cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
glitterbilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitterbillies
Etymology: Blend of glitter + hillbilly
Senses: examples: text: It was he, for instance, who brought the song "The Highwayman" to the joint venture of Cash, Nelson, Jennings and Kristofferson which became an album and a touring act under that name, and he who persuaded Manuel the tailor to move to Nashville, thus accelerating the re-glitterbilly-fication of modern country which he saw, correctly, as […]
ref: 1995, Patrick Carr, The Illustrated History of Country Music, page 475:
text: This authoritative yet entertaining look at "glitterbillies", rodeo girls, & rhinestone cowboys features everything that helped Western wear captivate the entire world.
ref: 2001, Holly George-Warren, Michelle Freedman, How the West was worn:
text: Opening cut “Branded” is the brand of hillbilly rock that earned Stuart his name as a solo artist, and his cover of Warner Mack’s classic “Bridge Washed Out” and Don Reno’s “Country Boy Rock & Roll” are similarly run through the glitterbilly machine.
ref: 2010 August 24, Matt Fink, “Marty Stuart:Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions”, in American Songwriter:
glosses: Someone who wears cowboy-style clothing which is dressy and made of flashy materials rather than true work clothes, especially one who plays country music.
Synonyms: rhinestone cowboy
glitterbillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glitterbilly
Beyhive
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːhaɪv/
enpr: bēʹhīv
homophone: beehive
Forms: form: the Beyhive
form: BeyHive
Etymology: Blend of Beyoncé + beehive.
Senses: examples: text: And I have a hazy memory of members of the Beyhive, Beyoncé's fandom, posting disobliging commentary about my byline photo following a podcast discussion in which I was judged to have committed some forgotten act of lèse-majesté.
ref: 2025 October 25, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Call yourself a fan?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The singer Beyoncé's online fanbase.
Derived terms: KHive
Trumpster fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpstəˈfaɪ(.)ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpstɚˈfaɪəɹ/
Forms: form: Trumpster fires
Etymology: Blend of Trump + dumpster fire, an analogy to the way a dumpster fire causes everybody to focus on the flames and to the destructive qualities of a fire.
Senses: examples: text: How you feel about Donald Trump and this “news”letter is how I feel about the raging Trumpster fire raging through my party and my country: Would that we could spare time to talk about something else.
ref: 2016 March 12, Jonah Goldberg, “In a Slow-Motion Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Media Figures Embrace Trump One by One”, in National Review:
text: And considering how thoroughly the Trumpster fire has humiliated political soothsayers this cycle, it seems unwise to offer a single, definitive answer.
ref: 2016 May 25, Eric Levitz, “Why Is Hillary Clinton Suddenly Tied in the Polls With a Widely Reviled Demagogue?”, in New York Magazine:
text: The book store's co-owner, Dakota Bracciale, who identifies as a witch, told Metro that the ritual is a gathering for people who want to challenge the “Trumpster fire” and Kavanaugh's SCOTUS confirmation.
ref: 2018 October 15, Anna Harstedt, “Witches will gather in Brooklyn to hex Brett Kavanaugh”, in Metro US:
text: Part of the problem with the constant flow of news out of the White House — from offensive tweets to potentially disastrous policies — is that acts that would have seemed outrageous in previous administrations slip past, hidden by the smoke of the Trumpster fire.
ref: 2019 August 19, “Editorial: Trump’s plan to move BLM jobs west is a shallow pretext to gut the agency’s mission”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: (see title)
ref: 2019, Clay Jones, Tales from the Trumpster Fire: A Cartoon Anthology:
text: With regard to the Trumpster fire, voting him out of office would remove the fuel.
ref: 2020 January 24, Hardy Haberman, “Putting out the Trumpster fire”, in Dallas Voice:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Donald Trump's use of controversy to distract the public from the perceived disastrous state of the government.
Related terms: Reaganomics
Trumpster diving
Portpatrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From port + Patrick, after St Patrick's Church or earlier chapel.
Senses: glosses: A coastal village and harbour in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NW9954).
dilly bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilly beans
Senses: glosses: A pickled green bean, usually with dill and garlic for flavoring but often with other spices.
dilly beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilly bean
deSUMOylases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deSUMOylase
desupersaturations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desupersaturation
detailed balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detailed balance
determinisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of determinisation
dethiolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dethiolase
dethiolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dethiolation
deuterosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuterosome
nonfatals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonfatal
Newton Stewart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The Scottish town was laid out in 1677 by William Stewart, son of the 2nd Earl of Galloway.
Senses: glosses: A town in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, originally in Wigtownshire (OS grid ref NX4055).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Orange County, Indiana, United States.
Sonning
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the River Thames in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7575).
Derived terms: alt: Oxfordshire
word: Sonning Common
xia suay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xia suay
form: most xia suay
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sia suay.
New Romney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council on the edge of Romney Marsh in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0624).
Related terms: Old Romney
Romney Marsh
High Brooms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Believed to be named for the prevalence of broom plants in the area.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Tunbridge Wells in Southborough parish, Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5941)
Mostyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mostyns
form: Mustain
Etymology: Of Welsh origin.
Senses: glosses: A village in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1580).
glosses: A habitational surname from Welsh.
Twerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bath in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7264).
Brackley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæk.li/
rhymes: -ækli
Etymology: The community in Prince Edward Island is named after settler Arthur Brackley (d. 1776).
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP5837).
glosses: A community and rural municipality in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Ruddington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5732).
Ennew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Christine +
Packham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Packhams
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Flax Bourton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5069).
thousand-headed cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousand-headed cabbages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Brussels sprout.
synonyms: word: Brussels sprout
Hubberts Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Frampton parish, Boston borough, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2643).
Digbeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An inner city area in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0786).
Brent Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area, shopping centre, and major road interchange in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2387).
like a million pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of like a million dollars.
synonyms: word: like a million dollars
choice words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choice word
Thornton-in-Craven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Craven district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9048).
top note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top notes
Senses: examples: text: In those days I didn't buy perfumes, and initially thought Chamade was two fragrances: I would smell the drydown on passers-by and find it wonderful, but it took me months to connect it to the nondescript floral green top note.
ref: 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “Chamade”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 115:
synonyms: head note
coordinate_terms: middle note
base note
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: The most volatile parts of a perfume which are immediately perceived upon its application.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The highest note that can be produced by a certain instrument or singer.
examples: text: "If you all want to see it through I am with you. It's dooced interestin', and no mistake about that. I've had my share of adventures in my life, and as many thrills as most folk, but I'm endin' on my top note."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: The best that a person can do; one's finest achievement.
top notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top note
middle note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle notes
Senses: synonyms: heart note
bouquet
coordinate_terms: top note
base note
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: The characteristic parts of a perfume that emerge only after a waiting period.
base note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsnəʊt/
homophone: bass note
Forms: form: base notes
Senses: synonyms: fixative
coordinate_terms: top note
middle note
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: The heavily volatile and thus most-lasting parts of a perfume, often of ligneous, resinous or animalic nature.
base notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base note
middle notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle note
head note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head notes
Senses: qualifier: perfumery
glosses: Synonym of top note (“most volatile parts of a perfume”).
synonyms: word: top note
extra: most volatile parts of a perfume
glosses: Alternative spelling of headnote (“a summary or remark at the beginning”).
head notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head note
heart note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart notes
Senses: qualifier: perfumery
glosses: Synonym of middle note.
synonyms: word: middle note
heart notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart note
debt obligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛt ɑb.ləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: debt obligations
Etymology: From debt + obligation.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A duty by which a party to an agreement is legally bound to pay the maturity of a debt at a time and in a manner as is stipulated within a given contract or promissory note.
you see
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant[sic] even write this properly.
ref: 1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note:
glosses: Used to indicate that the speaker hopes the listener understands what is being said.
Related terms: do you know what I'm saying
if you know what I mean
in a manner of speaking
you
you know
Broughty Ferry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4631).
octopoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octopoid
East Linton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5877).
Related terms: english: Scottish Borders
translation: Scottish Borders
word: West Linton
Nizhegorodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, from, or relating to Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Nizhegorodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nizhegorodians
Senses: glosses: a native or resident of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
octopusal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusal
form: most octopusal
Etymology: From octopus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of being so ruthless and octopusal as most of us are so thoughtlessly prone to characterize such corporation it merely worships at the shrine of that fair and gracious goddess, Science, […]
ref: 1932, The Pan-American geologist:
text: For 20 years, the Kollege Klub was practically on the doorstep of the Memorial Library. Then the octopusal arms of a creeping university encircled the area. So in November, 1972, the KK relocated […]
ref: 1974, Madison Area Guide:
text: The result of the series of merger of firms in this region culminated in the solution of the octopusal United Africa Company (UAC) in 1933.
ref: 1998, Transafrican Journal of History:
text: Drawing lines between the red spots on the racial map, the editor connected them to the new Ku Klux Klan, whose octopusal spread across the nation he detailed in the article out of his own extensive travels.
ref: 2000, David L. Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 194:
text: High medievalism had the Church, with its octopusal canon law, cashing out all the most interesting questions of life in terms of duties to Christendom or God.
ref: 2001, John Tomasi, Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The concept of actually climbing this shimmering white behemoth of groaning, octopusal glaciers was so beyond the imagination of most humans that no one even took him up on the offer for fifteen years.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey Mccarthy, Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking:
glosses: Octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusian
form: most octopusian
Senses: examples: text: And when a concern of such octopusian proportions as the American Bicycle Co. makes so many varying statements about its product it would seem that the thing to do would be to shut one's eyes and take the first bicycle that came along.
ref: 1900, Marketing Communications, page 74:
text: […] point out where the government at Washington had made the most glaring mistakes, and where, if he had been able to impress his opinions upon the minds of the national legislators, the “octopusian” trusts would be working […]
ref: 1905, Benjamin Brace, Sunrise Acres, page 98:
text: […] and most important of all, it knew that the Federal Government, even if it were willing, had demonstrated that it was unable alone to cope with this hidden octopusian menace to our Country.
ref: 1954, Pennsylvania state reports:
text: Is it worth the disruption and disfigurement of the central area that express highways appear to bring with them? Do we want a Capital City decorated with such octopusian excrescenses as the proposed interchange at the east end of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge?
ref: 1960, United States Congress Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems, National Capital Transportation Act of 1960: Hearings ... Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3193 and H.R. 11135. May 5 and 6, 1960, page 135:
text: No one requires a corporation to spread-eagle the entire country in an octopusian manipulation unless the corporation wishes to do so for purposes of increased profits.
ref: 1966, House Judiciary Committee, Interstate Taxation Act: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on State Taxation of Interstate Commerce, United States, page 949:
text: Furthermore, breadth of interest and training is not always coupled with organizational ability, and any interdisciplinary program is a slippery creature to hold onto, exasperatingly octopusian in its direction. Octopus or not, a true humanities […]
ref: 1972, Fred E. H. Schroeder, Joining the Human Race: how to Teach the Humanities:
text: ... as has been done in various countries which have carried out disinvestment programmes like France, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines and as originally proposed in India in order to take it out of the octopusian grip of the bureaucracy.
ref: 1999, Social Sciences Research Journal:
glosses: Octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
Pembrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4201).
glosses: An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
Burry Port
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small coastal town in Pembrey and Burry Port Town community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4400).
New Inn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Shebbear parish, Torridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4408).
glosses: A village in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4736).
glosses: A hamlet in Devauden community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4800).
glosses: A village and community near Pontypool, Torfaen borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST3099).
glosses: A village in County Cavan, Ireland.
glosses: A village in County Galway, Ireland.
glosses: A hamlet in County Laois, Ireland.
glosses: A village in County Tipperary, Ireland, possibly also spelt Newinn.
Blagoje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Blagoje (Благоје).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Serbo-Croatian.
Related terms: Blago
Blagojevic
Blagojevich
Blagoyevic
Blagoyevich
vagarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagarists
Etymology: From Latin vagus (“wandering”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The men who call themselves philosophers, may look with pride upon their speculations; but true philosophy is nothing more than the art of being happy; and a woman contented to cull the flowers of the moment, in the modest vale of female enjoyments, has more true philosophy than the vagarist, who loses his way to bliss in wandering through the clouds, or who, madman like, hazards life, happiness, every thing, for a bubble, or for a name.
ref: 1823, The Angel of Mercy: A Little Book of Affection, page 82:
text: In journeying through the fine land of memory one is apt to become a most unconscionable vagarist, for that curious faculty of the mind, which often seems dead but only slumbers, when once set in motion travels far and refuses to recall one scene or incident without recalling also a hundred others which preceded or followed it.
ref: 1893, John W. Greene, Camp Ford Prison, and how I Escaped, page 7:
text: It seemed to be the wild fancy of a vagarist or dreamer.
ref: 1899, Arthur T. Pierson -, The Miracles of Missions, page 51:
text: This frame of mind is not common and perhaps not desirable and thence have the opinions popularly obtained that he is an unsubstantial, sentimental vagarist and mystic.
ref: 1975, Benjamin Browne Foster, Down East Diary, page 210:
text: Greene believed that an old soldier became a "most unconscionable vagarist" whenever he tried to remember anything.
ref: 1997, Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat, page 183:
glosses: One whose thought wanders in many directions.
vagarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagarist
vagrantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vagrantizes
form: vagrantizing
form: vagrantized
form: vagrantized
form: vagrantise
Etymology: From vagrant + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.
ref: 1852, Lewis William Mansfield, edited by William B. Benedict, Up-country Letters, page 126:
text: The ladies and children were about taking leave of him— his long stick in hand and his face turned towards the mountains where he is to vagrantize for the summer—when it occurred to him to turn and inquire, whether, in that closely-tied and yet unexamined bundle, there happened to be a coat.
ref: 1859, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Convalescent, page 85:
text: On the 10th he had been out on the other side of the river, vagrantizing in his usual fashion, and returning late to his little boat, and, as we suspect, having fallen asleep, he drifted ashore at Stony Point.
ref: 2017, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, The Linwoods - Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America in Two Volumes - Volume 1:
glosses: To wander freely, with no goal.
examples: text: though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set vagrantized.
ref: 1797, Mrs. Agnes Maria Bennett, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors - Volume 1, page 33:
text: But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.
ref: 1991, Leslie Ann Pahl, Margins of Modernity, page 18:
text: Immobilized, unable to drag himself out to the fort, Bu Yu had been vagrantized, or so he'd thought, on a permanent basis.
ref: 1999, Tom Bradley, Black Class Cur, page 232:
glosses: To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.
vagrantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vagrantize
vagrantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vagrantize
vagrantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vagrantize
vagrantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vagrantises
form: vagrantising
form: vagrantised
form: vagrantised
Senses: examples: text: It is utterly impossible for artists, either vocal or instrumental, to do themselves justice in these harum-scarum vagrantising peregrinations—no time is afforded for essential regular practice or preparation, the excitement of one performance necessarily produces reaction in the next--strange places and associates reduce their certain effects to matters of chance -- weariness produces languor and indifference, and they finally gain a contempt for the very persons who receive their efforts with indulgence.
ref: 1842 January 13, “(untitled)”, in The Musical World, volume 17, number 2, page 9:
text: for, all the world knows, or ought to know the old over-growh and moth-eaten axiom that no spiritual visitor vagrantising upon the earth, can presume to attempt the passage of the liquid element in its onward march to the ocean—but as Macduff said to Macbeth —"despair thy charm!"
ref: 1877 January 20, J.T. Campion, “Willy Lee; or, A Name Written On Water”, in The Shamrock, volume 14, number 536, page 255:
text: No ; that is slavery ; but " I will walk at liberty, for I keep Thy precepts " ; and I do not want to go vagrantising at large, but limit myself thankfully to the way which Thou dost mark out.
ref: 1906, Alexander Maclaren, Leaves from the tree of life, page 185:
glosses: Alternative form of vagrantize.
vagrantises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vagrantise
vagrantising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vagrantise
vagrantised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vagrantise
yum yum sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yum yum sauces
Etymology: Likely arose from the descriptive nature of the phrase, essentially meant to convey its deliciousness and encourage its consumption.
Senses: glosses: A sauce made from mayonnaise and various spices.
Blagojevic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Blagoyevich.
Blagoyevich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blagojević
form: Blagojevic
form: Blagojevich
form: Blagoyevic
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Blagojević (Благојевић).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
Blagojevich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Signing the pardon in the Oval Office, Trump described Blagojevich as a “very fine person” and said it was time to “let him have a normal life.”
ref: 2025 February 10, Michael Williams, “Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of Blagoyevich.
Blagoyevic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the Balkans, many individuals suspected of war crimes against Muslim populations have been sent to the ICTY in The Hague by NATO. For instance, Radislav Krstic, sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, has been officially convicted for "genocide against the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica". […] The same applies to Vidoye Blagoyevic, Momir Nikolic and others.
ref: 2011, Alexis Vahlas, “Dispelling Misperceptions for a Renewed Synergy between the United Nations and the Atlantic Alliance”, in Brooke A. Smith-Windsor, editor, The UN and NATO, Rome: NATO Defense College, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of Blagoyevich.
octopusy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusy
form: most octopusy
Etymology: From octopus + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A Robber? No; his scheme was free
Of aught octopusy or sharky;
He planned, as far as I can see,
An Altruistic Oligarchy; […]
ref: 1911, John Ames Mitchell, Life, page 948:
text: "Sting rays?" Dodson chuckled. "They scram when they see you. And that little shark wouldn't hurt a baby." "It looks octopusy." she said. "They never get big around here." "Morays, then?" Dodson laughed.
ref: 1965 (edition), Philip Wylie, Autumn Romance
text: I'm at "worlds collide" level, where i don't know how i have to kill the big octopusy monster!
ref: 2000 May 15, Pietro I., “Worlds Collide”, in alt.games.half-life (Usenet):
glosses: Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopusish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusish
form: most octopusish
Etymology: From octopus + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Plain slabs of fibreglass are unfriendly enough, but when topped off with a protrusion here and a herniation there, the whole house takes on a frighteningly octopusish effect, reminiscent of the painting of the warted, welted man you used to […]
ref: 1982, Ferenc Maté, Best Boats to Build Or Buy, West Vancouver, B.C.: Albatross Pub., page 166:
text: A little beer mixed with soggy tobacco or pot oozes out of one can near Ken's bare, hairy feet. He just sits there, hunched over, while air explodes in-out his mouth, and beer spreads in an octopusish pattern.
ref: 1994, Dennis Cooper, Try, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 73:
text: I always wished they would give a clear view of the Kaled mutation inside the Dalek Travel machine, they showed one hanging out of a demolished Dalek in The 5 Doctors episode, it was an octopusish thing.
ref: 1999 May 29, MOSUGOJI, Did The Daleks Really Need Those Claw Arms?, alt.movies.monster, Usenet
text: That should be 'ikayaki'. 'Tako' = octopus. 'Ika' = squid. I think a kraken is more squiddish than octopusish.
ref: 2004 July 26, Kermit the Frog, Re: [YANI] frozen corpses, rec.games.roguelike.nethack, Usenet
glosses: Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopusial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusial
form: most octopusial
Etymology: From octopus + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: We always did say that the octopusial arrangements that have tentacled nearly the whole of the city would constantly be giving trouble, in some form or another, and behold! we were right.
ref: 1879, Puck, page 450:
text: These politicians are convinced that if the big newspapers and periodicals of this country are compelled to print a list of their stockholders there will be an amazing display of Standard Oil and J. P. Morgan and Steel Trust and other octopusial ownership.
ref: 1912, The Saturday Evening Post, page 30:
text: We struggle out of octopusial darkness of agony and near defeat […]
ref: 2011, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, In Constant Incandescence / Poems, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Octopoid; octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopusesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusesque
form: most octopusesque
Etymology: From octopus + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: It's the only serial with no sugar. buncha octopusesque hooters, it used ter be nabisco, wot are a snappy whassname of national biscuit company or […]
ref: 2001 August 31, Austin Shackles, “Kit Kat”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
text: With its spider web-like installations, octopusesque Buddha hands, corpses floating in pools, smashed mirrors and menacing flower gardens, you would be forgiven for thinking that this year's Biennale was particularly macabre, […]
ref: 2009 December 19, Ann MacPherson, Venice Biennale 2009: Making Worlds, in Shift mag number 12 ("Europe in doubt")
text: When it came time decide on coloring this piece, I wanted to keep a very natural, octopusesque pattern, but with an added gooey sense to it. I went back to my childhood […]
ref: 2012 (Summer), Jason Walker, Taxidermy of Thought, All Student Theses 37, Governors State University
text: The arms were also very octopusesque, with no suckers but tens of very thin tendrils at the end, all of which were dexterous. These “fingers” could manipulate objects that floated inside the suit as well, positioned by some unknown mechanism, ...
ref: 2013, Erec Stebbins, Reader: Daughter of Time, Book 1, Twice Pi Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Octopuslike; resembling an octopus.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopodian
form: most octopodian
Etymology: From octopod + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Once the Russians had installed themselves at Merv, and drawn within their octopodian arms the Tekkes, the Salors, and part of the Saruks, they thereby established just the shadow of a specious claim to the suzerainty of all the Turkomans, ...
ref: 1887, Arthur Campbell Yate, England and Russia Face to Face in Asia: Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission, page 371:
text: ... farther than could have been supposed — suddenly let go, and, having passed out of the city, we found ourselves gliding through a landscape of surpassing loveliness which gave no hint of the nearness of the octopodian monster.
ref: 1911, Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London, page 18:
text: The Marquess Wellesley tried to draw within the octopodian arms of his co-religionists and compatriots all the Maratha States by forging on them the fetters of the subsidiary alliance.
ref: 2001, B.D. Basu, Rise of the Christian power in India, →ISBN:
text: There were a few unusual creatures, like the octopodian creature that slithered along upright on tentacles and regarded her with bulbous eyes that had stars for pupils. Or the purple furry creature that walked on all four of its hands.
ref: 2007, Amia Kettier, Awakening, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Not sure how much I believe it—they tend to keep to themselves, spending most of their time in their underwater colonies in the Sunk. Cephels' octopodian heritage make them excellent fishermen and shellfish collectors.
ref: 2013, K. M. Alexander, The Stars Were Right, K. M. Alexander, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
examples: text: On the 16th some of the ticks cast their skin for the first time, and are now at the stage of octopodian nymphae, for now they have four pairs of legs.
ref: 1901, Queensland Agricultural Journal, page 261:
text: Centipedes hastened past, legs moving in agitated undulations; tiny red spiders pounced, like octopodian tigers from another, microscopic world, on prey so infinitesimal that it was impossible to see whether it crawled or flew.
ref: 2010, Christian Miller, A Childhood In Scotland, Canongate Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Octopodal, resembling an octopod (an organism with eight feet or legs); eight-legged, eight-footed.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
Related terms: octopodan
octopodean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopodean
form: most octopodean
Etymology: From octopod + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: In the spaces which are thus left in a semi-countrified condition between these octopodean arms, there is much to be seen in a half-hour's ramble which may remind one of the country which is farther away from town.
ref: 1896, The Gipsy Journal and British Tourist. A Magazine for Pedestrians & Cyclists, Ramblers' Clubs, Holiday-makers, and Advocate for Protection of Birds & Animals from Cruelty. No. 1-24; Sept. 1893-July 1896, page 145:
text: […] But this is to overlook the semiotician's octopodean ambitions. Implicit in Saussure's dream of a unified field of communication lay the totalizing possibility (substantially realized by Barthes and others) of claiming the whole world ...
ref: 1997, Sarah C. Humphreys, S. C. Humphreys, Cultures of Scholarship, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Even granting its octopodean ramifications, the entailments of Morgan's theory were so extensive that it could enable astonishing connections.
ref: 1999, Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 89:
text: "[…] arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor, and partly from the skepticism of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have actually experienced it." Unraveling the octopodean tentacles of religion so that reason might prevail in the collective mentation of our societies is just […]
ref: 2000, Chester Dolan, Religion on Trial: With 800 Material Witnesses, page 459:
text: What I find most intriguing is the octopus's ability to adapt to new and unusual circumstances—confinement in a lab—and turn the apparatus around them to their own octopodean purposes. A lot of early octopus work was done in Italy,[…]
ref: 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to an octopus; octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
peach fuzz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fibrous material covering the skin of a peach fruit, e.g. as opposed to the fuzzless skin of a nectarine.
examples: text: If she was slightly more attractive, I believe that the peach fuzz on the bottom of my nut sack would have tingled just slightly then, watching her cry like that.
ref: 2006, Keith Malinsky, Burying Ronald: A Confession by Mortimer J. Pentowski, page 37:
glosses: Lightly or sparsely grown hair, especially facial hair.
octopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopal
form: most octopal
Senses: examples: text: Textron, with 1970 sales of $1.6 billion, is a fast-growing new conglomerate with octopal interests: textiles, aircraft and parts, electronic equipment, iron and steel castings, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, plastic products, car parts, ...
ref: 1972, Mark J. Green, The closed enterprise system: Ralph Nader's study group report on antitrust enforcement:
text: This octopal reach by the oil companies had been several years in the making.
ref: 1976, Gus Tyler, Scarcity: A Critique of the American Economy, New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company:
text: For 15 years Marley has been singing of a benighted people caught up in the octopal tentacles of an inept and often corrupt government.
ref: 2009, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
text: Ceph oozed off the stool, his babylegs and octopal tentacles helping him down the side, ...
ref: 2014, John Shirley, Silicon Embrace, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
octopodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopodic
form: most octopodic
Etymology: From octopod + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] congenial to creative thinking of any kind that does not concern high finance and octopodic expansion.
ref: 1911, William Roscoe Thayer et al., The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, page 425:
text: Mr. Ellis continued his campaign for amendments in legislation and H. J. Lawson, having bought the winning car for a very large sum, extended his octopodic activities.
ref: 1960, Anthony Bird, The Motor Car, 1765-1914:
text: It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold— mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green sylphlike maximegalaticians, an octopodic physucturalist or ...
ref: 2005, Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story, Gramercy:
text: Warfare, largely civil for the last few millennia though sometimes waged against reptilian or octopodic invaders, or against the winged, star-headed Old Ones who centred in the antarctic, was infrequent though infinitely devastating.
ref: 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time:
text: The octopodic form had sharp black stings that had hardened inside the length of the four arms. From the mouth it yawned emitting a foul bear-like growl. Despite having no obvious eyes, it ambled toward the cave entrance ...
ref: probably 2018, Rogue Planet Press, Lovecraftiana: Halloween 2018, page 33
glosses: Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.
Synonyms: list in octopuslike
tiefling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːflɪŋ/
Forms: form: tieflings
Etymology: From German tief (“deep, low”) + -ling; coined for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition.
Senses: examples: text: That left me with either a human female paladin or a tiefling warlord.
ref: 2013, David M. Ewalt, “D&D Next”, in Of dice and men : the story of Dungeons & Dragons and the people who play it, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 210:
text: I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
ref: 2015 April 9, Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched, Assent Publishing, →ISBN:
text: The Radiant Cathedral, on the other hand, trains aasimars to become beacons of the Sarenite faith, and also guides tieflings to a brighter future than their heritage suggests.
ref: 2018, “Planar Scion”, in Starfinder: Alien Archive 2, Paizo, →ISBN, page 210:
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A member of a race of beings having a combination of human and demonic/devilish ancestry, found especially in Dungeons & Dragons.
wikipedia: Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition
Hyponyms: demon
devil
Related terms: deep
tieflings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiefling
shot across the bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shots across the bows
Senses: examples: text: President [Franklin] Pierce, like a great war ship, fired two shots across the bows of the Congress, to bring matters to.
ref: 1856 March, “Monthly Summary. [United States.]”, in George R[ex] Graham, editor, Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume XLVIII, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, […], →OCLC, page 267, column 1:
text: Scientists considered collectively are remarkably single-minded in their views about what is important and what is not. If a graduate student gives a seminar and no one comes or no one asks a question, it is very sad, but not so sad as the question gallantly put by a senior or a colleague that betrays that he hasn't listened to a word. But it is a warning sign, a shot across the bows.
ref: 1979, P[eter] B[rian] Medawar, “What shall I Do Research on?”, in Advice to a Young Scientist (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series), New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, pages 13–14:
text: Though I have fired a few shots across the bows of some of my critics, notably the late Professor Lon Fuller and Professor R[onald] M[yles] Dworkin, I have hitherto made no general comprehensive reply to any of them; I have preferred to watch and learn from a most instructive running debate in which some of the critics have differed from others as much as they have differed from me.
ref: 1992, H[erbert] L[ionel] A[dolphus] Hart, “Postscript”, in The Concept of Law, 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, pages 238–239:
text: Perhaps her refusal to marry him would be the shot across the bows Jack needed to help him face his demons. But somehow she doubted it.
ref: 2013, Lucinda Riley, chapter 28, in The Midnight Rose, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Books, 2014, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: Alternative form of shot across the bow.
shots across the bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot across the bows
dexamethazones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dexamethazone
dextrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrase
dextrocardiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrocardiogram
dextrotorsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextrotorsion
dextropositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dextroposition
DFCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DFC
Cambourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A portmanteau of Cambridge and Bourn, a village to the south.
Senses: glosses: A new settlement and civil parish with a town council in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3259).
Related terms: Camborne
Burn Naze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A residential and industrial area in Thornton, Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3343).
wikipedia: + Halt railway station
Burn Naze
Forest Gate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a gate erected in the late 17th century; see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Newham, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4085).
puttoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putto
Gisby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McCourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCourts
Etymology: Variant of McCord.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hanborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, which includes the villages of Church Hanborough and Long Hanborough.
Currock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY4054).
windstrength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windstrengths
Etymology: From wind + strength.
Senses: examples: text: In principle, the windiness map permits estimating the windstrength of a place, where the windiness value is W., by multiplying that by the measured wind at Observatory Hill.
ref: 1978, E. T. White, Penelope Hetherington, Clean Air, the Continuing Challenge, page 753:
text: Therefore, fluctuations in the windstrength may be a possible cause for changes in the Ti/Al record as proposed by Shimmield & Mowbray (1991).
ref: 1991, Maria Bianca Cita, Proceedings of the International Conference, Geology of the Oceans:
text: Each class is different, but here are a few general pointers to tweaking for various windstrengths.
ref: 2007, John Caig, Tim Davison, Racing: A Beginner's Guide:
text: In assessing the windstrength before an operation I could not stop myself hoping that it would be too strong; we should win the war of course, but the end was nowhere in sight and I did so wish it was like a term at school when one at least knew how long one had to stick it out.
ref: 2008, Captain Peter Dickens, Night Action: MTB Flotilla at War, page 192:
glosses: The strength of the wind; the amount of force with which the wind blows.
windstrengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of windstrength
Coseley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9494).
Ditton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪtən/
Forms: form: Dittons
Etymology: From Old English dīċ (“ditch, trench, moat”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”); compare the doublet Deighton.
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Widnes, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4885).
glosses: A placename:
A village in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7158).
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Slough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9978).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Ditton Green
Ditton Priors
Long Ditton
Thames Ditton
Humpherson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
winability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This differs considerably from the literature outlined above that argues that there are voices, some military and some outside the military establishment, advocating various stances on strategic arms policy and that they do not believe in the winability of nuclear war.
ref: 1982, Union Soviétique - Volumes 9-10, page 250:
text: The 'winability' of a case, cost etc, appear to be major factors in the DPP's decision as to whether or not a case will go to court.
ref: 1996, The Australian Feminist Law Journal - Volume 7, page 160:
text: Since the goal of the committees is control of legislative chambers, they tend to use a criterion of "winability," rather than ideological purity, in determining which candidates will receive significant levels of assistance.
ref: 2000, Wilder Crane, A. Clarke Hagensick, Ronald E. Weber, Crane and Hagensick's Wisconsin government and politics, page 64:
text: In 1976, Jimmy Carter's campaign manager Hamilton Jordan had these matters worked out to a mathematical formula — awarding points to states based on size and winability and then allocating campaign days to each of them for Carter, the vice-presidential candidate Walter Mondale and members of the Carter family?
ref: 2008, Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron B. Wildavsky, Presidential Elections:
glosses: Alternative form of winnability.
Teviot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic abhainn Tìbhiot, probably from the same ultimate source as the river Thames, which see.
Senses: glosses: A river in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, which joins the Tweed at Kelso.
glosses: A river in Otago, New Zealand, which flows into the Clutha River at Roxburgh.
glosses: A farming locality in Otago, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Teviotdale
Baveystock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.