cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
museumed out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'I was all museumed out and I thought I'd visit the village.'
ref: 2011, Liz Fielding, Flirting with Italian, page 59:
text: In addition, she'd visited so many museums that she was museumed out. She had worn herself out so much each day that she hadn't had energy left for any evening activities.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Audette, Real Texas Roadhouses:
glosses: Fatigued after visiting numerous museums.
March Revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In the Julian calendar, the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia (the Gregorian calendar was adopted after the October Revolution).
glosses: The Märzrevolution, the opening phase of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
glosses: The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
sunfished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunfish
sunfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunfish
Safety Harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Willey (1949:324) suggested that this mound probably dates to late Weeden Island times, though the bird head rim adorno (Luer 1992a:54, Figure Id; Moore 1903:Figure 63) might indicate a Safety Harbor component.
ref: 1999, Clarence Bloomfield Moore, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, The West and Central Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore, page 25:
glosses: An archaeological culture practised by Native Americans living on the central Gulf coast of the Florida peninsula, from about 900 CE until after 1700, defined by the presence of certain ceramics in burial mounds.
aiphanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Aiphanes + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A stilbenolignan found in the seeds of Aiphanes aculeata.
gnetumontanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A stilbenolignan found in Gnetum cleistostachyum and Gnetum montanum.
leipoas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leipoa
doomsday argument
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doomsday argument
Senses: examples: text: Even if it ran only rather roughly, though, the doomsday argument could have considerable importance. In particular, it might throw severe doubt on the theory that the human race will very probably survive for many thousand years.
ref: 2002, John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date.
Related terms: Carter catastrophe
Lelwel hartebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Jackson's hartebeest
glosses: Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel, an African antelope.
Jackson's hartebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lelwel hartebeest.
synonyms: word: Lelwel hartebeest
Doomsday argument
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: hypernyms: argument
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of doomsday argument.
Heawoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heawood
Swayne's hartebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei, an Ethiopian antelope.
Coke's hartebeest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: kongoni
glosses: Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii, an African antelope.
diheterozygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + heterozygous.
Senses: antonyms: dihomozygous
glosses: Having two genotypes which are both heterozygous.
Carter catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proposed by Cambridge cosmologist Brandon Carter in 1983.
Senses: examples: text: Carter chose not to publish on doomsday, discussing it only in seminars where he thought it could get a fair hearing. In this way the doomsday argument began as a secret, almost samizdat doctrine, known to a few as the “Carter catastrophe.”
ref: [2019, William Poundstone, The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
glosses: An early version of the doomsday argument.
wikipedia: Brandon Carter
dihomozygous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + homozygous.
Senses: antonyms: diheterozygous
glosses: Having two genotypes which are both homozygous.
Eacotts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eacott
Heawood graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heawood graphs
Etymology: Named after Percy John Heawood.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An undirected graph with 14 vertices and 21 edges.
Heawood graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heawood graph
Hoffler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hofflers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Höffler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
dildo cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dildo cactuses
form: dildo cacti
Senses: glosses: Any of species Acanthocereus tetragonus of cactuses.
Holtry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holtrys
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dildo cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dildo cactus
Holtrys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Holtry
Hofflers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoffler
fairy castle cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy castle cacti
Senses: examples: text: One of the most popular cultivars of Acanthocereus tetragonus, the fairy-castle cactus produces bright green ribbed stems that soon form small clusters.
ref: 2019, Fran Bailey, Zia Allaway, Royal Horticultural Society Practical Cactus & Succulent Book: How to Choose, Nurture & Display 200 Cacti & Succulents, Dorling Kindersley Limited, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: The miniature cultivar of the cactus Acanthocereus tetragonus.
fairy castle cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy castle cactus
Hjort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hjorts
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Hjort, a nickname from hjort (“hart, stag”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Esho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eshos
Etymology: From a variant of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܝܼܫܘܿܥ (īšoʿ).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Aramaic.
Eshos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Esho
Hjorts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hjort
Goldthwaites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldthwaite
Fiebelkorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fiebelkorns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fiebelkorn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Buscaglias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Buscaglia
Fiebelkorns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fiebelkorn
Coren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corens
Etymology: Variant of Koren.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Compeau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Compeaus
Etymology: Altered form of French Campeau.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Compeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Compeau
Corens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Coren
soilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soilish
form: most soilish
Etymology: From soil + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of soil; earthy.
Clickner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clickners
Etymology: Americanized form of German Klöckner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Conahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conahans
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Ó Connachaín (“son of Connachán”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Conahans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Conahan
glancedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of glance
Clickners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clickner
/tttt/
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiːˌtiːˌtiːˈtiː/
ipa: /ˌtiˌtiˌtiˈti/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Referencing the purported over-representation of trans women among users of the board.
Senses: synonyms: 4tran
glosses: The 4chan imageboard /lgbt/.
Celebic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Celeb- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Celebes (Sulawesi).
Clouatre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clouatres
Etymology: Borrowed from French Clouâtre, a variant of Cloître.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Cheves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cheveses
Etymology: A variant of Chevis or Chevez.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Cheveses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cheves
Clouatres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Clouatre
McGeachy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGeachys
form: McGeachie
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Eachaidh (“son of the horseman”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McGeachys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGeachy
Korens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Koren
preinvestigative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + investigative.
Senses: glosses: Prior to investigation.
preinvestigatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + investigatory.
Senses: glosses: Prior to investigation.
islots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of islot
reassignee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reassignees
Etymology: From reassign + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is reassigned.
reassignees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reassignee
drum magazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum magazines
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A high-capacity cylindrical magazine for firearms, storing rounds of ammunition in a central spiral.
drum magazines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum magazine
unbelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + belled.
Senses: examples: text: Some mice might well conceive of a scheme to bell the unbelled cats, to reduce deficit spending by raising taxes.
ref: 1995, Lawrence H. White, The Crisis in American Banking, page 50:
glosses: Not having been belled.
Laue equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after physicist Max von Laue (1879–1960).
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of equations relating incoming waves to outgoing waves in the process of elastic scattering.
Ashmanhaugh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3120).
admiral sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admiral's sauce
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sauce for fish or seafood, made with butter, anchovies, capers, etc.
admiral's sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of admiral sauce.
SCGSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sugarcane grassy shoot disease.
SGSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sugarcane grassy shoot disease.
sugarcane grassy shoot disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: SCGSD
word: SGSD
glosses: A disease of sugar cane, associated with the pathogen Candidatus Phytoplasma sacchari, and leading to a proliferation of tillers and a grass-like appearance.
hamster wheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hamster wheel
hamster wheeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamster wheel
golden pothos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden pothoses
Senses: glosses: Any of species Epipremnum aureum of vines often used as ornamentals.
roofbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofbolts
Etymology: From roof + bolt.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A safety bolt installed in the roof of an underground mine.
roofbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roofbolts
form: roofbolting
form: roofbolted
form: roofbolted
Etymology: From roof + bolt.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To install safety bolts in the roof of an underground mine.
Related terms: roofbolter
roofbolter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofbolters
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A machine for installing roofbolts.
roofbolters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roofbolter
roofbolting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roofbolt
roofbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roofbolt
roofbolts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roofbolt
roofbolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roofbolt
Tarons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Taron
humics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humic
Wilmorton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A south-eastern suburb of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3734).
fulvics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulvic
homocoagulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + coagulation.
Senses: glosses: The coagulation/flocculation of particles in a suspension that bear the same electric charge.
homocluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homoclusters
Etymology: From homo- + cluster.
Senses: glosses: A cluster of the same material (typically nanoparticles).
homoclusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homocluster
homoaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + aggregation.
Senses: glosses: The aggregation of particles in a suspension composed of similar monodisperse colloidal particles.
heteroaggregation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + aggregation.
Senses: glosses: The aggregation of particles in a suspension composed of dissimilar monodisperse colloidal particles.
cozy catastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cozy catastrophes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cosy catastrophe.
cozy catastrophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cozy catastrophe
lemonade braids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: They were worn by the American singer Beyoncé in the video for her 2016 album Lemonade.
Senses: examples: text: Teri Farmer, a slender woman with long lemonade braids in her hair; hazel contacts and a crooked smile that in some way made her attractive, grinned as her friend emerged from the bathroom […]
ref: 2017, Harlyn Bryan, Wounded, page 32:
text: We were on for lemonade braids at 3:30. I showed up to this girl's crib at 3:20 due to her strict late policy. By 3:29, I was knocking on her door. Nothing.
ref: 2018, Traci B, Savior and Brittani: A South Dallas Love Affair:
glosses: An Afro-textured hairstyle consisting of braids that start at the front and are woven and swept to one side.
wikipedia: Beyoncé
Lemonade (Beyoncé album)
texturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From texture + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Unintentionally, I had supported texturism as a girl, choosing to never wear my hair curly until my last year of high school, […]
ref: 2020, G. L. Tomas, The Love Bet:
glosses: Prejudice based on the texture of a person's hair, typically when it is Afro-textured.
Related terms: texturist
drunken driving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In Wilmington, Del., Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger.
ref: 1958 July 21, “Miscellany”, in Time, page 84:
text: Combined with sobriety checkpoints, especially around bars, convenience stores, and other predictable haunts of the booze-cruisers, the new flashlight device could be an important weapon against drunken driving.
ref: 1985 June 3, “Anti-drunk technology”, in Daily Press, 90th year, number 154, page A4:
text: A man was arrested for drunken driving after a crash Downtown early Saturday morning injured two people, Madison police reported.
ref: 2023 April 5, “Man arrested for OWI after Downtown crash”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 184th year, number 125, page A5:
glosses: Alternative form of drunk driving.
Haywoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Haywood
life choices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life choice
Libertads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Libertad
LVN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LVNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of licensed vocational nurse.
LVNs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LVN
Liederkranz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An American cow's-milk cheese with an edible crust.
cherrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cherry: more cherry
light opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light operas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of comic opera.
synonyms: word: comic opera
light operas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light opera
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally two towns, Garmisch and Partenkirchen, which retain their identities, merged into a municipality in 1935.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and rural district in Upper Bavaria region, Bavaria, Germany.
booze cruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze cruisers
form: booze-cruiser
Senses: examples: text: It’s also best explored in the morning before the wind kicks up and the booze cruisers arrive.
ref: 2007, MTV Best of Mexico, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 406:
text: There’s probably no other town in the world that offers such a bizarre mix of culture vultures and booze cruisers.
ref: 2009 January 11, David Whitley, “Two beers or not two beers?: Denmark”, in The Sun-Herald, page 22:
text: The Tallink line regularly delivered Finnish booze cruisers travelling to Estonia for cheap shopping and drinking.
ref: 2011, Thom Wheeler, One Steppe Beyond: Across Russia in a VW Camper, Summersdale Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: One who goes on a booze cruise.
examples: text: I'm sure he'll get home safe; he's quite the experienced booze cruiser. You wouldn't believe his record BAC.
text: how it feels... to be a booze cruiser in traffic caused by a sober accident
ref: 2021 February 1, Sich, “HOW IT FEELS... THEM TO BE A BOOZE CRUISER IN TRAFFIC GAUSED BY A CNREB ACCINENT”, in iFunny, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2024:
text: Always happy for Boozecruisier [sic] representation in video games
ref: 2024 August 6, u/BettyJordan971, “Always happy for Boozecruisier representation in video games”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2024:
glosses: a drunk driver
booze cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booze cruiser
booze-cruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booze-cruisers
Senses: examples: text: Combined with sobriety checkpoints, especially around bars, convenience stores, and other predictable haunts of the booze-cruisers, the new flashlight device could be an important weapon against drunken driving.
ref: 1985 June 3, “Anti-drunk technology”, in Daily Press, 90th year, number 154, page A4:
text: While neon green, yellow and red lights pulsated from the base of her cocktail grass, Priola, two bachelorette parties and 100 or so other booze-cruisers jumped, gyrated and gestured to Montoya’s remix of Chicago house, R&B and hip-hop.
ref: 2007 August 23, Michael Roach, “Choose your cruise: Relax, dance or tack”, in Chicago Tribune, 161st year, number 235, section 5A, page 9:
text: Queen Mary – the 16th century Tudor monarch, not the former Cunard liner currently moored in Long Beach, California – shares one characteristic with me: strong feelings about French Channel ports. She is reputed to have said: “When I am dead and opened, you shall find ‘Calais’ lying in my heart.” The port now beloved of booze-cruisers was recaptured during her reign by the French.
ref: 2022 January 19, Simon Calder, “The boat train could be back for Channel crossings”, in The Independent:
glosses: Alternative form of booze cruiser.
booze-cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booze-cruiser
Limoges ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limoges wares
Senses: glosses: Hardpaste porcelain produced by factories in and around the city of Limoges, France, beginning in the late 18th century.
Limoges wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Limoges ware
Lincoln's Birthday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: February 12, the anniversary of the 1809 birth of Abraham Lincoln: a public holiday in some U.S. states.
line of supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of supply
Senses: glosses: Synonym of supply line.
synonyms: word: supply line
lines of supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line of supply
linguaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguaphones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of lamellaphone.
synonyms: word: lamellaphone
linguaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linguaphone
linguipotence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I venture to assert most unequivocally that the New Testament contains not the least proof of the linguipotence of the Apostles, but the clearest proofs of the contrary: […]
ref: 1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Baxter's Life of Himself:
text: We understood Mr. Payson's remarks were quite extensive and it's a safe bet that this exhibition of linguipotence will land Larry a job as a general interpreter at the peace conference.
ref: 1942, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 43, page 22:
glosses: Linguistic expertise.
lion-tailed macaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lion-tailed macaques
Senses: synonyms: wanderoo
glosses: The Old World monkey Macaca silenus.
liquid refreshment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid refreshments
Senses: examples: text: When one goes to the store to procure liquid refreshments, one does not want to be told that the only thing available is coffee.
ref: 2012, Duane Andry, Blogosphere Madness: Dogmasphere 2011, page 84:
glosses: Alcoholic drink.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see liquid, refreshment.
liquid refreshments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid refreshment
listen out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: listens out
form: listening out
form: listened out
form: listened out
Senses: glosses: To listen attentively for something expected.
werewolvish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more werewolvish
form: most werewolvish
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.
ref: 1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.
ref: 1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22:
text: The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.
ref: 1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.
ref: 2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2:
text: On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.
ref: 2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.
ref: 2014, Roy Gill, “Pretty Good Year”, in Werewolf Parallel, KelpiesTeen, Floris Books, →ISBN, page 268:
text: The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.
ref: 2015, Matilda Raj, “The Hag and the Relatives”, in The Churning Lake, Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of werewolfish.
light up like a Christmas tree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lights up like a Christmas tree
form: lighting up like a Christmas tree
form: lit up like a Christmas tree
form: lit up like a Christmas tree
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To become very brightly lit.
glosses: To become very bright and cheerful.
Related terms: light up a room
live-forever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live-forevers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liveforever.
fantasy world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasy worlds
Senses: glosses: A fictional world in literature, film, etc., involving unreal elements such as magic.
examples: text: If she thinks she can become President, she's living in a fantasy world!
glosses: A person's unrealistic individual notions of the real world.
fantasy worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasy world
officer down
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police officer has been critically wounded, incapacitated, or killed.
Wynona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Winona.
quadsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadsuits
Senses: examples: text: Quadsuits are specially made for the purpose of wearing and walking on all fours;[…].
ref: 2015, Nyareon, “The Furry Fandom”, in Furries Among Us: Essays on Furries by the Most Prominent Members of Fandom, Thurston Howl Publications, →ISBN, page 10:
text: It was a graduation from more simplistic cosplay to more complex costuming like this or the quadsuit I have where you are on all fours.
ref: 2017 March 24, Allison Tierney, quoting Rose, “Furries Tell Us How They Figured Out They Were Furries”, in Vice, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2020:
text: Even though this character has four legs, costumes such as this can be operated by a single performer with the use of arm extensions as in quadsuits.
ref: 2020, Cheralyn Lambeth, Introduction to Puppetry Arts, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of quad suit.
quadsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadsuit
living newspaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living newspapers
Senses: glosses: A theatrical form presenting factual information on current events to a popular audience.
living newspapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living newspaper
llareta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: llaretas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yareta (“flowering plant”).
llaretas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of llareta
Lloyd-Georgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lloyd-Georgian
form: most Lloyd-Georgian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863–1945), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.
New Ash Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: As a modern 1960s planned village, the Ash part of the name probably comes from the older settlement nearby.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ash-cum-Ridley parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6065).
lobster roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster rolls
Senses: glosses: A New England snack consisting of lobster meat served on a grilled hot-dog-style bun, often with butter and seasonings.
lobster rolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobster roll
2PL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: transaction processing
glosses: Initialism of two-phase locking.
is someone cutting onions
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “Is someone cutting onions?” They must be. I'm sure of it. I'm not much of a crier, and I'm the type who tends to bury her emotions as much as she can.
ref: 2019, Chantal Fernando, Saint:
text: She looks up at him and smiles, and he smiles back, and man, is someone cutting onions in here? My throat is tight and dry, and I'm so jealous of Margo and Mendel I can barely think.
ref: 2023, Sara Waxelbaum, Brianna R. Shrum, Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl:
glosses: Drawing attention to somebody crying, or to a sad moment that makes one want to cry.
locn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locns
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of location.
locns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locn
locutorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From locutor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or business of a locutor.
maple sirup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maple sirups
Senses: examples: text: The thirteen gallons honey yielded one and a half gallons of the skimmings, to which I added as much water and nearly a pint of skim milk, put it into a kettle, put that over the fire, heat, skimmed, and fined it down, the like as clarifying maple sirup, for sugar.
ref: 1833 June 10, J. Hawley, “Currant Wine”, in The Genesee Farmer, volume III, number 24, published 15 June 1833, page 186, column 3:
text: This evening, when the meat was cooked, the mother brought out a birch-bark bucket full of maple sirup.
ref: 1904, Julia Augusta Schwartz, “The Indian Feast”, in Five Little Strangers and How They Came to Live in America, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company, section “The Little Red Child”, page 33:
text: Maple sirups may have a variety of flavors ranging from weak to strong and from sour to metallic, depending on the number and kind of bacteria in the sap and their activity on the sap components.
ref: 1963 October, Aaron E. Wasserman, Microbiology and Sanitation in the Sugarbush and Sugarhouse, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, page 17:
glosses: Dated form of maple syrup.
maple sirups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maple sirup
logarithmics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yancey's performance on the exam brought admission to the sophomore class; this course of study included geometry, logarithmics, plane trigonometry, surveying, logic, rhetoric and elocution, and history.
ref: 2006, Eric H. Walther, William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War, page 19:
glosses: The use of logarithms.
thulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Thule + -ite, because some believe that Thule was in Norway.
Senses: synonyms: rosaline
glosses: A pink, translucent variety of zoisite first discovered in Norway, often spotted with white calcite.
Coordinate terms: clinothulite
zoisite
saw-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saw-stools
Senses: glosses: sawhorse.
oecumene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oecumenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecumene.
lexiarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexiarchs
form: lexiarchoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ληξίαρχος (lēxíarkhos).
Senses: examples: text: Meantime a number of the Scythian archers, under the command of a lexiarch, had stretched a rope around the Agora in such a manner, that only the street leading to the hill of Pnyx was left free—an old custom, whose sole object was to remind the Athenians, who liked to linger gossipping in the market-place, what way they were to take.
ref: 1881, Robert Hamerling, translated by Mary J[ane] Safford, Aspasia: A Romance of Art and Love in Ancient Hellas, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: William S. Gottsberger, page 78:
text: After the archonship of Solon all Athenians over the age of eighteen were eligible to attend the assembly, save those who for some reason had suffered atimia (loss of civil rights). To prevent the presence of any disqualified persons, six lexiarchs with thirty assistants were present with the deme-rolls in their hands.
ref: 1911, “Ecclesia”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., page 848:
text: Under the presidency of the prytanic tribe they co-operated with the six lexiarchs to control entries into the Assembly.
ref: 1929, Gustave Glotz, translated by N. Mallinson, The Greek City and Its Institutions, London; New York, N.Y.: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.; Alfred A. Knopf, page 189:
text: They went through the streets and the markets, carrying vermillion cord, marking those who were late, and who could no longer come up to the lexiarch to get their attendance voucher.
ref: 1971, Victor Duruy, translated by Joël Rosenthal, The World of the Greeks;, Geneva: Minerva, page 29:
glosses: In ancient Athens: someone whose role it was to ensure that only citizens entered the ecclesia ("the public legislative assembly of the Athenians").
lexiarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexiarch
lexiarchoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexiarch
Lohengrinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lohengrinian
form: most Lohengrinian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Lohengrin, a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity.
lokelani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lokelanis
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: The damask rose.
lokelanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lokelani
lomi salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lomilomi salmon.
lomilomi salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lomi salmon
Senses: glosses: A Hawaiian tomato and salmon salad.
Lord Baltimore cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord Baltimore cakes
Senses: glosses: A variant of the Lady Baltimore cake, made with egg yolks instead of whites.
Lord Baltimore cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lord Baltimore cake
peristyliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peristylium
shitting Nora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bloody Nora.
synonyms: word: bloody Nora
Lord's table
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Lord's table
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The table used for preparation of Holy Communion.
Aliens Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Alien Day.
Lorraine cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lorraine crosses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cross of Lorraine.
synonyms: word: cross of Lorraine
Lorraine crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lorraine cross
unfrescoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + frescoed.
Senses: examples: text: This house, like many others at the time of the destruction of the city, was undergoing repairs—one of the sides of the peristylium being left unfrescoed, the other being finished.
ref: 1886, S. Russell Forbes, Rambles in Naples: An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Naples and Its Environs, 3rd edition, London: T. Nelson and Sons, page 62:
text: It was an old chapel, known to his father and his father's father. The unfrescoed walls still showed faintly the outlines of Popish statuary that had stood against them long ago, and the smoke of many candles had darkened the rafters to match the color of the lowering sky outdoors.
ref: 1959, Dorothy Norris Foote, The Constant Star, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 58:
text: As the monastery grew in size and importance, the church was found too small and a larger edifice, also dedicated to St George, was raised in the early nineteenth century further up the slope. It is unfrescoed but possesses a fine collection of icons, a reliquary containing a drop of St John the Baptist's blood and two magnificent mosaic panels (portative icons) of the thirteenth century, representing St George and St Demetrius.
ref: 1979, Brian De Jongh, The Companion Guide to Mainland Greece, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 292:
text: It reminds Nick of the baths in Greenwich where he learnt to swim: that mixture of closeness and distance; sounds of strangers echoing and dying across a cherubless, unfrescoed dome; and then the brothy smell of oxtail trickling from the drinks machine afterwards.
ref: 2007, Tom McCarthy, Men in Space, Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Not frescoed; not painted with frescos.
corkingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ain't she the corkingest girl of the lot
ref: 1896, Out of Town, page 60:
text: But although it was one of Kingston's corkingest sea-yarns, to-day it failed to hold Jonesie's attention, and presently it was face-down on that young gentleman's stomach while his thoughts pursued the hated Cummings.
ref: 1919, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Play That Won:
glosses: superlative form of corking: most corking
Lusitano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lusitanos
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese breed of horse, solid-colored, generally gray, bay or chestnut, and having a convex facial profile and heavy muscling.
Lusitanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lusitano
Lusitano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: Lusitano-Spanish
text: Lusitano-American
glosses: Portugal, Portuguese.
glosses: Lusitania, Lusitanian.
cherubless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cherubless
form: most cherubless
Etymology: From cherub + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Now, although the Journal feels no personal responsibility in the matter, it will undertake to persuade the stork that in the future it is imperative that he give a little careful study to his own vocation and bring a little cheer (cherubs) to some of our cheerless (cherubless) homes.
ref: 1916 December 22, “Our Prediction True”, in The Rice Belt Journal, volume XVII, number 29, Welsh, L.A.: J.R. Rountree, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: It reminds Nick of the baths in Greenwich where he learnt to swim: that mixture of closeness and distance; sounds of strangers echoing and dying across a cherubless, unfrescoed dome; and then the brothy smell of oxtail trickling from the drinks machine afterwards.
ref: 2007, Tom McCarthy, Men in Space, Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Above the mantelpiece hung an oval gilt, mercifully cherubless mirror and placed at various intervals on the walls, were a couple of landscapes and a still life – an assortment of vegetables on a table with a very dead pheasant hanging forlornly over the edge.
ref: 2017, Marilyn Messik, Witch Dust, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Lacking cherubs (in various senses).
Popish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Popish
form: most Popish
Senses: examples: text: When indeed a Popish monarch may fill our throne, and the successor of St. Peter shall be the spiritual head of our Church; then shall your “esoterics,” alias “Church principles,” be in the ascendant in our Universities, and Who shall say that we may not have a Thorp lecturer in each of our Colleges, Neale and Webb scholarships, Regii professores supplying the places of those who shall now be superannuated, all teaching, and empowered to confer degrees in the, symbolism of mystical divinity:—the professor of music, not dealing as he now must, with crotchets and quavers, but in the far higher branches of the sacramentality of sounds, with their correspondent colours, instruments, bearing, &c. &c., and so of others?
ref: 1845, Clergymen of the Church of England, editors, The Christian’s Monthly Magazine and Church of England Review, volume IV, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., pages 364–365:
text: It was an old chapel, known to his father and his father's father. The unfrescoed walls still showed faintly the outlines of Popish statuary that had stood against them long ago, and the smoke of many candles had darkened the rafters to match the color of the lowering sky outdoors.
ref: 1959, Dorothy Norris Foote, The Constant Star, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 58:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of popish.
LWL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lifewide learning.
glosses: Initialism of load waterline length.
glosses: Initialism of length at waterline.
lifewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From life + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: lifewide learning
text: a lifewide curriculum
topics: education
glosses: Of or relating to a teaching strategy and an approach to learning and personal development that involves real-world contexts and settings.
parotias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parotia
Shaw Mayer's astrapia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shaw Mayer's astrapias
Etymology: Named to commemorate the naturalist and explorer Fred Shaw Mayer.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ribbon-tailed astrapia.
synonyms: word: ribbon-tailed astrapia
macaroni wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macaroni wheats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of durum wheat.
synonyms: word: durum wheat
pasta wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasta wheats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of durum wheat.
synonyms: word: durum wheat
macaroni wheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macaroni wheat
pasta wheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasta wheat
Machiavellianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Machiavellianists
Senses: glosses: A Machiavellian.
Machiavellianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Machiavellianist
main-topmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main-topmasts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maintopmast.
main-topmasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main-topmast
make oneself clear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes oneself clear
form: making oneself clear
form: made oneself clear
form: made oneself clear
Senses: examples: text: ASLEF have made it clear during the negotiations that they want a pay rise without any of the reforms necessary to fund it.
ref: 2023 September 20, Mel Holley, “Network News: RDG states its case as unions vow to continue strike action”, in RAIL, number 992, page 21:
glosses: To have one's meaning fully understood.
make someone's flesh crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's flesh crawl
form: making someone's flesh crawl
form: made someone's flesh crawl
form: made someone's flesh crawl
Senses: glosses: Synonym of make someone's flesh creep.
synonyms: word: make someone's flesh creep
make someone's skin creep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's skin creep
form: making someone's skin creep
form: made someone's skin creep
form: made someone's skin creep
Senses: glosses: Synonym of make someone's skin crawl.
synonyms: word: make someone's skin crawl
man-hater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-haters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manhater.
mangrove cuckoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangrove cuckoos
Senses: glosses: Coccyzus minor, a cuckoo native to the neotropics.
mangrove cuckoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangrove cuckoo
Manichaeistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Manichaeistic
form: most Manichaeistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Manichaeism.
Manicheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Manicheistic
form: most Manicheistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Manichaeistic.
Marquis of Queensberry rules
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marquis of Queensberry Rules
form: Marquess of Queensberry Rules
form: Marquess of Queensberry rules
Etymology: marquis + Queensberry + rule. Named after Scottish nobleman John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Synonym of Queensberry rules.
synonyms: word: Queensberry rules
Synonyms: Marquess of Queensbury rules
Marquess of Queensbury Rules
Marquis of Queensbury rules
Marquis of Queensbury Rules
Queensbury Rules
Queensbury rules
mark of admiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marks of admiration
Senses: glosses: An exclamation mark.
marks of admiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mark of admiration
marmalade box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marmalade boxes
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the mamey sapote or marmalade tree.
marmalade boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marmalade box
Juewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 瑞華星 /瑞华星.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the asteroid (139) Juewa.
moudiewarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moudiewarps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mouldwarp.
moudiewarps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moudiewarp
Nuwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Nüwa by dropping the diacritics.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the asteroid (150) Nuwa.
mottlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mottlements
Etymology: From mottle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Through the transparent shell dark mottlements were visible, as if it had eaten lumps of earth.
ref: 1961, Rachel Peden, Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living, page 238:
glosses: A mottled pattern.
mottlements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mottlement
Dioretsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: asteroid spelled backwards.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the asteroid (20461) Dioretsa.