yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sit-downer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sit-down + -er.
Affixes: sit-down
-er
Inflected forms:
form: sit-downers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worker or protester who participates in a sit-down.
pos: noun
Translations:
ooh-wee
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hoowee
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: oohwee
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: oowee
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing astonishment, admiration, dismay, excitement etc.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Ooh wee. That's been a long time.
Just a look could cause sin, just an "ooh wee, he is fine, I got to get with him!"
“Ooh Wee,” he said. “She looks like some Lord have mercy with some good googly woogly on top.”
Ooh wee baby them shits is nice.
Ooh wee! The rum punch which has freed me from my oppressive compulsive self the way a balloon lifts its gondola from the earth, was now working the room.
Translations:
redway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + way.
Compound parts: red
way
Inflected forms:
form: redways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of path for use by cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, generally surfaced with red tarmac.
pos: noun
Translations:
eMMC
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From e- + MMC (“MultiMediaCard”).
Base: MMC
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: eMMCs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An embedded (“integrated, non-removable”) MMC (“MultiMediaCard”). An electronic memory module designed to be integrated into devices instead of removable card, functioning as a storage device or main drive.
pos: noun
Translations:
Nyonya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay Nyonya or nyonya.
Inflected forms:
form: Nyonyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female Peranakan
pos: noun
tags: Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
gloss: An honorific title used before the name of a married woman
pos: noun
tags: Indonesia
formal
Related words: Baba
Derived words: Nyonya chang
Translations:
Brideshead
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In reference to Brideshead Revisited, a 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh.
Inflected forms:
form: more Brideshead
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Brideshead
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suggestive of the traditional English upper classes.
pos: adj
examples: In many ways it is easier to penetrate the English elite if one hails from rural Wyoming than from cockney Cheapside. Many of the most "Brideshead" characters I met in Cambridge, for example, actually came from abroad. There was the German lawyer in my course who wore a different-colored paisley ascot every day of the week.
Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place. It was still very Brideshead but Johnnie never let such things stop him.
Translations:
jerko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From jerk + -o.
Base: jerk
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: jerkos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jerk; an obnoxious person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Listen, jerko, you know you're special to me. I think you're a great guy with something to offer, and if it's the last thing I do, I'll shove you down J.J.B.'s throat."
[…] an interest in the opposite sex that is expressed as a movement away, a dislike of "jerkos" and "nerds."
So they're really like...a family of jerkos.
Translations:
schmick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more schmick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most schmick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: neat; smart; snazzy
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The diary entries you'll find in this book, in their original form, were handwritten during a daily allotment of ten minutes in which I'd sit on my bed, alone, with a very schmick pen that was gifted to me by a friend not long after Arlo's diagnosis.
Translations:
linux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
form: linuxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Linux
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any unix-like operating system that uses the Linux kernel.
pos: noun
Translations:
blue-chinned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having remnants of thick, dark facial hair when shaved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I remember once the two of us were called over to the office of some blue-chinned TV producer in a pin-stripe suit to see if we had any angles he could build up for a program, [...].
Translations:
doll-less
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not having a doll; without a doll.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The childless woman, who had been a doll-less child, took this one from the now unresisting girl. Under the widow's loose hold its sole garment, a towel swaddling it, fell off.
Translations:
saw-edged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Edged with teeth, as a saw; serrated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 'How green her eyes are!' thought Ursula, and more than ever her teeth seemed saw-edged.
Translations:
boat-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Accessible by boat, located on the water/waterfront, with dock or anchorage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
keymaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English kay maker, equivalent to key + maker.
Base: key
Inflected forms:
form: keymakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: key-maker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: key maker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who makes keys.
pos: noun
Translations:
hiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hill + -er.
Base: hill
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poor rural person.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
derogatory
examples: But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.”
Translations:
mother-bird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mother-birds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female parent of a chick or chicks.
pos: noun
examples: From the branch of a tree overhead she heard a watchful mother-bird's warning call, and the twitter of the disturbed nestlings.
Translations:
amphoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai อำเภอ (am-pəə, “district”).
Inflected forms:
form: amphoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amphur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An administrative subdivision of Thailand, smaller than a changwat.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-Tom
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From anti- + Tom.
Base: Tom
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to a class of 19th-century pro-slavery novels and writings in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
Translations:
headline-grabber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: headline-grabbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or event that attracts prominent notice in the news media.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: ‘Recidivism” – the tendency to reoffend – is a word that is largely confined to criminology lectures, official statistics and the occasional government report. It is not a headline-grabber like “hooligan”, “thug” or “teen gangster”.
Translations:
hamburg
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hamburgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hamburgs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hamburging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hamburged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hamburged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Hamburg steak
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: hamburger (food)
pos: noun
tags: Midwestern-US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: "I remember Deloney," the man said. "I waited on him in my father's hamburg joint once or twice.
gloss: ground beef; hamburger meat
pos: noun
tags: New-England
uncountable
gloss: To annoy.
pos: verb
examples: The reporter even contacted Fiona Richmond, who remained a close friend of Raymond's. 'I phoned PR to tell him they were hamburging me (a wonderful Grenadian expression for annoying me),' she recalled, 'and he said, "I know. What you do is ask them for lots of money, and then you and I will make up some stuff and then you can share the money you get with me."'
Translations:
uppy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up + -y
Base: up
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: uppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uppies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of uppity.
pos: adj
examples: He says 'Oh, why not', he likes to know the reasons why, but he doesn't get uppy about it […]
'Don't get uppy with me, son. Give me that back.'
gloss: The act of being held up, e.g. carried on one's parent's shoulder or back.
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: “I want uppy," he whined. The boat sped up my throat and I caught it in a weedy thrash of my hair. He whined and I played. More and more terrifically I played, making great splashes and bubbly creations.
Typically she attaches other words onto pivot words, such as “want cookie,” “want Mama,” or “want uppy.” In a few months, she combines three or more words and can do so in a grammatically correct sequence, for example, “Mama go bye-bye.”
whining. For most parents, it's like nails on a chalkboard. It's the high- pitched whiiiiiine. Do any of these sound familiar? “Youuuuuu do it, Mommy.” “Uppy, I want uppy.” Funny how a tone of voice can be our undoing.
“I want uppy, too.” The Bean pouted and stuck his thumb into his mouth. “How about if we put you in charge of Buddy?” Mom asked. She winked at Lizzie and Charles. They all knew Buddy was so well behaved that he didn't really need anyone[…]
I WANT UPPY DADA! WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME WHILE I'M ALONE WITH THE GIRLS? WHAT IF -- OKAY, STOP THINKING ABOUT IT! LET'S JUST WALK FOR NOW, OKAY? UPPY, DADA!
Translations:
gray-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having gray hair, especially from age
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
long-pending
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That lasts a long time; long-lasting
pos: adj
Translations:
clink-clanks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: handcuffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
examples: Sadly for you, the fuzz didn't take kindly to you running around in your birthday suit, and faster than you can say "Miranda rights," they've put the clink-clanks on you and are hauling you off to the joint.
Translations:
many-splendored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: many-splendoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: with many splendid parts
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: love is a many-splendored thing
'Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, / That miss the many-splendoured thing.
Immortal on thy many-splendoured throne…
A Many-Splendoured Thing (Title)
2SLS is a many-splendored thing.
Translations:
post-ironic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more post-ironic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most post-ironic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: postironic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or relating to post-irony.
pos: adj
examples: Of course, in these post-ironic times, we love Bon Jovi but we don't love people who don't realise that they're Bon Jovi when they are.
And why do you have the Aqua album? […] Wasn't quite the ‘post-ironic Europop masterpiece’ you declared it to be back in 1997 as you were sipping post-ironic absinthe out of post-ironic Charles & Di mugs (she'd just died) in that flat in Tulse Hill […]
So if you’re wondering what to get the post-ironic teen in your life this Christmas you might want to try eyesores like these thigh-high UGG boots, cowboy sneaker boots, and Nike “fanny pack slides”.
At the beginning, me being an artist at the company had been a way for me to maintain what some people have called a “post-ironic” position toward my job.
Translations:
silver-lined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a silver lining
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: Thanks to Aubameyang’s 28th and 29th goals of the season, they have Europa League qualification and a silver-lined finish to a difficult campaign.
Translations:
auto-return
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From auto- + return.
Base: return
Affixes: auto-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A feature of a record player that automatically returns the tonearm to its resting position after playing the record.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ice-marginal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a volcanic eruption that is neither supraglacial nor subglacial, but where the lava flow comes into direct contact with the margin of a glacier or ice sheet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
glam-ma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of glam + grandma.
Compound parts: glam
grandma
Inflected forms:
form: glam-mas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glamorous grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I've often been told that I'm a Glam-ma, but even Glam-mas are allowed to make fashion mistakes.
And....let all the 'Glam-mas' say AMEN! My daughter had wanted to deliver naturally. Such a wonderful thought! But when Olivier was non-cooperative, she decided upon an epidural!
Translations:
finger-wagging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From finger + wagging.
Compound parts: finger
wagging
Inflected forms:
form: finger-waggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see finger, wagging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of reprimanding or warning someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Ansar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic أَنْصَار (ʔanṣār, “helpers”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A group of tribespeople, living in Madinah, who gave aid and protection to the prophet Mohammad and his followers, the Muhajirun.
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural
plural-only
gloss: The members of a Sufi religious movement in the Sudan, disciples of Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Related words: Muhajirun
Ansari
Translations:
songo-salsa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of music that blends songo and salsa with rapping and hip-hop beats.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Blink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From a contraction of the group's name, itself a compound of black + pink, seemingly chosen as a homophone of blink.
Inflected forms:
form: Blinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: BLINK
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the South Korean girl group Blackpink.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The long-awaited solo from BLACKPINK's Jennie came along and was very well received by BLINKs everywhere.
BLACKPINK's first concert in Manila was definitely one for the books and BLINKs can only hope the four girls can come back sooner with brand new hit songs!
Many Blinks frantically refreshed multiple tabs of the ticket sales site on several devices just to secure a ticket to BlackPink's world tour in a cutthroat battle against thousands of other Blinks.
Translations:
mommy-and-me
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an activity or event: to be attended by a mother with her young child.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: Ashalay did not have many friends, but Lauren's mother joined a mommy-and-me group so that Ashalay would have someone her size to interact with, so they would invite some of the toddlers from the playgroup.
How would it be if we sisters offered a Mommy and Me Bible study? Knowing how much Jeremiah loved to read his little children's bible, I decided to bring the suggestion to Father Jason and to Jeremiah's entire family at their weekly meeting.
I quickly scanned through the list: cleaning and maintaining the studio, rehearsals and recital, and the fundraising options — parents' night out, dance-a-thon, and a mommy-and-me spa day.
Translations:
self-saucing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From self- + saucing.
Base: saucing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Producing its own sauce or juice in the cooking process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-watering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: From self- + watering.
Base: watering
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a pot or planter: designed with a reservoir from which the soil can take up water without the need for manual watering of the plant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bone-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a cut of meat: containing a bone; not deboned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: unboned
a bone-in sirloin
Translations:
pro-oocyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From pro- + oocyte.
Base: oocyte
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: pro-oocytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An undifferentiated germline cell with the potential to become an oocyte.
pos: noun
examples: In D. melanogaster, the nuclei of pro-oocytes and young oocytes are unsuitable for detailed cytological study at the light microscope level because of their small size.
Two of the sixteen germline cells in each egg chamber develop as pro-oocytes, and the first asymmetry arises when one of these cells is selected to become the oocyte.
Translations:
jux
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jooks (“a robbery”), from Fula jukka (“to poke”).
Inflected forms:
form: juxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: juxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: juxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rob or mug (someone).
pos: verb
tags: New-York-City
slang
transitive
examples: Jux me, I'll have your mama picking out your casket, bastard.
'And jux everybody in sight,' Iacone murmured.
gloss: A robbery or mugging.
pos: noun
tags: New-York-City
slang
examples: He called a meeting at The Lodge and informed everyone that there would be no more juxes for a while. They all had enough money to hold them down.
Translations:
self-management
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + management.
Base: management
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a form of management encompassing self-directed work processes by an organization's workforce with or without joint control by workers and management.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The self-management idea has many variants. All the workers may manage together directly, by means of an assembly, or indirectly by electing a supervisory board. They may manage in co-operation with a group of specialized managers or they may do without them.
Translations:
non-animate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + animate.
Base: animate
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: more non-animate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most non-animate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.
pos: adj
gloss: Not being, and never having been alive, especially not like humans and animals.
pos: adj
Synonyms: immobile
motionless
Translations:
gee-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
not-comparable
slang
Translations:
battle-hardened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more battle-hardened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most battle-hardened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unfeeling or lacking emotion due to experience in battle; callous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literally
examples: Andy Lord has been at TfL for three years. He joined as managing director of London Underground in 2019, and subsequently became chief operating officer. But he was already battle-hardened by seven years as operations director for British Airways - the longest tenure of anyone in that similarly demanding role.
After more than a year of war, Ukraine is battle hardened.
Translations:
chitter-chatter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a reduplication of chatter. Compare chit-chat from chat; pitter-patter from patter; etc.
Inflected forms:
form: chitter-chatters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chitter-chatters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chitter-chattering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chitter-chattered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chitter-chattered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Light and lively discussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Talk about trivial or nonsensical matters; inconsequential or incessant conversation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The chattering of teeth due to trembling, shivering, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: To talk trivially, nonsensically, or incessantly.
pos: verb
Translations:
well-placed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-placed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-placed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-placed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-placed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well placed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cleverly or judiciously positioned.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an advantageous position.
pos: adj
examples: "The Government is moving away from the idea of a new arm's length body to oversee the railway. It needs a much quicker solution that would involve giving Network Rail whole-industry planning and other extra responsibilities," a well-placed source told RAIL.
Translations:
thirst-buster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thirst + buster.
Compound parts: thirst
buster
Inflected forms:
form: thirst-busters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A carbonated beverage.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: “We have these big old thirst-busters that cost 60 cents, and three people can share it,” he added, using a popular term for soda.
Translations:
grief-struck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From grief + struck.
Compound parts: grief
struck
Inflected forms:
form: more grief-struck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grief-struck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: griefstruck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very sad; grief-stricken.
pos: adj
Translations:
cak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: caks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of string instrument from Indonesia.
pos: noun
Translations:
g-girl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: g-girls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genetic girl, a cis woman.
pos: noun
Translations:
cigar-chomping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Frequently smoking a cigar, especially as suggestive of a powerful, chauvinistic, wealthy tycoon, capitalist, etc.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
figuratively
not-comparable
examples: This politician is always played by Edward Arnold, whose image is one of corpulent, cigar-chomping corrupt brutality.
Translations:
self-condemned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + condemned.
Base: condemned
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-condemned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-condemned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Condemned by one's own words, behaviour etc.
pos: adj
examples: Disappointing, humbled, and self-condemned, in broken accents, and with a faultering tongue, he was withdrawing, without having the assurance once to pronounce the name of Laura […].
Translations:
JND
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: JNDs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Just-noticeable difference, the amount by which something must be changed in order for it to be detectable at least 50% of the time.
pos: noun
examples: Aleah's nosejob was not dramatic. It was more like a JND, around half her friends noticed it and the other half did not.
The three laws of thresholds Weber's law states that, for a JND to be noticed, a constant ratio (relationship) exists between the intensity of a stimulus and the additional intensity required for a comparison to be made between the stimuli.
Translations:
e-retailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + retailer or e-retail + -er.
Base: retailer
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-retailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of e-tailer.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-retail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + retail.
Base: retail
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of e-tail.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
e-retailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + retailing or e-retail + -ing.
Base: retailing
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of e-tailing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bonk-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bonk-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Tell you what, there's nothing more frustrating than having a bonk on and getting myself worked up into a bother and not getting any sex, because wanking becomes boring after a while.
[…] learn to do when they don't want the whole world to know they've got a bonk on.
Translations:
flat-warming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flat + warming, after housewarming.
Compound parts: flat
warming
Inflected forms:
form: flat-warmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A party to celebrate moving into a new flat (apartment).
pos: noun
Translations:
colour-coded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having different colours so that people can distinguish them.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: And a new airport-style system of colour-coded lounges to access platforms has been described as 'bewildering' by many non-regular users of the station, compounded by a lack of passenger information screens away from the main concourse.
Translations:
bird-rich
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bird-rich
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bird-rich
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a region, having abundant birdlife.
pos: adj
examples: I should have been excited: I had just passed the five hundred mark and had the whole of Queensland, the most bird-rich state in the country, stretching before me, yet part of me just wanted to go home.
Translations:
Andalusi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From (al-)Andalus + -i.
Base: al-Andalus
Affixes: -i
Inflected forms:
form: more Andalusi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Andalusi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Andalusis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to al-Andalus.
pos: adj
gloss: A person from, or an inhabitant of, al-Andalus.
pos: noun
Translations:
rta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted learned borrowing from Sanskrit ऋत (ṛtá, “order; rule; truth”). Doublet of asha.
Inflected forms:
form: ṛta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rita
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Vedic principle of natural order that regulates the operation of the universe.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
uncountable
Translations:
re-sort
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + sort.
Base: sort
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-sorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-sorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-sorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-sorted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resort
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: re-sorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resort
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To repeat a sorting process; sort again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: An act of sorting again.
pos: noun
Translations:
ass-kissing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ass-kissings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ass-kissing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ass-kissing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of kissing ass; flattery; obsequious behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: Obsequious; sycophantic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
vulgar
examples: Morgan Berkhardt finished reading my application and saw me watching the video. "Impressive marketing concept, isn't it, Mr Dante?"
"Right! Imaginative too," I heard my ass-kissing mouth reply.
Translations:
ear-piercingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ear-piercing + -ly.
Affixes: ear-piercing
-ly
Inflected forms:
form: more ear-piercingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ear-piercingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.
pos: adv
examples: The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.
Translations:
four-tracking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Provision of four running lines on a stretch of railway track, usually two in each direction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Arlesey: Demolition of Three Counties station in connection with four-tracking through Arlesey.
DfT said the £589m that has been released will be used on design and enabling works for TRU. This includes partial electrification, a new through platform at Huddersfield, and around eight miles of extra four-tracking.
Translations:
self-deprecatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + deprecatory.
Base: deprecatory
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-deprecatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-deprecatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing disapproval of oneself.
pos: adj
Translations:
draught-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From draught + -free.
Base: draught
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without or not suffering from draughts (currents of air).
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: The engine was Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82013, with Driver Sampson (Exmouth), and its roomy draught-free cab was a striking contrast to the spartan comfort offered on the Drummond tank.
Translations:
last-mentioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The last of a number of things or people mentioned, e.g. in the preceding text.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The last-mentioned down train includes a buffet car which must be incorporated in the formation of the 2.35 p.m. Seaton-Waterloo; [...].
Translations:
Ibero-Spanish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ibero- + Spanish.
Base: Spanish
Affixes: Ibero-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people, culture, or language of Spain, as opposed to the Spanish-speaking communities of Latin America.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
slow-march
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slow-marches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slow-marching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slow-marched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slow-marched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a slow march.
pos: verb
examples: Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".
Translations:
self-covered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a printed publication, having covers made from the same paper as the inside pages, as many comic books.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a button, covered with the same fabric that the garment is made from.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
location-agnostic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not constrained to a particular location.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
RDM
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Initialism of random deathmatch.
Inflected forms:
form: RDMs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: RDMing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: RDMed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RDMed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.
pos: verb
examples: Do not RDM in the lobby.
Most servers have limitations on what’s acceptable for wardens and guards to do, but that’s mostly to prevent RDMing
Translations:
slut-maker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slut-makers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A promiscuous man.
pos: noun
examples: Every one of the slut makers—without exception—suffered major damage.
2019, Dan Desmarques, The Evil Within: The Spiritual Battle in Your Mind, 22 Lions Bookstore: 22Lions.com
“If a woman that sleeps with many men is a slut, what is a man that sleeps with many women?” And to which the presenter properly replied: “A slut-maker”.
Jonathan, you're a slut-maker! It takes two to tango. Your behavior and the behavior of men like you enables the bad behavior of women.
If everything's about sex then everything's about sluts and slut-makers in the fallen state.
Translations:
K-beauty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From K- (“Korean”) + beauty.
Base: beauty
Affixes: K-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cosmetic products and practices originating in South Korea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The popularity of K-beauty has led South Korea to hold an annual K-Beauty Expo, which is the largest exhibition for the Korean beauty supply industry (Fig. 21.5).
However, the success of K-beauty brands should not be linked merely to celebrity endorsements.
Learning to respect, love and care for your skin is the essence of K-beauty!
Translations:
arber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
gambling
games
Etymology: From arb + -er.
Base: arb
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: arbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
rat-licker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the urban myth that people in the Middle Ages licked rats to ward off the bubonic plague.
Inflected forms:
form: rat-lickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who refuses to take preventative measures during a disease outbreak (especially the COVID-19 pandemic).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
neologism
examples: > I'm the kind of person who prefers to stay indoors.
good to know you ain't no rat-licker: [link to the Urban Dictionary entry of “rat-licker”]
I think the solution to your dilemma is obvious. You need to go swap some hot, dank, virus-heavy air with an overly clingy group of rat lickers.
Less open-minded critics branded it a “rat licker rally” warning others to beware of the “tin foil hat brigade”. Meanwhile, the protesters themselves disputed whether they were demonstrating against the vaccine passport or the vaccine itself.
Translations:
long-hauler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From long haul + -er.
Base: long haul
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: long-haulers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A truck driver who covers long distances to deliver goods, often being away from home for extended periods of time.
pos: noun
examples: A run-down truck stop on an old tobacco highway. Long-haulers eating breakfasts in corners. A church group in the gift shop.
gloss: A COVID-19 patient who is suffering from the symptoms of the disease for a significantly longer period than the average.
pos: noun
examples: The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends. […] Yet support groups on Slack and Facebook host thousands of people like LeClerc, who say they have been wrestling with serious COVID-19 symptoms for at least a month, if not two or three. Some call themselves “long-termers” or “long-haulers.”
Fourteen months later, battling chronic effects of the deadly coronavirus and saddled with permanent viral-induced asthma, she is labeled a long-hauler.
Stephanie Schroeder, 50, is a COVID-19 long-hauler who tells her story to encourage others to get the vaccine.
Translations:
e-bidding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: From e- + bidding.
Base: bidding
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-biddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bidding activity or a bidding event taking place on the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Uwa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: U'wa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous people of the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
SPAC
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
form: SPACs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: SPACing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: SPACed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: SPACed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Spac
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To become a listed company via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company.
pos: verb
examples: The startup SPACed and was listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Translations:
microverse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Inflected forms:
form: microverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A microscale universe.
pos: noun
Translations:
proptech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of property + technology.
Compound parts: property
technology
Inflected forms:
form: prop-tech
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: PropTech
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The application of information technology to real-estate markets.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The amounts involved on the investment side are significant across many proptech startups. Property tech venture capital platform PiLabs launched in 2014 and has already spent £113m backing 47 founders in the sector; […]
“Lisbon has several ingredients making it a unique and efficient tech ecosystem,” says Suharev, CEO of proptech company CASAFARI, listing factors such as quality of life, governmental programs designed to attract foreign entrepreneurs, and its Silicon Valley-like business mindset.
Translations:
eye-searing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more eye-searing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eye-searing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Painful to look at.
pos: adj
examples: Bright red light filled the room, it was eye-searing, yet strangely familiar.
The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.
The perfect lockdown antidote: get in a plane and see New York, or the Amalfi coast, or the Himalayas, in eye-searing detail
Translations:
gobe-mouche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gobe-mouche. See gober (“to swallow whole”) and mouche (“fly”).
Inflected forms:
form: gobemouche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A naive, gullible person.
pos: noun
Translations:
despo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of desperate + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: more despo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most despo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Desperate.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The actress Naomi Watts posted on Instagram an image of her feet, with seashells positioned to mimic overgrown toenails. “Gotta tell you. Fully outgrown this,” she wrote in her caption. “Despo for a pedi. #corona.”
Translations:
self-powered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + powered.
Base: powered
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Powered by itself without requiring an external power source.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "It sets out a clear focus on decarbonising the network through a rolling programme of electrification and investment in low-carbon, self-powered rolling stock, both of which the rail industry stands to deliver."
Translations:
blanket-coat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blanket-coats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blanketcoat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short heavy coat made of mackinaw.
pos: noun
examples: Then, getting into a thick blanket-coat, she pulled on her gloves and, taking up a small leather blouse-case, went out, closing the door noiselessly after her.
Even with his thick blanket-coat, he was soon wet through and shivering.
The long arm she threw out thickened, rather surprisingly and very beautifully, up to its pit; and the man on the boat who had shown the solicitude about the collar of her blanket-coat had been quite a good judge of necks.
Translations:
off-flavor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From off- + flavor.
Base: flavor
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: off-flavors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off-flavour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unnatural flavor in a food or drink product caused by the presence of undesirable compounds due to contamination or deterioration.
pos: noun
examples: They burned out the inside of used barrels so the whiskey would not pick up off-flavors, and found the taste improved still more.
Translations:
Dovercourt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Dovercourts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noisy assemblage; a meeting that is little more than a chaotic riot.
pos: noun
examples: Those who would captivate the well-bred throng, / Should not too often speak, nor speak too long; / Church, nor church matters, ever turn to sport, / Nor make St. Stephen's Chapel Dover Court.
"Well, well; I've seen a number o' fanteegs round these parts in my time, but in all ninety year I never heard such a dovercourt as there were over that teetotal meetin'. […]
Translations:
crossfit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross-discipline fitness. Equivalent to cross- + fit.
Base: fit
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: crossfits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crossfitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crossfitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crossfitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To participate in a CrossFit exercise regimen.
pos: verb
Translations:
no-ho
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for no hormones.
Inflected forms:
form: no-hos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A transgender or transsexual person who has chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.
pos: noun
examples: So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, esp at alt.support.srs which is supposed to be a support group reserved for srs-related issues (not that one can tell any more).
Translations:
cross-live
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + live. Possibly modelled after cross-dress.
Base: live
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-lives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-living
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-lived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-lived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crosslive
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For example, there apparently is a clinic in Canada that makes people crosslive for a year before giving them hormones!
Although some of these subjects were lesbians inclined to cross-dress and to cross-live in order to cope with social prohibition of woman-to-woman sexual relationships, it is likely that at least some male-identified subjects who were biologically born as female had come to realize a psychological transgender male identity.
[Transgenderists] will probably, although not necessarily, cross-live (see next section) and/or take part in hormonal therapies that would cause certain sex characteristic changes.
I also don't consider Transgenderists to be a different creature from a Transsexual -- I consider the two to be two points on a spectrum. Some people can get by with crossliving, while others need to take further steps.
Translations:
cross-liver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross-live + -er.
Affixes: cross-live
-er
Inflected forms:
form: cross-livers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crossliver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who cross-lives.
pos: noun
examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Maybe the stigma comes from being either a TV or a TS—but there is a middle ground that I've never considered...what Georgia calls a "cross-liver." Someone who takes hormones & lives their desired gender role, but who have not necessarily made a decision on having surgery.
And that doesn't invalidate or lessen the T*ness of the person. Some people believe that being afull^([sic]) time crossliver makes them somehow more than a person who dresses up on the odd Tuesday night.
My point was that if someone got m2f SRS and continued to 'present' as a crossliver rather than as an 'f', you would have fewer objections to 'her' as a person than to someone who wished to disappear into 'cisgendered' society.
So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, […]
Translations:
inward-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inward-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inward-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Concerned primarily with one's own objectives, priorities, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: self-absorbed, insular
Translations: