yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
centaury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English centaure, from Old English centaurie, from Medieval Latin centaurēa, centauria, from Latin centaurēum, centaurion, from Ancient Greek κενταύρειον (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur). Doublet of centaurea.
Inflected forms:
form: centauries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the flowering plants in or formerly in the genus Centaurium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of diverse other plants:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of diverse other plants:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of diverse other plants:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: American centaury
common centaury
yellow centaury
Translations:
rooty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From root + -y.
Base: root
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rootier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rootiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of roots.
pos: adj
examples: Disk plows also are better suited to rough, stony, and rooty ground because the disks ride over the obstructions.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of roots.
pos: adj
examples: The vegetable stew had an earthy, rooty flavour.
Derived words: rootiness
Translations:
woolpack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English wolpak, wullepak, equivalent to wool + pack.
Compound parts: wool
pack
Inflected forms:
form: woolpacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bag of wool, traditionally weighing 240 pounds.
pos: noun
examples: There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
gloss: A cirrocumulus cloud.
pos: noun
examples: During the following hour, the high white fleecy clouds lowered and congested and grayed into woolpack.
gloss: A charge resembling a pillow or cushion.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-murder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + murder, perhaps continuing Middle English *self-murther, from Old English selfmyrþere (“one who kills himself, a suicide”). Compare German Selbstmord, Dutch zelfmoord, Swedish självmord.
Base: murder
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-murders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suicide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My mind being by these means grown as desperate as my fortune, there was scarce a wickedness which I did not meditate, in order for my relief. Self-murder itself became the subject of my serious deliberation; and I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.
Translations:
septage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sept- as in septic + -age.
Base: septic
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The partially treated waste stored in a septic tank.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
Translations:
vanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: vannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
granitoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From granite + -oid.
Base: granite
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: more granitoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most granitoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: granitoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling granite.
pos: adj
examples: granitoid gneiss
gloss: Any mineral that resembles granite.
pos: noun
Translations:
Yuchi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Yuchis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yuchi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Euchee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Uchee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a Native American tribe from the eastern Tennessee River valley, nowadays found mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
pos: noun
Translations:
chirk
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.
Inflected forms:
form: chirks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chirking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chirked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chirked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chirker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more chirk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chirkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most chirk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To become happier.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
gloss: To make happier.
pos: verb
tags: especially
transitive
gloss: To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
pos: verb
gloss: lively; cheerful; in good spirits
pos: adj
tags: New-England
US
colloquial
Translations:
churrascaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese churrascaria.
Inflected forms:
form: churrascarias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steakhouse where food in a churrasco style is served.
pos: noun
examples: There are no sword-toting tarted-up gauchos to trouble you, and in all Al Primo Canto offers the churrascaria experience in a significantly more civilized manner than other spots for a lower price.
Brazilian churrascaria just blocks from its competitor Fogo de Chão.
Translations:
cicatricial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cicatrix + -ial.
Base: cicatrix
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
form: cicatrical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or caused by a scar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It required a secondary operation to overcome some cicatricial contraction, and, on the whole, he had a very serviceable prepuce; but, what was more to the point, it prevented his ever being mistaken for a Turk.
This was apparently the result of the difficulty of isolating the vessels in the tangled mass of clot and cicatricial tissue surrounding them, and is a strong argument against too early interference.
Under the most favorable circumstances a period of from six weeks to two months will be necessary for the treatment, before the formation of the cicatricial callus and the establishment of a firm union between the tendinous stumps.
Translations:
conoidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From conoid + -al.
Base: conoid
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades.
Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.
Translations:
off-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From off- + minded.
Base: minded
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: more off-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most off-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: offminded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Absent-minded; distracted; being of less than sound mind; mentally despondent; touched.
pos: adj
examples: So, on a certain occasion, old Doacon Jones "drapped" in his "quarter" without uttering the conventional pleading grunt, which remiss was noted by the preacher — the Deacon being a little off-minded, as his wife, had recently died, [...]
gloss: Mentally unstable or insane; crazy.
pos: adj
examples: Anyway, my little tootsie-bug, you are very right about how offminded that crazy man is.
Translations:
up-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up- + minded.
Base: minded
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: more up-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most up-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: upminded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Up-beat; positive; progressive.
pos: adj
examples: If people are upminded about future possibilities, present tragedies diminish in psychological consequence.
They are representative reform and opening up-minded officials in North Korea.
The master of New Helvetia himself was hearty and up-minded as ever.
Translations:
poa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From scientific Latin Poa (genus name), from Ancient Greek πόα (póa, “fodder”).
Inflected forms:
form: poas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any grass of the genus Poa, especially Poa annua.
pos: noun
examples: We trod out across fragile alpine heath between poa tussocks and something that smelled of lemon thyme.
Translations:
wordle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: wordles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of several pivoted pieces forming the throat of an adjustable die used in drawing wire, lead pipe, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
bastioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bastion + -ed.
Base: bastion
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As he walked stiffly aslant against the booming northern wind, he tried to marshal his thoughts, tried to dovetail for himself a picture of what had happened behind the grim, bastioned walls of the lamasery and of what was going to happen […]
To the North there were low pale-colored hills, in places bastioned with rock.
Translations:
intermuscular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From inter- + muscular.
Base: muscular
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between muscles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gettable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From get + -able.
Base: get
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more gettable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gettable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: getable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gettabill
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gettible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be gotten.
pos: adj
examples: I think that of the court's conservative justices, [Amy Coney Barrett] is (as the order today [in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition] suggests and yesterday's decision [in City and County of San Francisco v. EPA]) one of the justices that may be more "gettable" to join the court's liberal justices.
Antonyms: ungettable
unobtainable
Translations:
Wernerian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Werner + -ian.
Base: Werner
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Wernerian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Wernerian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), German mineralogist and geologist, or his theory of Neptunism.
pos: adj
Translations:
nol-pros
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: nol-prosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nol-prossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nol-prossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nol-prossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nollepros
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: nolle-pross
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
tobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
pos: noun
examples: It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.
She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.
Translations:
transpositional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From transposition + -al.
Base: transposition
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or involving, transposition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […]the most striking and most offensive error in pronunciation among the Londoners, I confess, lies in the transpositional use of the letters W, and V[…].
Translations:
electrotechnical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From electro- + technical.
Base: technical
Affixes: electro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to electrotechnology
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: terrace
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
horsecollar
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From horse + collar.
Compound parts: horse
collar
Inflected forms:
form: horsecollars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: horsecollaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: horsecollared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: horsecollared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grab someone by the head or neck, using one's arms and hands as a collar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
inside-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sidelong.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
rare
examples: ...with a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes...
gloss: With the inner and outer surfaces reversed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These curious gloves... have two thumbs, so that by an inside-out process they can get another pair of gloves when the palm becomes worn out.
This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella.
Brian Rosenworcel... was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt.
gloss: Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...
Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.
Derived words: inside-outness
Translations:
stiff-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stiff-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stiff-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stiffhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: obstinate; stubborn; contumacious
pos: adj
examples: The children are impudent and stiff-hearted.
Translations:
Helvetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin helveticus, from Helvetii (“the Helvetii”).
Inflected forms:
form: more Helvetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Helvetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions.
pos: adj
examples: the Helvetic confederacy
Helvetic states
gloss: Swiss
pos: adj
Derived words: Helvetic Republic
Translations:
shizzle
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shit + -izzle.
Base: shit
Affixes: -izzle
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shit.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Shit.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
Translations:
bumfuck
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bum + fuck.
Compound parts: bum
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: more bumfuck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bumfucker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bumfuck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bumfuckest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bumfucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bumfucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bumfucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bumfucked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bumfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Undesirable or held in contempt.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Someone, let's say Boris Yeltsin's bum-fuck girlfriend, is part of a syndicate—you know, Russian Mob, say.
[Jackson Securities] did a ton of Internet crap before the sector went baballoo. You know, companies with [absolutely no value], but with dot com at the end of their name[s]. We take a million shares of Bum Fuck Dot Com at ten bucks. […]
That sounds more like your bum-fuck nonsense than mine.
gloss: Isolated; far; remote.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: So now, some kid from some village in the bumfuckest of global nowhere, has that library in their hands and they will do things with it.
gloss: To copulate anally; to fuck in the bum.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: ‘Git outa the way,’ Monte said, ‘or I’ll hike back to the cop shop an’ tell ‘em you bum-fucked Duck Allsop.’
gloss: Anal sex.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: I could really go for a good nasty bumfuck right now.
gloss: An isolated place far removed from major cities.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Why the hell does your brother have to live out in bumfuck?
I had to park in bumfuck because all the good spots were taken.
Derived words: bumfuck nowhere
Translations:
woofy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From woof + -y.
Base: woof
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: woofier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: woofiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a close texture; dense
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: ‘Close round us hung, the vapours of the night
Had form'd a woofy curtain, dim and pale,
Through which the waning moon did faintly mark
Its slender crescent.’
gloss: Prone to woofing
pos: adj
gloss: Similar in sound to the woof of a dog.
pos: adj
Translations:
yaa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yaas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
Translations:
Lacanian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Lacan + -ian, after Jacques Lacan.
Base: Lacan
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Lacanian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Lacanian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).
pos: adj
examples: For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.
Translations:
Hawara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic هَوَارَة (hawāra) which in turn is from Demotic Egyptian ḥw.t-wr.t (“the great mansion”), from Egyptian ḥwt (“enclosure, mansion”) + wrt (“large, great”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hawaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hawara
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hawwarah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Amazigh tribe that settled in Egypt and was known for breeding horses and serving as cavalry.
pos: noun
Translations:
diminisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From diminish + -er.
Base: diminish
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: diminishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, diminishes something.
pos: noun
examples: But there is yet that which is worſe, the ſpirit of man is not only a diminiſher of his ioy.
They were also employed in coining of our money; but were accused of being likewise great clippers or diminishers of it, although strongly recommended to our Kings by the Popes, as may be supposed, for their own ends.
Translations:
Appian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Appius + -an.
Base: Appius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Appius Claudius Caecus (ca. 340 BCE–273 BCE), an Ancient Roman politician who built the Appian Way.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ventro-inguinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From ventro- + inguinal.
Base: inguinal
Affixes: ventro-
Inflected forms:
form: ventroinguinal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to both the abdomen and the groin, or to the abdomen and inguinal canal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a ventro-inguinal block
a ventro-inguinal hernia
Translations:
olestra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1980s, from (p)ol(y)est(e)r + -a.
Affixes: -a
Inflected forms:
form: olestras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested and therefore adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to food products; also used as an industrial lubricant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Translations:
gelder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English geldere, equivalent to geld + -er.
Base: geld
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: gelders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who gelds or castrates.
pos: noun
Translations:
krang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch kreng (“a carcass”), from Middle Dutch crenge (“carrion, carcass”), compare with Old English cringan (“to fall, yield, cringe”). Cognate with Danish kreng (“a carcass”).
Inflected forms:
form: krangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kreng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The portions of a whale that remain after the blubber has been removed, especially the flesh and organs.
pos: noun
examples: Natives came 30 miles over the ice in two sleighs from Navy Board Inlet; hundreds of mollies following the ship all day for bits of krang and blubber.
The carcass of the whale, as left after the flensing, is cut to pieces on the platform and receiver for the krang, where krang and bone are elevated and placed in the krang boilers by machinery.
The Mollies do not evince an amiable disposition towards each other; and as the krang ( such is the name given to the refuse parts of the whale ) is cut off, they were to be seen sitting on the water by thousands tearing at the floating pieces, and when one morsel seemed more tempting than another, driving their weaker brethren away from it, and fighting over it as if the sea was not covered with other bits equally good.
The harpooner makes a cut across the neck and then down the body, taking care to take as little of the flesh - or 'Krang' as the body is called in whaling language – as possible.
gloss: Anything that remains after flensing (not necessarily from a whale).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Sideways hurled The krang o ' a warld The sun has flensed Is lyin ' forenenst.
Translations:
double-ender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: double-enders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel capable of moving both forwards and backwards, having bow and rudder at each end.
pos: noun
gloss: A locomotive with a pilot at each end.
pos: noun
gloss: A cross-cut sawing machine, with two adjustable circular saws, for sawing both ends of timber.
pos: noun
gloss: A dildo designed to penetrate two people simultaneously.
pos: noun
Translations:
Falernian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Falernian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Falernian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, produced in, or pertaining to Mount Falernus, in Italy.
pos: adj
examples: Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink. No Falernian wine here, no going ashore.
gloss: A wine produced from Aglianico grapes on the slopes of Mount Falernus, much esteemed in Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What’s a Helen of Troy compared to a flask of this red Falernian? Why good wine gets better the longer you keep it, while woman loses her flavour year by year.
Translations:
Nisqually
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Nisquallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nisqually
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of a Native American tribe in western Washington state, near the Nisqually River.
pos: noun
Translations:
preelection
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + election.
Base: election
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: preelections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-election
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preëlection
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: pre-election
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preëlection
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An election beforehand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Before an election.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: preelection blues
preelection hype
preelection polls
Translations:
sublittoral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + littoral.
Base: littoral
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sublittorals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the portion of the littoral zone (the shore) that is permanently but shallowly inundated (water-covered).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: neritic (often not differentiated); infralittoral, circalittoral, subtidal (precisely meronymous)
Fortunately, good seaweeding can also be done when the tide is not low, for frequently one encounters piles of drifted seaweeds cast up on the sand from the sublittoral region.
gloss: The sublittoral area, just beyond (and lower-lying than) the portion of the shore that is not always inundated (water-covered).
pos: noun
Translations:
heraldically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heraldic + -ally.
Base: heraldic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more heraldically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heraldically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a heraldic manner; according to heraldry.
pos: adv
Translations:
unlocated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + located.
Base: located
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has not been located; the location of which is unknown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: his unlocated shirt
gloss: Not surveyed, or designated by limits or boundaries, as appropriated to some individual or company.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unlocated lands
Translations:
blady
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blade + -y.
Base: blade
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more blady
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blady
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of blades, or having prominent blades.
pos: adj
examples: blady grass
There are our shelters in stages of building, Ryan parading in a deer-hide loincloth, Nikki doing the hula in a blady grass skirt
Translations:
hard-mouthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hard-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hard-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardmouthed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: not sensitive to the bit
pos: adj
gloss: not easily trained.
pos: adj
gloss: Hard-featured about the mouth.
pos: adj
examples: a hard-mouthed woman
Translations:
submaxillary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + maxillary.
Base: maxillary
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the submaxillary gland.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: submaxillary saliva
submaxillary mucin
Derived words: submaxillary duct
submaxillary gland
Translations:
Sovietism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Soviet + -ism.
Base: Soviet
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Sovietisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Soviet beliefs or practices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mullet-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mullet + headed.
Compound parts: mullet
headed
Inflected forms:
form: more mullet-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mullet-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Foolish; dimwitted.
pos: adj
examples: They're so confiding and mullet-headed they don't take notice of nothing at all.
Well, it's enough to make a body sick, such mullet-headed ignorance!
gloss: Having a mullet hairstyle.
pos: adj
examples: One by one, he introduces his band, this latest incarnation of The Hawks, all mullet-headed and middle-aged.
Translations:
dog-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dog-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dog-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: doghearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Inhuman; cruel.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
rare
examples: A ſoueraigne ſhame ſo elbows him his own vnkindnes
That ſtript her from his benediction turnd her,
To forraine caſualties gaue her deare rights,
To his dog-harted daughters […]
“How many of you dog-hearted giants are left?” Roadstrum called loudly. “Only myself,” came the strong voice of Bjorn. “Come out the two of you and we will see who is dog-hearted.”
“You dog-hearted wretch!” sputtered Martin with water streaming down his hair and face.
He'd have to be a dog-hearted barnacle not to taste your good intentions.
How do the dog-hearted get through the day when they're not ransacking graves?
We're gonna drag their dog-hearted king out into the sunlight and watch him sizzle!
A bunch of spleeny dog-hearted farts.
gloss: Very fond of dogs.
pos: adj
examples: Was Abraham Lincoln's mother dog-hearted? Did the mother of Napoleon waste her time crying because her poodle had the colic?
For all the dogs who never make it out the front door of the shelter. For all the shelter employees who have to make the hard decisions. And for all the dog-hearted people who are working tirelessly to change the situation.
(see title)
gloss: Subservient and lowly, like a pet dog.
pos: adj
examples: The measureless squalor, the calm, house-broken, dog-hearted, subjected, abjected, subtracted, contracted, signed sealed and delivered.
The blessing we seek from God could be the very thing He curses if we do not stay Dog hearted by remaining focused on Him and the honor due His name.
What's in the dog-hearted dog-brained dog's heart?
Translations:
nunu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nunus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A true bug (or a similar other bug).
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: Urine.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
slang
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: US
childish
rare
slang
gloss: Testicles.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
gloss: A vulva or vagina.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
slang
Translations:
kunai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 苦無 (くない, kunai).
Inflected forms:
form: kunai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese tool and weapon, possibly derived from the masonry trowel, used as a weapon by ninja or samurai.
pos: noun
Translations:
melam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Compare French mélam.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A condensation product of melamine, originally found in the residue of heating ammonium thiocyanate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
enactive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From enact + -ive.
Base: enact
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having power to enact or establish as a law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.
Translations:
Hudsonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hudson + -ian.
Base: Hudson
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Hudsonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Hudson Bay.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the Hudsonian curlew
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Hudson River.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: A Hudsonian godwit cries out in flight over the bog. The black areas under the wings help distinguish Hudsonians from other godwit species. [image caption]
gloss: An employee of the J. L. Hudson Company (or Hudson's), a department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan.
pos: noun
tags: historical
informal
examples: It was September 1947 when the J. L. Hudson Co. erected a large silver-toned plaque to honor its employees — its "Hudsonians" — who served their country in the military during World War II.
Derived words: Hudsonian chickadee
Hudsonian curlew
Hudsonian godwit
Hudsonian whimbrel
Hudsonian whiteface
Translations:
soapland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Japanese ソープランド, equivalent to soap + land.
Compound parts: soap
land
Inflected forms:
form: soaplands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of Japanese brothel, ostensibly for bathing.
pos: noun
gloss: The world of soap operas.
pos: noun
Translations:
revaccination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + vaccination.
Base: vaccination
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: revaccinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent vaccination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
inturn
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Middle English inturnen, equivalent to in- + turn.
Base: turn
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inturns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inturning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inturned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inturned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inturns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To turn in or inward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A machine of the class described, comprising in combination with a suitably-actuated needle, a driving-shaft, means actuated from said shaft for carrying two or more plies of material through the machine, and similarly-actuated means working alternately with the needle to inturn the edges of said plies.
gloss: The act or process of turning in.
pos: noun
gloss: A move where the wrestler puts his thigh between the tights of his opponent, and lifts him up.
pos: noun
Translations:
marikina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the native name: compare mariquinha. Maybe related to Maricá
Inflected forms:
form: marikinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small marmoset, the golden lion tamarin, Leontopithecus rosalia.
pos: noun
Translations:
pericellular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From peri- + cellular.
Base: cellular
Affixes: peri-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Surrounding a cell.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells
the pericellular matrix
the pericellular staining
Translations:
keeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English keler, equivalent to keel (noun) + -er.
Base: keel
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: keelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works on a barge or keel.
pos: noun
gloss: One employed in managing a Newcastle keel, or coal boat.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: keelman
Translations:
Iranic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Iran + -ic.
Base: Iran
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Iranic languages or their speakers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
parnassian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: parnassians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A papilionid butterfly of the holarctic alpine genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae; an apollo butterfly.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, relating to, or designating papilionid butterflies of the genus Parnassius or the subfamily Parnassiinae, consisting of the apollo butterflies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tollman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From toll + -man.
Base: toll
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: tollmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who receives or collects a toll.
pos: noun
examples: And now the turnpike gates again
Flew open in short space,
The tollmen thinking, as before,
That Gilpin rode a race
Translations:
roddy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rod + -y.
Base: rod
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more roddy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roddy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of rods or twigs.
pos: adj
Translations:
lofe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lofe, lof (“praise, price”), from Old English lof (“praise, glory, repute, song of praise, hymn”), from Proto-West Germanic *lob, from Proto-Germanic *lubą (“praise, permission”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, like”) (and thence a distant cognate of English love). Cognate with Scots lofe (“an offer”), North Frisian lof (“praise”), Dutch lof (“praise, glory, commendation”), German Lob (“praise, commendation, tribute”), Icelandic lof (“praise”). For semantic development, perhaps compare etymology of praise and its senses.
Inflected forms:
form: lofes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lofes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lofed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: loff
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: loave
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: love
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
West-Midlands
examples: "Yance I hed t' lofe an' I'd luck to say no, an' I niver hed t' lofe ageàn."—Said by an elderly spinster.
gloss: To praise; commend.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
transitive
gloss: To offer; offer at a price; expose for sale.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
West-Midlands
transitive
examples: Ah'd lofed him it an' he wadn't tak 't.
Related words: lovely
Translations:
close-bodied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more close-bodied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most close-bodied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
pos: adj
examples: it was the custom to wear underneath their hykes (the hyke was a large woollen blanket) a close bodied frock or tunic , not unlike the Roman tunic.
Translations:
electress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From elector + -ess.
Base: elector
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: electresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: electoress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: electrix
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman who can vote in an election.
pos: noun
tags: dated
rare
examples: I often wish I were, not a butterfly nor a bird—nothing so ridiculous—but an Electress!
Free and independent electresses might object to be set in the forefront of the battle to shield their husbands and brothers from consabulary buckshot.
To be an electress is the greatest honour imaginable; and to be the husband of an electress—why, it doubles a man's income at once.
gloss: The wife of a German elector, often used as a title.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Nothing could equal the astonishment of both, on hearing the door open without their command, and seeing the electress enter, who was the person in the world they least expected, and to the duchess, perhaps, the least welcome.
The Electress Magdalena Sybilla was a woman of character, virtuous, kind, conventional and managing.
In July 1697 Electress Sophie had given an informal party for Peter which was attended only by her immediate family and the electresses of Brunswick and Hanover.
On Sunday 13 June the electress attended mass at the Santo and visited the relics of the saint, on which occasion Guadagni sang, as usual, Vallotti's antiphon 'O linque benedicta'; in the evening she was entertained at an accademia di musica in the Giustinian palalace, where Guadagni is numbered among the performers; the following evening she heard him again in a performance of her own short opera, Il trionfo della fedeltà (first performed in Dresden, 1754) at the Palazzo Dondi Orologio.
Related words: elector
Translations:
floatable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From float + -able.
Base: float
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more floatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most floatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: floatables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That may be floated.
pos: adj
gloss: That may be floated upon.
pos: adj
examples: The river is floatable on a raft.
gloss: Anything that floats.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: The sixth minimum control is intended to reduce, if not eliminate, visible floatables and solids using relatively simple measures. Simple devices including baffles, screens, and racks can be used to remove coarse solids and floatables […]
Derived words: nonfloatable
unfloatable
Translations:
wigan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).
Inflected forms:
form: wigans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required.
Translations:
heeey
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of hey.
pos: intj
Translations:
paolo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Italian
Inflected forms:
form: paoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old Italian silver coin.
pos: noun
Translations:
glaucomatous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, glauc- + -omatous.
Inflected forms:
form: more glaucomatous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glaucomatous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected by glaucoma.
pos: adj
Translations:
hevea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: heveas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Hevea of flowering plants in the spurge family, including the economically important rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis.
pos: noun
examples: Tire executives say that global demand for tires, which use as much as 70 percent of the world’s rubber supply, will expand as less developed nations industrialize, requiring roughly 21 million additional acres of hevea, the source of natural rubber, by 2024.
Translations:
reengagement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + engagement.
Base: engagement
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reengagements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A renewed or repeated engagement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cover.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dialectal
gloss: A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiver.
Translations:
Vietcong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Cộng, short for Việt Nam cộng sản (“Vietnam(ese) communist(s)”).
Inflected forms:
form: Vietcongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Vietcong
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Viet Cong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: VC
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of this organization.
pos: noun
examples: Then I went to Cam Ranh Bay, a huge base, and received the same official briefing, upbeat and hopeful. Afterward, I asked the briefing officer if he thought any Vietcong were working on the base itself. He said yes. I asked how many, and he said, “We figure twenty to thirty percent of our employees are Vietcong.”
Translations:
faddle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare fiddle, fiddle-faddle.
Inflected forms:
form: faddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: faddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: faddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: faddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fiddle (play aimlessly).
pos: verb
examples: I am afraid I must be at bottom, what a cheerful Indian critic has dubbed me, "a faddling hedonist" […]
He faddles over the needless, such as hanging maps up on the walls in the section and putting inkpots on the mantelpiece.
I had that awful woman, Celia Thaxter, sitting next to me, boring me to death with what a marvellous writer Mark Twain was […] I said, "look, dear, he's sitting just over there. Why don't you go and talk to him?" She faddled around, blushing like a schoolgirl and saying she couldn't possibly.
gloss: To dote on.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dated
examples: Even then, when nurse is ready to take baby out for a walk, properly wrapped up, faddling Mamma comes to examine, if not a little corner remains to be closed to the air.
“The last year she spent faddling at Aunt Mai's […] I am not sure this is necessary to her happiness, this faddling after other people. Now, to faddle after folk, who don't want you, is madness . . . but to faddle after those that do is very good employment. Now […] you are the very person for her, for she dotes on you […]”
She was doing no good in church all put about and faddling after Blackie.
Translations:
double-hung
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two sashes that can move up and down within the window frame.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
foliaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foliage + -ed.
Base: foliage
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having foliage, or in compounds, a defined type of foliage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: dark-foliaged
Translations:
reclaimer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From reclaim + -er.
Base: reclaim
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: reclaimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who reclaims.
pos: noun
examples: The Rev. Mr. Crabb, of Hill, near Southampton, the benevolent reclaimer of the gipsies, calculates that there are in this country upwards of 18,000 of this wandering race, and in other parts of the world 700,000.
gloss: A large machine used to recover bulk material from a stockpile.
pos: noun
Derived words: road reclaimer
Translations:
Vitruvian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Vitruvius + -an.
Base: Vitruvius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Vitruvian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Vitruvian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an Ancient Roman architect.
pos: adj
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