yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
risk-averse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more risk-averse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most risk-averse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to take risks.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: conservative; reluctant; cautious
The answer, says Mark Smith (The Man in Seat 61) is "to reassure the risk-averse Treasury that prices within a new structure will not be difficult to adjust if calculations to achieve revenue neutrality are out by 2% or whatever. You're not stuck with the prices you implement on Day 1."
Arsenal were untroubled elsewhere, Forest's risk-averse gameplan making it a relatively easy night for their defenders until Awoniyi emerged after being out with injury since October, finally giving them something to think about.
gloss: Reluctant to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.
pos: adj
Translations:
mixdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mix + down.
Compound parts: mix
down
Inflected forms:
form: mixdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels.
pos: noun
Translations:
bakhsh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian بخش.
Inflected forms:
form: bakhshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An administrative division of Iran, similar to a township in the United States or a district in England.
pos: noun
Translations:
merked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ugly, unattractive.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
bruz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brother, mate, friend.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Chaz Fenwick, Paul Vanderloos, Hooligans: A Heavy Metal Story
“Look at all da hectic cunts, hey bruz.” Het impersonated the stereotypical voice of a homeboy before his tone turned hostile. “You want a fuckin' war! Let's get it fuckin' started!” he shouted over the blaring music.
Translations:
fee-fees
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From feelings by shortening and reduplication.
Inflected forms:
form: fee fees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: feefees
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Feelings.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
plural
plural-only
slang
examples: Well, 'sorry to have bruised your fee fees with an intelligent, opposing viewpoint […]
“Oh yes, we mustn't let sweet Sarah get her fee-fees hurt. God knows how fragile she is. […]
I can see why you want me to stop making your fee fees hurt.
Translations:
kringle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Danish kringle, ultimately from Old Norse kringla (“ring, circle”).
Inflected forms:
form: kringles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Scandinavian pastry, a variety of pretzel.
pos: noun
Translations:
potamogeton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: potamogetons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the plants of the genus Potamogeton.
pos: noun
Translations:
jeju
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tupian.
Inflected forms:
form: jejus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A South American (Amazonian) erythrinid fish, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (formerly sometimes Erythrinus unitaeniatus).
pos: noun
examples: Finally he sent the jeju (Erythrinus unitaeniatus; these fish are covered with a slippery phlegm), which pushed the man out ...
In the jeju, the swim bladder has a respiratory function, while in the aruana it is an hydrostatic organ. Both are physostomes, and the swim bladder is divided into 2 chambers whose walls are made up of 3 enveloping membranes or mantles.
The jeju (Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus) is a facultative air-breathing fish that utilizes a modified swim bladder as an ...
Translations:
chuck-farthing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An old English game resembling pitchpenny.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They presently fell to pitch and toss, chuck-farthing, odd or even, dog-fighting, and other Protestant recreations.
Translations:
chaptered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having chapters of a specified number or kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Not many people in France bought the little five-chaptered book, but a number of copies were sold in Germany.
Translations:
hand-code
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: hand-codes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hand-coding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hand-coded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hand-coded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To develop (software, web pages, etc.) by writing source code or markup directly, without the use of tools allowing higher-level representations.
pos: verb
Translations:
I-Kiribati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: I-Kiribati
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Kiribati.
pos: noun
Translations:
re-entrustment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + entrustment.
Base: entrustment
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-entrustments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repeated act of entrustment, whether continuing entrustment in the entrusted party, or passing entrustment on to a new party.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Where the re-entrustment is not consented to, the agent shall bear liability for the acts of the third person, unless the agent needs to re-entrust such matters for the protection of the interests of principal due to an emergency.
Translations:
re-entrust
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + entrust.
Base: entrust
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-entrusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-entrusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-entrusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-entrusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To again pass trust to the care of something on to another.
pos: verb
examples: The futures brokerage commission shall make no profit-earning pledges for their clients on the shared benefits or risks, conduct futures trading in the personal name when authorized by the companies, enterprises, or other economic organizations, and re-entrust the entrusted business or accept the re-entrusted business.
Translations:
artbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From art + book.
Compound parts: art
book
Inflected forms:
form: artbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book about art, particularly concept art for an animated media production.
pos: noun
gloss: A book containing art.
pos: noun
Translations:
upcharge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up- + charge.
Base: charge
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upcharges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upcharges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upcharging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upcharged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upcharged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A surcharge for something additional, especially an upgrade (optional amenity).
pos: noun
gloss: To charge extra or to overcharge (charge someone a surcharge, or charge too much).
pos: verb
gloss: To overcharge (charge someone with an inflated number or degree of legal charges).
pos: verb
examples: Threaten to upcharge, threaten consecutive sentencing.
Related words: upgrade
Translations:
planeswalker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From planes + walker. Originated in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
Compound parts: planes
walker
Inflected forms:
form: planeswalkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wizard who can travel across planes of existence.
pos: noun
examples: Like Rosalie, he acted as though he had no power. He believed the same was true for D'Las as it was for the planeswalker—he simply couldn't access the power on his own.
Translations:
dichotomously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dichotomous + -ly.
Base: dichotomous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a dichotomous manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dry-erase
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dry erase
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Describing a whiteboard that can be wiped clean without the use of solvents, or a marker whose ink can be wiped clean without solvents.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
digit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
astronomy
biology
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
units-of-measure
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a finger; a number”). Doublet of digitus and dedo.
Inflected forms:
form: digits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system.
pos: noun
examples: The base-10 number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
This meter is a 3½ digit digital multimeter that is rugged, reliable and convenient to use, while providing all of the accuracy and features needed for any application.
gloss: A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system.
pos: noun
examples: Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
gloss: ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.
pos: noun
examples: A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
gloss: A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of inch.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
pos: noun
examples: Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around.
gloss: Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
pos: noun
examples: The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
gloss: Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: Synonym of manicule.
pos: noun
Related words: digits
Derived words: binary digit
binit
check digit
digital
digit counter
digit I
digitiform
digit IV
digitize
digitless
digitlike
digit number
digit pulse
digit sum
digit trunk
double-digit
double digits
first digit
fourth digit
hexit
index digit
interdigit
lung-digit syndrome
monodigit
multidigit
nepit
oculodigitoesophagoduodenal
repdigit
significant digit
single-digit salute
trit
Translations:
lang: Hebrew
word: סִפְרָה
roman: sifrá
lang: Russian
word: разряд
roman: razrjad
lang: Russian
word: позиция
roman: pozicija
lang: Russian
word: место
roman: mesto
lang: Russian
word: числовой разряд
roman: čislovoj razrjad
lang: Russian
word: знакоместо
roman: znakomesto
lang: Tibetan
word: གྲངས་གནས Literally
roman: grangs gnas
lang: Tibetan
word: “number-place”
transmisogyny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
Base: misogyny
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: trans-misogyny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
uncountable
examples: The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'
I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.
As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).
The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]
Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …
Translations:
Chakma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali চাকমা (cakma), from Chakma 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟 (cakma), 𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦 (caṅmha), ultimately from Sanskrit शक्तिमान (śaktimāna, literally “powerful”), composed of शक्ति (śakti, “power”) + -मान (-māna).
Compound parts: शक्ति
-मत्
Inflected forms:
form: Chakmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chakma
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Changma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India.
pos: noun
Translations:
metally
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From metal + -y.
Base: metal
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more metally
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metally
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: metallic
pos: adj
examples: Yet in days long past, but soon, we hope, to return, these quarters had a metally ring and were standard silver 900-1000th fine.
gloss: Resembling metal music.
pos: adj
Derived words: heavy metally
Translations:
iDevice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From i- + device.
Base: device
Affixes: i-
Inflected forms:
form: iDevices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a range of mobile electronic devices marketed by Apple Inc., such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If you find one that you like, you can have others in the series download to your iDevice automatically as they appear by clicking the Subscribe button.
Translations:
tomoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 巴 (tomoe).
Inflected forms:
form: tomoe
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circular design of swirling water, commonly used in Japanese family crests and corporation logos.
pos: noun
Translations:
yearend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Likely altered from year's end, from Middle English yeres ende, equivalent to year + end.
Compound parts: year
end
Inflected forms:
form: yearends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: year-end
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: year's end
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The end of a year, especially a financial year.
pos: noun
Translations:
DHV
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
Inflected forms:
form: DHVs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Demonstration of higher value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
initialism
uncountable
examples: As you demonstrate higher value (DHV) to the set and neg the target, attraction is created.
You have to telegraph the notion that everyone wants you. It’s all part of a tactic called DHV, or “demonstration of higher value” in pickup parlance.
“You see, Mother Natures users emotions to enforce certain biological imperatives, and those emotions are triggered by DHVs.”
“Wait, hold on, I’m confused. What do you mean by a DHV?” asked Adam.
“A DHV,” I replied, “is a demonstration of higher value that makes the woman notice that you are of higher value than the average next guy or the last guy.”
Correct application of DHV lays the foundation for attraction since nearly every woman prefers a guy who is considered a winner.
gloss: Dry-herb vaporizer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
initialism
uncountable
Translations:
oscar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oscars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.
pos: noun
Translations:
acetobacter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: acetobacters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Acetobacter of acetic acid bacteria characterized by the ability to convert ethanol to acetic acid in the presence of oxygen, and used in the commercial production of vinegar.
pos: noun
Translations:
skillshare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From skill + share.
Compound parts: skill
share
Inflected forms:
form: skillshares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An event where volunteers teach skills.
pos: noun
Translations:
detachably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From detachable + -ly.
Base: detachable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In such a way that it can be detached.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
do-gooding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From do good + -ing.
Base: do good
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Advocating or performing a supposed morally superior course of action, even in the face of overwhelming experience or factual evidence that its effect is only irrelevant or harmful.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
gloss: The actions or attitudes of a do-gooder.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
Translations:
Muslimah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مُسْلِمَة (muslima, “female Muslim”); compare Muslim.
Inflected forms:
form: Muslimahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Muslimat
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Moslemah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Muslima
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female Muslim.
pos: noun
Translations:
jynx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ἴϋγξ (íünx, “Eurasian wryneck, Jynx torquilla; spell or charm; passionate yearning”).
Inflected forms:
form: jynges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: iynx
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: iyng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jyng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
pos: noun
examples: Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.
Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.
The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.
Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of 'Jynx', 'Jynx', 'Jynx'.
A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.
gloss: A charm or spell.
pos: noun
examples: These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.
You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example:
Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck
As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest.
gloss: One of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
pos: noun
examples: Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.
Related words: jyngine
Derived words: jinx
Translations:
bonch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bonches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The perineum.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Well, no thanks on the Jesus Seminar stuff, I have looked into it and they make my bonch sweat.
I'm suddenly reminded of a conversation on rec.bicycles.misc about two years ago on the subject of bicycle seats that are less likely to pinch nerves and arteries in the bonch region (as such pinching can cause you to go limp permanently, which is why I ride with a notched seat) and riding clothing that would prevent you from sitting on your bits when getting on a bike on nasty hot days when you're riding low-slung, so to speak.
You can lightly massage his perineum (taint, bonch, grundle, nifkin, whatever it is you kids call it these days), or you can snap on a latex (or nitrile if either of you are allergic to latex) glove and go about two inches in and feel around for something the size of a walnut, and massage gently.
Translations:
NAID
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: nonanemic iron deficiency
pos: noun
gloss: network array of inexpensive disks
pos: noun
gloss: National Association for Information Destruction
pos: noun
Translations:
naled
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A particular organophosphate insecticide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: AMVAC Chemical Corp. spokesman Brian Maddox said the company does not sell naled into China and has “no idea how it may have been used or how much is applied.
Translations:
nicotinate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nicotinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Base: nicotinic acid
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: nicotinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of nicotinic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
Buri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Būrī.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Germanic tribe dwelling near the territory of the Marcomanni
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Purex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of plutonium uranium extraction.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A chemical method used to purify fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons, based on liquid–liquid extraction ion-exchange.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bossman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From boss + man.
Compound parts: boss
man
Inflected forms:
form: bossmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boss man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boss-man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male boss or employer.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
mildly
often
examples: Valerie nodded her head and added, "The workers don't back you up. They want to cooperate when they don't see the bossman, but as they see the bossman, they get frightened. […]
I had a job but the bossman let me go (he said)
I'm sorry but I won't be needing your help no more (I said)
Please, mister bossman, I need this job more than you know
But he gave me my last paycheck and he sent me on out the door
gloss: (MLE, informal)
pos: noun
tags: informal
vocative
examples: You should watch what you say, bossman.
I don’t know what to tell you, bossman.
gloss: (MLE, informal)
pos: noun
tags: informal
vocative
examples: You really showed them, bossman. What’s your name?
Related words: mensch
the man
Translations:
Sandinista
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish sandinista.
Inflected forms:
form: Sandinistas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
pos: noun
Translations:
Afro-Ecuadorian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Spanish afroecuatoriano. By surface analysis, Afro- + Ecuadorian.
Inflected forms:
form: Afro-Ecuadorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is both Ecuadorian and black.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to such people and their culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
light-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From light-minded (adjective) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Affixes: light-minded
-ness
Inflected forms:
form: lightmindedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of one who is light-minded; lack of seriousness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: seriousness
Translations:
piggy-wig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of piggy-wiggy.
Inflected forms:
form: piggy-wigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pig.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
endearing
Translations:
evilution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of evil + evolution.
Compound parts: evil
evolution
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Evolutionary theory viewed as something evil.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
informal
often
uncountable
examples: Actually, dinosaurs are an atheist plot to get kids to believe in evilution.
Ooops, no, he can't use alcohol, either. That's produced by fermentation, which is studied and optimized by evil biologists and chemists, almost all of whom believe in evilution.
I don't care if every man, woman and child, from the first conscious ape (if you believe in evilution) to the last man standing, if they all believe that "X" is wrong and "Y" is right, it is still a relative ethic.
Translations:
post-House
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From post- + House.
Base: House
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: after one's time in the House, typically the House of Representatives
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In one of the highlights of […] my post-House career, we were able to work together to bring about something that was extraordinary given the political climate of the time.
Translations:
flea-brained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flea-brained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flea-brained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Idiotic.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
khatib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).
Inflected forms:
form: khatibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: khateeb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who delivers the khutbah.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-righting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + righting.
Base: righting
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to right itself if overturned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a self-righting life raft
a self-righting robot
Translations:
Soay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Soays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.
pos: noun
examples: 1961 August 3, Peter Jewell, The wild sheep of St Kilda, New Scientist, No. 246, page 268,
These apparently wild Soay sheep have bred on the island for centuries, virtually untended by Man. They are a relic of primitive domestic sheep, little improved from their wild progenitors.
We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997).
Such selective antagonism can be seen as a form of parent-offspring conflict and has been demonstrated in Soay sheep (Wilson et al. 2005c).
Translations:
balustrading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From balustrade + -ing.
Base: balustrade
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: balustradings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: work including one or more balustrades
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
qari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قَارِئ (qāriʔ, “reader”).
Inflected forms:
form: qaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who recites the Qur'an according to the tajwid, or proper rules of recitation.
pos: noun
Translations:
banjar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: banjars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Balinese village council made up of married men.
pos: noun
Translations:
solderability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From solder + -ability.
Base: solder
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: solderabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being solderable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bio-break
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + break.
Base: break
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: bio-breaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bio break
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: biobreak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A collective visit to a bathroom or restroom or stop to relieve oneself, especially during an established time or break in a group event.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
informal
examples: We stopped once for a bio-break at a road side gas station. Most of us (including a few women) used the bushes because it took too long to get in the bathrooms.
"You are either going to stop for a gas break, meal break or a bio break. At these facilities you can do all three."
Bin-Laden says his hatred of flush toilets stems from an incident in his youth when he was visiting London with his family and faced with nature's urge to take a bio-break was shocked to see his first flush toilet.
There is barely time for a bio break in between events.
Translations:
zion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew ז.
Inflected forms:
form: zions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: zayin, Hebrew letter ז.
pos: noun
Translations:
addle-brained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more addle-brained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most addle-brained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Muddled in thought or mind; foolish; stupid.
pos: adj
examples: She could tell him about Rusty, about the rush wedding, but then she'd have to admit what an addle-brained twit she'd been, running off without a thought or a prayer to marry a man for no reason other than that he'd asked her to.
“You know,” Collier said, “this is exactly the sort of fuzzy, addle-brained thinking that gives birth to conspiracy theories. […]
The woman must be addle-brained from lack of sleep.
Translations:
tempest-tossed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tempest-tossed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tempest-tossed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Battered by a storm or storms.
pos: adj
tags: poetic
examples: When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea.
Like a battle-scarred, tempest-tossed warship, with her sails in tatters, her masts broken, and bilges awash, T. Mellon & Sons was, incredibly, still afloat.
Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas.
gloss: Beset by adversity or fraught with dissension.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Divorced from Allan Wayne after a tempest-tossed marriage notable for locking each other out and scares over alleged kidnapings^([sic]) of their daughter, she married Arnold Grant in 1962.
There is little calm in their marriage, and it is almost always tempest-tossed.
And now, when any tempest-tossed soul fails to see that God is enough, I feel like saying, not with scorn, but with infinite pity, “Ah, dear friend, you do not know God! Did you know Him, you could not help seeing that He is the remedy for every need of your soul, and that He is an all-sufficient remedy. […]
Translations:
maintenance-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From maintenance + -free.
Base: maintenance
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not requiring any maintenance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A maintenance-free car battery.
Presumably, God could have created a maintenance-free world but decided that it would be better for us to take responsibility for the world we live in.
Translations:
fisher-boat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fisher-boats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boat used for fishing.
pos: noun
Translations:
bred-in-the-bone
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the past participle of breed in the bone.
Inflected forms:
form: more bred-in-the-bone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bred-in-the-bone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
usually
examples: They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.
Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age.
gloss: Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.
Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.
The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]
Related words: breed in the bone
what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
Translations:
spieler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
Etymology: From German Spieler (“player, gambler”) or from spiel.
Inflected forms:
form: spielers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shpieler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: speiler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swindler, a gambler.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
Brought some horses, real heelers,
Came and put us through.
‘A spieler,’ Leah gently loosened the painful crab hold of the boy's hand. ‘[…] A trickster. A quandong. A ripperty man. A con-man.’
gloss: A gambling club.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who speaks fluently and glibly; a barker.
pos: noun
examples: "Bosco! He eats 'em alive! Eats 'em alive!" Brissenden exclaimed, imitating the spieler of a locally famous snake-eater.
Two thousand men, women and children turned out for this giant excursion and danced and drank the day away while professional spielers extolled the virtues of the new metropolis and inveigled the unwary into investment.
gloss: A radio or television announcer.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
informal
Related words: spiel
Translations:
cubo-cubic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From cubo- + cubic.
Base: cubic
Affixes: cubo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a Cremona transformation such that the homaloids of the transformation and its inverse all have degree 3.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
orcish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From orc + -ish. Piecewise doublet of ogreish.
Base: orc
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more orcish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orcish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: orkish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to orcs (monstrous humanoid creatures).
pos: adj
examples: an orcish blade
Translations:
itinerarium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin itinerārium, from itiner- + -ārium.
Base: iter
Affixes: -ārium
Inflected forms:
form: itineraria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Roman road map in the form of a listing of cities, villages and other stops, with the intervening distances.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Hagner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: Trademark erosion of Hagner UK.
Inflected forms:
form: Hagners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stamp display stock sheet made by Hagner UK, or, through trademark erosion, any similar stock sheet.
pos: noun
Translations:
word-formational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to word formation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
k-essence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: kinetic quintessence
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unipolarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unipolar + -ity.
Base: unipolar
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being unipolar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
counter-ermine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From counter- + ermine.
Base: ermine
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tincture consisting of a black background with ermine shapes in white.
pos: noun
Translations:
crossmodal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + modal.
Base: modal
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Across or between more than one mode.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
douchecanoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of douche + canoe.
Compound parts: douche
canoe
Inflected forms:
form: douchecanoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: douche canoe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: douche-canoe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
vulgar
examples: Not being a complete douchecanoe is the first step in being your own ideal romance hero or heroine—and it's absolutely an attainable ideal.
Never brag. It's good to have a healthy pride in your [man] cave. It's not good to be a douchecanoe about it.
[…] No, Collin didn't relay the message—he was too busy signing us up for coaching duty. Why? Because that other guy was a douchecanoe. […]
Translations:
pil-pil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Basque pil-pil.
Inflected forms:
form: pil pil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sauce of Basque origin made from olive oil, garlic and chili.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Fiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From five + -er (“supporter”) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Base: five
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Fivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Zaidi Shi'a Muslim.
pos: noun
examples: The three major branches or sects are the Twelvers, Seveners, and Fivers.
Whereas the largest Shi’a branch, the ‘Twelvers’, strictly believe that there were only 12 visible imams, the ’Fivers’ have recognised many more imams throughout their history.
(the Zaydis, or Fivers, were the first subset to break away from larger Shi’ism, and traditionally elected an imam from among the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad as their leader).
gloss: A fan of the American science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It is more than two weeks that Babylon 5 aired for the last time. We, Portuguese Fivers of conviction, are few.
Did all the Fivers who watched it notice that the female scientist (DrWhatshername) was played by Tamlyn Tomita, the actress who played Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5's pilot movie?
I've had hardcore Fivers point to both Jadzia Dax AND Kira as ripoffs of Ivanova (they can't decide which, I suppose) despite the fact that both premiered on DS9 first, and JMS didn't get rid of Ivanova until AFTER The Gathering, which showed when DS9 first came around.
Translations:
shoulder-length
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
jewellery
jewelry
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From shoulder + length.
Base: shoulder
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Reaching the shoulders.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, she was easy to spot from afar.
Translations:
RUD
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: (explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym
Inflected forms:
form: RUDs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
acronym
initialism
examples: Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.
“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.
gloss: To produce a RUD.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
Translations:
she-tiger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From she- + tiger.
Base: tiger
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-tigers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female tiger or tigress.
pos: noun
Translations:
Nabataean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Nabataeus (“Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos, “Nabataean”), which was borrowed from Nabataean Aramaic 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 (nbṭw, “Nabataean”). Possibly cognate with Arabic النبطي (an-Nabaṭī, “Nabataean, Nabaṭ”), Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ), and Hebrew נבטים (nabaṭim, “Nabataeans”), and Hebrew נבטית (nabaṭit, “Nabataean (adj.)”), all of which might be ultimately derived from the same Semitic root, perhaps Proto-Semitic *nabat-, possibly cognate with Akkadian nabāṭu ("to shine brightly").
Inflected forms:
form: Nabataeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nabatean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nabathaean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nabathean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nabathite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nabatæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Nabathæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
thaa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thaas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter ث in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
Translations:
jeem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جِيم (jīm).
Inflected forms:
form: jeems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The letter ج in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
examples: The underlying letters themselves are a concept. For example, the Arabic letter jeem can be rendered by any of four possible glyphs (depending on where the letter jeem is positioned in the text).
Translations:
laam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic لَام (lām).
Inflected forms:
form: laams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter ل in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
Translations:
Hindutva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi हिंदुत्व (hindutva) / Bengali হিন্দুত্ব (hindutto, literally “Hinduness”). Coined by Chandranath Basu in 1892 and appropriated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
Inflected forms:
form: Hindutvas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Hindutva group or a supporter of Hindutva.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
Lega
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Legas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lega
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a polytheistic ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
pos: noun
Translations:
pre-Abrahamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From pre- + Abrahamic.
Base: Abrahamic
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Abrahamic religions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
georeferencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: location using a coordinate system
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hermie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hermit + -ie.
Base: hermit
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: hermies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hermit crab.
pos: noun
tags: childish
informal
examples: Your hermies need a second home to chill out in whenever they're sick or molting.
[…] she went right to work catching hermies in the millpond […]
Translations:
break-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
Etymology: Deverbal from break off.
Inflected forms:
form: break-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breakoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That which breaks off, or is broken off
pos: noun
examples: Stable glacier advance and retreat Advancing glaciers may inundate land, override installations (e.g., hydropower installations), dam rivers and form lakes, cause ice break-offs when the glacier advances over a cliff, etc.
gloss: A break, discontinuance, or interruption
pos: noun
examples: All break-offs occur due to the deadline being reached or an occasional agent crash on a big domain.
gloss: The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game
pos: noun
Translations:
kingslayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From king + slayer.
Compound parts: king
slayer
Inflected forms:
form: kingslayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who kills a king.
pos: noun
Translations:
Amalekite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Amalek + -ite.
Base: Amalek
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Amalekites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Amalecite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A descendant of the Biblical Amalek.
pos: noun
Translations:
chainlink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From chain + link.
Compound parts: chain
link
Inflected forms:
form: chainlinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chain-link
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chain link
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wires woven in a zig-zag pattern to form a mesh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: