pictorialists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pictorialist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sawdusty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From sawdust + -y. 1. Resembling, or covered in, sawdust. Example: SWEE PHUAH, the contractor for the new Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village that David Chang expects to open next week, pointed at the speakers in what was still a sawdusty construction site a few weeks ago.
Word: semiconfessional Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From semi- + confessional. 1. Somewhat confessional. Labels: not-comparable Example: These semiconfessional jags are riveting theater because they come with a built-in mystery.
Word: tilefishes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tilefish Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undersalt Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + salt. 1. To season (food) with too little salt. Labels: transitive Example: We also learned we overcooked it, undersalted the water and often used the wrong shape.
Word: undersalted Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of undersalt Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: undersalting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of undersalt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unbarbed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + barbed. 1. Not barbed. Labels: not-comparable Example: But now there is tuna from small, family-run companies that ply the Pacific, mostly off northern California, Oregon and Washington, and catch the fish using rods with unbarbed hooks, not vast nets, so there is no unwanted “by-catch.”
Word: unbarbed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unbarb Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: bloodedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blooded + -ness. 1. The quality of having blood of a particular kind. Labels: in-compounds, uncountable Example: warm-bloodedness; full-bloodedness
Word: earnout Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From earn + out. 1. A formula by which the management of a company earns a share of the company's share capital by achieving results above pre-determined levels. Example: The earnout was definitely getting in the way of running Skype the way we wanted to run it.
Word: earnouts Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of earnout Labels: form-of, plural
Word: palenque Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish Palenque, the name of a maroon settlement in Colombia, from palenque (“palisade”). 1. A community of runaway slaves. Labels: historical Example: Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day.
Word: palenques Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palenque Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unpiece Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + piece. 1. To disassemble piece by piece. Labels: transitive Example: While almost anyone who’s watched a TLC rehab show can rip out a kitchen cabinet, unpiecing an entire house without having the roof collapse isn’t a job for the uninitiated.
Word: unpieced Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unpiece Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unpiecing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unpiece Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wooferless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From woofer + -less. 1. Without a woofer (bass speaker). Labels: not-comparable Example: Bose’s answer to this problem is the wooferless $399 Computer MusicMonitor system.
Word: aquamanile Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin aquamanile, from Latin aqua (“water”), and the root of manus (“hand”). 1. A ewer or jug-like vessel, shaped like an animal or human figure, used for washing the hands. Labels: historical Example: Among the medieval treasures at Blumka are a lion aquamanile, a vessel used by priests for ceremonial hand washing, with a magnificent tufted tail.
Word: aquamaniles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aquamanile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aquamanilia Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of aquamanile Labels: form-of, plural
Word: waterplay Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From water + play. 1. Any form of playing with water. Labels: uncountable Example: Some children cannot bear the feel of water on their skin, which has obvious practical problems as well as hindering the possibilities of waterplay.
Word: waterplanes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of waterplane Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nasolacrimal duct Part of Speech: noun 1. a duct that transmits tears from the lacrimal sac to the inferior meatus of the nose
Word: nasopharynxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nasopharynx Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nasopharynges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nasopharynx Labels: form-of, plural
Word: phascogales Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of phascogale Labels: form-of, plural
Word: dasyurids Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dasyurid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sharehouse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From share + house. 1. A house shared by several inhabitants (but not a family unit).
Word: sharehouses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sharehouse Labels: form-of, plural
Word: billboarding Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique in three-dimensional graphics in which a sprite is rendered perpendicular to the camera without respect to camera movement. Labels: uncountable Example: Early first-person shooter games used billboarding for enemies rather than full character models.
Word: billboarding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of billboard Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chrismatory Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English crismatorie, from Medieval Latin chrismatōrium, from chrisma, crisma (“chrism”). 1. Part of a church set aside for the rite of confirmation. 2. A globular ampulla or jar used to hold chrism. Example: Like the pleurant an Anglo-Saxon chrismatory (a container for items used in the sacraments) from the eighth or ninth century is a wonder of survival and craftsmanship.
Word: chrismatories Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of chrismatory Labels: form-of, plural
Word: hyperqualified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From hyper- + qualified. 1. Very highly qualified. Example: For months, the congressman has cultivated the rural areas where he lost in 2003, “witnessing” in remote Pentecostal churches, neutralizing his image of being hyperqualified — head of the state health department at 24, head of the university system at 28 and under secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services at 30 under President Bush — that did not help him the last time.
Word: pleurants Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pleurant Labels: form-of, plural
Word: underplantings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of underplanting Labels: form-of, plural
Word: culturist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English culturist From culture + -ist. 1. One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator. Example: Steve Dolan is an assistant manager and fish culturist at the Salmon River Hatchery in Altmar, outside Syracuse, where Lake Ontario’s king salmon are raised. 2. An advocate of culture. Example: The Culturists, again — by which term I mean not those who esteem culture, (as what intelligent man does not?) but those, its exclusive advocates, who recommend it as the one panacea for all the ills of humanity, — the Culturists are never done insisting that it is not for its utilitarian results, not for the technical skill and information it implies, nor for the professional success it may secure, that they value culture, but for its effect in elevating the whole man. 3. One who holds prejudices against a culture.
Word: culturist Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English culturist From culture + -ist. 1. Holding prejudices against a culture. Example: All of these right-wing extremist parties can be described as culturist or new racist, as they all emphasize cultural rather than racial differences between groups.
Word: culturists Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of culturist Labels: form-of, plural
Word: entireties Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of entirety Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fabulism Part of Speech: noun 1. A literary form in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: sylphide Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of sylphid Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina … was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets … Example: William Sharp had the fleeting part of Zulim, and Ah Young Hong showed a lovely voice with round, soft low notes and a sugar-sweet top as a nymph and a sylphide.
Word: sylphides Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sylphide Labels: form-of, plural
Word: syllogized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of syllogize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: syllogizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of syllogize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unswirl Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From un- + swirl. 1. To resolve or restraighten (something previously swirled). Labels: transitive Example: The overlapping arm action of the crawl stroke allows a swimmer to feel the oncoming flow of water advance along the entry arm at the same time as the opposite arm is unswirling the flow from the hand and forearm at the finish of its stroke. Example: On Friday, the Thai police said he was under arrest and charged as a pedophile after computer experts had unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.
Word: unswirling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unswirl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unswirled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unswirl Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unswirled Part of Speech: adj 1. Not having been swirled. Labels: not-comparable
Word: winnowings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of winnowing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: boutiquelike Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From boutique + -like. 1. Resembling or characteristic of a boutique. Example: The boutiquelike areas extend beyond the main selling area to other corners of the store.
Word: commanderess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commander + -ess. 1. A female commander. Labels: rare Example: Her political hucksters and Power Pointers are trying to help the New York senator blur the line between “male” and “female” enough to become the first commanderess in chief.
Word: commanderesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commanderess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: commandress Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From commander + -ess. 1. Alternative form of commanderess. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: commandresses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of commandress Labels: form-of, plural
Word: crackerbox Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cracker + box, suggesting a square package of biscuits. 1. An uncomfortably small and boxy house or car. Labels: Canada, US, derogatory, sometimes Example: It’s the same with the Subaru Impreza WRX. With apologies to its zealous owners — their vision was apparently too clouded by speed to notice — the original WRX was one of the homeliest cars around, a budget crackerbox in a high-performance Halloween costume.
Word: crackerboxes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of crackerbox Labels: form-of, plural
Word: depetal Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From de- + petal. 1. To strip of petals. Labels: transitive Example: Across from it is “Danaë,” in which a giant blackened depetaled sunflower emerges from a pile of lead books.
Word: depetals Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of depetal Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: depetalling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of depetal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: depetalled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of depetal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: fabulations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fabulation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: fetishistically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From fetishistic + -ally. 1. In a fetishistic manner. Example: Fortunately, their nicknames give them away: All are figures associated with the Mafia, that fetishistically documented secret society responsible for long-ago crime waves, more recent cinematic masterpieces and, above all, an enduring modern marketing bonanza. Example: First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.
Word: depetaled Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of depetal Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: depetaling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of depetal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: macrotrend Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From macro- + trend. 1. A large-scale trend. Example: That would be corporate marketers and Hillary Marketers (more of a macrotrend).
Word: macrotrends Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of macrotrend Labels: form-of, plural
Word: megawealth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mega- + wealth. 1. Very great wealth. Labels: informal, uncountable Example: In our time, Krugman argues, the malefactors of megawealth have triumphed.
Word: meliorating Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of meliorate Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: meliorator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From meliorate + -or. 1. One who meliorates; an improver. Example: Who can fault Ralph Waldo Emerson for observing that “the greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade?”
Word: meliorators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of meliorator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: microeconomy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From micro- + economy. 1. A very small economy. Example: Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what later military leaders would call command isolation.
Word: microeconomies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microeconomy Labels: form-of, plural
Word: monsignors Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of monsignor Labels: form-of, plural
Word: multiplicious Part of Speech: adj 1. Manifold; exhibiting multiplicity. Example: Some of them are polemical, our reviewer, Joel Brouwer, said, but “Reed’s best poems conjure up a vertiginous, multiplicious, irresolvable and thrilling world.”
Word: nonworkaholic Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From non- + workaholic. 1. One who is not a workaholic. Example: A. The nonworkaholic knows how to set boundaries. Ms. Fassel said: “Many of us at various times in our life have to work very long hours, but we have the internal regulator that says, ‘This has gone on long enough.’”
Word: nonworkaholics Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of nonworkaholic Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chocolateless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From chocolate + -less. 1. Without chocolate. Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: She had spent days toiling over her chocolateless chocolate cake.
Word: noteless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From note + -less. 1. Without a note or notes. Labels: not-comparable Example: a noteless suicide Example: When it was Lebewohl’s turn, he got up, noteless, and looked at the audience. 2. Not attracting notice; inconspicuous. Labels: dated, not-comparable Example: Noteless as the race from which he sprung.
Word: noteless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From note + -less. 1. Of no worth or profit; useless; unprofitable; of no note; unnoteful. Example: Noteless dealings
Word: overlegalization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From over- + legalization. 1. Excessive legalization. Labels: uncountable Example: “The ability of governments to govern is being compromised by the overlegalization of Israeli society,” said Gidi Grinstein, who runs an independent research center, the Reut Institute.
Word: overlearnt Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overlearn Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: playsheet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From play + sheet. 1. A sheet of paper outlining a team's game plan. Example: Seahawks Coach Mike Holmgren was not happy when NBC showed a close-up of his playsheet during last week’s loss to the Saints, but it was probably time for a new one — the Seahawks (3-3) have scored only 17 points in their past two games.
Word: playsheets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of playsheet Labels: form-of, plural