yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
varsha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The monsoon season according to the Hindu calendar.
pos: noun
tags: India
uncountable
Translations:
kaluga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kalugas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Huso dauricus, a sturgeon of the Amur river basin in northeast China and southeast Russia.
pos: noun
Translations:
blue-chipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: blue-chippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blue chip company.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A talented collegiate athlete who is sought by professional sports teams.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
blue-rinsed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the hair dyed with a blue rinse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
surgical-gowned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From surgical gown + -ed.
Base: surgical gown
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a surgical gown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The old woman lovingly polishing a hubcap; the operation on a crash victim that involves surgical-gowned hospital attendants removing the man’s shoes and watch; […]
[…] the medics said Big Gulp might even have contractions—in an hour, in a day, a week or a month—a month!—forcing lumpen drowned nacreous soul into the hands of surgical-gowned death-maidens and the fresh mocking air, failed goddess who could not sculpt life from Her offal.
Occasional rush of make way as a human hooked to machines and entourage of surgical-gowned people run through.
Translations:
all-sliming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of grinding ore down to a slimy consistency so that it will pass through a screen.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
powerlift
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from powerlifting.
Inflected forms:
form: powerlifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: powerlifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: powerlifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: powerlifted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take part in powerlifting.
pos: verb
Translations:
Drainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From drain + -er.
Base: drain
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Drainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of Drain Gang, an artistic collective formed in 2013, focusing on music and fashion.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
whipped-creamy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whipped cream + -y.
Base: whipped cream
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: whipped-creamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more whipped-creamy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: whipped-creamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most whipped-creamy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: whipped creamy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of whipped cream.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: […] but they’re too whipped-creamy for ord’-nary housekeepin’. I keep my flour in a beer-keg, […]
In short, he was as sensitive to color and what you can do with color as Salvador Dali, who said, “I dream of a film designed only in blacks and whites, and the whole spectrum of grays in between, but shot on color stock.” This would result in the silkiest and most velvety of blacks and the frostiest and whipped-creamiest of whites.
In my mind, the winning technique/proportion is whatever one is most whipped-creamy in fluffiness, most buttery in flavor.
gloss: With whipped cream.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: […] a yard of light green water, adorned with what appeared to be saucers of whipped cream. […] He glared at the absurd whipped-creamy water and staggered under it to the hall, where Bell serenely directed its location.
And then he wheeled over that beautiful pastry cart and we topped off the whole thing with the biggest, juiciest, whipped-creamiest napoleon in the entire city of Washington.
Shosanna takes a whipped-creamy bite of strudel.
Translations:
whipped-creamed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whipped cream + -ed.
Base: whipped cream
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more whipped-creamed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whipped-creamed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With whipped cream.
pos: adj
examples: Herr Meyerhaas got up, photographed the sunset with a special conversion filter, and walked back into the bar, where the lady with the hat was enjoying a very whipped-creamed cake.
The Marlene sitting before me, taking a sip of her heavily whipped-creamed caramel macchiato was the complete opposite.
It’s because Italians don’t eat on the run. They don’t grab a huge whipped-creamed coffee drink and then rush to their next location.
Translations:
peanut-buttered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From peanut butter + -ed.
Base: peanut butter
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With peanut butter.
pos: adj
examples: An adjustment of the mirror brings into focus the horror of a hand pouring a stream of viscous amber onto a heavily peanut-buttered slab of bread lying face up on the seat.
I hadn’t eaten peanut-buttered crackers since I was a kid, and neither had Priscilla; […]
Carefully rotate piece of bread with peanut butter so that peanut-buttered side is facing down.
if peanut butter was a welcome part of your diet growing up—PB&J sandwiches, peanut butter and crackers, peanut-buttered toast—then for nostalgic reasons, at least, you’ll carry a certain fondness for peanut butter with you for the rest of your days.
Translations:
flutter-tongue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flutter + tongue.
Compound parts: flutter
tongue
Inflected forms:
form: flutter-tongues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flutter-tonguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flutter-tongued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flutter-tongued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flutter tongue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To play very fast rhythms using a wind instrument by fluttering one's tongue with a trill.
pos: verb
examples: He is very good at flutter-tonguing.
Translations:
gene-altered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of genetically modified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
single-crop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: single-crops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: single-cropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: single-cropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: single-cropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grow only one kind of crop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
quarter-ass
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quarter-asses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quarter-assing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quarter-assed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quarter-assed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a task very incompletely or carelessly, to a more extreme degree than half-assing.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
slang
vulgar
Translations:
adtech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ad + tech.
Compound parts: ad
tech
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Digital technology for the delivery and measurement of advertising campaigns.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Last week, Motherboard's Joseph Cox laid down $160 with Safegraph, a digital adtech/surveillance company, and got back the location trails of everyone who'd visited 600 Planned Parenthood locations. Safegraph claimed that this data was "anonymized." This is a lie. It's really, really easy to "re-identify" location data.
Translations:
wicky-wack
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wicky-wack
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wicky-wack
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not entirely legitimate; odd; eccentric.
pos: adj
examples: He told me how you get ready to go into the tank by looking at yourself in the mirror with your nose up against it—all kinds of wicky-wack things, all kinds of gorp.
Hacky Sack? Kinda wicky wack—get a real sport, like hopscotch.
A horse may also exhibit trotting or walking motion in either his front or hind legs along with a cantering motion from the other pair, producing an odd half canter, half something else. […] This gait is so common in gaited horses that it has a specific name in some languages, although the closest term for it in English is "wicky wack."
'Bring Me To Life' was accompanied by a video in which Lee jumped off a building and sang the song on her way down, scoring with its combination of Lee's soaring larynx and some rapped interludes, plus the requisite big guitars and some wicky-wack scratching.
Except it quite obviously is. If anything, the music in Friends With Benefits is worse than the music in, say, Sleepless in Seattle; either the sort of tinpot wicky-wack scratchy guff that middle-aged men with ponytails think kids listen to at parties, or soggy ukulele nonsense.
Translations:
Peke-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a flattish face resembling that of the Pekingese dog; applied to certain Persian cats of a breed that arose in the 1950s.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
petits-chevaux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French [Term?] (literally “little horses”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
mythbuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From myth + buster.
Compound parts: myth
buster
Inflected forms:
form: mythbusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who debunks misconceptions.
pos: noun
Translations:
quail-plover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quail-plovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Ortyxelos meiffrenii of small ground-dwelling birds of the buttonquail family, found in parts of Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
lark-plover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lark-plovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of quail-plover.
pos: noun
Translations:
basket-of-gold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The plant Aurinia saxatilis.
pos: noun
Translations:
climate-controlled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a climate control system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
superduty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + duty.
Base: duty
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extremely heavy-duty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a superduty fire-clay brick
Translations:
surgeon-dentist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dvandva compound of surgeon + dentist.
Base: surgeon
Inflected forms:
form: surgeon-dentists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dental surgeon.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
eight-hooter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eight-hooters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The barred owl.
pos: noun
Translations:
morpher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
fantasy
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From morph + -er.
Base: morph
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: morphers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A program or algorithm that carries out morphing animations.
pos: noun
gloss: A shapeshifter.
pos: noun
Translations:
high-melting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-melting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-melting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a high melting point.
pos: adj
examples: a high-melting alloy
Translations:
low-melting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more low-melting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-melting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a low melting point.
pos: adj
examples: a low-melting alloy
Translations:
se-baptism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Baptism carried out by and for oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
third-personal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the third person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The various limitations to first-personal self-knowledge we considered, however, show that ample room for error is provided in figuring out our own mental states. This can be explained by noticing that we often acquire knowledge of our mental states in a third-personal way, even in our own case, as a result of observation of our behavior and of inference to the best explanation; […]
Translations:
g-dropping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In English, the act of pronouncing unstressed word-final /ɪŋ/ as [ɪn] or [ən], rendered by the omission of the letter g in spelling, such as jumpin' for jumping.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bun-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bun-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bun-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking intelligence; soft in the head.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: [T]he Puddin' merely laughed scornfully, and called Bill a bun-headed old beetle-crusher.
Translations:
pamps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Either a clipping of pampers (“a diaper, nappy”), or from pamp (“a diaper, nappy”) + -s (“hypocoristic suffix”).
Base: pamp
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pampers (“a diaper”).
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
examples: I need to change my pamps.
Translations:
first-personal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the first person.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The various limitations to first-personal self-knowledge we considered, however, show that ample room for error is provided in figuring out our own mental states. This can be explained by noticing that we often acquire knowledge of our mental states in a third-personal way, even in our own case, as a result of observation of our behavior and of inference to the best explanation; […]
Translations:
French-toasty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French toast + -y.
Base: French toast
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more French-toasty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most French-toasty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: French toasty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of French toast.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: When a bunch comes for brunch or if you are only out to please your family on weekend mornings, try your hand at making Japanese Mandarin Orange Toasties, a delicious French-toasty kind of recipe that goes Oriental with a few new ingredients.
If you don’t like omelets (the menu offers a choice of fillings), and aren’t interested in the French-toasty sandwich, a final choice is chicken salad.
Obsessively perky Alex Klickstein, as the French-toasty tart Fifi, does a blend of the hora and the can-can, rolling on the laps of stunned spectators.
The French toast bagel here didn’t seem especially French-toasty, but Dobbs was almost dizzy with desire.
The egg-dipped, grilled, French-toasty but also savory sort of sandwich might make folks of a certain age nostalgic for the Garden Court restaurant at Liberty House, where the sandwich was popular.
Do you remember how a baby’s head smells? Sort of warm and French-toasty.
Your leftover Passover matzo has a new home, and it’s in this “French-toasty” delicious dish!
[…] a gabbling sweetness – semi-lurid white sugar in a French-toasty kind of way…; […]
Overnight Cinnamon Roll Casserole — French-toasty hunks of challah are dusted with cinnamon and drizzled with sweet icing in this simple riff on cinnamon rolls.
The point is to get a nice golden brown on the outside of the omelet to get some of the French-toasty flavor of the original.
And if you’re only going to offer one dessert, let it be a huge slab of French-toasty bread pudding with Kerrigold butter caramel, Maldon salt, toasted almonds and lots of whipped cream.
Translations:
Kin-Ball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis).
Inflected forms:
form: kin-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sport played by three teams at once with a large ball.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To win a game of kin-ball, teams must serve the ball to the team with the highest score, as this increases the chance of the leading team committing a fault.
Translations:
three-cueing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique in learning to read, in which the reader attempts to identify difficult words by means of three cues: visual information (e.g. the shapes of letters), syntax, and the content of pictures or other context.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nano-COM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From nano- + COM.
Base: COM
Affixes: nano-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of a very small subset of the Component Object Model, focused exclusively on the Application Binary Interface (ABI) aspects that enable function and method calls across independently compiled modules.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Dbol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of Dianabol.
Inflected forms:
form: dbol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: D-Bol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: D-bol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The anabolic steroid methandrostenolone, also known as Dianabol
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
living-roomy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From living room + -y.
Base: living room
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more living-roomy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most living-roomy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a living room.
pos: adj
examples: There was a gray rug, and the blue was again used in the portières and in a few cushions. It sounds very living-roomy, I acknowledge, but, like all the other rooms I have mentioned, it had all the comfort of a living-room with that indefinable charm and pleasant suggestion which are an absolute part of the modern parlor.
Maybe it’d look nice in the guest room. It’s not really a living-roomy lamp.
This is the year of Medallion Styling for Owens—deep, living-roomy space, gear space galore, rich colors with matched upholstery . . . all the standard equipment you need to have a wonderful time on the water.
The Dotsons opened up the living-roomy coffee shop – with wireless Internet to boot – in mid-October at 2829 E. 29th Ave., in Lincoln Heights.
The Bru (sounds like an insurance company) restaurant and bar, and a living-roomy lounge full of board games and newspapers, look out onto a paved, Riviera-style terrace and miles of shingle-shore swimming in the hazy dusk.
His partner, artist Brooke Young, decorated the basic dining room with both masculine and feminine details. That includes some handpainted walls using oxidized metal paint, unusual lighting and artwork, warm woods and polished concrete floor. “It’s a 1970s rock star’s Parisian apartment,” she said. “It has a livingroom-y feel.”
How intimate and living-roomy is the space? There’s even a fireplace on the wall. Yup. Not your average concert experience.
Translations:
Coriolan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sneaky-deaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sneaky-deaky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sneaky-deaky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: sneaky
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: [Y]ou didn't tell me what you were doing with that credit card, Chuchie? You were always so sneaky-deaky, even when we were little!
Translations:
cross-jurisdictionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, cross- + jurisdiction + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a manner involving multiple jurisdictions.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
reee
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the sound made by certain species of frogs to ward off predators, combined with the Pepe the Frog and "autistic screeching" memes. According to Know Your Meme, first attested in a 4chan post published December 27, 2014.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indicating extreme anger or distress.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
derogatory
examples: "REEEE shut it down! The normies know!" said one poster, for another. "FUCKING NORMIES STOP WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT MY BOARD REEEEEEEEEEEEE," screamed another. "Every time a big news story links back to 4chan, a board is lost to newfags," lamented a third.
"Reeeeeeee" ¶ This is the alt-right's battle cry — another broader 4chan meme subsumed into the movement. One redditor describes it as "something of 'warcry' for socially maladapted people." And because it originated on 4chan, there's also a good chance that it's also intended to mock the mentally disabled.
"Why did we make a game about Pepe? We saw some memes featuring Pepe screaming 'REEEEE' and something just 'clicked,'" a developer for Spirit Realm Games told us in an email. "We thought it was a silly and funny idea to just show off to our friends, nothing more, so we built it just for fun."
Translations:
hearth-penny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English herthpeny, from Old English heorþpeniġ; from Old English heorþ (“hearth”) + Old English peniġ (“penny”).
Inflected forms:
form: hearth-pennies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Peter's pence.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-Vietnamese
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Vietnamese.
Base: Vietnamese
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Vietnamese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Vietnamese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Opposing Vietnam or its people.
pos: adj
Translations:
snoogle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snoogles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snoogling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snoogled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snoogled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To snuggle
pos: verb
examples: 1981-1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
He began snoogling & kissing & it felt so so fucking good.
Translations:
bug-spray
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bug-sprays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bug-spraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bug-sprayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bug-sprayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To spray with bug spray
pos: verb
Translations:
rose-a-ruby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pheasant's eye (Adonis annua)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
soldiers-in-green
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pheasant's eye (Adonis annua)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
trans-stilbene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: trans-stilbenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trans derivative of stilbene, similar to resveratrol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Oraon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Oraons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Oraon
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Kurukh.
pos: noun
Translations:
Orleanian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a period of geologic time 20 to 16 million years ago, within the Miocene, preceding the Astaracian age and following the Agenian age.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to Orleans, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: New Orleanian
Translations:
MEI
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: MEIs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: multiengine instructor (a CFI qualified to give training in multiengine aircraft)
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
lager-conditioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of beer, produced using the bottom fermentation process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dry-hopped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dry-hopped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dry-hopped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of beer, having had hops added directly added while fermenting.
pos: adj
Translations:
pre-COVID
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + COVID.
Base: COVID
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: pre-Covid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pre-covid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Before the COVID-19 pandemic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Cathay Pacific Group expects to resume 70% of pre-COVID passenger capacity levels by end of 2023
The Albanese Government is helping more Australians get travelling again, with passport wait times now back to pre-COVID normal.
Although most schools have returned to pre-COVID procedures, it is still possible that a local COVID outbreak may result in a return to altered arrangements in schools.
As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
Translations:
arch-artist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-)der.
Latin archi-bor.
Old English arċe-
Middle English arch-
English arch-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -ista
Late Latin artistader.
French artisteder.
English artist
English arch-artist
From arch- + artist.
Inflected forms:
form: arch-artists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: archartist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An artist of ultimate or superior quality; a maestro.
pos: noun
examples: But the arch-artist, Nature, had not let centuries pass idly. The western wall was clad with ivy, through which a boursault rose here and there reared its blossom aspiringly; [...]
[Michelangelo] will shortly be our theme for another article or two, wherein the arch-artist will be discussed, with special reference to the history and characteristics of his great architectural works.
[Artists] are merely repeating nature's earliest promptings, as when first the great arch-artist moulded our pendent sphere, painted its varied surface with inimitable hues, and bid the jubilant stars, nature's first poets, sing together the morning hymns of creation.
Translations:
pay-per-click
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
marketing
Inflected forms:
form: pay per click
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An online advertising model in which the advertiser pays the publisher (typically a search engine or website owner) whenever the ad is clicked by a user.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
attributive
often
uncountable
Translations:
non-Arab
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + Arab.
Base: Arab
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-Arabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not Arab.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who is not Arab.
pos: noun
Translations:
winehouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English wīnhūs. By surface analysis, wine + house.
Inflected forms:
form: winehouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wine house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tavern or restaurant at which the primary drink served is wine.
pos: noun
gloss: The building on a vineyard in which the winepress is located.
pos: noun
gloss: A communal feasting hall where the lord and his retainers gathered for drinking, gift-giving, storytelling, celebration, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The wine house and the guest house were hung with curtains shining bright against the wooden walls.
Translations:
Lourdes-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lourdes + -like.
Base: Lourdes
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more Lourdes-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Lourdes-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of the Marian apparitions and pilgrimage site in the city of Lourdes, France.
pos: adj
examples: Such was the expectant electric atmosphere of the time that our outpatient clinic acquired a Lourdes-like quality.
Translations:
whip-creamed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whip cream + -ed.
Base: whip cream
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more whip-creamed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whip-creamed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With whip cream.
pos: adj
examples: He checks the desserts in advance, and while he is waiting for his steak to arrive he keeps a sharp eye on other tables to make certain that he will not be taken in by a small portion of lemon pie when the strawberry shortcake is large and lavishly whip-creamed.
The Kirsch Torte is a heavy, nutted, whip-creamed cake soaked in an excess of liqueur, an after-dinner drink that requires a fork.
When one pie was left, Faith plunked down her money and stepped up to the line, the heavily whip-creamed pie in her hand.
Translations:
double-muscled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of cattle: carrying any of a number of genetic mutations that limit and reduce the activity of the myostatin protein, augmenting muscle growth and reducing fat deposits, resulting in lower-fat, less marbled meat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
giddy-go-round
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: giddy-go-rounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of merry-go-round (“carousel ride”).
pos: noun
examples: The proprietor of the giddy-go-round, swings, and cocoanut-shies wanted to know from whom, in this world or another, he could recover damages.
Translations:
fiya
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A slang pronunciation of the word "fire".
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Awesome, outstanding, spectacular.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
not-comparable
Translations:
cross-progression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From cross- + progression.
Base: progression
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of cross-progress.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cross-progress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From cross- + progress.
Base: progress
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cross-platform functionality by which the player's progress through the game on one device is replicated to another device.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
out-of-time
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more out-of-time
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most out-of-time
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not keeping to the appropriate musical rhythm or tempo.
pos: adj
Translations:
anti-pagan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-pagan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-pagan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Against or in opposition to paganism or pagan practices.
pos: adj
examples: The Christian followed on the Jewish and Egyptian Churches, and in this way a great tradition of sexual continence and anti-pagan morality came right down the centuries even into modern times.
Translations:
high-tailed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-tailed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-tailed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a high tail.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
often
examples: In the early 19th century high-tailed horses were in vogue.
Translations:
milk-and-watery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From milk-and-water + -y.
Base: milk-and-water
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more milk-and-watery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most milk-and-watery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Weak, insipid; lacking strength and vigour.
pos: adj
Translations:
diner-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: diners-out
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dines out.
pos: noun
examples: The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.
Translations:
ponting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of Herbert George Ponting, photographer on Scott's 1910-13 expedition.
Inflected forms:
form: pontings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.
pos: noun
examples: The whale incident had, of course, inspired numerous quips about Jonah ... This latest mishap revived all the former quizzing about the evil-eye propensities of my camera, and I was once again the butt for no end of twittering about the peril of "ponting" for Ponko... the more I protested... the more persistently these crimes were fastened on to me. But such railleries were always good-natured, and everyone in the Hut was subjected to them whenever the slightest occasion presented.
After horse exercising I went up the Ramp, and in the afternoon posed, or as we call it here, "ponted" for Ponting with several of the others as a foreground to the hut and Mount Erebus in the cinematograph.
Taylor had invented a new verb, consisting of the first syllable of my name "to pont', meaning 'to pose, until nearly frozen, in all sorts of uncomfortable positions' for my photographs. This latest mishap revived all the former quizzing about the evil-eye propensities of my camera, and I was once again the butt for no end of twitting about 'the peril of "ponting" for Ponko' - the latter being my nickname.
When Ponko was not ponting or processing his plates or teaching his colleages how to take photographs, he had an additional duty to lecture to the party of thirty-three who were over wintering at the base camp on Cape Evans.
Ponting came along and after complimenting us on our villainous appearance, begged us to remain picturesque until the sun showed enough light for a photograph! Luckily we had only to wait a few hours for this specimen of 'ponting'.
Clissold the excellent cook, who should have gone with the motor party, tumbled off a small iceberg and concussed himself while posing or 'ponting' as it had come to be known- Griffith Taylor, with his usual wit, had defined 'to pont' as 'to spend a deuce of a time posing in an uncomfortable position'.
Translations:
mystery-mongering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of deliberately or habitually mystifying others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
corey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Angloromani kor, kori, korri, kuri (“penis”), from Romani kar (“penis”), from Prakrit *𑀓𑀸𑀝 (*kāṭa, “stick, penis”).
Inflected forms:
form: coreys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
vulgar
examples: She always gets the numbers right, she's got me into maths / I'd take away her pants and add my corey to her gash
'Georgie knows what she's doin', Nan. She says she only lets Ryan touch her titties and she's not gonna touch his cory until he marries her.'
"He’s a good looking chappy ain’t he?" said Fury, before asking Ngannou, "Have you got a big corey?" ¶ Corey of course is British slang for the male genitalia, which left the Cameroonian baffled.
Translations:
covenant-lite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: covenant-lites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loan that has fewer restrictive covenants on it than a standard loan, so is potentially more risky for the lender.
pos: noun
Translations:
lip-pierced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a pierced lip
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a lip-pierced hairdresser
Translations:
maple-syrupy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From maple syrup + -y.
Base: maple syrup
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more maple-syrupy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maple-syrupy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maple syrupy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: With maple syrup.
pos: adj
examples: While hibernating, Little Bear spent most of his time dreaming about huge, fluffy, buttery, maple-syrupy pancakes.
It is time, after I take a long, hot shower then drench my taste buds with some maple-syrupy pancakes (Dennis has filled them with bananas, my favorite) to hear about Jackie’s evening.
He was slathered head-to-toe in maple syrup. […] “[…] When Loudmouth over there”—a maple-syrupy forefinger jabbed in my direction—“woke me up, I pushed the door wider to go outside and investigate.[…]”
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of maple syrup.
pos: adj
examples: Another way to astound your friends these days, Blake says, is to import your own freshly-smoked salmon from Nova Scotia. If your friends are Jewish, don’t expect them to be too terribly impressed. It may look like lox but it ain’t (it’s saltier and has a maple-syrupy taste).
The most common indication of maple syrup urine disease is a characteristic odor, a distinctive maple-syrupy odor of the urine and perspiration.
Another reader also touted the bacon, saying “the bacon was incredible—sort of a maple-syrupy taste—and the potatoes were spicy with caramelized onions.”
The females have a lemony, maple-syrupy smell; the males, which have more glands for scent marking, smell muskier.
Hockey Night in Canada: That’s right: “In” Canada. Because it’s “Our Game.” Because it’s what “We Do.” Because no one does it better, even if no one else much cares to. Because the U.S. may have the NHL, the Stanley Cup, the money, the majority of franchises, and Carrie Underwood and Hilary Duff, but we have Don Cherry in Edwardian shirt collars. / Chew on that, Uncle Sam. It’s the maple-syrupy taste of victory. / Sweet.
The waiter brought the booze in elegantly delicate glasses, which seemed contrary to my notions of how hard liquor should be consumed. Digger waved his under his nose and I did the same: the deceptively sweet maple-syrupy smell hit me as it had that evening in LA on Remo’s porch.
Translations:
continuous-braked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a number of vehicles fitted with air or vacuum brakes, all connected by train pipes, the braking being under the control of the train driver.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some goods trains have a third class carriage at the back, and as the whole train is continuous-braked, travelling is not uncomfortable.
Translations:
six-wheeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: six-wheelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle of any type fitted with six wheels.
pos: noun
examples: Driver Cerr spent so long complaining to us about the quality of the coal that we had barely time to get into coach No. 51, the oldest type of third-class six-wheeler, as we moved off.
Translations:
e-hoarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + hoarding.
Base: hoarding
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of digital hoarding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
penny-pinch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from penny-pinching.
Inflected forms:
form: penny-pinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: penny-pinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: penny-pinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: penny-pinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be very parsimonious or stingy.
pos: verb
Translations:
thopter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Clipping of ornithopter.
Inflected forms:
form: thopters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ornithopter (“birdlike aircraft”).
pos: noun
examples: Another ’thopter glided in over the cliff wall above Hawat. He drew in a sharp breath as he saw it—a big troop-carrier. It flew with the slow, spread-wing heaviness of a full load like a giant bird coming to its nest.
I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.
Flowstone Thopter gets +1/-1 and gains flying until end of turn.
Translations:
once-over-lightly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: once-over-lightlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of once-over (“a quick inspection, survey, etc.”).
pos: noun
Translations:
open-toed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of opened-toe (in all senses)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
deep-dye
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deep-dyes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deep-dyeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deep-dyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deep-dyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dye thoroughly; to put through thorough dying.
pos: verb
Translations:
scro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of scrotum. Compare bro.
Inflected forms:
form: scros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Scrotum.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A disreputable or untrustworthy male acquaintance (both metaphorically and metonymically).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Yo, you seen Bobby? That scro still owes me ten bucks.
Translations:
flint-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flint-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flint-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of steely-eyed.
pos: adj
Translations:
ass-brained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ass-brained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ass-brained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely stupid; idiotic.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: “Ahhh, they’re nothin’ but a bunch of ass-brained jerks! Much they know,” Larry jeered, apparently hating to see this opportunity of complaining against the doctors go to waste.
aybe you should try to get a job covering politics or something; you seem to have two talents: 1) taking things out of context, and 2). making yourself like an ass-brained idiot as you do it.
What, surprised?! Oh, that's right, I'm preaching to a bunch of ass-brained jandroish [referring to user Larry Jandro] merkins who are still under the impression that Saddam and his henchmen, who ran a secular regime, were actually ALLIES with Islamic fundamentalists and al Qaeda. Forgive, I know not how much ignoracne is still left in the U. S. A.
Translations:
race-baity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From race-bait + -y.
Base: race-bait
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: race-baitier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: race-baitiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving race baiting.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Has Drudge Become More Race-Baity? Here Are the Numbers.
It's a fairly paralyzing time to be a guilty white American liberal. With Donald Trump elected on the basis of one of the race-baitiest presidential campaigns in modern American history, Republicans firmly in power, and mounting evidence that progress toward racial equality has been stalled out for years if not decades, it feels like there's little chance of substantive progress anytime soon. What can the conscientious white ally do?
The GOP's main counterargument has been to stir up race panic. Fox News and NBC today decided a Trump-funded ad was so race-baity they had to pull it from the air (though not before showing it to millions of viewers first).
'Can we make it race-baitier?' Dre's co-worker wondered.
Translations:
Oscar-baity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Oscar bait + -y.
Base: Oscar bait
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more Oscar-baity
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Oscar-baity
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being Oscar bait.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The eclectic list of the 10 most Oscar-baity movies ever made, according to Rossman and Schilke's equation, includes highly acclaimed Best Picture winners, beloved auteurist fare, and at least a couple of duds: […]
Apple and Netflix are among the deep-pocketed steaming services willing to shell out big money to land an Oscar-baity film.
Martin McDonagh's tale of two friends falling out in civil war-era Ireland has hung around in the best picture conversation all winter, at the expense of more obviously Oscar-baity nominees.
Translations:
Merkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Merkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cannibalistic tribe native to the Cape York Peninsula.
pos: noun
examples: How he envied the Merkin people who could live in such bungalows! Yet for most of the year the bungalows were empty, with doors padlocked and windows shuttered. It was only during the "hill season," the two or three months between the northeast and the southwest monsoons, that the Merkin people left their homes and schools and missions on the plains and came to the hills to escape the heat.
The big river sang and glittered in the sunlight. It toppled from the mysterious jungle heights of Irukandji territory down huge granite bluffs to hurtle life into the parched inland, tracking westward through the lands of the fierce Merkin tribe.
A tribe known as the Merkins had a word, "talgoro" meaning "human-meat-waiting-to-be-taken"; what we would call a "marked man".
Translations: