yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wonderworld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wonder + world; compare the coincidentally equivalently formed Old English wundorworuld (“wonderful world”).
Compound parts: wonder
world
Inflected forms:
form: wonderworlds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place full of delights or marvels.
pos: noun
examples: What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perceive it to be no less so.
In new suburban wonderworlds, psychic and social tensions challenged marital togetherness, prompting a new generation of muckrakers to expose the harried lives of affluent Americans.
Your child dives into the deep sea and meets a wonderworld of strange creatures!
When I finally took a trip to Marcoland, or to one outpost of his kingdom anyway, a wonderworld in Mayfair called Mirabelle, I found a fantasy of '50s posh, with neither wild attitude nor blood sausage in sight.
I spent a lot of time at the Ballston Beach parking lot with him, blocking off large sections and flooding them with water from his house, making vast, swamp wonderworlds between the parked cars.
Translations:
Voltan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Volta + -an.
Base: Volta
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Voltans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who lives by the river Volta.
pos: noun
Translations:
red-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From red + haired.
Base: red
Inflected forms:
form: redhaired
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having red hair.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, / then go to Meneláos, the red-haired king / at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians.
Translations:
slitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slit + -er.
Base: slit
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who or thing that slits.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who or thing that slits.
pos: noun
Translations:
YouTuber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From YouTube + -er.
Base: YouTube
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: YouTubers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A user of the video-sharing website YouTube.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Ms. Nash, who gave her weight at 224 pounds, said that she ate what she wanted, watched her health and had stopped considering her weight the prime mover of every event in her life. YouTubers loved it.
gloss: A video creator on YouTube.
pos: noun
examples: One of the most discussed YouTube clips lately features a young woman who calls herself pizzelle2 watching a video of another YouTube user, who is watching another YouTuber, and so on.
How have these YouTubers become so popular? It can seem baffling to people outside their main viewing demographic: smartphone-toting “millennials” who spend as much time (if not more) watching shortform video online as they do traditional TV shows.
YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.
Unlike those other YouTubers living in mansions with perfect hair and expensive clothes, she’s [Emma Chamberlain is] just an average teen. Sure, she lives in L.A. herself now and is undoubtedly a multimillionaire, but the point is, she doesn’t care.
Derived words: booktuber
PNGTuber
PokéTuber
virtual YouTuber
VTuber
Translations:
IMer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
Etymology: From IM + -er.
Base: IM
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: IMers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who uses instant messaging.
pos: noun
examples: Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
gloss: A swimmer who competes in the individual medley race.
pos: noun
examples: "When I first joined ACAC (Ames Cyclones Aquatics Club), we were swimming together in a lane and I ended up going behind her," Hala said. "We were doing IM (individual medley) in warm-up and I was on her feet and I was like I'm an IMer, can I go ahead of you? She told me no."
"Jipping had himself a meet," Scheerhorn said. "He used to be an IMer and backstroker. This season, we knew we needed someone else in the 200 free and seeing that five-second drop in prelims was incredible. He swam lights out."
Translations:
shitfest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shit + -fest.
Base: shit
Affixes: -fest
Inflected forms:
form: shitfests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something of incredibly low quality.
pos: noun
tags: informal
vulgar
Translations:
rockfest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rock + -fest.
Base: rock
Affixes: -fest
Inflected forms:
form: rockfests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rock music festival.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […]special permission for them to use Meridian Hill Park for a rockfest and rally, where they were entertained by The Lumpen — the Panther rock band.
Still, rockfests persist as a decent way to raise a buck, if you're not incompetent or scheisty, and Yauch's nonprofit group, the Milarepa Fund, is neither.
Translations:
butt-rape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butt + rape.
Compound parts: butt
rape
Inflected forms:
form: butt-rapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: butt-rapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: butt-raping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: butt-raped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: butt-raped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of forcing anal sex upon another person, without their consent and/or against their will.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: To force anal sex upon another person, without their consent and/or against their will.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
slang
vulgar
Translations:
off-corn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From off- + corn.
Base: corn
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Waste or inferior corn thrown out during dressing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Courlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Courland + -er.
Base: Courland
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Courlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone from Courland
pos: noun
Translations:
Zuckerberg
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zuckerberg. From German Zucker (“sugar”) + Berg (“mountain”).
Base: Zucker
Inflected forms:
form: Zuckerbergs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Zuckerberging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Zuckerberged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Zuckerberged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To behave like Mark Zuckerberg, especially to eject a co-investor by diluting their stock, similar to the alleged treatment of Eduardo Saverin.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: If there hadn't been 2,000 witnesses, I would have Zuckerberged the idea for myself.
Robin's claim that she created Marshall's Minnesota Tidal Wave cocktail, which leads to Marshall accusing her of “Zuckerberging” him (“The Time Travelers”).
We are Zuckerberging it! All those investors who turned us down just don't get it.
We see as much in the finale: Summer helps the Devil build up the n33dful.com digital empire, and he kicks her out just after he’s bought by Google. “You’re Zuckerberging me!?” Summer cries as she’s carried away by security.
Translations:
doum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic دوم (dūm), via French.
Inflected forms:
form: doums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doum palm.
pos: noun
Translations:
biophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From bio- + -philic.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: more biophilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biophilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to biophilia.
pos: adj
examples: And even if we accept the possible explanation that, at the time life appeared, there were in existence biophilic elements now defunct, or vitalising rays no longer radiant, even then, we are met by the facts (i) that even in the lowest organisms there is extraordinary […]
gloss: Whose values are critical to the evolution of life in the universe.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonbiophilic
Translations:
fowl-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fowl-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fowlhouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fowl house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A building where fowl are kept.
pos: noun
examples: And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.
Also I got some timber, and he built me a fowl-house far better than I could have done it myself.
Translations:
dry-hump
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dry-humps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dry-humping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dry-humped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dry-humped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To simulate sexual intercourse without the genitalia directly touching, i.e. while wearing clothes, or by rubbing the genitals against something else.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Okay… Okay, I-I-I’m still a little confused here. Did you actually climb Mount Everest? Or did you just dry-hump the side of it and then go home? “It was great! Now smell my finger! There’s still some mountain air on it!” What is wrong with you⁉
I found when it happened that I really like dry humping more.
Translations:
lightning-quick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incredibly fast.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: City responded immediately with a lightning-quick counter-attack as the template for the game was set...
Translations:
kurrajong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dharug garrajung (“fishing line”), from the use made of the bark.
Inflected forms:
form: kurrajongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: currajong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: currijong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: curryjong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: koorajong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of species of tree or shrub in the genus Brachychiton.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: My young friend, Master Keith McKeown, now finds this beetle under the stones about the roots of the kurrajong at Wagga, and also sheltering during the winter in the seed-pods on the trees.
From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.
The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags.
The groves of Kurrajongs along the saddle of Mount Majura were founded last century.
gloss: A peanut tree, Sterculia quadrifida, native to eastern coastal Australia; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Derived words: desert kurrajong
green kurrajong
kurrajong leaf roller
lace kurrajong
northern kurrajong
pink kurrajong
red-flowered kurrajong
red-fruited kurrajong
white kurrajong
Translations:
kig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of kigurumi, from Japanese 着ぐるみ (kigurumi), from 着 (gi, “clothes, outfit”) + ぐるみ (-gurumi, all together, inclusive) (referring to the fact that the costume completely encloses the wearer).
Inflected forms:
form: kigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A full-body costume of a cartoon character.
pos: noun
Translations:
reupholstery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + upholstery.
Base: upholstery
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-upholstery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of reupholstering furniture
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sofas and chairs can be coordinated into any design through reupholstery or slipcovers. Reupholstery requires a fabric selection appropriate for your piece.
Translations:
pheromonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pheromone + -al.
Base: pheromone
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a pheromone
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
quiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quill + -er.
Base: quill
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: quillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works with a quill.
pos: noun
examples: This is very much more becoming to the majority of women than any white linen or muslin, and it is quite a pretty bit of fancy work to run the edging on a long but narrow piece of silk, then pleat it up, and when it is soiled, remove the stitches so that it can be washed and ironed out quite straight, and then quilled up afresh. Professional quillers always work at the top with the lace, edge held downwards.
gloss: One who writes with a quill; a professional writer; a journalist.
pos: noun
examples: Make a start in Sydney — Hugh Macdonald, Holman, Hughes would surely need little pressure to assist — and you needn't fear the cordial co-operation of the country quillers!
gloss: One who creates decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
pos: noun
examples: Some quillers make small wooden stands resembling trees, with horizontal "branches" over which they hang the strips.
Related words: quilling
Translations:
term-limit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: term-limits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: term-limiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: term-limited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: term-limited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: term limit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To remove (someone) from an elected position by limiting the number of terms they can serve.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Should we start being sad that he is being term-limited out of office at the end of the year?
Ms. Spanberger, 44, is seen as among the strongest Democratic contenders to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who is term-limited.
Translations:
disjunctively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disjunctive + -ly.
Base: disjunctive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a disjunctive manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Duk-Duk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin unclear, but believed to derive from the Tolai Douk (“cruel”). Possibly related to dekdek (“strong”).
Inflected forms:
form: Duk-Duks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a masked secret society of the Tolai, carrying out local extortion and terrorism and dressing in leaves.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Duk-Duks organised the law in New Britain.
Translations:
Tolai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tolais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tolai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, who speak Kuanua and are divided into moieties.
pos: noun
Translations:
go-live
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: go-lives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The date on which a system goes live.
pos: noun
examples: In the weeks building up to the go-live, we began to fix problems as fast as possible.
Translations:
Interamerican
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + American.
Base: American
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between countries of the American continent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
zero-grazed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Kept in enclosures and never let out to graze.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The group also has two zero-grazed cows that provide milk for sale. The group obtained the cows from a church project in 1993.
Translations:
rallycross
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rally + -cross. From being like a blend of rallying and motocross, using rally-style cars on motocross-style tracks.
Base: rally
Affixes: -cross
Inflected forms:
form: rally-cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rally cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A format of car racing in which drivers race over wild terrain and specially designed roads, meant to simulate a cross-country ride within a purpose-built circuit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cherty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From chert + -y.
Base: chert
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: chertier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chertiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing chert.
pos: adj
examples: Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759.
Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite.
Translations:
dukkha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali dukkha.
Inflected forms:
form: dukkhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The three main types of pain, suffering, or stress: physical and mental, impermanence, and conditioned states. One of the three marks of existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Paracelsian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Paracelsian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Paracelsian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Paracelsians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Paracelsus
pos: adj
gloss: A proponent of Paracelsianism
pos: noun
Translations:
money-spinning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more money-spinning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most money-spinning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moneyspinning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Serving to generate a continuous income.
pos: adj
Translations:
formability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From form + -ability.
Base: form
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: formabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being formable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
paracelsian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From para- + celsian.
Base: celsian
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A natural polymorph of celsian.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
synthesist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From synthesize + -ist.
Base: synthesize
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: synthesists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who synthesizes.
pos: noun
examples: By taking widely disparate streams that haven't been formally in contact with each other, you become a synthesist and create new forms.
gloss: A musician who programs or plays a synthesizer.
pos: noun
examples: None of these had the artistry of Carlos and often used the Moog to play a solo line from a standard pop tune. None were hits. The use of the synthesizer for emulation was, as I have said, rejected by many early synthesists.
Translations:
fesh-fesh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?]
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fine dust (sand) that looks like solid ground but behaves like soft mud.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Then he plummeted into the desert and struck the fesh-fesh with ghastly impact.
The markers returned but the fesh-fesh was becoming worse. There had been a recent sandstorm.
Riding a bike into fesh-fesh is a very trying, if not disastrous, experience.
Translations:
bucktail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From buck + tail.
Compound parts: buck
tail
Inflected forms:
form: bucktails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tail of a deer, traditionally used as a fishing lure.
pos: noun
examples: Chris used a spinning rod with a green-and-white bucktail jig while I cast a chartreuse Angel Hair and white-bucktail Clouser minnow with my 8-weight fly rod.
gloss: The end of a rivet opposite the factory head, which in a solid rivet may be bucked by holding a heavy bucking bar or similar-purposed tool against it, while the factory head is hammered until the bucktail is upset into an appropriate shape, most commonly pancake-shaped; the mandrel of a blind rivet generally upsets the bucktail into a doughnut-shape when it is pulled.
pos: noun
Translations:
post-ovulation
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From post- + ovulation.
Base: ovulation
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the period immediately after ovulation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Progesterone concentrations rise rapidly in the mare and any post-ovulation treatment carries an increased risk of uterine contamination.
gloss: After ovulation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Surgeries could be scheduled on day 10 or 14 post ovulation of a regular menstrual cycle.
Translations:
bigeye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From big + eye.
Compound parts: big
eye
Inflected forms:
form: bigeyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: big-eye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.
pos: noun
examples: There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles.
The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.
The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches.
Translations:
reeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English redynge, equivalent to reed + -ing.
Base: reed
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: reedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Thatching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Decorative moulding of parallel strips that resemble reeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Milling on the edge of a coin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reeded
arundinaceous
Translations:
motmot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from American Spanish.
Inflected forms:
form: motmots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bird in the taxonomic family Momotidae, endemic to the neotropics.
pos: noun
Translations:
geck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian/North Germanic meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gjække, Swedish gäcka).
Inflected forms:
form: gecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To jeer or mock; to show contempt for.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
ambitransitive
examples: To say that ye was geck'd ye'se hae nae need.
And Jenny geck'd at Roger, […]
I brought her frae England, and, during our whole journey, she gecked and scorned at my northern speech and habit
She ... gecks at me , and says I smell o' tar.
Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey, Jean Linn! Oh, geck na' at hame hodden grey!
gloss: To toss (one's head) scornfully; to look (at) derisively or disdainfully.
pos: verb
examples: ... The like o ' me they'll har'ly own , But geck their head , an ' gester on , An ' fou'd they speak , Set up their beek . They wi ' a jeer , or crabit frown , But yet the day or lang may light , Whan matters will be judged right ; We've[…]
Out-throw the rest my aunty gecket, / To see which way she was dissecket;
... he was saying that to geck you're free, If now he sings upon the primrose […]
... Adieu , my Liege ! may Freedom geck Beneath your high protection;[…]
... it set oor auld gossips a-geckin' Whan' the news o't cam' hame to auld Robbie Macmeeken.
Translations:
patis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fish sauce, a byproduct of making bagoong, used as an ingredient or condiment in the Philippines.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nonblocking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From non- + blocking.
Base: blocking
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That does not block; allowing other tasks to proceed immediately rather than having to wait for completion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From main + -er.
Base: main
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A needle for (illicit) drug administration.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Heroin, be the death of me / Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life / Because a mainer to my vein / Leads to a center in my head / And then I'm better off than dead
gloss: One who mainly plays as a specific character or on a specific side.
pos: noun
Translations:
jow
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of jowl (“to knock, strike, ring a bell”), with loss of final l.
Inflected forms:
form: jows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To knock, strike, bump.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
gloss: To ring or toll (a bell).
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
Translations:
loanee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From loan + -ee.
Base: loan
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: loanees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: borrower; someone who is loaned something
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is being loaned, someone playing for another club on loan.
pos: noun
examples: Then, Andy Keogh picked up the ball on the right and squared to Danny Drinkwater on the edge of the box, but the Manchester United loanee's shot lacked power to trouble Stoke stopper Thomas Sorensen.
Translations:
well-travelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-travelled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-travelled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well travelled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: well-traveled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: well traveled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Having travelled extensively.
pos: adj
examples: This was not the result the well-travelled Swede would have been looking for on his first return to Eastlands after his sacking from Manchester City in 2009, but he can again be proud of his Leicester side for their performance, which was full of commitment and endeavour.
Translations:
nerve-shredding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nerve-shredding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nerve-shredding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suspenseful.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The interior of an active diesel locomotive's engine compartment was the nerve-shredding inferno I had imagined, intensified because the bulk of the violently drumming power plant hems you so close to it.
His side could find dignity in defeat after they subjected Manchester City to a nerve-shredding finale but the Premier League's second-placed team still advanced to the fourth round and a tie against Notts County that Roberto Mancini will hope will be much more straightforward.
Translations:
governmentality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From French gouvernementalité, equivalent to governmental + -ity.
Base: governmental
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: governmentalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
rumbly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rumble + -y.
Base: rumble
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rumblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rumbliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making a rumbling noise.
pos: adj
examples: His voice is pleasantly rumbly; his smile is so wide that it seems to have been drawn onto his face with a crayon.
Translations:
superskinny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + skinny.
Base: skinny
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: more superskinny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superskinny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very skinny.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Then there is Wrangler47, the company’s three-year-old premium brand, carried in stores like Barneys New York and Scoop; it includes fashionable items like micro-miniskirts and the ubiquitous superskinny hipster jeans.
Translations:
surfside
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From surf + -side.
Base: surf
Affixes: -side
Inflected forms:
form: surf-side
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Beside the sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These surfside Peter Pans survey each summer’s crop of young women on the sand like an incoming class of freshman co-eds on the quad.
Mitch wakes up in his eighth floor hotel suite with a surfside view of the ocean to Margo shaking his shoulder and saying, “Poppy, Larry is dead.”
Translations:
Ordinary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day
pos: noun
Translations:
hognose
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hog + nose.
Compound parts: hog
nose
Inflected forms:
form: hognoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having an upturned snout like a pig's.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A hognose snake.
pos: noun
Translations:
Frascati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Frascatis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian white wine from the region around the town of Frascati.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
clintonite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Clinton + -ite. From DeWitt Clinton, the politician for whom it is named in honor of.
Base: Clinton
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: clintonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A calcium magnesium aluminium phyllosilicate mineral of the margarite group of micas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fist-pumper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fist-pumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fist pumper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: someone who pumps their fist
pos: noun
gloss: a tune which provokes fist-pumping, i.e. because of its strong beat.
pos: noun
Related words: pump one's fist
pump someone's fist
Translations:
faceful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From face + -ful.
Base: face
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: facefuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amount that fills or covers the face.
pos: noun
examples: Because l didn't dare take either hand off the wheel, I did get a few facefuls of snow, passing under hemlocks with especially low-drooped branches, but that was a cheap price for getting the tractor safely out.
Translations:
fritillaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: fritillarias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant in the genus Fritillaria.
pos: noun
Translations:
vishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of voice + phishing.
Compound parts: voice
phishing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Vishing takes advantage of the trust that most people place in the telephone network.
Within just an hour, a new vishing infrastructure can be configured and put in place to launch a new attack.
Between 2006 and 2007, the number of vishing identity theft cases rose from 3 percent of theft to 40 percent (Source: Javelin Strategy & Research.)
But there has been less public outreach about similar new types of phone schemes, sometimes called vishing.
Translations:
tagless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tag + -less.
Base: tag
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a tag or tags.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
reignition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + ignition, by analogy with reignite.
Base: ignition
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reignitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Process, act or instance of reigniting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
toxoplasma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: toxoplasmata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toxoplasmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Toxoplasma of parasitic sporozoans.
pos: noun
examples: To mingle with others of its kind and produce the next generation of eggs, toxoplasma must find its way to the gastrointestinal tract of a cat.
All in all, toxoplasmata seem to be unpleasant but otherwise unimportant little critters, if you don't happen to be pregnant.
Translations:
dahling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dahlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: darling (imitating a posh or pretentious person)
pos: noun
tags: term-of-address
examples: (She seems to be saying to her son, “But dahling, if you don’t marry one of these dreary girls, all these frightful yobs will think you’re gay.”)
Translations:
briery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brier + -y.
Base: brier
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: brieries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where briars grow.
pos: noun
Translations:
beme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English beme, from Old English bēme, bȳme, bīeme (“wooden trumpet; tablet, billet”), from Proto-West Germanic *baumijā (“wooden instrument or utensil”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, lumber, beam, wood”). Related to beam.
Inflected forms:
form: bemes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mediaeval trumpet, usually used in hunting or warfare.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Heart of lion! sound the beme!
Sound it into inner lands; […]
One of the long, curved horns was known as a beme and shows up as the instrument of choice blown by angels announcing the Biblical Day of Judgment.
And when the host on both parties saw that sword drawn, then they blew bemes, trumpets, and horns, and shouted grimly, and so both hosts dressed them together.
[…] be inserted directly into each other to make the long, straight beme or trompe.
Translations:
Gallo-Roman
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gallo- + Roman.
Base: Roman
Affixes: Gallo-
Inflected forms:
form: Gallo-Romans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Gallo-Roman
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Gallo-Roman
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Romanized Gaul, i.e. a Gaulish person who adopted or adapted the culture, language etc. of the Roman Empire following the establishment of Roman rule in the region of Gaul.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Pertaining to the period of Roman rule in Gaul, 50 BC–486 AD.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the Gallo-Romans.
pos: adj
Translations:
airtightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From airtight + -ness.
Base: airtight
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being airtight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
modena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Modena in Italy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A crimson colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […]the colour of the blood is well known to be changed in its Modena passage through the lungs, from a deep modena to a hue of the blood
Translations:
Ajar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Georgian აჭარლები (ač̣arlebi).
Inflected forms:
form: Ajars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Adjaran.
pos: noun
examples: The Ajars are Muslim Georgians and have their own autonomous republic within Georgia, but Georgians insist that there are no important distinctions between Ajars and Georgians […]
During World War II Stalin drew up a plan for the deportation of the Muslim Ajars, but the plan was postponed and finally abandoned at his death in 1953.
Of these, the Georgian Ajars were the most eager to rise up against Russia, but the Ottomans also hoped for revolts in Daghestan and Azerbaijan upon entry of their troops.
Translations:
platten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
glassmaking
manufacturing
Etymology: See plat (“flat”, adjective).
Inflected forms:
form: plattens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plattening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plattened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plattened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To flatten and make into sheets or plates.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to platten cylinder glass
Translations:
andor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Portuguese andor, from Malayalam, from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola, “swinging cradle, hammock litter, dooly”). Compare dooly from Sanskrit दुल् (dul) via Hindi.
Inflected forms:
form: andors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: andas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: andola
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of dandy or hammock litter, a strong cloth suspended from a pole or set of poles used as an open sedan chair.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_..."
gloss: Synonym of palanquin, used variously for nearly any kind of Indian litter.
pos: noun
tags: India
archaic
examples: 1498. — "After two days had passed he... came to the factory in an andor [i.e. a chowpaul] which men carried on their shoulders, and these... consist of great canes which are bent overhead and arched, and from these are hung certain cloths of a half fathom wide, and a fathom and a half long, and at the ends are pieces of wood to bear the cloth which hangs from the cane; and laid over the cloth there is a great mattrass of the same size, and this all made of silk-stuff wrought with gold-thread, and with many decorations and fringes and tassels; whilst the ends of the cane are mounted with silver, all very gorgeous, and rich, like the lords who travel so." — Correa, i. 102.
1552. — "The Moors all were on foot, and their Captain was a valiant Turk, who as being their Captain, for the honour of the thing was carried in an Andor [i.e. a takhtrawan] on the shoulders of 4 men, from which he gave his orders as if he were on horseback." — Barros, II. vi. viii.
gloss: Synonym of litter, used in religious processions of saints' figurines.
pos: noun
tags: Portugal
Translations:
skeletonization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From skeleton + -ization.
Base: skeleton
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: skeletonizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of skeletonizing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
kattan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The waste selvage in silk weaving, used for stringing ornaments.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
uncountable
Translations:
rean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rene, rein (“strip of land forming a boundary; furrow; barrier; embankment”), from Old Norse rein (“a strip of land”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō (“baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”). Related to Icelandic rein, Danish ren, Dutch rein, reen (“berm”), German Rain (“narrow strip of land between two fields”).
Inflected forms:
form: reans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reann
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rheen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: raen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: raheen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rayne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reayne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rheaan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rhind
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rhine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ryan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ryen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ryn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A deep furrow used for drainage.
pos: noun
gloss: A ridge or baulk.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: A gutter.
pos: noun
Related words: run
runnel
Translations:
greven
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the same root as greaves, graves (“residue left after rendering animal fat”) and gribenes (“chicken cracklings and onions”). Compare older dialectal northern (Low) German forms like greven and greeven.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cracklings from rendered chicken fat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a plate of chopped liver with schmaltz and chopped onion and chopped radish and greven (cracklings from rendered chicken fat)
Translations:
mogas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of motorcar + gasoline.
Compound parts: motorcar
gasoline
Inflected forms:
form: mogases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mogasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Automotive gasoline suitable for use in some piston-engined gasoline powered aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
autogas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of automotive + gas.
Compound parts: automotive
gas
Inflected forms:
form: autogases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: autogasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Automotive gasoline suitable for use in piston-engined gasoline-powered aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Cylinder cracks are nothing new, however, and there is no reason to expect autogas-burning engines to have a higher incidence of head cracking than avgas-users.
In the area of autogas volatility, a Reid vapor pressure of 9.0 to 15 is very common, compared to the vapor pressure of avgas, which is 5.5 to 7.
Autogas can be obtained for a fraction of the cost of avgas, but its use is not without controversy.
Translations:
heavy-footed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more heavy-footed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heavy-footed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slow-moving.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Nani's 76th-minute goal summed up Birmingham's state of mind as he skipped across the screen of their heavy-footed defence to slam a powerful goal past Foster from 15 yards into the corner of the net.
Translations:
inch-perfect
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inch-perfect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inch-perfect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Perfectly measured.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride.
Translations:
SOTU
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: SOTUs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The annual State of the Union address of the President of the United States.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: He intends to use the SOTU message as nothing more that another Hollywood stunt similar to the pep rally he had on the WH lawn after the impeachment vote.
Bush won't be stressing those particular points as he hits the pre-SOTU stump circuit, but the "if it's good enough for 2006 it's good enough for now"
Issue of civil discourse will "certainly play a role" in SOTU.
Translations:
stressy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stress + -y.
Base: stress
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: stressier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stressiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: stressful
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: That was one reason the Amsterdam show was so stressy. We'd been put on notice by the Board. Their nostrils strained for even a whiff of gay porn.
gloss: stressed; irritable
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: 2009, Cathy Cassidy (quoting a letter), Letters To Cathy
My dad's job is under threat and he is so stressy these days it's a nightmare being anywhere near him. He yells a lot and he's so unfair!
Translations:
mani-pedi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mani (“manicure”) + pedi (“pedicure”).
Base: mani
Inflected forms:
form: mani-pedis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A combined manicure and pedicure.
pos: noun
examples: That is brilliant, Clover! I’m buying you a month of mani-pedis for this!
Translations: