yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
left-to-right
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: left to right
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: LTR
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That is written (and is read) from left to right.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: From left to right.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ramsay Ames was Ananka at the beginning, but after that it was her stand-in, who we dressed the same way and put the makeup on. Incidentally, I shot that chase differently than what Pivar was used to. Chases always ran left-to-right, left-to-right, all the time.
Antonyms: right-to-left
Translations:
right-to-left
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: right to left
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That is written (and is read) from right to left.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: From right to left.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: left-to-right
Translations:
riyo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 両 (ryō).
Inflected forms:
form: riyos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: riyo
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese ounce, especially of silver; a tael.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
life-source
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: life-sources
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life.
pos: noun
examples: Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.
Because I cut the bonds of those so joined, I bear my head cut off from its life-source, which is back there, alas, within its trunk.
In popular belief, the soul has been seen as the life-source that gives shape, individuality and life to each human being;
Translations:
almajiri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hausa àlmājìr̃ī.
Inflected forms:
form: almajiris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An itinerant student at an Islamic school in northern Nigeria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The system of Islamic education employed at these schools.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gronk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: gronks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gronks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gronking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gronked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gronked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An unintelligent and callous person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
informal
gloss: Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detectives start at the end, […]
[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.
The next startup event is the computer's attempt to read a disk in drive A. But, there is no disk in drive A, remember? You were supposed to remove any disk in this drive. So, you hear a lot of pathetic gronking and grakking until the computer gives up […]
gloss: To fail; to crash or go wrong.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
slang
examples: Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.
The other faction centered on […] what went on under the [model railway] layout. This was The System, […] and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up.
Translations:
gully-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gully + hole.
Compound parts: gully
hole
Inflected forms:
form: gully-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manhole providing access to a drain.
pos: noun
Translations:
type-high
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the standard height of a line of type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a type-high woodcut
Translations:
Deuteronomistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Deuteronomist.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
neo-burlesque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neo- + burlesque.
Base: burlesque
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neoburlesque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A revived form of traditional American burlesque performance, involving dance, striptease, dramatic performance, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fan-blast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
ironworking
lifestyle
Etymology: From fan + blast.
Compound parts: fan
blast
Inflected forms:
form: fan-blasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The blast produced by a fan, as distinguished from that produced by a blowing-engine.
pos: noun
Translations:
Johnny-on-the-spot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Johnny-on-the-spots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Johnnies-on-the-spot
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is conveniently in the right place when needed.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Translations:
double-lock
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: double-locks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-locking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-locked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-locked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lock with two separate locks or bolts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lock by two turns of the key.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
organ-point
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: organ-points
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A note sustained through a series of chords, although only in harmony with the first and last.
pos: noun
Translations:
snail-wheel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snail-wheels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In some striking timepieces, a rotating piece with a spiral periphery having notches so arranged as to determine the number of strokes made on the bell.
pos: noun
Translations:
swish-swash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swish-swashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swish-swashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swish-swashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swish-swashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swish-swashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A repeated swishing action or sound, going back and forth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A weak, wishy-washy drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To make a repeated swishing action or sound.
pos: verb
Translations:
half-one
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A handicap of one stroke every second hole.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dust-brand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: smut fungus
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
way-traffic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Local traffic, as distinguished from through or express traffic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chup
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: chups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chupped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more chup
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chup
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.
pos: noun
examples: The blackbirds and robins and and^([sic]) tits and finches shout at each other, chups and warbles and chirrups that, loosely translated, mean “Fancy a shag?”, “Get OFF my land” or “I’ve got a great big tonker.”
gloss: To make a short, loud, and urgent sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Silent, quiet.
pos: adj
tags: India
informal
examples: to keep chup
Did the strike-leaders not know this fact? Did the general body of Municipal employees do anything to stop this? Were they not co-operating with the thieves amongst them by keeping chup over it all these years?
gloss: Used to request silence: be quiet, shut up!
pos: intj
tags: India
informal
Translations:
witch-hunting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Engagement in a witch-hunt; searching for witches or for evidence against them.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.
Witch-hunting has often been prominent both in revolutionary movements which directly opposed and helped to end colonialism or white supremacy, and in the successor states, under native regimes, which emerged out of the former colonies.
gloss: Engagement in a political witch-hunt; unjust or ideologicallt motivated persecution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Noble had accused the Rugby Football League of "an element of witch-hunting" before accompanying Fielden to his disciplinary hearing, which he admitted was "disruptive" in cup final week.
Translations:
long-billed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a long bill.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
heka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Egyptian ḥkꜣ.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A mystic animating force present in the universe, used by deities and people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Endowed with heka, both people and the gods can make words and wishes effective.
The distinction between white (life-giving) and black (life-destroying) magic was not simplistically defined, because heka was viewed as a neutral force.
Heka was especially expressed in words, spoken or written, but also by ritual, often linked to particular stones, plants and incenses.
Translations:
word-bound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more word-bound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most word-bound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wordbound
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to find expression in words.
pos: adj
Translations:
lovekin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From love + -kin.
Base: love
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: lovekins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A term of endearment for a lover or sweetheart.
pos: noun
Translations:
dead-alive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dead-alive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dead-alive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.
pos: adj
examples: 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude
In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
Translations:
messenger-at-arms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: messengers-at-arms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An officer who executes the summonses of the Court of Session.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
runrig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From run + rig (“ridge”).
Compound parts: run
rig
Inflected forms:
form: runrigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: runridge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A system of land tenure in which farmland was divided into irregular strips and allocated to tenants in rotation; a strip of such land.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
Translations:
leaden-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more leaden-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leaden-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: unfeeling
pos: adj
Translations:
thousand-leaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thousand-leaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, featuring finely divided leaves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Nose-blood, Thousand-leaf, Yarrow, is so well known that I need not waste time to describe it.
Because of the many small parts of its leaves, yarrow is often known as milfoil, or thousand-leaves.
Translations:
drunkie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From drunk + -ie.
Base: drunk
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: drunkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
cross-cast
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
entertainment
finance
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From cross- + cast.
Base: cast
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-casts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-casting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-cast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-cast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cross-casted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: cross-casted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: To add up the separately computed totals from each column to ensure that they agree with the overall total.
pos: verb
gloss: To cast an actor of the opposite gender to play a part.
pos: verb
Translations:
quander
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quanders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quandered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To ponder or wonder about.
pos: verb
examples: While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.
There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.
The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.
Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.
What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.
Translations:
fabe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably an expansion of fab.
Inflected forms:
form: faber
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fabest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fantastic; great.
pos: adj
tags: Polari
examples: Vada well: zhooshed riah, the shyckle mauve, full slap, rouge for days, fake ogle riahs, fortuni cocktail and mother's fabest slingbacks.
Translations:
GCN
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Inflected forms:
form: GCNs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nintendo GameCube
pos: noun
tags: initialism
examples: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a must-play game this fall, but it's not the only great GCN game in town.
Translations:
Tuoba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mandarin 拓跋 (Tuòbá).
Inflected forms:
form: T'o-pa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Toba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tuoh-bar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: an ancient Xianbei tribe of China
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural
plural-only
Translations:
maltipoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From malti- (representing Malte(se)) + poo(dle).
Inflected forms:
form: maltipoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog that is a cross between a Maltese and a miniature poodle.
pos: noun
examples: Maltipoos are a cross between Maltese and Toy or Miniature Poodles. Their coat might be more like a Poodle's or a Maltese's, or somewhere in between.
[What is your most treasured possession?] My new dog, Cher. She’s a maltipoo.
Translations:
site-faithful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That return to the same breeding grounds every year (typically generation after generation)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dry-cure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dry-cures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dry-curing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dry-cured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dry-cured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To preserve food using salt, and sometimes sodium nitrite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
dry-cured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Preserved by means of salt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Imperialist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Imperialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agent or official working on behalf of the Empire of Japan.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
historical
sometimes
Translations:
off-roll
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
form: off-rolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: off-rolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: off-rolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: off-rolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove (a pupil) from the list of those enrolled at a school, for illegitimate reasons such as improving the school's examination rankings.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
Translations:
arch-heretical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From arch- + heretical.
Base: heretical
Affixes: arch-
Inflected forms:
form: more arch-heretical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arch-heretical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Highly heretical; being or relating to arch-heresy.
pos: adj
Translations:
arch-heresy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From arch- + heresy.
Base: heresy
Affixes: arch-
Inflected forms:
form: arch-heresies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief or major heresy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lapper-milk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to lopper, from Middle English loper (“curdled”), probably connected with Old English hléapan (“to leap, run”). Compare rennet, runnet.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: curdled milk
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
uncountable
Translations:
scart
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scarted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To scratch or scrape.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
gloss: A slight wound.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A dash or stroke.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A niggard.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A poor-looking creature; a wretch.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
anti-icer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + ice + -er.
Base: ice
Affixes: anti-
-er
Inflected forms:
form: anti-icers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anticer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device or chemical substance that prevents ice formation or removes any formed ice.
pos: noun
Translations:
Conch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From conch
* (Bahamas): in reference to the seafood that made up much of their diet.
Inflected forms:
form: Conchs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Conches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A British Bahamian.
pos: noun
tags: dated
ethnic
slur
gloss: A British Bahamian.
pos: noun
tags: dated
ethnic
slur
gloss: A denizen of the Florida Keys
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
non-negligible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + negligible.
Base: negligible
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonnegligible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not negligible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
roebuck-berry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: roebuck-berries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: stone bramble
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
Pindari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi पिंडारी (piṇḍārī).
Inflected forms:
form: Pindaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pindara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pindaree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pindarry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a band of Muslim plunderers and foragers in the Indian subcontinent from the 17th to the 19th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
whole-length
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Inflected forms:
form: whole-lengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Depicting the whole figure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A whole-length Picture of a Woman, by Van Dyck
In the Great Gallery is a moſt admirable Ritratto of Cardinal Spada, a whole-length Figure, ſitting; by Guido.
[A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by Mʳˢ P. that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed over the Mantlepeice,^([sic]) caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir H. Denham—[…]
gloss: A portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.
pos: noun
Translations:
well-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Favourably inclined.
pos: adj
Translations:
nosie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nose + -ie.
Base: nose
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: nosies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nosey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: nosy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A nose.
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: Oh! how his little nosie / Is wet with morning dew, / From yonder garden posey / Of pansy blossoms blue.
You are my little honey Rosie, / Though freckled be your little nosie.
Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.
I think I will do as much for my friends as almost anyone you can find, but I won’t wipe their little nosies, take them to the little room where one goes all alone, or kiss them lovingly before [they go to bed(?)]
“And we don’t like little kiddywinks poking their little nosies in, disturbing us.”
Look how dry their poor little nosies are.
Translations:
storyful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From story + -ful.
Base: story
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more storyful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most storyful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: storiful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: storiful
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a story; storylike
pos: adj
examples: All that sort of thing is very storyful, of course, but it does not concern this account.
[…] But let us for an instant or two flit back to the storyful dawn of Greenwich Village.
So it will be seen again, as always, that if he now works with stone in this sense, using the new power which the machine has given him over it, he will gain a spiritual integrity and physical health to compensate him for the losses of the storyful beauties of that period, […]
The Purple Polly Gimbo and other storiful rhymes.
gloss: Abounding in stories; legendary
pos: adj
examples: Toledo, the venerable, the storyful, is bowed with the weight of centuries.
The excitements of a pair of knickers, muddied on the storyful pavement, set his mind on murderous trackings.
gloss: A complete account or rendering
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
examples: Then, Frederic Oren Bartlett has a storyful of very genuine human sentiment in “The Owl Car”; […]
As it is, a few comic moments intrude on a storyful of cliches.
Each is a storyful of stories.
Translations:
Belvedere
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A reference to an urban legend about the 1980s sitcom Mr. Belvedere, in which filming was allegedly delayed after the actor playing Mr. Belvedere injured himself by sitting on his testicles.
Inflected forms:
form: Belvederes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Belvedering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Belvedered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Belvedered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sit painfully on one's testicles.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
slang
examples: Great, and after that you can clean my pants up coz I just Mr. Belvedered myself. Google it.
[You slept with] Lutz? Is that even possible? I mean, I was there when he Belvedered. God, Abby, you can't be that desperate for male attention.
The rumor has two endings... that he yelled so loudly that the light above the table in the room shook or that he was carried out on a stretcher. 'Aaargh! I just Belvedered myself!'
Translations:
blisk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From bladed + disk.
Inflected forms:
form: blisks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft turbine engine rotor that has integral blades.
pos: noun
Translations:
para-fascism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.
Base: fascism
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
form: parafascism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: para-Fascism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.
It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.
Translations:
dexedrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Brand name.
Inflected forms:
form: dexedrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dexedrine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brand name for dextroamphetamine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.
[…]—and then all soaring on—what?—acid, peyote, morning-glory seeds, which were very hell to choke down, billions of bilious seeds mulching out into sodden dandelions in your belly, bloated—but soaring!—or IT-290, or dexedrine, benzedrine, methedrine— Speed!—or speed and grass—[…]
Later I learned that the pills were Dexedrine, which Elvis had first discovered in the Army. A sergeant had given several men pills to help them stay awake while on guard duty.
Translations:
desma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An axial filament.
pos: noun
Translations:
crepis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin crepis, from Ancient Greek κρηπῐ́ς (krēpĭ́s, “crepida; foundation”). Doublet of crepida.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Crepis in the family Compositae.
pos: noun
examples: Most species of crepis are weeds and all have flowers like small dandelions.
gloss: The central spicule of a sponge, upon which silica is deposited.
pos: noun
Related words: monocrepid
rhabdocrepid
tetracrepid
tricrepid
Translations:
dodol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dodols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet, sticky toffee-like confection made from coconut milk, jaggery, and rice flour, found in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
hare-skin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hare + skin.
Compound parts: hare
skin
Inflected forms:
form: hare-skins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skin of a hare.
pos: noun
Translations:
kinkshame
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From kink + shame.
Compound parts: kink
shame
Inflected forms:
form: kinkshames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kinkshaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kinkshamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kinkshamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kink-shame
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kink shame
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To mock, shame, bully, harass, condemn, or make fun of (someone) for or because of their sexual preferences or interests, or fetishes.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This abomination, which stands for "Daddy Dom Little Girl" is essentially pedophilia-lite and is super uncomfortable, abusive, and wildly problematic. Yes, I'm kinkshaming.
"It's not a romantic relationship," he said. "But they are both really really into My Little Pony. In very dark ways."
I burst into laughter again, letting out a snort. "Oh my god, I think I'm gonna be sick."
"Don't kink-shame, Mary."
Let them know what your limits are early on if you're worried you might unknowingly kink-shame them, so they'll know, for example, not to let you in on their furry fantasy.
Last year, [Lily] Allen made headlines for sharing on the podcast Miss Me? that she would sometimes go days without speaking to her husband. In a different episode of the podcast, she mused about whether she had incidentally kink-shamed [David] Harbour for turning down some of his bedroom requests in the past.
gloss: To mock, shame, or condemn (a sexual preference or fetish).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Of all this world's perversities, there is only one I cannot abide: the kink-shame. I'm off!” “You can't walk out! I'm walking out!”
Related words: yuck someone's yum
Translations:
Conventual
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Conventuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.
pos: noun
Translations:
neo-idiot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: neo-idiots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: neoconservative
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Translations:
non-controlled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + controlled.
Base: controlled
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: noncontrolled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not controlled; uncontrolled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sweep-washer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sweep-washers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who scrapes a little gold or silver from the sweepings of refineries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Gabrielino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from the name of a Spanish mission built on their territory: the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.
Inflected forms:
form: Gabrielinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Tongva.
pos: noun
Translations:
Tongva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tongvas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tongva
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, thought to be descended from Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples from Nevada.
pos: noun
Translations:
silver-grain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The appearance in radial longitudinal section of exogenous wood, especially oak, due to shining plates of the medullary rays.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pourover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from pour over.
Inflected forms:
form: pourovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of coffee prepared by manually pouring hot water over the ground beans, rather than using an automatic drip method.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
Translations:
back-formed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1911 (adjective sense 1).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Formed by back-formation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To coin an example from this very word [sc. backformation], we might use the phrase, «such and such a word is back-formed from etc.»
Translations:
Angkorian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Angkor (“Angkor Wat”) + -ian.
Base: Angkor
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Angkorian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Angkorian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Angkorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Angkor or Angkor Wat or the Angkor Empire
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having qualities of Angkor or Angkor Wat, particularly its architecture.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
gloss: A denizen of Angkor or the Angkor Empire.
pos: noun
Translations:
bail-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bail + in, formed to contrast with bailout, which came first.
Compound parts: bail
in
Inflected forms:
form: bail-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of saving a bank from insolvency by making use of its internal resources (such as client deposits).
pos: noun
examples: A “bail-in” process for bank resolution is a potentially powerful “third option” that confronts this problem head-on. It would give officials the authority to force banks to recapitalise from within, using private capital, not public money.
Alternatively, where losses are not completely transferred to other creditors, the resolution fund can provide a contribution to the bank in order to cover the losses not absorbed through the bail-in and the capital shortfall, as well as to buy shares or other capital instruments of the bank under resolution in order to recapitalise it.
Translations:
no-bill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: no-bills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation where the jury has not found sufficient cause to support the alleged charges.
pos: noun
Translations:
robin-chat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: robin-chats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of songbirds with robin-like breasts.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a number of songbirds with robin-like breasts.
pos: noun
Derived words: white-bellied robin-chat
Translations:
value-neutral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more value-neutral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most value-neutral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making no judgment as to whether something is good or bad; lacking moral or ethical bias.
pos: adj
examples: a value-neutral approach to scientific research
Translations:
front-of-house
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the front of house or public face of a business.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
van-dragging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of theft in which one person would leap onto the back of a horse-drawn vehicle laden with goods and throw them down to an accomplice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Theft by stealing one vehicle and transferring the goods to another.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
Related words: van-dragger
jumpup
Translations:
peg-strip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peg-strips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ribbon of wood cut to the width, etc. of a shoepeg.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
public-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more public-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most public-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: public-spirited
pos: adj
Translations:
flag-hopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The unethical practice of registering a vessel under a series of different flags of convenience so as to circumvent regulations etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
flowback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from flow back.
Inflected forms:
form: flowbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The flowing backward of a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flowback of a proppant following fracture stimulation treatment is a major concern because of the damage to equipment and loss in well production.
gloss: Any change back to a former place or situation by gradual movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The flowback of returning Arab 'guest workers' from Arab oil-rich states may be decomposed into two components: […]
Translations:
Vy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Vys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The indicated airspeed at which an aircraft's climb rate is at a maximum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sideways-on
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sideways-on
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sideways-on
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
pos: adj
examples: In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.
The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.
What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.
Translations:
guk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 국 (guk, “soup”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A class of soup-like dishes in Korean cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Mendip
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the Mendip Hills.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Mendips or Mendip Hills.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A reduction in Mendip stone traffic lead to 59003 moving to Germany in 1997, before being brought back to the UK in 2014 by GB Railfreight.
Translations:
cowal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cowals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A billabong, or stagnant pool.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
play-actor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: play-actors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: playactor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An actor who performs on stage, especially one who is part of an acting troupe.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose Bacon wrote the plays, and that there is no cipher in them ; suppose he threw them from him as " trifles " ; used them to eke out his small income by dividing the profits with the play-actor, Shakespeare, and thought no more about them, and cared nothing for them; and suppose they were gathered up from the actor's hands, with all their imperfections on their heads, and so jumbled together and printed by Heminge and Condell.
'Sadly, the play-actor is running and hiding like a rabbit,' the man went on.
Mr. Greyle, mister, says that he has no recollection whatever of meeting this play-actor person in America—he may have done and he mayn't.
Translations:
Basarwa
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: San, Bushmen
pos: adj
tags: Botswana
not-comparable
Translations:
devil-in-the-bush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
devil-on-the-neck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An old instrument of torture applied to the neck and legs.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
elementalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elementalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of elementalism
pos: noun
Translations:
e-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + law.
Base: law
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cyberlaw
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
leather-coat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leather-coats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An apple with a rough rind, the Golden Russet.
pos: noun
Translations:
air-built
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Built upon air; lacking a solid foundation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The city too, with all the glory she has derived from her misfortunes, has not been able to escape the suspicion of being nothing better than an air-built fabric, though the poet has assigned her a local habitation […]
Translations:
tree-dove
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tree-doves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various arboricole Indian pigeons.
pos: noun
Translations:
rood-steeple
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rood-steeples
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spire built over the entrance to the chancel.
pos: noun
Translations:
orange-American
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From orange + American, by analogy with other racial categories such as African-American or white American. Popularized in the 2010s in reference to Donald Trump's allegedly excessive use of tan makeup.
Compound parts: orange
American
Inflected forms:
form: orange-Americans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orange American
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more orange-American
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orange-American
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: orange American
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A white American who has orange-colored skin, used primarily in reference to Donald Trump.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
humorous
examples: Now one of Ohio's libtard groups is using the poll results to their own ends, pointing out that [John] Boehner's push to extend the Bush tax cuts would benefit his own elitist subculture of Orange-Americans - including the kids from "The Jersey Shore."
Famous orange-American Donald Trump has had a busy few months, feuding with State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, pretending to be friends with recently deceased civil rights icon Nelson Mandela, and fulminating on Twitter about how climate change isn’t real because it’s cold outside during winter.
According to the Trump supporters, their main takeaways are that he's a lot like a rapper, he won't make them slaves, and they're tired of all the jokes, like one of Wilmore's questions: "Are you voting for Trump because, as an orange-American, he's the only remaining candidate of color?"
Well, I've been known to call Trump "Cheetolini" which is racist toward Orange-Americans.
gloss: Of or pertaining to an orange-American.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
humorous
examples: "The person who runs these hotels is a giant racist which is pretty ironic for someone who is Orange-American. Would not recommend," said another.
Translations:
gum-rash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: red-gum
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
keming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Coined by various sources in the early 1990s as a deliberate misspelling of kerning by combining the r and n into an m, as an example of improper kerning due to the increasing growth of desktop publishing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Improper kerning.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
humorous
uncountable
examples: When done correctly, kerning helps to improve the readability of text by adding or removing space between two letters. Bad kerning, also known as keming, leads to misreadings, and in the worst cases, incredibly bad (but humorous) misunderstandings.
Translations:
chain-melted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From having chain crystals melted while the remainder of the crystal is not.
Inflected forms:
form: chain melted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the chain-melted state phase of matter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
iconics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From icon + -ics. Compare Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós, “relating to images”).
Base: icon
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of images and symbols as a form of communication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Their aesthetic, if you haven't noticed, is about benign skin cancers, supernumerary nipples. Conventional tattoos belong firmly among the iconics of the hegemon. […]”
Translations:
Lib-Lab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: Lib-Labs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Liberal candidate who was financially maintained by trade unions and supposed to represent the working classes.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Translations:
long-life
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designed to last for a long time, said especially of food and drink
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: long-life milk
long-life lamp
Translations:
Lowlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lowlands + -er.
Base: Lowlands
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Lowlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from the Scottish Lowlands.
pos: noun
Translations:
hayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hay + -er.
Base: hay
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
pos: noun
examples: […] the men do the mowing, the women the raking, and with the exception of two villages, the men carry the hay on their backs and load the hay sleds and wagons. Children help with the raking, and carry hot meals from home to the hayers.
Translations:
Depo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Depo-Provera (trademarked name for medroxyprogesterone acetate).
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Researchers find that the women who lived in places affected by the Planned Parenthood cuts had 27 percent more births than the women using Depo in the year prior.
Translations:
Capodimonte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Capo di Monte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory (Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte) in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
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