nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: yachtsfolk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From yacht + -s- + folk. 1. People who spend time on yachts. Labels: informal, plural, plural-only
Word: palm-tree Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of palm tree. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: palm-trees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of palm-tree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: witcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From witch + -er, from the popular belief that dowsing was a supernatural act. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/ 1. A dowser.
Word: witcher Part of Speech: contraction Etymology: Contraction of with + your. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/ 1. Pronunciation spelling of with your. Labels: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Example: ... an' t'hell witcher ponies I says Example: And Wiltz said, 'Come on witcher conversation, Mr. Avery. Come on witcher conversation.'
Word: witcher Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From witch + -er, a male equivalent of witch using the -er suffix as masculine, as in widower vs. widow, a calque of Polish wiedźmin. Possibly influenced by witchery. The Polish word was coined in 1986 by author Andrzej Sapkowski as a male equivalent of wiedźma (“witch”) for his The Witcher book series and media franchise. The English calque witcher was popularized by the series' English translation. Pronunciation: /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/ 1. A male witch; warlock. 2. A human who has undergone a controlled mutation so that he can kill monsters as a professional mercenary in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series.
Word: dring Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Dialectal variant of thring. 1. To press; squeeze; crowd; push. Labels: UK, dialectal, transitive
Word: dring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Dialectal variant of thring. 1. A throng; crowd. Labels: UK, dialectal 2. A narrow passage. Labels: UK, dialectal
Word: baker's Part of Speech: noun 1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baker, -'s.
Word: baker's Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop where bread and other baked food is sold.
Word: baker's Part of Speech: adj 1. Slightly supernumerary; a little more than. (Derived from baker's dozen.) Labels: not-comparable, rare Example: A baker's half-dozen of the best sorts, of proven merit, are Festiva maxima, the finest white; Couronne d'Or, a very late-flowering white; Felix Crousse, brilliant red; Mme. Crousse, white and crimson; Duchess de Nemours, sulphur white and fragrant; Marie Lemoine, ivory white; Delicatissima, crimson purple. Example: […] thirty, a baker's twenty-eight, presumably. We were all delighted, particularly the baker and the guide, the former refusing money.
Word: furrier's Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop that sells fur clothing.
Word: fishmonger's Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop that sells wet fish and seafood. Labels: UK, uncountable
Word: wet fish Part of Speech: noun 1. Fresh fish intended to be cooked. Labels: uncountable Example: [Plaice] is a difficult fish to manage, and in poor neighbourhoods an important one to manage well. The old hands make a profit out of it; new hands a loss. There’s not much cod or other wet fish sold to the poor, while plaice is in. Example: 2007, Virginia Ironside, review of You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson by Terence Blacker, Literary Review, April 2007, p. 39, Posing as [Henry] Root, a wildly right-wing wet-fish merchant, Donaldson wrote to a variety of political figures and celebrities […]
Word: gold mines Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of gold mine Labels: form-of, plural
Word: chrysography Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From chryso- + -graphy. 1. The use of gold lettering in manuscripts Labels: uncountable
Word: kgosi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *nkócì Tswana kgosibor. English kgosi Borrowed from Tswana kgosi (“chief, chieftain; king”), from Proto-Bantu *nkócì (“lion”). Doublet of inkosi. 1. A tribal chief among the Tswana people of southern Africa. Example: Then Rasebolai said that, as was customary, he would ask the visiting dikgosi to speak. Example: Botswana National Front President, Otsweletse Moupo said he had no doubt that Motshidisi would serve the Palapye community well as kgosi.
Word: ASLO Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Word: ASO Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of anti-streptolysin O. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 2. Abbreviation of antisense oligonucleotide. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable 3. Initialism of app store optimization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable 4. Initialism of AIDS service organization. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Example: The PEOPLE WITH AIDS who are the most important and needy clients of ASOs get shortchanged when education, "program development," and other such Volvo-era machinations suck up needed funding and energy. Example: To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.
Word: baise-mains Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of baisemains. Labels: alt-of, alternative, plural, plural-only
Word: baisemains Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French baisemains, from baiser (“to kiss”) + mains (“hands”). 1. respects; compliments Labels: obsolete, plural, plural-only
Word: streptolysin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From strepto- + lysin. 1. Any of various exotoxins that destroy red blood cells by breaking their membranes, and are produced by certain strains of streptococcus Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: task forces Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of task force Labels: form-of, plural
Word: mischieve Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English myscheven, from Old French meschever, from mes- + chever. Pronunciation: /mɪsˈtʃiːv/ 1. To destroy. Labels: obsolete 2. To damage, do harm to; to injure. Labels: Scotland Example: thenne sire Tristram wold make no lenger delayes but lasshed at sir Lamorak / & thus they foughte longe /[…]/ Thenne sir Tristram seid to sir Lamorak in alle my lyf mette I neuer with suche a knyght that was soo bygge and well brethed as ye be / therfore said syre Tristram hit were pyte / that ony of vs both shold here be meschyeued Example: I have read of Augustine, that once by wandring out of his way, he escaped one who lay in wait to mischieve him;
Word: lybard Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete spelling of leopard. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: thripple Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English, attested as a plural therrepillis. 1. A ladder-like extension fitted to the front, rear, and sometimes sides of a haywagon or other towed agricultural trailer so as to increase its capacity. Labels: UK, historical
Word: Heley Part of Speech: name 1. A surname.
Word: cohærent Part of Speech: adj 1. Archaic spelling of coherent. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: A treatiſe of truth, written in French, ſo highly prized beyond the ſeas, and (they ſay) it is extant at this day with great honour in the pope’s vatican ; and an hiſtory of king Henry the eighth ; wherein his collections are full and authentick ; his obſervation judicious ; his connexion ſtrong and cohærent, and the whole exact.
Word: BSCCO Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbɪskoʊ/ 1. Initialism of bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide, a high-temperature superconducting material. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: BSCCO wires are typically made by putting a powder inside a tube of silver that is then heated and drawn out.
Word: BSCCO Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ˈbɪskoʊ/ 1. Initialism of Balancing and Settlement Code Company, which administers the wholesale electricity balancing and settlement arrangements for Great Britain. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: YBCO Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of yttrium barium copper oxide: component elements used in the manufacture of one type of high-temperature superconducting material. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Example: "YBCO had other problems that early on left BSCCO in the driver's seat."
Word: douchey Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From douche + -y; see douche bag. 1. Characteristic of a douche (jerk) or douchebag; obnoxious. Labels: derogatory, slang, vulgar Example: So I have compiled some tips to help Harvard students act less douchey when they are faced with foreign situations this weekend. Example: Helms describes Andy as "a yacht-clubby guy who's a little douchey but still earnest."
Word: Douchey Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French [Term?]. Pronunciation: /du.ʃeɪ/ 1. A surname.
Word: et seqq. Part of Speech: phrase 1. Abbreviation of et sequentia; (of sequential things, such as pages and lists) and those which follow. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, uncommon
Word: braggy Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From brag + -y. 1. Prone to brag. Example: "'That was only getting the pumpkin ready,' says Bassett, braggy and cheerful. Example: He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
Word: paisano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Neapolitan paisano. Doublet of peasant. Pronunciation: /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/, /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/ 1. An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men. Labels: US
Word: paisano Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish paisano. Doublet of peasant. Pronunciation: /paɪˈzɑ.noʊ/, /paɪˈsɑ.noʊ/ 1. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry. 2. A roadrunner. Labels: Southwestern, US Example: Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.
Word: paisan Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of paisano or paisana. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy.
Word: secret of Polichinelle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Calque of French secret de Polichinelle. 1. A supposed secret known to everyone. Example: In October and November 1910 there was a great secret of Polichinelle. Conceivably we may learn from some future historian even more about it than we knew at the time. Example: It is said that Polst fell because he revealed in an unlucky interview the Secret of Polichinelle, the secret which all the world knew, the secret that there was a claque at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Word: paisans Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paisan Labels: form-of, plural
Word: paisanos Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of paisano Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sou'easter Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of southeaster. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sou'easters Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of sou'easter Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shaly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shale + -y. 1. Pertaining to or resembling shale. Example: The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history.
Word: shaley Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From shale + -y. 1. Pertaining to or resembling shale.
Word: millidarcy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + darcy. 1. A unit of area that is 1/1000 darcy. Symbol mD.
Word: Neanderthal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From obsolete German Neanderthal, now spelled Neandertal, the name of a valley (German Tal, older also spelled Thal) near Düsseldorf where the first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. A hollow near the valley was known as Neanderhöhle (“Neander Hollow”) and Neandershöhle (“Neander’s Hollow”) in the early 19th century, and the valley had been renamed to Neanderthal in 1850, in honour of the German Calvinist theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander (1650–1680). Before, the valley was known as das Gesteins (literally “The Rocks [sg.]”) and Hundsklipp (literally “Dog Cliff”). The name of Joachim Neander is based on the Ancient Greek translation (νέος (néos) + ᾰ̓νήρ (ănḗr)) of his original surname Neumann (“Newman”). The pronunciation with the "th" sound (/θ/) is a spelling pronunciation; the original German word is pronounced with a "t" sound (/t/). Pronunciation: /niːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl/, /niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/, /niˈæn.dɚ.θəl/, /niˈæn.dɚˌtɑl/ 1. Of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis. Labels: not-comparable Example: The capacity of the Neanderthal skull was 10% larger than that of modern humans. Example: […]In short, many assessments conclude that East Asians have more Neanderthal ancestry than Europeans, who have more Neanderthal ancestry than people in the Middle East. 2. Old-fashioned, opposed to change. Labels: broadly, derogatory, not-comparable 3. Primitive, savage or uncivilized. Labels: broadly, derogatory, not-comparable 4. Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Neanderthal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From obsolete German Neanderthal, now spelled Neandertal, the name of a valley (German Tal, older also spelled Thal) near Düsseldorf where the first Neanderthal was discovered in 1856. A hollow near the valley was known as Neanderhöhle (“Neander Hollow”) and Neandershöhle (“Neander’s Hollow”) in the early 19th century, and the valley had been renamed to Neanderthal in 1850, in honour of the German Calvinist theologian and hymn writer Joachim Neander (1650–1680). Before, the valley was known as das Gesteins (literally “The Rocks [sg.]”) and Hundsklipp (literally “Dog Cliff”). The name of Joachim Neander is based on the Ancient Greek translation (νέος (néos) + ᾰ̓νήρ (ănḗr)) of his original surname Neumann (“Newman”). The pronunciation with the "th" sound (/θ/) is a spelling pronunciation; the original German word is pronounced with a "t" sound (/t/). Pronunciation: /niːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl/, /niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/, /niˈæn.dɚ.θəl/, /niˈæn.dɚˌtɑl/ 1. A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis. Example: These injuries may reflect the rigors of hunting with the Neanderthals' limited repertoire of weapons; the Neanderthals never seem to have developed projectiles, so they would have to have gotten more or less on top of their prey in order to kill them. 2. A primitive, savage or uncivilized person. Labels: derogatory 3. A white person. Labels: derogatory, ethnic, slur
Word: tight ends Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of tight end Labels: form-of, plural
Word: football fields Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of football field Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pancake landings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pancake landing Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pancake tortoises Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pancake tortoise Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sg. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of singular. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: dom. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of domestic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: non obst. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of non obstante. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: l. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of leaf. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 2. Abbreviation of line. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of 3. Abbreviation of pound (sterling), derived from Latin libra. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: l. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of left. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable Example: l. com. car. a. Example: Glogau Stat.—Inns: Deutsches Haus; Westphal’s Hotel. A fortress of the 2nd rank on the l. bank of the Oder, 17,000 Inhab. The Dom upon an island dates from 1120, and contains a madonna by Cranach, sen., his masterpiece.
Word: i.p.i. Part of Speech: adj 1. Abbreviation of in partibus infidelium (“in the regions of unbelievers”). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Word: sce. Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of scenario. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: imps. Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imp. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: impp. Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of imp. Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Akita Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita). 1. The capital city of Akita Prefecture, Japan. 2. A prefecture of Japan. 3. A surname from Japanese.
Word: Akita Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 秋(あき)田(た) (Akita). 1. A large dog of a Japanese breed from the mountainous northern regions of Japan. Example: […] Hokkaidos or Ainus (smaller versions of the Akita); Akitas, Japanese Spitz, Japanese Chin, Nippon Terriers and Kai Ken.
Word: Yamagata Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山県 (Yamagata), 山方 (Yamagata), 山形 (Yamagata) or 山像 (Yamagata). 1. A city in Japan. 2. A prefecture of Japan. 3. A surname from Japanese.
Word: look book Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of lookbook. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Fukushima Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 福島(ふくしま) (Fukushima). 1. The capital city of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. 2. A prefecture of Japan. Example: Fukushima prefecture, located just south of Miyagi, was also part of the ancestral lands of the Emishi. 3. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following a tsunami in 2011. 4. The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, or less commonly, the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant. 5. A surname from Japanese.
Word: lookbooks Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lookbook Labels: form-of, plural
Word: going snake Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of go snake Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: goes snake Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of go snake Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: gone snake Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of go snake Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Yamaguchi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山口(やまぐち) (Yamaguchi). Pronunciation: /jɑməˈɡut͡ʃi/ 1. A city in Japan. 2. A prefecture of Japan. 3. A surname from Japanese.
Word: screwtaping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of screwtape Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: screwtapes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of screwtape Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: screwtapes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of screwtape Labels: form-of, plural
Word: screwtaped Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of screwtape Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Tokushima Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 徳(とく)島(しま) (Tokushima). 1. A prefecture of Japan. 2. The capital city of Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. 3. A surname from Japanese.
Word: bauf Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative spelling of boff (to have sexual intercourse). Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare 2. To hit the ground with one's shoes. Labels: rare
Word: netraising Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of net-raising. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: Kochi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高(こう)知(ち) (Kōchi). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊtʃi/ 1. The capital city of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. Labels: uncountable 2. A prefecture of Japan. Labels: uncountable
Word: Kochi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 幸地 (Kōchi) or Japanese 高地 (Kōchi). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊtʃi/ 1. A surname from Japanese.
Word: Kochi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Malayalam കൊച്ചി (kocci). Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊtʃi/ 1. A city in Kerala, in southwestern India. Labels: uncountable
Word: Kochi Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkoʊtʃi/ 1. A member of a nomadic pastoral group of primarily Ghilji Pashtun people.
Word: Kōchi Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Kochi (city in Japan) Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Ryūkyū Part of Speech: name 1. Alternative spelling of Ryukyu. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Ryūkyū is itself an extended archipelago, and geographic dispersion sustained considerable linguistic divergence and cultural differences among the islands (Matsumori 1995:30-31). Example: The Ryūkyū performing arts entered the Japanese mainland through performances by artists from Ryūkyū, after which they developed in new directions distinct from their origins.
Word: adæquate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From ad- + æquate. 1. Archaic spelling of adequate. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: The covenant sealed, or, A treatise of the sacraments of both covenants, polemicall and practicall: especially of the sacraments of the covenant of grace. In which, the nature of them is laid open, the adæquate subject is largely inquired into, respective to right and proper interest […]
Word: Yair Part of Speech: name Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יַאִיר, meaning "he will light up". Pronunciation: /jaʔiɹ/ 1. A male given name from Hebrew.
Word: clockwork oranges Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clockwork orange Labels: form-of, plural
Word: trosh Part of Speech: verb 1. thresh Labels: Norfolk
Word: troshing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of trosh Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: amelodic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From a- + melodic. 1. Not melodic Example: Though her savagely amelodic vocals were mixed unfortunately low, Gordon gave the noise-hungry the most to work with, and seemed to ignite the potential for chaos that Moore and Ranaldo were keeping tastefully in check, saving themselves for the long haul. Example: Unfortunately Harrison decided to sing on the bulk of the record, and he's got a quavery, amelodic whine like Dave Matthews.
Word: airhole Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From air + hole. 1. A hole provided for ventilation or breathing. Example: "This wall is badly built," he went on in a careless tone; "look, there is another space there at the back;" and he actually came up to it and held the lantern close to the airhole in such fashion that its light shone through into Jess's eyes and nearly blinded her. Example: For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot. 2. A hole in ice through which air escapes. Example: Through these and through countless airholes, the water began to sweep across the surface of the ice, and by the time he pulled into a woodchopper's cabin on the point of an island, the dogs were being rushed off their feet and were swimming more often than not. Example: "Even if it is hard enough, there may be airholes around." 3. An air pocket.
Word: airholes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of airhole Labels: form-of, plural
Word: agewise Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From age + -wise. 1. In terms of age. Labels: not-comparable Example: an agewise comparison
Word: agewise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From age + -wise. 1. In terms of age. Labels: not-comparable Example: They mix the classes up agewise so the older children lead the younger ones. Example: On the other hand, agewise, Deb admits to being 32, while Liz, with her latent maternal reflections, sounds like she is pushing 35--advantage Pickett.
Word: aht Part of Speech: adv 1. Pronunciation spelling of out Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: 'Git aht!' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently. Example: And then came the vile experience of being forced and borne along the street to the police-station. […] "Go it, miss!" cried one. "Kick aht at 'em!" though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, resenting only the thrusting policemen's hands.
Word: achronologically Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From achronological + -ly. 1. Without chronological order; in an achronological manner Labels: not-comparable Example: Moving achronologically through the last decades of the 20th century, the pieces are snapshots of the life of a single protagonist and the people and events in his orbit.
Word: acount Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of account. Labels: alt-of, misspelling Example: His banker's acount, I fear, is in a horrid state." Example: No objection could be made to her admission, except on acount of her complexion, and Miss Crandall decided to receive her as a pupil.
Word: afoxe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Portuguese afoxé. Pronunciation: /ɑfoʊˈʃeɪ/, /æfoʊˈʃeɪ/ 1. A genre of Afro-Brazilian music. Labels: uncountable Example: "Afros E Afoxes de Bahia" offers a sampling of afros and afoxe groups and features singers such as Gilberto Gil and Margareth Menezes. Example: It now brings together son, guajira, guaracha with New Orleans funk, Nigerian Afrobeat, South American cumbia, James Brown rhythms, Haitian compas, Brazilian afoxe, New York City boogaloo and even jam-band stuff predicated on electric guitars as much as hand drums.
Word: ahn Part of Speech: prep 1. Pronunciation spelling of on. Labels: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Example: "Ah, go ahn," replied the other argumentatively. Example: "Mister Penrod," she bellowed forthwith, "come ahn down fr'm up there!
Word: brassnecked Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of brass-necked. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: cinderella Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cinder + -ella. 1. Alternative letter-case form of Cinderella. Labels: alt-of
Word: crowdsourced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From crowd + sourced. 1. Obtained by crowdsourcing. Labels: not-comparable Example: The movement took on its modern form as it grew together with hackerspaces, crowdsourced science projects and online forums. Example: His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers.
Word: crowdsourced Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From crowd + sourced. 1. simple past and past participle of crowdsource Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: cutesie Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of cutesy. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: duopolistic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From duopoly + -istic. 1. Characteristic of a duopoly. Labels: not-comparable
Word: intimidatory Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From intimidate + -ory. Pronunciation: /ɪntɪmɪˈdeɪtəɹi/ 1. That intimidates; intimidating. Labels: rare Example: The remarks have to be nothing less than intentionally intimidatory behavior. Example: by May the so-called ‘Flour War’ (‘guerre des farines’) was brought to a close in a flurry of intimidatory public executions.
Word: overscored Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of overscore Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: overscored Part of Speech: adj 1. scored for too many instruments (or types of instrument)
Word: sarees Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of saree Labels: form-of, plural
Word: sansevieria Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From the genus name, after the Neapolitan Prince of Sanseviero (1710-71). 1. Any of the genus Sansevieria of flowering plants native to Africa, Madagascar and southern Asia.
Word: clamp stands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of clamp stand Labels: form-of, plural
Word: transmissibilities Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of transmissibility Labels: form-of, plural
Word: tobacconist's Part of Speech: noun 1. A shop that sells tobacco products. Labels: dated
Word: HMF Part of Speech: noun 1. 5-hydroxymethylfurfuran Labels: uncountable Example: To obtain pure HMF, chemists have had to redissolve it in a solvent that is hard to boil away, making the process costly and inefficient.
Word: cuproammonium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cupro- + ammonium. 1. The cation Cu(NH₃)₄²⁺ formed by adding ammonia to copper salts: A complex of four molecules of ammonia surrounding a copper ion. Labels: uncountable
Word: cuprobismutite Part of Speech: noun 1. A black mineral, with a metallic lustre, found in quartz deposits; it is a mixed sulfide of copper and bismuth. Labels: uncountable
Word: cellularly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From cellular + -ly. 1. In terms of, or by means of, biological cells. Labels: not-comparable Example: cellularly derived spliceosomal snRNAs 2. In terms of, or by means of, a cellular telecommunication network. Labels: not-comparable Example: The kid had a palmtop stock-quoter, a wire in his ear, and the schizophrenic eyes of the cellularly occupied.
Word: Srta Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of Srta.. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: The passengers were Guilherme Gastal, João Oliveira Goulart, and Srta Maria Echenique, who was the official courier of greetings from the Mayor of Porto Alegre to the Mayor of Rio Grande. Example: The play was read by three censors, Padre Artola, Sebastián Bautista de la Torre and Srta María Nieves Sunyer, before the Junta de Censura met on 22 July 1969.
Word: Cathal Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Cathal. 1. A male given name from Irish.
Word: goes commando Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of go commando Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: going commando Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of go commando Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: went commando Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past of go commando Labels: form-of, past
Word: gone commando Part of Speech: verb 1. past participle of go commando Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Tottori Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鳥取(とっとり) (Tottori). 1. A city in Japan. 2. A prefecture of Japan. 3. A surname from Japanese.
Word: pisses like a racehorse Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of piss like a racehorse Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: pissing like a racehorse Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of piss like a racehorse Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pissed like a racehorse Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of piss like a racehorse Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: carto- Part of Speech: prefix Etymology: From French carte or Italian carta + -o-. 1. Forms terms relating to maps. Labels: morpheme 2. Forms terms relating to cards. Labels: morpheme
Word: equipotent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From equi- + potent. Pronunciation: /ɪˈkwɪpətənt/ 1. Having equal strength, ability or efficacy. Labels: not-comparable 2. Of two sets, having a bijection with one another. Labels: not-comparable
Word: secretting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɹətɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of secret Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: [… M]any Instances have lately happened of notorious Malefactors, as well as Persons imprisoned for Debt, breaking and making their Escape out of Goale, and so by the Help of their Confederates secretting themselves, and clandestinely getting off the Island, by which Means Delinquents evade Justice, and honest People are deprived of their due Debts, to the great Detriment of the Publick […] Example: (He lets one more stone fall from his hand, then snaps his palm shut, secretting the contents, holding the fist upraised in front of the girl, teasing her with his game.)
Word: secretted Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɹətɪd/ 1. simple past and past participle of secret Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: For if a Man, haue that Penetration of Iudgment, as he can discerne, what Things are to be laid open, and what to be secretted, and what to be shewed at Halfe lights, and to whom, and when, (which indeed are Arts of State, and Arts of Life, as Tacitus well calleth them) to him, a Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse. Example: He remembered the way the girl had stared at him, as blood had coursed down her face from the broken glass of his arrival. A pretty face, clear-eyed, smooth-cheeked; she would be easy to find. She would be amusing as well. She would tell him if she had secretted the talisman away. She would scream it to him. After that, he was sure of one thing. The last member of the Gifter’s family had to be silenced.
Word: hoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc. Pronunciation: /hoʊk/ 1. Alternative form of hook. Labels: alt-of, alternative, obsolete Example: And thou ſhalt make hokes off golde and two cheynes off fine golde: lynkeworke and wrethed, and faſten the wrethed cheynes to the hokes.
Word: hoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From hokum. Pronunciation: /hoʊk/ 1. To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. Labels: slang Example: Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up. Example: He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get to the East End (here he was hoking a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world except the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
Word: hoke Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hokum. Pronunciation: /hoʊk/ 1. Something contrived or artificial.
Word: hoke Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From the root of holk (“hollow cavity”). Compare Scots howk. Pronunciation: /hoʊk/ 1. To scrounge, to grub. Labels: Ireland Example: When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt Example: ‘[B]ut the raven winging darkly over the doomed will have news, tidings for the eagle of how he hoked and ate, how he and the wolf made short work of the dead.’
Word: Jupiter mass Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of mass equal to the mass of the planet Jupiter, used to express the mass of other planets. 1 M_J = 2 × 10²⁷ kg.
Word: Earth mass Part of Speech: noun 1. A unit of mass equal to that of the Earth, used to express the mass of planets and similar astronomical bodies. 1 M_🜨 = 6 × 10²⁴ kg. Example: The mass of Jupiter is 318 M_🜨; its radius is 11 R_🜨.
Word: versals Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of versal Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pick sixes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pick six Labels: form-of, plural
Word: acrophobe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From acro- + -phobe. Pronunciation: /ˈækɹəˌfoʊb/ 1. A person who suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights. Example: Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe. Example: Paradoxes abounded in Mr. Tishman’s life. A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.
Word: excavation unit Part of Speech: noun 1. A pit, trench, shovel test hole, (etc.) or other result of scientific excavation. Example: An excavation unit need not be rectangular, if precise measurements are made to assure good provenience.
Word: acrophobes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of acrophobe Labels: form-of, plural
Word: homocore Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From homo + -core. 1. Queercore, an artistic and musical movement dealing with issues of sexual and gender prejudice Labels: uncountable Example: New zines by G.B. Jones--brilliant editor of early girl-oriented homocore zines J.D.s, Hide. Example: We're homocore," adds D'Ercole, "without the touching." 2. A subgenre of punk rock, especially hardcore punk, associated with LGBTQ+ musicians and themes, often expressing queer identity, resistance, and community. Labels: uncountable Example: Homocore — Hardcore rock played by gay musicians.
Word: monkery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From monk + -ery. 1. The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life. Labels: countable, dated, derogatory, often, uncountable Example: Even such monkery was confined entirely to the laity; the clergy having cures in villages or in towns, and being therefore precluded from monastic sequestrations. In time, however, monkery found its way among the clergy, […] Example: A different form of reaction was that of the monks, who aspired to resuscitate what they supposed to be the true Christian spirit in alliance with the Church. But monkery was after all only an intensified Church within the Church, exhibiting the peculiar vices as well as advantages of ecclesiastical discipline […] 2. Monasticism. Labels: countable, dated, derogatory, uncountable Example: As the circumstances of their living on barley bread and herbs [...] existed nowhere, that we have seen, but in the monkish imaginations of Jerome and Bellarmine. As the circumstances on which the argument is founded, vanish upon inspection, so does the monkery of Elijah, Elisha, and the sons of the prophets […] Example: You are not to suppose that I, as a good Catholic, am under any obligation to confound the active, intelligent, heroic, and fruitful monasticism of Columba with the systematic stupefaction of manhood in the monkery which came afterwards. 3. A monastery. Labels: countable, dated, derogatory, humorous, often, uncountable Example: The sides resemble castellated piles and Gothic cathedrals, so fantastic are the shapes assumed by the natural rock; under St. Saba it became a monkery for all penitents who wished to live a hermit's life. Example: Polite society won't have the truth. You've got to feed it on lies, or go into a monkery — if that's what they call a masculine nunnery. Don't want to go into a monkery, so I lie. Reluctantly, delicately, frequently. 4. Monks, considered as a group. (Compare clergy, laity.) Labels: collective, countable, dated, uncountable Example: And furthermore, so long as they do entangle and bind themselves with so many and so perverse and wicked kinds of worshipping as the monkery now-a-days doth contain in it, I may well say that they are not consecrated unto God, […] Example: Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene.
Word: anti-Christian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anti- + Christian. 1. Opposed to Christians or Christianity. Example: Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that typically takes on anti-Christian, satanic and pagan themes.
Word: anti-Christian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From anti- + Christian. 1. One who opposes Christians or Christianity.
Word: bitchfest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bitch + -fest. 1. An occasion of much bitching (complaining) Labels: slang Example: There have been few revivals of Boys in the Band in the past few years; people are unsure how to do it: tragicomedy, comic tragedy, bitch-fest or period piece. Example: "Robbie and I had a bitchfest about our lives," he says. "
Word: bitchfests Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of bitchfest Labels: form-of, plural
Word: birthparent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + parent. 1. A biological parent of an adopted child Example: We met the birthparents several times, had a ceremony where they gave us their baby and we will continue to communicate with them.
Word: birthmother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + mother. 1. The biological mother of an adopted child. Example: The Agency educated us on the adoption process and gave us the opportunity to meet with other adoptive parents and also prospective birthmothers.
Word: birthmothers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of birthmother Labels: form-of, plural
Word: birthparents Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of birthparent Labels: form-of, plural
Word: kerflewie Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of kerflooey. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: kerflewy Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of kerflooey. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: razzamatazz Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of razzmatazz. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: subassemblies Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subassembly Labels: form-of, plural
Word: manoeuvrings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of manoeuvring Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vizslas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of vizsla Labels: form-of, plural
Word: pepitas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pepita Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outpoints Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of outpoint Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: outpoints Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of outpoint Labels: form-of, plural
Word: outpointing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outpoint Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: subprimes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of subprime Labels: form-of, plural
Word: shuras Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of shura Labels: form-of, plural
Word: refloods Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of reflood Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: reflooding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of reflood Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: reflooding Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of flooding again.
Word: reflooded Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of reflood Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: peatlands Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of peatland Labels: form-of, plural
Word: real men don't eat quiche Part of Speech: proverb Etymology: The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. 1. The stereotypical man does not do things that are considered effeminate. Labels: humorous
Word: microneighborhoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of microneighborhood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: finetune Part of Speech: verb 1. Alternative form of fine-tune. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: finetunes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of finetune Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: finetuning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of finetune Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: finetuned Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of finetune Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: attojoule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From atto- + joule. 1. An SI unit of energy, work, and heat equal to 10⁻¹⁸ joules. Symbol: aJ
Word: dressingrooms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of dressingroom (alternative form of dressing rooms). Labels: form-of, plural
Word: exoticisms Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of exoticism Labels: form-of, plural
Word: classicize Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From classic + -ize. 1. To make classic. Example: Another approach is exemplified by the performance group known as Mahligai […] which drew on traditional forms in an attempt to classicize them. 2. To conform to the classic style. Example: Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]
Word: classicizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of classicize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: classicizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of classicize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: classicizing Part of Speech: adj 1. Adopting a classical style. Example: In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
Word: classicized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of classicize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: millicandela Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From milli- + candela. 1. One thousandth (10⁻³) of a candela, abbreviated as mcd.
Word: millicandelas Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of millicandela Labels: form-of, plural
Word: old men Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of old man Labels: form-of, plural
Word: nearhand Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English nerhand, nerehand, nerehonde, equivalent to near + hand. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/ 1. Nearby; close at hand; nigh; adjacent. Example: We are nearer hand to the great coal districts, and there is a tendency for the men to go there. We are nearer hand to the great mining centres than are those that Mr. Scott represented Example: But whether, when he should break his camp at Forney's plantation, he would go northward after Morgan and the prisoners, or cross the river at some nearhand ford to chase our main, none of our scouts could tell us.
Word: nearhand Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English nerehand, nerhond, nerehande, equivalent to near + hand. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/ 1. Nearly. Labels: dialectal, not-comparable 2. Nearby; near at hand. Labels: dialectal, not-comparable
Word: nearhand Part of Speech: prep Etymology: From Middle English nerhand, nerehand, nerhande, from the adverb (above). Equivalent to near + hand. Pronunciation: /ˈnɪə(ɹ).hand/ 1. Nearby. Labels: dialectal Example: And when I was nearhand the house, I met Menie, her daughter, and she told me that they had heard word from Sandy that morning [...]. Example: but I will tell you that some of my coopers went into the fishing station and vomited, owing to the smell from the whales, and they declared to me when they came back that it was the last time they would go nearhand them
Word: Morioka Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Japan, capital of Iwate prefecture. Labels: uncountable 2. A surname from Japanese. Labels: uncountable
Word: forechoice Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From fore- + choice. 1. Preference. Labels: uncountable 2. The act or process of choosing ahead of time; preselection. Labels: uncountable 3. A motive which is in harmony or agreement with right desire. Labels: uncountable
Word: brogueing Part of Speech: noun 1. A pattern of punch holes along the seams of a shoe, found in various styles of shoe, notably the brogue. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: brogueing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of brogue Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: New York reloads Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of New York reload Labels: form-of, plural
Word: revelment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From revel + -ment. 1. Joyful merry-making. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable
Word: American basswood Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of linden, native to eastern North America, Tilia americana.
Word: American basswoods Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of American basswood Labels: form-of, plural
Word: aeroelastic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From aero- + elastic. 1. Of or pertaining to aeroelasticity Labels: not-comparable
Word: angritic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From angrite + -ic. 1. Of, pertaining to, or containing angrite
Word: benchtop Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bench + top. 1. The surface of a bench or workbench. Labels: attributive, often Example: benchtop laboratory equipment 2. A kitchen counter. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand
Word: bianisotropic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bi- + anisotropic. 1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting bianisotropy
Word: bianisotropy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bi- + anisotropy. 1. An inhomogenous, asymmetric form of anisotropy. Labels: uncountable
Word: dial-in Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Deverbal from dial in. 1. Of a system or service: accepting incoming connections over a telephone line. Labels: not-comparable Example: You can access your messages via Option 3 of our dial-in service menu. 2. Of a radio or television program: synonym of call-in. Labels: not-comparable 3. Of a computer, set up to accept incoming modem calls. Labels: not-comparable 4. Dial-up. Labels: not-comparable, proscribed
Word: dial-in Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Deverbal from dial in. 1. The act of connecting to a system or service by means of a telecommunication network. Example: Enterprises need to connect telecommuters and remote offices; ISPs need to take dial-ins from subscribers; and so on. 2. A driver's estimate of the time required to reach and cross the finish line, used to determine the head start for each vehicle.
Word: bombesin Part of Speech: noun 1. A neural oligopeptide that stimulates the release of gastrin Labels: countable, uncountable