yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
peel-and-seal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a kind of envelope with a backing that peels off to reveal an adhesive surface allowing the envelope to be sealed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
all-natural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From all + natural.
Base: all
Inflected forms:
form: all natural
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting wholly of natural ingredients; being absolutely natural without any artificial components.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: all-natural soups
all-natural ingredients
• All-natural peanut butter
so is this supposed to be the actual, sincerely natural chemical ingredients of a bonafide wild banana, or is this a^([sic]) expose image on the ingredients that are added to supposedly "all-natural" bananas?
During the past few years, some 200 class-action suits have been filed against food manufacturers, charging them with misuse of the adjective in marketing such edible oxymorons as “natural” Cheetos Puffs, “all-natural” Sun Chips, “all-natural” Naked Juice, “100 percent all-natural” Tyson chicken nuggets and so forth.
Should bring out his own all-natural hat line. So classy!
gloss: Without makeup and with one's natural hair color.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is my all-natural look. How do you like it?
Translations:
stosh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fish offal
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Freshly ground stosh is thrown into the capacious maw of the hidden bag, the mackerel rush for the bait, and when they swim thickly enough the after boom is hoisted until the outer edge of the net is above water and the fish are imprisoned.
gloss: pomace
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
facelock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From face + lock.
Compound parts: face
lock
Inflected forms:
form: facelocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of headlock in which the opponent's head is clamped around the face.
pos: noun
examples: He raised his right arm and clamped a facelock on his opponent.
I stepped to the side like the world's worst matador and grabbed him in a front facelock. It was the only shoot hold I knew, one that harkened back to my days bouncing at Malarkey's in Calgary.
Eventually, someone said, “OK, move the furniture, and let's wrestle.” The deal this night was Les challenging my dad, saying, “Bet you can't hold me in a front facelock.” My dad put the hold on, and Les struggled to free himself, but ended up passing out after a few minutes.
gloss: A security protocol based on the attempted user's recognition of faces known to the account owner.
pos: noun
examples: This contrast can be used as the basis for a personalised ‘facelock’, in which authentication succeeds or fails based on image-invariant recognition of faces that are familiar to the account holder.
Translations:
travis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of traverse.
Inflected forms:
form: traves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: travises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A screen or partition between stable stalls.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
culture-jack
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of culture + hijack.
Compound parts: culture
hijack
Inflected forms:
form: culture-jacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: culture-jacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: culture-jacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: culture-jacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: culturejack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To appropriate aspects of popular culture for commercial purposes.
pos: verb
examples: We advise not to culture-jack a natural disaster or some national tragedy.
With Oreo commenting on subjects from Gay Pride to the Mars Rover landing, this campaign not only captured the attention and acclaim of both consumers and the media but also laid the groundwork for the brand's culture-jacking of the Super Bowl.
In Alleyne's (2000) work on cultural dilution in reggae, whose core elements Alleyne views as having undergone "commercially-motivated dilution” (19), the term is used in the sense of culture-jacking to the extent that practices can be hijacked or misappropriated, when groups of performers who are not dyed-in-the-wool reggae artists seize control of the commercial promotion of the art form and take it in alternate directions to attract new audiences.
The tactic of culture-jacking (also, news jacking) can be employed to personify a brand as current, topical and in tune with the times.
Translations:
Arcturian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Arcturus + -ian.
Base: Arcturus
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Arcturians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or from Arcturus
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant of (an exoplanet orbiting) Arcturus.
pos: noun
Translations:
bur-reed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bur (“prickly husk of a small seed”) + reed (“type of tall, thin grass”).
Compound parts: bur
reed
Inflected forms:
form: bur-reeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group (genus Sparganium) of widespread flowering perennial marsh plants widespread in wet areas in temperate regions.
pos: noun
Translations:
after-reward
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English after-reward, equivalent to after- + reward.
Base: reward
Affixes: after-
Inflected forms:
form: after-rewards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: afterreward
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: after reward
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reward that follows or which comes after
pos: noun
examples: The Christian acted distinctly for a selfish end — “pro remedio minus,” the heathen may often have acted (as M. Allard unfairly assumes that he always did) from vanity or caprice, but he surely sometimes acted from a sense of right without hope of afterreward.
After 18 months' industrial training, with daily secular and religious instruction, inmates are sent to service, with an adequate outfit, and obtain certain after rewards and gratuities, if deserved, by good conduct in their situations.
It is as if he said: the glory is not an external afterreward of the shame; the glory is in the shame; the life in the death.
This system works at any drugstore chain. Each offers different free or cheap after-rewards items every week, so keep rolling your rewards to pick up different HBA (health-and-beauty aisle) items all the time.
What is the after-reward for taking pains in the act of seeing?
Translations:
sea-gooseberry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sea-gooseberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea gooseberry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of order Lobata of lobed comb jellies.
pos: noun
gloss: A common comb jellyfish (Pleurobrachia pileus) (order Cydippida), with a spherical body bearing two long retractile branching tentacles, typically occurring in swarms.
pos: noun
Translations:
day-trip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: day-trips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: day-tripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: day-tripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: day-tripped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day.
pos: verb
examples: Been day-tripping to the market and around the city for big sun hats, sundries and sights.
From Polly, we day-tripped to Koma and Malberg under a gorgeous blue sky and then traveled up the Lady Chain to Beth, where we camped near the rock cliff next to the portage on the east shore.
Before I met Tommy, I would not have day-tripped to the spot where James Dean died.
By the end of the summer, I had day-tripped with Quita around New England and ferried to Martha's Vineyard with Carol.
Translations:
pitch-pot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 投壺／投壶 (tóuhú)
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional East Asian game that requires players to throw sticks from a set distance into a large, sometimes ornate, canister.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
drug-addled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From drug + addled.
Base: drug
Inflected forms:
form: more drug-addled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drug-addled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: mentally mixed-up or confused due to the usage of mind-bending drugs.
pos: adj
examples: When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
Translations:
cold-natured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more cold-natured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cold-natured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Associated with Yin; Having the effects of lowering fevers and removing toxic substances.
pos: adj
tags: Chinese
traditional
examples: The general principle of treatment is to treat heat-syndrome diseases with cold-natured drugs, and cold-syndromes with warm-natured drugs.
A cold-natured herb is different from a cool-natured one only in degree; so is a warm-natured herb different from a hot-natured herb.
Moreover, due to the failure to distinguish Yin from Yang, many TCM pharmacologists misjudge Yang deficiency syndrome and have misused cold-natured drugs for a long period of time.
gloss: Highly sensitive to cold temperatures.
pos: adj
examples: Considering how cold-natured his car was he decided it would be just as easy to walk.
She was so very cold-natured that you had to have a fire all night.
If you're cold-natured and tend to get chilled easily, you're going to need to plan ahead so you can relax and have fun instead of trying to keep warm.
gloss: Tending to be unemotional and unsympathetic.
pos: adj
examples: No, he was thinking, Kate isn't cold-natured at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination! She was sweet and warm and loving,
You'll have material success and a cold-natured partner who pencils your love-making in his or her calendar — as long as it doesn't interfere with the next board meeting.
This step-mother was cold-natured, controlling, mean-spirited and completely overbearing, at least from Berneice's perspective.
gloss: Thriving in colder environments.
pos: adj
examples: Line the whole crust or fortifying boundary on its inside to the north, facing the south, with a conservatory for tropical plants, &c, that shall enclose twenty acres ; line it to the south, facing the north, with a conservatory of the same size for " cold- natured vegetation."
In addition to being an SSE member, we are also conducting our own seed exchange program, and we will gladly send trial samples of either Siberia or Glacier to SSE members for any cold-natured variety of tomato, beans, peas, squash or pumpkin that is no longer being sold.
Thus, fish are moister and cooler; land animals are warmer; hot-natured trees thrive in warmer climates, and cold-natured plants in cold.
Antonyms: hot-natured
Translations:
self-extinguishing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That extinguishes a fire in the material that it is a part of
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-lacing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Whose laces tighten automatically without having to be tied
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Edsel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The automobile marque is named after Edsel Ford (1893–1943), son of Henry Ford. Compare German Etzel.
Inflected forms:
form: Edsels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any unwanted product or commercial failure, especially one given much publicity.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: Tom Paris: Harry… I think we built an Edsel.
Harry Kim: A what?
Tom Paris: A lemon. A disaster waiting to happen.
Translations:
pro-martyr
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + martyr.
Base: martyr
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: pro-martyrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pro-martyr
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-martyr
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The first martyr to die for a particular cause.
pos: noun
examples: Such a man was John Brown. He was strong in his moral and mental nature, as well as in his physical nature. He was born to lead; and he led, and made himself the pro-martyr of a cause rapidly perfecting.
John was a son, probably the younger son, of Zebedee and Salome and a brother of the elder James who became the pro-martyr of the apostles.
We have a tragic instance of baneful clericalism in the death of Patrick Hamilton, the pro-martyr of the Scottish Reformation
Among the scholars at Douai, men were being prepared to serve as priests and some showed themselves eager to cross over to England immediately rather than wait upon events. Cuthbert Mayne was captured and executed in 1577 and is regarded as the pro-martyr of the seminary priests.
gloss: In favor of or supporting martyrdom or a group of martyrs.
pos: adj
examples: Though not hearing the tellers' full stories in these passages, we are nonetheless reminded that neutrality was not a quality of storytelling. The pro-martyr stance of the statements above will only have been more dramatized in their story form.
If we now turn to another lustily pro-martyr work we can open up some more key themes and problems.
Why should they cease suicide bombings if Israel withdraws from the West Bank and Gaza, when pro-martyr Hezbollah terrorists continue to attack Israel two years after it withdrew from Southern Lebanon?
Translations:
schober
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: schobers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheaf of a category
pos: noun
Translations:
brother-zone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brother + zone, modelled on earlier friend-zone.
Compound parts: brother
zone
Inflected forms:
form: brother-zones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brother-zoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brother-zoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brother-zoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To view or categorize someone as a brotherly figure, rather than a potential romantic partner.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
ram-jam
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ram-jams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ram-jamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ram-jammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ram-jammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ram-jams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To roughly force into a small space or difficult position.
pos: verb
examples: Carburetors, too, are poorly built to stand the racket and ram-jamming they meet.
Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined.
Unlike cattle going to market, there was no ram-jamming them up a shoot and hauling them off to market where prices were usually poor to bad.
As we approached the consignee where we were going to drop the trailer, he was ram-jamming the shifting lever and raking the gears trying to shift without using the clutch, and cursing as if it were the truck's fault he couldn't do it.
gloss: To travel about with no fixed destination.
pos: verb
examples: A grand duke, or a lesser titled personage, in a car goes ram-jamming over Moscow at 40 miles an hour up, with no one to say him nay.
This place might be work, but it sure beats ram-jamming around just for beans.
She planted her legs widely beneath her, beside her rig lashed to the hull with bungee cords—which she could hardly see in the explosion of sun off the white deck of the ram-jamming boat.
gloss: A forceful poke or shove.
pos: noun
examples: A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten.
Era Elbertus tells us, "Indulge an automobile appetite with a push-cart income, and it's you for the ram-jams and stripes."
An' a ram-jam now Git alon, Old Bones!
gloss: A person who forces his or her way around.
pos: noun
examples: Now, thank goodness, we have broken away to acclaim actors who, without reverting to strut and bellow, are playing with a heartening drive and a mingling of subtlety and power ; who give to our stage its proper flash, its kindling glow ; and who make of the theatre more than a home for the "gilded gear," the rowdier ram-jams, and the "dim, moon-eyed fishes" that stare at them decorously.
Translations:
ram-pack
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ram-packs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ram-packing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ram-packed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ram-packed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pack tightly by applying pressure.
pos: verb
examples: Workers who tend machines that fill and ram-pack hogsheads are classified as PACKER OPERATOR, AUTOMATIC (tobacco).
Besey removed her back hoofs from a box where she'd been ram-packing papers in.
gloss: To fill to capacity.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Editor John T. Amber has ram-packed its 400 giant pages with everything you want to know about guns from the earliest Winchesters (like my Model 1866) to the newest stainless steel revolvers! Handloading, ballistics charts, antique and custom guns, field tests, target shooting and more are covered in remarkable detail.
gloss: Associated with ram-packing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After machining, teeth are milled, ram-pack hardened, and then precision ground in line with 0.500 locating hole in end of ram.
A ram-pack grouting method for setting turbine-generator sole plates has been developed which assures ...
A method of ram-pack grouting for setting the sole plates of the turbine generator quickly and effectively was developed, thus assuring a permanent and positive support.
Translations:
Fudd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: From Elmer Fudd, a character in Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny cartoons, from Looney Tunes.
Inflected forms:
form: Fudds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fudd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gun-owner who supports traditional hunting guns but favors gun control for other guns such as handguns or tactical rifles.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Fudds like me supposedly look down on semiauto and military rifles.
Zumbo, realizing that he had misjudged the popularity of the AR-15 among his readers, apologized. But by then nobody cared what he said. Zumbo had become a Fudd.
The late President Ronald Reagan was the NRA’s most famous Fudd for supporting gun control both during his tenure and after. Gun rights absolutists don’t entirely trust Trump, either. “Never trust a Fudd,” wrote “waltdewalt” on a gun politics page on Reddit, suggesting Trump is not as committed to the Second Amendment as he claims.
gloss: A bumbling and ill-educated person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: This was very hard on the bank account but happens to be the best way I know of to convince a “Fudd” that a fat cock cannot be put in shape to fight in two weeks!
Speak of the devil, in pulled pudgy brown-haired Windston with cheeks bloated like a chipmunk's. Such a Fudd, just not quite as old, and probably wished he was hunting that pesky wabbit instead of driving cab.
He is trying to shut down the press, yet feels free to rail against individuals, businesses, entire nations, on his Twitter account. “I’m making a new Presidency!” he rails and the hapless Fudds who voted for him and still support him – less than 40% of registered voters (a record low) – scream in joy.
gloss: A type of fat ski that flares out at the ends.
pos: noun
examples: The surrealistic Fudds handle well on hard snow, even at high speeds, but still float nicely in deep snow and crud.
Compared to the other fats, the Fudd seemed most like a conventional ski in the powder.
The Fudd was favored for its flotation, while the Kahuna earned an “A+” for versatility.
Translations:
perfect-bound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bound with a perfect binding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
eight-oar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eight-oars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of eight (“narrow rowing boat with eight rowers”).
pos: noun
Translations:
e-file
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + file, perhaps as a back-formation from e-filing.
Base: file
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-files
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: e-filing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: e-filed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: e-filed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To file (a lawsuit, a patent application, etc.) by means of computer technology.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
e-filer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + filer or e-file + -er.
Base: filer
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-filers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who e-files.
pos: noun
Translations:
X-aerogel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: X-aerogels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of flexible, porous aerogel that can form a film.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mono-ene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From mono- + -ene.
Inflected forms:
form: mono-enes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of monoene.
pos: noun
Translations:
latch-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: latch-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: latchup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of short circuit caused by the inadvertent creation of a low-impedance path between the power supply rails of a MOSFET circuit.
pos: noun
Translations:
eco-city
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From eco- + city.
Base: city
Affixes: eco-
Inflected forms:
form: eco-cities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A city which is regarded as having sound environmental protection policies.
pos: noun
Translations:
knuckle-tat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for knuckle tattoo.
Inflected forms:
form: knuckle-tats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knuck-tat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tattoo on one's finger(s) just above or below the knuckle
pos: noun
Translations:
E-road
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From E (“for Europe”) + road.
Base: E
Inflected forms:
form: E-roads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A main road or motorway in Europe which is allocated an E-number. Many of these roads cross international borders.
pos: noun
Translations:
wheel-clamp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wheel-clamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wheel-clamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wheel-clamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wheel-clamped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To immobilize (a vehicle) with a wheel clamp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
fistula-in-ano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fistula in ano
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Anal fistula.
pos: noun
Translations:
headscissors
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A hold in which a wrestler wraps his or her legs around either side of the opponent's head, crossing them under the opponent's chin, and squeezing.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: While he was distracted, the Puma ran the length of the ring, leapt into the air and locked both legs around Diablo's neck, taking him down to the mat with a spectacular flying headscissors.
Translations:
securite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A high explosive in the form of a yellowish powder.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Clumber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Clumbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Clumber spaniel.
pos: noun
Translations:
tongues-speaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tongues-speakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tongue-speaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tongue speaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tongues speaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who speaks in tongues; one who exhibits glossolalia.
pos: noun
Translations:
bi-dyke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of bisexual + dyke.
Compound parts: bisexual
dyke
Inflected forms:
form: bi-dykes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bisexual woman or nonbinary person who prefers female or fem partners to male or masc partners.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: Leanne is a bi-dyke living with her dog and cats in Montreal, spending too much time on the computer and too much time at the drawing table illustrating children's books for fun and profit, instead of drawing cartoons for fun and deficit.
Translations:
Huk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Hukbalahap, from Tagalog Hukbalahap, an abbreviation of Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (“People's Army Against the Japanese”). The initial word itself where the abbreviation comes from is from Tagalog hukbo (“army”), which itself is derived from Hokkien 服務 /服务 (ho̍k-bū, “service”).
Inflected forms:
form: Huks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Hukbalahap.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
historical
examples: But sooner or later, there will be decisions to make: I cannot go to your country for I am known as a Huk; you could not stay in mine if your sympathies for us are discovered.
Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.
Translations:
Beyer-Garratt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Beyer + Garratt, Beyer referring to the manufacturer Beyer Peacock & Co..
Base: Beyer
Inflected forms:
form: Beyer-Garratts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Garratt, a type of articulated steam locomotive.
pos: noun
Translations:
mobula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: mobulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Mobula.
pos: noun
Translations:
SLG
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: SLGs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: SLGing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: SLGed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: SLGed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To have a certain slugging percentage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
cheer-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cheer + -off.
Base: cheer
Affixes: -off
Inflected forms:
form: cheer-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cheerleading competition.
pos: noun
Translations:
okada
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1990s, from the now defunct Nigerian airline, Okada Air, nicknamed so because they could manoeuvre through the heavy traffic of Lagos and take passengers to their destinations in a timely manner, in the same way as the airline. Originates from the Ẹ̀dó town of Okada.
Inflected forms:
form: okadas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motorcycle taxi.
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
examples: By the glittering blue lagoon, I stood next to the main ring road to flag down a motorcycle taxi, or okada. Okadas are the scourge of Nigeria's roads.
Translations:
topia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin topia, from Ancient Greek τόπια (tópia), ultimately from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of mural decoration common in Ancient Roman houses, usually featuring landscapes.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Sibe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Xibe ᠰᡞᠪᡝ.
Inflected forms:
form: Xibe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sibo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Tungusic people living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin (bordering North Korea) and Shenyang in Liaoning, China.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
no-planer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From no plane + -er.
Base: no plane
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: no-planers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conspiracy theorist who believes that no airplanes were involved in the events of 9/11.
pos: noun
Translations:
gibble-gabble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Gabble; meaningless talk; nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
wood-thistle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English wodethystyll, wodþistel, from Old English wuduþistel, equivalent to wood + thistle.
Base: wood
Inflected forms:
form: wood-thistles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woodthistle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wood thistle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of tall thistle (Cirsium altissimus, syn. Carduus altissimus)
pos: noun
examples: Within seconds the whole lot had taken on the appearance of a woodthistle's fluffy seedhead.
Translations:
foul-spoken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more foul-spoken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foul-spoken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: foul-mouthed
pos: adj
Translations:
balm-cricket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Baum (“tree”) and cricket.
Inflected forms:
form: balm-crickets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any cicada (Cicadoidea spp.).
pos: noun
Translations:
hallel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew הַלֵּל (halél).
Inflected forms:
form: hallels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hymn of praise chanted during the Passover supper, consisting of Psalms cxiii to cxviii.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
heel-and-toe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
government
military
nautical
politics
transport
vehicles
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An advanced driving technique that involves operating the throttle and brake pedals simultaneously with the right foot, facilitating normal activation of the clutch with the left foot.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
gloss: A mode of walking in which the heel of one foot is put on the ground before the toe of the other leaves it.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
gloss: Of a system of watches: comprising equal-length periods on and off watch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is most essential on a passage where the watches are heel and toe, four on, four off, that the watch below be a time of real rest.
Back when we'd started the heel-and-toe watches, I'd offset the schedule six hours in order to have both squadrons up and ready during the initial attack.
Translations:
duku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dukus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of langsat (“the tree”).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of langsat (“the fruit”).
pos: noun
Translations:
e-address
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + address.
Base: address
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-addresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: E-mail address.
pos: noun
examples: I've mailed a copy of this to uucpmap and both #E addresses. (I don't have a clean path to the AT&T gandalf; I'm trying ihnp4.)
#E-Address pupthy!wrs
To the five who were not selected I have sent a list of each other's names and e-addresses so that they can more easily solicit two more players and a GM.
e-address: ...!topaz!gaynor
[Subject: Valerie Polichar's e-address] I tried to mail you a letter, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to you. It got returned.
Translations:
e-signature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + signature.
Base: signature
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-signatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Data used by a signatory to sign something electronically. It may involve cryptography or may simply be a name typed into a document.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
E-head
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From E + -head.
Base: E
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: E-heads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recreational user of the drug MDMA or ecstasy.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
manton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish mantón.
Inflected forms:
form: mantons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shawl or wrap.
pos: noun
Translations:
pro-build
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: builds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: building
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: built
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: built
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To build prior to necessity.
pos: verb
examples: "We can't just rebuild after every disaster," Jacob continued. "We need to pro-build, with a future of climate change in mind.
Translations:
Diwani
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic دِيوَانِيّ (dīwāniyy).
Inflected forms:
form: Diwany
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A calligraphic style of the Arabic script developed in the Ottoman court.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
one-day
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: lasting one day
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: one-day conference
one-day cricket match
On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...].
Translations:
one-dayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: one-dayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any event lasting one day.
pos: noun
examples: Is the conference going to be a one-dayer, or should we book a hotel room?
gloss: A one-day match.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Related words: one-day
Translations:
roker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The thornback ray.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mii
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006.
Compound parts: Wii
me
Inflected forms:
form: Miis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.
pos: noun
Translations:
VCAT
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
Translations:
mini-cup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mini-cups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Alternative form of minicup.
pos: noun
examples: Getting on the racing circuit wasn't as difficult as some of the fire training that Brechl experienced. Brechl said, " I went to a mini-cup race as a spectator in 1995, and was asked if I could substitute for one of the drivers. I had never raced a miniature-sized car before, but ended up beating the track champion. I've been racing ever since."
... library managed to get the library logo on a mini-cup race car driven by Shelly Morgan at the Ona Speedway
The 24-year-old competed in his first race at MIS in 2016 in the ARCA Racing Series, finishing 17th. His family sold all their dwarf cars, mini-cup cars and go-karts Baird raced in his young career to go after sponsorship to race in the series.
gloss: Alternative form of minicup.
pos: noun
examples: This mini-cup ramen is popular as a snack to be given to children between meals. It is also taken for the soup of a casual meal. The demand for the mini-cup is already 10% more than that of the regular cup.
The incident light beam was not blocked by the mini-cup, which also facilitates the addition of reagents such as matrix modifiers.
On both sampling occasions, the odour threshold concentration of exhaust air from the house fitted with mini-cup drinkers was substantially less than that from the house equipped with conventional 'bell' drinkers—see Fig. 1. The rationale for fitting mini-cup drinkers was that it was thought that the mini-cup drinkers would reduce water wastage and hence improve the litter conditions.
gloss: A race that is modeled after, but smaller than, the America's Cup.
pos: noun
examples: After eliminations in four Southern California areas, the number one teams will race in early February in a mini-cup series.
The pros will instruct you about your position before you set off for the race course in the waters off Phillipsburg for an exciting three-hour mini-cup regatta.
Translations:
E-tard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From E (“ecstasy”) + -tard.
Base: E
Affixes: -tard
Inflected forms:
form: E-tards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who takes the drug MDMA or ecstasy.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
vulgar
Translations:
brinkman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from brinkmanship.
Inflected forms:
form: brinkmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who advocates for brinkmanship.
pos: noun
examples: It compels the 'brinkmen' to realise that, if they seek to make war on the Soviet Union, they cannot count on cooperation from Britain or France, and probably not from Western Germany.
The brinkmen Kennan abhorred were supreme realists, and if "the assumption that state behavior is a fit subject for moral judgment" is baseless, then anything, even the realism of atomic blackmail, would be permissible.
The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.
Translations:
three-wheel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: three-wheeled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 3-wheel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 3-wheeled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: having three wheels
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a three-wheel forklift
Translations:
steelband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steel + band.
Compound parts: steel
band
Inflected forms:
form: steelbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A band in which all musicians play steelpans.
pos: noun
examples: The steelband movement has always had an attraction for "smartmen" — men who saw the movement as something to be exploited.
The steelband movement today remains a vital and influential part of the artistic life of Trinidad and Tobago
The Nigerian army has a steelband, as do the Dutch police service and as did, until 1999, the US Navy.
Translations:
jeanette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jeanettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coarse jean fabric, used for linings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lindy-hopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Lindy Hopping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lindy hopping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lindyhopping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The dance, or dancing, of the Lindy Hop. (Also used attributively.)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jumbie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Kongo zumbi (“fetish”). Doublet of zombie.
Inflected forms:
form: jumbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jumbee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jumby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jumbi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zumbi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ghost or evil spirit.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
examples: If one wants to see “jumbies” “duppies” ghosts, all that is necessary is to put in your eye the tears from the eyes of a pie-bald horse. It is no use explaining to a negro that what he has taken to be a “jumbie” or apparition, is a tree or rock or other natural object.
Jethro stomped away up the hill, though the trail was supposed to be haunted by spirits of the dead called jumbies. He didn't care. He didn't believe in jumbies.
Translations:
skidoo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps related to skedaddle. Attested since the early twentieth century.
Inflected forms:
form: skidoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skidooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skidooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skidooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skiddoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to depart, especially to depart quickly
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
informal
intransitive
examples: There goes the supper gong! Annie, you and Mary had better skidoo out of this room or you'll get so many demerits you won't be out of bounds to go home in June.
gloss: a nonsense word, often an expression of disrespect
pos: verb
examples: Then skidoo, little girl, skidoo. / 23 is the number for you.
“Twenty-three skidoo!” was an all-embracing, meaningless, smart-alecky comment of the day, something in essence like one of its grandchildren, “So's your old man!”
Translations:
chargesheet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From charge + sheet.
Compound parts: charge
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: chargesheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chargesheets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chargesheeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chargesheeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chargesheeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A document of accusation prepared by law enforcement to be submitted to the court.
pos: noun
tags: Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
gloss: To prepare such a document of accusation against.
pos: verb
tags: Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
transitive
Translations:
blamey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blame + -y.
Base: blame
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more blamey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blamey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blamy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to blame others
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
ill-humoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-humoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-humoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of ill-humored.
pos: adj
Translations:
Ashokan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ashoka + -an.
Base: Ashoka
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Asokan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Aśokan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Ashoka, an Indian emperor of the 3rd century BCE, or his times.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
neo-Gothic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From neo- + Gothic.
Base: Gothic
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neogothic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Neogothic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a more recent iteration of a Gothic style.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Of the known styles that signal boxes referred to, neo-Gothic was a favourite - especially in the points of locking room windows, and particularly on the Great Northern Railway.
Translations:
grool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of girl + drool.
Compound parts: girl
drool
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Vaginal lubrication derived from sexual arousal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Lucy removed her fingers from Margaret's pussy and brought them up for closer inspection, noticing the sticky grool coating them and seeping into the webbed crevasses between them.
Thick beads of grool were trickling from her pussy now.
I reach one big hand forward to catch the string of grool that's oozing from her pussy before lifting it to my mouth to taste her moisture. “Oh, it's definitely going to be with me, Miss Fillmore. With me, and no one else ever again[…]"
He grabbed my hand and dipped it in my pussy, then brought it to my mouth.[…] When I was finished lapping up my stringy strands of grool, he grabbed me and laid me down on the velvet rug in front of the Christmas tree.
Translations:
contractualization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contractualisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of contractualizing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
wink-a-peep
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wink-a-peeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An eye.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dialectal
gloss: A plant, the scarlet pimpernel.
pos: noun
examples: I know where king-cups grow
And wink-a-peeps that sleep when days are dark.
Translations:
shabby-genteel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more shabby-genteel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shabby-genteel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though actually shabby.
pos: adj
Translations:
spurge-laurel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant of species Daphne laureola.
pos: noun
Translations:
Danakil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Afar people of Africa.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Close to the border with Eritrea, its ethereal, Martian landscape sits within the Danakil Depression.
Translations:
hnnng
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hnng
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hngh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A moan indicating sexual arousal and/or (sexual) frustration.
pos: intj
examples: Don't even think about it, especially not the bit when Nala pins Simba to the ground in The Lion King and ... hnnng. ;)
He rubs against the rough spot deep inside that makes me want to groan loud enough that the whole city will hear. I grind my teeth to keep quiet. "I can't remember exactly what I did...was it this?" "Hnnng," I agree. His thumb circles my clit, and every muscle in my body tenses. "What do you think?" he whispers. "Can I see you lose control like that again? Come for me like you did on the plane?"
Translations:
e-educator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + educator.
Base: educator
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-educators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An educator who makes use of computer technology.
pos: noun
Translations: