yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Ethio-jazz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ethio- (“Ethiopian”) + jazz.
Base: jazz
Affixes: Ethio-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A blend of traditional Ethiopian music with jazz.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
Translations:
anti-sterile-neutrino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: anti-sterile-neutrinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The antiparticle counterpart of a sterile neutrino.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
anti-inert-neutrino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: anti-inert-neutrinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The antiparticle counterpart of an inert neutrino.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
parent-to-be
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From parent + -to-be.
Base: parent
Affixes: -to-be
Inflected forms:
form: fathers-to-be
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pregnant person, especially one expecting their first child.
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose partner is pregnant, especially when they are pregnant for the first time
pos: noun
Related words: mother-to-be
father-to-be
Translations:
rot-scape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rot + -scape.
Base: rot
Affixes: -scape
Inflected forms:
form: rot-scapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An environment of rotting vegetation.
pos: noun
examples: How do fungi juggle this kind of trade-off while exploring a crowded rot-scape in search of food?
But, after much thought, much time in the mycelial rot-scape of Dionysus, Orpheus, Tristan, Merlin, and Tom Bombadil, I've had time to mellow.
Translations:
n-rule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: n-rules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of en dash
pos: noun
Translations:
m-rule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of em dash
pos: noun
Translations:
Tharu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tharu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tharus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic group of the terai in India and Nepal.
pos: noun
examples: Their main demand: representation equal to their population and federal redistricting that maintains Madhesh and Tharu provinces – which would guarantee the groups a bigger representation in parliament.
Translations:
chain-light
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chain-lights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chain-lighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chain-lit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chain-lit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chain-lighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chain-lighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To light a new cigarette with the burning stub of one's previous cigarette.
pos: verb
examples: He chain-lit a fresh cigarette and flicked the old butt, still smouldering, into the steel ash-can beside his drawing table.
Translations:
pants-wetting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pants-wetting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pants-wetting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pant-wetting
pos: adj
Translations:
anti-creeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anti-creepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rail anchor.
pos: noun
Translations:
stepsister-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From step- + sister-in-law or stepsister + -in-law.
Base: sister-in-law
Affixes: step-
Inflected forms:
form: stepsisters-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stepsister of one's spouse.
pos: noun
Translations:
stepbrother-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From step- + brother-in-law or stepbrother + -in-law.
Base: brother-in-law
Affixes: step-
Inflected forms:
form: stepbrothers-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stepbrother of one's spouse.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-trike
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + trike.
Base: trike
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-trikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: etrike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tricycle powered by an electric motor.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In 2012, the DOE launched the Electric Tricycle (E-Trike) Project that involves the adoption and shift to 100,000 electric tricycles in the country, initially in key cities, provinces and tourist areas. There was an earlier pilot project (launched in April 2011, financed by a USD 110,000 grant from the ADB to the City of Mandaluyong) which covered 20 units of locally made e-trikes equipped with lithium ion batteries.
Under the first phase of the project from 2012 to 2013, 20,000 e-trikes were to be distributed to operators in Metro Manila, Boracay, Puerto Princesa, Cabanatuan City and Davao City. […]
Translations:
Catholicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Catholic + -ity.
Base: Catholic
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Catholicism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-reflective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more self-reflective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-reflective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or relating to self-reflection.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-parody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + parody.
Base: parody
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-parodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Parody of one's own work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though at first blush the new IFC original series Portlandia may suggest a scathing parody of the notoriously green-to-the-point-of-neurotic Pacific Northwestern cultural hub, the show may actually be a bit closer to “self-parody”.
Mr. [Tao] Lin’s is an easy style to mock, and he often seems to be engaging in something that approaches self-parody.
Translations:
wait-a-minute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of wait-a-bit
pos: noun
Translations:
call-letter
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to call letters.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
Translations:
ticket-puncher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ticket-punchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ticket puncher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who punches a ticket; usually, an employee on a train who punches (validates) passengers' tickets.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: Someone who places someone else or themselves in a position in order to succeed.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Someone who maims or kills someone else.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: punch someone's ticket
Translations:
para-IPA
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Symbols commonly used in phonetic transcription alongside the International Phonetic Alphabet, but which are not officially included by the International Phonetic Association.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Those two proposals included a few retired and para-IPA letters, but consideration of historical and para-IPA modifiers was largely deferred until the IPA could more fully discuss the desired scope of such encoding through the newly established Alphabet, Charts and Fonts Committee. […] By ‘para-IPA,’ we mean symbols that are commonly used within IPA notation but that are not themselves part of the IPA alphabet.
Translations:
max-level
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From max + level.
Compound parts: max
level
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At (or associated with) the most advanced level within the context of a game's progression system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pound-mass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pound + mass, to differentiate from the unit of weight.
Base: pound
Inflected forms:
form: pounds-mass
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of mass equal to the weight, on earth (subject to standard gravity), of a mass of one avoirdupois pound, equal to about 453.592 grams. Symbol lbm or lbₘ.
pos: noun
examples: On the moon, however the weight of a pound-mass (lb or lbm) is only about one sixth of a pound-force (lbf).
Translations:
ringy-dingy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rhyming ring and ding with -y. Used by comedian Lily Tomlin imitating a telephone operator (“one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies …”).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: ringy-dingies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ringie dingie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ringie-dingie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ringy dingy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A telephone ring.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I stumbled to my car to call the barn owner. After many ringy-dingies, I gave up.
Each time you answered a call, while the caller was still hearing “one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies,” you heard a recording offering four ways to handle the call: “Press 1 to accept, 2 to send to voice mail, 3 to listen in on voice mail, or 4 to accept and record the call.”
Her “first significant wig,” she said, was for Ernestine, the snorting, power-drunk telephone-operator character (“One ringy-dingy!”) made famous on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”
gloss: A call; a ring (an instance of calling someone on the telephone).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Andrew Vautier made a ringy-dingy...
> Give me a call!
Give me a house!
Give me a ringy-dingy or a number to call and you'll see!! ;)
I had a pant load of calls on my answering machine today. I truly appreciated Dubya taking time out from his busy war to give me a ringy-dingy.
Related words: ring-a-ding
ringding
ringie
ringy
Translations:
hen-cackle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hen-cackles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loud, sharp, or broken sound made by a hen, especially after laying an egg.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literally
uncountable
gloss: A shrill, loud, or raucous laughter or chatter, typically associated with women.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
slang
uncountable
examples: Doubtless there is a wider application of the term since a mere hen-cackle, a trifle, seems to have been the origin of the application.
Translations:
geo-agronomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to geology and agronomy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Guana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
candlebox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From candle + box.
Compound parts: candle
box
Inflected forms:
form: candleboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A box for holding candles, especially one from a candle supplier.
pos: noun
examples: The bed, which a stately but insufficient coverlet failed to disguise as a luxurious couch, betrayed a pair of burnt umber blankets, but no trace of sheets, and was supported at one end by a candle box, where the legs had given way.
Translations:
non-chametz
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not chametz.
pos: adj
tags: Judaism
not-comparable
Translations:
chametz-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of non-chametz
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
chametz-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of chametz
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Pear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Amali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Amal dynasty of the Goths.
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural
plural-only
Translations:
evil-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being evil-minded
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
serious-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being serious-minded
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-tilt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + tilt.
Base: tilt
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nontilt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of non-tilting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lumo will be using non-tilt Class 222s limited to 110 mph.
Translations:
Arain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Arains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a large Punjabi Muslim agricultural community.
pos: noun
Translations:
artcraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: art + craft
Compound parts: art
craft
Inflected forms:
form: artcrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Decorative handicraft items.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Artcraft goods at the Leipzig Spring Fair of 1931 […] comprised mainly hand-made textiles of all kinds, and a large variety of decorative articles. Glass and ceramics predominated […] As the makers of artcraft goods are mostly small firms, those located in Germany usually unite in provincial cooperative associations.
The notion that a significant proportion of an underdeveloped country's work force can be employed in producing handicrafts for export is universally popular. […] With artcrafts, their collection, export, and distribution abroad typically constitute the greater proportion of the price of the article when it is finally retailed abroad.
Translations:
good-size
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of good-sized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Even palisade fencing can be climbed by a determined trespasser, but a good-size hawthorn hedge, lined with thorns and the inevitable brambles, is a serious obstacle.
Translations:
fever-dreamlike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fever dream + -like.
Base: fever dream
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more fever-dreamlike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fever-dreamlike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a fever dream.
pos: adj
examples: Stuart Gordon, whose debut, RE-ANIMATOR, was the sleeper horror hit of 1985, returned again to the fever-dreamlike stories of H.P. Lovecraft for his source in FROM BEYOND.
[T]he dominant tone is barely suppressed hysteria, complemented perfectly by Philip Glass’s insistent, fever-dreamlike score.
Or was it his nerves at all? Elliot thought back, despite himself, to the fever-dreamlike trudge through the Hockomock, to the resting place of the Ujaraanni, to the swamp’s vague corruption and the almost desperate efforts of nature itself to purge the intrusion.
Translations:
big-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bigger-sized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: biggest-sized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of large-sized
pos: adj
Translations:
bow-wood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Explained at bois d'arc.
Inflected forms:
form: bow-woods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wood of the Osage orange tree (Maclura pomifera) or the tree itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
fart-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fart-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a farting competition.
pos: noun
Translations:
logico-epistemology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A system of logic and epistemology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Maale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Male
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small ethnic group of Ethiopia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
auto-Orientalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of auto- + Orientalism.
Inflected forms:
form: auto-Orientalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The adoption of orientalist perspectives by a culture towards itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Many Eastern countries experience auto-Orientalism, by which their people participate in existing Western exaggerations and fantasies concerning their culture and customs.
Translations:
sh-t
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sh-ts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sh-ts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sh-tting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sh-t
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sh-t
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sh-tted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sh-tted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: intj
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: verb
Translations:
grinderman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grinder + -man.
Base: grinder
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: grindermen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male worker who feeds material into a grinder.
pos: noun
examples: He worked as a grinderman in a paper mill.
Translations:
over-Panamax
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of post-Panamax
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
corn-miller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: corn-millers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A miller.
pos: noun
Translations:
elf-man
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elf-men
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adult male elf.
pos: noun
examples: The wick and elf-men were, from the very character of their country, Wikingers, a hardy and stubborn race, who lived by the sea, and bore no good reputation.
Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.
In the midst of the way that old elf-man stood again in his sight, and said, “Salaam aleyk! - Sawest thou my son, and hast thou brought me aught from him?”
Translations:
sea-elf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + elf.
Compound parts: sea
elf
Inflected forms:
form: sea-elves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A merman or mermaid.
pos: noun
examples: You may dare to face a howitzer's mouth,
You may brave a wild beast's rage,
And you'll know less dread with the first or last
Than this old sea-elf - I'll wage;
Yet he seem'd such a downright sociable ghost
That I flinched not from his gage.
TRITON. n seaelf, half man and half fish.
When the moon is afloat,
And the ocean at rest,
The sea-elf goes forth
To the town he loves best:
Up from his cave, over the wave,
With joy in his breast.
Translations:
off-pitch
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of out of tune
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
straw-clutching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an incident or situation, desperately attempting to find a solution.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: Every bit of straw-clutching, every bit of hope that Hugh might be alive was followed instantly by a reaction of dismay, of reluctance to pursue it.
After "little green men" and other straw-clutching explanations had been eliminated, it was realized that the source must be a rotating neutron star.
Both acts of straw-clutching would come to nothing.
Translations:
prrt
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a fart.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
Translations:
multi-institution
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + institution.
Base: institution
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of multi-institutional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
Translations:
cragside
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: crag + -side
Base: crag
Affixes: -side
Inflected forms:
form: cragsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the side of a crag or crags; the side of a rocky cliff
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The area around the side a crag or crags; or side of a rocky cliff
pos: noun
Translations:
elf-dance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elf-dances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dance performed by elves.
pos: noun
examples: Just then, in the far distance, swept along a whirlwind which had caught up the dust of the plains into columns — two, three, four, all at once dancing some wild elf-dance, like weird spirits doomed to do penance for ever upon, those arid tracks.
Many village musicians have been known, who have learned from him to play this elf-dance, and have sometimes played the first parts of it at Christmas parties and elsewhere.
gloss: Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).
pos: noun
examples: The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans).
This notion as to the cause of the rings being the dancing of the fairies was held by Drayton [...] In Wales, too, the same notion is prevalent, and it is to be found also in Sweden and Belgium, where they call these rings "elf-dances."
Translations:
chal-chal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Allophylus edulis
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tongue-fence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of tongue-fencing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Tejon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tejons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a certain tribe of Kitanemuk, Yokuts, Paiute and Chumash indigenous people of California.
pos: noun
Translations:
tejon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tejons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of coati.
pos: noun
Translations:
cornick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Corn nuts.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
uncountable
Translations:
alt-middle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of alt-center
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
snap-the-whip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of crack-the-whip
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When you play snap the whip, why does the end man get thrown?
Translations:
post-action
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From post- + action.
Base: action
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: After an action took place.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
knife-handle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knife-handles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knifehandle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knife handle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The grip of a knife.
pos: noun
examples: Please turn that cardboard face down, and take this one, and compare it searchingly by the magnifier, with the fatal signature upon the knife-handle, and report your finding to the court.”
She could guess, and she saw the knife-handle, but she didn’t know.
The earliest of their known productions, the ivory knife-handle in the Louvre has perfect figures of dogs, goat, ibex and cheetah, unsurpassed in truth and spirit.
Translations:
Not-Deer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Not-Deer
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Not Deer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: not-deer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: not deer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Notdeer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: notdeer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fictional deer-like creature with unusual or supernatural characteristics, commonly depicted as walking on two legs, being intelligent, and being hostile to humans.
pos: noun
Translations:
USB-A
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: USB-As
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rectangular USB that is larger than USB-C.
pos: noun
examples: USB-C ports and cables function just like USB-A equivalents, only better.
Translations:
five-legged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From five + legged.
Compound parts: five
legged
Inflected forms:
form: fivelegged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having five legs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
six-legged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From six + legged.
Compound parts: six
legged
Inflected forms:
form: sixlegged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having six legs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nomia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Nomia, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture, meadow - their typical habitat”) + -ia.
Affixes: -ia
Inflected forms:
form: nomias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various ground-nesting halictid bees of the genus Nomia, native to Asia, many species of which have opalescent bands on the metasoma.
pos: noun
Translations:
red-flag
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: red-flags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: red-flagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: red-flagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: red-flagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark or identify something as suspicious, problematic or worthy of further scrutiny or immediate action.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To halt a race or session immediately due to unsafe conditions.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Translations:
millicent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: millicents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One thousandth of a cent (used in securities trading).
pos: noun
Translations:
e-moped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + moped.
Base: moped
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-mopeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A moped powered by an electric motor.
pos: noun
examples: My bet is that, in cities at least, the e-car won’t be the vehicle of the future. I suspect it will keep falling further behind e-bikes, e-mopeds and e-scooters.
Translations:
taxi-dance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: taxi-dances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taxi-dancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taxi-danced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taxi-danced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To work as a taxi dancer (usually, of a woman).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
short-ship
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: short-ships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: short-shipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: short-shipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: short-shipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A variation of this is to short-ship goods to customers. A short shipment is when items are listed in the shipping document but not included in the shipment and not received by the recipient.
Translations:
high-living
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-living
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-living
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Enjoying an extravagant lifestyle.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: There is a scene in John Cassavetes's new film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, where Los Angeles strip-joint owner goes for a stroll with some high-living gamblers.
Translations:
Cordilleran
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Cordilleran
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Cordilleran
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Cordillerans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Cordillera in the Philippines.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Cordillera in the Philippines.
pos: noun
Translations:
kitten-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more kitten-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kitten-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Timid; skittish.
pos: adj
Translations:
Krag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Named after its Norwegian designer, Ole Herman Johannes Krag.
Inflected forms:
form: Krags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Springfield Model 1892–99, a bolt-action rifle adopted in 1892 as the standard United States Army military longarm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Are the Krags serviceable to the men for training purposes?
Translations:
Kotoko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Chadic ethnic group living around the area of the former kingdom.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
lowan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lowans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of mallee fowl.
pos: noun
examples: Lowans' nests are plentiful, but the bird itself is seldom seen. It is about the size of a turkey, and lays its eggs in a heap of sand.
Translations:
defence-splitting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Passing between defenders.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a defence-splitting pass
For both goals, Wolves' backline were caught sleeping. Two defence-splitting passes at the start of each half was all the visitors needed to wrap up all three points at Molineux.
Translations:
finger-comb
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: finger-combs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: finger-combing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: finger-combed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: finger-combed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To comb or arrange hair by using one's fingers instaed of a comb, usually in a casual or rough way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
self-portraitist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: self-portraitists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who produces a self-portrait.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sungold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: sun + gold
Compound parts: sun
gold
Inflected forms:
form: Sungolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet orange-colored variety of cherry tomato.
pos: noun
Translations:
multi-voltage
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + voltage.
Base: voltage
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
form: multivoltage
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to operate on different voltages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With multi-voltage techniques in their present state of development, the greatest disadvantage resulting from these differences is the impossibility of fast through multiple-unit expresses. Dual-voltage trains work between Amsterdam and Brussels, but many additional problems would arise if they were to run south of Luxembourg.
Translations:
empty-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more empty-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most empty-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emptyhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking feeling or emotion; heartless.
pos: adj
Translations:
food-insecure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more food-insecure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most food-insecure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking food security.
pos: adj
Translations:
food-secure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more food-secure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most food-secure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having food security.
pos: adj
Translations:
imagic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From image + -ic.
Base: image
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or having the nature of an image.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Paradoxically, the imagic relationship of vagina and fire lends a kind of strength to the authority-claim.
Translations:
sendy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English send
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English sendy
From send + -y. Popularized by a YouTube video posted by NELK on March 7, 2023 (see quotation below) and reached virality on TikTok in July 2025.
Inflected forms:
form: sendier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sendiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Daring, intense, going all-out.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Maybe it was the company, maybe it was the mountain, but something there is something undeniable^([sic – meaning undeniably]) sendy about Red.
Jackson hole is the sendiest mountains you can ski/ride. Not for the faint of heart.
[Kyle Forgeard:] There's no commandment that says, "Thou shalt not send," though, right? [Jimmy Gambles:] Oooohhhh! Let's get sendy!
Even Mike Leahy, famous for sending a Rampage canyon gap on his one-wheeler called it "nuts." High praise from one of the sendiest people out there.
This snow year in MT has been very thin. That's not great, but skiing over/through/around rocks, grass, stumps has made me a better (sendier?) skier when the snow is good!
Translations:
vocaloid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Vocaloid, ultimately from Japanese ボーカロイド (bōkaroido).
Inflected forms:
form: vocaloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Vocaloid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Music created using voice synthesis software, such as Vocaloid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An artificial, digital singer created using voice synthesis software, often represented by a moe anthropomorphic (anime-like) avatar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
sometimes
uncountable
examples: Kasane Teto is my favorite vocaloid.
gloss: A voice synthesis software voicebank, regardless of musicality and presentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
sometimes
uncountable
examples: It was too expensive to hire voice actors for every employee training video, so now we use a vocaloid for the voiceover instead.
Derived words: Cryptonloid
Translations:
fcking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Censored spelling of fucking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
V-level
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
form: V-levels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proposed vocational qualification for 16-year-olds.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: It said the V-Levels will offer more choice as pupils will be able to sit them alongside A-Levels, unlike T-Levels – which are equivalent to three A-Levels.
New vocational courses called V-levels will be rolled out for 16-year-olds under government plans to simplify a "confusing landscape" of qualifications in England.
From 2027, new V levels will be introduced to provide clarity to young people on their post-16 learning options. These reforms will make sure that whatever a student’s interests or strengths, whether academic, technical, or vocational, there’s a clear, high-quality path for them.
Translations:
sinus-wise
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sinus + -wise.
Base: sinus
Affixes: -wise
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As pertaining to the sinus or sinuses.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: This pollen is really messing with me sinus-wise.
Translations:
fold-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fold-down
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fold-down
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made to be expanded when used, and contracted when not used.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-domestication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + domestication.
Base: domestication
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-domestications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothesized evolutionary process by which a species develops traits typically associated with domestication, such as reduced aggression or prosocial behavior, through natural selection within its own population rather than by deliberate breeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us. […] Central to his argument is the idea that cooperative killing of incurably violent individuals played a central role in our self-domestication. Much as the Russian scientists eliminated the fierce fox pups from the breeding pool, our ancestors killed men who were guilty of repeated acts of violence.
Translations:
phone-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phone + -free.
Base: phone
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of phoneless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mr. Killingsworth craved a space where he could chat with his peers without feeling as though he was intruding. When he was in high school, he ran into similar conundrums, so he would organize phone-free hangouts with friends.
Translations:
self-domesticate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: self-domesticates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-domesticating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-domesticated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-domesticated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To undergo self-domestication.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: What exactly is the difference between animals domesticated by humans (e.g. dogs, birds) and self-domesticated animals (e.g. humans, and potentially also bonobos; see Hare, 2017; Hare et al., 2012; Kovalaskas et al. 2021), whose domestication process was triggered organically as a result of internal and unguided pressures?
Translations:
half-turn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + turn.
Base: turn
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-turns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A partial turn, typically 180 degrees.
pos: noun
examples: "His ability to take the ball on the half-turn allows his first touch to be always forward when he receives it."
Translations:
dry-fry
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: dry-fries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dry-frying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dry-fried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dry-fried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fry food in a pan without using any fat or oil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
thill-horse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thill-horses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thillhorse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thill horse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse that is placed between the thills or shafts of a vehicle, such as a supporting cart or carriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
nude-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nude + -in, modelled after sit-in, etc.
Base: nude
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: nude-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of peaceful protest involving nudity originating in 1960s counterculture.
pos: noun
examples: The fact that nudity was a cultural taboo meant that it could provide a vehicle for dissent. Sometimes the dissent was generalized, as in the case of public nude-ins. Nudity outraged the majority of citizens, and that was reason enough for it.
Translations:
honey-lipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more honey-lipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most honey-lipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of honey-mouthed.
pos: adj
Translations:
fetish-adjacent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fetish-adjacent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fetish-adjacent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining or related in some way to a sexual fetish.
pos: adj
Translations:
elf-lady
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elf-ladies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adult female elf.
pos: noun
examples: There the heroine said to the elf-lady in the evening, as she was dressing the infant: "You have had a great many visitors today."
Translations:
elf-damsel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: elf-damsels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young female elf.
pos: noun
examples: The horn he held fast, and clapping spurs to his horse, rode away with all possible speed, followed by the Elf-damsel, until he reached Trigebrand's mill[.]
The elf-damsel gave chase until horse and man reached a running water, across which she could not follow them.
Translations:
elf-dock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of elecampane.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: From its broad leaves, the Elecampane is sometimes called the Elf-dock. It is held to be under Mercury.
Arthur was sitting up in his bed, a warm cloth over his chest to speed the healing effects of the elf-dock and wormwood.
Translations:
pro-Witness
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + Witness.
Base: Witness
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-Witness
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-Witness
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pro-Witnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Favoring or supporting Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
pos: adj
gloss: An adherence to or support of Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-Pali
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not Pali.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pre-twist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + twist.
Base: twist
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: pre-twists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pre-twisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pre-twisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pre-twisted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pretwist
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To twist in advance.
pos: verb
Translations:
much-needed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From much + needed.
Compound parts: much
needed
Inflected forms:
form: more much-needed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most much-needed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: much needed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: muchneeded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Necessary, essential, very needed.
pos: adj
Translations:
idol-worthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From idol + -worthy.
Base: idol
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: more idol-worthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most idol-worthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of being an idol or of being idolised.
pos: adj
Translations:
knick-knock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ding-dong ditch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-American
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + American.
Base: American
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-Americans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonamerican
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more non-American
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most non-American
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nonamerican
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is not an American.
pos: noun
gloss: Not American.
pos: adj
Translations:
play-by-snail-mail
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Etymology: Modeled on play-by-mail.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
left-leaning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From left + leaning.
Compound parts: left
leaning
Inflected forms:
form: more left-leaning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most left-leaning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: left leaning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: leftleaning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On the left wing politically.
pos: adj
Translations:
belt-driven
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Operated by a drivebelt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The exciter is mounted on an adjustable platform on top of the auxiliary generator frame, and is belt-driven from the main generator shaft.
Translations:
next-to-ness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From next to + -ness.
Base: next to
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: next-to-it-ness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state, quality, or condition of being next to someone or something; adjacentness; proximity.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: This adjoined-ness or next-to-ness is not only characteristic of symbolic art; it is what is specifically architectural.
But in addition to grammatical next-to-ness, there is normal physical proximity.
Even as I feel her panicky worries because of the voices rising outside our room, I feel comforted because her slightly larger body is always in next-to-ness to mine.
Translations:
Mai-Tini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Mai Tai + martini.
Compound parts: Mai Tai
martini
Inflected forms:
form: Mai-Tinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A combination mai tai martini cocktail.
pos: noun
Translations:
packet-switched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to packet switching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
two-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Adapted for the use of both eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: