yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Pinay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tagalog Pinay.
Inflected forms:
form: Pinays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Filipina; a citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, and those descending from such, who is female.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Antonyms: Pinoy
Filipino
Translations:
agust
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The tree Sesbania grandiflora.
pos: noun
Translations:
wadge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of wedge.
Inflected forms:
form: wadges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: thick slice of bread
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
Translations:
yeld
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: barren, not pregnant, not giving milk
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With regard to the yeld ewes, untupped, may I ask the Minister what this means?
Translations:
Far-Downer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From far down + -er.
Base: far down
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Far-Downers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Donegal man
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
Translations:
jack-easy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: very easy, no trouble
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
not-comparable
Translations:
skite-the-gutter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare skite (“to defecate”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An unimportant or irresponsible person; a good-for-nothing.
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
examples: They pulled into the Houlihans’ driveway at three o’clock. Larry, the younger of the two, the one who had turned skite-the-gutter in the hunger strike, opened the door. O’Gorman threw him inside with a shove that sent him flying down the hall on his back.
it is strange that only you think i am doomhead. others around here know better. it just proves you're a headbin who's just rifting around here. ask birdy if you don't understand that. if you scunner her as much as you scunner me you'll not get an answer, just proves you're a skite the gutter which everybody but you already knows.
Most of the violence was verbal rather than physical, but their shrill voices operated on the same frequency as one of those novelty rape alarms[…]. They called one another all manner of local names in their turbulent exchanges: binlid, dirtbird, blirt, girney gub, scut, skite-the-gutter, galeeried gunterpace, thundergrub, spoon and sponge.
Translations:
two-double
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: very stooped
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
Translations:
rememberable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From remember + -able.
Base: remember
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more rememberable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rememberable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable or worthy of being remembered.
pos: adj
examples: You will be struck with the combinations of vivid greenery, and water, and building; but everything is so distinct and rememberable, that you would not improve your conception by visiting the country a hundred times over.
Translations:
catling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From cat + -ling. Compare kitling, catkin. According to the OED, the sense of a surgical knife may be an independent word.
Base: cat
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: catlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A little cat; a kitten.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: For never cat nor catling I shall find, / But mew shall they in Pluto's palace blind.
Abel was a lover of the worst type: when he was with a catling he hardly ever laughed . If the catling came back again, he never did.
"Have you seen the ship's catling, Little Mistress?" he called, crossing to Hisvet, the kitten almost hidden in his big hands.
The brewer's wife was heard to say She'd cleave the catling's tail in twae So Bully raoed and ran away
gloss: catgut; a catgut string
pos: noun
examples: but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get his sinews to make catlings on.
If you have a two-string lute, where one string is made with iron and the other with catling (made of sheep guts), and you tune it so that it produces the best unison, you shall lose it as soon as you move the keys, while looking for a new common chord. In practical terms, if an iron string and a catling string with the same length vibrate in unison , this does not mean they will do the same if you cut them by half .
Festing's bill suggests that a catling could be used to make or improve the handle of a bow.
gloss: A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
pos: noun
examples: the amputation is competed by passing the catling between the separated bones, dividng the flexor tendons, &c., and forming a flap of about equal size to the superior from the integument on the sole of the foot.
The operator […] grasping the soft parts immediately below, raises them so as to facilitate the passage of a double-edged knife or catling across the face of the bones […]
[…] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.
Related words: kitling
Translations:
nightman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From night + -man.
Base: night
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: nightmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night-man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: night man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Near-synonym: shit-carter
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt (etc.), p. 54,
That the Laystalls be removed as far as may be out of the City, and common Passages, and that no Nightman or other be suffered to empty a Vault into any Garden near about the City.
1825, Robert Mudie, London and Londoners; or, A Second Judgment of “Babylon the Great”, London: H. Colburn, 2nd edition, 1836, p. 197,
Still [the rats] are an organized race, and can combine together for the purposes both of attack and defence; as the nightmen who clean the sewers and cesspools of Babylon often find. The travels of a nightman have never been published; but they would make a very curious book. As they worm their way along those dismal passages, they often find an army of rats drawn up to oppose their farther progress […]
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Woodfall & Son, Volume II, The Street-Folk, p. 193,
I have met with nightmen who have told me that there was “nothing particular” in the smell of the cesspools they were emptying; they “hardly perceived it.” One man said, “Why, it’s like the sort of stuff I’ve smelt in them ladies’ smelling-bottles.”
gloss: A male night shift worker.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Most men who are of sufficient intelligence and moral character to make thoroughly satisfactory block signalmen will naturally seek a respite occasionally from such a confining routine, and if they cannot accomplish this without securing a substitute at their own expense they are under constant temptation to “change off”—the day man working for the nightman and the nightman for the day.
Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they “kill the quart” before Mr. Tiernan goes home.
gloss: A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
pos: noun
Synonyms: gong farmer
Related words: be on nights
night job
night soil
day man
Translations:
gallin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A substance obtained by the reduction of gallein.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
roadmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From road + master.
Compound parts: road
master
Inflected forms:
form: roadmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is in charge of a railroad track.
pos: noun
examples: Railwaymen may travel by free pass to their homes by applying to the Roadmaster.
Translations:
at-grade
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a junction or intersection where two or more transport axes cross at the same level (or grade).
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: An at-grade intersection may require a traffic-control device such as a stop sign, traffic light or railway signal to manage conflicting traffic.
Translations:
cecina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cecina, from Vulgar Latin *siccīna (“jerky”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).
Inflected forms:
form: cecinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Salted, dried meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
aurantia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An orange coal-tar dye that is an ammonium salt of hexanitrodiphenylamine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
shear-cake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: shear-cakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.
pos: noun
Translations:
chicken-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chicken-hearted + -ness.
Base: chicken-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: chickenheartedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being chicken-hearted; cowardice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hen-heartedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hen-hearted + -ness.
Base: hen-hearted
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being hen-hearted; cowardice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ahau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Yucatec Maya ajaw, ultimately from Proto-Mayan *ajahw.
Inflected forms:
form: ahaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ajaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Among the ancient Maya people, a member of the leading class of nobles in a particular polity.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
shikumen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Mandarin 石库门 (shíkùmén).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An architectural style found in Shanghai, China, consisting of two or three floors and a front yard protected by high walls.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
batmobile
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the Batmobile driven by superhero Batman in the eponymous media franchise, from bat + -mobile. The second verb sense references the retractable shielding featured on the vehicle in the 1989 film.
Base: bat
Affixes: -mobile
Inflected forms:
form: batmobiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: batmobiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: batmobiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: batmobiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Batmobile
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move or proceed as if in the Batmobile
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: We knew they were coming to children's records. It was only a matter of time before Bruce Wain^([sic]) and Dick Grayson would come Batmobiling off the turntable.
Batman and Robin, the dynamic duo, come batmobiling right out of the old comic strip into a toy gift set for youngsters.
To be sure, DC Comics' Caped Crusader wasn't Batmobiling off the newsstands in the psychedelic '60s; […]
gloss: To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
examples: Genericans live on fast food bought with $20 bills (Yuppie food coupons) taken out of automatic teller machines.
They tend to be young men and women prone to batmobiling, defined as "putting up protective emotional shields just as a relationship enters an intimate vulnerable stage," like the steel plates that cloak Batman's car.
Baby's antennae stood straight up. She tried to read him but Jake was too quick for her. He was batmobiling. His deflector screens had shot up—he was an emotional escape vehicle, complete with tinted windows. Bullet-proof, bomb-proof, utterly impenetrable.
Meredith (Gillian Anderson) is a frosty, uptight theatre director being romanced by an architect (John Stewart), but she is, as we say in the 90s, batmobiling - her defences are up.
Translations:
sewel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Early Middle English sheueles (“scarecrow”) [and other forms]; probably from Old English *scīewels, from sċīen (“to be frightened or startled; to recoil in fear”) (from Proto-West Germanic *skiuhijan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“frightened; bashful, coy, shy, timid; cautious, reserved”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-, *skūbʰ- (“to drive, move forward, push”) or *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to hide”)) + -els (suffix forming masculine nouns). Doublet of shy.
Cognates
* Middle English asheuelen, asheulen (verb)
* Middle Low German schūwelse
* Middle High German schiusel, schusel (modern German Scheusal (“beast; monster”))
* Old High German sciuhen (Middle High German schiuhen, schiuwen, German scheuen (“to scare”))
Inflected forms:
form: sewels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shewel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place.
pos: noun
examples: Their sewels are made by tying a tassel of birch rind , formed like the wing of a paper kite , to the small end of a slight stick , about six feet in length. These sticks are pricked into the ground about ten or a dozen yards apart
Translations:
Senussi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Senussis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Senussi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sanusi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sanussi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sanusiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sanusiyya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Senusi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Senusiya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Senusiyya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a particular North African Muslim sect.
pos: noun
Translations:
syscall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipped compound of system call.
Inflected forms:
form: syscalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A software request for a service from the operating system kernel.
pos: noun
examples: At an assembly code level, when a process wants to make a syscall, it will load the syscall number into the EAX register[…]
In addition, the relatively slow scalar CPU of the SX-9 and high cost of context switches (interrupts, syscalls) due to the huge context that needs to be stored away (like vector registers) contribute their part to the very poor UDP performance.
Translations:
parasocial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From para- + social, coined by American sociologist Richard Wohl and Donald Horton in 1956.
Base: social
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example that between a celebrity and their audience or fans, whom they do not know).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a parasocial relationship
Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl coined the term parasocial interaction in 1956 to describe the imaginary interactions between the audience and TV variety show hosts, noting the “seeming face-to-face relationship” that viewers developed […]
In the past, parasocial relationships occurred predominantly with television or film celebrities, but now these […] celebrities openly share their opinions and activities through various social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.
And yet for every creator for whom parasocial relationships are an unintended byproduct of their work, there are many more – influencers, YouTubers, vloggers – who actively cultivate that faux-intimacy with their followers, softening them up so that they might more easily ply their wares, be that waist trainers or make-up brushes.
With the advent of AI chatbots, the ethics of parasocial relationships just keep getting murkier. Introducing: CarynAI, a voice-based chatbot that was trained to mimic a human influencer to become your artificial girlfriend.
Translations:
DX
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
Inflected forms:
form: DXs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DXing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DXed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DXed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To receive and identify a long-distance broadcast, such as one by a distant AM, FM, or TV broadcast station.
pos: verb
gloss: To complete a long-distance two-way radio information exchange, especially on amateur radio bands.
pos: verb
Translations:
QRS
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: QRSs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A QRS complex.
pos: noun
Translations:
bandle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irish banlámh (“cubit”), from Middle Irish bannlám, from bann (“a measure”) + lám (“hand, arm”).
Inflected forms:
form: bandles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Irish measure of two feet (61 cm) in length.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
lashline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: cosmetics
entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From lash + line.
Compound parts: lash
line
Inflected forms:
form: lashlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lash line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The line of the eyelash.
pos: noun
gloss: A rope for tying pieces of scenery together.
pos: noun
Translations:
stallman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From stall + -man.
Base: stall
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: stallmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male stallholder, especially one who sells books.
pos: noun
examples: […]the strong fancy which the stallman saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it
gloss: A subcontractor in charge of a stall or working place.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
lime-twigged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lime-twig + -ed.
Base: lime-twig
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more lime-twigged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lime-twigged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beset with snares.
pos: adj
gloss: Ensnared, as with birdlime.
pos: adj
examples: have their Conſultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophiſms of Philoſmophical Perſmons
Translations:
belta
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more belta
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most belta
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fantastic; excellent.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
examples: It's pure belta, like!
Translations:
Adirondack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Mohawk ratirontaks, atirú:taks, hatiron'taks (“they eat trees”), a term applied by the Mohawks indiscriminately to other tribes, including the French and English, but especially other Native Americans who ate bark and buds when other food sources were scarce.
Inflected forms:
form: Adirondacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Algonquin people that lived along the Ottawa River in Ontario and Quebec.
pos: noun
Translations:
intertestamental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From inter- + testamental, in reference to the Old and New Testament.
Base: testamental
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the time between the writing of Malachi and the writing of the New Testament, roughly the last four centuries BCE and first half of the first century.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: While no full length study has been pursued on the intertestamental influence upon I Cor. 1:18–3:23, a number of scholars find similarity between intertestamental literature and different sections of this passage.
Translations:
hackler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hackle + -er.
Base: hackle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hacklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a flax-dresser
pos: noun
Translations:
flax-dresser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From flax + dresser.
Base: flax
Inflected forms:
form: flax-dressers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worker who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle; a hackler
pos: noun
Translations:
top-quality
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the highest quality; extremely good.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
top-of-the-range
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of top of the line.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Chipewyan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Plains Cree ᒌᐘᔮᐣ (Cīpwayān, “pointed skin”), from ᒌᐚᐤ (cīpwāw, “to be pointed”) + ᐘᔮᐣ (wayān, “skin, hide”) — a reference to the cut and style of Chipewyan parkas.
Inflected forms:
form: Chipewyans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chipewyan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chippewyan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American tribe of Central Canada, in the regions of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan.
pos: noun
examples: In addition to their leatherwork, woodwork, stonework, and bonework, the Chipewyan also worked in metal.
One of the big challenges, it turns out, is the government itself. Last week, Shene Catholique-Valpy, an Aboriginal woman born and raised in the Northwest Territories, spoke out publicly about her year-long fight to have the the^([sic]) traditional Chipewyan spelling of her daughter’s name, Sahaiʔa May Talbot, on her birth certificate. Sahaiʔa roughly translates to: “As the sun breaks through the clouds or over the horizon.” And the symbol, which resembles a question mark without the dot, called a glottal stop, indicates the correct pronunciation and meaning; without it, the name is incorrect.
Translations:
value-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From value + -free.
Base: value
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
form: more value-free
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most value-free
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking normative assumptions; normatively neutral.
pos: adj
Translations:
owly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From owl + -y.
Base: owl
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: owlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: owliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
pos: adj
examples: In the picture Miss Elizabeth showed me the croc had little piggy eyes, not huge owly ones.
gloss: In a bad mood; cranky.
pos: adj
tags: Atlantic-Canada
examples: I had no right to be owly and disagreeable with Willie.
gloss: Seeing poorly.
pos: adj
examples: Perhaps nice isn't the best word for him, but he certainly was an unusually imposing and fluffy-haired and fierce-looking brute of a tarantula. He had rather an owly way about him, as if he had come out from his hole too early and was dazed and half-blinded by the light.
gloss: Silly.
pos: adj
tags: Atlantic-Canada
Derived words: owliness
owly-eyed
Translations:
hornworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From horn + worm.
Compound parts: horn
worm
Inflected forms:
form: hornworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A caterpillar of a hawk moth that has a hornlike tail process.
pos: noun
gloss: Some moths in the genus Manduca of the hawk moth family Sphingidae.
pos: noun
examples: The project, part of a wave of interest in life-imitating robotics, is a collaboration of seven Tufts faculty members from five departments in the schools of engineering and arts and sciences. Dr. Trimmer comes from the field of neurobiology, where he has been studying the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, since 1990.
Derived words: tobacco hornworm
Manduca sexta
tomato hornworm
Manduca quinquemaculata
Translations:
housey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From house + -y.
Base: house
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more housey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most housey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of house music; houselike.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Along with a housey bass beat, it makes one of the most astonishing dance tracks you've ever heard.
gloss: Of hops: having the fruit mixed up with the leaves, making picking difficult.
pos: adj
examples: Variation of crop density and the presence of very 'housey' growth accounted for some of the variation, together with a drop in tempo on some farms as the end of harvest was approached, […]
Related words: housey-housey
Translations:
butoxyethanol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The mono-butyl ether of ethylene glycol; used as a solvent, and in cleaning products
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fracker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From frack + -er.
Base: frack
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: frackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or organization employed in fracking.
pos: noun
examples: Slowly, they marched toward a bigger role in the fracking industry. When competing Texas frackers looked to freeze the brothers out from the companies that distribute the sand needed to drill, the siblings opened their own sand quarry to thrive.
Conoco on Monday announced a $9.7 billion all-stock takeover of Concho Resources (CXO), a fracker squarely focused on the Permian Basin, the massive West Texas oilfield at the heart of the shale revolution.
Translations:
phalaris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: phalaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several grasses of the genus Phalaris
pos: noun
Translations:
haematobium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: haematobiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haematobia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flatworm of the species Schistosoma haematobium, the urinary blood fluke.
pos: noun
Translations:
sleeve-link
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sleeve + link.
Compound parts: sleeve
link
Inflected forms:
form: sleeve-links
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: cufflink
pos: noun
examples: The oval seal is undoubtedly a plain sleeve-link—what else is of such a shape?
Translations:
boomstick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From boom (“a log; explosion sound”) + stick.
Compound parts: boom
stick
Inflected forms:
form: boomsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boom stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In logging, any of the larger logs chained together to create a floating boom.
pos: noun
gloss: A firearm; especially, a shotgun, and most especially, a sawed-off version.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
broomcorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broom + corn, from its use as bristles for brooms.
Compound parts: broom
corn
Inflected forms:
form: broomcorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broom corn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a variety of grass of the species Sorghum vulgare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mini-stroke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + stroke.
Base: stroke
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-strokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mini stroke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: transient ischemic attack
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
oxybenzone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From oxy- + benzone.
Base: benzone
Affixes: oxy-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A benzophenone compound widely used in sunscreens and plastics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays. Both types of sunscreen can degrade or wash off over time, so it’s important to reapply every two hours, and more frequently if you’re swimming or sweating.
As documented in a recent FDA study, chemical sunscreens, with active ingredients like oxybenzone, octocrylene, octinoxate, homosalate, and avobenzone, are applied to the skin and then can remain in the blood plasma at significant levels for days to weeks after application[.]
Translations:
redlight
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From red light.
Inflected forms:
form: redlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redlit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redlit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: redlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: red-light
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To deny, reject, or disapprove; to prohibit from proceeding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To stop or cancel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: greenlight
Translations:
emblica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the taxonomic name Emblica (genus name).
Inflected forms:
form: emblicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: emblic
pos: noun
examples: Avicenna, thirteenth century Arab philosopher and physician, recommends honey of emblica as an aphrodisiac.
Translations:
bushwalk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bush + walk.
Compound parts: bush
walk
Inflected forms:
form: bushwalks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bushwalks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bushwalking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bushwalked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bushwalked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hike; an off-road walk in the countryside, possibly wearing a backpack, undertaken as a leisure activity.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: There are also bushwalks in Sassafras Gully.
The 24-sq-km Porongurup National Park is 12km long and has 1100-million-year-old granite outcrops, panoramic views, beautiful scenery, large karri trees and excellent bushwalks.
Some offer a guided coach tour during which you just stretch your legs, while others let you get your circulation going with a couple of longish bushwalks.
gloss: To undertake an off-road walk in the countryside.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: In 1913, Myles Dunphy and Bert Gallop had bushwalked through the area when it was still a wilderness, its paths and depths known only to the locals.
When he′d grown tall and lanky, he bushwalked on Magnetic Island, with its secluded bays and hiking trails to Mt. Cook through groves of coconut palms and tamarinds and mangoes.
2008, Alan Murphy, Justin Flynn, Paul Harding, Olivia Pozzan, Queensland & the Great Barrier Reef, Lonely Planet, page 61,
Throughout the state you can also go bushwalking in rainforests, camping on isolated tropical islands, horseriding along coastal beaches, and wildlife-spotting in the plethora of national parks and reserves.
Translations:
owly-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From owly + eyed.
Compound parts: owly
eyed
Inflected forms:
form: more owly-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most owly-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: owly eied
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Seeing better in darkness than light; day-blind or photosensitive.
pos: adj
examples: […] And he doesn't do no riding after dark near Dishpan Flats. Them poor misguided sodbusters ain't much account in most ways, but they're owly-eyed at night."
gloss: Wide-eyed, naturally or from an expression of fear, shock, surprise, or excitement.
pos: adj
examples: Gabe looked owly-eyed at the fellow and then prissed his mouth.
gloss: Extremely drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Paul was owly-eyed by then, and he tried to hide it by saying, "Must've lost m' balance," but we noticed that when he clapped a fresh holt on, he was using both his graspers.
Synonyms: wasted
Translations:
hamamelis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἁμαμηλίς (hamamēlís, “medlar”).
Inflected forms:
form: hamamelises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
pos: noun
Translations:
spanky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spank + -y.
Base: spank
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: brand spanking new
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Soon a spanky new house had arisen from the rubble of the old one.
Translations:
eat-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designed for dining in as well as food preparation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Add an appealing small house — but bigger than it looks — with its bookshelved study, sunny panelled living room, chair-railed dining room, and large eat-in country kitchen.
gloss: Featuring seating to allow patrons to stay and eat their food on site.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Eaten on the premises at which it is bought.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Would you prefer an eat-in meal or just a takeaway?
Translations:
flysch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German fließen (“to flow, to melt”).
Inflected forms:
form: flysches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
pos: noun
examples: Most of the structures and textures observed at Ponkapoag section have been noted in turbitite and flysch sequences.
Translations:
miko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 巫女 (miko, “shrine maiden”).
Inflected forms:
form: mikos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miko
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Shinto shrine maiden.
pos: noun
Translations:
palmyra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese palmeira (“palm tree”), from palma (“palm, palm tree”) + -eria (“-tree: forming tree names”), from Old Galician-Portuguese -eira (“-plant: forming plant names from their fruit”), from Latin -āria (“-ary: forming feminine nouns including plant names”).
Inflected forms:
form: palmyras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A palm (Borassus flabellifer) with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
pos: noun
Translations:
naruto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鳴門 (naruto).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of kamaboko.
pos: noun
Translations:
bandini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of bandeau + bikini.
Compound parts: bandeau
bikini
Inflected forms:
form: bandinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A swimsuit consisting of a generally strapless bandeau top and a bikini bottom.
pos: noun
examples: The new concept in two-piece swimwear, along with sister suits -- the camisole-strapped camikini and the bandeau-topped bandini, will be the dominant silhouettes for spring/summer '99.
Elisabeth Filarski's name may be a distant memory, but her legacy is extending far beyond the Australian Outback. Among the popular swimsuit styles you'll find across Middle Georgia this summer is the one the footwear designer of "Survivor" fame wore on that TV show: the bandeau bikini, or bandini, which features a tubelike top.
Paula Hermanny for VIX continues the wave of beads and sequins on this "bandini," $140, with bandeau/tank top and "scoop" bottom in grape, […]
Translations:
physeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Inflected forms:
form: physeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the genus Physeter; a sperm whale.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A filtering machine operated by air pressure.
pos: noun
Translations:
cuvier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: Borrowed from French cuvier (“vat”).
Inflected forms:
form: cuviers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fermenting room of a winery
pos: noun
examples: The winery, she said, has a fermenting room – a cuvier – "that[…] is the most modern you can find today."
Translations:
tablespace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From table + space.
Compound parts: table
space
Inflected forms:
form: tablespaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A storage location where the actual data underlying the objects in a database can be kept.
pos: noun
examples: The tablespace provides a layer of abstraction between physical and logical data.
Translations:
Mukhabarat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic مُخَابَرَات (muḵābarāt), plural of مُخَابَر (muḵābar, “intelligence”).
Inflected forms:
form: Mukhabarats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The secret police or intelligence forces in certain Arabic-speaking countries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was sallow, morose-looking, and wearing dark glasses indoors: a thoroughly bad sign. A secret-police or Mukhabarat type, bored and resentful and hard to shake.
gloss: A member of such an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Biscuits.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: I was just wondering what everyone else has in their respective Coffee/Tea […]
please specify what food stuffs that you have been known to dunk.
Make sure you have plenty of tea/coffee and choccy bix on hand when they show up!
btw, the bix are Albert (NAITUK), Lincoln, Jammie Dodger, (Jaffa Cake - NAB), Thin Arrowroot, Malted Milk, Nice, Hobnob.
Translations:
subsessile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From sub- + sessile.
Base: sessile
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not quite sessile
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bih
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bitch + -h.
Base: bitch
Affixes: -h
Inflected forms:
form: bihs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bitch.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: You don't want no problem, want no problem with me, bih!
Shoulda vaselined that bih. Forgot to vaseline that bih.
Translations:
craftable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From craft + -able.
Base: craft
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more craftable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most craftable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: craftables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be crafted.
pos: adj
examples: Just like Whisper of the Worm last month, Outbreak Perfected now has a craftable variant with a refreshed perk pool that makes it better than ever.
gloss: Something that can be crafted.
pos: noun
examples: Pokemon Legends Arceus has tons of craftables that trainers can unlock throughout their journey through the Hisui region.
Antonyms: uncraftable
Translations:
charman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: charmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who does the work of a charwoman.
pos: noun
Translations:
scarry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scarri, equivalent to scar (“rocky eminence”) + -y.
Base: scar
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: scarrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scarriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a scar, or rocky eminence.
pos: adj
examples: When it [the aurochs] is come to Maſham, it receyueth the Burne, by ſouth weſt (as it dyd the wile, from very déepe ſcarry rockes, befoꝛe at Aſkaran) and dyuers other wild rilles not woꝛthy to be remẽbꝛed, […]
Translations:
swanny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From swan + -y.
Base: swan
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: swannier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: swanniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a swan.
pos: adj
examples: a swanny glossiness of the neck
Translations:
spine-tingler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spine-tinglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something spine-tingling; a frightening book, film, etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
capucine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: capucines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A capuchin monkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
andron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Latin andron, from Ancient Greek ἀνδρών (andrṓn).
Inflected forms:
form: androns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: andrones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the room reserved for males and their activities, often in the lower part of the house.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
Translations:
bizet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare bezel.
Inflected forms:
form: bizets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table.
pos: noun
Translations:
save-all
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: save-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saveall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that prevents waste or loss.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.
All of the fixtures are set on full-size marble slabs, having a ½-inch countersink for a save-all, with a 3-inch brass rose, screw-top strainer, connected to a 1¼-inch galvanized-iron waste pipe with a good incline and entering its 2-inch sectional save-all waste pipes R, Fig. 18, by a 45-degree connection.
gloss: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The remainder of the furniture consisted of a flat-candlestick, with a saveall; but, for snuffers, Bronze used her scissors, or indeed, upon most occasions, her fingers.
Fourthly, an ornamental candle-fastener. This invention is intended to combine a metallic or other ornament for the candle, acting as a fastener for the candle, with a save-all, by which the objectionable necessity of fastening the candle with paper is done away with.
An improved “save-all suitable to all kinds of candlesticks, candle or reading lamps, or chandeliers burning wax, composition, or other candles.
gloss: A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
pos: noun
examples: At the end of the "save-all", where the fibers are to leave the "wire" for the next stage of their journey, suction-boxes are placed, provided with an air-pump to take up the surplus water that has not yet found its way through the meshes.
In designing any save all system one of the cardinal principles is to send no material to the save-all which can be reclaimed in any other waya, and this applies particularly to the gravity variety.
A large amount of backwater passing to the save-all will have the effect of keeping its contents in constant motion, and the currents thus set up will seriously impede its action.
gloss: A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Save-all sails I believe are commonly laced on to the foot of other sails, in light weather—she had something of this description under her lower studding sails.
Sloops, cutters, smacks, hoys &c. have a main-sail abaft the mast, as the brigs; upon and before the mast they have a square sail, or cross-jack; and, above the cross-jack, a small sail, called a save-all top-sail; above that is a top-sail, called a swallow-tailed top-sail, and the next is the top-gallant-sail.
There are a few other sails, such as a gaff-topsail, which sets over the spanker; a ring-tail, which sets abaft the spanker; a save-all, under the lower studding-sail boom, and a jib-topsail, which sets flying over the job. These are never met with now in the service.
Translations:
set-stitched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Stitched according to a formal pattern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed's head
Translations:
sanny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sanitiser + -y.
Base: sanitiser
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hand sanitiser.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
self-life
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From self- + life.
Base: life
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Life dedicated to oneself, pleasure or self-fulfilment, often as opposed to a life devoted to God.
pos: noun
examples: The story of the Bible is therefore the story of the fall of man by listening to the self-life, in time being brought back to oneness with the Divine through the work of a Human-Divine Redeemer, the seed of the woman.
That recurring idea of isolation, the sense of the secrecy of men's bosoms, the perception of life as always lying in the shadow that falls on it, proceeded from predilections of his own, differentiating him from other men; there may have been no very perilous stuff in his breast, nothing to confess or record peculiar to himself in act or experience, no intensity of self-life, but there was this temperament of the solitary brooder upon life.
Translations:
blue-eye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blue-eyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The blue-faced honeyeater of Australia (Entomyzon cyanotis).
pos: noun
gloss: Fish of the family Pseudomugilidae, native to Australia and New Guinea.
pos: noun
Derived words: glass blue-eye
Translations:
simple-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From simple + hearted.
Compound parts: simple
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more simple-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most simple-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: simplehearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: sincere
pos: adj
examples: He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished
“My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognised as such,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.
gloss: ingenuous; guileless
pos: adj
Derived words: simple-heartedly
simple-heartedness
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: прастаду́шны
roman: prastadúšny
lang: Polish
word: prostoduszny
lang: Russian
word: простоду́шный
roman: prostodúšnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: простоду́шний
roman: prostodúšnyj
bethabara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a trademark. Based on the Ancient Greek proper noun Βηθαβαρά (Bēthabará).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ipe (kind of wood).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: