yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
blowie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
Etymology: From blow + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Base: blow
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: blowies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blow job.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "I said," my friend says on the phone, "I can call the cops and have you arrested or you can give me a blowie."
‘I didn′t mind being groped by him,’ Crystal replied. ‘He was cute. In fact I′m looking forward to later; don′t I have to pretend to give him a blowie?’
2010, Zoe Foster, Playing the Field, Round 23: The Enchantress vs The Press, unnumbered page,
‘A brothel. Anyway, they got kicked out ′cos one of them – not Josh – took photos on his mobile of some bird giving him a blowie, and she flipped out.’
gloss: A blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: I woke just in time to hear the first blowie of the day buzzing around. You know the night's over when you hear the first blowie.
The blowie was still hoverin around making random swoops on Boris who by now was well beyond caring.
Mouths are clamped shut to keep out blowies, with a slit at the corner prised open in case speech - preferably laconic - is necessary; miseries are borne with a stoical shrug.
gloss: The common toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: There was always a mob fishing from the jetty, although nobody ever caught much — just trumpeters and gobblies and blowies, and sometimes the pretty little yellow-tail with their golden scales and blue spots.
Nat was puffing and heaving like a blowie on a jetty.
Cervantes was where I caught my first fish, a blowie, and copped my first bad sunburn — much to my father′s dismay, because my mother had stressed the importance of sun protection and how could he have gotten me so burnt?
Translations:
Afro-Indian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Afro- + Indian.
Base: Indian
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
form: Afro-Indians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Afrindian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: more Afro-Indian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Afro-Indian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Afrindian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person described by both African and indigenous American ancestry or culture.
pos: noun
examples: In a recent account of the last of the unconquered Seminoles, who are still living in the Everglades of Florida, I noticed reference to an Afro-Indian who apparently holds a position among these people corresponding to that of a sheriff, since he is described as executioner of the tribe.
gloss: A person described by both African and South Asian or East Indian (especially from India) ancestry or culture.
pos: noun
examples: Ngema used his song to initiate what he called a "constructive discussion" about conflicts separating Zulus and Afro-Indians.
gloss: Having both African and indigenous American ancestry or other attributes, whether of people, cultures, cuisine, language, and so on.
pos: adj
examples: Despite the decline of Indian slavery, throughout the eighteenth century South Carolina newspapers frequently advertised for runaway Indian and Afro-Indian slaves.
gloss: Having both African and South Asian or East Indian (especially from India) ancestry or other attributes, whether of people, cultures, cuisine, language, and so on.
pos: adj
examples: Afro-Indian settlements were established at least since the early 16th century onwards. Through migration of ex-slaves and free Africans within India, new settlements arose, such as that in the hilly district of Uttara Kannada[...]
gloss: Pertaining to both Africa and India.
pos: adj
examples: Another evidence of early Afro-Indian trade relations is to be found in the work of the Greco-Egyptian monk Cosmos Indicopleustes who wrote, as cited by Pankhurst (1972:10), in the early sixth century that Barbaria, probably Somalia, had substantial trade with India and Ceylon.
Translations:
spath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, shortening of the genus name Spathiphyllum, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Inflected forms:
form: spaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Spathiphyllum of peace lilies.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Besides the aforementioned field study, in vitro uptake of triclosan, hydrocinnamic acid, tonalide, ibuprofen, naproxen and clofibric acid by lettuce (Lactuca sativa L) and spath (Spathiphyllum spp.) was investigated by the same research group [139] in order to evaluate the reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation of agricultural crops.
Translations:
teel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).
Inflected forms:
form: teal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: til
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: sesame
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: teel oil
Translations:
verdun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the French town of Verdun.
Inflected forms:
form: verduns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A 16th-century form of rapier.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
devoicing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: devoicings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a sound is devoiced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: final obstruent devoicing
Translations:
songline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From song + line.
Compound parts: song
line
Inflected forms:
form: songlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A path across the land (or sometimes the sky) marking the route followed by an Aboriginal ancestor made during the Dreaming; often recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance and painting; a dreaming track.
pos: noun
Translations:
ill-doing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ill-doings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wicked act or behavior, especially a crime.
pos: noun
Translations:
Kufic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Arabic كُوفِيّ (kūfiyy) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: kufic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Kufi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cufic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Original form of Arabic script.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the Iraqi city of Kufah.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
proconsular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin prōcōnsulāris.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a proconsul, or the office thereof.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
conciliarism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From conciliar + -ism.
Base: conciliar
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that the highest ecclesiastical authority is an ecumenical council (rather than a pope).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
first-degree
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: in the first degree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 1st degree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At the first level of some system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The jury found her guilty of 6 counts of first-degree murder, one for each of the victims of her rampage.
gloss: At the first level of some system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: in cold blood
Related words: first water
Derived words: first-degree burn
first-degree manslaughter
first-degree murder
first-degree relative
Translations:
second-degree
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: in the second degree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2nd degree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At the second level of some system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The jury found her guilty of second-degree murder for accidentally killing her victim as she mugged him.
gloss: At the second level of some system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: second-degree burn
second-degree manslaughter
second-degree murder
second-degree relative
Translations:
fourth-degree
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 4th degree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At the fourth level of some system, particularly
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: At the fourth level of some system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: fourth-degree burn
Translations:
phycological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phycology + -ical.
Base: phycology
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the scientific study of algae.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crypton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cryptons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of mitosome.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-event
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + event.
Base: event
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-events
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.
pos: noun
gloss: A publicised event which does not take place.
pos: noun
Translations:
K-pop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English K-
English pop
English J-popinflu.
English K-pop
From K- (“Korean”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.
Base: pop
Affixes: K-
Inflected forms:
form: K-Pop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kpop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: KPop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: South Korean pop music influenced by Western styles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Somehow, even I got sucked into this strange K-pop universe. Sure, the quality of the music is sometimes debatable.
The K-pop septet BTS will return in spring 2026 with a new album and world tour.
gloss: A lollipop containing the drug ketamine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Derived words: Q-pop
Translations:
C-pop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From C- (“Chinese”) + pop, by analogy with J-pop.
Base: pop
Affixes: C-
Inflected forms:
form: C-Pop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cpop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: CPop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Chinese pop music influenced by western genres.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.
Translations:
diddums
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of did 'em (they) do something (to you)?.
Inflected forms:
form: poor diddums
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A term of commiseration to a child who has suffered a mildly painful situation.
pos: intj
tags: UK
gloss: A sarcastic commiseration to somebody seen to be complaining too much about hurt feelings.
pos: intj
tags: broadly
Related words: wassums
Translations:
malt-o-meal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally the trademarked name of a particular breakfast cereal made by the Malt-O-Meal Company.
Inflected forms:
form: Malt-O-Meal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hot breakfast cereal, porridge or pudding made with farina (ground wheat) or semolina; cream of wheat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
flatpack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From flat + pack.
Compound parts: flat
pack
Inflected forms:
form: flatpacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flat-pack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: self-assembly furniture packed flat in a box for transport purposes, before it is assembled.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
gloss: A surface-mounted circuit board with leads attached in the plane of the board.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
gault
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of local origin, used by quarrymen and brickmakers to refer to the type of soil. First attested in writing as "golt" in 1815 (William Smith) and "gault" in 1816 (J Hailstone).
Inflected forms:
form: gaults
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of stiff, blue clay, sometimes used for making bricks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As he spoke, they turned off the main line of the rolling clays toward the foot of the chalk hills, and began to brush through short cuttings of blue gault and "green sand," so called by geologists, because its usual colours are bright brown, snow-white, and crimson.
Translations:
galleried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gallery + -ed.
Base: gallery
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a gallery structure, particularly in the form of a covered passage supported by columns, or arches.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
Halfway down the hill, just beyond the First Church and the post-office, was the rambling, galleried old structure across the face of which, and high under its eaves, was painted the name "Cardhaven Inn."
Translations:
kennet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kenet, Old French chenet; compare kennel, chien.
Inflected forms:
form: kennets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kennets
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small hunting dog
pos: noun
Translations:
truncus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin truncus. Doublet of tronk and trunk.
Inflected forms:
form: trunci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The thorax of an insect.
pos: noun
gloss: The trunk (torso) of the human body or other animal body.
pos: noun
gloss: An arterial trunk, such as the truncus arteriosus.
pos: noun
gloss: A curve in the Cartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying an equation of the form f(x)=a/(x+b)²+c where a, b, and c are given constants.
pos: noun
Related words: persistent truncus arteriosus
Derived words: conotruncus
truncal
Translations:
low-speed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more low-speed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-speed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That operates, moves or takes place at less than normal speed.
pos: adj
examples: The difficulties of focussing colour-light signals on curved tracks to ensure maximum sighting distance were underlined in the recent official report [...] on a low-speed collision at Newcastle Central on July 25, 1960, between an unfitted freight and a diesel-hauled passenger train.
Antonyms: high-speed
Translations:
eternality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From eternal + -ity.
Base: eternal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being eternal; endlessness
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: All of time; eternity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: ceaselessness
unendingness
perpetuity
Translations:
ant-heap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ant-heaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ant-hill.
pos: noun
examples: All along the Coast we have ant-heaps ten feet high, and more in diameter.
The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung.
Translations:
referentiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From referential + -ity.
Base: referential
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: referentialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being referential.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stroopwafel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch stroopwafel, from stroop (“syrup”) + wafel (“wafer; waffle”).
Inflected forms:
form: stroopwafels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Dutch waffle made from two thin wafers with syrup in between.
pos: noun
examples: Now's your chance to also taste the other local delicacy, stroopwafel. A wafer-and-syrup pastry sandwich served atop a steaming cup of coffee, stroopwafel slowly transforms into a warm, soft treat.
A waffle is the action, or inaction, of making up your mind. In Holland, when you slice a round one in half, and glue fill it back whole again, with warm caramel, it becomes a vice. And clamped Between the Cartwheels of the stroopwafel, I was the syrup, holding them together, and apart.
[B]akers in Gouda […] were perfecting their well-known diamond patterned stroopwafels ("syrup waffles") which were handmade in Gouda for more than three centuries, lore says, as a way to make use of sugar refinery by-products. Stroopwafels, in spite of their name, are not waffles as North Americans know them. Goudse stroopwafels are another form of cookie, a buttery yeasted iron-baked cookie-dough wafer sliced in half and filled with a unique warm toffee-like mixture of molasses or treacle, sugar, butter, vanilla, and cinnamon, then joined together again.
The Dutch work hard to satisfy their sweet tooth. The quintessential Dutch treat is a stroopwafel—syrup sandwiched between two crispy, thin waffles. Prepackaged stacks of stroopwafels are sold in grocery stores, but a fresh, hot stroopwafel from a street vendor is a revelation.
He paused while the waitress deposited his coffee and stroopwafel on the table. He picked up the stroopwafel and put it on top of the coffee cup, like a lid.
Want to support the DutchNews podcast and keep up our stocks of stroopwafels and orange tompouces?
Translations:
usnic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to usnic acid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
daric
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δᾱρεικός (dāreikós), from Old Persian *darikah. Doublet of gold and yellow.
Considered by classical authors to be from Δαρεῖος (Dareîos, “Darius”) who standardized the coinage as such, but this is a folk etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: darics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gold coin from Persian Empire, introduced by Darius the Great (522-486 BC) and used until Alexander the Great's invasion (330 BC).
pos: noun
Translations:
datura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: daturas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Datura, known for its trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous properties.
pos: noun
examples: Garcias ab Horto [...] makes mention of an herb called datura, “which, if it be eaten for twenty-four hours following, takes away all sense of grief, makes them incline to laughter and mirth” [...].
"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn-apple or dhatura, the readiest poison in all India.
"Suffice it that it was of the datura family which supplies deadly poisons as well as powerful medicines."
Datura did grow in Haiti, three species, all of them introduced from the Old World.
It was a decoction of datura that wrung the truth from the old woman, by sending her into a trance from which she never recovered.
Translations:
swimmy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From swim + -y.
Base: swim
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more swimmy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: swimmier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swimmy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swimmiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swimmies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dizzy; swirling or moving as if seen in a daze.
pos: adj
examples: I hadn't noticed at Peter Anderson's—my head was too swimmy to notice anything.
"I guess it was the heat, but I felt swimmy for a moment. That's all."
It was as well I was sitting down; the experience of dizziness induced by a familial revelation did not seem to be a condition I was becoming inured to, despite the frequency with which it had swept through me in the past few days. My sight seemed to go a bit swimmy for a while, but I just sat and waited for it to clear.
gloss: An inflatable armband to help children swim.
pos: noun
Translations:
surfy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From surf + -y.
Base: surf
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: surfier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: surfiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of a shore, having lots of breaking waves
pos: adj
examples: Now again in the latter summer do those Kings of the Niblungs ride To chase the sons of the plunder that curse the ocean-side: So over the oaken rollers they run the cutters down Till fair in the first of the deep are the glittering bows up-thrown; But, shining wet and steel-clad, men leap from the surfy shore, And hang their shields on the gunwale, and cast abroad the oar; Then full to the outer ocean swing round the golden beaks, And Sigurd sits by the tiller and the host of the spoilers seeks.
gloss: characteristic of surf music
pos: adj
examples: All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy, surprisingly powerful strumming.
They do a kind of surfy version of New Order, bright and clattery, a minimalist collision of the 1950s and the 1980s.
Translations:
five-a-side
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: five-a-sides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a variation of soccer played on a smaller pitch, and with only five players in a team.
pos: noun
Translations:
municipium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin municipium. Doublet of municipio.
Inflected forms:
form: municipia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Roman town or city.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Altai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.
Inflected forms:
form: Altay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The people living in the region of the Altai mountains.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
stewy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stew + -y.
Base: stew
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more stewy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stewy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stew-like, similar to stew.
pos: adj
examples: All food is fetched in dixeys (large boilers), and tea, stew, and bacon are all cooked in turn in these, so if the orderlies don't wash them clean at dinner time we have greasy, stewy tea.
The 24-hour Kababish (939 N. Orleans, 312-642-8622) has a few booths set before a steaming buffet of hearty north Indian and Pakistani dishes, notably a thick, stewy, slow-cooked haleem made from wheat, mutton, lentils, and spice; grilled charga chicken sprinkled with garam masala; and goat curry.
Translations:
spoked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spoke + -ed.
Base: spoke
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having spokes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive.
On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen[…]
It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.
Translations:
spired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spire + -ed.
Base: spire
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a spire
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's.
This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer.
Translations:
bullpup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From bull + pup. The firearms sense originated from firearm designers in the United States during the 1930s. The unconventional configuration of bullpup rifles was compared by analogy to bulldog puppies, which were considered "squat, ugly, but still aggressive and powerful".
Compound parts: bull
pup
Inflected forms:
form: bullpups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bull pup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bull-pup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bullpuppy, a bulldog puppy (of either sex).
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: He sees thou art the best man for the swamp; that thy scent is keen with the bloodhound, thine eye like the hawk's, and thou art quick for fight as the colonel's bullpup.
gloss: A handgun smaller than a bulldog.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
examples: He brought with him the holsters of his young master, wrapped up in the fragment of a blanket. “I tink, Mass Willie,” said he, “dat you better hab dese little bullpups yer, onder you own han'. Dere's no telling how soon you may want 'em. De swode is good 'nough, when you hab dem tory in chopping reach, but de pups kin keep guard on door and winder.”
"Gone for his two little bull-pups," said Stubbs. That was what the Parson called his silver-mounted derringers.
In an Iowa murder case two witnesses swore to seeing the defendant forty rods off draw his revolver, when it was proven that they were so near-sighted that they could not tell a pistol from a bull-pup fifteen rods away.
'Bust me, Blaine! you ain't a-goin' to murder this-yer young innercent ez mebbe never toted a derringer in his life, an don't know the difference atween a bowie-knife an' a bull-pup, air you?' interposed Colonel Jefferson.
gloss: A firearm configuration in which the trigger is located forward of the magazine and breech, as opposed to a conventional configuration in which the trigger is located rear of the magazine and breech.
pos: noun
Translations:
repton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From reptation + -on.
Base: reptation
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: reptons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single entangled monomer in a system undergoing reptation
pos: noun
Translations:
ungrazed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + grazed.
Base: grazed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not grazed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
corniced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cornice + -ed.
Base: cornice
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With a cornice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Close-ups of the faces in the painting, appearing on the side walls between Palladio’s great corniced windows, alternate with apparitional red diagrams of portions of the composition, seen as if from above.
Antonyms: uncorniced
Translations:
condonation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin condōnātiō, condōnātiōnem. Equivalent to condone + -ation.
Base: condone
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: condonations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condoning of an offence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After a time it was generally assumed that he could no longer be ignorant, and that his condonation of her behaviour was a further caution to silence.
gloss: The forgiveness of matrimonial infidelity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A legal defense made when an accuser had forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they were legally complaining.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: noncondonation
Translations:
condottiere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian condottiere, from Latin conductus (“assembled, collected”).
Inflected forms:
form: condottieres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: condottieri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mercenary military leader from 14th-century Italy and later in other parts of Europe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Statues of condottieri stood in their airless niches, darkness flaring in their eye sockets and nostrils.
Translations:
soteriological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From soteriology + -ical, after German soteriologisch.
Base: soteriology
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more soteriological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soteriological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to soteriology.
pos: adj
examples: Despite common metaphorical formulations of the wu-wei ideal, each of the texts I will examine presents its own soteriological strategy for realizing wu-wei in practice, and these soteriological strategies are themselves formulated in terms of conceptual metaphor.
In fact he continued to accept Purgatory's existence until around 1530, when he finally realized that his soteriological revolution had abolished it (his change of mind demanded a certain amount of re-editing of some of his earlier writings).
Translations:
blay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaigijā, from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with West Frisian blei, Dutch blei, German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).
Inflected forms:
form: blays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bleak (fish).
pos: noun
Translations:
skidpad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From skid + pad.
Compound parts: skid
pad
Inflected forms:
form: skidpads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, circular area of flat pavement used for various tests of a car's handling.
pos: noun
Translations:
brightwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bright + work.
Compound parts: bright
work
Inflected forms:
form: brightworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Polished metal fixtures, especially aboard a boat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The varnished or oiled wood trim aboard a boat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If you're drawn to a boat with even a moderate degree of brightwork, you are obviously so attracted because you appreciate the aesthetics of wood.
Translations:
Brahmaputra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).
Inflected forms:
form: Brahmaputras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Burrampooter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.
pos: noun
Translations:
Pocahontas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Pocahontas, whose name is a borrowing from Powhatan Pokachantesu (literally “she is playful”).
Inflected forms:
form: Pocahontases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Native American woman.
pos: noun
Translations:
Hanoverian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hanover + -ian.
Base: Hanover
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Hanoverian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hanoverian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Hannoverian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Hanoverians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hannoverian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
pos: adj
examples: the Hanoverian brown rat
gloss: Of or from the House of Hanover, a German royal dynasty.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a breed of warmblooded sport horses bred by King George II, the King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone from the House of Hanover.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporter of the House of Hanover.
pos: noun
examples: "[…]I had rather be anything than a courtier, and a Presbyterian, and a Hanoverian too, as some people, I believe, are."
gloss: A horse of the Hanoverian breed.
pos: noun
Derived words: Hanoverian rat
Translations:
Batavian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Batavia + -an.
Base: Batavia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Batavian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Batavian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Batavians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From Batavia; Jakartan.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Pertaining to a member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
pos: adj
examples: Si Dul, a Batavian boy, is playing at sedekah with his two friends...
gloss: From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
pos: adj
gloss: From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: The Batavian Republic was proclaimed 19 January 1795.
gloss: Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
pos: noun
examples: By the end of the nineteenth century the diverse Indonesian ethnic group shown in the second column of Table I had lost their identity to a new sukubangsa, that of the Batavians…
gloss: Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
formal
historical
poetic
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: Bataafs
lang: Dutch
word: Bataaf
lang: Dutch
word: Batavier
Batavia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Batavia, from Proto-Germanic *Batawjō. Doublet of Betawi and Passau.
Inflected forms:
form: Batavias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of lettuce with broad flat leaves.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-feeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + feeling.
Base: feeling
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Self-awareness; knowledge of, or familiarity with, oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Full easie was for her to haue beliefe, / Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe, […] / Could iudge what paines do louing harts perplexe.
gloss: Self-centredness, egotism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
round-top
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: round-tops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roundtop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: round top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A platform at the top of a ship's mast.
pos: noun
examples: A man on the roundtop cried out, Au voile, a sail.
Translations:
minify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From mini- + -fy.
Base: mini
Inflected forms:
form: minifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make smaller.
pos: verb
examples: Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.
gloss: To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
pos: verb
examples: But, mused Parker, this theory of one's perplexities being diminished by the vastly superior height of these Gothic arches cannot have any foundation in fact, for the same inverted telescope that minifies my burdens also minifies my capacity to carry them, leaving me exactly of the same stature as before.
gloss: To remove white space and unnecessary characters from source code in order to reduce its size.
pos: verb
examples: When code is minified, all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).
Antonyms: magnify
magnify
Related words: minification
Derived words: minifier
unminified
Translations:
minification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mini- + -ification.
Base: mini
Inflected forms:
form: minifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reduction in apparent size of objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Minification is the process of eliminating white space, comments, and other non-essential parts of the JavaScript code to decrease the size of the JavaScript files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.
Antonyms: magnification
Related words: minify
Translations:
leucistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From leucism + -istic, ultimately from Latinized form of Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).
Base: leucism
Affixes: -istic
Inflected forms:
form: more leucistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leucistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected by leucism.
pos: adj
Translations:
intraracial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From intra- + racial.
Base: racial
Affixes: intra-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within a single race (group of people); of or by members of the same race.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
Antonyms: interracial
Translations:
trifluoromethyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: trifluoromethyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical CF₃- derived from methyl
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-compounds
examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
2,5-Bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (104) has been reported by several groups to react with ring-strained alkenes under forcing thermal conditions to produce coupled products
Translations:
two-up-two-down
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: two-up-two-downs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional house with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Mansions and workers' two-up-two-downs sprawled all over the town, higgledy-piggledy.
Houses from Second to Fifth Street were two-up-two-downs and had few amenities, no bathrooms, and were therefore cheap to rent. Some had no hot water.
Translations:
kattar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Hindi कट्टर (kaṭṭar, “strict, rigid”).
Inflected forms:
form: more kattar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kattar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strict, rigid, fundamentalist, especially in terms of religious belief.
pos: adj
tags: Hinduism
India
examples: "And even the announcement of Delhi’s own Board of Education came with one of the avowed aims being making students “kattar deshbhakt” (staunch patriots)."
Translations:
Switzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From early New High German Schwytzer (modern High German Schweizer) "a Swiss person", especially "a Swiss soldier or mercenary", a designation adopted in the 16th century, ultimately from the toponym Swīz "Schwyz". More at Swiss.
Inflected forms:
form: Switzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Switzerland, a Swiss person.
pos: noun
gloss: A Swiss Guard.
pos: noun
Translations:
spritsail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From sprit + sail.
Compound parts: sprit
sail
Inflected forms:
form: spritsails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprit-sail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of three- or four-sided fore-and-aft sail and its rig, supporting the leech of the sail by means of a sprit.
pos: noun
examples: Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
Such a ship as the Rose of Devon frigate, standing out for the open sea, is a sight the world no longer affords. Those ships are “gone, gone, gone with lost Atlantis.” Their lofty poops, their little bonaventure masts, their lateen sails aft, their high forecastles and tall bowsprits with the square spritsail flaunted before the fiddlehead, came down from an even earlier day
Translations:
Sassanian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Sassanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of Sasanian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Dated spelling of Sasanian.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sasanian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Sasan + -ian.
Base: Sasan
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Sāsānian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sassanian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Sāssānian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Sasanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sāsānian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sassanian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Sāssānian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Sasanian dynasty or the Sasanian Empire.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Sasanian dynasty.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sassanid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Sassanidēs, from Sassan + -idēs.
Base: Sassan
Affixes: -idēs
Inflected forms:
form: Sassanids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sassanidae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sasanian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In order to diminish the religious significance of the place, the British systematically referred to Salman Pak by its classical Sassanid name, Ctesiphon.
gloss: Sasanian.
pos: noun
Translations:
trachytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From trachyte + -ic.
Base: trachyte
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or composed of trachyte.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One is overwhelmed by the contemplation of these innumerable sculptures, worked with delicacy and artistic feeling in a hard, intractable, trachytic rock, and all found in one tropical island.
Translations:
decompilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + compilation.
Base: compilation
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decompilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result of decompiling
pos: noun
gloss: The output of a decompiler
pos: noun
Translations:
noninfringement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + infringement.
Base: infringement
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: noninfringements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absence of infringement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To issue a declaratory judgment in this case, the court would have to find that Merriam-Webster has no claim of copyright infringement over any portion of the material Richards proposes to use. Richards does not make such a claim, nor does he allege that Merriam-Webster's copyright certificate is invalid. Accordingly, his claim that some entries may have entered the public domain is an insufficient ground for a declaratory judgment of noninfringement of the work as a whole.
Translations:
unsharp
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English *unscharp, from Old English unsċearp, from Proto-West Germanic *unskarp, from Proto-Germanic *unskarpaz, equivalent to un- + sharp. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunskäärp (“unsharp”), West Frisian ûnskerp (“unsharp”), Dutch onscherp (“unsharp”), German Low German unscharp (“unsharp”), German unscharf (“unsharp”), Danish uskarp (“unsharp”), Swedish oskarp (“unsharp”), Norwegian uskarp (“unsharp”).
Base: sharp
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unsharp
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsharp
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsharps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsharping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unsharped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unsharped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not sharp.
pos: adj
gloss: Not sharp.
pos: adj
examples: an unsharp tool
gloss: To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: nonsharp
Antonyms: sharp
crisp
Derived words: unsharpness
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: uskarp
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: uskarp
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: uskarp
bankside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bank + side.
Compound parts: bank
side
Inflected forms:
form: banksides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The land by a riverbank.
pos: noun
examples: The banksides, above normal water level, were dressed with a layer of moss peat and seeded with a mixture of grasses.
Translations:
sexcapade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of sex + escapade.
Compound parts: sex
escapade
Inflected forms:
form: sexcapades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sexual escapade; an incident or story involving sex.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: The rest of Don Juan is a series of sexcapades across Asia and Europe.
Rottenneighbor.com even features video from long-suffering neighbours, such as the screeching soundtrack of one woman's nightly sexcapades or the video clips of a man who drives his riding mower in circles for hours on end.
“And, Beef, I didn't even know there was a poetry corner in the Lone Moose Wind. I bet no one's even read this.” “You're probably right. I mean, kids today, with their video games and their LinkedIns, and their... kites. I'm sure nobody cares about my sexcapades.”
Translations:
podge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from pudsy (“plump”), which could be a diminutive of pud (“child's hand, forepaw”).
Inflected forms:
form: podges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fat person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: Fatness, fat; podginess.
pos: noun
Related words: hodge-podge
Derived words: podgy
Translations: