yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tianeptine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tricyclic antidepressant used to treat major depressive episodes and commonly abused in high doses for its opioid-like effects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
moocher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mooch + -er.
Base: mooch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: moochers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: When Mitt Romney says that 47% of Americans are moochers, or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.
gloss: A person who mooches about.
pos: noun
examples: The whole area is a network of nature reserves among estuaries and marshes, and a paradise for a moocher like me.
Derived words: molly moocher
Translations:
wife-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wife + -in-law.
Base: wife
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: wives-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wife in law only, such as one who has abandoned her husband
pos: noun
gloss: A wife who provides domestic or social support, but not love or affection
pos: noun
gloss: Another wife of one's husband. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage for one's husband's ex-wife, but sometimes used in polygamy for a co-wife.
pos: noun
examples: Instead she arranges, offhand, a nice little farewell dinner for her husband that was and the lady, Flora, who is to be her successor three months hence. […] Flora is generously constrained to leave the sometime-husband and wife to talk the matter over. "Are we not wives-in-law?" says Madame. And the upshot is that although Flora interrupts them by phone from her flat below several times until the receiver is left off, Madame easily wins back her husband. Indeed, so complete is their absorption that they have forgotten completely the trifling circumstance that they are no longer man and wife.
the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.
"Your plan provides Browne with two charming wives and gives me but one. […]"
"But, my lord," said Saunders, "doesn't the plan give Lady Deppingham two husbands? It's quite a fair division."
"It would make Lord Deppingham my husband-in-law, I imagine," said Drusilla quaintly. "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
"And you would be my wife-in-law," supplemented Lady Agnes. "How interesting!"
Many husbands, like the wives-in-law themselves, were deeply divided and upset over a family life that could no longer be defined as a single unit.
Translations:
husband-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From husband + -in-law.
Base: husband
Affixes: -in-law
Inflected forms:
form: husbands-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A husband in law only, such as one who has abandoned his wife
pos: noun
gloss: A husband who provides legally required support, but not love or affection
pos: noun
gloss: Another husband of one's wife. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.
"Your plan provides Browne with two charming wives and gives me but one. […]"
"But, my lord," said Saunders, "doesn't the plan give Lady Deppingham two husbands? It's quite a fair division."
"It would make Lord Deppingham my husband-in-law, I imagine," said Drusilla quaintly. "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
"And you would be my wife-in-law," supplemented Lady Agnes. "How interesting!"
Translations:
nish
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Polari, originally from German nichts (“nothing”) or Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nothing.
pos: pron
tags: UK
slang
examples: If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.
I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.
These fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.
Translations:
carditis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cardītis. By surface analysis, cardi- + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: carditides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inflammation of the heart (any or all parts of it).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ayn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: A romanization of the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ע (ʿayin), Phoenician 𐤏 (ʿayin), Aramaic 𐡏 (ʿē), and Classical Syriac ܥ (ʿē), Arabic ع (ʕayn) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
Inflected forms:
form: ayns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
pos: noun
Translations:
dysbiosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and βίωσις (bíōsis, “way of living”); the intended meaning of the compound word is contrasted with symbiosis - a relationship of mutual benefit. By surface analysis, dys- + -biosis.
Inflected forms:
form: dysbioses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical condition caused by microbial imbalances within the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bridie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Perhaps bride + -ie, from being traditionally served at weddings; perhaps from Bridie, a maker's surname.
Base: bride
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: bridies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty.
pos: noun
Translations:
jailbroken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone jailbreaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
praetorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From praetor + -ship.
Base: praetor
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: praetorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prætorship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pretorship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The office or term of a praetor.
pos: noun
examples: The same night, wherein the Pretorship was refused him, he passed over in play.
Translations:
illuminator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From illuminate + -or.
Base: illuminate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: illuminators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: illuminatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of illuminate:
pos: noun
gloss: Agent noun of illuminate:
pos: noun
examples: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
Related words: illumination
Derived words: endoilluminator
Translations:
unspiritual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin spīritus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin spīrituālisder.
Old French spirituelbor.
Middle English spiritual
English spiritual
English unspiritual
From un- + spiritual.
Inflected forms:
form: more unspiritual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unspiritual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not spiritual; lacking metaphysical significance.
pos: adj
Translations:
unawakened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + awakened.
Base: awakened
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not awakened; sleeping; unconscious; unaware.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
supernaturalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From supernatural + -ism.
Base: supernatural
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: supernaturalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being supernatural.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: More tragic, too, is the supernaturalism of the ancient dramatist. Darius, evoked from Hades to bring relief to the desperate condition of his realm, announces a yet greater calamity to befall his people.
gloss: A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, miracles, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anti-supernaturalism
Translations:
foreseeably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foreseeable + -ly.
Base: foreseeable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more foreseeably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most foreseeably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that could be foreseen.
pos: adv
examples: “It could foreseeably be admissible,” said Gerald Lefcourt, a defense lawyer with experience in both criminal and celebrity cases.
Translations:
karri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: karris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.
gloss: The hard timber of the karri tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tide + -er.
Base: tide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who drives with the tide
pos: noun
Translations:
sweatproof
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sweat + -proof.
Base: sweat
Affixes: -proof
Inflected forms:
form: more sweatproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sweatproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to sweat.
pos: adj
Translations:
zoomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From zoom + -er.
The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.
Base: zoom
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: zoomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which zooms.
pos: noun
examples: The car zoomed – the driver was definitely a zoomer – away to some unknown car pool […]
gloss: A kind of small swim fin.
pos: noun
gloss: A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
examples: A recent study released by the Conference Board of Canada states that the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age), Gen X and Gen Y have more in common than we might think.
gloss: An eccentric, erratic or crazy person, particularly associated with more extreme supporters of Scottish nationalism.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Derived words: rotozoomer
Translations:
esoterics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of esoterica
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
Translations:
wordie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From word + -ie; the enthusiast sense is parallel in nature with foodie and was probably influenced by it.
Base: word
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: wordies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone interested in words; especially, one enthusiastic about the study of word use but not bent on being pedantic about usage prescription.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: you probably have an inner grammando […] One who constantly corrects others’ linguistic mistakes. […] There’s another new word—wordie—that captures the alternative to being a grammando. Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in 2018, wordie describes someone who delights in language’s shifting landscape. Wordies know the language rules and where they come from, and then they make informed calls about whether or not to follow the rule in a given context. […] you almost certainly have an inner wordie who lives alongside your inner grammando. Welcome to my world! When I notice a new species in the language out in the wild (metaphorically speaking) and have an urge to stamp it out—that’s my inner grammando talking. When I delight in learning from young people about the rules of texting and new slang, my inner wordie has the upper hand. We all have our language peeves—those bits of language that grate on our nerves and that make us want to pull out a red pen while reading or stop someone midsentence to go grammando on them. (Yes, them—see chapter 18 for an explanation of how they can be singular.) And the question at any one of these peevey moments is whether to let our inner grammando say anything or let our inner wordie carry the day.
Translations:
instore
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From in + store.
Compound parts: in
store
Inflected forms:
form: instores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: instores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: inside a store or shop
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The final short-term planning deals with the instore fulfillment of operative tasks, i.e., plans short-term sales, develops personnel schedules, and aligns operative instore logistics and shelf replenishment processes.
Therefore, we anticipate consumers' perceived value and satisfaction with retailtainment will be different for consumers with high versus low likelihood to use instore technologies.
gloss: a performance or other event taking place within a store or a shop
pos: noun
examples: They are playing an instore tomorrow.
Virgin Megastores have now taken on the risk of staging the instores which will now call at Glasgow Virgin Megastore Buchanan Street
gloss: To store up; to enclose; to contain
pos: verb
examples: and he was a licensed champion, who, theorizing from his instored legal lore, or instinctive acumen, knew on the instant where best to point his thrust, and was equally ready with every form of parry and defense.
Its fragrance and sweetness and healing be poured With tones and sweet touch and with heart prompted token, In hers who all sweetness in thine has instored.
And thanks to them that they had instored in me the same things that were instored in them.
Or your just mad at everybody else, about their success, when all you needed to do was just use your success gifts that (God) instored in you.
Translations:
pind
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pinden, penden, punden (also as poynen), from Old English *pyndan, ġepyndan (“to impound, shut up, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *pundijan (“to impound”). Doublet of poind. Related also to pond.
Inflected forms:
form: pinds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Yorkshire
form: pynd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: peynd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: To impound (as cattle), to shut up in a pound.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
dialectal
transitive
gloss: To confine within narrow limits, constrain.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
transitive
Derived words: pinder
Translations:
slant-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slant-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slant-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Specifically refers to having the eyes of most East Asians: with epicanthic folds, as opposed to the downturned eyes of Europeans.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
Translations:
slanty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slant + -y.
Base: slant
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slantier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more slanty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slantiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most slanty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: slanted
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: […] when he came to climb some of Hammondsport's slantiest hills he found the pedalling as hard, if not harder, than walking.
But Harry's thoughts on such things were, “If a guy has slanty eyes, why can't I say he has slanty eyes? If he had brown eyes, I could say he has brown eyes, couldn't I?” We're not here to debate political correctness[…]
Translations:
Z-pak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Initial of Zithromax (“Pfizer's proprietary name for azithromycin”) and pack.
Inflected forms:
form: Z-paks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A package of six pills, each one containing 250 mg of the antibacterial azithromycin.
pos: noun
examples: The pills in a Z-pak are to be taken as follows: […]
Translations:
overmind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From over- + mind.
Base: mind
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overminds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The leading or controlling mind in a groupmind.
pos: noun
gloss: In Sri Aurobindo's "integral psychology", the highest of the mental planes of consciousness.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nethermind
undermind
Translations:
medium-term
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attributive form of medium term.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between short-term and long-term.
pos: adj
Translations:
ranolazine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Probably from (prop)ranol(ol) + (piper)azine.
Base: propranolol
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A drug C₂₄H₃₃N₃O₄ taken orally in the treatment of angina pectoris. It is marketed under the trademark Ranexa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
vardenafil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From [Term?] + -afil (“inhibitor of phosphodiesterase PDE5 with vasodilator action”).
Affixes: -afil
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A piperazine drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Australiana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Australia + -ana.
Base: Australia
Affixes: -ana
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: All things particular to Australia, culture and people; anything that is a symbol of Australian life.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: In the midst of Expo ’88 mania, everyone sported clothing emblazoned with splashy images of Sydney Harbour Bridge, koalas and Australiana chic. It was bold, brash and people couldn’t get enough of it.
Translations:
superjet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + jet.
Base: jet
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superjets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jet aircraft with some superior quality, such as large size or high speed.
pos: noun
examples: Raymond H. Dietrich, assistant to the preisden of Checker Bab Mfg. Co., told the styling session that "elegant simplicity" means that cares should look like "something meant for the highway, not like ocean liners, motor boats or superjet pursuit planes.".
My souped-up superjet blew a gasket just as I was ready to take off, so I took it to a highly recommended repair shop known as "Mourdock's Murderous Mechanics".
The President rightly suggests that this money come, not from the general taxpayer, but from the users of the service — from the airlines and their passengers. In the long run, this means that the economies promised by the new superjetswill be offset by higher landing fees, taxes on Jet fuel, and the like. The new planes will enable the airlines to absorb some higher costs, but expected cuts in air fares probably will not materialize, and higher fares may be required.
Translations:
dragonet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dragonet, from Middle French dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -et.
Inflected forms:
form: dragonets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small dragon.
pos: noun
examples: in his wombe might lurke some hidden nest / Of many Dragonets, his fruitfull seed […]
gloss: Any of the small perciform marine fish of the families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (slope dragonets) found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family containing approximately 186 species in 18 genera.
pos: noun
Related words: Gobiidae
Derived words: high-finned dragonet
mandarin dragonet
ocellated dragonet
picturesque dragonet
scooter dragonet
slope dragonet
spotted dragonet
Translations:
daerah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: daerahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daira
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An administrative division in parts of West Africa and Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
over-polite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + polite.
Base: polite
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: more over-polite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most over-polite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively polite.
pos: adj
examples: She can communicate both of these intentions simultaneously by using an over-polite request such as "Would you mind if I asked you to keep the windows closed, please?" Such unexpectedly over-polite utterances are often interpreted as ironic.
Translations:
epiclesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίκλησις (epíklēsis, “invocation”).
Inflected forms:
form: epicleses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prayer invoking the Holy Spirit, especially one offered in the liturgical context of the Eucharist so as to change the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular appearance or aspect of a deity.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
Roman
Translations:
redware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From red + -ware.
Base: red
Affixes: -ware
Inflected forms:
form: redwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of terracotta given a red colour by its concentration of ferrous oxide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
whiteware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From white + -ware.
Base: white
Affixes: -ware
Inflected forms:
form: whitewares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any pottery of a white or nearly white colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of white goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hypopituitarism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From hypo- + pituitary + -ism.
Base: pituitary
Affixes: hypo-
-ism
Inflected forms:
form: hypopituitarisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decrease in secretion of one or more of the eight hormones normally produced by the pituitary gland.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
spinosad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spinosads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of insecticides whose active ingredient is derived from a naturally-occurring soil-dwelling bacterium, Saccharopolyspora spinosa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
parm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of parmigiana or parmesan.
Inflected forms:
form: parms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish served in the parmigiana style (combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before baking).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Everyone who's had my mother's eggplant parm has said, “This is awesome.”
For this update on a chicken parm sandwich, I bread and sauté thin chicken breast cutlets and layer them with fresh basil, mozzarella cheese, and leftover spaghetti on garlic-buttered ciabatta.
This braised eggplant has all those savory parm-y flavors, but in an easy any-night form.
chicken parm
gloss: Parmesan cheese.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Go make some spaghetti for lunch n sprinkle on some parm
Once it's bubbling good and steady, grab some parm and pecorino, pop it all on your spaghetti.
'There's parm in that bowl there,' Lady Darvish said.
Related words: parma
Translations:
shucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shuck + -er.
Base: shuck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
pos: noun
examples: “Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […]”
Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.
gloss: Someone who shucks or removes something.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: The Kroger supermarket chain […] agreed to weigh out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain’s groceries during the first weekend.
gloss: A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.
pos: noun
examples: Friends with powerful connections helped him get a corn shucker; he knows of 80 other farmers who are on the waiting list for those machines in a region that is to receive only four during the next two years.
Derived words: cornshucker
Translations:
whiffle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: 1662, in sense “flutter as blown by wind”, as whiff + -le (“(frequentative)”) and (onomatopoeia) sound of wind, particularly a leaf fluttering in unsteady wind; compare whiff. Sense “something small or insignificant” is from 1680.
Base: whiff
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: whiffles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wiffle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whiffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whiffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whiffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whiffled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wiffle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short blow or gust.
pos: noun
gloss: A male haircut done with electric clippers.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
gloss: Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A fife or small flute.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To blow a short gust.
pos: verb
gloss: To waffle, talk aimlessly.
pos: verb
gloss: To waste time.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
pos: verb
gloss: To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
pos: verb
gloss: To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [S]ometimes it may happen that ſuch a Cloud may appear ſeveral Mornings and Evenings, and we may not feel the effects of it, or but very little; yet we always provide againſt it; for a North never comes without ſuch a foreboding Cloud. But if the VVinds also vvhiffle about to the South, with fair flattering VVeather, it never fails.
gloss: To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.
pos: verb
examples: [A] Perſon of whiffling and unſteady Turn of Mind, who cannot keep cloſe to a Point of Controverſy, […]
gloss: To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
pos: verb
examples: This is a plain and obvious ſenſe of this Promiſe, […] againſt ſuch as would whiffle away all theſe Truths by reſolving them into a mere moral Allegorie.
Derived words: wiffleball
Translations:
juglone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Juglandaceae + -one
Affixes: -one
Inflected forms:
form: juglones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An allelopathic aromatic compound found in the leaves, roots, husks, and bark of plants in the Juglandaceae family, particularly the black walnut, used as a colouring agent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
triclopyr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A systemic foliar pyridine herbicide, used to control broadleaf weeds while leaving grasses and conifers unaffected.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chlorothalonil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A broad-spectrum nonsystemic fungicide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
griseofulvin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin griseofulvum + -in.
Base: griseofulvum
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An antifungal drug C₁₇H₁₇ClO₆ obtained from the mold Penicillium griseofulvum, used in humans and animals against fungal infections of the hair and skin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
varchar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the data type name, a shortening of variable character.
Inflected forms:
form: varchars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A text field of indeterminate length in a database, as opposed to the traditional fixed-length field.
pos: noun
examples: Be aware that varchars will in general provide slower updates but faster selects. By definition, the amount of storage they use is variable.
With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.
Translations:
loy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irish láighe, láí (“spade”), from Old Irish láige (“spade”).
Inflected forms:
form: loys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of one-eared spade used in Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
examples: They were wielding the tools of their livelihood, but as weapons – scythes, hoes, loys, billhooks.
Translations:
jerkface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jerk + face.
Compound parts: jerk
face
Inflected forms:
form: jerkfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An obnoxious or unlikeable person; a jerk.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: 1995, The Simpsons (TV series), Two Dozen and One Greyhounds.
BART SIMPSON: Hey jerkface! You have the face of a jerk!
Translations:
diceless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dice + -less.
Base: dice
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not requiring dice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gameworld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From game + world.
Compound parts: game
world
Inflected forms:
form: gameworlds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: game world
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: game-world
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fictional universe of a game.
pos: noun
examples: As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld. Characters recognize and struggle against prejudice and limited understanding of Asari customs, culture, and practices. These gameworld features allow for a space where awareness and exploration of sexualities outside of the heterosexual binary can take place.
Translations:
hartebeest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From early Afrikaans hartebeest (now hartebees), from Dutch hert (“deer, hart”) + Dutch beest (“beast”).
Inflected forms:
form: hartebeest
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hartebeests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hartebeesten
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A species of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.
pos: noun
examples: Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen bucks, ree bucks, and a few hartebeesten.
Immense troops of elephants roamed the coastlands and the thorns; lions and panthers lurked in the kloofs and among broken ground; elands, hartebeesten, and other antelopes swarmed in the veld; and hippopotami and crocodiles abounded in the rivers.
Here all kinds of animals are found, viz., lions, rhinoceroses, horses (zebras), ostriches and hartebeesten in multitudes, there being always good water and grass here. […] We also saw 13 horses (zebras), 5 rhinoceroses, some ostriches and thousands of hartebeesten. […] A little further on I encountered a herd of hartebeesten, four of which I wounded, though I only secured one, which I laid on one of the oxen.
Translations:
ethnomethodology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + methodology.
Base: methodology
Affixes: ethno-
Inflected forms:
form: ethnomethodologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An academic discipline that attempts to understand the social orders people use to make sense of the world through analysing their accounts and descriptions of their day-to-day experiences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kegel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Arnold Kegel. The surname is of German origin; see Kegel (“skittle, bowling pin”).
Inflected forms:
form: kegels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kegels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kegeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: kegelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: kegeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: kegeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: kegelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: kegelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: The pubococcygeal muscles.
pos: noun
examples: The parenting magazines are on a higher moral plane than the how-to-get-a-guy magazines, just as a man going home to his wife and children (or a woman breast-feeding a baby) is on a higher moral plane than a man out trolling for nookie (or a woman flexing her Kegels in preparation for a date).
gloss: A contraction of the pubococcygeal muscles, performed for the purpose of strengthening them.
pos: noun
examples: Done for a few minutes a day, Kegels can ease childbirth, help with recovery, prevent incontinence — even improve your sex life.
Hop on top, I wanna ride / I do a kegel while it's inside
gloss: To clench one's perineum and pelvic muscles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To future appointments, I wear a skirt and thigh-highs so that I can Kegel with my outfit intact.
Derived words: kegel balls
Translations:
unmanifested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + manifested.
Base: manifested
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not manifested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Danegeld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English danegeld, from Dane, genitive plural of Dan (“Dane”), plus geld (“geld, tribute, payment”). Apparently modeled on a Scandinavian word such as Old Danish Danegjeld), from Old Norse *Danagjald, from the genitive plural of Danir (“Danes”) + gjald (“payment, tribute”).
Inflected forms:
form: danegeld
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Danegelt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: danegelt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
gloss: Any kind of tribute.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: The best now pay danegeld to the sloths, the greedy, the manipulators. And congress has legitimized the channels of deceit through laws which pay danegeld to the most strident noise makers.
But this part of the industry still had to pay Danegeld to the already over-endowed City.
This is not just a question of intelligent men selling out or having to pay Danegeld to the fundamentalists and the unions; ...
He notes how 'the Conservatives confusedly thought that they had to pay danegeld to the Left and did so reluctantly and inappropriately, ...
When the challenge of the barbarians finally came , Rome had to pay Danegeld to buy off the marauders.
What's unfair is that we make it tough for young people to get a job unless they pay danegeld to a four-year college to get a certificate that says it's okay to employ them.
Translations:
Brittonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Briton + -ic, with -tt- after Latin Brittō.
Base: Briton
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Brittonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Brittonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Brythonic; pertaining to the Celtic people inhabiting Britain before the Roman conquest, and to their language.
pos: adj
examples: The Welsh language is not a backwards, insignificant thing; it is a fundamental part of Britain’s collective history. I find it absurd that so few English people realise it is still spoken in families and communities across Wales, as part of a Brittonic culture which has survived through the ages.
Translations:
mersh
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of commercial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Commercial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: mersh pop music
Translations:
open-book
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
form: open book
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designating exams in which specified external resources, potentially including textbooks, glossaries, study notes, calculators, etc. may be used.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: closed-book
Translations:
closed-book
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designating an examination in which external resources such as calculators, glossaries, and study notes are prohibited.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: open-book
Translations:
epic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).
Inflected forms:
form: epics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more epic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most epic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: epick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.
pos: noun
examples: The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.
gloss: A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.
pos: noun
examples: The book was an epic in four volumes.
These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
gloss: A large or extended user story.
pos: noun
examples: Epics are shown in a separate list from user stories. This is because it is the user stories that are developed, not epics. Epics are decomposed into child user stories.
gloss: Of or relating to an epic.
pos: adj
examples: Beowulf is an epic poem.
The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.
gloss: Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.
pos: adj
examples: The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations
China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]
After all, Epic Fury captures the Trump presidency in its essence. Everything Mr. Trump does, at least as he sees it, is epic — the biggest, the most, the first, “like we’ve never seen before,” as he likes to say.
gloss: Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The after-prom party was truly epic.
You made an epic mistake.
Then tell him his daughter's an epic shag.
Derived words: art epic
Epic Cycle
epiclike
heroic epic
miniepic
national epic
antiepic
epically
epic doom
epic fail
Epic Greek
epicism
epicist
epicness
epicosity
epic poetry
nonepic
superepic
unepic
Translations:
true-false
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Allowing only the answers "true" or "false".
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Somehow he got one true-false question wrong out of twenty.
Grading the twenty-question true-false quiz took only 30 seconds per student.
Translations:
scotia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Latin scotia, from Ancient Greek σκοτία (skotía, “dark, shadowy”).
Inflected forms:
form: scotias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A concave molding with a lower edge projecting beyond the top.
pos: noun
Translations:
colorism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From color + -ism.
Base: color
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: colorisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colourism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.
This type of preferential colorism isn’t only found in the church aisles, it’s at family gatherings, on the dating scene, in the classroom, on the playground—it’s everywhere.
Colorism from your own people feels worse than racism – at the very least your own family and people should welcome you, no?
Eliminating racism and colorism is, of course, a worthy pursuit, but it’s also impossible to do in the abstract.
Like those, James’s season still gave noticeably less screen time to its Black contestants—and because of James’s Blackness, the colorism that has always plagued The Bachelor became more visible.
Like many other parts of the world, colourism is rampant in India.
gloss: A style of painting characterised by the use of intense color.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Turner's colorism with its cosmic world view had nothing to do with realism, in spite of its impasto handling of colour. […] Turner's images are based on the far-sighted and purely objective views of the 18th century which he imbued with new meaning through his colorism based on colour theory and plein-air painting.
Translations:
jerkwad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From jerk + -wad.
Base: jerk
Affixes: -wad
Inflected forms:
form: jerkwads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jerk; an obnoxious person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
slang
examples: And frankly, jerkwad, you're not worthy to lick the dirt off his briefcase.
Hidge said, "Someone with a license, jerkwad."
You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad.
Translations:
dragonslayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dragon + slayer.
Compound parts: dragon
slayer
Inflected forms:
form: dragonslayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who slays a dragon.
pos: noun
Translations:
hamartoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hamartia + -oma.
Inflected forms:
form: hamartomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hamartomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-cancerous, mostly benign, local malformation of cells, due to an overgrowth of multiple aberrant cells.
pos: noun
Translations:
villainize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From villain + -ize.
Base: villain
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: villainizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: villainizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: villainized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: villainized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: villainise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To represent as a villain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Managers and leaders villainize those who interfere with their needs and desires — those who do not support the organization. Workers and outsiders villainize managers and leaders for not sharing benefits and rewards created by business.
Translations:
gourami
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gourami, from Malay gurami, from Javanese ꦒꦸꦫꦩꦶ (gurami).
Inflected forms:
form: gouramis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gouramies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edible freshwater fish of the family Osphronemidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
AVL
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Audio, video, and lighting, for a performance
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
filar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin filum (“a thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: more filar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most filar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a thread across the field of view.
pos: adj
examples: a filar microscope
a filar micrometer
a filar eyepiece
Translations: