yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Cal-Mex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Californian + Mexican.
Compound parts: Californian
Mexican
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Californian style of Mexican food.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
Translations:
shamanist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shaman + -ist.
Base: shaman
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: shamanists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of shamanism.
pos: noun
Translations:
drupal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From drupe + -al.
Base: drupe
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: drupaceous
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
chich
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chiche, pois chiche (“a dwarf pea”), from Latin cicer (“the chickpea”).
Inflected forms:
form: chiches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chickpea.
pos: noun
Translations:
navel-string
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: navel-strings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: navel string
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The umbilical cord.
pos: noun
examples: One love potion was composed of the powdered navel string of a new-born baby boy.
Translations:
farfetch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From far + fetch.
Compound parts: far
fetch
Inflected forms:
form: farfetches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But Jesuits have deeper reaches
In all their politic far-fetches
gloss: Long distance
pos: noun
examples: "`Come!' I said, for I thought she wandered. `Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan.'
Translations:
caban
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cabans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grain measure equal to 3.47 cubic feet, used in the Philippine Islands.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
examples: After a good harvest the caban fetches four reales; but just before the harvest the price rises to one dollar, and often much higher.
Eusebio Mazorca further states: [105]--"The Governor receives payment of the tribute in rice-paddy, which he credits to the native at two reales in silver per caban.
Translations:
muscovy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: muscovies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Muscovy duck
pos: noun
examples: The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French much trouble, and at the most for the year we were not informed.
Translations:
nickle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nickles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: European green woodpecker (Picus viridis).
pos: noun
Translations:
tonically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tonic + -ally.
Base: tonic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in a tonic manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Slow-developing changes in the population response of the tonically active neurons of the striatum, putative interneurons, have also been found [ T. Aosaki, et al., J. Neurosci.
Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.
It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins.
The Bookstore, fondest of my father's resorts, though I remember no more of its public identity than that it further enriched the brave depth of Broadway, was overwhelmingly and irresistibly English, as not less tonically English was our principal host there, with whom we had moreover, my father and I, thanks to his office, such personal and genial relations that I recall seeing him grace our board at home, in company with his wife, whose vocal strain and complexion and coiffure and flounces I found none the less informing, none the less "racial," for my not being then versed in the language of analysis.
The preceding, for instance, proceeds regularly in the key of G in all respects but the very ending of each strain, which takes place in the key of C. Or to speak tonically, the melody and accompaniment after being written nearly all the way in the key of Do, suddenly diverge to the key of Fa, and there close.
Translations:
Argie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A diminutive of Argentinian, formed as Arg- + -ie.
Affixes: Arg-
-ie
Inflected forms:
form: Argies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Argentine.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The Argies attempted a half-hearted counter-offensive, but our artillery quickly put paid to that.
Translations:
playdough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + dough.
Compound parts: play
dough
Inflected forms:
form: playdoughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: playdoh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: play-doh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Modeling clay for children.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exserted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more exserted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exserted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: protruding, projecting
pos: adj
examples: Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.
Translations:
transhumant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: transhumants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or undergoing transhumance; migratory
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A seminomadic farmer.
pos: noun
Translations:
cardon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cardón, from from Late Latin cardōnem, from Latin cardus, alternative form of carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon and chard.
Inflected forms:
form: cardons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cardona
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several large columnar cacti mostly of the genus Cereus.
pos: noun
Translations:
sauvignon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French sauvignon.
Inflected forms:
form: sauvignons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France
pos: noun
Translations:
touch-needle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: touch-needles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for testing the purity of gold or silver articles by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
pos: noun
Translations:
slap-bang
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slap + bang.
Compound parts: slap
bang
Inflected forms:
form: more slap-bang
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most slap-bang
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Directly or immediately.
pos: adv
examples: It was a stormy day and it was slap-bang in the middle of the fair weather season.
You'll see the tower slap-bang in front of you when you come out of the station.
gloss: In a violent or sudden or noisy manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
high-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From high-handed + -ly.
Base: high-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more high-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most high-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a high-handed manner.
pos: adv
examples: "May heaven," answered Ulysses, "requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high-handedly in another man's house without any sense of shame."
Translations:
weather-bit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: weather-bits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
pos: noun
Translations:
newling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From new + -ling. Cognate with Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”), German Neuling (“a novice”).
Base: new
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: newlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie.
pos: noun
examples: "[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town."
“A newling!” Fascinated, but wary not to stand and reach for it, Rhiana kept her ears pricked—and heard another. A newling and its elder protector.
Unlike a newling, I have to have air to breathe, and this idiot is squeezing so hard I can barely draw in a breath.
Translations:
floppy-wristed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more floppy-wristed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most floppy-wristed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making or involving a flopping motion with the wrist(s).
pos: adj
examples: Sarah waved one hand at us in this floppy-wristed way, like she was dismissing us from her royal throne room.
gloss: Stereotypically gay; flamboyant.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: The stigma is the problem for those who don't want to come out of the closet, because they'll be labelled as the floppy wristed pansies that everybody thinks they should be.
Translations:
centre-left
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From centre + left.
Compound parts: centre
left
Inflected forms:
form: center-left
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Leaning to the left but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other leftist variants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: South Korea holds parliamentary elections on 11 April. Lee's conservative party is expected to lose ground to the centre-left opposition, but a small hint of peace from the North will do him no harm at all. Lee can hardly have expected such a gift.
Translations:
R-rated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From R + rated. The R-rating (short for restricted) is part of the rating scale used by the U.S. film rating authority Motion Picture Association (MPA) or similar rating scales used by authorities in some other countries.
Compound parts: R
rated
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from one more motion picture rating authorities, typically meaning it is suitable only for adults.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a motion picture, having an "R rating" from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), meaning it is suitable only for adults.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
gloss: Not suitable for children, especially due to involving excessive sexual, violent, or rude content
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: A day’s notes are routinely R-rated. “Usually tense relationships are moderated by ritualized greetings and a genital grab,” she said.
Synonyms: adult
Related words: X-rated
G-rated
PG-rated
PG13
PG
G
R
X
NC17
Translations:
ho-bag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ho + bag. First use appears c. 1989, in a Scripps Howard News Service article published in multiple newspapers. See cite below.
Compound parts: ho
bag
Inflected forms:
form: ho-bags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ho bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoe bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoe-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoebag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman considered promiscuous.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: As far as he knew, I was just a ho-bag who makes a habit of screwing random guys on golf courses.
gloss: A term of abuse for an irritating or objectionable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: So there’s someone bothering you, really getting on your case … If it’s a girl, you might call her a ho or ho bag. It stems from whore, but don’t get too literal. Use it in a variety of situations, such as: “God, my teacher’s being such a ho bag.” Or: “That girl is such a ho, look at her scrumpin’.”
Translations:
chicot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
forestry
Etymology: From French chicot.
Inflected forms:
form: chicots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Kentucky coffeetree.
pos: noun
gloss: A tree or tree limb that is dead and may fall and cause injury.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: Felling a tree which is supporting a chicot can be dangerous as depicted in the above drawing. The victim in this case was fatally crushed by the falling chicot.
Translations:
ex-official
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ex officio + -al, influenced by official.
Base: ex officio
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Proceeding from office or authority.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an ex-official model of religion
Translations:
coupee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French coupée, past participle of couper (“to cut”). Compare coupé, coopee.
Inflected forms:
form: coupees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.
pos: noun
examples: One, two, and a coupee.
Translations:
NBG
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel (axiomatic) set theory
pos: noun
Translations:
skaldic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From skald + -ic.
Base: skald
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more skaldic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skaldic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scaldic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the skalds (Norse poets).
pos: adj
examples: skaldic poetry
… he could hardly hear an old bit of skaldic verse without it devolving into "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."
Translations:
isis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: isises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.
pos: noun
examples: […] the numerous families of coral, which, under the form of tubular, starry, or stony stems, are denominated tubipores, madrepores, and isises.
Translations:
Klallam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].
Inflected forms:
form: Klallams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Klallam
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Clallam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of related Native American communities from the Pacific Northwest of North America.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mandela
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.
Inflected forms:
form: Mandelas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Mandelaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Mandelaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Mandelaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To experience the Mandela effect.
pos: verb
Translations:
basilican
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From basilica + -an.
Base: basilica
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more basilican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most basilican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or resembling a basilica; basilical.
pos: adj
examples: There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form.
Translations:
Hutterite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hutter + -ite.
Base: Hutter
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Hutterites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a communal branch of Anabaptists founded by Jakob Hutter.
pos: noun
Translations:
plasmodial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or relating to a plasmodium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: plasmodial behaviour
the plasmodial form of a life cycle
plasmodial mitosis
plasmodial myosin
plasmodial phase
gloss: Of or relating to Plasmodium, a parasite.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: plasmodial infection
Derived words: antiplasmodial
meroplasmodial
plasmodially
plasmodial slime mold
protoplasmodial
pseudoplasmodial
Translations:
Memphian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέμφῐς (Mémphĭs) + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Memphian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Memphian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Memphians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt.
pos: adj
examples: Memphian darkness
Now may we ſee Damaſcus lofty towers,
Like to the ſhadowes of Pyramides,
That with their beauties grac’d the Memphion fields: […]
Nor is Oſiris ſeen
In Memphian Grove, or Green,
Trampling the unſhowr’d Graſſe with lowings loud: […]
gloss: Of or relating to the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt.
pos: noun
examples: One, in few howers, a fearfull ſlaughter made / Of all the Firſt-born that the Memphians had; […]
Tranced in her Lord’s Olympian smile / His lotus-loving Memphian lies,— / The musky daughter of the Nile / With plaited hair and almond eyes.
A few moments later we were standing before the Sphinx. In front of this gigantic statue the sand has been excavated, and the paws, brick-built, have been laid bare. Here an altar once stood, and hither we clambered down, and looked up sixty feet at the gigantic scarred face. What name had they of yore for this divinity, those ancient Memphians?
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis.
pos: noun
examples: A soft summer downpour greeted the crowd arriving for Memphis Night, with 100 Memphians on hand to holler for their girls, the first of whom was Ruth Welting in the same kind of innocent cotton dress a girl might wear to a dancer at home.
As Memphians' hearts broke, millions of Americans watched on television when Bill Walton sprained his ankle […] Larry Finch thanked his fellow Memphians “for making us proud to know that we had more people pulling for us[…]"
Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era.
Translations:
pargeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From parget + -er.
Base: parget
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pargeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plasterer.
pos: noun
examples: Can not a Pargeter make a browne wal white?
Translations:
theobroma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name Theobroma. Compare French théobrome.
Inflected forms:
form: theobromas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Theobroma of small trees found in Central and South America.
pos: noun
Translations:
discal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der.
Latin discusbor.
French disquebor.
English disc
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English discal
From disc + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: discals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or resembling, a disc (disk).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the central area of an insect's elytron or wing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The central area of an insect's elytron or wing.
pos: noun
Related words: disco-
discus
disko-
Derived words: interdiscal
intradiscal
postdiscal
retrodiscal
subdiscal
Translations:
whipper-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
politics
Etymology: From whipper + in.
Compound parts: whipper
in
Inflected forms:
form: whipper-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whippers-in
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the chase.
pos: noun
examples: “[…] I shall take to hunting a pack of hounds myself after this.”
“Do, my dear, and I'll be your whipper-in. I wonder whether Mrs. Proudie would join us.”
The other servant was an old man, who had been whipper-in to a baronet in the next county, and knew as much of the ways of wild animals as Burton did of those of his horses; […]
Now the clerk […] saw the hunting man pass, and presently saw lots more of ’em, noblemen and gentry, and then he saw the hounds, the huntsman, Jim Treadhedge, the whipper-in, and I don’t know who besides.
He heard the chaunting voices of huntsman and whippers-in; the noises of motor-cars moving slowly along the hard-rutted trackway, the old canal-bed, above the right bank of the river;
gloss: One who enforces the discipline of a party, and urges the attendance and support of the members on all necessary occasions.
pos: noun
Translations:
cross-reading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cross- + reading.
Base: reading
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-readings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
pos: noun
Translations:
plant-cane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plant-canes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stalk or shoot of sugar cane from the first growth from the cutting.
pos: noun
Translations:
bellerophon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: bellerophons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus †Bellerophon of fossil gastropod shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, and peculiar to the Paleozoic age.
pos: noun
Translations:
blea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Authors differ greatly in opinion concerning the formation of the blea. Linnaeus imagined it was formed by the bark. But it is certain that the whole of the bark does not give birth to the blea […]
Translations:
melanotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to melanosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the first place truly neoplastic melanomas are uncommon before puberty; anomalously, such lesions may be trichotic, whereas hair-bearing melanotic lesions in adults rarely become malignant.
Translations:
melanosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: alchemy
medicine
pathology
pseudoscience
sciences
Etymology: From melano- + -osis.
Base: melano
Inflected forms:
form: melanoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumours.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pigmentation of tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of nigredo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: black cancer
Related words: hypermelanosis
melanose
melanotic
Derived words: fibromelanosis
hepatomelanosis
Translations:
donburi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 丼 (donburi, “a large helping of rice covered in meat, fish, and/or vegetables, all served in one big bowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: donburis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese rice bowl dish consisting of fish, meat, vegetables or other ingredients served together over rice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
reap-silver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: <--Interesting to see how this was actually spelled in the Middle Ages-->
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the Middle Ages in England, money paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of reaping his corn or grain.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
Translations:
zooted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From zoot + -ed.
Base: zoot#Etymology 2
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more zooted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zooted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drunk or intoxicated; stoned; zonked.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I'm getting zooted on this drink.
I’m open, hype off the chronic I was smoking, feeling zooted
That Brooklyn shit got me stupid
I’m loose, kid – that’s what the overproof did
What the ruck you looking at, son? You’ll get roofed, kid!
Translations:
Samhita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit संहिता (saṃhitā, “a methodically arranged collection of verses”) from संहित (saṃhita, “joined, collected”). See संधा (saṃdhā).
Inflected forms:
form: Samhitas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Saṃhitā
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sanhita
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The basic metrical (mantra) text of a Veda.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a collection of post-Vedic texts.
pos: noun
Translations:
Rhadamanthus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ῥαδάμανθυς (Rhadámanthus).
Inflected forms:
form: Rhadamanthuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rhadamanthys
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A strict and just judge.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It was in vain to be a Rhadamanthus with the bells, and if an unfortunate bell rang without leave, to have it down inexorably and silence it.
Nothing is now heard but the ticking of a quaint old timepiece on the summit of a bookcase. Ten minutes pass; he captures her knight; she takes his knight, and looks a very Rhadamanthus.
Translations:
off-sale
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of alcoholic beverages, pertaining to the sale of closed containers for consumption off the premises.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bar also had off-sale liquor available.
Translations:
blacktail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of black + tail.
Inflected forms:
form: blacktails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)
pos: noun
examples: […] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]
Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]
A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.
gloss: A black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), of California and Oregon.
pos: noun
gloss: A mule deer, of the Rocky Mountains.
pos: noun
gloss: Certain fish with black tails:
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Certain fish with black tails:
pos: noun
tags: Namibia
South-Africa
gloss: Certain fish with black tails:
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
Derived words: blacktail buckbill eel
blacktail butterflyfish
blacktail comber
blacktail humbug
blacktail pike-conger
blacktail redhorse
blacktail reef shark
blacktail shark
blacktail shiner
blacktail snapper
blacktail triplefin
Translations:
pleuropneumonia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From pleuro- + pneumonia.
Base: pneumonia
Affixes: pleuro-
Inflected forms:
form: pleuropneumoniae
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung disease of cattle and pigs, caused by infection by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Serer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Serers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Serer
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.
pos: noun
Translations:
follow-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Deverbal from follow on.
Inflected forms:
form: follow-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that follows as a natural or logical consequence, development, or progression.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: follow-on effects
The Internet is the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP) or its subsequent extensions /follow-ons[…]
The heavily discounted initial engine sales were offset by the follow-on sales of engines and highly profitable spare parts.
There were similar concerns for Alstom's Derby plant earlier this year, until government authorised £220 million funding for Transport for London to place a follow-on order for ten nine-car Class 345 electric units for the Elizabeth line.
gloss: Baby formula (breast milk substitute) for slightly older infants.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of a captain forcing the other side to bat again immediately after their first innings.
pos: noun
Translations:
off-centre
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more off-centre
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most off-centre
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Displaced from the centre.
pos: adj
tags: Australian
Canada
Irish
New-Zealand
South-African
UK
examples: Place the decorations off-centre on the table.
gloss: Eccentric, unbalanced, slightly wrong.
pos: adj
tags: Australian
Canada
Irish
New-Zealand
South-African
UK
idiomatic
examples: Every time I see him, he acts a bit off-centre.
While Lahr's book was meticulously researched, the author had such deeply ambivalent feelings about Orton's relationship with Halliwwell (and probably with all gay relationships) that the book felt off-center.
Translations:
sciencey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From science + -y (“characterized by; like”, suffix forming an adjective).
Base: science
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sciencey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sciencey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: science-y
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sciency
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Scientific; of or pertaining to science.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: True, most of us concede that quasi-experimental empirical research, today symbolized by multiple-regression equations, is in some sense the most "sciencey" part of political science.
AIDS was too sciencey for me. My eighth-grade term paper was on censorship, Tipper Gore's assault on free speech in the music industry, and the Dead Kennedys.
But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.
This project will follow the scientific method, which, as far as I can tell, is just sort of looking at things in a sciencey way.
She puts it down to her being artistic and Melody being more sciencey.'
gloss: Apparently, but not necessarily, scientific; having the trappings of science.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Near-synonyms: sciencelike; scientistic; pseudoscientific
Here was the hidden gender curriculum in full flow - with very clear gendered values and expectations being imparted to the children who walked in: boys are loud and active and like 'sciencey' things such as building and constructing; girls, on the other hand, are quiet and passive, preferring to do 'caring' things and look pretty.
It sounds sciencey, it looks sciencey, and it can fool a lot of people into thinking it's scientific but there are clear reasons why it is not.
Fear not, I have formulated (a sciencey word) this easy to understand list of signs that you may be a scientist:
All those pencils in your pocket. You look sciencey.
Related words: scientism
Translations:
tranced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trance + -ed.
Base: trance
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more tranced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tranced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Held as if in a trance; captivated.
pos: adj
examples: For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood still.
Translations:
stitch-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stitch + up.
Compound parts: stitch
up
Inflected forms:
form: stitch-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act designed to maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: The police planted the gun in my car. It was a stitch-up.
gloss: Something arranged deceitfully and in secret.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Wilson's election as leader was a stitch-up by the committee.
Lynch added: "Our findings from our FOI requests on ticket office closures shows the whole process to be a stitch-up between the train operators, under the auspices of the Rail Delivery Group[,] and ministers.
Related words: stitch up
Translations:
chuffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chuff + -y.
Base: chuff
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: chuffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more chuffy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chuffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most chuffy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
pos: adj
gloss: Rough; boorish; surly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Derived words: chuffily
chuffiness
Translations:
burian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bürȝen, from Old English byrġen, burġen (“burying-place, grave, sepulchre, tomb, burial”), from Proto-West Germanic *burginnju, from Proto-Germanic *burginjō (“burial”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to shelter, protect, save, preserve”). Related to Old English beorg (modern English barrow) and Old English byrġan (“to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter”). More at bury.
Inflected forms:
form: burians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burien
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: berien
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tomb; sepulchre.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A burial mound.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A camp; hill-fort.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
burgess-ship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From burgess + -ship.
Base: burgess
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being a burgess; citizenship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
roughrider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From rough + rider.
Compound parts: rough
rider
Inflected forms:
form: roughriders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horsebreaker.
pos: noun
gloss: A noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry whose duty is to assist the riding master.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A member of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
Related words: roughriding
rough rider
Translations:
bupleurum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: bupleurums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Bupleurum of apiaceous plants.
pos: noun
Translations:
deconsolidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + consolidation.
Base: consolidation
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: deconsolidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The separation of the components of a consolidated shipment (usually in a shared container) for delivery to their respective consignees
pos: noun
Translations:
shanker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shank + -er.
Base: shank
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shankers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shanks (in any of various senses).
pos: noun
examples: Littler said he didn't shank it; rather he called it a soft pop-up, but us old hard-core shankers weren't so generous .
He said, "Our whole club is full of shankers." […] This club was infested with shankers, as if they all had a disease. […] The danger in hitting down on the ball with such intensity is that you are likely to shank it.
And for the next twenty minutes, he shanked every shot. I did everything I could. […] And he still shanked every shot. […] “Sooooo, Butchie's got a shanker and can't get him squared up, huh?” he shouted so loud that ..."
gloss: One who shanks (in any of various senses).
pos: noun
examples: A shank-cutter cuts with a die that part of the shank which is composed of leather or leather board. […] A shanker tacks the shank in place, cuts away the superfluous upper leather gathered under the toe, beats the edge of the upper out […]
I take those metal shanks, slide the backs of them in glue and make them lie down on the shoe-bottoms, […] Last week they ran a contest to see which shankers shanked fastest. I'm not embarrassed to say I beat them all.
Translations:
steely-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steely + eyed.
Compound parts: steely
eyed
Inflected forms:
form: more steely-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most steely-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a hard, strong, and determined look about oneself.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Having a hard, strong, and determined mentality or mindset.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Her steely-eyed control of emotion has become such a reliable source of strength and enjoyment in the last two seasons, it's genuinely moving to see her defenses fall in the face of long-lost friends and family.
Related words: bright-eyed
clear-eyed
sharp-eyed
Derived words: steely-eyed missile man
Translations:
archchancellor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From arch- + chancellor. Compare German Erzkanzler, Medieval Latin archicancellārius.
Base: chancellor
Affixes: arch-
Inflected forms:
form: archchancellors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: chief chancellor
pos: noun
gloss: in Germany, an officer in the Holy Roman Empire who presided over the secretaries of the court
pos: noun
tags: Medieval
Translations:
ornithorhynchus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Ornithorhynchus (genus name), from Ancient Greek ὄρνῑς (órnīs, “bird”)) + Ancient Greek ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”).
Inflected forms:
form: ornithorhynchuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A platypus (genus Ornithorhynchus).
pos: noun
Translations:
rojak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Dutch roedjak, from Javanese ꦫꦸꦗꦏ꧀ (rujak), from Old Javanese rujak.
Inflected forms:
form: rojaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person of mixed ethnic heritage.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
countable
slang
Derived words: Indian rojak
Translations:
cany
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cane + -y.
Base: cane
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more cany
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cany
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to cane (the plant) or canes.
pos: adj
gloss: Abounding with canes.
pos: adj
examples: Sericana , where Chineses drive
With sails and wind their cany waggons light
Translations:
old-man
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: (applied to plants and animals) Of exceptional size or age.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: Along the banks of the Georgina are alternate patches of old-man scrub and strips of plain country.
Davey suddenly jumped from his horse and ran after a big old-man bungarra. The goanna had arms like a bear.
gloss: (applied to weather) Of exceptional intensity.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: They Say: That the wild ducks have tipped an "old man flood."
Translations:
self-kill
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + kill. compare Old English selfcwalu (“suicide, self-slaughter”).
Base: kill
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-kills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-killing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-killed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-killed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: selfkill
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: self kill
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To kill oneself; commit suicide.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: As his self-killing would not have been murder, his acts done in order to self-kill are not an attempt to murder.
It might be suggested that if it is possible to think of the acts of people such as John and the young clerk, who kill themselves to wreak revenge on others, as falling short of suicide though they intentionally self kill, […]
Translations:
oft-mentioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more oft-mentioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oft-mentioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oftmentioned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: oft mentioned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Often mentioned.
pos: adj
Translations:
fisty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fist + -y. Piecewise doublet of fistic.
Base: fist
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving the fists; pugilistic.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: As when, at some low Bacchanalian feast,
His drunken votaries, for a trifling jest
Or ancient grudge, two staggering clowns begin
A fisty fight, fools from all sides rush in:
They pull, they rend, they shout […]
Unlike some here, i don't worship drivers or teams. Everyone is good in something, so them being good at racing is their thing. Good on them, but they don't give a damn about me, so i'm not going to slash my wrists over them, or make life long enemies here by arguing it all the way to a virtual fisty fight..
Translations:
perirhinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From peri- + rhinal.
Base: rhinal
Affixes: peri-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Situated around the nose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Prompted by this, neuroscientists have gradually narrowed down the search for the most vital of all memory organs to one principal structure, the perirhinal cortex.
Translations:
self-killing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + killing.
Base: killing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-killings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing of oneself; suicide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
subseries
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + series.
Base: series
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subseries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series forming part of a larger series.
pos: noun
Translations:
superseries
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + series.
Base: series
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superseries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series that contains one or more subseries.
pos: noun
Translations:
subkey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + key.
Base: key
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subkeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A partial key.
pos: noun
gloss: A key located beneath another key in the registry.
pos: noun
Translations:
pedregal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish pedregal (“a stony place”), from piedra (“stone”).
Inflected forms:
form: pedregals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lava field in Mexico or the Western US.
pos: noun
Translations:
hoodman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: games
Etymology: From hood + man.
Compound parts: hood
man
Inflected forms:
form: hoodmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hoodmans
pos: noun
tags: error-unknown-tag
plural
slang
Senses:
gloss: A member of a youth subculture group that listens to urban music, wears puffer jackets and sportswear, uses a heavy Toronto accent (with lingo), is typically uneducated, and may be engaged in illegal activities.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
examples: toronto hoodmans don't even laugh they just yell "yooooo" & "chillll" in different variations and rhythms
gloss: The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Hush, hush! Hoodman / comes.
Translations:
shamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shame + -er.
Base: shame
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who disgraces someone or makes them feel ashamed, especially by public criticism.
pos: noun
examples: The longer social-media shamers condemn preferences that the overwhelming majority of people share, the more inevitable the pushback.
gloss: Something which makes someone feel ashamed.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: My means and my conditions are no shamers / Of him that owes 'em, (all the world knows that,) / And my friends no reliers on my fortunes.
Derived words: body-shamer
fat-shamer
Translations:
Rai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ancient indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepal.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
georgic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin georgicum, georgicus, from Ancient Greek γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Inflected forms:
form: georgics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: georgick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more georgic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most georgic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: georgick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating land, etc.
pos: noun
examples: And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]
gloss: Relating to rural affairs.
pos: adj
examples: georgic life
georgic landscape
georgic tradition
Headed west now from the blighted plain / It’s kind of gorgeous in a georgic way
Translations:
woreda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Amharic ወረዳ (wäräda).
Inflected forms:
form: woredas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wereda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An administrative division of Ethiopia, managed by a local government.
pos: noun
Translations:
glass-rope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glass-ropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vitreous sponge of the order Hexactinellida, with a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long glassy siliceous fibres twisted together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: