cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
I beg your pardon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Not like cats!” cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. “Would you like cats if you were me?”
“Well, perhaps not,” said Alice in a soothing tone: “don’t be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,” Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, “and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face—and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse—and she’s such a capital one for catching mice⸺oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. “We won’t talk about her any more if you’d rather not.”
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 25–27:
text: York got down and said very respectfully, "I beg your pardon, my lady, but these horses have not been reined up for three years, and my lord said it would be safer to bring them to it by degrees; but if your ladyship pleases, I can take them up a little more."
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 104–105:
glosses: Used to express an apology for an action.
examples: text: "We were talking of the man whom my mother one day caused to exist, and created gardener at Saint-Omer. She gave him a name. Henceforth he acted."
"I beg your pardon, sir?" said Monsieur Goubin, wiping his eye-glasses. "Do you mind saying that over again?"
"Willingly," replied Monsieur Bergeret. "There was no gardener. The gardener did not exist. My mother said: 'I expect the gardener!' Straightway the gardener existed—and acted."
ref: 1915, Anatole France, Crainquebille, Putois, Riquet and other profitable tales, translated by Winfred Stephens Monsieur Gobin and Monsieur Jean Marteau came in. Monsieur Bergeret told them the subject of the conversation
glosses: Used to request something, for example if a statement was not heard.
glosses: Used to ask for clarification of something said if it is unexpected, odd or seen as rude without context.
Derived terms: I beg your pudding
Related terms: beg someone's pardon
subdepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdepots
form: sub-depot
Etymology: From sub- + depot.
Senses: examples: text: However, the normal flow of supplies seems to have been direct from the main depots and subdepots of the Branch Units of the CCF Supply Base to the CCF Army depots.
ref: 1995, Charles R. Shrader, Communist logistics in the Korean War:
glosses: A lesser depot that is part of a larger one.
subdepots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdepot
Kaposi's sarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaposi's sarcomas
form: Kaposi's sarcomata
Etymology: First described by Moritz Kaposi in 1872.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: KS
glosses: A tumour caused by human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8).
wikipedia: Moritz Kaposi
in the wild
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: But during its lifetime, a single macaw left in the wild might yield more than 16 times as much in tourist income.
ref: 2008, G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman, Sustaining the Earth: an integrated approach, page 107:
glosses: Living and roaming freely in nature; not domesticated.
raw_tags: of animals
examples: text: A new, deadly type of virus has been detected in the wild.
ref: 2006, Wally Wang, Steal this computer book 4.0: what they won't tell you about the Internet:
text: Many of the exploits discovered by cyber security researchers are often found and patched before the public is even made aware of the problem or actual exploits are found out in the wild.
ref: 2020 October 25, Marco Chiappetta, “Update Google Chrome And Chrome OS Now To Fix This Newly Discovered Exploit”, in Forbes:
glosses: At large.
examples: text: This word is very rare; it may be difficult to find usages of it in the wild.
glosses: In practical use, as opposed to in a dictionary or wordlist.
examples: text: I'd seen this stock photo in memes a hundred times, but yesterday I saw it in the wild, illustrating a magazine article.
glosses: By coincidence in the course of everyday life.
Related terms: wild type
thrombophilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombophilia
childcaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From child + caring.
Senses: glosses: Engaged in caring for a child or children, especially one's own.
raw_tags: of a person
childcaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From child + caring.
Senses: glosses: The act of caring for a child or children, especially one's own.
Shimer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃaɪməɹ/
Forms: form: Shimers
Etymology: Respelling of the German Scheimer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Shimerian
Shimerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shimerian
pilonidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pilus (“hair”) and nidus (“nest”).
Senses: glosses: Having body hairs which have grown in a concentrated area on the skin and formed a cyst or abscess.
Derived terms: pilonidal abscess
pilonidal cyst
pilonidal disease
pilonidal sinus
Related terms: natal cleft
sacrococcygeal fistula
lyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyons
Senses: examples: text: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 28:1:
text: Furious as a lyon the fitt comes one, but retires gentle as a lamb.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 103:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of lion.
playe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: playes
form: playing
form: played
form: played
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of play.
mythogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythogenic
form: most mythogenic
Etymology: From mytho- + -genic.
Senses: synonyms: mythopoeic
mythopœic
glosses: Producing or capable of producing myths.
zoophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoophage
serbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serbophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Serbophile.
serbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serbophile
form: most serbophile
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Serbophile.
Serbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Serbophiles
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: One who loves Serbia, the Serbian people, or Serbian culture.
Serbophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Serbophile
form: most Serbophile
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: Loving Serbia, the Serbian people, or Serbian culture.
Related terms: Serbophilia
Serbophobe
xenophile
withdrawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of withdrawal.
procrustean bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procrustean beds
form: Procrustean bed
form: Procrustean Bed
Etymology: From the Greek myth about Procrustes, who assaulted people to make their body height conform to the length of a particular iron bed; see details at Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: 1787, Anna Seward, letter to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy dated 10 October, 1787, in Letters of Anna Seward, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1811, Volume 1, p. 342,
Merely to jingle common-place ideas in rhyme, may be easy enough; but to make fine sense, animated and appropriate description, and beautiful imagery, recline gracefully on that Procrustean bed, is about as easy as to compose music like Handel or Hedyen, and to paint like Reynolds, Romney, and Fuzeli.
text: And now began the real wrong-doing of the Trades’ Unions. As to their decision to work, or not, at such a particular rate of wages, that was either wise or unwise; all error of judgment at the worst. But they had no right to tyrannise over others, and tie them down to their own procrustean bed.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 15, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 271:
text: Iron-bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.
ref: 1901 [1887], Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter IV, in Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons:
text: The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality.
ref: 1947, Felix Frankfurter, New York v. United States, 331 U.S. 284, 353 (dissenting)
text: […] we shouldn’t try to mould or squeeze people into the procrustean bed of our popular conception of human virtue of the moment, but permit them as far as possible to develop along their own temperamental lines.
ref: 1959, Aldous Huxley, “The Ego”, in Pierro Ferrucci, editor, The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959, New York: Harper & Row, published 1977, page 146:
text: […] but, as the authors had hinted in their discussion of Germany in the Manifesto, that such a conception is not a procrustean bed into which complex reality must be shoved.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.
wikipedia: Procrustes
Related terms: Procrustean assignment
procrustean beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procrustean bed
lovesickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovesicknesses
Etymology: From lovesick + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: On Page 28 she talks about the lovesickness of the opera’s heroine, Du Liniang, and asks, “Do you think that could happen in real life?”
ref: 2007 July 19, Janet Maslin, “When Life Imitates Opera, Be Careful Whom You Love”, in New York Times:
glosses: The property or quality of being lovesick.
Pokémaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pokémaniacs
Etymology: Blend of Pokémon + maniac. Derived from "POKéMANIAC", the name of a class of opponent characters in-game. The characters are nowadays seen donning cosplay pieces resembling the Pokémon creatures (though originally wearing lab coats and portrayed as being somewhat lunatic). "POKéMANIAC" was the term used in the English translation for the aforementioned, originally called 「かいじゅうマニア」 [kaijuumania] ("monster maniac") in Japanese. Equivalent to Poké- + maniac.
Senses: glosses: A dedicated or obsessive fan of Pokémon.
Synonyms: Pokéfan
Pokémaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pokémaniac
obtestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obtestates
form: obtestating
form: obtestated
form: obtestated
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:obtestate.
glosses: To beseech.
non-identical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonidentical.
non-identical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-identicals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonidentical.
boggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogger
locutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locutors
Etymology: From Latin locūtor (“speaker, talker”).
Senses: examples: text: A position that solely insinuates a down-grading effect in the use of FT, engenders the impression of reducing the native locutor to a "sociolinguistic automaton" (Smith/Giles 1978: 10) that reflects a one-to-one relationship between ethnic bias and linguistic output.
ref: 1984, Urban Pidgins and Creoles: Papers from the York Creole Conference:
text: In conclusion, learners conveyed subjectivity by means of the diegetic present and the foregrounded imperfect but did so less frequently and in shorter stretches of text than native speakers in the expression of the native locutor's subjective involvement with his own discourse.
ref: 2006, Alan J. E. Wolf, Subjectivity in a Second Language: Conveying the Expression of Self, →ISBN, page 186:
text: We think of locutors' interactions as exchanges of conversational objects (COs). A conversational object is a mental attitude (belief, goal, wish, etc.) along with a positioning which a narrator transfers to another locutor during a conversation [13]. The locutor positions herself relative to a mental attitude by performing actions like "proposing", "accepting", "rejecting"; this is called the locutor's positioning relative to that mental attitude.
ref: 2007, William M. Tepfenhart, Walling Cyre, Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: A speaker (one who talks).
Derived terms: locutorship
Serbophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Serbophile
re-escalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-escalations
form: reescalation
form: reëscalation
Etymology: From re- + escalation.
Senses: examples: text: In the opinion of His Majesty’s Government it is most important for political and other reasons that some limit should be fixed now, and it seems to them desirable, while avoiding any excessive increase, to fix a limit at such a level that reescalation is unlikely to be required again in the Capital Ships category during the period of the Treaty.
ref: 1938, United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, volume 1, United States Government Printing Office, page 909:
text: Unlike crisis escalation, crisis termination is a two-directional process in which protagonists cautiously descend the escalation ladder while simultaneously guarding against possible undetected re-escalation by one’s opponent.
ref: 1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series, self-published, page 6:
glosses: The process of escalating again.
examples: text: Soviet deception may increase the likelihood of undetected non-compliance, although it also risks a re-escalation of the crisis.
ref: 1946, Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series, self-published, page 5:
text: After March 1968 American policy on Vietnam was all a retrograde operation, to use the military euphemism for retreat, punctuated only by Nixon’s temporary reescalations in 1970 and 1972.
ref: 1963, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, page 170:
glosses: An instance of escalating again.
reescalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reescalations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-escalation.
reëscalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reëscalations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-escalation.
DDx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of differential diagnosis.
Related terms: Dx
in the bag
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: assured, cinched, guaranteed, on ice, inevitable
text: 3-0 up with 5 minutes to go...we've got the win in the bag.
text: "We mustn't count our eggs before they're hatched, but I think it's in the bag," he said.
ref: 1954, Charles Percy Snow, The New Men, published 2001, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Certain or extremely likely to occur.
raw_tags: of a desirable thing
examples: text: His wife and his three girls had gone over to Gates Falls to do some last-minute Christmas shopping, and Uncle George was pretty much in the bag, just like the Drunk Man Who Had to Go to Jail.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
text: "It's like the way it is for an alcoholic when he can't get a drink.... He bumps into more things now than he did when he was in the bag."
ref: 2004, Les Visible, The Dark Splendour, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Intoxicated; drunk.
Related terms: in the tank
rigged
sure thing
the fix is in
natal cleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natal clefts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum.
Synonyms: anal cleft
ass crack
butt crack
gluteal cleft
intergluteal cleft
stare daggers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stares daggers
form: staring daggers
form: stared daggers
form: stared daggers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of look daggers.
synonyms: word: look daggers
snopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snopeses
form: snopesing
form: snopesed
form: snopesed
form: Snopes
Senses: examples: text: Heh heh you got me.
No, I didn't Snopes it before replying.
Damn. Shame on me.
ref: 2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022:
text: Why do people insist on "re-SNOPESing" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?
ref: 2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022:
text: I remember the same doubt, and it's understandable that people would be skeptical about an amazing story like that. I had some spare time, hence the Googling and Snopesing.
ref: 2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022:
text: Now some of these are bogus, or semi-bogus... Check 'em out if you need to (I'm not gonna do your snopesing for you :-) - but why spoil a good story with some factuality? If some of these aren't true, they ought to be :-)
ref: 2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022:
text: Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out
ref: 2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 03 Feb 2022:
glosses: To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.
Snopes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Snopeses
Senses: examples: text: At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies.
ref: 1969 January 17, “Essay: Are the WASPS Coming Back? Have They Ever Been Away?”, in Time, →ISSN:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Snopesism
Snopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Snopeses
form: Snopesing
form: Snopesed
form: Snopesed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snopes.
Snopesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Snopes
Snopesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Snopes
snopesed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snopes
snopesing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snopes
Closed Game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Closed Games
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.d4 d5, in which both White and Black move their queen's pawn to the fourth rank with their first move.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Any of the openings which begin in this way. (Queen's Gambit, Stonewall Attack, etc.)
Related terms: Open Game
Semi-Open Game
semi-closed game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-closed games
Senses: glosses: A chess game in which the queen's pawn advances two spaces in the first ply move, but not in the second ply move.
semi-closed games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-closed game
grivnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grivna
wangtooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wangteeth
form: wang-tooth
Etymology: From Middle English wangtooth, from Old English wangtōþ (“molar, grinder”). By surface analysis, wang (“cheek”) + tooth.
Senses: examples: text: All at once, an epiphany of sorts, his wangtooth roving through the binding caught upon a manuscript fragment which to all appearances is the missing conclusion of the Hous.
ref: 1976, Bartlett Jere Whiting, Respectfully and Finally Submitted:
text: Then he asked leave a third time, and the youth, knowing that, if the Khalif assented yet once more, it would be the signal of his death, laughed till his wang-teeth appeared; […]
ref: 2006, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night:
glosses: A molar.
wangteeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wangtooth
biatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + atomic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diatomic
eigensubspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigensubspace
icequake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icequakes
form: ice-quake
form: ice quake
Etymology: From ice + quake.
Senses: glosses: The concussion that occurs when large masses of ice break up due to contraction.
glosses: Synonym of cryoseism.
synonyms: word: cryoseism
icequakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icequake
magnetospectroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magneto-spectroscopy
Etymology: From magneto- + spectroscopy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of spectroscopy in which a series of spectra are obtained at varying magnetic field strength
memcapacitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more memcapacitive
form: most memcapacitive
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That functions as a memcapacitor
meminductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meminductive
form: most meminductive
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That functions as a meminductor
morphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more morphically
form: most morphically
Etymology: From morphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a morphic manner
Derived terms: apomorphically
geomorphically
neomorphically
paedomorphically
nanocatalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocatalyst
nanocatalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocatalysts
Etymology: From nano- + catalyst.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A catalyst composed of nanoparticles
paleochannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleochannel
paleochannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleochannels
Etymology: From paleo- + channel.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A deposit of sediment filling the course of an ancient river.
specularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specularities
Etymology: From specular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being specular, or the degree to which something is specular
Mickey Mousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mickey Mouse + -ing, in reference to early Walt Disney films, where the music served to mimic the animated motions of the characters.
Senses: qualifier: animation
glosses: Synchronization of actions on screen with the accompanying music.
bortsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bortsches
form: bortschs
Senses: examples: text: Although bortsch is usually made from root vegetables with a large proportion of beets, not all bortschs contain beets.
ref: 1972, “[Jewish cooking] Schav Bortsch (Spinach Bortsch)”, in Anne Willan, editor, Grand Diplôme Cooking Course, volume 9, [Danbury, Conn.]: The Danbury Press, →LCCN, page 21, column 4:
text: “Good old Trotter!” Stanhope, despite the heaviness breeding about his heart, laughed the brave young laugh that had carried him through so much, through a hundred collapsed soufflés and a thousand curdled bortschs.
ref: 1974, Alan Coren, “It’s A Long Way To Cannelloni”, in The Sanity Inspector, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., published 1975, →LCCN, page 50:
text: Hannah Wright’s recipes are as international as soup itself. There are old favourites like Scotch broth and oxtail; garbures, zuppas, goulashes, gazpachos and bortschs from Europe; […]
ref: 1985, Derek Cooper, “The real thing”, in The Listener, London, →ISSN, page 15, column 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of borscht.
Madridista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madridistas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish madridista, from Madrid + -ista.
Senses: examples: text: The deal to sign Martin Ødegaard full-time is also well on the way to becoming reality. Another Madridista, Marco Asensio, is also being touted as a potential target for Mikel Arteta and his sidekick Edu.
ref: 2021 August 19, Luke McLaughlin, “Football transfer rumours: Robert Lewandowski to exit Bayern Munich?”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Someone who plays for Real Madrid CF, a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
examples: text: It is never only a game when Barça plays Real. Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium is nine decades old, but still it generates a remarkable sensation when 25,000 Catalans are at one end and 25,000 Madridistas fill the other.
ref: 2014 April 17, Rob Hughes, “Gloom Gets Darker for Barcelona”, in The New York Times:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A fan of Real Madrid CF.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Someone who works for Real Madrid CF.
Barcelonan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.səˈləʊ.nən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.səˈloʊ.nən/
rhymes: -əʊnən
Forms: form: Barcelonian
Etymology: From Barcelona + -an.
Senses: examples: 1998, Laplana, Josep de C., Macià, Teresa, Museu de Montserrat: visitor's guide
Next to a Catalan revival paten which represents the Adoration of the Kings, there is another which was produced, in 1924, by the Barcelonan metalworker Ramon Sunyer (1889-1963).
glosses: From Barcelona or otherwise related to the city of Barcelona.
Barcelonan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.səˈləʊ.nən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.səˈloʊ.nən/
rhymes: -əʊnən
Forms: form: Barcelonans
form: Barcelonian
Etymology: From Barcelona + -an.
Senses: examples: text: For more than a century, the Barcelonans were engaged in incessant struggles with the Moors, but ultimately maintained their independence till the annexation of the principality of Catalonia to the crown of Aragon in the twelfth century.
ref: 1830, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveller: Spain and Portugal:
glosses: Someone from Barcelona
Barcelonans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barcelonan
Barcelonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Barcelona
Derived terms: Barcelonian
Barcelonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.səˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.səˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Barcelonan
Etymology: From Barcelona + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, Spain.
Barcelonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑː.səˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌbɑɹ.səˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Barcelonians
form: Barcelonan
Etymology: From Barcelona + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, Spain.
Madrileño
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Madrileño
form: most Madrileño
Etymology: From Spanish madrileño.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Madrid, or to its inhabitants.
Synonyms: Madrilenian
Madrileño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madrileños
Etymology: From Spanish madrileño.
Senses: examples: text: Winter looked good on Madrileños; they took over the city center just for the fun of it, when really most shopping could be done in any of Madrid’s neighborhoods.
ref: 2024, Alana S. Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem, Bad Habit, 4th Estate, page 178:
glosses: Someone from Madrid.
Synonyms: Madrilenian
Madrileños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madrileño
Zaragozan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Saragossan; of, from or relating to the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
Zaragozan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaragozans
Senses: glosses: Saragossan; a native or inhabitant of the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
Saragossan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Saragossa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
Synonyms: Zaragozan
Saragossan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saragossans
Etymology: From Saragossa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
Synonyms: Zaragozan
Sevillan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Seville + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sevillian.
Sevillan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sevillans
Etymology: From Seville + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sevillian.
Sevillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Sevillan
Etymology: From Seville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Seville, city in Spain.
Sevillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sevillians
form: Sevillan
Etymology: From Seville + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Seville.
Zaragozans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaragozan
Saragossans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saragossan
Sevillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sevillian
Sevillans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sevillan
Barcelonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barcelonian
bortsches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bortsch
bosom buddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosom buddies
Senses: examples: text: He made a telephone call to his bosom buddy, drinking companion and confidant, CBS Sports Director Bill MacPhail.
ref: 1967 January 13, Paul O'Neil, “Super Bowl's Superman”, in Life, retrieved 23 Nov 2010, page 78:
text: Although they were far from bosom buddies, she liked Mary Jackson as much as anyone on the street.
ref: 1996, Stephen King, The Regulators, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Campaigning together frequently this fall, the former rivals became, if not bosom buddies, closer than either ever expected.
ref: 2004 November 15, Matthew Cooper, “2004 Election: Candidates In the Wings”, in Time:
glosses: A very close friend.
Synonyms: sense: very close friend
word: bosom friend
sense: very close friend
word: cater-cousin
sense: very close friend
word: intimate
forban
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: forbans
form: forbanning
form: forbanned
form: forbanned
Etymology: From Middle English forbannen, partly from Middle English for- + bannen, equivalent to for- + ban; and partly from Old French forbenir (“to banish”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferbonne (“to banish”), West Frisian ferbanne (“to banish”), Dutch verbannen (“to banish”), German Low German verbannen (“to banish”), German verbannen (“to banish”), Swedish förbanna (“to curse, damn”).
Senses: examples: text: That lower down it constitutes correspondential phytostatics, or pressure of vegetable life, grasping matter close with prolonged human fingers in the trees, and forbanning materialism from the very stones.
ref: 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
text: Lost from those archangelic thrones that star,
Fadeless and fixed, heaven's light of azure bliss;
Forbanned of all His splendor and depressed
Beyond the birth of the first sun, and lower
Than the last star's decline
ref: 1918, Clark Ashton Smith, "Satan Unrepentant"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Satan_Unrepentant (also on page 295 of the 2014 collection The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies)
text: Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned."
ref: 2013, Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice:
glosses: To exile; banish.
overembellish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overembellishes
form: overembellishing
form: overembellished
form: overembellished
Etymology: From over- + embellish.
Senses: glosses: To embellish excessively.
Related terms: overembellishment
overembellishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overembellish
overembellished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overembellish
overembellishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overembellish
multimediocrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimediocrity
waywardens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waywarden
transworld
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + world.
Senses: examples: text: But it doesn't really come to the same thing, because the usual notion of a criterion of transworld identity demands that we give purely qualitative necessary and sufficient conditions for someone being Nixon.
ref: 1972, Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, page 46:
text: If we start with transworld individuals which exist in several possible worlds, we can, as Lewis pointed out, construct world-specific individuals as ordered pairs, of which the first member is a transworld individual and the second member is a possible world ...
ref: 1979, Robert Merrihew Adams, “Theories of Actuality”, in The Possible and the Actual: Readings in the Metaphysics of Modality:
text: Although this approach avoids the problem of specifying transworld identity relations, it provokes another objection concerning the essential properties that must be attributed to any individual in a world in which the individual exists.
ref: 1988, William Bechtel, Philosophy of Mind: An Overview for Cognitive Science:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Spanning possible worlds.
Wittgensteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Wittgenstein + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the person or ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.
Wittgensteinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wittgensteinians
Etymology: From Wittgenstein + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who believes or follows the principles of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Thus we might ask Wittgenstein and Phillips if the structure of family resemblance does not dissolve the dichotomy of internal/external to which their semantic and criteriologic pragmatic contextualism is connected.
ref: 2012, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Tage Kurtén, Crisis and Change: Religion, Ethics and Theology under Late Modern Conditions, →ISBN:
glosses: Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.
Derived terms: Wittgensteinian
Wittgensteinianism
parenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parenters
Etymology: From parent + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of parent.
linear operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear operators
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: An operator L such that for functions f and g and scalar λ, L (f + g) = L f + L g and L λf = λ L f.
Related terms: linear transformation
parvule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvules
Etymology: From Latin parvus (“small”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small pill or pellet; a granule.
linear operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linear operator
bortschs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bortsch
pedalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedale
twenty winks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.
ref: 1931, Henry Berman, Life Demands! And Other Plays:
text: Twenty winks offered to drivers
ref: 2003 November 3, “Twenty winks offered to drivers”, in BBC.co.uk:
text: Twenty winks [title]
ref: 2004 November 10, Annalisa Barbieri, “Twenty winks”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A very short sleep, half as long as forty winks.
percutient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more percutient
form: most percutient
Etymology: From Latin percutiens. See percuss.
Senses: glosses: Striking; having the power of striking or hitting.
percutient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percutients
Etymology: From Latin percutiens. See percuss.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore proceeding upon our grounds before layed; to wit, that no body can be moved of it self; we may determine those motions to be naturall unto bodies which have constant causes, or percutients to make them alwayes in such bodies: […]
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
glosses: That which has the power of striking.
perditas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perdita
brandling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandlings
Etymology: From brand + -ling.
Senses: glosses: The young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded.
examples: text: And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.
ref: 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4:
synonyms: compost worm
manure worm
panfish worm
red wiggler
redworm
tiger worm
trout worm
glosses: A small, red earthworm, Eisenia fetida, used for bait in freshwater fishing.
brandlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandling
nonnos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonno
nonnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonna
starey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛə.ɹi/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈstɛɚ.i/
note: US, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈstɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈsteː.ɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈsteəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈstiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsteɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈsteɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈstɜːɹɪ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: stary
Forms: form: starier
form: stariest
form: stary
Etymology: From stare + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] skin white as buttermilk and maybe smelling a little like it, and big blue starey eyes, starey to some extent even when she was not distributed over a vaulting horse.
ref: 2006, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, page 17:
glosses: Characterized by staring.
spaghetti squashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaghetti squash
string beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string bean
winged beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winged bean
sullows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sullow.
toswap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toswaps
form: toswapping
form: toswapped
form: toswapped
Etymology: From Middle English toswappen, equivalent to to- + swap.
Senses: glosses: To smite heavily.
toswink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toswinks
form: toswinking
form: toswank
form: toswunk
form: toswunken
Etymology: From Middle English toswinken, equivalent to to- + swink.
Senses: glosses: To toil excessively; work or labour hard.
faboo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæˈbuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: more faboo
form: most faboo
Etymology: Abbreviation of fabulous.
Senses: examples: text: [For sale:] new black patent leather, square toed, flared-heel uber faboo shoes
ref: 1999 October 2, greensea, “livin' la vida greensea - October”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 24 Nov 2010:
text: “Her dress.” Chantal handed him a fresh scotch and took a sip of the eggnog she'd snagged for herself. “It's a Vera Wang. Doesn't she look faboo?"
ref: 2001, Patricia Ryan, “Santa, Baby”, in Naughty Or Nice?: Four Novellas, page 36:
text: I mean, I've got a glowing tan and a faboo haircut, no less than four shades of blond perfectly showcasing said tan, and the whole package is tied together nicely with proper accessories and well-tailored pants. What's not to like?
ref: 2008, Jen Lancaster, Such a pretty fat, page 46:
text: "I'm going to be working at this new designer's boutique — urn, Jones Uptown — in Harlem as soon as it opens," Aphro spurts out. "That's faboo!" exclaims Bobby Beat, clapping his hands together. "Who is the designer?"
ref: 2009, Deborah Gregory, Catwalk: Strike a Pose, page 78:
synonyms: faberoo
fabbo
glosses: Fabulous.
totear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈtɛə/
ipa: /təˈtɛɚ/
Forms: form: totears
form: totearing
form: totore
form: totorn
Etymology: From Middle English toteren, from Old English tōteran (“to tear apart, tear asunder”), from Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“apart”), *teraną (“to tear, tear away”), equivalent to to- + tear.
Senses: glosses: To tear apart; tear to pieces or shreds; rend.
glosses: To break.
glosses: To disturb violently; agitate.
t'other
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tother.
totread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: totreads
form: totreading
form: totrod
form: totrodden
Etymology: From Middle English totreden, equivalent to to- + tread.
Senses: glosses: To tread in pieces.
to-whiles
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From Middle English, from towhile + -s; compare whiles.
Senses: glosses: While.
towind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: towinds
form: towinding
form: towound
form: towound
Etymology: From Middle English towinden, equivalent to to- + wind.
Senses: glosses: To whirl around; revolve.
glosses: To go to pieces.
again-coming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Coming back, return.
townselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more townselike
form: most townselike
Etymology: Apparently from *townslike, equivalent to towns + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The riche merchaunt, the poore Squier, the wise plough man, and the good townselike craftsman, needes no daughter in lawe that can fril and paint her selfe, but such as be skilfull very well to spinne.
ref: 1577, Hellowes, Guevara:
glosses: Bourgeois; plebeian.
breaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪki/
rhymes: -eɪki
Forms: form: breakier
form: more breaky
form: breakiest
form: most breaky
Etymology: From break + -y; or alternatively, a clipping of breaking (compare movie from moving picture).
Senses: examples: text: my achy, breaky heart
glosses: Indicative of breaking; easily broken.
breaky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪki/
rhymes: -eɪki
ipa: /ˈbɹɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪki/
rhymes: -eɪki
Forms: form: breakies
Etymology: Clipping of breakfast + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brekkie.
toysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toysome
form: most toysome
Etymology: From toy + -some.
Senses: glosses: Playful; playfully affectionate; amorous.
phugoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːɡɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈfjuˌɡɔɪd/
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φῠγή (phŭgḗ, “fleeing, flight; escape; retreat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to flee”)) + English -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’, forming adjectives and nouns). The word was coined by the British aerodynamicist and engineer Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) in his book Aerodonetics (1908), the author mistaking the meaning of φῠγή (phŭgḗ) to be “flight” in the sense of “the act of flying”: see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The Phugoid theory deals with the longitudinal stability, and the form and equations of the flight path of an aerodone.
ref: 1908, F[rederick] W[illiam] Lanchester, “The Phugoid Theory—The Equations of the Flight Path”, in Aerodonetics: Constituting the Second Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight […], London: Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, § 18 (Introductory), page 37:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of the motion of an aircraft, missile, or other flying object: continuously oscillating in a vertical plane due to the object pitching up and climbing, thus slowing down; then pitching down and descending, thus speeding up.
phugoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːɡɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈfjuˌɡɔɪd/
Forms: form: phugoids
form: fugoid
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φῠγή (phŭgḗ, “fleeing, flight; escape; retreat”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to flee”)) + English -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’, forming adjectives and nouns). The word was coined by the British aerodynamicist and engineer Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946) in his book Aerodonetics (1908), the author mistaking the meaning of φῠγή (phŭgḗ) to be “flight” in the sense of “the act of flying”: see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: As the amplitude of the phugoid is increased beyond the limits of the semicircle, there is a rapid shortening of the time period as shown by the manner in which the time curve falls away almost immediately after that critical form of flight path is passed. […] [I]f we select phugoids of greater and greater velocity, for a given aerodone the form of the tumbler curve approximates more and more closely to a circle of radius #61;2H#95;n.
ref: 1908, F[rederick] W[illiam] Lanchester, “The Phugoid Theory—The Flight Path Plotted”, in Aerodonetics: Constituting the Second Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight […], London: Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, § 35 (The Time Period and Form of the Phugoid Path. Special Cases (continued).), page 63:
text: As well as physical debris, the report drew on recent analysis by Australian defense scientists of burst frequency signals from Flight 370 to satellites that indicated the aircraft had been descending fast, likely in an automated series of swooping dives called fugoids.
ref: 2016 November 2, Rob Taylor, “Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 likely in steep dive before crash”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The motion of an aircraft, missile, or other flying object continuously oscillating in a vertical plane due to the object pitching up and climbing, thus slowing down; then pitching down and descending, thus speeding up.
phugoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phugoid
toywort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyworts
Etymology: From toy + wort. So named because children play a game with the seed pods.
Senses: qualifier: botanical
glosses: The shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris.
toyworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toywort.
phwoarr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phwoar.
fuckwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckwad