yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dilbit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From diluted + bitumen.
Compound parts: diluted
bitumen
Inflected forms:
form: dilbits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oil-like substance consisting of bitumen derived from tar sands or other sources diluted with natural gas condensates such as naptha that may be processed in a manner similar to petroleum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new dilbit pipeline will run alongside the oil one.
Most dilbits are similar in consistency to intermediate fuel oils.
Translations:
Nayak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati નાયક (nāyak).
Inflected forms:
form: Nayaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Muslim Rajput community in the state of Gujarat in India.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a Hindu caste found in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in India.
pos: noun
Translations:
small-ticket
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: inexpensive; having a low price
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: big-ticket
Translations:
poleman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pole + -man.
Base: pole
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: polemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who propels a boat using a pole.
pos: noun
gloss: One who tests the depth of the water using a pole, while aboard a vessel.
pos: noun
Translations:
kench
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kenches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
pos: noun
examples: And while Harvey was taking in knowledge of new things at each pore and hard health with every gulp of the good air, the We're Here went her ways and did her business on the Bank, and the silvery-gray kenches of well-pressed fish mounted higher and higher in the hold.
In the former process, the fish are thoroughly salted and placed in regular piles on top of each other, called kenches.
Translations:
seabream
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + bream.
Compound parts: sea
bream
Inflected forms:
form: seabreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seabream
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea bream
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the world.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-Islamophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Islamophobia.
Base: Islamophobia
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Opposition to Islamophobia
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
anti-Islamophobic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Islamophobic.
Base: Islamophobic
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Islamophobic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Islamophobic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Opposing Islamophobia.
pos: adj
Translations:
Eurocommunism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Euro- + communism.
Base: communism
Affixes: Euro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But isn't the French CP more tied to Moscow?
Yes. They flirted with Eurocommunism, and then they didn't stay with it for very long. Just recently around Afghanistan they showed that they were still allied with Moscow.
Translations:
Baka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bakas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Baka
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a nomadic ethnic group inhabiting parts of western and central Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
shirt-front
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: shirt-fronts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shirt-fronting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shirt-fronted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shirt-fronted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To knock down an opponent by colliding with them chest-to-chest (Australian rules football) or tackle them by grabbing their chest by their shirt front and wrestling them to the ground (rugby league football).
pos: verb
gloss: To aggressively threaten an opponent by standing toe to toe with them while or before verbally or physically abusing them.
pos: verb
Translations:
Dohan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Doha + -an.
Base: Doha
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Dohans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is from Doha.
pos: noun
Translations:
philo-Muslim
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From philo- + Muslim.
Base: Muslim
Affixes: philo-
Inflected forms:
form: more philo-Muslim
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most philo-Muslim
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Supporting or favouring Muslims.
pos: adj
examples: Frederick - notorious among his contemporaries for his philo-Muslim tendencies; more than one pope accused him of being a Saracen himself - possessed a robust appetite for the Islamic sciences, and communicated amiably with Muslim leaders and philosophers during his career as monarch.
Translations:
flashfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flash + fire.
Compound parts: flash
fire
Inflected forms:
form: flashfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden, intense fire caused by the ignition of flammable substances in the air.
pos: noun
Translations:
faith-lift
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of faith + face-lift.
Compound parts: faith
face-lift
Inflected forms:
form: faith-lifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of strengthening one's faith.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If your vision ever becomes cloudy, and you find yourself losing faith, your spiritual makeover suggests you treat yourself to a “faith-lift”!
They simply believe that we are not called to manage decline but rather to oversee the expansion of the Kingdom of God through the local church. I like hanging out with such people, simply because they give me a much-needed faith-lift.
Perhaps you don't fit either of these categories, but you simply need a booster-shot of faith. God's providence to Debbie and me has certainly bolstered ours, so our prayer is that these stories will give a faith-lift as well.
Translations:
blackline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: From black + line; compare redline, greenline.
Compound parts: black
line
Inflected forms:
form: blacklines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blacklines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blacklining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blacklined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blacklined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A document indicating the differences between two versions of another document.
pos: noun
gloss: A line of deliberately burned material created to stop the advance of a larger fire.
pos: noun
examples: A second squad uses drip torches to begin burning a 15- to 20-foot barrier or “blackline” inside the wetline.
The helicopter is used to burn blacklines when the relative humidity is above 50%, temperature is below 50 degrees F, and wind speed is less than 6 mph.
gloss: To compare versions of (a document) by this method.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
khata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tibetan ཁ་བཏགས་ (kha btags); compare Mongolian хадаг (xadag), Nepali खतक (khatak), Chinese 哈達 /哈达.
Inflected forms:
form: khatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: khatag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khatak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional ceremonial scarf in Tengrism and Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizing purity and compassion.
pos: noun
Translations:
queerbaiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From queer + baiting.
Compound parts: queer
baiting
Inflected forms:
form: queer-baiting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: queer baiting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the question of either character's sexuality.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Queerbaiting is erasure. It’s telling queer people that they don’t exist, or that our stories aren’t worth telling, and it’s harmful.
Some feel that fan pressure to emphasize Buffy and Spike’s relationship spoiled the last few seasons of Joss Whedon’s show, and many fans were alienated by Teen Wolf’s recent queer-baiting.
Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show; […]
And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
Translations:
making-of
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Inflected forms:
form: making-ofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: making of
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A documentary about how a film or television show was made, with behind-the-scenes footage.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-determinist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + determinist.
Base: determinist
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-determinists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proponent of self-determination.
pos: noun
Translations:
smartboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From smart + board, originally a trademark.
Compound parts: smart
board
Inflected forms:
form: smartboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: interactive whiteboard
pos: noun
examples: With a handful of notable exceptions, most urban classrooms in the United States operate just as they did a century ago: a chalkboard where a smartboard should be, a nicked desk instead of a multifunction workstation, and rows of students segregated in their schools and neighborhoods by class and race.
Smartboards sound like a great idea until you work out how much time and money they tie up. The boards themselves cost thousands of dollars and they must be linked to a computer and an LCD projector.
Smartboards make slides easier to display and manipulate, but teachers have been showing pictures to students for centuries.
Translations:
wonder-bearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wonder + bearing. Compare Saterland Frisian wunderboar (“wonderful”), Dutch wonderbaar (“miraculous”), wonderbaarlijk (“fantastic, amazing”), German wunderbar.
Base: wonder
Inflected forms:
form: more wonder-bearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wonder-bearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wonderbearing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bearing or carrying a sense of awe, surprise, or wonder; wonderful; miraculous.
pos: adj
Translations:
gamergate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From gam- + ergate, from Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “union, marriage”) + Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs, “workman”).
Base: ergate
Affixes: gamo-
Inflected forms:
form: gamergates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worker insect that can become capable of reproducing when the queen has died.
pos: noun
examples: Recent studies indicate that queenless societies can have either one or several gamergates per colony, which reveals that reproductive inhibition can occur despite the absence of the queen caste.
Translations:
killstreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From kill + streak.
Compound parts: kill
streak
Inflected forms:
form: killstreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unbroken streak (continuous series) of kills.
pos: noun
gloss: An award or an advantage that a player obtains by achieving an unbroken streak of kills (as sense 1) of a given length.
pos: noun
Translations:
Christo-Muslim
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Christo- + Muslim.
Base: Muslim
Affixes: Christo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Encompassing the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam; across Islam and Christianity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ibn Kathir actually speaks here about a "Christo-Muslim" group ...
When they started jeering at him again, it was not so much at his northernsouthern claims, but at his supposed Christo-Muslim identity.
There are no contemporary evidences available to support such stories current among the Muslims that the Christo-Muslim polemics had become the fashion of the day as early.
Translations:
pernambuco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The wood of Paubrasilia echinata.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Pernambuco is a coastal wood which grows in maintained stands in Brazil.
Translations:
mini-break
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: From mini- + break (“game won against the server”).
Base: break
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-breaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a tiebreak, a point won against the server when ahead.
pos: noun
Translations:
both-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From both + handed.
Compound parts: both
handed
Inflected forms:
form: both handed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: both handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Skilled or able to use either hand, with unspecified degrees of equalness; ambidextrous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “I'm ambidextrous,” she replied. “Both-handed. Dad says it's rare.”
gloss: Denoting either right-handed or left-handed; either-handed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [Morimori, looking for a pair of scissors in the desk] Shinzuki Morimori Shinzuki: Yes, that is right. This is asymmetric one, so it is both-handed.
gloss: For use with both hands or using both hands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He stood a bit far of the gloom of the lobby, but short of the dazzle of the stairs, and he clenched his briefcase at his chest in a tense and both-handed, reptilian grip, as if whatever he had in it must be guarded at all costs.
gloss: Involving two sides or approaches
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The principle of being “both-handed” or “talk for talk and fight for fight” suggests the necessity to combine soft means with tough ones and to struggle while seeking cooperation.
gloss: With both hands
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then the brown-haired detective charged around the corner firing both-handed, skimming two off Stephen's vest, while Stephen himself danced one round off the detective's and they fell backward simultaneously.
gloss: Involving two sides or approaches
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our second front will, in fact, comprise both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe, and we can push either right-handed, left-handed, or both-handed as our resources and circumstances permit.
Related words: left-handed
right-handed
Derived words: both-handedly
both-handedness
Translations:
either-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From either + handed.
Compound parts: either
handed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to use either (right or left) hand, often equally well; ambidextrous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There certainly is, amongst mankind, a vast weight of opinion against my position that man is, by nature, as either-handed as an ape, and that custom should follow nature.
Translations:
mashallah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللّٰه (mā šāʔa llāh).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence. God willed it.
pos: intj
examples: Mashallah, I hear Akhmad say. Mashallah. I ask him what it means. “Mashallah, it's to be thankful. Something wonderful.” It means, literally, “God wills it.” And yet it seems, there's a kind of joy inside the word, too. Some large, cosmic gratitude.
gloss: Expressing the speaker's wish for a fortune to be maintained, especially against the evil eye; used in congratulation.
pos: intj
examples: 'Mashallah, fine set of boys you've got here, sir,' he smiled, shaking us all by the hand, and giving Jamal a mock punch on the shoulder. 'Y'all new to the masjid?' ' Yes, we are,' Dad answered him. 'It's our first time here as a family.'
gloss: An indication of excitement, surprise or astonishment. Wow!
pos: intj
Related words: Allah
inshallah
what hath God wrought
Translations:
olds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From old + -s; compare old folks, old man.
Base: old
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: old
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: One's parents.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-normally
slang
gloss: Anyone portrayed in the context as not young; for example, anyone older than the speaker's audience of coevals; often, middle-aged adults or older adults.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
often
plural
plural-normally
slang
examples: Her friends at school snicker at how the olds are clueless about TikTok trends. But they can't shame us olds about it very effectively, because we're old enough to know that today's trends too shall pass.
Don't ask me what the kids consider cool at the moment — I'm just an old.
Translations:
hackspace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hack + space.
Compound parts: hack
space
Inflected forms:
form: hackspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hackerspace.
pos: noun
Translations:
rodding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: roddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of reinforcing concrete with metal rods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The insertion of a metal rod or nail into the cavity of a bone, to treat deformity or fracture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of rods etc. used for movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Anything that reverses the direction of movement in a length of point rodding will act as a compensator over an equal length on each side of it; […].
Translations:
rodded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Reinforced by a rodding process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
furcal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin furca (“fork”) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Forked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dillion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: See -illion.
Affixes: -illion
Inflected forms:
form: dillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unspecified large number (of).
pos: noun
tags: excessive
slang
examples: 'The human bean,' the Giant went on, 'is coming in dillions of different flavours. […]
He'd been sitting in the car for a dillion years waiting for his mother to find her glasses.
You have like a dillion books here, probably nobody would have even looked at it.
Translations:
pro-Sunni
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + Sunni.
Base: Sunni
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-Sunni
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-Sunni
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Supporting Sunnism
pos: adj
Translations:
e-portfolio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + portfolio.
Base: portfolio
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-portfolios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A digital portfolio; a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user.
pos: noun
Translations:
uncontracted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + contracted.
Base: contracted
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not contracted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Ob-Ugric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a subgroup of languages in the Uralic language family, including Khanty and Mansi.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
good-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more good-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most good-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disposed to or having one's mind set on good.
pos: adj
gloss: Amiable; well-meaning.
pos: adj
Antonyms: bad-minded
evil-minded
Derived words: good-mindedness
Translations:
acre-dale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: acre-dales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acredale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Land in a common field, different parts of which are held by different proprietors.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-bio
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + bio.
Base: bio
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: nonbiological
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: non-bio washing powder
a nonbio detergent
Translations:
flood-hit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: badly affected by flooding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
after-tax
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From after- + tax.
Base: tax
Affixes: after-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Remaining after tax has been deducted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mykiss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Salmo mykiss, a salmon marked with black spots and a red throat.
pos: noun
Translations:
reich-wing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Reich + right-wing, with the intent being to convey the view that the political right shares qualities with the Third Reich, being extreme, fascistic, etc.
Compound parts: Reich
right-wing
Inflected forms:
form: more reich-wing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reich-wing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Reich-wing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Reich wing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Right-wing.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
slang
examples: I love the love and support of America; it is what sustains me through these very difficult times and the reich-wing smear campaign.
So, you reich-wing HypoChristians might want to remove the beam from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor's eye.
But the hidden costs of our overcompensatory hypermacho are worse, far worse, than a few politicians slimed by Reich-wing pundits or dirty-tricks campaigns.
Translations:
aim-crier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From aim + crier.
Compound parts: aim
crier
Inflected forms:
form: aim-criers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who encouraged an archer by crying "Aim!" when he was about to shoot.
pos: noun
gloss: An encourager generally.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sixto-Clementine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin Sixtō-Clēmentīnus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or designating the edition or text of the Vulgate (1592, corrected in 1593 and 1598), correcting that of Pope Sixtus V (r. 1585–90), which was revised on the orders of Pope Clement VIII (r. 1592–1605).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
alfin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English awfyn, alphyn, aufyn, etc., from Middle French alfin, from Old Spanish alfil, arfil, from Arabic الفِيل (al-fīl, “the elephant”).
Inflected forms:
form: alfins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alphin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bishop.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
water-salamander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From water + salamander. Compare Dutch watersalamander (“newt”).
Compound parts: water
salamander
Inflected forms:
form: water-salamanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salamander (Order Urodela) which habitually or permanently lives in water.
pos: noun
gloss: A newt.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ask
newt
Related words: land-salamander
Translations:
land-salamander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From land + salamander. Compare Dutch landsalamander, German Landsalamander.
Compound parts: land
salamander
Inflected forms:
form: land-salamanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: land salamander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A salamander (Order Caudata) that habitually or permanently lives its life on land.
pos: noun
examples: They think they can turn him into something rich and strange —turn him in a single generation—even as certain ingenious experimentalists turned what Nature meant for a land-salamander into a water-salamander, with new ruddertail and gills instead of lungs and feet suppressed, by feeding him with water animals in oxygenated water and cajoling his functions.
gloss: A name given to the terrestrial phase of a newt; eft.
pos: noun
Related words: water-salamander
Translations:
foreign-born
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foreign + born.
Compound parts: foreign
born
Inflected forms:
form: foreign-borns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being born outside of one's country of residence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Jewish immigrants came together with other foreign-born groups in organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World, helping to create one of the cornerstones of the American left.
“There are a lot of jobs in the US that native-born people don’t want – and foreign-born people are happy to have,” said Stephanie Roth, chief economist at Wolfe Research.
gloss: A person who was born outside outside of their country of residence or citizenship.
pos: noun
Antonyms: native-born
Translations:
emys
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From the translingual genus name Emys and its etymon, the Classical Latin emys, from the Ancient Greek ἐμύς (emús).
Inflected forms:
form: emydes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the small Emys genus of freshwater pond tortoises.
pos: noun
examples: Certain Emydes…tend to the Sea-tortoises or Turtles…and yet exhibit characters peculiar to themselves.
Remains of the elephant…the beaver, the emys…and goats.
Translations:
Cappie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Cappies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cappie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: capitalist
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
neologism
Translations:
toxify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since 1917, apparently a back-formation from detoxify. (attested since 1905). Equivalent to tox- + -ify.
Base: toxic
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: toxifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toxifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toxified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toxified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make or render toxic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The experiments made with this objective showed that agar-gel could toxify a rat serum which had been heated at 45 an 50 C. for half an hour.
Antonyms: detoxify
purify
Translations:
Bunbury
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bunburies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Bunburying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Bunburied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Bunburied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To practice Bunburying.
pos: verb
examples: I suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions. Now, go on. Why are you Ernest in town and Jack in the country?
Translations:
bootyhole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From booty (“the buttocks”) + hole.
Compound parts: booty
hole
Inflected forms:
form: bootyholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: "Holy shit, that girl is crazy," I remarked at her scandalous poses with huge ass telephones betwixt her nether-loins and also up her bootyhole.
“Now y'all done started something. It's about to go down. I just wanna see a couple nipples and bootyholes.”
I was already wet back there, but for another first, my bootyhole had this serious hankering to fit some dick in it.
Translations:
alms-fee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English ælmesfeoh, from ælmesse (“alms”) + feoh (“money”). See fee.
Inflected forms:
form: alms-fees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An annual tax of one penny on every hearth, collected in England and Ireland and sent to Rome, from the beginning of the tenth century until it was abolished by Henry VIII.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Sammamish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Coast Salish Native American tribe in the Sammamish River Valley in central King County, Washington.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
hydel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hydroelectric
pos: adj
tags: India
not-comparable
Translations:
Conference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After the National British Pear Conference in London in 1885, at which this cultivar won the first prize.
Inflected forms:
form: Conferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An autumn cultivar of the European pear Pyrus communis.
pos: noun
Translations:
bolon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bolons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional harp played in Mali.
pos: noun
Translations:
headframe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From head + frame.
Compound parts: head
frame
Inflected forms:
form: headframes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the structure supporting machinery above the entrance to an underground mineshaft.
pos: noun
examples: CBC: Yellowknife vote saves Robertson Headframe for now
Translations:
transferware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From transfer + -ware.
Base: transfer
Affixes: -ware
Inflected forms:
form: transferwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of ceramics decorated by transfer printing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Leatherstocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Nickname of Natty Bumppo, the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, who grew up with Native Americans and adopted their customs; from leather + stocking.
Compound parts: leather
stocking
Inflected forms:
form: Leatherstockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who develops survival skills in order to live in the wild, away from civilization.
pos: noun
Translations:
Instagrammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Instagram + -er.
Base: Instagram
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Instagrammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A user of the photo-sharing and social networking service Instagram.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The more likes a photo has, the higher the probability it will make it to the Popular page, at which point, the more probable it is that thousands of other Instagrammers will find it and follow that user.
If the Photo Map feature is enabled, then Instagrammers can add their business locations to their image information as they are finalizing their pictures.
At farmers' markets
the flower stalls draw big crowds
of Instagrammers.
gloss: A content creator or influencer of Instagram.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Related words: Bookstagrammer
foodstagrammer
studygrammer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: инстаграмър
roman: instagramǎr
lang: German
word: Instagrammer
lang: German
word: Instagrammerin
lang: Japanese
word: インスタグラマー
roman: insutaguramā
lang: Korean
word: 인스타그래머
roman: inseutageuraemeo
lang: Macedonian
word: инстаграмџија
roman: instagramdžija
lang: Spanish
word: instagramer
lang: Spanish
word: instagramero
lang: Spanish
word: instagramera
binge-watch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From binge + watch.
Base: binge
Inflected forms:
form: binge-watches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: binge-watching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: binge-watched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: binge-watched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: binge watch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bingewatch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To watch multiple episodes of a television programme in a short period of time.
pos: verb
examples: Thankfully, due to the power of BBC iPlayer, I was able to binge-watch the whole series of The Great British Sewing Bee last Sunday.
"People come to shows, but not in the numbers we all hope for. We must give audiences a reason to tear away from the Internet and binge-watching Doctor Who."
"Oh, that was good, too," she [Hillary Clinton] said, describing a little self-consciously how she and her husband Bill "totally binge-watched" the first season of House of Cards.
Translations:
hate-watch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: hate-watches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hate-watching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hate-watched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hate-watched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hate watch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hatewatch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hate-watches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hate watch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hatewatch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose; because of a rivalry or that the loss of that particular team would help another team's standings.
pos: verb
examples: Among my favorite things about the season is the resounding crunch of stepping on a leaf, wearing pants all the time and the end of hate-watching yet another season of "The Newsroom."
Whether Girls is on your must-see list or that show you love to hate-watch, in some way, no matter how small, it has spoken to your experience as a young woman trying to make it in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.
I pretended I hate-watched Sex and the City, when in truth I love it earnestly to the point of being deranged.
Granny Tentacles: Ah, this show's pretty good... for me to hate-watch!
gloss: Such a program.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Shame seemed to be a common reaction to “Emily in Paris,” which became the hate-watch par excellence of Pandemic Year One, and whose second season arrives Wednesday on Netflix with le nouveau variant Omicron.
Related words: pocket watch
Derived words: hate-watchable
hate-watcher
hate-watching
Translations:
hate-watching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of watching a television program that one dislikes for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or mocking it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But the essence of hate-watching seems to take its cue from a wisecrack once made about newspapers: TV shows are never good enough, but a bad one is a joy forever.
In fact, hate-watching is a byproduct of a spoiled culture, awash in choices and television that aspires to greatness. You did not have hate-watching when your choices were “The Love Boat” and “Knight Rider.”
Ever since the phenomenon of "hate-watching" emerged — watching a detestable television show and sharing observations about its epic awfulness on social media — I have wondered if there were network execs cynical enough to create a show so bad that the only people who tuned in were hate-watchers.
Translations:
hate-watcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hate-watch + -er.
Affixes: hate-watch
-er
Inflected forms:
form: hate-watchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hatewatcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who hate-watches.
pos: noun
examples: Hate-watching is a sport that used to fall under the broad term "guilty pleasure," but now seems retrofitted for the age of social media. It goes something like this: You watch a show you wouldn't choose to watch for any reason other than to mock it for its awfulness – say, by sharing snide Twitter exchanges with like-minded hate-watchers when the program airs.
How does a freshman show that became infamous for its legion of hate-watchers return for a second season—and still get people to tune in?
Ever since the phenomenon of "hate-watching" emerged – watching a detestable television show and sharing observations about its epic awfulness on social media – I have wondered if there were network execs cynical enough to create a show so bad that the only people who tuned in were hate-watchers.
Mr. [Donald] Trump sees something in the news; he gets made; he tweets; that becomes the news; repeat. He's the Hate-Watcher in Chief.
Translations:
hate-watchable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hate-watch + -able.
Base: hate-watch
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more hate-watchable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hate-watchable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of, or suitable for, being hate-watched.
pos: adj
examples: The title and the premise make it [The Mob Doctor] sound less hate-watchable than just, y'know, hateable, and there's an undeniable cheese factor that permeates the pilot.
If your hate-watching involves guilt, you are not doing it in the proper spirit. To be fair, this can be confusing: The divisions between hate-watchable TV, camp (delivered with a wink) and guilty pleasures (which generally offer no pretense of quality) can seem razor thin.
This is the point of connection that makes “The Newsroom” so hate-watchable.
Translations:
binge-watcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From binge-watch + -er.
Base: binge-watch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: binge-watchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who binge-watches a television programme.
pos: noun
examples: The market is adjusting to binge-watchers. Family Video has seasons of "24," "Prison Break" and "Boston Legal" available on DVD.
But its in-house translators have raced to append Chinese subtitles, finishing Chinese captions for two new episodes a day since then. That hasn’t stopped some binge-watchers from racing ahead.
The un-killable Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer, who in the interim has remained hugely popular with DVD "binge-watchers", returns after a four-year hiatus to try to foil another terrorist plot that threatens to bring about the end of Western civilisation as we know it.
Translations:
binge-watchable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From binge-watch + -able.
Base: binge-watch
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more binge-watchable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most binge-watchable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of, or suitable for, being binge-watched.
pos: adj
examples: “Orange is the New Black” is also an innovation in the binge-watchable drama.
Besides, HoC is wondrously binge-watchable because viewers get off on Frank's ridiculous omnipotence.
Plowing through episodes of “One Tree Hill,” “Scandal” or “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” is easy, fun and thoroughly enjoyable, but the binge-watchable nature of these “less sophisticated” shows gives a bad name to binge-watching in general.
Translations:
artspace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From art + space.
Compound parts: art
space
Inflected forms:
form: artspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An art gallery that offers art-related activities and events.
pos: noun
Translations:
usee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From use + -ee.
Base: use
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: usees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which is used.
pos: noun
examples: Abuse is but improper use—use on a scale that makes the insanity of use obvious to both the user and the usee, and so has its proper place in our discussion here.
Translations:
darwin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Charles Darwin, coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1949.
Inflected forms:
form: darwins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of evolutionary change in evolutionary biology.
pos: noun
examples: One darwin (d) equals the rate of evolution that would produce a change in size by a factor of approximately 2.7 in one million years.
The rate of evolutionary change in a species' wing or leg or beak (remember Darwin's finches mentioned in Chapter 1?) is assessed in degree-of-physical-change units called darwins.
For instance, gradual change is relatively common in vertebrates (about .08 darwins), though some rapidly evolving vertebrates lineages show rates as high as 10 darwins, over short periods.
Translations:
beer-lore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From beer + lore.
Compound parts: beer
lore
Inflected forms:
form: beerlore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beer lore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The knowledge, study, history, or science of beer or beermaking; brewology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Delving still earlier into the beer-lore of Germany we find that Tacitus, the Roman historian, in his Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany makes special reference to the beer made in the first century.
Gerry Lampert and Gerald Donaldson A full-bodied flow of light and lively photos, cool facts and smooth satisfying fables - a first class brouhaha of Canadian beer-lore through the ages.
Beerlore indeed gave way to druglore, and student attitudes and values shifted as Greek life waned.
There is considerable beer lore about the correct way to pour beer from bottle to glass, and this lore arose so that we can pour out a glass of beer with just the right amount of froth on the top.
Translations:
Pasifika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From English Pacific, changed to use Samoan orthography.
Inflected forms:
form: Pasifikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pasifika
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Pacific Islander.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: My political stance as a Pasifika poet has always been one of inclusion – I'm a bridge not a wall.
Translations:
siever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sieve + -er.
Base: sieve
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sieves.
pos: noun
Translations:
shraddha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit श्राद्ध (śrāddha).
Inflected forms:
form: shraddhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shraadh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shraadha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sraddha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sradha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Hindu ceremony performed in commemoration of one's deceased relatives, especially a parent.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
countable
uncountable
examples: After returning, I went to Benares with my parents, for my father was to perform a shraddha ceremony there.
But the thought that he would finally be able to complete his mother's shraadha would make the son emotional.
Translations:
silkstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From silk + stone.
Compound parts: silk
stone
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: binghamite
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Simmental
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Simmentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a versatile breed of cattle originating in that valley.
pos: noun
Translations:
anthroposophical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anthroposophic + -al.
Base: anthroposophic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: anthroposophic
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nowaday
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear.
The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow.
Or that these (shall we go ahead and call both outcomes issues) would be the nowaday worries, with no time out?
“What are you talking about? What gift? And what does it have to do with Gypsies? “He said the true Gypsies—not to be mixed up with the nowaday Tinkers—were very people intuitive. […]”
Translations:
film-craft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From film + -craft.
Base: film
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: film-crafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filmcraft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: film craft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The art or craft of making movies; cinematography.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Perhaps none of the other filmcrafts, excepting costumes, have been so comparatively open to, and often dominated by, Hollywood's women.
Almost all techniques of film-craft have been tried out in Hollywood, and the result has been near perfection of cinematic art.
I think it would be possible to make La Nuit Americaine as a first film. Experience and film-craft are required and one obviously has less film-craft at the beginning of one's career.
Translations:
Spartacist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Spartacus + -ist.
Base: Spartacus
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: Spartacists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the ancient Roman Empire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
shelfie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shelf + -ie, by analogy with selfie.
Base: shelf
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: shelfies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”
She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.
Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.
From social media “shelfies” to Zoom backgrounds, to hyperinflated coffee-table tomes, books are everywhere nowadays, even—perhaps even especially—in the homes of people who never really read.
Translations:
slidably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From slidable + -ly.
Base: slidable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: So as to be movable by sliding.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations: