yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wholesomeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English holsumnesse, equivalent to wholesome + -ness.
Base: wholesome
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wholesomenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being wholesome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bedspread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + spread.
Compound parts: bed
spread
Inflected forms:
form: bedspreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.
pos: noun
gloss: A coverlet.
pos: noun
Translations:
shelved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more shelved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shelved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Postponed or put aside indefinitely.
pos: adj
Translations:
shelving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, shelve + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more shelving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shelving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shelvings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sloping (as opposed to horizontally flat or vertically upright).
pos: adj
examples: Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built so shelving that one cannot climb it / Without apparent hazard of his life.
We still continued winding round Skiddaw, the sides of which are every where rather shelving, than steep.
1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87,
her cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank
The town of Abda is built upon the top and down the steeply shelving face of an isolated rocky spur,
[…] a gently shelving plain led to a huge forest through which there were tracks that could safely be followed.
gloss: Shelves collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a shelving unit
There is ample shelving in the basement.
gloss: The side-rails of a cart or waggon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: So, creaking and creaking, and the shelvins skirling under the weight of their load, they passed that danger point, the carts plodded into motion again […]
gloss: A sloping surface.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: […] the way was all along set so full of Snares, Traps, Gins, and Nets here, and so full of Pits, Pitfalls, deep holes and shelvings down there, that had it now been dark […] had he had a thousand souls, they had in reason been cast away;
[The little room] had more corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man; was full of mad closets, into which nothing could be put that was not specially invented and made for that purpose; had mysterious shelvings and bulk-heads […]
dry light sand, blown from higher shelvings, striped the dark wet edges of the shore
Frau Von Zeck settled her powerful chins upon the coarse shelving of her Wagnerian breasts […]
Related words: shelfing
Derived words: bookshelving
deshelving
Translations:
teasing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tease + -ing.
Base: tease
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: teasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more teasing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most teasing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously, especially by ridicule; provoking someone with persistent annoyances; making fun of, making light of someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Teasing can be seen as a kind of workplace abuse.
The gentle teasing between siblings filled the house with laughter.
gloss: The act of removing tangles from one's hair with a comb.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The teasing of her curls took nearly an hour with the fine-tooth comb.
gloss: Playfully vexing, especially by ridicule.
pos: adj
examples: The children exchanged teasing remarks during recess.
gloss: Arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it.
pos: adj
examples: The actress gave him a teasing glance before walking away.
gloss: Causing irritation or annoyance.
pos: adj
examples: The teasing itch from the mosquito bite drove her crazy.
Related words: harassment
molestation
caper
frolic
gambol
play
romp
comb
combing
playful
seductive
disagreeable
Derived words: Adam-teasing
Eve-teasing
brainteasing
teasingly
Translations:
dropper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
biology
botany
business
computing
cricket
engineering
fishing
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
tennis
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English dropper
From drop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: droppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
pos: noun
examples: 'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck[…]
gloss: One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
pos: noun
examples: The dropper left the suitcase with the bomb next to the garbage can.
The child with the letter runs around the outside of the ring, repeating the words over and over again, and at one point drops the letter behind one of the players, who must pick it up and chase the dropper.
gloss: A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
pos: noun
gloss: A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
pos: noun
gloss: A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
pos: noun
gloss: The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
pos: noun
gloss: A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
pos: noun
gloss: A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Thus an American police chief discussing the 'cheque-droppers', then peculiar to his side of the Atlantic, who were taking a toll estimated at […] Over the years, forgery has tended to be an amateur operation — a crime of opportunity.
[…] 'dropper' — the person who presents the cheque at the bank or elsewhere — who takes the risk. […] On the other hand, 'kite droppers' usually work in teams.
gloss: A drop shot.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A bowler who makes such deliveries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
pos: noun
Derived words: dime dropper
dime-dropper
dropperful
eardropper
eyedropper
jaw-dropper
marmalade dropper
microdropper
namedropper
name dropper
name-dropper
panty dropper
pigeon dropper
pink panty dropper
yod-dropper
Translations:
electioneering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Campaigning for elective office on behalf of oneself or another candidate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: … his extraordinary announcement... ignored the most basic commandment of electioneering: Thou shalt not impose a new tax.
Translations:
emigre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French émigrébor.
English emigre
Borrowed from French émigré.
Inflected forms:
form: emigres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: émigré
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: emigré
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who has departed their native land, often as a refugee.
pos: noun
examples: Between the wars, Paris was the center for all the world's emigres.
gloss: An emigrant, one who departs their native land to become an immigrant in another.
pos: noun
Translations:
encephalitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English encephalitis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English encephalitic
From encephalitis + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to encephalitis.
pos: adj
Translations:
engorged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more engorged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most engorged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly filled with fluid; used especially of blood vessels.
pos: adj
Translations:
engorgement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English engorge
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English engorgement
From engorge + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: engorgements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of swallowing greedily.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process or the condition of becoming engorged, becoming over-filled with fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
Translations:
purchaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English purchase
English -er
English purchaser
From purchase + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: purchasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who purchases.
pos: noun
examples: If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
Antonyms: borrower
merchant
seller
thief
Translations:
handing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: handings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is handed to somebody.
pos: noun
examples: Silently and patiently did the doctor bear all this, and all the handings of negus, and watching for glasses, and darting for biscuits, and coquetting, that ensued […]
Translations:
feathery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feather
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English feathery
From feather + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: featherier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more feathery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: featheriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most feathery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling feathers.
pos: adj
gloss: Covered with feathers.
pos: adj
Derived words: featherily
featheriness
feathery false lily of the valley
Translations:
navigational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English navigation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English navigational
From navigation + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to navigation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
inion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰνίον (iníon, “occipital bone; back of the head”). Compare -ion (“anthropometric landmark”).
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: inia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.
pos: noun
Translations:
uro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 洞 (uro).
Inflected forms:
form: uro
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, irregularly-shaped wound made in the trunk of a bonsai tree for aesthetic reasons.
pos: noun
Translations:
gigahertz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English giga-
English hertz
English gigahertz
From giga- + hertz.
Inflected forms:
form: gigahertz
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gigahertzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One billion hertz, 10⁹ Hz.
pos: noun
Translations:
backgrounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more backgrounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most backgrounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Moved to the background
pos: adj
gloss: (of a task) Made non-interactive
pos: adj
Translations:
blackwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + wood.
Compound parts: black
wood
Inflected forms:
form: blackwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: The very dark wood of such trees.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: Tasmanian blackwood
Translations:
pharmacologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From pharmacology + -ist.
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Base: pharmacology
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student of pharmacology; one versed in the science of pharmacology.
pos: noun
Translations:
cystine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), where it was found.
Inflected forms:
form: cystines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonessential amino acid formed by the oxidation of cysteine; it contains two cysteine residues linked by a disulfide bond.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
smelling
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used in adjectival compounds.
pos: verb
examples: foul-smelling (having a foul smell)
sweet-smelling (having a sweet smell)
gloss: The act by which something is smelled.
pos: noun
examples: To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
Derived words: smelling salts
unsmelling
Translations:
Erie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Ériébor.
English Erie
From French Érié, from the shortening of an Erie word rendered in French as Erieehronon, Eriechronon, and Riquéronon and said to mean “long tail” or “long-tailed”, in reference to the eastern cougar (Puma concolor cougar).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tribe of Native Americans.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
piccata
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Italian piccata (“larded”), past participle of piccare (“to prick; to lard”).
Inflected forms:
form: piccatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Rattle-snake piccata with grapes and figs, old Brown Betty with a yellow wig […]
gloss: A dish of food sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce; or an individual slice of such a dish.
pos: noun
examples: Maybe you've been put off by all the syllables that hang around veal. The saltimboccas, parmigianas, piccatas and scaloppines. Well, it's a ruse. In fact, veal is very simple food.
“(grunts) Frankie put glass in the piccata and the restaurant comped us, so we got all these chips. Let's hit the casino.” “All right.” “Come on, Nadia. Let's go watch this Rat Pack show with the girls.” “Did you say "the Rat Pack"?” “Yeah, they're good.” “They're here?” “Yeah, yeah, it's the Rat Pack.” “Chips ahoy!”
Translations:
ignitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ignite
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English ignitable
From ignite + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more ignitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ignitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being ignited; able to burn.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: flammable, inflammable (in one of its contranymic senses); combustible
gloss: Easily ignited.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: flammable, inflammable (in one of its contranymic senses)
Related words: igniter
ignition
Translations:
radiosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: radiosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A three-dimensional rendering system that simulates all reflections from objects in the scene.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
comfit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French confit (“preserved fruit”), from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of confect, confetto, confit, and konfyt. Compare confit.
Inflected forms:
form: comfits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A confection consisting of a nut, seed or fruit coated with sugar.
pos: noun
examples: Heart! you swear like a comfit-maker's wife.
"Why, what are they?" she asked, looking at him askance. ¶ "Hashish; did you never hear of it?" ¶ "Oh, yes; it's that Indian stuff which brings one fantastic visions, isn't it? I've always wanted to see and taste it, and now I will," cried Belle, nibbling at one of the bean-shaped comfits with its green heart.
But since I ate your present of comfits—and they were admirable comfits, and I ate them with speed—my heart is changed and inclined toward you, I know not why or how, except it be through magic.
Translations:
crabbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English crabbed; equivalent to crab + -ed.
Base: crab
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more crabbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crabbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
pos: adj
examples: […]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.
gloss: Cramped, bent.
pos: adj
examples: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee,
Old Winter, with a rugged beard as grey
As the long moss upon the apple-tree; […]
gloss: Crowded together and difficult to read.
pos: adj
gloss: Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind.
pos: adj
examples: Unlike most aircraft, the B-52's fully-steerable landing gear allows it to land crabbed and stay crabbed throughout rollout without destroying its tires.
gloss: Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab.
pos: adj
examples: The Ercoupe can't be cross-controlled, so it has to make a crabbed approach in a crosswind rather than using the sideslip technique.
Derived words: crabbedly
crabbedness
uncrabbed
Translations:
siding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -ing
English siding
From side + -ing (“material, collection”).
Inflected forms:
form: sidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
Translations:
dickering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dickerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: bargaining
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Over the years, I tried my best to emulate my father, and I concluded that dickering ability is not hereditary.
gloss: bartering
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
firestick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + stick.
Compound parts: fire
stick
Inflected forms:
form: firesticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poker used to arrange coals, logs, etc., in a fire.
pos: noun
gloss: A stick burning, or with hot embers, at one end, taken from a fire.
pos: noun
examples: Newton used a fire-stick a yard long to light his pipe.
gloss: In traditional cultures, a smouldering stick used to transport fire from one place to another.
pos: noun
examples: If you did not stop, you ricked a firestick into the load and they were pretty good at it, believe me.
gloss: In traditional cultures, an implement used to start a fire by friction.
pos: noun
Synonyms: poker
stoker
Derived words: firestick farming
Translations:
jacquard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.
Inflected forms:
form: jacquards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The White House has jacquard drapes in the East Room.
gloss: Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Jacquard loom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: jacquardlike
Translations:
jaywalking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.
Base: jaywalk
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare[…
For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement.
Translations:
Clarissa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.
Inflected forms:
form: Clarissas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clarissa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
pos: noun
examples: Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.
In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.
The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.
Translations:
jaywalker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jay (“a stupid person”) + walker; jay walker (“a pedestrian who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering themselves and obstructing horses, carts, and automobiles”). First use appears c. 1917 in Harper's Magazine. Coined in analogy to the older turn-of-the-20th-century term jay driver (“a driver who doesn't pay attention to the road, endangering horses, carts, bicyclists, and pedestrians”). Promoted by driving enthusiasts and automotive concerns to clear the roads of obstructive pedestrians by making it illegal to walk in the middle of roads.
Compound parts: jay
walker
Inflected forms:
form: jaywalkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Mozart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.
Inflected forms:
form: Mozarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: By analogy with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musical virtuoso.
pos: noun
examples: One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.
He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.
[W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart—a genius in music...
gloss: By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
pos: noun
examples: There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.
Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.
Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."
In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.
By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.
Translations:
jimsonweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Jimson + weed.
Compound parts: Jimson
weed
Inflected forms:
form: jimsonweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jimson weed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jimpson weed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jimpsonweed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A poisonous plant of the species Datura stramonium, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: In so doing I have included a number of categories which may not generally be considered suitable for inclusion under the heading of religion. Stewart, for instance, includes shamanism, curing, special powers of shamans, miscellaneous shamanistic information, guardian spirits, destiny of the soul, ghosts or soul, and jimsonweed.
While the hallucinations produced by jimsonweed and other anticholinergics are frequently described as frightening or even “nightmarish,” the toxic anticholinergic syndrome caused by jimsonweed can include seizures, CNS depression, respiratory failure, and cardiac abnormalities, all of which can be life-threatening.
gloss: Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
proscribed
uncountable
Synonyms: angel's trumpet
devil's apple
devil's cucumber
devil's trumpet
Jamestown weed
mad apple
moonflower
stinkweed
thorn apple
zombie's cucumber
Translations:
juicer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
broadcasting
chess
film
games
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs
Latin iūs
Old French jusbor.
Middle English jus
English juice
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English juicer
From juice + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: juicers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who extracts juice for consumption.
pos: noun
examples: A keen juicer, she has tried all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
gloss: A (citrus) reamer.
pos: noun
gloss: One who uses steroids.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An alcoholic.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Like the perplexed lower-middle-class juicers who populate his stories, Carver never seemed to know where he was or why he was there.
gloss: An electrician.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A chess piece.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: lime-juicer
Translations:
jessamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jessamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of jasmine.
pos: noun
examples: vines, fig-trees, and jessamine (III, vii)
Translations:
maharani
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani مہارانی / महारानी (mahārānī), from Sanskrit महा (mahā, “great”) and राज्ञी (rājñī, “queen”).
Inflected forms:
form: maharanis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The wife of a maharajah; approximately, a queen consort.
pos: noun
examples: Nonetheless, for many years afterward, she was often referred to as maharani, though that eventually gave way to the less glamorous but more respectful title of rajmata, the equivalent of queen mother.
Translations:
crawfish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1620s, folk etymology from Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (French écrevisse), influenced by fish. Compare crayfish.
Inflected forms:
form: crawfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crawfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crawfishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crawfishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crawfished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crawfished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various freshwater crustaceans: crayfish.
pos: noun
tags: Louisiana
Southern-US
Texas
US
Western
countable
especially
uncountable
gloss: Any of various marine crustaceans, rock lobster; especially Jasus lalandii, the Cape crawfish.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
uncountable
gloss: An English-Canadian. Used in some corners of Quebec (including the Gaspé).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Quebec
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
gloss: To fish for crawfish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As a matter of fact I had to go off at a moment's notice to arrange our connection at the coast. Fellow owning the bungalow wanted to crawfish.
gloss: To backpedal, desert or withdraw (also used with out).
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
colloquial
intransitive
examples: I have never been one to flinch or crawfish when faced with an unpleasant task.
Derived words: crawchie
crawfishy
Translations:
fauteuil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). Doublet of faldistory, faldstool, and foldstool.
Inflected forms:
form: fauteuils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An armchair.
pos: noun
examples: Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.
gloss: The chair of a presiding officer.
pos: noun
gloss: Membership in the Académie française.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
malathion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From malate + -thion. Coined as a trade name.
Base: malate
Affixes: -thion
Inflected forms:
form: malathions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organophosphorus insecticide, Diethyl [(dimethoxyphosphinothioyl)-thio]butanedioate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Although effective in degrading pesticides with P-O bonds, washing of the vegetables sprayed with the thiolester organophosphate insecticide malathion with the enzyme did not yield any improved degradation."
Ecoparasite control, with appropriate concentrations of carbaryl, malathion, or pyrethrin dusts, is permissible if the agent is applied externally to both test and control animals not less than seven days prior to the start of the test.
Translations:
malamute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Inupiaq malimiut, so called because the dogs were bred by the Malamute people of western Alaska. First attested in 1884.
Inflected forms:
form: malamutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Malamute
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: malemute
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A breed of dog of the husky type, originally bred for its strength to haul freight as a sled dog.
pos: noun
Translations:
geomancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English geomancer, equivalent to geomancy + -er.
Base: geomancy
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: geomancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices geomancy.
pos: noun
Translations:
bamp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bamps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idiotic and ill-mannered person.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
derogatory
gloss: One's grandfather.
pos: noun
tags: Wales
examples: ‘Shut up’ hissed Gwilym. ‘Don't be so rude! He's a great old bloke. I wish he was my bamp.’
Bell went back to Wales and my stayed with me. A week later Dave's brother, Ann Jane, mum and me went to lay Dave's ashes at the same spot where his mum and dad, my nan and Bamp had been laid.
[I] might be a builder ... or a carpenter ... Might even be an engineer.... My Bamp does it. He’s an engineer
Synonyms: fuckwit
idiot
imbecile
twat
Translations:
glug
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitating the sound of pouring or swallowing liquid.
Inflected forms:
form: glugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gluck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: glugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glugged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: glook
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gluck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: glook
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gluck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.
pos: noun
examples: The blood did not come out of him in a glug but in a steady silent gush.
gloss: The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Pour a glug of bleach into the toilet.
Slowly, Khoklov removed a silver flask from within his suit jacket. He had a long contemplative glug, then shuddered violently.
She turned the taps to start the water running, poured in a generous glug of vanilla bubble bath, then moved into the bedroom, to the desk in the corner where her laptop sat open.
gloss: To flow in noisy bursts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water glugged down the sink.
We’d squat by the creek waiting for the bottle to glug full through its narrow neck and then together we would walk to the church and throw the water on the fire a quart at a time, not so much in hope of putting it out as to be able to say, if asked, that we tried.
Spasmodically, Bill clutched the handle of the pump, until the attendant hit the flashing button on his console and the petrol began to glug.
gloss: To quickly swallow liquid.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He had glugged that glass of wine before she got a chance to introduce herself.
There is no sugary "welcome" drink to glug. Rather, Honey, an elderly, overweight Lab mix, waddles and wags my way.
gloss: To pour noisily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The bottle cap rasped as she unscrewed it and glugged some Bailey's into her mug, the spoon tinkling as she stirred.
gloss: The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or when such an amount is swallowed by a person.
pos: intj
Derived words: gluggable
gluggy
Translations:
Fortean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Fort + -ean, named after Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932), an American writer and investigator of anomalous phenomena. The word was coined by American journalist Ben Hecht (1894–1964) in a review of Fort’s book The Book of the Damned (1919) in the Chicago Daily News in 1920.
Base: Fort
Affixes: -ean
Inflected forms:
form: Forteans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Fortean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Fortean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fortean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A follower or admirer of Charles Fort.
pos: noun
examples: Stories about alligators in the sewers have been of particular interest, however, to Forteans (followers of Charles Fort). Forteans contend that many happenings derided by the official science of the Western world (falls of frogs from clear skies, the appearance of lake monsters, mystery beasts and so on) are genuine occurrences.
gloss: One who investigates anomalous phenomena.
pos: noun
examples: Not long afterwards, Fortean writer Paul Harris contacted me concerning this putative sea serpent, kindly supplying me with a couple of newspaper cuttings […] that contained photos of its remains, plus various additional details that he had gathered during his own investigation of this case.
Morandir [Armson] is also a traveller, a food blogger, a scholar of the occult, an amateur cook, a martial artist, an enthusiastic Fortean, and a transplant recipient.
gloss: Of or pertaining to anomalous phenomena.
pos: adj
examples: Ufology is a somewhat Fortean subject.
Charles Fort died in 1932, fifteen years before the flying-saucer craze began. It is a pity he did not live to witness this mass mania, because in many ways, it was a triumph of pure Forteanism. Mysterious objects are seen in the sky. They elude all "official" and "scientific" explanation. Wild Fortean hypotheses are invented to explain them, and discussed seriously by the man in the street as well as by seemingly intelligent authors and editors.
Coppel, Alfred: TOUCH THE SKY […] Short story. / Obviously based on Fortean concepts, this one concerns a man who really did touch the sky.
Characters such as "Jack Brown" [supposedly a UFO investigator] have been annoying and frightening people for centuries. In earlier ages they were associated with the occult or with religious experience … the "dark men" of countless traditions. Today they are a part of the UFO mythos. They arrive after a UFO or fortean event, sometimes afoot, sometimes driving automobiles that appear new even if the vehicle is clearly many years old. […] They ask strange questions and make outlandish observations, or they simply follow from place to place.
Other Fort-influenced writers argue that Fortean phenomena are themselves the means by which a kind of paranormal conspiracy of cosmic proportions is perpetrated against human beings.
gloss: Of or pertaining to Charles Fort.
pos: adj
Translations:
make-believe
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English make believedeverb.
English make-believe
Deverbal from make believe.
Inflected forms:
form: make-believes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: makebelieve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: make believe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: makebelieve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: make believe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
pos: noun
tags: childish
sometimes
uncountable
examples: Come on, come on, I go up and down / I like this curious feeling / I know, I see, it's like make believe / Cover your ears so you can hear what I'm saying
gloss: The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.
pos: noun
tags: childish
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: Something imaginary.
pos: noun
tags: childish
countable
sometimes
examples: ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Marjorie Lindon, to even think such nonsense. Are you all nerves and morbid imaginings,—you who have prided yourself on being so strong-minded! A pretty sort you are to do battle for anyone.—Why, they’re only make-believes!’
gloss: Imaginary; not real; pretend.
pos: adj
tags: childish
sometimes
examples: He called himself Lord So-and-So, even had his family crest on the wall, but it was all totally make-believe.
Translations:
mandrake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mandrake, mandroke, an alteration of mandragora with the ending -dragora reinterpreted as related to dragon and replaced with native drake, from Old English mandragora, from Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras).
Inflected forms:
form: mandrakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]his is the true deſcription of the plant and therefore thoſe idle formes of the Mandrakes and Womandrakes, as they are fooliſhly ſo called, which have beene expoſed to publike view, both in ours and other lands and countries, are utterly deceitfull being the work of cunning knaves, onely to get mony by their forgery.
Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show aphrodisiac properties.
gloss: A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mandrakes were sometimes considered in the light of familiars. Witches kept both male and female specimens of the magic root in bottles[.]
gloss: The drug methaqualone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A kind of tiny demon immune to fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: mandragora
Derived words: American mandrake
mandrake apple
mandrakelike
mandrake root
mandrake shriek
mandrake wine
wild mandrake
womandrake
Translations:
marchioness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin marchionissa, feminine form of marchion, from Late Latin marca, from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“area, region, edge, rim, border”).
Inflected forms:
form: marchionesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marquise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The wife of a marquess.
pos: noun
examples: The first train over the bridge was driven by the Marchioness of Tweeddale, and the engine was No. 602 of the North British Railway Company.
gloss: A woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right.
pos: noun
gloss: An old-fashioned maid-of-all-work; female servant.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: The beauty and charm of the little marchioness and the tender hearted old colored man, with their mutual affection, forcibly remind the reader of "Uncle Tom" and "Eva."
Synonyms: marquise
Translations:
mariachi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mariachi. The origin of the Spanish word is unclear. It has often been claimed to derive from French mariage (“marriage”), reputedly because the Europe-born Emperor Maximilian of Mexico (which France had invaded) encouraged the music to be played at weddings. However, new evidence shows the word to have been used prior to the French invasion. Most other theories suggest indigenous roots. See Wikipedia.
Inflected forms:
form: mariachis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a traditional form of Mexican music, either sung or purely instrumental.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to a band playing such music, or to the singers of such songs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A traditional form of Mexican music, either sung or purely instrumental.
pos: noun
gloss: A group that plays mariachi music.
pos: noun
examples: At her first performance with an all-male mariachi, the oldest member said to the musical director,[…](No! I've never played with a woman; I'm not going to start now [my translation]).
2004, "Mariachi," entry in Cordelia Candelaria, Peter J. García, Arturo J. Aldama (editors), Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, Volume 2, page 520,
Today Plaza Garibaldi near the center of Mexico City is considered the home of mariachis, where mariachi musicians congregate in the plaza, waiting for patrons and tourists to audition them and invite them to perform. […] Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán has been considered the premier Mexican mariachi for nearly a century.
gloss: A member of such a group.
pos: noun
examples: The mariachis would serenade / and they would not shut up till they were paid.
Translations:
obtunded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more obtunded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obtunded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Far from alert or oriented to time and space, and exhibiting other signs of being confused, a state just short of frank delirium.
pos: adj
Translations:
meatloaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of meat + loaf.
Compound parts: meat
loaf
Inflected forms:
form: meatloaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meat loaf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For his meatloaf, he mixed the meat, eggs, chopped onion, breadcrumbs, tomato sauce and a can of beer according to the instructions, then diced in an apple he had lying around.
Meat Loaf.—Chop fine whatever cold meat you have, fat and lean together, add pepper, salt and finely chopped onion, two slices of bread which have been soaked in milk, and one egg mix well together and bake in form. This makes an admirable tea or breakfast dish.
Translations:
medaled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: medalled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having received a medal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a medaled hero
Translations:
medalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English medal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English medalist
From medal + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: medalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medallist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An engraver, designer or maker of medals.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court.
gloss: Someone who has received a medal.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.
Derived words: bronze medalist
gold medalist
silver medalist
Translations:
bola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Spanish bola.
Inflected forms:
form: bolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
pos: noun
Translations: