yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ewe-necked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ewe + necked.
Compound parts: ewe
necked
Inflected forms:
form: more ewe-necked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ewe-necked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a neck like a ewe's; said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient, being somewhat hollowed out.
pos: adj
examples: A ewe-necked horse is exceedingly unpleasant either to ride or drive, for the neck, low set on, instead of being nicely arched, and thus affording a proper resting-place for the bit on the bars of the mouth, is carried straight out, and the head high, and such horses are in the habit of throwing up their heads suddenly […]
Translations:
lowry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Related to lorry.
Inflected forms:
form: lowries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open boxcar used on railroads.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Ossianic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ossian + -ic.
Base: Ossian
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Ossianic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ossianic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
pos: adj
examples: [F]or what I saw, the compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.
Translations:
rat-race
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rat-races
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rat-racing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rat-raced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rat-raced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To rat run, that is, to drive on side streets, often at high speeds, to avoid traffic.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
gloss: To partake or participate in a rat race, in all senses.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
slang
Translations:
delaine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French de laine (“(made) of wool”). See muslin delaine.
Inflected forms:
form: delaines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of mixed fabric previously used to make women's dresses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
free-milling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Yielding free gold or silver; said of certain ores that can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
might-be
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.
Compound parts: might
be
Inflected forms:
form: might be
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: might-bes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: might be
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.
gloss: That which might be or happen; a possibility.
pos: noun
examples: In the Biology Teachers'" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a "might be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]
Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls "quality": "mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.
It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance.
Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'.
Translations:
slow-walk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".
Inflected forms:
form: slow-walks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slow-walking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slow-walked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slow-walked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slow walk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
pos: verb
tags: especially
idiomatic
transitive
examples: many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.
Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored.
Mr. Pulte argued that Mr. Siebert was slow-walking the James case in order to get confirmed by the Senate for a job in a state with two Democratic senators, according to people briefed on the conversation.
Translations:
APGAR
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Backronym, from Apgar score.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)
pos: noun
Translations:
driftless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From drift + -less.
Base: drift
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more driftless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most driftless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no goal or direction; aimless; purposeless
pos: adj
examples: But the society into which I was now introduced swarmed with the gipsies of literature, men who lived careless, driftless lives, without thought of to-morrow.
gloss: Without a drift (mass of matter thrown together, especially by wind or water).
pos: adj
gloss: Random; having no fixed direction.
pos: adj
examples: driftless control system
driftless Wiener process
Derived words: Driftless Area
driftlessly
driftlessness
Translations:
fueler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Etymology: From fuel + -er.
Base: fuel
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fuelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fueller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, supplies fuel.
pos: noun
examples: Men of France, changeable chameleons,
Spitals of diseases, shops of fashions,
Love's fuelers, and the rightest company
Of players which upon the world's stage be
gloss: A car running on specialized fuel.
pos: noun
Translations:
asphaltic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From asphalt + -ic.
Base: asphalt
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more asphaltic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most asphaltic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
pos: adj
examples: asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment
The aggregated Soyle
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm
As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
And with Asphaltic slime,
Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;
[…] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,
gloss: Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,
Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,
So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;
[…] who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
Th’ Asphaltic lake.
Derived words: semiasphaltic
Translations:
webster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English webbestere, webster, from Old English webbestre, feminine form of webba (“weaver”). Compare web, weave, and -ster.
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: websters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weaver (originally, specifically female).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A Derbyshire webster who proposed to cure a lunatic with a paper charm in the reign of Charles I demanded £3 down, and £3 more when the patient was cured.
Translations:
Bellona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Bellōna, related to bellum.
Inflected forms:
form: Bellonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman of great spirit and vigour.
pos: noun
Translations:
Volsci
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin Volscī.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic.
pos: noun
tags: historical
plural
plural-only
Translations:
regenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + genesis.
Base: genesis
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: regeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: renewal; rebirth
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology
There tended to be thereafter a continual re-genesis of dissenting sects.
Translations:
agronomical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: agronomic
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Chicago-style
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more Chicago-style
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Chicago-style
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Corrupt and hardhanded, authoritarian, with patronage and nepotism; grandiose.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: see Chicago-style hot dog.
pos: adj
gloss: see Chicago-style pizza.
pos: adj
Translations:
chronicon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chronicons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: chronicle
pos: noun
Translations:
methoxyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of methyl + hydroxyl.
Compound parts: methyl
hydroxyl
Inflected forms:
form: methoxyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A univalent radical, CH₃O-, derived from methanol
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
plain-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more plain-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plain-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: frank; sincere; honest
pos: adj
examples: For every virtue , every worth , renown'd ;
Sincere , plain-hearted , hospitable , kind
Translations:
creasy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crease + -y.
Base: crease
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: creasier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: creasiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of creases.
pos: adj
examples: Mrs. Glegg had on her fuzziest front, and garments which appeared to have had a recent resurrection from rather a creasy form of burial;
And o’er her second father stoopt a girl,
[...] and from her lifted hand
Dangled a length of ribbon and a ring
To tempt the babe, who rear’d his creasy arms,
Caught at and ever miss’d it, and they laugh’d:
He searched there a day and half a night, pulling all the soiled, creasy old papers out of the drawers and pigeon-holes before he would answer his wife's inquiries as to what he had lost.
[...] the store has created an ­exclusive fabric that looks like 100% linen but has (invisible) polyester in it. It’s ­washable, less creasy and easier to iron.
gloss: Denoting any of several related species of edible, commonly wild, greens, especially upland cress or winter cress.
pos: adj
tags: Southern-US
mainly
examples: Creasy greens are amazingly versatile when it comes to brightening up winter fare. You can try them in any recipe that calls for watercress or cooked spinach.
Translations:
Arabism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Arab + -ism.
Base: Arab
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Arabisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idiom characteristic of the Arabic language.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: The translator, Joseph-Charles Mardrus, knew Arabic and he used some Arabic texts as the basis of his rewriting of the collection of ancient Eastern tales which he titled, in a daring Arabism in French, Les Mille Nuits et Une Nuit […]
Arabisms, properly speaking, occur only as it respects form, in a few words; and this, it is probable, is only the result of negligent transcription. The Arabic language never exercised any predominating influence over the Hebrew.
Translations:
curser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From curse + -er.
Base: curse
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cursers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who curses.
pos: noun
Translations:
go-by
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: go-bys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The deliberate ignoring or disregard of someone or something.
pos: noun
gloss: Escape by artifice; evasion.
pos: noun
gloss: In coursing, the act of passing by or ahead in motion.
pos: noun
Derived words: give the go-by
Translations:
standage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From stand + -age.
Base: stand
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: standages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reservoir of water accumulated at the bottom of a mine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Space to stand or store railway vehicles, such as a siding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
The distribution depot at Liversedge is equipped with parallel sidings for wagon standage.
gloss: A demurrage charge for wagons not unloaded by the consignee within a reasonable time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Room for a train to stand if necessary, e.g. between junctions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] enhancements at Engine Shed Junction (to give 750-metre clear standage between there and Whitehall East Junction) […]
Translations:
indin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From indigo + -in.
Base: indigo
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A dark red crystalline substance, isomeric with and resembling indigo blue, and obtained from isatide and dioxindol.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unthank
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unthank, from Old English unþanc (“displeasure, anger, ill-will”), from Proto-Germanic *unþankaz, equivalent to un- + thank. Cognate with West Frisian ontank, Dutch ondank, German Undank, Danish utak.
Base: thank
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unthanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unthanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unthanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unthanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lack or absence of thanks or thankfulness; thanklessness; unthankfulness; ill-will.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is always by this unthank that things are given to the observer that we pretend to have access to the truth of the word.
gloss: To recant; unsay, as what has been said by way of acknowledgement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undo or retract one's thankfulness; negate, cancel, or revoke one's thanks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hydrobromide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From hydro- + bromide.
Base: bromide
Affixes: hydro-
Inflected forms:
form: hydrobromides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound of hydrobromic acid with an organic base (distinguished from a bromide, in which only the bromine unites with the base).
pos: noun
Translations:
burghal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From burgh + -al.
Base: burgh
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a burgh or borough.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: In Scotland, parishes are either burghal, i.e. those comprised wholly within a burgh royal; landward, those forming a rural district; or mixed, i.e. a burgh with a rural district attached.
There is a pleasant smell of cooking about, and a hum of compact and contented life. Add the excitement of an election, and you have that busy burghal hive which is the basis of all human society—a snug little commune intent on its own affairs, a world which for the moment owes allegiance to no other.
It is true that Frome is not called a borough, nor are burgesses recorded for it, but the payment of the ‘third penny’ suggests burghal status […]
Antonyms: landward
Translations:
high-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From high + hearted.
Compound parts: high
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more high-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of courage or nobleness; heroic.
pos: adj
examples: A younger man, who had reined up next to the one Miles called "lord," snorted. "If that boy is high-hearted, or a fierce fighter, either, I'll eat his breeks."
And she was in the world alone, Alone and old, but still high-hearted.
The result proved that he did not yet know the high-hearted woman who, whatever her faults might be, was yet capable of sacrificing all with cheerfulness to follow him to the prison — or even to the scaffold.
gloss: Full of liveliness and passion, vivacious.
pos: adj
examples: "She was not exactly a beauty," Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very intelligent, she was invariably at the center of every social gathering, the favorite of girls and young men alike.
It was not merely its quiet monotony, its unbroken sameness of topics as of events, and its small economies, always appearing on the surface; but that a young girl like Kate, full of life and spirits, gay, handsome, and high-hearted, — that she should go her mill-round of these tiresome daily cares, listening to the same complaints, remedying the same evils, meeting the same difficulties, and yet never seem to resent an existence so ignoble and unworthy!
Derived words: high-heartedly
high-heartedness
Translations:
Gravenstein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after a place in Schleswig, Germany.
Inflected forms:
form: Gravensteins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of autumn apple with deep red or orange streaks.
pos: noun
Translations:
femslash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From fem + slash.
Compound parts: fem
slash
Inflected forms:
form: femmeslash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.
One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.
The point of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify as femslash.
Translations:
keyholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: BDSM
computing
cryptography
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sexuality
Etymology: From key + holder.
Compound parts: key
holder
Inflected forms:
form: keyholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: key holder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who holds the key for security reasons.
pos: noun
gloss: A device or component for holding a key.
pos: noun
gloss: The individual or organization with access to a cryptographic key.
pos: noun
examples: A key duplicating machine comprising […] a keyholder attached to said shaft, said keyholder providing for holding a key blank and an existing key having notches thereon; […]
gloss: A dominant partner who locks their submissive partner in a chastity belt or chastity cage, or otherwise controls whether the submissive partner is able or allowed to receive orgasms or sexual stimulation.
pos: noun
Related words: keyholding
Translations:
pay-by-wave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 21st century.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A contactless electronic payment technology by which a purchase is made by waving a card or mobile phone near a reader.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
powderpuff
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From powder puff, associated with female makeup.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to a division of a traditionally male sport that is reserved for females.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In response to a hypothetical question, the psychiatrist stated that quite probably Miss Lynch's abnormal brainwave pattern and behavioral difficulties were caused by the head injury she received in the powderpuff football game.
A new field on the 110-acre campus has provided the opportunity for a softball team, and a new sports complex and a student center are planned. Intramurals, with the exception of powderpuff football, suffer.
I know for a fact there would still be sports because women are competitive as hell. At my high school they brought an end to the annual powderpuff game because of the mounting number of severe injuries.
Translations:
multichoice
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + choice.
Base: choice
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: multiple-choice
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A strong democratic referendum process would utilize a multichoice format in place of the conventional yea/nay option.
If there are a large number of funds, we'll use a multichoice list box, and if there are three or fewer funds, we'll use a set of check boxes.
We provide an example of a multichoice game for which the value Φ is not equal to any of the values Ψʷ.
Translations:
keyman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From key + man.
Compound parts: key
man
Inflected forms:
form: keymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telegraph operator.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Conscious of their importance, the 324 labor delegates marched bravely in and elected by acclaim as their president a onetime Ontario telegraph keyman, Senator Gideon Decker Robertson […]
gloss: A workman who checks a railway track for faults, and who carries a keying hammer.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: An employee of vital importance to a business.
pos: noun
examples: A corporation may feel the need for life insurance on one of its keymen under a variety of circumstances.
As the keymen learn how to handle confidential company information, the owner-manager can disclose more to them. In most very small firms, the keymen will be "working" bosses.
Derived words: keyman insurance
Translations:
fish-bellied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fish-bellied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fish-bellied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bellying or swelling out on the underside.
pos: adj
examples: a fish-bellied rail
Translations:
feather-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more feather-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feather-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: foolish or frivolous
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: ... some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them,
“You may be a feather—headed imbecile but is it a crime to be a feather-headed imbecile? What could you have possibly done to deserve this?”
Lucky wondered as he stood if there was anything worse than some foolishly romantic, feather headed old maid?
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: having feathers on one's head.
pos: adj
Translations:
fly-tipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fly-tippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flytipper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in fly-tipping.
pos: noun
examples: A fly-tipper committed a serious error when he dumped a large quantity of waste alongside the track at Burnley earlier this year - his home address was discovered on paperwork found among the piles of rubbish.
Translations:
chooch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian ciuccio and/or Neapolitan ciuccio. The loss of the final vowel is typical of southern Italian languages.
Inflected forms:
form: chooches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person; a meathead.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: You think we don't know what you're doing, chooch? Throwing rocks at a scout convoy?
Translations:
hatting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hat + -ing.
Base: hat
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: hattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manufacture of hats.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Fabric used in making hats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: top-hatting
Translations:
e-petition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + petition.
Base: petition
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-petitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A petition that is published on the Internet to be signed by online supporters.
pos: noun
Translations:
Wilsonian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Wilson + -ian.
Base: Wilson
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to US politician Woodrow Wilson or his policies.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to British politician Harold Wilson or his policies.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to English writer Colin Wilson (1931–2013).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the Wilsonian idea of the outsider
gloss: Of or relating to American musician Brian Wilson (1942-2025).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: Wilsonianism
Translations:
EMT-B
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: EMT-Bs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A basic level emergency medical technician that has passed national registry examination; trained less extensively than the advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic (EMT-P) level
pos: noun
Translations:
sclerophyllous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sclero- + -phyllous.
Base: sclero
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to sclerophylls.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The hipparionine horses arose in North America during the Middle Miocene and differed significantly from Anchitherium and other similar equids in the development of very high-crowned cheek teeth as a response to the more sclerophyllous, harder vegetation.
Translations:
Tyrian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tyre + -ian.
Base: Tyre
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Tyrian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tyrian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Tyrians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From or relating to Tyre, Lebanon.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a purple colour produced by the dye Tyrian purple.
pos: adj
examples: Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
Two angel forms were seen to glide,
The Genii of the stream;
Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue
Thro' richest purple to the view
Betrayed a golden gleam.
It was no longer torture-torn and hateful, as I had seen it when she was cursing her dead rival by the leaping flames, no longer icily terrible as in the judgment-hall, no longer rich, and sombre, and splendid, like a Tyrian cloth, as in the dwellings of the dead.
I was wondering at these hanging gardens amid the forest of pink and white marble, red sardonyx, blue-gray, and cream, and black bricks, and green and yellow and tyrian tiles, when the sight of a lansquenet guarding the entrance to a casern reminded me of the promise I had made the officer of the peltasts the night before.
gloss: Person from Tyre.
pos: noun
Translations:
nautiloid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From nautilus + -oid.
Base: nautilus
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: nautiloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nautiloid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nautiloid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A mollusc resembling a nautilus; specifically, a cephalopod of the subclass Nautiloidea.
pos: noun
examples: Cephalopods have a long fossil record, the earliest certain cephalopod fossils are loosely coiled or straight shelled nautiloids found in the Cambrian of China 515 million years ago.
gloss: Resembling a nautilus.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the subclass Nautiloidea.
pos: adj
Translations:
perceivably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From perceivable + -ly.
Base: perceivable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more perceivably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perceivably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that can be perceived.
pos: adv
Translations:
rhizomatous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more rhizomatous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rhizomatous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or resembling a rhizome.
pos: adj
examples: rhizomatous plant
Translations:
light-legged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + legged (“having legs”, adjective).
Base: light
Inflected forms:
form: more light-legged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most light-legged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nimble; swift of foot.
pos: adj
examples: Pas dared not Cosma chase
, but did intend next bout with her to meet
, so he with Nous to Geron turned their race,
with whom to join fast ran Urania sweet.
But light-legged Pas had got the middle space
Translations:
portreeve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English portereve, portereve, from Old English portġerēfa, from port (“a walled market town”) + ġerēfa (“reeve”). By surface analysis, port + reeve.
Inflected forms:
form: portreeves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: port-reeve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: portgreve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: portgrave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A borough-reeve: an office equivalent to a mayor (historical) in several major English towns or (dialect) in various minor boroughs of Wales and Southwest England.
pos: noun
examples: Instead of the portgreve [of London], Richard the first ordained two bailiffs, but presently after him King John granted them a mayor for their yearly magistrate.
gloss: A municipal office subordinate to a mayor, (especially) a bailiff.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A port reeve, a port warden.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: portreeveship
Translations:
lifespring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From life + spring.
Compound parts: life
spring
Inflected forms:
form: lifesprings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spring or source of life.
pos: noun
examples: Consumption! 't is thou that their life-springs hast wasted!
'T is thou that hast wither'd the bud in its bloom!
Perchance, when ages shall have fled, that land,
Stripped bare-- again unable to withstand
Volcanic force, that will her life-springs start
Translations:
penality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See penalty.
Inflected forms:
form: penalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being penal; liability to punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many of the Ancients denied the Antipodes, and some unto the penality of contrary affirmations
penality is not merely an effect or a specific result of neoliberalism but is a core defining feature.
Translations:
prevertebral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From pre- + vertebral.
Base: vertebral
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sidehill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + hill.
Compound parts: side
hill
Inflected forms:
form: sidehills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side or slope of a hill; a sloping descent.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: By reason of this planning the line, which for much of its length has a sidehill location in river canyons with steep sides, was compelled to tunnel extensively, the 43 tunnels on the route having a combined length of 44,189 ft.
Translations:
tentmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tent + maker.
Compound parts: tent
maker
Inflected forms:
form: tentmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manufacturer of tents.
pos: noun
examples: And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
"Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning - fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old."
His [Paul's] profession as a tentmaker (Acts 18:3) may have been in the family for generations and was fairly lucrative […]
Translations:
single-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From single + hearted.
Compound parts: single
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more single-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most single-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: singlehearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an honest heart; straightforward, free from duplicity.
pos: adj
examples: There are two hundred and eighty men, perhaps more, in that body, as honest, straightforward, singlehearted reformers as ever were assembled within four walls.
gloss: Devoted; unambivalent and dedicated.
pos: adj
examples: All this is a foolish trick of the South Korean authorities to impair the daily rising authority of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and undermine the great singlehearted unity of the people around the respected General Kim Chong-il ...
Related words: single-minded
Derived words: single-heartedly
single-heartedness
Translations:
cylinder-head-sector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
redressal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From redress + -al.
Base: redress
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: redressals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Redress.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
Translations:
rockered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rocker + -ed.
Base: rocker
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a rocker; curving upwards at the ends.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a rockered keel
a rockered skate
a rockered surfboard
gloss: Of footwear: having a rocker (a thicker-than-normal sole with a rounded heel).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Toning shoes have a rockered bottom to force you to roll up and over a hump under the foot, or in essence, fight up and over the shoe.
gloss: Fitted with a rocker.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a rockered chair
Translations:
overlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From overland + -er.
Base: overland
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: overlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who travels overland.
pos: noun
examples: The Overland Riders walked their horses after making the turn, there being no need for haste, as no one believed that the lumberjacks would follow, and further, the Overlanders were looking for a suitable camping place for the night.
Sarah was a nurse from Devon and an “overlander”, one of our group of 20 travelling across Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in a Mercedes-Benz truck.
gloss: A drover who herds large groups of sheep or cattle over long distances.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The overlanders are, nearly all, men in the prime of youth, whose occupation it is to convey large herds of stock from market to market, and from colony to colony.
The first overlander was Mr. Darcy Uhr, who arrived from Queensland with cattle in 1872.
Translations:
playday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + day.
Compound parts: play
day
Inflected forms:
form: playdays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A day devoted to play or fun.
pos: noun
examples: July 28 1728, Jonathan Swift, My Lady's Lamentation and Complaint against the Dean
To ease a poor lady,
And beg her a playday.
So may you be seen
No more in the spleen!
Translations:
stop-start
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stop-start
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stop-start
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
pos: adj
examples: It was Van Persie's only opportunity during a stop-start match in which Theo Walcott, Gervinho and Aaron Ramsey squandered chances to open the scoring.
Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
Otherwise, we would not be talking about electrifying the main lines, as the work would have been long since done. Instead, we are now at the sixth stage of a stop (1960s) start (1990s East Coast) stop (1990s) start (2000s Great Western) stop (2010s) process that has gone on for more than half a century.
These strategies also need plans which are then developed for delivery in an efficient manner, unlike the shop-start stuff we have lived with for far too long.
Translations:
patched-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fixed by patching.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by Simpson.
Translations:
ohia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōhiʻa.
Inflected forms:
form: ohias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ohi'a
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle family, especially
pos: noun
examples: The dominant canopy plant is the Ohi‘a, a greyish tree of medium height, often gnarled and dressed with lichens, and carrying small, oval, dark green leaves that shine attractively in a certain light.
gloss: Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle family, especially
pos: noun
Translations:
hornish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From horn + -ish.
Base: horn
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more hornish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hornish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat like horn or a horn.
pos: adj
Translations:
emphysematous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From emphysema + -ous. Compare French emphysémateux.
Base: emphysema
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CEST) performed on 06 August, 12 showed paraseptal and panacinar emphysematous changes in bilateral lung fields with flattening of the diaphragm.
Translations:
bonneted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bonnet + -ed.
Base: bonnet
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: bonnetted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing or having a bonnet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lamps may be either bonneted or unbonneted.[…]Ackroyd and Best or Hailwood lamp / This is one of the best of the oil lamps. It is a double gauze, bonneted lamp and is of very substantial construction and well suited for a working lamp.
Rubbing the glass of the long looking-glass and leering sideways at her swinging figure a sound issued from her lips—something that had been gay twenty years before on the stage perhaps, had been hummed and danced to, but now, coming from the toothless, bonneted, care-taking woman, was robbed of meaning […]
To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.
In 2005, less than 2 percent of Scania’s trucks sold worldwide had a bonneted cab. Although the modular system made it possible to develop a bonneted cab with relatively little additional effort, there were costs associated with development and production.
Translations:
tegg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: teggs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing.
pos: noun
gloss: The wool from such a sheep.
pos: noun
examples: It would prove much to the advantage of those who keep long woolled sheep if they suffered the lambs of their flock to retain their fleeces until the next year's shearing, as they would then produce a class of wool known by the name of tegg or hogget wool
Translations:
montero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish montero (“huntsman”).
Inflected forms:
form: monteros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A round Spanish cap, with flaps at the back or sides, once used by hunters.
pos: noun
Translations:
bittering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bitter + -ing.
Base: bitter
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: bitterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bitter compound, such as that used in adulterating beer or that removed from coffee.
pos: noun
examples: A patent was lately grantedd to David Dear, of the town of Salina, county of Onondaga, and state of New York, for an improved mode of separating the bitterings from, and cleaning hte same from salt kettles or boilers of any description used in the manufacture of salt.
It is used as a kettle addition in conjunction with other post-fermentation bitterings.
gloss: The act of making or becoming bitter.
pos: noun
examples: This observation would suffice to explain the fact mentioned at the commencement of this paragraph, that bittering is almost exclusively confined to red wines, these containing, as is well known, a somewhat large amount of tannin absorbed from the skins and kernels of the grape during the primary fermentation.
Aroma hops can be used for bittering also, and many homebrewers swear by this, claiming a finer, cleaner overall hop profile.
gloss: Causing a bitter taste or smell.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Consumer Product Safety Commission also questions the effectiveness of the bittering agent and wrote that there is no evidence that DB or any other possible adversive agent is actually effective at limiting the ingestion of consumer products .
Centennial is an aroma-type cultivar that is used for its aromatic properties and bittering potential .
a bittering agent in antifreeze
Synonyms: bittern
Translations:
ambrose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia (Dysphania botrys).
pos: noun
examples: Stachys semeth to Gesner to be the herbe that we cal in english Ambrose , & I deni not but that it may be a kynde of it. Howe be it I haue sene the true Italian staches, whiche hath narower and whyter leaues then Ambrose hath.
Translations:
wall-crawler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wall + crawler.
Compound parts: wall
crawler
Inflected forms:
form: wall-crawlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wall crawler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wallcrawler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
pos: noun
examples: As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.
You're not just buying and selling with a wizard and a scholar in tow. What's so important that you have to hire a wall-crawler?
Her fingers slipped, and she felt herself starting to fall. At that same moment the wall-crawler sprang down at her, gripping the carved inscriptions in the black glossy surface with its left hand while its right swung down to clamp around her throat.
Translations: