yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rub-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rub-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rubup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rub up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The action of rubbing, for example polishing or massaging.
pos: noun
examples: […] Ben laid them [the knives and forks] side by side, counted them, and finding the number agree with his guests, said, “They’ll dow capital when they’ve had a bit of a rub up.”
1910, Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Sharer” in ’Twixt Land and Sea, New York: Hodder & Stoughton, p. 168,
He was still lingering in the pantry in the greatness of his zeal, giving a rub-up to a plated cruet stand the last thing before going to bed.
1972, Dora Jessie Saint (as Miss Read), Tyler’s Row, Penguin, 1975, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 51,
‘I should think all your lovely things get a rub-up weekly,’ said Diana, handing back the box. ‘Does anyone come to help you?’
gloss: The act of bringing old information to the front of one's memory.
pos: noun
gloss: A party, especially one that is spontaneous and involves music and dancing.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
gloss: An encounter (with someone).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1889, Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, letter to his wife, cited in Some Records of the Life of Stevenson Arthur Blackwood, K.C.B., London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 453,
Altogether, it has been a most enjoyable trip to me. As much or as little company as I chose, and a rub up against a number of old acquaintances of all sorts.
gloss: The act of masturbating.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: to do a rub-up
Translations:
kheer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi खीर / Urdu کھیر (khīr, “kheer”) (or a similar Indo-Aryan cognate), from Sanskrit क्षीर (kṣīrá, “milk”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšiHrám.
Inflected forms:
form: kheers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: khir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.
pos: noun
tags: India
North
countable
uncountable
examples: Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith.
Translations:
Wazir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Pashto وزير (Wëzír).
Inflected forms:
form: Wazirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wazir
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Waziri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a tribe of Pashtuns in Waziristan, Pakistan.
pos: noun
Translations:
phablet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of phone + tablet.
Compound parts: phone
tablet
Inflected forms:
form: phablets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
examples: @JGallo02 With that device it would be worth getting a pay as you go account just for that phablet. I can't wait for them to ship here
@sloanb phablet? dude, it's an uber-smart-phone with a sick open operating system called #maemo5 #n900 rocks
@JGallo02 You guys are marketing it as a internet tablet at all? phablet = Phone/Tablet. And I agree I love Maemo especially V.5
Translations:
Seckel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The pear originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.
Inflected forms:
form: Seckels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small reddish-brown sweet and juicy pear.
pos: noun
Translations:
genderfluid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gender + fluid.
Compound parts: gender
fluid
Inflected forms:
form: gender-fluid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Another way that one can be "transgressively gendered" is by identifying as genderqueer or genderfluid—i.e., refusing to identify fully as either woman or man.
A slightly newer term, genderqueer […] is also often used by people who believe they are genderfluid, who feel like both genders, who will sometimes feel male, sometimes female, or who may not believe that there are only two genders.
For example, "queer" would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the "opposite sex," sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.
"I'm genderfluid! Sometimes a guy, sometimes a girl. Sometimes, I guess, confused shrug? Anyway, I have a spell that lets me change my default form, so my feminine form is not an enchantment."
Translations:
urbex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of urban exploration.
Inflected forms:
form: UrbEx
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The exploration of man-made environments, especially urban structures that are abandoned or off-limits; urban exploration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Simon didn't need reminding about the dangers of urbex, but Matt was on a roll.[…]It had been Matt's blog that had got Simon into urbex.
For example, in Belgium, we have some great urbex (urban exploration) locations (old empty buildings) where you can go and shoot.
Ultimately, urbex remains a kind of cipher—occasionally, it catches media attention, and is grouped with other subcultures, like parkour, or even steampunk (Dawdy 2010), that are somehow "remixing" or renegotiating ways to relate to space, and how particular spaces are envisioned to exist within time.
Translations:
arb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
trading
Etymology: Clipping.
Inflected forms:
form: arbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of or potential for arbitrage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An arboretum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Just don't be too scared when you hear rumors of sacrificial ceremonies in the Arb […]
gloss: To engage in arbitrage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Eastern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Eastern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Eastern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a region designated as the East by convention or from the perspective of the speaker or author.
pos: adj
examples: The noble steamer Atlantic, after a most favorable passage of twelve days, carried our friends safely to the desired port of Liverpool. As Natalie stood once again upon terra firma, she could hardly credit that over three thousand miles of ocean separated her from her home,—that the same waves which washed the shores of her cherished island, broke upon the shores of this Eastern world.
gloss: Of the Christian churches originating in the church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
pos: adj
gloss: Eastern Orthodox.
pos: adj
Translations:
pedobear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pedo + bear. First widespread use dates to 2009.
Compound parts: pedo
bear
Inflected forms:
form: pedobears
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pedobear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pedophile.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
derpy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From derp + -y.
Base: derp
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: derpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: derpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Foolish, silly.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I bet that derpy editor had tons of free time and didn’t even try to run (the place).
He's drawn Dwayne as a cave-man. A really derpy, mugly caveman, with a sloping forehead, a drooling mouth and Dwayne's buzz cut.
The other one is a video titled ”I’m Sucking On A Sour Patch Kid Listening To Music Getting Ready For Tonight” featuring DJ Encore’s “I See Right Through You” and the incredibly derpy faces of Bynes. Like most wrecks, it’s hard to look away.
gloss: Having one's eyes pointing in different directions; strabismic.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Having one's eyes pointing in different directions; strabismic.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
slang
Derived words: derpiness
Translations:
Romanesque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Roman + -esque. Doublet of Romanesco.
Base: Roman
Affixes: -esque
Inflected forms:
form: more Romanesque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Romanesque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: romanesque
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat resembling the Romans; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman Empire, but especially to the more developed art and architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
pos: adj
examples: In The Farm, Miró uses some aspects of Romanesque style. For example, the size of various details does not accord with nature and perspective, but rather with Miró's feeling about their importance.
Translations:
Ruthenian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ruthenia + -an.
Base: Ruthenia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Ruthenians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Ruthenian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ruthenian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Ruthenia; a Ukrainian, a Belarusian, usually in a historical context.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or related to Ruthenia.
pos: adj
Translations:
anlage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From German Anlage.
Inflected forms:
form: anlages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anlagen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.
pos: noun
examples: Stockard has shown that, not only do anesthetics arrest the development of the intra-embryonic blood vessels in the embryos of Fundulus, at an early ontogenetic stage, but in such a manner that no doubt can now exist that, under normal conditions, these vessels are formed in situ by a concrescence of independent and discontinuous anlagen, and that their endothelium is derived directly from intra-embryonic mesenchymal cells.
Moreover, most species have a cirral pattern which - at least partially - closely resembles that of 18-cirri hypotrichs, including the formation from six (I-VI) anlagen.
gloss: An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel).
pos: noun
gloss: Temperament, the predominant personality type.
pos: noun
Translations:
androgenetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From andro- + genetic.
Base: genetic
Affixes: andro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or exhibiting, androgenesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
counter-earth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From counter- + earth.
Base: earth
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
form: counter-Earth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: counterearth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical planet sharing an orbit with the earth, but on the opposite side of the sun.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
examples: To the same period may perhaps belong the theory that the comet is a separate planet; this eighth planet might serve, when the counter-earth had been discarded, to maintain the number ten in regard to the heavenly bodies.
The report of Aristotle and Philip of Opus, that the higher frequency of lunar than of solar eclipses was explained by the presence of the counter-earth, and perhaps also other earth-like bodies in space, takes us into a similar context.
The interposition of the counter-earth between the sun and the moon is the cause of their eclipses. And just as our earth has a counter-earth, each planet has a counter-planet, a planetary companion (as Bruno would say in his later works), which revolves with the other one on the same circle but at the opposite end of its diameter.
Translations:
Islamically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)
Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor.
English Islam
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
New Latin Islāmus
New Latin -icus
New Latin islāmicusder.?
French islamiqueder.?
English Islamic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English Islamically
From Islamic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more Islamically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most Islamically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an Islamic manner; in a manner relating to, or comporting with, Islam.
pos: adv
examples: Another financial issue attracting growing attention is whether capital gains on investments are Islamically acceptable.
M&S said they will not label any of their Islamically slaughtered lamb as halal.
Translations:
rail-based
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From rail + based, likening the experience to moving along a rail.
Compound parts: rail
based
Inflected forms:
form: more rail-based
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rail-based
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a game wherein a player character automatically moves along a preset path.
pos: adj
examples: The design of the boss characters is interesting, and the multiplayer mode is a nice touch, but the graphics are far too drab for a rail-based shooter.
The game is apparently sort of a rail-based shooter, and you use your finger to aim and tap the screen to shoot.
The brainchild of Reisuke Ishida, the creator of Taito's cult hit Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, Groove Coaster is a rail-based rhythm game set to dozens of tracks from Taito video games.
The Far Cry series is known for offering up an open-world alternative to the rail-based experiences of most mainline FPS titles,[…]
It is a rail-based game, so the only movements you really have to control is jumping in the short action sequences that break up the "shooting zones," if you will.
Translations:
panniculitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From panniculus + -itis.
Base: panniculus
Affixes: -itis
Inflected forms:
form: panniculitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inflammation of the panniculus adiposus, or subcutaneous adipose tissue
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
paranasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From para- + nasal.
Base: nasal
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the paranasal sinuses, a group of four paired air-filled spaces that surround the nasal cavity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
oxon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: oxons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any organic compound derived from another in which a phosphorus-sulfur bond in the parent has been replaced by a phosphorus-oxygen bond in the derivative.
pos: noun
Translations:
pahlavi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pahlavis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The principal gold coin of the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–1979).
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Pahlavi
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Iranian Persian پَهْلَوی (pahlavi), from Classical Persian پَهْلَوِی (pahlawī, “Parthian, of or relating to the age of the Iranian heroes before Islam”), from پَهْلَو (pahlaw) + ـِی (-ī).
Base: پَهْلَو
Inflected forms:
form: Pahlawi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pahlevi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pehlevi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pehlvi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Pahlavi script or to Middle Persian rendered in Book Pahlavi.
pos: adj
examples: Pahlavi literature traditionally defines the writings of the Zoroastrians in the Middle Persian language and Book Pahlavi script which were compiled in the 9th and the 10th centuries CE.
gloss: Of or relating to the Pahlavi dynasty.
pos: adj
Translations:
pemphigoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From pemphigus + -oid.
Base: pemphigus
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: pemphigoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of rare autoimmune blistering skin diseases that superficially resemble pemphigus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
starliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From star + liner.
Compound parts: star
liner
Inflected forms:
form: starliners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large starship capable of transporting many passengers.
pos: noun
Translations:
phacoemulsification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From phaco- + emulsification.
Base: emulsification
Affixes: phaco-
Inflected forms:
form: phacoemulsifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of cataract surgery in which the eye's internal lens is emulsified with an ultrasonic handpiece and aspirated from the eye. Aspirated fluids are replaced with irrigation of balanced salt solution, thus maintaining the anterior chamber, as well as cooling the handpiece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
phakic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phakia + -ic.
Base: phakia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to phakia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
paraparesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From para- + paresis.
Base: paresis
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
form: parapareses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Weakness of both legs, resulting from disease of the nervous system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pilin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pilus + -in.
Base: pilus
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: pilins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria
pos: noun
Translations:
picolinate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From picolinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Base: picolinic acid
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: picolinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of picolinic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
Deano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dean + -o.
Base: Dean
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: Deanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An archetypal young lower middle class British man living in a newbuild housing estate, stereotyped as culturally unsophisticated, lavish with money, heavily indebted and conservative-leaning.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: To many, Deano is a figure of fun: a low-brow, low-status provincial man with bad taste and too much sway over the nation’s cultural life. But the more I read about him online, whether on Reddit, Urban Dictionary, Twitter or YouTube, the more I realise his was not a life to be mocked but cheered — and even envied. Deano owns his home, gets back from work early, and has enough disposable income for new furniture and nice food.
The possibility that Deano might be petty bourgeois rather than working class or middle class was not entertained, but it is precisely the sprawling lower middle class – and not the working class or established middle class – that dominates the new-build commuter belt, the places Duncan Weldon dubbed “Barratt Britain”: the new, dystopian British version of American white picket fence suburbia.
Now Clive of India has become Deano of Dubai, driving a Rolls-Royce while flogging a crypto scheme on TikTok.
Translations:
bumblefoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bumble (“referring to the clumsy gait caused by the swelling”) + foot.
Compound parts: bumble
foot
Inflected forms:
form: bumblefeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ulcerative pododermatitis, a bacterial infection and inflammatory reaction on the feet of birds and rodents.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A clubfoot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Translations:
polypodium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin polypodium, from Ancient Greek πολυπόδιον (polupódion), from πολυ- (polu-, “poly-, many”) + πούς (poús, “-pod, foot”) + -ιον (-ion, “-ium”). Later reinforced by the translingual scientific use of Polypodium.
Inflected forms:
form: polypodiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polypodia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of polypody: any fern of the genus Polypodium.
pos: noun
Translations:
polyarteritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From poly- + arteritis.
Base: arteritis
Affixes: poly-
Inflected forms:
form: polyarteritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inflammation of multiple arteries
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
preceptorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From preceptor + -ship.
Base: preceptor
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: preceptorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank or role of preceptor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tongue-tie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: tongue-ties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tongue tie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tongue-ties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tongue-tying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tongue-tied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tongue-tied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tongue tie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ankyloglossia, a congenital oral anomaly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A piece of cloth used to tie down a horse's tongue, to facilitate breathing etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To disconcert or fluster (a person) so that they cannot speak coherently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Marry—as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it! the ligaments, which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and the stammerer proceeded a statist!
Translations:
toe-tapping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more toe-tapping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toe-tapping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of music: having a pleasing rhythm.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Questions of bad taste have hung around Dear Evan Hansen since it debuted on Broadway in 2016, though such qualms were mostly drowned out by praise for Platt’s visceral live performance and the catchy Broadway-by-way-of-Christian-rock tunes from wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who are also responsible for the toe-tapping numbers from The Greatest Showman).
Translations:
psychosynthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psycho- + synthesis.
Base: synthesis
Affixes: psycho-
Inflected forms:
form: psychosyntheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of psychology based on the direct experience of the self.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
shedded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having, or covered by, a shed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a shedded pier
Translations:
gold-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare blue-collar, white-collar, and see gold (“precious metal”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to skilled knowledge workers, traditionally classified as white-collar, but essential to a business.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to young, low-wage workers who invest in conspicuous luxury.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dead-ender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dead end + -er.
Base: dead end
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dead-enders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has no prospects for the future; a loser; a dropout.
pos: noun
gloss: One who still holds onto a political position or other viewpoint that is considered outdated or defeated.
pos: noun
examples: In the first months after the fall of Baghdad, Rumsfeld and his aides still had a limited view of the insurgency, seeing it as little more than the work of Baathist "dead-enders," criminal gangs, and foreign terrorists who were Al Qaeda followers.
Unlike the ideological dead-enders, veterans of the Goldwater campaign, they didn't see much difference between Reagan and Ford—and, other things being equal, they were more inclined to side with the establishment than with the insurgency[…]
Translations:
e-library
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + library.
Base: library
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-libraries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A digital library; a virtual library offering books in computerized form.
pos: noun
Translations:
buttoned-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more buttoned-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buttoned-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: buttoned up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Conservative.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Carefully planned and executed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see button up.
pos: adj
examples: It should be obvious by now that most of what goes on in the Bulova commercial does not depend very much on an appeal to the rational part of the mind—the “logos” of Aristotle. If it were to depend on such an appeal to the reason, it might show the same woman, but dressed sensibly in a nice buttoned-up dress and wearing her glasses.
Translations:
Ekpe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ibibio, meaning "leopard".
Inflected forms:
form: Ekpes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ekpe
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Egbo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of this society.
pos: noun
Translations:
LGBTQ
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: LGBTQs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.
pos: noun
examples: This confirms the claim that the internet is not an entirely safe space, and while blogs offer LGBTQs the opportunity to express their views freely and anonymously, they grant this possibility to haters and homophobes, too […]
Now, for example, he is moving forward with his intention to remove all LGBTQs from the military and to ban any further recruiting of LGBTQs.
Translations:
wabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 侘び.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A lamp here, table, bookcase, print on the wall. The incredible Japanese sense of wabi.
One of these changes would be the further refinement of the concept of wabi as an aesthetic ideal, and that was to be the work of Takeno Jōō, under whom the Way of Tea would mature.
Translations:
hula-hula
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hula-hulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hula hula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hula-hulas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hula-hulaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hula-hulaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hula-hulaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hula hula
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hula.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of hula.
pos: verb
Translations:
smither
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smithers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fragment, shard or small piece.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: My lass, when I cooms to die, / Smash the bottle to smithers, the Divil's in 'im,' said I.
That claim of mine, which was yours, has got a seventeen-foot vein and a sandstone roof, and not a smither of slate or bone in it.
Translations:
clunge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A nonsense word in a rant by McBlane (actor Joseph Brady) in the third series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as "ap yer clunge!" ("up your clunge"). Probably invented by writer David Nobbs to mean "arse".
Popularised by British television series The Inbetweeners (from 2008).
Inflected forms:
form: clunges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vulva or vagina.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:clunge.
gloss: Arse.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
Translations:
Porcellian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin porcellus (“piglet”) + -ian after the dinners of roasted pig that the club originally held.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Porcellian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Porcellian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Porcellians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Porcellian Club, a final club at Harvard University.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of the Porcellian Club.
pos: noun
Translations:
poochie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pooch + -ie.
Base: pooch
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: poochies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog; a pooch.
pos: noun
tags: familiar
informal
examples: “That's not a good name for a poochie as cute as you,” she said snuggling the dog to her. “It is when you get to know him,” Julian said eyeing the traitorous hound.
A doggie diner, a poochie playdate, a puppy kindergarten. No matter, you will not be embarrassed. Surely people have always loved their dogs this much, that is what I tell myself, and you will too.
Translations:
self-affine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting self-affinity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-affinity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From self- + affinity.
Base: affinity
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of a fractal whose pieces are scaled by different amounts in the x and y directions, so that self-similarity becomes apparent only after an anisotropic transformation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
kagura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 神楽 (kagura, literally “god music”). See more at the Japanese entry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of Shinto theatrical dance in Japan.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νομικός (nomikós, “relating to laws”), from νόμος (nómos, “law, custom”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Customary; ordinary; applied to the usual spelling of a language, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: The first and most obvious objection brought against the use of a phonetic notation in teaching a foreign language is the danger of confusion between the phonetic and the nomic spelling of the language.
gloss: Relating to a law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nomically
Translations:
evidentiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From evidential + -ity.
Base: evidential
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: evidentialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The encoding into a language of the source of information being communicated, so as to distinguish (for example) hearsay from something actually witnessed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Samnite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Samnites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of ancient Samnium.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A Roman gladiator armed with shield, sleeve on right arm, helmet, shoulder-piece, and greave.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
Derived words: pre-Samnite
Translations:
Osco-Umbrian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more Osco-Umbrian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Osco-Umbrian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a group of languages of the Italic family of Indo-European languages, spoken in ancient times in central and southern Italy before Latin replaced them.
pos: adj
Translations:
signific
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: significs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Representing meaning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to significs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The graphic component in a character that plays a phonetic role is called phonophoric, and the one that plays a semantic role is called signific.
gloss: A signific element in a Chinese character.
pos: noun
Translations:
Munda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.
Inflected forms:
form: Mundas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Munda
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the indigenous people who speak one of the Munda languages.
pos: noun
Translations:
redenomination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
Etymology: From re- + denomination.
Base: denomination
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: redenominations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of redenominating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The recalibration of the face value of a currency, most frequently by multiplying that value by a power of 10, sometimes followed by the demonetization of any cash issued with the original face value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the redenomination, the new peso was worth 100 old pesos.
Translations:
knocker-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knocker-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knocker-upper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knocker up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job was to go from house to house in the early morning and wake up workers by tapping on the bedroom window with a long pole or similarly convenient implement.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: ... And Capper was a very important man. He was the knocker-up in the village of Polkingthorpe Brig — that is to say, he got up early every morning and went round with his pole, tapping on the bedroom windows and waking up the people in time for them to get to work... Old Capper got his long pole with the trident of wire at the end and lifting it so that the wire rested against the upstairs window pane, began twirling and twisting the pole in the palms of his hands so that the wire clacked and clattered fit to wake the soundest sleeper... So they stood round old Capper, who had one of the few watches in the village...
He [Driver Carruthers] started on the L.N.W.R. in 1907 as a knocker-up for four years, then became a cleaner, fireman, and finally a driver.
One of these characters, Mary Anne Smith, became a beloved presence — along with her trusty pea shooter — around London’s East End in the 1930s. John Topham, who snapped photos of Smith in action, remembers “every morning but Sunday she would rise at three to ‘knock up’ local workers—using a pea shooter. She charged sixpence a week and her nearest competition was an old man three miles away who did the same job using a fishing rod to tap on upstairs windows.” Smith was known for the rapping, clacking sound of her peas against windows and doors. In the children’s book Mary Smith, she’s depicted as waking up everyone from fishmongers to the mayor.
Translations:
Aeta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Aetas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Aeta
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Agta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people of the mountainous parts of Luzon, Philippines.
pos: noun
Translations:
boyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.
Inflected forms:
form: boyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
pos: noun
examples: they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others[…]
Translations:
U-boater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From U-boat + -er.
Base: U-boat
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: U-boaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A submariner on a U-boat
pos: noun
Translations:
freakazoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From freak + -a- + -(z)oid.
Base: freak
Affixes: -a-
-oid
Inflected forms:
form: more freakazoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freakazoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freakazoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Freaky.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Mr. Mannon testified that Spot is "100% friendly" as long as no one hits him with sticks or does other "freakazoid" things.
He starts to do some freakazoid dance right there on the sidewalk, kind of hopping from one foot to the other, punching his arms up in the air and bopping his head from side to side with his eyes closed.
"I mean, what kind of freakazoid perv would go stalking women half his age over the Internet?"
gloss: A freaky person or creature; a freak.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But of the more serious allegation — being a total freakazoid — Jacko seems guilty as charged.
"I don't want a freakazoid for a younger brother, that's why," Brad said.
“Do you promise to shut up if we find out he's a freakazoid who likes to kill animals and set fires?” Mally shot back.
Translations:
well-willing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English welewillynge, welwillende, from Old English welwillende (“well-wishing, benevolent, kindly, good”), equivalent to well + willing.
Compound parts: well
willing
Inflected forms:
form: more well-willing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-willing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wishing well; well-inclined; favourable; friendly; propitious.
pos: adj
examples: This is rational life's first, simplest, most natural longing when at rest: to be always and all-ways good as wholly well-willing for ever—which is essentially good-will's as it is love's self-generated and self-resting thought—for ever and ever !
Translations:
booze-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: booze-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A session of heavy drinking.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
boy-meets-girl
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a romantic storyline involving a man and a woman.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bowhunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bow + hunter.
Compound parts: bow
hunter
Inflected forms:
form: bowhunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hunts with a bow and arrow.
pos: noun
Translations:
SERCA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Initialism from sarcoplasmic reticulum / endoplasmic reticulum / calcium ATPase
Inflected forms:
form: SERCAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A calcium ATPase of type P-ATPase
pos: noun
Translations:
archaeol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Archaea + -ol; the archaeols are Archaea homologues of diacylglycerols.
Base: Archaea
Affixes: -ol
Inflected forms:
form: archaeols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Di-O-phytanylglycerol, a double ether of sn-1-glycerol where positions 2 and 3 are bound to phytanyl residues.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fishkill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fish + kill.
Compound parts: fish
kill
Inflected forms:
form: fishkills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An environmental event in which fish are killed.
pos: noun
examples: Fishkills, with some exceptions, result from low dissolved oxygen conditions accompanying the decomposition of organic materials[…]
Translations:
saurel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French French saurel (“jack mackerel”), from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “horse mackerel”). Compare Spanish jurel.
Inflected forms:
form: saurels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially Trachurus trachurus, of Europe and America, and Trachurus picturatus of California; the skipjack, scad or horse mackerel.
pos: noun
examples: In general, while the consumption of fresh fish is tending to increase, 60 per cent of consumption consists of sardines, saurel, anchovy and mackerel, that is, very inexpensive fish.
Translations:
serpula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin serpula. See serpent.
Inflected forms:
form: serpulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: serpulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
pos: noun
Translations:
Celestine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂i-lom
Proto-Italic *kailom?
Latin caelum
Latin terrestris
Latin -estris
Latin caelestis
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Latin caelestinus
Latin Caelestinuslbor.
English Celestine
Learned borrowing from Latin Caelestinus.
Inflected forms:
form: Celestines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.
pos: noun
Translations:
split-tail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: split-tails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A California fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) of the carp family.
pos: noun
gloss: The pintail duck.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: US
offensive
possibly
slang
examples: I have encountered officers who believe a woman got a better assignment or somehow "got over" because of her sex. It's a shock to their egos that some "split-tail"—yes, I've had that original thrown my way—could possibly be more talented.
Translations:
post-obit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From post- + obit.
Base: obit
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
form: post-obits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.
pos: noun
examples: They were following pretty rapidly, upon the same terms, post obits, payable upon the death of Mrs. Wharton
[…] he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate […]
Translations:
interculturality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
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 cultural
English intercultural
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English interculturality
From intercultural + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: interculturalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being intercultural.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
smoochie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From smooch + -ie.
Base: smooch
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: smoochies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smooch; a kiss.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
sweeny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swinney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An atrophy of the muscles, especially of the shoulder, in horses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Petrarchan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Petrarch + -an.
Base: Petrarch
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Petrarchan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Petrarchan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Petrarchian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Francesco Petrarch, a renowned Renaissance Italian humanist.
pos: adj
Translations:
Kashan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian کاشان (kâšân).
Inflected forms:
form: Kashans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of decorative flat carpet.
pos: noun
examples: I napped in the pile
of the brushed and bruised
Kashan on our living room floor
Translations:
seapunk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.
Base: sea
Affixes: -punk
Inflected forms:
form: seapunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Seapunk's aqueous adherents, mostly in the Midwest but spreading fast […] have been characterized as goth mermaids, which certainly captures the look and feel: think turquoise-dyed hair and an embrace of all things oceanic, yay for steampunk jellyfish outfits.
Many thought this understandably short-lived meme had died a watery death in 2011, but when Rihanna took to Saturday Night Live to perform Diamonds recently, with a full-on seapunk-influenced production, it got a new lease of life.
She also lashed out at Azealia Banks, who dropped an explicitly seapunk video the same week, but Azealia's fine in my books. She’s always been into seapunk stuff, she “came from the internet” unlike Rihanna, she actually commits to and genuinely engages with the seapunk visuals (e.g riding dolphins) and they at least somewhat fit her song and attitude.
gloss: A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
pos: noun
tags: countable
neologism
Translations: