yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
letterman-jacketed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From letterman jacket + -ed.
Base: letterman jacket
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a letterman jacket.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Last season, the football captain was never without one of his many letterman-jacketed goons.
The Heathers are all kilts, scrunchies, and shoulder pads, jostling alongside the letterman-jacketed homophobic jocks.
So look for the letterman-jacketed [Houston] Texans to spit the bit in Philly this weekend.
Translations:
varsity-jacketed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From varsity jacket + -ed.
Base: varsity jacket
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a varsity jacket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [H]e [Stuart Vevers] laughed, ticking off references to a varsity-jacketed Rob Lowe in Young Blood^([sic]) and the wild shaggy sheepskins of The Revenant.
Your varsity-jacketed, super-powered character has a versatile arsenal of moves at her disposal, and they all flow into each other so well that just writing about it makes me want to go play a few rounds right now.
Backed by a team of varsity-jacketed dancers, Chlöe proceeded to obliterate the VMAs stage with complicated choreography and flawless vocals.
Translations:
K-horror
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From K- + horror.
Base: horror
Affixes: K-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Korean horror fiction
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As befits a country with such a madly diverse film culture, the programme runs from high school K-horror to slapstick 16th-century detective yarns – but with a cluster of superior action thrillers at its centre.
Translations:
re-retire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + retire.
Base: retire
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-retires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-retiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-retired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-retired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To retire again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He re-retired after being unretired for a while. His unretirement was worth his while, but he plans to stay retired this time.
gloss: To bring (something or someone) back from retirement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We re-retired this machine because our newest equipment truly obviates it, and there's no realistic prospect that it will ever save us any money in the future.
Related words: postretiree
preretiree
re-retiree
re-retirement
unretiree
unretirement
Translations:
re-retiree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, re-retire + -ee, or, by surface analysis, re- + retire + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: re-retirees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who retires again after a period of unretirement.
pos: noun
Translations:
re-retirement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, re- + retirement, or, by surface analysis, re- + retire + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: re-retirements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A return to retirement after a period of unretirement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
franky
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: frankies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Frankenstein.
pos: noun
Translations:
Make-A-Wish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See treat like a Make-A-Wish kid.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of people: treated with, or only in their position due to, undue patience or kindness; weak.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
derogatory
not-comparable
examples: Giants fans talking about Lamar like he was a make a wish QB and not a Heisman winner 🤣🤣
gloss: Undeserved; illegitimate.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
derogatory
not-comparable
examples: Zoro don’t be doing shit so they give him these make a wish ass amazingly animated episodes
Translations:
quasi-independent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quasi- + independent.
Base: independent
Affixes: quasi-
Inflected forms:
form: more quasi-independent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quasi-independent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat independent.
pos: adj
examples: The British constitution famously rests on convention. This requires a compact between politicians working as a cabinet and a quasi-independent civil service.
Translations:
quasi-dictator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quasi- + dictator.
Base: dictator
Affixes: quasi-
Inflected forms:
form: quasi-dictators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A leader that rules dictatorially but still allows some freedoms.
pos: noun
examples: In the Washington Post on July 22 (under the headline "Latin America's New Authoritarians"), reporter Juan Forero explains that today's quasi-dictators are clever enough to rule in what are nominally democracies
These practices, mixed with an intentional weakening of political opposition, allowed Mubarak to rule as a quasi-dictator (Bery, 2011).
Translations:
maxx
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English -maxxbf.
English maxx
Back-formation from -maxx.
Inflected forms:
form: maxxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maxxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maxxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maxxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enhance one's life by employing looksmaxxing and other similar strategies.
pos: verb
examples: You could see this in the way maxxing strategies pointed to extremes — not just unsettling ones (eating disorders, height surgeries, high-octane misogyny), but also this weird gamification of mundane social tactics your parents already told you about (wash your face, wear a decent shirt, get some exercise).
By this logic, it makes more sense to turn inward than to make oneself vulnerable, to nihilistically maxx rather than actually encounter the other.
Translations:
co-eval
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Alternate spelling of coeval
pos: adj
gloss: Alternate spelling of coeval
pos: noun
Translations:
cry-typing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disordered spelling and punctuation usage, conveying that the typist is under emotional duress.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
mouse-eared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From mouse-ear + -ed.
Base: mouse-ear
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having ears resembling those of a mouse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
long-horned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more long-horned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most long-horned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of certain domesticated cattle breeds, having elongated horns.
pos: adj
gloss: Of certain beetles, having fine, long antennae; longicorn.
pos: adj
Translations:
megaforce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mega- + force.
Base: force
Affixes: mega-
Inflected forms:
form: megaforces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A great or united force.
pos: noun
Translations:
finger-tutting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From finger + tutting.
Compound parts: finger
tutting
Inflected forms:
form: finger-tuttings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smaller-scale version of tutting, which uses the fingers, or in some cases the whole arm.
pos: noun
Translations:
FoD
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Initialism of friend of Don. The homophony with food is a reference to the character being often depicted eating or talking about food.
Inflected forms:
form: FoDs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the character Don Schanke from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: First, I am an FoD ( That is, a Friend of Don Schanke), so naturally I have a preference for the Schanke-Nick partnership.
For all you FoDs and Cohenheads that may be on this NG [newsgroup], they're in this!
With a name like Alma, shouldn't you be either a Ravenette or an FoD?
Translations:
quasi-uniform
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quasi- + uniform.
Base: uniform
Affixes: quasi-
Inflected forms:
form: quasi-uniforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of semiuniform (noun).
pos: noun
Translations:
sharp-sighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sharp-sighted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sharp-sighted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
anti-degradable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-degradable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-degradable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to chemical degradation in its usage environment.
pos: adj
examples: Histidine was extensively degraded by rumen micro‐organisms, while tyrosine was the most anti‐degradable AA among the samples.
Due to its physical and chemical advantage as well as its anti-degradable properties and low production costs, PVC is widely applied as pipes, packaging materials, window frames, cables, bottles, and even in medical devices.
Sulfadiazine (SDZ) is a kind of anti-degradable antibiotics ^([sic]) that is commonly found in wastewater, but its removal mechanism and transformation pathway remain unclear in microalgal systems.
Translations:
Nart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From a North Caucasian source (see West Circassian нарт (nart) and Ossetian нарт (nart)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr ("man, hero").
Inflected forms:
form: Narts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and Vainakhs).
pos: noun
examples: The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what the Greek myths are to Western civilization.
Translations:
Reconstructionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Reconstructionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Reconstructionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Reconstructionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Reconstructionist Judaism.
pos: adj
tags: Judaism
examples: Rabbi Sherry Shulewitz, associate executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, explains that in the Reconstructionist view, “conversion is a gateway to membership in the Jewish people and a gift that the Jewish people offer new members.”
gloss: Someone who adheres to Reconstructionist Judaism.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
examples: Reconstructionists view the Jewish people as the unchanging constant through history in which beliefs, practices, and institutions have continuously evolved.
Translations:
inter-rayon
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: inter- + rayon
Base: rayon
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interrayon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inter-raion
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: interraion
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Between raions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intra-oblast
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: intra- + oblast
Base: oblast
Affixes: intra-
Inflected forms:
form: intraoblast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Within an oblast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
inter-oblast
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: inter- + oblast
Base: oblast
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interoblast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Between oblasts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
percent-encode
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: percent-encodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: percent-encoding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: percent-encoded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: percent-encoded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To convert special or reserved characters in a string (such as spaces, slashes or query symbols) into a safe format for use in URLs or URIs, by replacing each with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits representing its byte value.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Translations:
percent-encoding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: percent-encodings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method used to encode special or reserved characters in URIs and URLs by replacing them with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits representing the character's byte value.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
Translations:
lyre-tailed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of birds, having ornamental tail feathers that resemble the curved arms of a lyre.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thousands of crows, rather smaller than our rook, keep up a constant cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter from the tree-tops; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with brilliant black plumage and milk-white eyes, continually deceives the naturalist by the variety of its unmelodious notes.
Translations:
j-slur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a humorous treatment of job as a slur; see j*b.
Inflected forms:
form: j-slurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: J-slur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: J slur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A job.
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
examples: People on this game will often tell you to get a j-slur and I'm starting to get a little tired of it.
gloss: A usage of the word job.
pos: noun
examples: Please, I'm begging you, censor those j-slurs!
Translations:
Ahia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 阿兄 (á-hiaⁿ). Compare Tagalog Ahiya.
Inflected forms:
form: Ahias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ahiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: respectful honorific used before a name for the eldest brother
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
gloss: respectful honorific used before a name for an elder brother: Brother
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
informal
gloss: respectful honorific used before a name for a young male senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community): Mister; Brother
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
informal
examples: Looked up to this guy since I was a kid! Thanks for being an inspiration to me and to others as well, Ahiya @chris_tiu17! And congratulations for a successful basketball career!...
Translations:
soft-cancel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soft-cancels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soft-canceling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soft-cancelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soft-canceled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soft-canceled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soft-cancelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soft-cancelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To criticize or sideline (a person) for perceived unacceptable behavior, without fully ostracizing or banning them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
dot-connecting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From connect the dots.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of connecting the dots.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Because of the movie’s focus on the digging and dot-connecting that go into investigative reporting, it has invited comparisons to “All the President’s Men.”
Stefanski’s contract expired after this season, which led to some dot-connecting that Shurmur could make another run at the young coach that he worked with for two years in Minnesota.
[B]oth Ohm Youngmisuk and Ramona Shelburne suspected Kidd’s optics were at least part of the reason he wasn’t named head coach. This lines up with what Stephen A. Smith is saying (along with basic dot-connecting, given the widely reported determination to give Kidd some type of role) and presents the Lakers as trying to mollify fans by giving Kidd a gig but not the best gig.
gloss: Involving connecting the dots.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: The Pentagon's infamous Total Information Awareness program, which came to light in 2002, was intended to scoop up information on citizens from a variety of sources – commercial purchase databases, government records – and mine it for suggestive terrorism connections. But to many Americans, this sort of dot-connecting activity seemed like an outrageous violation of privacy, and soon after it was exposed, the program was killed.
Dot-connecting exercises have pegged New Orleans Saints wide receivers Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed to the Broncos.
The first: How did we get here? This one often appears near the beginning of an exchange or an argument, and it heralds a big-picture, chin-stroking, dot-connecting answer.
Translations:
fire-cure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fire-cures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fire-curing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fire-cured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fire-cured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cure (tobacco) by exposing it directly to smoke from open woodfires.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
mower-conditioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: mower-conditioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A farm machine that cuts hay crops and simultaneously crimps or crushes the stalks to speed up drying.
pos: noun
Translations:
needle-moving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See move the needle.
Inflected forms:
form: more needle-moving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most needle-moving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making a noticeable difference.
pos: adj
examples: Finding realistic needle-moving signings is especially hard when clubs do not want to sell at this stage of a campaign, while you are eternally at the mercy of those with bigger teeth and sharper claws further up the food chain.
Translations:
byre-dwelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: byre-dwellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A farmhouse having human living quarters under the same roof as the livestock and/or grain.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Pan-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Pan + -like.
Base: Pan
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling the Ancient Greek god Pan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As he moves back into the shadows, the stage is taken over by a troupe of Pan-like dancers, leaping and cavorting in an obscene ballet.
Translations:
full-breasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having noticeably large or well‑rounded breasts; characterised by fullness of the bust.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Also the candles flickering in the blood-red sconces are black and the body on the crucifix is that of a full-breasted woman.
gloss: Cut with a broad, full chest, giving extra volume or drape across the front.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dot-connector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From connect the dots.
Inflected forms:
form: dot-connectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dot connector
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who connects the dots.
pos: noun
examples: Williams had a secret two-hour session with the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday evening and was on Capitol HIll yesterday for more closed-door sessions. We never saw his face. The Phoenix warning is a profound embarrassment to the intelligence bureaucracy, and Williams is probably lucky to have his job. Let us hope we get the chance to see and hear him. Dot-connectors are hard to find.
Analysts, those dot-connectors who since 9/11 have been touted as equal partners in the FBI's counterterrorism mission, are still relegated to "professional support staff," alongside auto mechanics and janitors.
He was the best dot-connector around, as he opened rich veins of truth-telling not yet fully mined.
The restaurant-held book bash predictably drew many friends and kin of Ruby Watchco, plus various dot-connectors from the food and media spheres.
He believes there should be special grants and incentives for medical students and others to learn to be generalists - to be dot-connectors, or conciliators of specialties and of data.
I would love to see those in power be brave enough to rip up the rule books of the systems restricting progression and rewrite the rules so that we reward the dot-connectors – and research once again becomes about creativity and discovery.
Those who have enlisted since 9/11 to maintain those security layers—the infrastructure-security coaches at DHS advising and cajoling stadiums, utilities, water plants, and other private-sector venues; the TSA airport screeners; the cyberdetectives; the FBI dot-connectors—have no control over how many would-be killers pour into the top of that funnel.
The Redskins never denied — or even addressed — Cooley’s conjecture, leading dot-connectors to wonder if team president Bruce Allen and team higher-ups weren’t behind a campaign to discredit McCloughan.
We’ve seen him flirt with the dot-connectors by throwing out something cryptic for the internet to decode.
Translations:
tikkun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew תִּקּוּן (tikún).
Inflected forms:
form: tikkunim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tikun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A night of (usually communal) Torah study.
pos: noun
examples: I observe Shabbat because I enjoy observing Shabbat; it is the one day of the week when I can really relax and spend time with my family. When we stay up learning all night at a tikkun every Shavuot, we do it because it is fun!
Translations:
soup-shaped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more soup-shaped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soup-shaped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having the form of something that contains soup or is contained in soup
pos: adj
examples: Pour ginger wine nectar into soup-shaped serving bowls.
People who eat soup before the main course tend to eat less overall, so consuming some of your soup-shaped calories can keep hunger in check and help you lose weight without making you feel like you’re eating or depriving yourself.
Wanna see who’s full of soup? Look at her. She’s soup-shaped, right?
Translations:
blood-eagle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blood-eagles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blood-eagling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blood-eagled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blood-eagled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To execute by blood eagle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Of the ships and the stockade nothing remained but hot cinders. Half the guard were dead, and old Arnwulf, the captain, lay blood-eagled on the edge of the tide. The others had gone they knew not where, but doubtless into the forests.
He stood with one hand twisted in Garm's collar, Wave-flame naked in the other, looking down at the torn and broken body of his foster-father, that had even yet something of unbreakable defiance about it; and his face was a white mask in the torchlight. "It may be that it will not be given to me to blood-eagle this Red King with my own hands, Ari Fostri, but nevertheless, I will repay the debt due to Normandy; I will repay it in full measure and running over."
It had been a long while since Hunt had seen anyone blood-eagled.
Translations:
clean-label
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more clean-label
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clean-label
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a food or beverage item containing natural, simple, and familiar ingredients that are easy for consumers to recognize, understand, and pronounce.
pos: adj
Translations:
Differin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brand name of adapalene, a topical used to treat acne vulgaris by increasing cell turnover.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is important to mention that dermatologists have many options such as Retin-A, Differin, Azelaic Acid, topical antibiotics, and hormone blockers that basically have no real nonprescription counterpart.
Among the retinoids that a doctor might prescribe are Retin-A Micro, Tazorac Cream, Avita Cream, or Differin Cream
My dermatologist prescribed me Differin and Evoclin to see how they did. I never use the Evoclin, but I do use the Differin I progressed through 2006 and 2007 with the same acne problems.
Translations:
Kushana
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit कुषाण (kuṣāṇa), from Bactrian Κοϸανο (Košano). Doublet of Kushan.
Inflected forms:
form: Kushanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kushâna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Kushana
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kushana
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Kushâna
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Kushan
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of Kushan
pos: adj
Translations:
anti-degenerate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + degenerate.
Base: degenerate
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-degenerates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-degen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
slang
Senses:
gloss: A person who opposes perceived social, moral, or sexual degeneracy on the internet, often associated with alt-right or reactionary online subcultures.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A member of an online raiding or harassment group (such as UKK, UTTP, or AFF) who uses the claim of fighting "degeneracy" to justify cyberbullying, doxxing, and raiding communities like the furry fandom, LGBTQ+ groups, or Gacha Life users.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: "C-Grade" groups are characterized by their self-proclaimed "anti-degenerate" ideology, which they attempt to enforce through methods that frequently include cyberbullying and coordinated Discord raids.
Join the Grand Coalition of Anti Degenerates... with the intention of destroying all degenerates within Discord such as furries and LGBTQ along with others alike.
Related words: degen
anti-furry
anti-gacha
Larpercore
moralist
Translations:
anti-gacha
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anti-gachas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposing or hostile toward the Gacha Life or Gacha Club game fandoms and their associated content.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who participates in the anti-gacha movement, ranging from critics of the game's community to participants in organized harassment and raiding.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: I also do heavily dislike the anti-gacha community purely because of the people they hurt... the term anti-gacha is really broad which is unfortunate as it's been tainted by the people that think it helps to hack and dox.
Examples [of Cartoon Police Groups] include: AntiGachaF*ckExecutive (AGFE), Anti-Gacha Soldiers (AGS)...
Translations:
flip-dog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flip-dogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of toddy iron
pos: noun
Translations:
non-skippable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + skippable.
Base: skippable
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: more non-skippable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most non-skippable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nonskippable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of unskippable.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-exalting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more self-exalting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-exalting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: self-exaltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exalting oneself; holding oneself in high esteem.
pos: adj
examples: I am far from ſuppoſing that all Affections do ſhew a tender Heart: Hatred, Anger, Vain-glory, and other ſelfiſh and ſelf-exalting Affections, may greatly prevail in the hardeſt Heart.
Silly, self-exalting creatures, ever ready to vaunt ourselves, while professing to be nothing in ourselves, and to deserve nothing but the flames of an everlasting hell.
It is perhaps the closest feminist counterpart in nineteenth-century America to the romantic individualism of Emerson and Thoreau—save that Stanton's vision of the individual, rooted in women's experiences of suffering, is less self-exalting and more somber.
gloss: Self-exaltation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A man's hands may be tied by ſome external cords caſt upon them, from viſible revenge, and yet murders may lodge in the temple of his heart, as murderers lodged in the Temple of old; mens tongues may be tied up from the foul ſin of giving fair words concerning themſelves, very ſhame may chaſtize them out of proud boaſtings, and ſelf-exaltings; when in the mean time they ſwell in ſelf-conceit, and are not afraid to bear an unchasſte and ſinful love towards their own perfections, and adore an image of ſelf ſet up in their hearts.
They want that Experience which fully convinceth Riper Chriſtians of the errour of Self exalting, ſo that none are ſo apt to rage and be confident as the Ignorant and Injudicious.
My heart is drawn to self-exalting, help me seek Your kingdom first.
Translations:
moist-proof
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: moist + -proof
Base: moist
Affixes: -proof
Inflected forms:
form: more moist-proof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moist-proof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moistproof
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to the effects of moisture.
pos: adj
Translations:
Wabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Huave (“a Mexican people”).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
pro-Dutch
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
English Dutch
English pro-Dutch
From pro- + Dutch.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Supporting or favoring the Dutch or Netherlands.
pos: adj
Translations:
theatron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: theatra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seating area built into a hill to create a natural viewing space for theatrical productions in Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
kyklos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ancient Greek [Term?]
Inflected forms:
form: kykloi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Ancient Greece, a raised platform within the agora, where goods were displayed for sale.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
off-islander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From off-island + -er.
Affixes: off-island
-er
Inflected forms:
form: off-islanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is not from an island, especially a seasonal inhabitant or tourist.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who was not born and raised on Nantucket.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: Off-island was “abroad,” and off-islanders were spoken of as “strangers” or less politely as “coofs.”
Translations:
off-island
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From off- + island.
Base: island
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Away from or outside of an island.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At the beginning of the twentieth century Nantucketers still divided the whole globe into on-island and off-island.
Translations:
double-sewn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of clothing, sewn with double stitching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Death's head belt buckle - yesterday's dreams
The transport caf prophet of doom
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
In his post-war-baby gloom.
Translations:
Goodie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Goodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of UK television comedy trio The Goodies.
pos: noun
examples: Its cast included eventual co-Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor and embryo Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese.
Translations:
Greco-Bactrian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Greco- + Bactrian.
Base: Bactrian
Affixes: Greco-
Inflected forms:
form: Graeco-Bactrian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Greco-Bactrians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Graeco-Bactrian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (c. 250–125 BCE), its people or culture.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.
pos: noun
Translations:
Northeastern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, equally (1) Northeast + -ern or (2) a proprialization from northeastern.
Base: Northeast
Affixes: -ern
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: He was not the first Northeastern banker to be surprised by what he saw when he stepped off the train into this Western city.
Translations:
Northwestern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, equally (1) Northwest + -ern or (2) a proprialization from northwestern.
Base: Northwest
Affixes: -ern
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
Southeastern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, equally (1) Southeast + -ern or (2) a proprialization from southeastern.
Base: Southeast
Affixes: -ern
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Some of these Southeastern rainstorms are shocking to folks who didn't grow up here.
Translations:
Southwestern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, equally (1) Southwest + -ern or (2) a proprialization from southwestern.
Base: Southwest
Affixes: -ern
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: This recipe has a Southwestern flavor that reminds me of my trip to Santa Fe.
Translations:
bird-in-a-bush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fumewort of the species Corydalis solida.
pos: noun
Translations:
finger-popping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more finger-popping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most finger-popping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: finger-poppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by a strong or lively beat.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: The act or practice of clicking one's fingers in time to mark a beat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: finger poppings and rhythmic hand slappings, perhaps with West African origins, that could take several minutes to complete and a good deal longer when two groups of blacks met.
Translations:
soft-verge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soft-verges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unsealed strip along the edge of a sealed road.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: I wrestled with the wheel, snaked her out of the skid after spinning round and then - horror of horrors - a rear wheel struck a soft verge, the car overturned and there was I, semi-conscious but, as far as I can recall, in no acute pain.
Perhaps the idea was that I would drop Mum in London, then drive back with Helen, as we could pull into a secluded soft-verge off the M1...and...hold hands?
Translations:
Bulu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. )
Inflected forms:
form: Bulu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the ethnic group.
pos: noun
Translations:
pa-leng
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A culture-bound syndrome of frigophobia, found in parts of Asia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Timpanogos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Native American tribe of central Utah.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
lie-beral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of lie + liberal.
Compound parts: lie
liberal
Inflected forms:
form: lie-berals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of libtard
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
Translations:
six-square
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hexagonal
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If the Earth were six-square, the shadow would be six-square in the eclipse of the moon.
Translations:
Polish-Lithuanian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: The cathedral was built between 1625 and 1636 to commemorate the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian nobles who overran Russia in the era known as the Time of Troubles.
Tom Kaminski, managing editor of traffic and transit information at WCBS-AM (880), said that in the pantheon of mispronounced New York landmarks, Van Wyck was neck-and-neck with the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Queens and Brooklyn and was named in the 1940s for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian hero of the Revolutionary War.
That theme was reprised this month, on the 400th anniversary of the uprising that expelled a Polish-Lithuanian occupation, ending what Russians call the “time of troubles.”
Russian nationalists marched on Tuesday in Moscow to commemorate Unity Day, which celebrates a victory over Polish-Lithuanian forces in 1612.
He was marking Unity Day, a national holiday that commemorates an uprising that expelled Polish-Lithuanian occupiers from Moscow in 1612.
Translations:
soap-tray
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soap-trays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tray forsoap.
pos: noun
examples: The washstand should be furnished with a large bowl and pitcher, soap-tray, small pitcher and tumbler, china tray containing two tooth-brushes and nail-brushes, sponge-basin, holding two sponges (large and small), and a bottle of ammonia.
Translations:
boot-stand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boot-stands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an organizational tool designed to store boots upright, preventing them from falling over, wrinkling, or creasing
pos: noun
examples: A boot-stand, on which all the boots and shoes should be arranged in regular order, with boot-jacks and boot-hooks, is a necessary adjunct to the gentleman's dressing-room.
Translations:
lump-sugar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lump-sugars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sugar cube
pos: noun
examples: It is well to have on the toilet-table a remedy for inflamed eyes. Spermaceti ointment is simple and well adapted to this purpose. Apply at night, and wash off with rose-water in the morning. There is a simple lotion made by dissolving a very small piece of alum and a piece of lump-sugar of the same size in a quart of water; put the ingredients into the water cold and let them simmer. Bathe the eyes frequently with it.
Translations:
whisky-john
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whisky-johns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of whisky jack
pos: noun
Translations:
DoorDash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DoorDashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DoorDashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DoorDashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DoorDashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Doordash
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To order, pick up, or deliver (food or goods) using the DoorDash app or service.
pos: verb
tags: informal
neologism
transitive
examples: But also: all of the banking transactions you carry out, each phrase you dictate to Alexa, each scan of a UPS package en route to your door, every record of a COVID-19 PCR test in your Labcorp account, every bucket of wings you DoorDashed.
And then there are the Millennial/Gen Z guys (at least online) who think all that is cringe “wine mom” stuff and resent that they’re the ones who stood in the way of the nirvana of a Bernie Sanders socialist presidency because they were willing to settle for Old Man Biden and now the cost of Doordashing burritos is out of control.
Modern life is replete with chances to either rely on relationships or buy your way out of a problem. Why ask a friend to drive you to the airport when you can just take an Uber? Why borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor when you can get your own bag of it Doordashed to you?
Translations:
Luso-Brazilian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Luso- + Brazilian.
Base: Brazilian
Affixes: Luso-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to both Portugal and Brazil, or to their language varieties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
top-tick
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: top-ticks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: top-ticking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: top-ticked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: top-ticked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: top tick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To trade (usually, to buy) an asset at its peak, immediately before its price declines.
pos: verb
examples: Why not accept that your first buy may not be your last buy and build in the weakness? That way you are never top-ticking, something that's incredibly important if you are going to stay in the game.
One such example is Time Warner Inc.'s ill-starred merger with AOL, which was announced just in the nick of time to perfectly top-tick the dot-com mania in January 2000.
The Shanghai market began to tank immediately after I sold the Hong Kong shares short. I had top-ticked the market—I was going to make a fortune, right?
Top-ticking may be the talent of Kwasi Kwarteng, the 38-day chancellor behind Britain's 2022 'mini-Budget' and related kerfuffles.
Translations:
Afro-Mexican
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Afro- + Mexican.
Base: Mexican
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
form: Afro-Mexicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Afro-Mexican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Afro-Mexican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of Mexico (a Mexican) who is of African heritage.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to Mexicans of African heritage.
pos: adj
Translations:
e-doc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of e-document.
Inflected forms:
form: e-docs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An e-document.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
control-F
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: control-Fs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: control-Fing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: control-Fed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: control-Fed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To search for text, as if by using the "Find in page" or similarly named function in a document viewing application, such as a web browser or a word processor.
pos: verb
examples: His lawyers just copied and pasted his defense from the last impeachment: Control-F ‘Ukraine,’ replace with ‘riot.’
Sometimes I wish I could just flip to a table of contents, or control-F my channel or my brain.
He’s charmingly bewildered by the complexities of life: Control-f a question mark in the lyrics of any of his albums and you’ll get plenty of results.
Translations:
mouth-filling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mouth-filling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mouth-filling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Long and difficult to pronounce.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: And how many people can remember that the full name of the insecticide DDT is the mouth-filling dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane?
Translations:
gin-clear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gin-clear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gin-clear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of crystal clear (“very translucent or transparent”).
pos: adj
examples: a gin-clear June afternoon
Chris explores beneath the surface in a gin-clear plunge pool
Translations:
tarded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of retarded.
Inflected forms:
form: more tarded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tarded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stupid, retarded.
pos: adj
tags: offensive
slang
Translations:
S-hook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Because the hook is S-shaped.
Inflected forms:
form: S-hooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of hardware consisting of a rod or thick wire bent into S-shaped form.
pos: noun
Translations:
Y-linked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Associated with the Y chromosome.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bottle-tom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bottle (from the shape of its nest) + the common given name Tom.
Inflected forms:
form: bottle-toms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus.
pos: noun
examples: […] there is no more engaging sight than a colony of “bottle-toms” flitting along from tree to tree and from branch to branch in perfect harmony and contentment.
Translations:
bush-made
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Constructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.
Translations:
one-spot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: one-spots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of buck (“a dollar (one hundred cents)”)
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
buck-goat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buck-goats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of buck (“a male goat”)
pos: noun
Translations: