yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rectenna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of rectifying + antenna.
Compound parts: rectifying
antenna
Inflected forms:
form: rectennas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rectennae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.
pos: noun
examples: This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.
Translations:
beta-glucosidase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A glucosidase enzyme, located on the brush border of the small intestine, that acts upon β1->4 bonds linking two glucose or glucose-substituted molecules.
pos: noun
Translations:
housefire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + fire.
Compound parts: house
fire
Inflected forms:
form: housefires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large fire that occurs in a house, causing substantial damage.
pos: noun
Translations:
Pythonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Python + -ic.
Base: Python
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Pythonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Pythonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pythonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or resembling, the Python in Ancient Greek mythology, a serpent which lived at Delphi (regarded as the centre of the Earth) until it was killed by Apollo.
pos: adj
gloss: Enormous; also, monstrous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Using the idioms of the Python programming language.
pos: adj
examples: The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others.
Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design philosophy.
Translations:
Dorito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Marketing coinage, likely from Spanish dorar (“to gild”), dorado (“golden”), with an ending matching other brands of Frito-Lay Inc. (Cheetos, Fritos, Tostitos), from Spanish frito (“fried”), also possibly as a clipping of Spanish doradito (“little golden [thing]”), diminutive of dorado (“golden”).
Inflected forms:
form: Doritos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tortilla chip of the Doritos brand.
pos: noun
examples: [Timmy] offered her his bag of Doritos.
I looked out the kitchen window at my garden, my trenches, my dirt, and then my gaze turned downward toward my Dorito-stained hand.
Stuffing the last Dorito chip into her mouth, she brushed the salt from her hands.
2025 June 27, Hank Green, “You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9euKCrTyMEc, vlogbrothers
We thought that if you gave people information about how many calories were in Doritos, it would make them healthier. […] I don't think the solution is to deeply understand the chemical and caloric content of a Dorito.
Translations:
bamf
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Used as a teleportation sound effect in X-Men comics. Presumably imitative; compare bam, poof, etc.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Signalling a user's disappearance from a discussion, chat room, etc.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Translations:
huaca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: huacas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Incan relic.
pos: noun
Translations:
serializability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From serialize + -ability.
Base: serialize
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being serializable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The key insight that enables Weaver to combine strict serializability with horizontal scalability and high performance is a novel request ordering mechanism called refinable timestamps.
Translations:
diospyros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: diospyroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any tree of the genus Diospyros.
pos: noun
examples: Meanwhile, in order to further verify the stable and useful of SCoT markers in diospyros germplasms, SSR markers were also used in current research to analyze the genetic diversity and relationship in the same diospyros germplasms.
Translations:
Uru
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Urus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Uru
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people of Peru and Bolivia.
pos: noun
Translations:
honey-colored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more honey-colored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most honey-colored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having the color of honey; golden
pos: adj
examples: In honey-colored stones, the “milk-and-honey” effect can often be quite spectacular as the half hit by the light turns a brilliant white and the half in dark turns a deep, burnished brown.
Translations:
blurp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative; compare burp, bleep, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: blurps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An explosive low-pitched sound resembling a burp.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It would start, then stall, then start again with a blurp, while clouds of blue smoke and sickening gas fumes polluted the air.
Translations:
gaokao
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 高考 (gāokǎo, literally “higher [education] [entrance] examination”).
Inflected forms:
form: gaokao
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The National Higher Education Entrance Examination held annually in China as a prerequisite for entrance into most forms of higher education.
pos: noun
tags: China
examples: In recent years, education officials have made a number of proposals, including revising elementary and middle school textbooks to increase the proportion of guoxue, or the study of Chinese culture, and reducing the importance of English on some versions of the gaokao, or university entrance examination, in favor of a greater emphasis on the Chinese language.
Translations:
ecodesign
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From eco- + design.
Base: design
Affixes: eco-
Inflected forms:
form: ecodesigns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecodesigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ecodesigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ecodesigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ecodesigned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An approach to product design that considers the environmental impact of the product during its whole life cycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An individual design of this kind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To design in this manner.
pos: verb
Translations:
pepper-gas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pepper-gases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pepper spray.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
scandal-plagued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scandal-plagued
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scandal-plagued
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been harmed (plagued) by a large number of controversial situations (scandals).
pos: adj
Translations:
chop-shop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chop-shops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chop-shopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chop-shopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chop-shopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.
Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.
On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less "prime cuts" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ...
gloss: To cut something apart and restructure it.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments.
Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.
Translations:
semi-submersible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + submersible.
Base: submersible
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
form: semisubmersible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: that can be partially submerged; usually relating to offshore drilling platforms and associated vessels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cock-knocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cock-knockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cock knocker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cockknocker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An annoying or despicable person.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
examples: He started it! Fucking cock-knocker! He's lucky I didn't put my pen through his thorax!
Translations:
Lysistrata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, “army disbander”).
Inflected forms:
form: Lysistratas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who withholds sex in order to get her way.
pos: noun
examples: Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.
Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.
Translations:
mata-mata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay mata-mata (“eyes”), plural of mata. Doublet of maka, from Hawaiian.
Inflected forms:
form: mata-matas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
slang
Translations:
self-debate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + debate.
Base: debate
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An internal debate between two parts of an individual's mind.
pos: noun
Translations:
PUO
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: PUOs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pyrexia of unknown origin.
pos: noun
examples: The particular “bug” that had assailed me was difficult to locate, but was obviously a form of “P.U.O.” or trench fever not dissimilar from the Malta disease in 1916.
Translations:
rockhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From rock + head.
Compound parts: rock
head
Inflected forms:
form: rockheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surface of the bedrock beneath soil cover.
pos: noun
examples: This type of area, with reasonably well-defined rockheads under glacial and lacustrine deposits, probably represents optimum conditions for the adoption of seismic exploration techniques.
gloss: The fish Bothragonus swanii, a variety of poacher.
pos: noun
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Men seemed just as superfluous as women, a bunch of rockheads running around punching each other and getting hot and sweaty about guns.
Translations:
starmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From star + maker.
Compound parts: star
maker
Inflected forms:
form: starmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works at turning others into famous and successful entertainers.
pos: noun
examples: Lavishly illustrated with 250 rare photographs, full of delightful anecdotes and little-known facts about stars and starmakers.
Translations:
sleep-drunk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sleep-drunk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sleep-drunk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slowed or weakened by recent sleep; drowsy; groggy.
pos: adj
examples: By the sound of it, the ever obliging Agent Barrett didn't really feel like obliging. Else he was too sleep-drunk to string two rational thoughts together.
My father looked mournfully at me, before turning to whisper something to Elpinoy as he staggered into the kitchen, sleep-drunk.
I open my eyes by degrees, my limbs heavy and sleep-drunk.
Translations:
murdery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From murder + -y.
Base: murder
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more murdery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most murdery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Committing, disposed to, or characteristic of murder.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: So he gets a little murdery to speed up the inheritance process.
Lately, there's been this contagious idea that I resemble a hungry, murdery girl ghost from a Japanese horror movie, so Jenny came to school in blue lipstick and white powder. To mock me.
The Doctor: So, they'll try to kill you, blah blah blah. What does that matter? You come back. A bit murdery, sure, but even so.
Translations:
Central
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.
Translations:
Laguna
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish laguna (“lake”).
Inflected forms:
form: Laguna
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lagunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Laguna Pueblo people, culture, or the variety of Keres they speak.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A federally recognized tribe of Keres-speaking Pueblo people in Cibola County, New Mexico.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of this tribe.
pos: noun
Translations:
painted-on
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From painted + on.
Compound parts: painted
on
Inflected forms:
form: more painted-on
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most painted-on
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Applied through paint or in a manner reminiscent of covering a surface with paint, such as applying too much makeup.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an article of clothing, very tight.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
examples: She dashed by me in painted on jeans.
Translations:
riverbend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From river + bend.
Compound parts: river
bend
Inflected forms:
form: riverbends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: river bend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A knee or meander in a river.
pos: noun
Translations:
all-cargo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: that only carries cargo, and no passengers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some well-known airlines also operate scheduled all-cargo flights.
Just as there are all-cargo aircraft, there are all-cargo airports.
Translations:
desal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: desalination
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Neville referred to the desal plant as an “insurance policy” but its potential use could prove politically tricky for Labor given fears it may drive up water bills.
Translations:
creelman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From creel + -man.
Base: creel
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: creelmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fishes with a creel.
pos: noun
Translations:
woop
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound of an alarm or siren.
pos: intj
Translations:
na-na
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a reduplicated clipping of (vagi)na.
Inflected forms:
form: na-nas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vulva.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: She looked up at me. "I got a sore, Thug. On my na-na." I did a double take. "A sore?" I glanced around, then whispered out the corner of my mouth, "On your pussy?"
Then she stood in front of the mirror and carefully shaved her na-na.
Like right now for instance, my na-na is just drenched thinking about my stripping days, my clit-clit so hot and hard I could pop a corn kernel off it.
Yes, I keep the na-na real sweet for your eating
Translations:
fandemonium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of fan + pandemonium.
Compound parts: fan
pandemonium
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Furor caused by or involving fans.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: From their earliest days playing local Tulsa gigs, the boys inspired fandemonium.
Three light-skinned, street-tough New York black girls, sisters Veronica (Ronnie) and Estelle Bennett and cousin Nedra Talley, they were the first female superstars of rock 'n' roll, touring with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, causing fandemonium wherever they performed.
The crowds of geeks, tech writers and Apple observers received it with love, whoops and fandemonium.
Translations:
oft-repeated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From oft + repeated.
Base: oft
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: repeated often or frequently
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An oft-repeated 'fact' about Gloucester is that it has the longest [station] platform in the UK - at 1,977ft 4ins.
Translations:
pre-notice
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + notice.
Base: notice
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: prenotice
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: occurring before a notice is issued
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "The court concluded, however, that there could be a breach if the insurer refused to reimburse the policyholder for pre-notice expenses, basing its denial on late notice and the agreement not to incur expenses without the insurer's consent."
Translations:
Legalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From legal + -ism, calque from Chinese 法家 (fǎjiā). Almost always capitalised.
Base: legal
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A school of thought, originating in ancient China during the Warring States period and officially adopted during the Qin dynasty, advocating rule by law as key to ensuring social stability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
trollface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of troll (“grotesque creature which lives in hills or under bridges”) + face.
Inflected forms:
form: trollfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ugly, unpleasant, or otherwise objectionable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: You brought them home, old trollface, but you did it your own way, not mine.
"Hi, dollface," he said to me.
"Hi, trollface," Tracy answered for both of us.
"Hey, I'm sure Mrs. Trollface has some horror lined up for me, too. We can have detention together."
Translations:
polychaeta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the class name.
Inflected forms:
form: polychaetas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polychaetae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta
pos: noun
examples: The sediment type units used were: predominantly gravel (the most abundant sediment type around Punta León colony [34 ]), rocky, characterized by the presence of reefs (i.e. isolated small rocky outcrops that extend no longer that a few metres on a flat bottom [35 ]) and grasslike where more than 50% of the seabed was covered by structures such as polychaeta tubes and algae.
Translations:
santero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: santeros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who crafts santos (religious statues).
pos: noun
Translations:
eye-roll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From eye + roll.
Compound parts: eye
roll
Inflected forms:
form: eye-rolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eyeroll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eye roll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The circular movement of one's eyes, usually suggesting feelings of exasperation, disbelief or frustration.
pos: noun
examples: Another mobile app? You get an eye roll. A rocket company? Everyone wants to go to space.
Bookstagrammers know about the eyerolls from people outside their community, the notion that because they’re bookstagrammers, they’re can’t be the “right kind” of reader.
Translations:
Ducati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian Ducati, from ducato (“ducat”)
* (motorcycle): Named after the company founder, Antonio Cavalieri Ducati.
Inflected forms:
form: Ducatis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motorcycle made by Ducati.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-racial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + racial.
Base: racial
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: antiracial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to racial distinctions, especially those that are due to racism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To be clear, to reiterate: I am suggesting that in the wake of whatever nominal successes, antiracist struggle gave way in each instance to anti-racial commitments at the expense of antiracist effects and ongoing struggle.
The major modern scholarly studies on race in the United States were triggered by the ideological and sociopolitical struggles surrounding the New Deal —the anti-dictatorial, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racial struggles that reached their peaks during the 1930s.
That is to say we must be both “racial” and anti-racial at the same time, which really means that nationalism and internationalism must be combined in the same philosophy.
Translations:
sweat-dappled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sweat-dappled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sweat-dappled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having beads of sweat on its surface, like a dappled coat.
pos: adj
Translations:
co-Adamite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: co-Adamites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A believer in co-Adamitism.
pos: noun
Translations:
etem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The fungicide ethylenethiuram monosulfide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
OCH
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: 6-oxocamphor hydrolase
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Rainier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rainier. The cherry was named after Mount Rainier.
Inflected forms:
form: Rainiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hybrid cherry cultivar, sweet with a thin skin and thick creamy-yellow flesh.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ultrasuede
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ultra- + suede, a brand name.
Base: suede
Affixes: ultra-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of washable synthetic suede.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
kumbha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha)
Inflected forms:
form: kumbhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of Indian pottery symbolizing the womb and fertility.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-racialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + racialization.
Base: racialization
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Activities or policies in opposition to racist distinctions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Asian American cultural nationalism should not be conflated or confused with some of its most valid and powerful social activist trajectories, such as anti-racialization, working class grass roots politics and the empowerment of minority students in higher education.
This normalization of the English, what I have referred to previously as the anti-racialization of the English, did not occur through a stable construction of race.
Rather, she thinks that Dictée's politics does not need to be separated from a class politics from the outset, because she sees a cultural politics of anti-racialization as an ideal alternative to neocolonial capitalism.
Translations:
horn-bearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From horn + bearing. Compare Old English hornbǣre (“horn-bearing”).
Compound parts: horn
bearing
Inflected forms:
form: more horn-bearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most horn-bearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hornbearing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having or equipped with horns; horned
pos: adj
examples: There are to be found among most kinds of hornbearing animals individuals with horns of wholly exceptional size, just as among all nations there are individuals of wholly exceptional height.
In modern horn-bearing mammals, the bovids (such as sheep, cattle, and antelope), the horn sheath extends a variable, and often considerable, distance beyond the tip of the horn core.
Translations:
death-bearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From death + bearing. Compare Old English dēaþbǣre, cwealmbǣre (literally “death-bearing”).
Compound parts: death
bearing
Inflected forms:
form: more death-bearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most death-bearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive
pos: adj
examples: A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief. Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.
Translations:
apple-bearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).
Compound parts: apple
bearing
Inflected forms:
form: more apple-bearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apple-bearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: applebearing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
pos: adj
examples: It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree.
Translations:
light-bearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From light + bearing. Compare Old English lēohtbǣre (“luminous, bright, splendid”, literally “light-bearing”).
Compound parts: light
bearing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bearing or serving as a medium for light; (by extension) luminous; bright
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The high worth of diamonds comes from the same source: a super-hard, eternal substance, at the same time a light-bearing, translucent substance, a kind of solid emptiness, a marvelous optical illusion.
Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.
Translations:
pre-med
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + med.
Base: med
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: premed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named in honor of the Pima Indians, who helped raise the cotton on USDA experimental farms in Arizona in the early 1900s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A soft form of cotton having long fibres (Gossypium barbadense)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A svelte pima tank top with little buttons down the back is $118.
Translations:
pile-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from pile on.
Inflected forms:
form: pile-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.
pos: noun
examples: We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.
A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.
Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
Online, there’s a level of industrial-scale bullying directed at Heard that puts all previous social media pile-ons to shame.
Translations:
Third-Worldism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Third World + -ism.
Base: Third World
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The socialist practice of supporting Third-World countries, especially in their struggle for liberation from colonial powers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
free-swimming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: freeswimming
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to swim about freely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is a most remarkable fact that almost all these shore animals in their early development from the egg pass through free-swimming larval stages which are closely alike in form for very widely different zoological groups.
The presence of free-swimming and stalked ciliates, some flagellates, and rotifers in mixed liquor indicates a balanced, properly settling environment.
Translations:
freeze-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
seasons
time
weather
Etymology: Deverbal from freeze up.
Inflected forms:
form: freeze-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The blocking of pipes due to freezing.
pos: noun
gloss: A period of extremely cold, freezing weather.
pos: noun
examples: The heaters, the S.R. now says, will "help tremendously" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...].
gloss: The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over.
pos: noun
Antonyms: breakup
Translations:
front-page
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: So important as to warrant being put on the front page of newspapers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Amazing! This new revelation is front-page material!
gloss: Which appears on the front page of a publication.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The new legislation was front-page news.
Translations:
full-frontal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: full-frontals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Showing all the genitalia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: full-frontal nudity; full-frontal pornography
gloss: Full-on; unrestrained.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: […] personalities had changed but the sound was predominantly Page – adopting the full frontal guitar heroics he had developed over the last two years.
gloss: A photograph showing a completely nude person, with all the genitalia.
pos: noun
Translations:
fully-grown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having reached complete biological maturity
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: fully-fledged
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
funny-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From funny + looking. First use appears c. 1807. See citations page.
Compound parts: funny
looking
Inflected forms:
form: funnier-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more funny-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: funniest-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most funny-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a strange or unusual appearance.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
informal
examples: Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.
gloss: Having a comical or humorous appearance.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
informal
Translations:
freeze-frame
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: freeze-frames
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freeze-framing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freeze-framed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freeze-framed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: freeze frame
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: freezeframe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To show a video in slow motion using freeze frames.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To acquire a still image from (video footage).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
attorney-at-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: attorneys-at-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: attorney at law
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a lawsuit.
pos: noun
Translations:
urp
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: urps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: urping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: urped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: urped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a burp.
pos: intj
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: But even if you love the new mommy club you were initiated into the instant your child urped all over your favorite party dress or exploded through her diaper, covering the whole crib in poop, or coughed like a seal, forcing you to stand in a hot, steamy bathroom at two in the morning, the club isn't enough to keep all young mothers together.
He got so sick and excited that he urped all over the plane and pulled the ripcord on his parachute. It almost pulled him out.
Translations:
passholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pass + holder.
Compound parts: pass
holder
Inflected forms:
form: passholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who holds a pass.
pos: noun
examples: Passholders can visit the theme park all year round.
Translations:
bare-boned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bare-boned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bare-boned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bareboned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Slim; not fleshy; very lean; emaciated.
pos: adj
gloss: Very basic; having only the essentials and nothing else.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Related words: bare bones
Translations:
quickscope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From quick + scope.
Compound parts: quick
scope
Inflected forms:
form: quickscopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quick scope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quick-scope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quickscopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quickscoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quickscoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quickscoped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quick scope
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: quick-scope
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rapid kill with a sniper rifle after scoping in.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The act of quickly scoping in with a sniper rifle (to kill an opponent).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To shoot (a character) by means of a quickscope.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: I told them all to spectate me in first person, as I quick-scoped the five enemies from the top of the building.
I'm not a fan of "quick-scoping," the practice of quickly looking through the scope of a sniper rifle, snapping off a shot, and then immediately switching back to a normal view.
I was a bit annoyed at first as my previous few games had boasted some pretty high K/D whilst quickscoping and now I was being bombarded by constant noob tubes [gun-mounted grenades] and RPGs.
Bolan quick-scoped the first sentry and the round took him center mass, even as the guards opened up.
Translations:
superfreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + freak.
Base: freak
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superfreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of very eccentric appearance or behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Angelina Jolie “makes a fabulous monster,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, as “she breezes through the movie, part superstar, part superfreak.”
Translations:
wheatbelt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wheat + belt.
Compound parts: wheat
belt
Inflected forms:
form: wheatbelts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A region used for the growing of wheat.
pos: noun
Translations:
tanty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tantrum + -y.
Base: tantrum
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: tanties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tantrum.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: I had never in my life seen a woman so angry. She made tanty noises like a toddler.
Translations:
cocoa-buttered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cocoa-buttered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cocoa-buttered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having applied cocoa butter; with skin that has been treated with cocoa butter.
pos: adj
Translations:
zoomed-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more zoomed-in
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zoomed-in
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: zoomed in
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been zoomed in, or having been made larger so that smaller details can be discerned.
pos: adj
Translations:
zoomed-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more zoomed-out
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zoomed-out
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: zoomed out
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been zoomed out, or having been made smaller so that a larger portion (of the image) can be seen at once.
pos: adj
Translations:
trunk-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trunk + -like.
Base: trunk
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more trunk-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trunk-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to or shaped like a trunk (either a tree trunk, an elephant's trunk or a boxy chest).
pos: adj
Translations:
story-poem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: story-poems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A story written in verse (in a form of a poem).
pos: noun
examples: "He was writing a most wonderful story-poem called “The Faerie Queen.”"
Translations:
interjurisdictional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From inter- + jurisdictional.
Base: jurisdictional
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: more interjurisdictional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interjurisdictional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: occurring as a result of an interaction between two or more jurisdictions
pos: adj
examples: "We will examine what types of interjurisdictional redistributive schemes emerge from an electoral process and why they do."
Translations:
thirst-quenching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thirst-quenching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thirst-quenching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Satisfying or alleviating thirst.
pos: adj
Translations:
wide-ranging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wider-ranging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more wide-ranging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: widest-ranging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most wide-ranging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring over a wide range; appearing throughout a broad region, or extending over a diverse spectrum of possibilities.
pos: adj
examples: wide-ranging sanctions
At least half of this traffic is coal from the Yorkshire pits, an increasing amount of which is running in block trains that bypass the yard on the main line; the remainder is wide-ranging in its diversity, from wool to wine and textiles to timber.
Translations:
self-actualize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + actualize.
Base: actualize
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-actualizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-actualizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-actualized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-actualized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: self-actualise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To achieve self-actualization; to reach one's personal peak of individual empowerment and fulfillment.
pos: verb
Translations:
pommer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From German Pommer, from Middle High German bumhart, from Italian bombarda.
Inflected forms:
form: pommers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alto, tenor, or bass instrument of the shawm family.
pos: noun
examples: The treble pommer was the equivalent of our hautboy; the bass pommer corresponded to our bassoon. Midway between these lay the alto and tenor pommers, of which the former (the alto), was doubtless the forerunner of the cor anglais.
The Emperor Sigismund, Pope John XXIII, and many other Church dignitaries and others high in the affairs of state, sat in the council which opened in that year and lasted until 1418. For this occasion there were gathered together some five hundred musicians who played on fifes, fiddles, trumps, trombones, and pommers.
The Fleming Denis van Alsloot’s ‘Procession of the Religious Orders from the Town of Antwerp…’, painted in 1616 shows with excellent clarity six musicians playing a trombone, two alto pommers, a discant schalmey, cornetto, and a dulzian played on the left side with the right hand uppermost, the exact opposite to the dulzian’s descendant, the bassoon, which is played the other way round.
Translations:
eye-wateringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more eye-wateringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most eye-wateringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: eyewateringly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner or to a degree that causes one’s eyes to water or tear up, often due to an emotional situation or sentimental feelings, or due to shocking or exciting events.
pos: adv
examples: Another Indonesian soup, asam shrimp […], includes incredibly fresh shrimp in their shells and okra in a tamarind broth that is wonderfully tart and sweet and eye-wateringly spicy.
It is first and foremost a literary prize, something I have to keep telling myself after reading the umpteenth eye-wateringly explicit gay sex scene.
[…] there are ladylike looks from Dior and Lanvin sitting alongside more rock’n’roll (and eye wateringly expensive) Balenciaga and Balmain pastel leather bombers and luxe denims.
[…] the story gave way to a lot of gung-ho nonsense about insurgents, some sub-Loaded male bonding and an eyewateringly terrible final act.
2016, David Robert Grimes, quoted in Abby Ohlheiser, “Why the Internet’s biggest conspiracy theories don’t make mathematical sense,” Washington Post, 28 January, 2016,
I hope that by showing how eye-wateringly unlikely some alleged conspiracies are, some people will reconsider their anti-science beliefs.
Translations:
self-accompanied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From self- + accompanied.
Base: accompanied
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Providing instrumental music alongside one's own performance, usually as a singer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
acted-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been acted out; having been performed or enacted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
aired-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been opened to fresh air.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kadam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Cf. Bengali কদম (kodom), corruption of Sanskrit कदम्ब (kadamba). Ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *kaṭ-ampu (“Neolamarckia cadamba”).
Inflected forms:
form: kadams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cadamba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kadamba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kadamb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Kinaram made the elephant sit under a large kadam tree.
Translations:
mm-mm
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Nasalized form of uh-uh (negative) or uh-huh (positive), ultimately onomatopoeic; see fuller etymology there. Compare um, hem (expression of hesitation).
Inflected forms:
form: mnh-mnh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: no
pos: intj
examples: "Need some help?" She shook her head. “Mm-mm.”
“Mm-mm,” I mumble, shaking my head.
Mia cocked her head. “This is my fiancé's second wedding. He has a daughter. So I'm not sure if I should wear something . . . more second-wedding-ish? Like a white suit?” “Mm-mm.” Mia shook her head.
gloss: yes
pos: intj
examples: "Is the soda good, Princess?" her father asked.
"Mm Mm," replied Sarah Louise.
"She is a perfect little lady," thought Loo proudly
< M01 > They were really very very hot on quality. < F01 > Mm. Mm. Yes .
"Let me know if you need anything, all right ?" "Mm-mmm," she replied, looking down at the ground.
Synonyms: uh-uh
Antonyms: mhm
Translations:
Nazir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew נָזִיר (nāzīr).
Inflected forms:
form: Nazirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Nazarite (Nazirite).
pos: noun
examples: Lo, I am a Nazir if all of you are Nazirs,”— lo, all of them are Nazirs. M. 5: 7 The parallel cases, stated in apocopation, M. 5:5, 7, go over the ground of vows to be a Nazir made in error. The first case presents three pairs: […]
Translations:
splash-land
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: splash-lands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: splash-landing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: splash-landed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: splash-landed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To land on the liquid surface with a splash.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Two coots and a pintail flew low over the stream and splash-landed a few yards away."
Translations: