yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
corn-pit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + pit. First use appears c. 1883 in the publications of Joseph Edwards.
Compound parts: corn
pit
Inflected forms:
form: corn-pits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deep hole or recess in the ground in which corn or maize are stored.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: The part of a produce exchange where the business in maize is carried out.
pos: noun
Translations:
kitchen-boy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From kitchen + boy.
Compound parts: kitchen
boy
Inflected forms:
form: kitchen-boys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy who does menial tasks in the kitchen of a large establishment.
pos: noun
examples: Perhaps he was watching for the butcher or the milkman, for he was a kitchen-boy in the household of a rich and mighty cardinal.
The king's cook engaged him as kitchen-boy, and he now had to turn the joints on the spit every day.
He shall serve his time as my kitchen-boy, and learn no more than I choose.
Translations:
foam-flecked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A reference to the way a rabid animal foams at the mouth.
Inflected forms:
form: more foam-flecked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foam-flecked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rabid; furious; fanatical.
pos: adj
examples: Now the hostess became his mistress: his love letters were passionate, indiscreet, and hate-filled, featuring Briish military secrets and foam-flecked rants against Jews:
Stephenson had already worked himself into something just short of a foam-flecked tirade by the time Will arrived.
The stories were fabulous bubbles of outrage (prawn-cocktail flaboured crisps were never banned), but the foam-flecked hymns of hate were real.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foam, flecked.; covered in flecks of foam.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-victimize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + victimize.
Base: victimize
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-victimizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-victimizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-victimized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-victimized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To engage in self-victimization.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It’s timely to bring this topic up because when the world is falling apart, people generally fall into two groups: those that self-victimize and those that take responsibility for their lives.
Translations:
black-clad
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From black + clad.
Compound parts: black
clad
Inflected forms:
form: blackclad
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dressed in black.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Yes, you are exactly right. You have called the wayward child by its proper name," repliec the thin black-clad man in a deferential manner as he bowed his head briefly toward the black-clad woman, who had asked the question.
An without warning they appear, the black-clad men, holding automatic rifles, their faces callous, their hands bloody, their three-cornered eyes hard.
Once again, those black-clad figures make a kind of grim visual poetry from the moment.
Translations:
cast-in-place
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of buildings or construction, cast directly at the site in formwork.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
old-worldly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more old-worldly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most old-worldly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: old-fashioned, reminiscent of a bygone era.
pos: adj
examples: David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
Translations:
Filipino-Chinese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Filipino (adjective) + Chinese (adjective).
Compound parts: Filipino
Chinese
Inflected forms:
form: Chinese-Filipino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Fil-Chi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
acronym
acronym
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Chinese Filipino people, culture, or the languages characteristic of them.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
not-comparable
Translations:
people-watch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From people + watch.
Compound parts: people
watch
Inflected forms:
form: people-watches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: people-watching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: people-watched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: people-watched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To observe people and their behavior as a recreational activity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
self-esteeming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more self-esteeming
pos: noun
tags: comparative
form: most self-esteeming
pos: noun
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has high self-esteem
pos: noun
examples: Intense GWM 26, leading (and liking) cram-packed existence with small amounts of free time, wants to spend some of it with equally intelligent, stable, proud, self-esteeming people, especially GF (or GFs).
gloss: Conducive to self-esteem
pos: noun
Translations:
resid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: resids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A residual solvent.
pos: noun
examples: Two different resids were used, Maya and LHC-362. The literature was also surveyed to determine important characteristics that should be evaluated for selecting resids.
Translations:
post-Catholic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From post- + Catholic.
Base: Catholic
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
form: more post-Catholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most post-Catholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: postcatholic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: postCatholic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: post-Catholics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: postcatholic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: postCatholic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a society where Catholic values are no longer relevant.
pos: adj
examples: It was predictable that this post-Catholic American-Lebanese writer would be highlighted from a Lebanese-Egyptian journal that had long pioneered pan-Arab national consciousness in Egypt.
“The Left has a hard time admitting that the core of its message could go hand-in-hand with a coherent and politically mobilized group of voters who are Catholic or post-Catholic,” Wojciech Przybylski of the Res Publica think-tank in Warsaw says.
gloss: An advocate of a society with values postdating Catholicism.
pos: noun
examples: Like Hunt, I am a postCatholic, but it is difficult for me to define Christians as justice-seeking.
Translations:
spooky-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spooky + -ass.
Base: spooky
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more spooky-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spooky-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very spooky.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
non-option
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + option.
Base: option
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-options
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which is not an acceptable or possible outcome or choice.
pos: noun
examples: This is something of a non-option for SHU prisoners who have no valuable information to offer the authorities in exchange for their release.
Unfortunately, because he is on death row, that option became a non-option.
When you accept one, leave sex as a non-option for now
Translations:
bog-brained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bog-brained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bog-brained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stupid.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
derogatory
examples: To tar a chap of intelligence, wit and insight (and a cobbler-togetherer of exceedingly good popular musical tunes to boot) with the same mucky brush as the likes of Half Man Half Biscuit (who have just reformed. I think the question here is 'why, exactly?') will mark you out for life as a cauliflower-eared, bog-brained dolt, so there.
But try telling these bog-brained murphies.
It gives me an edge over all of yees around here, allows me see yees for the inbred, underbred, bog-brained shower yees are.
Translations:
GTPase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From GTP + -ase.
Base: GTP
Affixes: -ase
Inflected forms:
form: GTPases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP).
pos: noun
Translations:
spray-tan
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spray-tans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spray-tanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spray-tanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spray-tanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spray tan
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To apply spray tan on one's skin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That's something to consider if you do decide to spray tan before your next Zoom meeting, influencer video, or if you want to really get into character as the sun-kissed John F. Kennedy to your new girlfriend’s Marilyn Monroe.
gloss: To apply spray tan on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
spray-tanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of applying a spray tan on someone's skin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
old-timely
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From old-time + -ly.
Base: old-time
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more old-timely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most old-timely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of old-timey.
pos: adj
examples: Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows.
We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused. GREAT REDUCTION. We like to mean what we say, and our daily aim is to stimulate confidence. So we grasp the words GREAT REDUCTION as feebly as the child in making its first effort to walk. It’s no unusual thing at this season of the year to see the words GREAT REDUCTION staring you in the face on every hand. Are they all sincere?
“I have seen Mr. ⸺ (a well-known name) come here and just about go down on his knees to get Mr. Whittier to speak or even to come to a banquet,” says the landlord (who is by the way an old-timely character worthy of a novelist’s pen), […]
Members After Hours at Hoggatt School. 1860s theme with watermelon, crumb cake and other old-timely touches.
Translations:
back-timing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique used to calculate the amount of remaining time before an event or task ends, by counting down backwards from the end of the program, in order to ensure that the event concludes on time or within a specific time limit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
friends-to-lovers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: friends to lovers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A trope in romance fiction (particularly fan fiction) involving the development of a friendship into romantic love.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: When I started the Mafia Moguls series, I knew I wanted a friends-to-lovers trope—one of my absolute favorite storylines.
Between the classic friends-to-lovers trope, incredible dialogue, and undeniable chemistry between Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal, this is one film that you MUST watch.
A sparkling, warm romance that reminds us why the friends-to-lovers trope is superior!
Translations:
enemies-to-lovers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enemies to lovers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ETL
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A trope in romance fiction (particularly fan fiction) involving the development of an antagonistic relationship into romantic love.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: “And for everyone rooting for this little enemies-to-lovers tale...”
I know that she never falls asleep before 2 a.m. and her favourite fanfic trope is enemies-to-lovers and she’s secretly a fan of Ariana Grande.
And that’s because Go Hex Yourself is a romantic masterpiece, and the sexiest, most bewitching take on enemies-to-lovers I’ve read in ages.
When I read a book now, I think I'm much more trope-aware, because before I read fanfiction, I don't even think I fully understood what tropes were. So now I see, like, when a book has enemies-to-lovers, I see it, and I'm like, oh-oh.
Translations:
enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enemies to friends to lovers
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A trope in romance fiction (particularly fan fiction) involving the development of a rivalry into friendship and eventually romantic love.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: I wanted more time for the two together, especially more witty barbs, since I revel in an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers trope.
The connection between Emma and Regina goes beyond one of the Saviour against the Villain, though the trope of enemies to friends to lovers played a big part of the initial interest in their interactions.
The movie's plot is the epitome of the enemies to friends to lovers trope.
Translations:
stumble-drunk
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stumble + drunk.
Compound parts: stumble
drunk
Inflected forms:
form: more stumble-drunk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stumble-drunk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stumble-drunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: So drunk that one is clumsy and stumbling.
pos: adj
examples: In fact, patrons remembered the bar owner dragging a stumble-drunk Jefferts into the parking lot,but no one could attest to the exact reason why.
When they came back, stumble-drunk and bruised, drunk enough to piss their own beds, they teased and heckled him.
A day before he'd been stumble-drunk beside a sterile resort pool; now he was having a romantic candlelight dinner with two young twenty-somethings, one of whom was the most perfect girl he'd ever met in his life.
gloss: One who is currently or habitually stumble-drunk.
pos: noun
examples: It's not like they're stumble-drunks – they're guys who drink themselves into that weird sobriety.
Also, Mrs. Krause served liquor but had no telerance for stumble-drunks and certainly not mean drunks.
He was doing a keen enough job so far, one more stumble-drunk knocking down the wide Third Rung thoroughfare, a bit grimier than they generally got up here but not worth noticing twice.
Translations:
plain-sailing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From plain (adjective) + sailing.
Sense 2 of plain sailing (“something that is easy, simple, or straightforward”, noun) is attested slightly later than the adjective, and so could have been derived from it.
Compound parts: plain
sailing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Easy, simple, straightforward.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] I took an uncommon fancy to him. He's a straightforward, plain-sailing fellow. I shall be very glad to see him again.
[W]hat was the mainspring of her mind—round what axis did it revolve—that was what puzzled him. Clearly enough it was not like most women's, least of all like that of happy, healthy, plain-sailing Bessie.
But the plain-sailing tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the west end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equally qualified to judge whether a play is safe from prosecution or not.
Translations:
fox-and-cubs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the appearance of orange flowers (the fox) adjacent to flower buds (the cubs).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Orange hawkweed; a multi-headed wildflower of species Pilosella aurantiaca, in the family Asteraceae, native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe.
pos: noun
Translations:
Afrobeats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Afro- + beats.
Base: beats
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A 21st-century West African popular music genre blending traditional music styles with Western pop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Rema joined Burna Boy, Wizkid, Davido, and Tems as the only Afrobeats acts to earn album nominations in the history of the Grammys. At 24, he’s the youngest of them.
Translations:
LoRA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Acronym of low-rank adaptation.
Inflected forms:
form: LoRAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: LORA
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An adapter-based technique for efficiently fine-tuning models.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An adapter-based technique for efficiently fine-tuning models.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
Translations:
nightingale-wren
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nightingale-wrens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two wrens, Microcerculus philomela and Microcerculus marginatus of Central America and northern South America, correspondingly.
pos: noun
Translations:
moss-draped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more moss-draped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moss-draped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mossdraped
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mossy; covered, draped with moss.
pos: adj
examples: Late one recent Saturday night, one of Savannah’s famously moss-draped squares exploded in gunfire.
Translations:
self-identical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a quality of being the same thing as itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to a self-identity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shrike-babbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shrike-babblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A songbird of the genus Pteruthius, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Nepal.
pos: noun
Translations:
post-democratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From post- + democratic.
Base: democratic
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
form: more post-democratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most post-democratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: postdemocratic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
pos: adj
examples: Pervasive postdemocratic attitudes and political indifference have enabled Britta Söldner and her business partner Babak Hamwi to develop a new business model. Their company Brücke (Bridge), ostensibly a therapeutic practice for patients with suicidal thoughts, is in reality just a front for an employment agency for suicide bombers.
Bong interrogates the superficiality of the parliamentary democracy and reveals how the preexisting system of social ills and corruption has been maintained and has even intensified in postdemocratic Korean society.
Such expressions of depoliticising solidarity can be further explained by the critical analysis of contemporary (Western) democracy as postpolitical or postdemocratic. This is because, as it seems, these statements suspend a culture of political debate and conflict in favour of questions about individual lifestyles and consumerist choices.
Translations:
post-democracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From post- + democracy.
Base: democracy
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
form: post-democracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: postdemocracy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
pos: noun
examples: It may be that we need to conceptualize democratic authorship in less unitary and more heterarchical terms and instead approach it through a diff erent model of sover-eignty and the public sphere. Maybe we should all embrace “postdemocracy”? Or should one insist that these normative criteria of legitimacy remain necessary even in view of new global arrangements, and that, in fact, they may be in a healthy tension with these arrangements?
Britta is an entrepreneur with a cool and calculating head who skillfully exploits the business opportunities of postdemocracy—her heart only beats for her most private affairs.
Translations:
lard-assed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lardass + -ed.
Base: lardass
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: lardassed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of or resembling a lardass; fat or overweight.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
slang
vulgar
Translations:
lard-bucket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lard-buckets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of lard-ass.
pos: noun
Translations:
task-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From task + oriented. First appears c. 1953 in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Compound parts: task
oriented
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a person or organization, focusing on prioritizing results above everything else, and discounting or disregarding the personal development or satisfaction of the team as a whole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rag-time
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of ragtime.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
no-deal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a situation, whereby two parties fail to reach an agreement regarding the manner in which to proceed.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
Translations:
oil-digger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oil-diggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bee of the genus Centris, native to the Americas.
pos: noun
Translations:
sexually-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to any material depicting sexually explicit content or conduct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
service-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an architectural style focusing on discrete services instead of a monolithic design.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
subject-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the objects themselves, but are provided by various subjective perceptions ("subjects") of the objects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dark-zilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From dark + -zilla. From being the dark sector version of WIMPzilla. Coined by Katherine Freese and Martin Wolfgang Winkler in 2023.
Base: dark
Affixes: -zilla
Inflected forms:
form: dark-zillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: darkzilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Theoretical extremely massive dark matter particle, orders of magnitude greater than 10¹⁰ GeV (gigaelectronvolts), thought to be generated by a vacuum phase change event, where rapidly colliding collapsing bubbles of false vacuum generate the particles in energetic collisions.
pos: noun
Translations:
ten-code
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ten-codes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A verbal brevity code originally design for police communication and subsequently adopted on citizens' band radio.
pos: noun
Translations:
protogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From proto- (“an early, primitive stage of development”) + primagen (“a furry cyborg character with a raptor-like body and fully robotic legs”). Coined by Fur Affinity user Cedar "Malice-risu" Andrews in April 2017 as an open-source fursona species (an open species), in contrast to her copyrighted, more mechanical primagen species; in fiction, protogen are canonically the predecessor species to primagen, hence the name.
Base: primagen
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
form: protogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: protogen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional anthropomorphic (furry) cyborg with a robotic chest and thighs, and a visor screen upon which the creature's face is displayed.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: JUMPING ON THE PROTOGEN BANDWAGON!!!! now I just need a name for this lil guy! if someone comes…
*pulls in the protogen to wrap up in his wings*
Do protos make cute little beeps when hugged? :D
Fast forward a few years, and the whole family has adopted "fursonas," which they’re excited to show off at their first-ever Anthrocon. This weekend, Savannah will be a kangaroo named "Bubbles," Theresa will be a "sparkledog" named "Amethyst," Andrew will be a protogen — a computer-animal hybrid species — named "Jayden," and Carver, their son, will be a dragon named "Aiden Moonclaw."
If you don't know what a protogen is do yourself a favor and look up some pictures of them right now—they're a really cool fusion of cute/fuzzy critter and technology!
When it comes to furry avatars, the Protogen^([sic]) genre of avatars are by far the most popular… and with good reason too. They're slick in terms of their design, incredibly customizable, and have lots of facial features and body expressions that can be tailored for just about any player.
Translations:
fu-k
Part of speech: adv
intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fu-ks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fu-ks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fu-king
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fu-ked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fu-ked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Censored spelling of fuck.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Censored spelling of fuck.
pos: intj
gloss: Censored spelling of fuck.
pos: noun
gloss: Censored spelling of fuck.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Translations:
self-evaluation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + evaluation.
Base: evaluation
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-evaluations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An evaluation of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Self-evaluation, done correctly, can help guide you through the next five or more years of your career, whether that means staying with your current company in your existing job or moving to a different position, going to another firm, or striking out on your own.
You can use self-evaluations as a basis for creating future goals and objectives.
Translations:
attitude-adjuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From attitude + adjuster.
Compound parts: attitude
adjuster
Inflected forms:
form: attitude-adjusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nightstick or any type of club.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see attitude, adjuster.
pos: noun
Translations:
Paya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Pech (“indigenous people of Honduras”).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
route-one
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From route one football, a very direct association football strategy.
Inflected forms:
form: more route-one
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most route-one
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to route one football.
pos: adj
examples: But the Warlington midfield surrounded Ben, making a square ball to Lee on the left his only real option unless he went for a route one hit-and-hope. But Ben just wasn't a route one kind of player
gloss: Direct, basic, unsubtle, brute force.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: They were blindingly primitive, powered by Clark's anti-jazz drums, relentless two-note saxophone and Mike Smith's raw bellowed vocals. Unlike the early-sixties Spurs team that Clark watched from the terraces, this was route-one stuff.
It was a calculated route-one strategy, but would it work? If they dragged these unsuspecting punters in with the music, the album's content would certainly make them think.
You are less likely to drop dead, because lack of exercise is the second-biggest killer of middle-aged men after smoking. It's all really simple, route-one stuff.
Translations:
reverse-charge
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a telephone call, having the cost of the call paid by the recipient rather than the caller; see also reverse the charges.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a reverse-charge call
Translations:
Gabra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Gabra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Oromo-speaking people of Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
pos: noun
Translations:
person-day
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of person + day, although, as with any such unit of measure (e.g., ton-miles, newton metres), the mathematical relationship of multiplication is simultaneously involved: X persons working during Y days = X × Y = Z person-days.
Compound parts: person
day
Inflected forms:
form: person-days
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: person-month, man-month < person-year, man-year
Meronyms: person-hour, man-hour
They estimated that it would take at least four people working a total of at least 80 person-days to build the foundation.
Translations:
Salzburger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Salzburg + -er.
Base: Salzburg
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Salzburgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Salzburg; a Salzburgian.
pos: noun
Translations:
beezy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bitch + -eezy (suffix forming hip-hop-sounding words).
Base: bitch
Affixes: -eezy
Inflected forms:
form: beezies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: I can't fade a beezy who don't keep a bleezy / Rolled for a neezy / I ask her, 'What the feezy?'
I'd lost it, really. What was I doing sitting here gossiping with a couple of beezies?
"I'm good, Tami. I'll holla," I interrupt. Been there and done that when we kicked it last year. These beezies is treacherous.
Translations:
mehh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of meh (“expressing indifference etc.”).
pos: intj
examples: Gears of War (360). Mehh - yet another pretty but bland FPS. Back to Gamesfrenzy it goes.
We both looked at her boobs. "Mehh," we said and shrugged.
gloss: Elongated form of meh (“animal sound”).
pos: intj
Translations:
asset-stripping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of selling off a company's assets in order to improve returns for equity investors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
asset-strip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
form: asset-strips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: asset-stripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: asset-stripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: asset-stripped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: asset strip
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To sell off a company's assets in order to improve returns for equity investors.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
moley
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mole + -y.
Base: mole
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more moley
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moley
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).
pos: adj
examples: Although the snouts of moles twitch less than those of shrews, particularly elephant shrews, Dobson was enamoured of what he considered the more “moley” twitching of the snouts of moles.
Happily for him, Fallowlees is a moley paradise. Moles have long been a fascination of Bill's, and he can often be found staring longingly at a molehill.
'Oh, yes,' said the mole. 'We're definitely moles. We're very moley indeed. Isn't that right, Rolf the Mole?'
The first and most effective way was using the Professional Mole Man, who would walk your fields and drop strychnine-laced worms into the subterranean mole runs that connect each of their hills together (this method is now banned in the EU). It was pretty much instantaneous, and by the end of the day you would be rid of your moley problem.
gloss: Having numerous moles (naevi)
pos: adj
examples: Scalp naevi in children may be an early sign of being 'moley'. Patients with many moles tend to have a 'signature naevus'—i.e^([sic]) all their moles follow a pattern that is characteristic for that patient.
Furthermore, not only are melanoma-prone family members unusually moley; in addition , the moles themselves comprise a unique clinicopathologic entity, a class of melanocytic lesions which are unusually susceptible to malignant transformation.
You are a little moley on your stomach.
Translations:
five-a-day
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Five portions of fruit or vegetable to be eaten each day as part of a healthy diet, as promoted by various national campaigns.
pos: noun
Translations:
Afro-Latino
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Afro- + Latino.
Base: Latino
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
form: more Afro-Latino
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Afro-Latino
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Afrolatino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: afrolatino
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Afro-Latinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Afrolatino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: afrolatino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Latino of African descent.
pos: adj
examples: There are millions of Afro-Latino people around the world, from Honduras to Puerto Rico to the Dominican Republic, who have hundreds of combinations of skin colors and hair textures.
gloss: A man of mixed African and Latino descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
comtech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: communications technology
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] dragging through the courts now for the past decade enjoining the networks to get out of production — that a more widespread and radical divorcement throughout the communications industries — the entire comtech system — would increase competition and enable diversity to replace the "blandiose" programming that dominates broadcasting and other media as well.
gloss: computer technology
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
trash-bin
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trash-bins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trash-binning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trash-binned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trash-binned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To trash, throw out, discard; (computing) to delete (a file, etc).
pos: verb
examples: Your request to know explicit details about my sex life is noted, ridiculed, and trashbinned.
I can think of a few colleagues who flagellate themselves into trash-binning fully adequate text. If these folk had the same neurosis in their cooking, they would starve to death!
Translations:
Burstall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Burstalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A town in Saskatchewan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A village and civil parish in Suffolk, England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An English surname
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
half-decked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From halfdeck + -ed.
Base: halfdeck
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a vessel consisting of a deck covering about half of its length or surface area.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lip-server
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lip-servers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone whose service occurs solely in their profession.
pos: noun
examples: ... the mere nominal professor and false-hearted lip-server may do this;
Translations:
high-seeded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: higher-seeded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-seeded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a team, ranked or rated high in a given locale or region.
pos: adj
Translations:
low-seeded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: lower-seeded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-seeded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a team, ranked or rated low in a given locale or region.
pos: adj
Translations:
e-bill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + bill.
Base: bill
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-bills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bill that is delivered electronically.
pos: noun
Translations:
low-IQ
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-IQ
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-IQ
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, stupid and unintelligent.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
Translations:
high-IQ
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: higher-IQ
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-IQ
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, highly gifted and intelligent.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
Hispano-Arabic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of Spanish and Arabic admixture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
asthma-plant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: asthma-plants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical plant of species Euphorbia hirta, used in herbal medicine.
pos: noun
Translations:
rake-stepping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Popularized by a gag in the 1993 episode "Cape Feare" of The Simpsons, in which Sideshow Bob, already injured, accidentally steps on several rakes, causing the handles to hit him in the face.
Inflected forms:
form: rake-steppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rake stepping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of repeatedly making damaging and avoidable mistakes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: But the rake-stepping won’t stop, and the attacks won’t go away, raising the question of whether there will come a tipping point for Biden.
And despite occasional attempts at reform, usually in response to some epic rake-stepping by the agency, federal disaster relief has gotten no simpler or more effective.
VP of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf oozes with, “Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing …” and has deftly escaped any blame for the personnel rake-stepping of the past few seasons.
Translations:
yellow-orange
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From yellow + orange.
Compound parts: yellow
orange
Inflected forms:
form: yellow-oranges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more yellow-orange
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most yellow-orange
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A yellowish-orange colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A yellowish-orange colour.
pos: adj
Translations:
coal-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based or founded in coal or its utilizations.
pos: adj
Translations:
disco-style
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a style in music or fashion reminiscent of the 1970s disco period.
pos: adj
Translations:
stinker-upper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stinker-uppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that causes the surrounding area to smell bad.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: So I'd put that lovely stinker-upper in the garbage pail .
Poor Bo-Bo, stuck in there with those three bedroom stinker-uppers!
Seaweed, the much-maligned tangler of swimmers’ feet, stinker-upper of otherwise pristine beaches, and thrower-atter of unsuspecting sisters’ backs, may be finally getting the credit it deserves.
Translations:
user-upper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: user-uppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that uses up or exhausts quickly.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I am trying to understand this idea of sustainability and I think it is connected very much to what Mr. Emmons is saying about staying put and encouraging people to become stewards and trustees of the land instead of user-uppers of the land.
And when I've got leftover chicken, I often use this recipe as a first-stop user-upper, adding cold cooked shredded chicken to the pepper and onions and tossing altogether in the pan till piping hot all the way through.
Translations:
A-plus
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more A-plus
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most A-plus
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: A plus
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Excellent, outstanding.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This is a girl who got tickets to a cool thing because her dad is a celeb, and frankly, it's what we love to see. That's A-plus dadding right there. Use your fame to indulge your daughter's hobbies or why even be famous?
Translations:
non-nano
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + nano (“nanoscale”).
Base: nano
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonnano
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Larger than nanoscale.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: non-nano zinc oxide
That’s because “non-nano” ingredients like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are “considered safe for reefs and marine life because smaller particles (nano) may be ingested by marine life,” explains Dr. Camp.
Translations:
arrest-me-red
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Suggesting that vehicles painted bright red are more likely to attract the attention of law enforcement.
Inflected forms:
form: more arrest-me-red
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arrest-me-red
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arrest-me red
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: arrest me red
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a bright red colour.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
examples: Since buying the town house on the other side of the clinic, he had enjoyed that rarest of New York rarities, an honest-to-goodness private garage, and he had celebrated by buying a brand-new arrest-me-red Ferrari.
Translations:
self-slaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of suicide.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
mouse-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mouse-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mouse-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cowardly; timid.
pos: adj
Translations:
middle-ager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From middle age + -er.
Base: middle age
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: middle-agers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A middle-aged person.
pos: noun
examples: The party will be a casual mixer for middle-agers and senior citizens who would like to meet some new friends but also would like to stay low-key about it.
Translations:
Kriya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā)
Inflected forms:
form: Kriyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: doing, performing
pos: noun
gloss: religious action (i.e. worship)
pos: noun
gloss: Kriyā, (personified as a daughter of Daksha and wife of Dharma; or as a daughter of Kardama and wife of Kratu)
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
Translations:
heat-seeking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From heat + seeking.
Compound parts: heat
seeking
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a missile or rocket, able to detect and follow the heat emitted by an aircraft engine or rocket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a device, able to detect a source of infrared radiation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
re-serve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: re-serves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-serving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-served
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-served
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deliver a document again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Where the Department of Homeland Security seeks to re-serve a respondent to effect proper service of a notice to appear that was defective under the regulatory requirements for serving minors under the age of 14, a continuance should be granted for that purpose.
Translations:
KJ
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably an initialism of crystal (“phencyclidine”) + joint (“marijuana cigarette”).
Inflected forms:
form: KJs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Phencyclidine (PCP); also, a marijuana cigarette laced with phencyclidine.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: This was some other shit, what they smoked, could have been fucking angel dust sprinkled on, they called that KJ. Shit, knowing them that’s exactly why I couldn’t stop my head from bobbing, and why the streetlights were so fucking bright, and mean seeming, and, like, too red. I was glad I only hit it once.
Translations:
poison-nut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: poison-nuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of nux vomica.
pos: noun
Translations:
dollar-speaking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: primarily Anglophone
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
colloquial
not-comparable
Translations:
active-duty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a person on active duty; performing military duties on a full-time basis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: