yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
non-zwitterionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + zwitterionic.
Base: zwitterionic
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonzwitterionic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not pertaining to a zwitterion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
non-zygotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nonzygotic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not related to or derived from a zygote.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Mikir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Karbi people.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
asherah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: asherahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asherim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asherot
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wooden pole or tree set up to represent the goddess Asherah.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: H. Saggs maintains that during this time, asherahs were 'regarded by the worshippers as part of the cult of Yahweh, not of a separate deity Baal'.
Translations:
atef
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: atefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feathered white crown of the Ancient Egyptian deity Osiris.
pos: noun
Translations:
Aubusson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Aubussons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of decorative rug from Aubusson in Creuse, France.
pos: noun
Translations:
J-euro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Japanese Eurobeat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
quark-antiquark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quark-antiquarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particle-antiparticle pair in hadrons and mesons.
pos: noun
Translations:
particle-antiparticle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: particle-antiparticles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subatomic particle and its corresponding antiparticle.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
xit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of X + tweet.
Compound parts: X
tweet
Inflected forms:
form: xits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: xitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: xitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: xitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of tweet.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of tweet.
pos: verb
Translations:
anti-yeast
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: antiyeast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Against yeast growth or activity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mid-kiln
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The middle portion of a kiln.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A process model has been developed to study the effects of adding fuel in the cement kilns in non-traditional locations (i.e., mid-kiln)
Translations:
choong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Used similarly to peng, reminiscent of the ideophony of chonkalicious, chunkalicious, and Scottish English ching (“cocaine”).
Inflected forms:
form: choonger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: choongest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: choongers
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chung
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: exciting, attractive
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: You find a choong girl, you think it's all blessed, okay (Okay)
[…]
You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong)
But you didn't know your girl was a grim
My rammy’s looking all leng
Peng, this rammy's looking all choong
This gyally’s looking all choong
Move that, get the number and gun
Translations:
estate-bottled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Produced from grapes grown on the same estate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Dendi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group living in Benin and Niger.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
paleo-high
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From paleo- + high.
Base: high
Affixes: paleo-
Inflected forms:
form: paleo-highs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paleohigh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeo-high
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeohigh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Past elevated land area or mountain range.
pos: noun
Translations:
paleo-ocean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From paleo- + ocean.
Base: ocean
Affixes: paleo-
Inflected forms:
form: paleo-oceans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palaeo-ocean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paleoocean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeoocean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ancient ocean.
pos: noun
Translations:
paleo-oceanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From paleo- + oceanic.
Base: oceanic
Affixes: paleo-
Inflected forms:
form: palaeo-oceanic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: paleooceanic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: palaeooceanic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a paleo-ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
oxidation-reduction
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of redox.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
paleo-osteology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: palaeo-osteology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paleoosteology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeoosteology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Study of ancient bones and skeletons.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Opo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group of South Sudan and Ethiopia, speaking the Opuuo language.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Koman
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a small language family of languages located along the Ethiopia–Sudan border.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
worlder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From world + -er (“supporter”) or -er (demonym suffix).
Base: world
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: worlders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who supports a certain idea of the world.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
gloss: One from a certain (figurative or literal) world.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: Week after week, racist posts appear on Thee Rant, a blog for current or former New York City police officers: […] a Middle Eastern cab driver berated by an officer is termed a “third worlder” who should have his “head split open.”
Third worlders tend to act like a nest of vampires, bleeding the US and giving indirect sustenance to their failing home economies.
Related words: earther
Derived words: First Worlder
flat-worlder
New Worlder
off-worlder
Old Worlder
one-worlder
out-worlder
real-worlder
round-worlder
Third Worlder
Translations:
real-worlder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From real world + -er.
Base: real world
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: real-worlders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.
pos: noun
examples: Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.
The scholars who found the postmodernists most outrageous were those who thought they actually were discussing the “real world.” […] What the real-worlders missed was that the extreme relativists were engaged in games of a yet another sort, language games, with double entendres and other clever word-play.
Our approach privileges the perspective of military practice. In the tutorial sessions, we put real-worlders in charge.
Translations:
half-pounder
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From half + pound + -er.
Base: half
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: half-pounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: half pounder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halfpounder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: half pounder
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: halfpounder
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A beef hamburger sandwich whose patty weighed approximately half a pound prior to being cooked.
pos: noun
gloss: A burger sandwich with a patty of such an uncooked weight, of an alternative to beef.
pos: noun
gloss: A burger patty of such an uncooked weight.
pos: noun
gloss: A food item similar to a patty of such an uncooked weight, such as a meatball.
pos: noun
gloss: A sandwich weighing approximately half a pound.
pos: noun
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, pounder: Anything weighing half a pound.
pos: noun
gloss: Having a weight of a 1/2 of a pound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gem-hydrogenation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Addition of hydrogen atoms to the same carbon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
water-powered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Powered by the force of moving water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
electricity-generating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Producing electricity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
anti-lockdown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + lockdown.
Base: lockdown
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-lockdown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-lockdown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antilockdown
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposing lockdown (confinement as security measure).
pos: adj
examples: The prime minister and home secretary have condemned an incident in which a senior BBC journalist was angrily confronted and pursued by anti-lockdown protesters as “disgraceful” and “appalling”.
Translations:
anti-ozone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + ozone.
Base: ozone
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-ozones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antiozone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substance that prevents the breakdown of ozone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Ajami
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Arabic عَجَمِيّ (ʕajamiyy). By surface analysis, Ajam + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: more Ajami
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ajami
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Non-Arab; Persian.
pos: adj
Translations:
Skutnik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
media
politics
Etymology: The name is thought to derive from Romanian scuti (“to absolve”); compare Romanian Scutelnici. The common noun comes from Martin Leonard Skutnik III, a guest at the 1982 State of the Union address; see quotations below.
Inflected forms:
form: Skutniks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A guest at the State of the Union address or a similar political event.
pos: noun
tags: US
jargon
examples: When CNN’s Jeff Greenfield assured the crowd, “I haven't planted a skutnik here,” I stopped him: I had heard of a sputnik, the Russian word for the first Soviet satellite, but what was a skutnik? […] In 1995, the columnist William F. Buckley was one of the first to use the name as an eponym: “President Clinton was awash with Skutniks.”
The likes of Shea got added by the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan, who started what came to be called the Lenny Skutnik Moment, where an everyday person is plucked from the populace and placed in the first lady’s gallery. Martin L. Skutnik earned a seat in the gallery on Jan. 13, 1982, when, on the way home from work at the Congressional Budget Office, he jumped into the freezing Potomac River to save Priscilla Tirado, a passenger on an Air Florida plane that had crashed just after take-off.
Since that time, people recognized by the president during the State of the Union address have been known by insiders as “Lenny Skutniks.” As in: “Who are the Lenny Skutniks tonight?” There's even an online quiz that invites you to guess who will be tonight's Lenny Skutniks (the list had not yet been revealed Monday). Skutnik, it seems, is a brand name.
Lenny Skutnik moments have been called “human props”, “gimmicks”, “practiced stagecraft”, but the virulence of the criticism from a president’s political opponents only serves to prove the effectiveness of the strategy.
Ever since then, almost every State of the Union address has featured one or more “Skutniks,” or Americans who somehow embody everyday heroism, stoicism, victimhood, or identity politics.
Among Parson’s Skutniks this week were Mayor Lyda Krewson and the other mayors of Missouri’s four largest cities. They sat in the audience while the Republican governor talked about doing something about inner-city violence, but refused to outline any specific gun proposals.
Translations:
open-eared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare open-minded.
Inflected forms:
form: more open-eared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-eared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Listening closely to something; attentive.
pos: adj
examples: Companies should be open-eared to feedback from their customers.
"She is passionate yet level-headed, committed but collaborative, and focused on making important change, while remaining creative and effective," Damodaran wrote in an email to the News. "As a leader, she is extremely communicative and open-eared, which has allowed our group to be most effective in its review of sexual climate at Yale."
Except I was standing underneath Front Street, hard-hatted and open-eared, as representatives from Toronto's Union Station painted a picture of the retail paradise that this cavern was to become.
Be open about your fears and anxieties, and be open-eared to your husband's feelings and thoughts too.
At its best, his writing was open-eared and curious, concerned with both his roots and their limitations.
gloss: Being receptive or open-minded to new styles of music.
pos: adj
examples: Many people tend to listen to what they know, but others are more open-eared.
Which is everywhere—being open-eared is ostensibly a sign of anti-racism (not really) and gender progressivism (also not really) and is at least slightly aligned with the tenets of poptimism.
The audience was welcome and open-eared but also intrigued and riled up, and that's what Burton gave back to them.
He dropped out of college and moved to New York in 1958, bringing a sanguine, open-eared approach and a grounding in the trombone's early-jazz history. In turn, he helped broaden the possibilities of an emerging avant-garde scene.
It is an open-eared ethos that has led him to a wide group of collaborators, from younger British musicians such as the Mercury prize-nominated saxophonist Nubya Garcia to his fellow Chicagoans Junius Paul and Ben LaMar Gay.
He believes that SoundCloud gave him the chance to reach open-eared listeners when starting out, and he's since channelled online momentum into real-world opportunities.
gloss: Synonym of open-back (“partially covering the ear”).
pos: adj
examples: Not sure if Rat shack has any more decent headphones (you might find some old Pro-25's that they might still have in stock if you're lucky) but those are open eared.
While they are small open eared headphones, they have excellent sound quality, are fairly comfortable for wearing for long periods of time, and the bass response on them is absolutely incredible.
While the original's^([sic]) let in nearly as much external sound as open-eared sets, we didn't really notice the same problem here -- that said, there's no way to tell how it would fair^([sic]) on the likes of NYC's subway just yet.
Derived words: open-earedness
Translations:
closed-eared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more closed-eared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most closed-eared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: close-eared
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Reluctant or unwilling to listen to new styles of music.
pos: adj
examples: Unfortunately, like the nation's government, we have a bunch of closed-eared baffoons running the nation's country music stations thinking they are cool because they have found Alison Krauss and watering down the airwaves with the young -hat, disco, pop mainstream, line-dance crap.
Ugh... this is what I really hate about musical arguments related to cutting edge music. The characterization that people who prefer this or that genre or flavor (new or old) are conventional or closed-eared, or just plain dull.
The casual observer and the closed-eared critic—of which there are many, if not most—misses the increased artistic complexity that characterized each evolving stage of the music.
Later, when many adolescents become "closed-eared," listening preferences are closely aligned with and guided by peer group norms.
Instead of simply abandoning those opportunities to share new musics when individuals may be perceived as closed-eared, music educators should make an even more concerted effort to share new musics since repetition can be used as an instructional tool to have a positive impact on those levels of receptivity.
gloss: Uninterested in listening to others; inattentive.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Press-agents delight in recounting to open-mouthed and closed-eared reporters stories of the humble beginnings of the brilliant stars whose orbits they control.
Britain also planned to introduce conscription, more loftily known as National Service, probably yet another blow to the closed-eyed and closed-eared Joachim von Ribbentrop. He would have been even more surprised if he had learned of the convoluted untruths and failed purposes that preceded the British guarantee to Poland.
I think you have pretty good chance of surviving this sport, unlike some other closed eared/minded new riders.
Lydia is still very sceptical of Paul, but Mandy is becoming closed-eared because she doesn't want to hear it.
Derived words: closed-earedness
Translations:
close-back
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more close-back
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most close-back
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of closed-back.
pos: adj
examples: However, the 240's rule for vocals because the singer's pitch will be better, maybe because of the hyped highs? I wish AKG would make an identical close-back version.
I have a HD25 (close back headphones) for loud studio monitoring, but if i just overdubbing stuff, or recording along with quiet instruments, HD570 is always my choice, cuz it sounds lovely.
Close-back headphones naturally block out more of the world, and don’t annoy people around you with your 196-track Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift playlist.
Translations:
close-ear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more close-ear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most close-ear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of closed-back (“completely covering the ears”).
pos: adj
examples: Just crank some close-ear headphones up and move the mic, or have someone else move the mic while you monitor the sound in another room.
These are close ear headphones and have been used for many years in pro studios.
But the close ear headphones definitely have advantages while tracking.
Translations:
closed-ear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more closed-ear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most closed-ear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of closed-back (“completely covering the ears”).
pos: adj
examples: I don't know why you've decided on a closed ear model, but I would urge you to give the open construction Grado SR-225's a listen before you decide.
I've been checking out different headphones for awhile^([sic]) (I've been using Panasonic RP-HT850's which have been working out pretty well), my choice right now would be Sennheiser HD-600's, but I'd rather have a closed-ear type headphone to help prevent leaking sound in and out.
The closed-ear design provides ample protection from sound leakage during podcast recording.
Translations:
closed-back
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of headphones: completely covering the ear, so that there is no airflow through the wearer's ears.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Closed-back earphones with active noise canceling by manufacturers like Bose and Phiaton produce a nullifying frequency to block intrusive sounds.
For a closed-back headphone, they've got a relatively open soundscape, too, which makes extended listening less tiring than some more direct cans.
Luxury French headphone manufacturer Focal has announced that it's launching its first high-end, closed-back pair of headphones aimed at the portable music player market and high-end smartphones.
Translations:
open-ear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of open-back (“partially covering the ear”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The open-ear nature of the 580s is IMO their only disadvantage.
I have a Dean Bass-in-a-Box. Even with cheap headphones, IMHO it sounds great. Fine for using open-ear headphones and playing along with "music in the room".
Some of todays best phones are from Audio Tecknica. I have the ath ad700 an open ear design.
However, so far, there’s a fairly low ceiling on audio quality for open-ear headphones — so don’t expect audiophile quality regardless.
Translations:
open-back
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more open-back
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-back
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of headphones: only partially covering the ear, so that there is airflow to the wearer's ears.
pos: adj
examples: For listening in quiet, isolated environments like your home, "open-back" earphones, usually over- or on-ear, are your best bet.
If you ask any audiophile what headphone type they prefer to use for an extended listening session, I can almost guarantee they will say that open-back headphones are the better choice. Open-back headphones enable air to circulate around the ears and allow heat and sound to escape so that music sounds so much better, even for extended listening sessions. Open-back headphones just feel more natural and comfortable.
Sometimes, they provide warmer, more life-like sound quality, and the open-back design could be a safer way to play VR for you.
Translations:
gun-type
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to a gun-type bomb.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
e-bicycle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + bicycle.
Base: bicycle
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-bicycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of e-bike.
pos: noun
examples: "It's important for those on these e-bicycles to ride with the flow of traffic, not into oncoming traffic, that they do need to obey the normal rules of the road," Elise Soviar, spokesperson for Placer County Sheriff's Office, said.
Translations:
foot-jaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + jaw.
Compound parts: foot
jaw
Inflected forms:
form: foot-jaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A limb of a crustacean, insect, or other arthropod, that acts as an accessory mouth-part.
pos: noun
Translations:
flat-sit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy to babysit.
Inflected forms:
form: flat-sits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flat-sitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flat-sat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flat-sat
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To live in and take care of someone's flat while they are away.
pos: verb
Translations:
Twitcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Twitch + -er.
Base: Twitch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Twitchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A streamer on the video livestream service Twitch.
pos: noun
examples: The Twitchers interact with their audiences in multiple ways in order to create communities.
Some messages warn against not being fooled, and that YouTubers or Twitchers should be somewhat absolved because “it’s their job” (C2), with the “dirty rotten system” (C2) to blame in which “EA decides who get what” (C2). […] Players post messages stressing the differences between themselves and streamers, with “regular folks are forced to earn … wins in fut champs” (C1; C3) while YouTubers or Twitchers “get given wins by their viewers” (C1; C3).
Popular Twitchers (live streamers) build and cultivate devoted communities of fans where hundreds and even thousands log on to watch their broadcasts of whatever it is they want to share with the world.
Translations:
Blockhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From block + -head.
Base: block
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: Blockheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the American boy band New Kids on the Block.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: McCartneymania seemed to be a chance for the parents of Blockheads, the kids who swarmed the New Kids on the Block last week, to do a little gawking of their own.
During Danny [Wood]’s solo spot in a New Kids concert, which comes about three-quarters of the way into the show, you can see five to ten minutes of the breakdancing routine that made him famous on the streets of Boston—and when he’s feeling particularly limber, he’ll spin on his head. (Please, do not attempt to do this, Blockheads)!
There’s no doubt it has the right stuff to lure both Blockheads and those who didn’t grow up listening to Donnie Wahlberg’s New Kids on the Block or Mark [Wahlberg]’s Funky Bunch.
My sister Shonda and I were complete Blockheads growing up. If we heard “Step by Step” or “Please Don’t Go Girl,” it was ON.
Blockheads and music fans gathered in force to fill the arena and “Bring Back the Time” (the name of the latest New Kids song, which features tourmates En Vogue, Salt-N-Pepa and Rick Astley).
The 10,500 Blockheads’ shrieks got even louder when [Donnie] Wahlberg pulled up his shirt to show off six-pack abs on his 52-year-old body.
Translations:
half-Windsor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: half-Windsors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A triangular knot used to tie a necktie.
pos: noun
examples: The half windsor of his yellow silk foulard was loosened at the neck and his navy pinstripe suit jacket was slung over one shoulder.
Three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-Windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an Arizona noon.
Translations:
alt-monthly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From alt- + monthly.
Base: monthly
Affixes: alt-
Inflected forms:
form: alt-monthlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alternative newspaper published monthly.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
one-hitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: one-hitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cannabis pipe for a single inhalation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A one-hitter, sort of like a long FDR-type cigarette holder whose end is packed with a pinch of good dope, gets hot and is hard on the mouth—the brass ones especially—but one-hitters have the advantage of efficiency[…]
gloss: A game in which one team makes only one hit.
pos: noun
examples: The one-hitter Tuesday night marked the first time the Cardinals held the Pirates to one hit or less in a game in Pittsburgh since Hall of Famer Bob Gibson’s no-hitter in 1971 at Three Rivers Stadium.
Related words: one-hit
Translations:
million-dollar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more million-dollar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most million-dollar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: very expensive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: very unique.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
woke-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From woke + -free.
Base: woke
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking or clear of any wokeism.
pos: adj
tags: neologism
not-comparable
examples: If you saw a Facebook ad recently for Jeremy’s Razors, which bills itself as a “woke-free” razor for men, you may well be a father of school-age children who likes Ultimate Fighting, Hershey’s chocolate, hunting or Johnny Cash.
But for the companies that cater to consumers who share their conservative values, it doesn’t matter if they turn away more liberal buyers, or ones who just don’t want to see “100% Woke-Free American Beer” when they crack open a cold one, as is the case with Ultra Right Beer.
Translations:
grass-widowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having become or been made into a grass widow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sitter-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From sit in or sit-in.
Inflected forms:
form: sitters-in
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who attends a class, meeting, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes part in a sit-in protest.
pos: noun
examples: Except for a few adult leaders like the Rev. Robert Williams, shown below conducting a strategy seminar, the sitters-in are youngsters like Virginius Bray Thornton who, at right, is leading a march through Petersburg.
Translations:
death-of-man
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cicuta maculata, a highly poisonous flowering plant native to nearly all of North America.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sit-on-top
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sit-on-tops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kayak with a long hollowed-out portion in which the kayaker sits, rather than a cockpit.
pos: noun
Translations:
rockstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rock + stone.
Compound parts: rock
stone
Inflected forms:
form: rockstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pebble.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
examples: Without wasting many words, however, the youth picked up a "rockstone," as pebbles are called in Jamaica, and delivered the missile with so skilful an aim, that the bird dropped to the ground, […]
She learned her art by breaking / hard rockstones.
Translations:
Monkee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Monkees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the American pop rock band The Monkees.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-source
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + source.
Base: source
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-sources
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An online source, as opposed to traditional print sources.
pos: noun
Translations:
high-power
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-power
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-power
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of high-powered.
pos: adj
Translations:
Afro-Guyanese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Guyanese of African origin
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
non-earthquake
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nonearthquake
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not related to an earthquake.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Nemo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin nemo. The "clownfish" meaning comes from the film Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish.
Inflected forms:
form: Nemos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a clownfish
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
hair-bowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hair bow + -ed.
Base: hairbow
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: hairbowed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a hair bow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dressed in short skirts, pig-tailed and hair-bowed, the seniors vied for prizes in costumes, played games and were taken to the movies (half-price) by their junior sisters.
He loves them all — the short, crying kindergartners who come in clinging to their mothers on the first day; the freshly scrubbed, hair-bowed little girls; the rough-and-tumble boys.
Hello Kitty, that charming little hair-bowed sweetheart that’s made the folks at Sanrio very, very wealthy for the last several decades, is apparently, according to Hello Kitty expert Christine R. Yano, “not a cat.”
Translations:
tantrik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tantriks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exorcist.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
pro-incest
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + incest.
Base: incest
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-incest
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-incest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In favor of incest.
pos: adj
Translations:
Tariana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous people of the Vaupés or Uaupés River in the Amazon region of Brazil and Colombia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
half-filled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Holding or containing only half of its capacity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] although overcrowding on the trains running via London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.
Translations:
cast-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: cast-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cast on
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of casting on.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The resulting row of cast-on stitches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The technique of starting knitting by casting on.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
second-teamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From second team + -er.
Base: second team
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: second-teamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone in the second team.
pos: noun
Translations:
Tenino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A grouping of Sahaptin Native American subtribes that historically occupied territory located in the North-Central portion of the American state of Oregon.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
chain-driven
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Referring to the transmission of power by means of a suitable endless chain, such as a bicycle chain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: No description of the Bulleid patent chain-driven valve-motion for locomotives has yet been made public, and until this happens we are unable to satisfy the interest of many readers in this unique locomotive equipment.
Translations:
thakur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ठाकुर (ṭhākur),
Inflected forms:
form: thakurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noble in the historical feudal system of the Indian subcontinent.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
themer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From theme + -er.
Base: theme
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: themers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who themes something.
pos: noun
gloss: One who themes something.
pos: noun
examples: This structure organizes and streamlines theme development to create a solid ground for themers (theme developers) to further build and extend, much like in object-oriented programming.
gloss: An entry in a crossword that forms part of the theme.
pos: noun
examples: The first of the themers is SPARRING PARTNER (“Opponent who helps train a boxer”) — which, as the revealer indicates, includes the word PAR twice.
I threw in a bonus with ASTHMA – Longest familiar word in the English language that begins and ends with a vowel with no vowels in between (though you may not want to use that clue since there is no symmetrical themer).
One themer that ended up on the cutting room floor here is HEADSPACE, a word I find myself using pretty often (e.g. "I'm not in the right HEADSPACE for that right now").
Translations:
triborough
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tri- + borough.
Base: borough
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to three boroughs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
trotty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trot + -y.
Base: trot
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more trotty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trotty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to trot; having a trotting gait.
pos: adj
examples: a trotty horse
Translations:
Tuamotu
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Tuamotus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of the easiest Tuamotu landfalls is at Taenga, which has a clear pass on its SW side that can be easily negotiated in good visibility. Taenga also makes a good starting point for a Tuamotu cruise.
Translations:
torreya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: torreyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Torreya.
pos: noun
Translations:
Juul
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Juuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Juuls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Juuling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Juuled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Juuled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A particular electronic cigarette of this type.
pos: noun
examples: While adolescents are canny enough to hide their Juuls from you, they don't really believe that vaping is harmful.
A Juul is an e-cigarette that looks like a USB thumb drive and uses a "pod" system for refills.
[Jason] Jeong, the Cornell graduate, says his peers stopped using Juuls when the company discontinued its popular flavors. People liked mint, which remained on the shelves, but no one wanted to puff on a tobacco-flavored Juul.
But by spring of that year, nobody had a lighter – everyone had started vaping instead. So I followed my friends and jumped off the cliff: I bought a Juul.
gloss: To smoke a Juul.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Just this week, while taking a history from a 19-year-old young man, I asked him if he smoked cigarettes. The answer was no. I then asked him if he vaped. He answered that he used a Juul. When asked how many times a day, he replied that he Juuled continuously, all day.
I took my tween to a concert last month at the state fair in Minnesota, and we were possibly the only two people in the crowd near the stage who weren't Juuling.
When I Juuled, I didn't take smoke breaks – I had grown accustomed to puffing away all day at my desk, and even more on stressful deadlines.
His life: […] He [Antoni Porowski] knows he shouldn't, but he Juuls (mint, in case you were wondering).
That is the most important change over the last couple weeks for me... Do you vape? Do you Juul? Very bluntly. It's part of what I ask now.
Perhaps the most fascinating, and darkly comedic, anecdote in "The Devil's Playbook" comes when Juul meets some of its fiercest critics: several wealthy California financiers who become incensed when they learn that their own kids and their kids' friends are Juuling.
Translations:
anti-commentary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From anti- + commentary.
Base: commentary
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-commentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
pos: noun
examples: Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus.
More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were.
The first argues that sacred signs ordained by God have always been corrupted by men, the second, called ‘our litil treatise of ye Messe’, is an anti-commentary on the Mass and vestments, and the third a commentary on the Reformed liturgy.
The Herculaneum papyri preserve fragments of two other works of his: the anticommentaries “Against Plato’s Euthydemus” (PHerc. 1032) and “Against Plato’s Lysis” (PHerc. 208).
Translations:
two-top
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: two + top (“(a table for) a specified number of people in a restaurant”)
Inflected forms:
form: two-tops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A table seating two diners.
pos: noun
examples: He conveyed the food order to the kitchen and then popped the top on the Pepsi can and passed it across the bar to me along with a glass of ice. I carried both to a two-top near the front window.
Translations:
Subu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Bantu ethnic group who inhabit part of the coast of Cameroon.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
half-sider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: half-siders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bilateral gynandromorph, an animal that is one sex on the left and another sex on the right.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal that is one color on the left and another on the right.
pos: noun
examples: If the lost choromosome had been the one carrying the blue gene, then a visual half-sider would not have resulted, although the bird would still be a genetic half-sider, one side pure Light Green and the other side Light Green/blue.
Translations:
SANU
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: SANUs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.
pos: noun
examples: There are SANU equivalents for almost every group of hoofed mammal from the rest of the world […].
Radinsky (1981) carried out studies on the brain of litopterns in the context of brain evolution in extinct SANUs.
Translations:
insurtech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of insurance + tech, probably modelled on fintech.
Compound parts: insurance
tech
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of information technology in the insurance industry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Terrene
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See terrene.
Inflected forms:
form: Terrenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Terran (“an inhabitant of Earth; an earthling”).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of Terran (“of Earth; of terrestrial origin”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
anti-Reylo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From anti- + Reylo.
Base: Reylo
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: anti-Reylos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opponent of the ship of Rey and Kylo Ren from Star Wars (Reylo).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: When Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, the fandom found itself dividing across one really hard, bright line: the Reylos and the anti-Reylos.
Anti-Reylos read the pairing's on-screen encounters as rape, and they point out the age difference and potential familial relationship.
This also means that there are significant clashes between Reylo shippers and anti-Reylos.
Translations:
time-binding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
semantics
Etymology: Coined by Polish-American philosopher Alfred Korzybski in 1921.
Inflected forms:
form: time binding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: timebinding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: time binding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: timebinding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of transmitting knowledge and experience from one moment and person to other moments and people using written information (e.g., written language, images, symbols), whether in mundane instances or (especially) from one generation to the next.
pos: noun
tags: especially
general
uncountable
gloss: Engaging in time-binding.
pos: adj
tags: general
not-comparable
Translations:
half-boiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: halfboiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: half boiled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: partially cooked
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: cooked to a soft consistency
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny; soft-boiled
pos: adj
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
not-comparable
Related words: soft-boiled
hard-boiled
Translations:
cross-subsidy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + subsidy.
Base: subsidy
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-subsidies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subsidy from profit-making operations of a business to support loss-making operations of the same business.
pos: noun
examples: The grouping into the Big Four (the Great Western Railway, the London Midland & Scottish Railway, the London & North Eastern Railway, and Southern Railway) came into effect in 1923, and created the largest businesses in Britain. It effectively formalised the concept of cross-subsidy, whereby each of the four would subsidise loss-making routes from those that were profitable, without financial support from the government.
Translations:
Townie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From (Charles)town + -ie.
Base: Charlestown
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Townies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Charlestown, Massachusetts, (especially) a working-class person of Irish American heritage.
pos: noun
examples: Racial isolation is so strong that in the early 1970s there were only 388 blacks among the 38,488 residents of South Boston, and only 76 among the 15,353 “Townies” of Charlestown.
By fall 1974, however, new impulses broke through and on September 25, three hundred Townies organized the Charlestown branch of ROAR
There were also a few black families in the projects and some Italians who spilled over from the North End, but otherwise Charlestown was a homogeneous hill of working-class Micks and their families living in tight rows of colonial and triple-decker houses. The Townies. And every Townie knew everyone in Town.
Translations:
ambassador-at-large
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ambassadors-at-large
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An envoy without a specific host government.
pos: noun
Translations: