yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
manbaby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From man + baby.
Compound parts: man
baby
Inflected forms:
form: manbabies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A childishly whiny man; a man child.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: I happen to enjoy sex very much. (Occasionally a little too much.) But I wouldn't with a snivelling manbaby who spends all his waking hours, on-line, whining about how life has fucked him over.
Translations:
take-and-bake
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: take-n-bake
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: take-and-bakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: take-n-bake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A style of pizza that is prepared, but not cooked, by a pizzeria, and sold to customers to be baked at home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An individual pizza of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
bonang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: bonangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of small gongs placed on a rack and usually struck with a padded stick, a type of gong chime, used in the gamelan music of Java.
pos: noun
Translations:
saron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: sarons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in gamelan music.
pos: noun
Translations:
ring-a-ding
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: ringding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ring-a-ding-ding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ringing sound.
pos: intj
gloss: A rhyming phrase with no fixed meaning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And then he was totally unprepared for his ring-a-ding winner.
So you didn't want to make a night of it with the ring-a-ding kid?
Then the midnight rap about arson with his ring-a-ding attorney.
The brittle bones grow colder now / And the wind begins to sting / As I grow old in the family / And it aint so ring-a-ding-ding.
gloss: In the style of the Rat Pack, especially Frank Sinatra.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Drink played a large part in Sinatra's ring-a-ding arrogance.
Swanning into a supper club/casino with a dame on his arm, Robinson is Sammy Paradise (“Old Two Eyes himself”), a ring-a-ding-ding Sinatra type who flaunts his wealth and generosity with true king-of-the-world largesse.
The tumbler he [ Dean Martin ] was clutching was filled with apple juice, not whiskey, and the King of Cool was fully aware the sold-out crowd was there to see him and his pals create some ring-a-ding-ding musical magic.
Translations:
Nikes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Nike
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Sports shoes of the brand Nike.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-normally
examples: Every time I laced up my Nikes, they became my badge of honor. That swoosh became a shield I wore to protect my dreams, held inside a chest with lungs that were born tired.
Translations:
tailhook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tail + hook.
Compound parts: tail
hook
Inflected forms:
form: tailhooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device attached to the empennage of some military fixed-wing aircraft, used to achieve rapid deceleration during landings by catching the arresting gear of a runway or aircraft carrier.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ancon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Ancons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep of a breed from Massachusetts with short crooked legs and long back.
pos: noun
Translations:
ajuga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name taxonomic name Ajuga.
Inflected forms:
form: ajugas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans.
pos: noun
Translations:
Harleian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Harley + -an.
Base: Harley
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to anybody with the surname of Harley.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward Harley, especially in reference to the library of books and manuscripts they collected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
re-elevate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁léngʰusder.
▲
Proto-Italic *breɣʷisinflu.?
Proto-Italic *leɣʷis
Latin levis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin levō
Latin ēlevō
Latin ēlevātusder.
Middle English elevat
Proto-Indo-European *-o-
Proto-Indo-European *-nom
Proto-Indo-European *-onom
Proto-Germanic *-aną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Old English -an
Middle English -en
Middle English elevaten
English elevate
English re-elevate
From re- + elevate.
Inflected forms:
form: re-elevates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-elevating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-elevated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-elevated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reelevate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To elevate again; to bring higher again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This aims to re-elevate the position of reason, but now within in a new context.
Translations:
biotest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From bio- + test.
Base: test
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: biotests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biotesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biotested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biotested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to determine the strength of biological activity of a substance
pos: verb
Translations:
Blasian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of black + Asian.
Compound parts: black
Asian
Inflected forms:
form: blasian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Blasians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blasian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Encompassing both black (particularly sub-Saharan African) and Asian (particularly East/South and Southeast Asian) ancestry.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: He referenced Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash as an example. It contained these themes, but also had a sympathetic Asian and Black, or “Blasian,” protagonist.
gloss: A person of both black and Asian heritage.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Weird, I’m askin’ my Blasian one, / “Why you so focused on your Asian side?”
Translations:
foodie-ism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foodie + -ism.
Base: foodie
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: foodyism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The attitudes and practices of foodies; a gourmet's interest in food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
re-occlude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From re- + occlude.
Base: occlude
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-occludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-occluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-occluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-occluded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reocclude
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: (of occlusion) to occur again after it has been treated
pos: verb
Translations:
Jola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Diola
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Yola
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group found in Senegal (where they predominate in the region of Casamance), the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
endonasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From endo- + nasal.
Base: nasal
Affixes: endo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within the nose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Chen and Ling reported on their experiences using this phantom for training in endonasal surgical procedures.
Translations:
disilicate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From di- + silicate.
Base: silicate
Affixes: di-
Inflected forms:
form: disilicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any compound containing two silicate anions.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of sorosilicate.
pos: noun
Derived words: barium copper disilicate
Translations:
piwi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Short for P-element induced wimpy testis in Drosophila.
Inflected forms:
form: piwis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A class of genes originally identified as encoding regulatory proteins responsible for maintaining incomplete differentiation in stem cells and maintaining the stability of cell division rates in germline cells.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: However, piwi and tudor-domain containing genes are absent from flukes and tapeworms and no true vasa orthologue has been identified in schistosomes.
gloss: a small Australian magpie lark, also known as a Murray magpie.
pos: noun
Translations:
coalmining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From coal + mining.
Compound parts: coal
mining
Inflected forms:
form: coal mining
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The mining of coal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Coalmining and agriculture were designated as 'ring-fenced' industries.
Translations:
Heimlich
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Heimlichs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Heimlichs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Heimliching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Heimliched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Heimliched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Heimlich maneuver.
pos: noun
examples: They choke to death on water. […] Four Heimlichs take ten seconds to perform and anyone can do them. The Red Cross adopted the Heimlich.
Having never done a Heimlich on a dog myself, I have no way to know for sure.
THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER
The Heimlich for a Small Dog
1. Lay the dog on her side on a flat, hard surface.[…]
- Demonstrate finger sweeps
- Explain the use of the Heimlich on infants
- Explain the use of the Heimlich on children
- Explain the use of the Heimlich on pregnant patients[…]
He's choking, I think I yelled, help me turn him on his side. And I thumped him on the back and pushed up into his belly but we couldn't get our arms [around...] I would have stopped him, whacked him on the back, tried several Heimlichs on [him...]
gloss: To perform the Heimlich maneuver (on).
pos: verb
examples: Dime-sized bites rarely choke you to death. […] (Choking is the fourth most common cause of unintentional injury mortality in the United States.) […] If a waitress ever Heimlichs you out of heaven, tip her with exuberance.
Joel storms down the stairs, and Heimlichs me two times without success. My mind is racing in a near-death hallucination. […] In a choking, gasping stretch for air I collapse into Joel's arms. “I'm still good for something,” he jokes.
Translations:
DMs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of the brand name Dr. Martens.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dr. Martens-branded boots or shoes.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: Lads talked about a new pair of DMs the same way those middle-class poofs talked about their new shiny Ford Cortina Mark 2, which had just come on to the market.
Translations:
empagliflozin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From empa- (of unknown origin) + -gliflozin (“sodium–glucose cotransporter inhibitor”).
Affixes: empa-
-gliflozin
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An orally available competitive inhibitor of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2; SLC5A2) with antihyperglycemic activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
photovoice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From photo- + voice.
Base: voice
Affixes: photo-
Inflected forms:
form: photovoices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group analysis method combining photography with grassroots social action. Participants are asked to represent their communities or express their points of view through taking, presenting and collaboratively interpreting photographs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Without understanding the transformative process behind those images, photovoice submissions can be dismissed as being of poor quality and can fail to present a compelling argument in an increasingly crowded communications environment characterized by large marketing budgets, high-specification technology and vastly more professional outputs.
Translations:
yoghurt-knitting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See knit yoghurt.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An imagined hobby of left-wing, environmentalist or hippie people.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
sometimes
uncountable
examples: Neither does a not-great website whose amateurishness merely reinforces the suspicion that shambling yoghurt-knitting is still a popular activity.
In this the instincts of traditional green politics towards insularity and self-sufficiency, the cause of all those gibes about yoghurt-knitting, are completely mistaken.
A closer look at Conservative candidate training techniques reveals that its not all been yoghurt knitting and yoga in a yurt in Notting Hill.
gloss: Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
humorous
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: Muesli, despite its sandal-wearing, yoghurt-knitting associations, isn't always as healthy as you might think.
But green issues are clearly not our biggest concern because if they were we would have more of the lentil—eating, yoghurt—knitting 2CV drivers in Parliament, getting their noses into the no doubt organic trough.
I think my mum must have been going through a 'yoghurt knitting' hippy stage at the time, as the only brand that ever appeared in my lunch box was a mini packet of raisins as a treat.
Translations:
yoghurt-knitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From yoghurt + knitter.
Compound parts: yoghurt
knitter
Inflected forms:
form: yoghurt-knitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yoghurt knitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yogurt knitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yogurt-knitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
sometimes
examples: New Age mumbo-jumbo about 'living in balance' with whatever the latest thing some dippy yoghurt knitter from the West Coast of the United States of Woo- Woo has just discovered as being vital to our wellbeing.
2005, "review of The March of Unreason: Science, democracy and the new fundamentalism", New Scientist
However, what I see is rational atheist Greens arguing fiercely with the homeopathic yoghurt-knitters, not a homogenous sect.
Food, real food, not nut cutlets then, and not too many women, as a consequence, of this highly individualistic life style. The idea of being a yoghurt knitter had no appeal.
It would reinforce the division of the world into, if I might generalise wickedly, the Jaguar set and yurt-dwelling yoghurt knitters.
Translations:
lentil-weaving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Formed similarly to yoghurt-knitting: weaving and cooking with lentils are two hobbies stereotypically associated with environmentally-conscious or hippie lifestyles. Coined on the parenting forum Mumsnet.
Inflected forms:
form: lentil weaving
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
humorous
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: A home birth does not make you a lentil-weaving hippy or a dangerous, selfish nutter who is putting herself and her baby at risk.
Imagine yourself as a beautiful, lentil weaving, Ma Walton type mother and after a while, you start to become the imagined mother!
How would lentil-weaving Guardian readers have fared in a land without dishwashers populated by toughs with beard lice? Badly, is my guess.
Translations:
lentil-weaver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See lentil-weaving.
Inflected forms:
form: lentil-weavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
sometimes
examples: Even in those lentil-weaving, middle-class homes that don't have a television set, there are computers; and rare indeed is the lentil-weaver who has never slipped an allegedly educational DVD into the laptop in order to buy herself half an hour's peace.
Bigots grow old. As do lentil weavers. As do you. Trite but true.
2011, "Moondog" on Mumsnet, quoted by Bloomsbury Publishing, The Complete Mumsnet Guides: Pregnancy; Babies; Toddlers, A&C Black →ISBN
My sister read the Deborah Jackson book when she was pregnant. She was enchanted, being a full-on lentil weaver.
Translations:
pain-relieving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pain-relieving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pain-relieving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That relieves pain.
pos: adj
Translations:
syncellus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Latin syncellus, from Ancient Greek σύγκελλος (súnkellos).
Inflected forms:
form: syncelli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.
pos: noun
Translations:
acoustic-electric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Modified with the addition of pickups or a microphone, in order to make the sound louder and more noticeable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
semi-acoustic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
English semi-acoustic
From semi- + acoustic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Modified with a wholly or partially hollow soundbox, producing a sound similar to but different than a normal acoustic version of the same instrument.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Somewhat acoustic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: hollow-body electric
Translations:
Mountain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From mountain.
Inflected forms:
form: Mountains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
pos: noun
examples: Western Pacific wisely devoted its design energies to the articulateds which produced most of its gross, left the 4-6-0's that came with the road plus a few secondhand Florida East Coast Mountains for its sparse passenger service.
Translations:
goose-wing
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: goose-wings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goose-winging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goose-winged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goose-winged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sail with the sails in a goose wing position
pos: verb
Translations:
horn-violin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: horn-violins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horn violin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Stroh violin.
pos: noun
Translations:
Darood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Somali clan that primarily inhabits the central parts of Somalia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
d-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: d-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound hole, shaped like the letter D, through the top surface of a string instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
c-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: c-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound hole, shaped like a lower-case c, through the top surface of a string instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
s-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: s-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound hole, shaped like the letter s, through the top surface of a string instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
ff-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: ff-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound hole, shaped like the letters ff, through the top surface of a string instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
Comtesse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Comtesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A title for a French countess
pos: noun
Translations:
Epistle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Epistles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of epistle:
pos: noun
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of epistle:
pos: noun
Translations:
coppertop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From copper + top.
Compound parts: copper
top
Inflected forms:
form: coppertops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with ginger hair.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
flatback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flat + back.
Compound parts: flat
back
Inflected forms:
form: flatbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chelonid turtle, Natator depressus, with low-domed carapace, endemic to the continental shelf of Australia.
pos: noun
Translations:
radio-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From radio + friendly.
Compound parts: radio
friendly
Inflected forms:
form: more radio-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radio-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for play on mainstream radio; appealing to popular taste, free from profanity, etc.
pos: adj
Translations:
wage-worthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wage + -worthy.
Base: wage
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: more wage-worthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wage-worthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wageworthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of receiving wages; deserving (of) pay.
pos: adj
examples: They are doing a wage-worthy work but they are not paid for it. Instead the fathers think their duty is done when they give to the daughters as a benevolence what they, the fathers, think the daughters should have for their needs and pleasures.
Waring (1988) gives a funny example of how men's activities are seen as the use of valuable time and hence are wage-worthy, while women's activities are seen as something they ought to do out of the goodness of their hearts, without time [...]
[...] which produces the wages that, according to Ridout, were elicited by 'spontaneity' in the modern theatre. Recognising, thanks to Roach, that the wageworthy skill of any actor in any historical period is defined by a complex matrix of social, [...]
Translations:
triple-header
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: triple-headers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tripleheader
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: triple header
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Three games played one after another between the same teams.
pos: noun
gloss: Three sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
pos: noun
gloss: Three sporting events, one after the other, broadcast on the same television channel.
pos: noun
gloss: Three similar events of any kind performed on the same day.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Rabbi Feller, who performs 80 to 100 each year, remembers a June 2007 tripleheader when she officiated at morning and early afternoon ceremonies on the East Side, followed by another at the Central Park Boathouse.
Translations:
back-to-back-to-back
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Extension of back-to-back.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sequential or consecutive, in the case of exactly three events.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
gloss: A set of three things done consecutively.
pos: noun
examples: The setlist didn’t stray from what McCartney played at his similarly intimate Santa Barbara Bowl gig last September, though “Flaming Pie” snuck into this concert’s final act, opening the door for a rousing back-to-back-to-back of “Jet,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” and “Get Back.”
Translations:
midsouth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mid- + south.
Base: south
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the middle of the southern part.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The study site is located in the midsouth portion of the Tibetan Plateau in the grassland station of Damxung County […]
Translations:
antero-internal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From antero- + internal.
Base: internal
Affixes: antero-
Inflected forms:
form: more antero-internal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antero-internal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anterointernal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: in front and to the inner side
pos: adj
Translations:
love-worthiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From love + worthy + -ness.
Base: love
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the quality of being worthy of love
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tongue-lolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The protrusion of the tongue from the mouth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He says that tongue-lolling is not an unsoundness. It certainly is an unsoundness, not a disease.
Translations:
micropub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From micro- + pub.
Base: pub
Affixes: micro-
Inflected forms:
form: micropubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small public house
pos: noun
examples: He has since opened BeerHeadZ in nearby Retford, and will open a micropub in Grantham, Lincolnshire, before Christmas.
Uckfield: Wealden Council has approved the Three Acre Brewery's application to turn the 1858 LBSCR station signal box into a micropub. Decommissioned in 1991 when the level crossing was eliminated, it was used as a taxi office until two years ago.
Translations:
agrobiodiversity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From agro- + biodiversity.
Base: biodiversity
Affixes: agro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Biodiversity in agriculture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In the Bank's policy dialogue with member countries and in its lending programs, little attention has been paid to agrobiodiversity concerns, and even less to the interplay between agriculture and biodiversity conservation.
It is only in recent years that attention on community conservation, particularly with reference to agrobiodiversity, has started to gain momentum.
Six Peruvian Quechua communities live in the Park and collaboratively manage approximately 600 varieties of native potato to ensure the region’s food sovereignty by conserving its agrobiodiversity and traditional farming systems.
Translations:
grandparenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grandparent + -ing, modelled on earlier parenting.
Base: grandparent
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of helping to raise and care for one's child's child.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Not only is it showing that the brain of grandmothers is activated with grandparenting, it also shows that the parental brain areas are activated late in life, or perhaps are always activated. Once a mother, always a mother,” Pawluski said.
Translations:
componentry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From component + -ry.
Base: component
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Components generally.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
party-hearty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verb phrase party hearty.
Inflected forms:
form: party-hearties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who parties heavily.
pos: noun
examples: My family was a circle of all kinds of people—educators, high school dropouts, drop-dead beauties, a dentist, a mechanic, party-hearties, the serious ones, the quiet ones, talkers, gamblers, some in the mainstream, others who lived right on the edge, some who had gone over the edge.
In short, “Cruise” is bro-country: music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude.
Translations:
WASPish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From WASP + -ish.
Base: WASP
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more WASPish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most WASPish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suggestive of the behaviour of a WASP.
pos: adj
Translations:
bluegrass-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bluegrass + -like.
Base: bluegrass
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more bluegrass-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bluegrass-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, bluegrass music.
pos: adj
Translations:
equalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From equal + -ist.
Base: equal
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: equalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: egalitarian
pos: noun
gloss: equalitarian
pos: noun
Translations:
Cibachrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Former brand name; originally developed by the Ciba Geigy Corporation of Switzerland, + -chrome.
Affixes: -chrome
Inflected forms:
form: Cibachromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reproduction of a film transparency on photopaper, made using a dye-destruction positive-to-positive photographic process.
pos: noun
Translations:
knee-buckler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: knee-bucklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A curveball (or occasionally a knuckleball) that fools the hitter, causing his or her knees to buckle (i.e. bend).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Anything so stunning as to have a weakening effect on a person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: This guy is a sensitive and gentle, yet exciting sex partner, certainly not rough but always leading the dance. She could get weak, just anticipating him, a real knee buckler.
“Hi, Jimmy!” His friends stared back and forth between him and myself with their mouths open. Bella smiled a patented knee buckler at him.
Translations:
bugle-player
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bugle-players
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bugle player
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bugler.
pos: noun
Translations:
trombone-player
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trombone-players
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of trombonist.
pos: noun
Translations:
guitar-player
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guitar-players
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of guitarist.
pos: noun
Translations:
trance-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trance + -like.
Base: trance
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more trance-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trance-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trancelike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, a trance.
pos: adj
gloss: Related to trance music.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: trancelignende
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: transelignende
calypso-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From calypso + -like.
Base: calypso
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more calypso-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most calypso-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to calypso music.
pos: adj
Translations:
polka-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From polka + -like.
Base: polka
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more polka-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polka-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polkalike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to polka.
pos: adj
examples: The members’ real innovation is their embrace of a Finnish polkalike genre called humppa, which sounds — well, like it sounds, more or less.
Translations:
ambient-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From ambient + -like.
Base: ambient
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more ambient-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambient-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Partially ambient or displaying some ambiance.
pos: adj
gloss: Similar to ambient music.
pos: adj
Translations:
goth-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From goth + -like.
Base: goth
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more goth-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most goth-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gothlike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, goths or gothic culture.
pos: adj
Translations:
indie-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From indie + -like.
Base: indie
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more indie-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indie-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Almost indie; similar to indie phenomena such as indie rock.
pos: adj
Translations:
jazz-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From jazz + -like.
Base: jazz
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more jazz-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jazz-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jazzlike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, jazz music.
pos: adj
Translations:
klezmer-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From klezmer + -like.
Base: klezmer
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more klezmer-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most klezmer-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: klezmerlike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, klezmer music.
pos: adj
Translations:
oompah-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From oom-pah + -like.
Affixes: oom-pah
-like
Inflected forms:
form: more oompah-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oompah-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oom-pah-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Displaying an oom-pah rhythm or reminiscent of oom-pah music.
pos: adj
Translations:
prog-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From prog + -like.
Base: prog
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more prog-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prog-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: proglike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, progressive rock.
pos: adj
Translations:
qawwali-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From qawwali + -like.
Base: qawwali
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more qawwali-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most qawwali-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, qawwali music.
pos: adj
Translations:
salsa-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From salsa + -like.
Base: salsa
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more salsa-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most salsa-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, salsa music.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling salsa (the condiment).
pos: adj
Translations:
zouk-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From zouk + -like.
Base: zouk
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more zouk-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most zouk-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or reminiscent of, zouk.
pos: adj
Translations:
jazz-rock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre of rock music heavily influenced by jazz.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jazz-funk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre of funk heavily influenced by jazz.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Meanwhile, for those who doubted the sheer breadth of music Glastonbury offers, a short walk took you from Thundercat’s exploratory, spaced-out take on jazz-funk – where the smooth sound of yacht rock crashed into extended passages of improvisation to thrilling effect – to the aforementioned Craig David, clad entirely in white and padding out his set by the simple expedient of playing other people’s records and singing along to them, and thence to Liam Gallagher on the comeback trail.
Translations:
harp-player
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: harp-players
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of harpist.
pos: noun
Translations:
she-bitch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From she- + bitch.
Base: bitch
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-bitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: she bitch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cruel and fearsome woman.
pos: noun
Translations:
tree-branch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tree + branch.
Compound parts: tree
branch
Inflected forms:
form: tree-branches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tree branch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: treebranch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The branch or limb of a tree; a bough.
pos: noun
Translations:
sticky-uppy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stick up + -y.
Base: stick up
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sticky-uppy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sticky-uppy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sticking up or tending to stick up.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: She'd cut her hair off. Like, all of it. What little was left had been dyed baby-chick yellow. It was thick and sticky-uppy like a shag rug.
Wilfred Mott: Right, he's tall and thin. Wears a brown suit. Maybe a blue suit. He's got a long brown coat. Modern sort of hair. All sticky-uppy. All right? Oh, and on page two, be on the lookout for a police box. Exactly like the old ones.
I stroke the whorl of fur between his ears, one sticky-uppy and one floppy.
Translations:
outer-spacey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From outer space + -y.
Base: outer space
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more outer-spacey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outer-spacey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of outer space, science fiction, or futuristic technology.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: In the days of The Twilight Zone, the only electronics were those which scarcely supplemented real instruments (i.e. the theremin — that outer-spacey sing-saw thing most identified with The Day the Earth Stood Still and other sci-fi movies of the '50s.)
Christina de Souza: How does a crystal drive a bus?
The Doctor: In a super-clever, outer-spacey way. Just trust me.
Because unless Jorie beamed down that Wookiee-looking one, none of the outer-space aliens looked outer-spacey enough to raise an alarm.
Translations:
wibbly-wobbly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wibbly-wobbly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wibbly-wobbly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to jiggle, quiver, or fluctuate.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: (The late S. D. Szakall and Charles Coburn of the movies had the wonderful wibbly-wobbly jowls that this exercise suggests.)
The Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
Her heart started to beat like a drum and her legs became two wibbly-wobbly jellies.
Translations:
Cinderfella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Cinder(ella) + fella.
Compound parts: Cinderella
fella
Inflected forms:
form: Cinderfellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
informal
sometimes
examples: Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly. His would be the lot of an overworked "Cinderfella" had the father not found the misappropriated letter, opened it, read of an inheritance, and assumed his son-in-law to be the beneficiary.
All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.
Of course I felt dreadful about using him, but still I somehow explained to Marty as we stood on the noisy sidewalk that I needed him to pose as my date for the night, and then like Cinderfella he would leave at midnight and go home like nothing had ever happened, although I suspected he had other plans.
Translations:
gayageum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from the Revised Romanization of Korean 가야금(伽倻琴) (gayageum).
Inflected forms:
form: gayageum
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gayageums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kayagum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kayagŭm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve strings, originating in the traditional music of Korea.
pos: noun
Translations:
Indo-Pacific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Indo- + Pacific.
Base: Pacific
Affixes: Indo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean and of the western Pacific Ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There is also, after independence, the problem of military protection. History shows that no Indo-Pacific island has hitherto been able to survive without foreign intervention.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visits India, Australia and Japan seeking deals to strengthen his country’s links to Indo-Pacific powers and break Canada’s dependence on the United States. […] Accompanied by several ministers and provincial leaders, Mr. Carney wants to seal agreements to sell more oil, gas, and other natural resources abundant in Canada, secure investments and finalize defense deals with key Indo-Pacific countries.
Translations:
kickbox
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From kick + box.
Compound parts: kick
box
Inflected forms:
form: kickboxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kickboxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kickboxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kickboxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take part in the martial art of kickboxing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fight (a person) using kickboxing techniques.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
payless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pay + -less.
Base: pay
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: unpaid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She accepted an unpaid position at Poke, a digital advertising agency on the Lower East Side, viewing her payless toiling as an investment in her career, an inexpensive alternative to graduate school.
Translations:
cymbidium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name, Cymbidium.
Inflected forms:
form: cymbidiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any orchid of the genus Cymbidium.
pos: noun
examples: A recent arrangement of soaring glass vases, green calla lilies, green anthuriums, pale green cymbidium orchids and gnarled, sandblasted manzanita branches had guests gathered around it in awe.
A bell chimes as you open the door, and fans swirl below a pressed-tin ceiling. Cymbidiums, cattleyas and other flowering orchids are presented in decorative pots on round tables.
Translations:
self-originated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + originated.
Base: originated
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: that has originated from itself
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is completely self-originated and self-sufficient in its functioning.
A successful learning experience which results from self-originated motivation guarantees continued pursuance of inquiry activities.
Translations:
self-perfect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + perfect.
Base: perfect
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-perfects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-perfecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-perfected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-perfected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perfect itself; to make itself perfect.
pos: verb
examples: "Humanity self-perfects and will self-perfect."
"As one self-perfects (self-normalizes), the motivation to do evil diminishes, and the ease with which one does what is good increases."
Translations:
self-normalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + normalize.
Base: normalize
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-normalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-normalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-normalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-normalized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to normalize itself; to bring itself to normalized condition
pos: verb
examples: "As one self-perfects (self-normalizes), the motivation to do evil diminishes, and the ease with which one does what is good increases."
Translations: