cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Siguencias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Siguencia
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæp.i ˈvæl.i ˌɡuːs ˈbeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: The town is named after the two settlements which were amalgamated to form it, Happy Valley and Goose Bay.
Senses: glosses: A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nauss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nausses
Etymology: A variant of German Naus.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Orsino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Orsinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Orsino.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Orsinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Orsino
Nausses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nauss
Plude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pludes
Etymology: Perhaps a respelling of French Palud.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Pivaral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pivarals
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Pivaral.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Pivarals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pivaral
Pludes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Plude
Pasquarella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pasquarellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pasquarella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Pagett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pagetts
Etymology: Variant of Paget.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pagetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pagett
Pasquarellas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pasquarella
McDougald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McDougalds
Etymology: Variant of McDougall.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Bullis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bullises
Etymology: Probably a metonymic occupational surname for someone employed in a cattle shed, from a reduced form of Middle English bulehus (“bull house”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
McDougalds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McDougald
Bullises
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bullis
canopyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From canopy + -less.
Senses: synonyms: uncanopied
glosses: Without a canopy.
L'Anse-au-Loup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæns.oʊˈluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: From French L'Anse-au-Loup, derived in turn from anse (“cove, small bay”) and loup (“wolf, Canis lupus”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
clen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: clipping of clenbuterol
L'Anse-au-Clair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæns.oʊˌklɛə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From French L'Anse Eau Claire, derived in turn from anse (“cove, small bay”), eau (“water”) and clair (“clear”). The current form of the toponym is the result of a reinterpretation of eau and clair into au and clair.
Senses: glosses: A town in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Jiangdong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑŋ.dɒŋ/
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江東／江东 (Jiāngdōng).
Senses: examples: text: Subsequently, they conducted a campaign of mass expulsion and slaughter at No. 64 village in Jiangdong, and more than 2,000 persons perished as a result.
ref: 1991, From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement, volume 2, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263:
text: In July 1900, Russia slaughtered the Chinese residents in Hailanpao and in the 64 villages of Jiangdong.
ref: 2018, Wan Wang, Xing Li, “The Heilongjiang (Amur) River in Sino-Russian relations: from conflict towards cooperation”, in Water International, volume 43, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Occupation of the Sixty-four Villages of Jiangdong, Heilongjiang Province was compiled by the Amateur Theoretical Group of Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers in Heihe Region and the Historical Geography group of the Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
ref: 2022, Russia in the Indo-Pacific: New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Russia_in_the_Indo_Pacific/0HJKEAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT230:
glosses: The Sixty-Four Villages East of the River in Amur Oblast, Russia.
Carriegate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Carrie + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: What are we to make of the tawdry saga of what we must now, with grim inevitability, learn to call “Carriegate”? […] the headline that appeared in the first edition of last Saturday’s Times: “Johnson tried to give Carrie top Foreign Office job during affair”.
ref: 2022 June 20, Sean O'Grady, “‘Carriegate’ is just another classic Johnson scandal”, in The Independent:
text: The SNP spokesman usually prefers to go into fire-and-brimstone mode at the first hint of scandal – holding forth on the moral turpitude of Westminster like a sort of besuited, latter-day John Knox. Carriegate would have pricked his interest under normal circumstances.
ref: 2022 June 22, Madeline Grant, “Spluttering Boris Johnson reverts to filibuster mode as PMQs get personal”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022:
text: The Times simply spiked the story. Downing Street said it wasn’t true so all those other sources were ignored and – poof – the news blinked out of existence.
But in the interim, it had been picked up by the other outlets, who also reported that the story had been spiked. The incident became Carriegate, which felt like the thousandth gate of the year.
ref: 2024, Russell Jones, Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days, London: Unbound, page 144:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A British political scandal of 2022 around allegations that prime minister Boris Johnson, during his time as Foreign Secretary, had recommended Carrie Symonds, then his mistress, as a candidate for a high-paying job as chief of staff in the Foreign Office.
Dravet syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described in 1978 by Charlotte Dravet.
Senses: synonyms: SMEI
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: An autosomal-dominant genetic disorder that causes a catastrophic form of epilepsy, usually beginning in infancy, with prolonged seizures that are often triggered by high temperatures or fever.
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Former name of Dravet syndrome.
SMEI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.
honeydoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeydolls
Etymology: From honey + doll.
Senses: examples: text: You gave us quite a scare, honeydoll.
ref: 1999, Paul E. Stroble, Adams Street Antiques, page 275:
text: “That's your business, honeydoll, I'm not your psychiatrist.”
ref: 2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep, page 27:
glosses: Affectionate term of address for a girl or woman.
honeydolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeydoll
shot caller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot callers
form: shot-caller
form: shotcaller
Etymology: Deverbal from call the shots.
Senses: examples: text: Antonio Ramirez,^([sic]) is a shot caller (a leader) of the A Street gang, a powerful criminal organization in the southern part of the state.
ref: 2009, Samuel H. Pillsbury, How Criminal Law Works: A Conceptual and Practical Guide, page 346:
glosses: Someone in charge, especially the leader of a street gang.
examples: text: […] the CDC's campaign to isolate other "shot callers" in its new generation of super maximum security prisons.
ref: 2000, Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, page 198:
text: A hotbed for fights and race riots has long been California's Pitchess Detention Center, a Los Angeles County prison. These battles are masterminded by tattooed gang leaders called shot callers.
ref: 2014, Carl Sifakis, The Encyclopedia of American Prisons, page 236:
text: People already knew me from the streets, so when the previous shot caller was transferred to a different state prison, a leadership vacuum was created. I was asked to fill it. One of the shot callers' responsibilities was to control the shanks within the prison population—the crude homemade knives used for stabbing another prisoner.
ref: 2019, Casey Diaz, Mike Yorkey, The Shot Caller […] , Emanate Books, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: A prison inmate who holds informal authority over other inmates and who masterminds criminal activity.
shot callers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot caller
introspection illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introspection illusions
Senses: glosses: A cognitive bias by which people wrongly think that they have direct insight into the origins of their mental states, while treating other people's introspections as unreliable.
introspection illusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of introspection illusion
Flemish horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flemish horses
Senses: glosses: A draft horse of a Belgian breed that became extinct in the 19th century when it was merged with the Brabant to create the Belgian Draught, but has since been recreated from some stock kept by Amish people in the United States.
Flemish horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flemish horse
Flemish beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flemish beauties
Senses: glosses: A reddish-yellow pear cultivar of Belgian origin.
Flemish beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flemish beauty
Flemish eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flemish eyes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An eye splice formed by unlaying one strand of a rope's end and laying it up round the eye formed by the other portion of the rope's end.
Flemish eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flemish eye
jeemany
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of jiminy.
jeep carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeep carrier
northwesterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northwestern
G4I
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “WDYT,” she IM'd Sophie, wondering what her new friend thought of the idea. Sophie, sitting next to her, quickly IM'd back “G4I” to show her support.
ref: 2010, Jeanne C. Meister, Karie Willyerd, The 2020 Workplace […] , Harper Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of go for it.
TVOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: VoD
hyponyms: AVOD
SVOD
glosses: Abbreviation of transactional video on demand.
SVOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: VoD
hyponyms: AVOD
TVOD
glosses: Abbreviation of streaming video on demand.
glosses: Abbreviation of subscription video on demand.
Hughes-Drever experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hughes-Drever experiments
Etymology: Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.
Hughes-Drever experiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hughes-Drever experiment
Hinstock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in north-east Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6926).
dysergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysergies
Senses: examples: text: There are many health-related dysergies because people actively seek to harm their bodies at the same time as society is harmed collectively because it must pay the cost of healthcare.
ref: 2009, Barbara M. Birch, The English Language Teacher in Global Civil Society, page 83:
glosses: The opposite of synergy: bad effects resulting from some combination of factors.
Related terms: dysergia
dysergic
dysergies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysergy
rosette samplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosette sampler
con-scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of conical scanning.
rosette seeker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosette seekers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An infrared homing system that extends a conical scanner with ad additional mirror or prism to create a more complex, rosette-like pattern with more angular coverage.
rosette seekers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosette seeker
Glyme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Oxfordshire, England, which flows into the River Evenlode.
angle stealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle stealers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A transponder designed to take into account the enemy radar's operational frequency and scan timing, and to add an additional signal to that naturally reflected off the target, confusing the radar as to the target's location.
Related terms: angle stealing
angle stealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angle stealer
howbout
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: how to improve the mind, the memory and the manners. Say not, lookerhere, howbout—gittinsotre—notforgittertall.
ref: [1860, The Age of Words and Phrases. A Book for Persons Who Undervalue Themselves and Overvalue Others., Boston, Mass.: […] Alfred Mudge & Son, page 1:
text: Howbout place crosstreet?
ref: 1903, Appleton’s Magazine, page 683:
text: “Howbout that Orange Sunshine one time,” says a third trucker, chiming in from behind.
ref: 1977, Terry Cook, Vans and the Truckin’ Life, Abrams, page 33:
text: Howbout I give you a ring tomorrow—tomorrow afternoon—and we talk about maybe getting together for lunch or coffee this week.
ref: 1998, William F[loyd] Weld, Mackerel by Moonlight, Simon & Schuster, page 138:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of how about.
jail juice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pruno.
synonyms: word: pruno
Boli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bôʹlēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 伯力 (Bólì).
Senses: examples: text: Khabarovsk (Boli), the second largest city in the Russian Far East, is about thirty kilometres from the Chinese border.
ref: 2009, Lisa Lai-Ming Wong, “On Alternatives to Historical Narrative”, in Rays of the Searching Sun: The Transcultural Poetics of Yang Mu, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:
text: Local press has created the most unbelievable stories about the Chinese conspiracy. According to these claims, Chinese diplomacy, “traditionally full of meanness”, would demand in future to “not only have those two islands but Khabarovsk itself, the ancient Chinese city of Boli, as well” which would lead to crisis and consequently - war between two countries.
ref: 2017, Michał Lubina, “China's Appendix? The Russian Far East”, in Russia and China: A political marriage of convenience - stable and successful, Barbara Budrich Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207:
text: Indigenous people such as the Goldi saw the Amur's main stream north of Boli (Khabarovsk) as a natural extension of the Songhua River.
ref: 2017, Victor Zatsepine, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_the_Amur/MzZLDgAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT33:
glosses: Synonym of Khabarovsk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Khabarovsk
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Boli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bôʹlēʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 勃利 (Bólì).
Senses: examples: text: The construction project of the (Taoshan) Reservoir, the largest one ever built in Heilungkiang, is under way. Located 10 kilometers east of the Chitaiho Municipality in Poli County, the reservoir will have a total water storage capacity of 648 million cubic meters.
ref: [1978 November 15 [1978 September 24], “Heilungkiang Reservoir”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 467, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Harbin Heilungkiang Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page 55:
text: In Heilongjiang Province alone, 14 graphite deposits are reported, with 1 occurrence near Jixi City reportedly containing 300 Mmt of surface-minable material (31) and another large deposit located in the Heling area of Boli County.
ref: 1987, Catharine T. Fogg; Edward H. Boyle, Jr., “Major CPEC Flake Graphite Producers”, in Flake and High Crystalline Graphite Availability—Market Economy Countries: A Minerals Availability Appraisal, number 9122, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1:
text: The upper part of the combo photo taken in 2008 shows Wang Xifa working at home in Hengtai Village of Boli County, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
ref: 2018 December 17, “Migrant workers contribute talents to development of China's cities”, in ZX, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
glosses: A county of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China.
flushboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashboarding.
flashboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flushboarding
Senses: glosses: flashboards collectively
Frolesworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5090).
Monkeydonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌŋkiˈdəʊniə/
/ˌmʌŋkiˈdoʊniə/
Etymology: Blend of monkey + Macedonia. Possibly a calque of Bulgarian Маймунодония (Majmunodonija). Used primarily by Greek, Serbian, and Bulgarian nationalists to suggest that North Macedonia's statehood and ethnogenesis is illegitimate, and that the name Macedonia was usurped, referring to North Macedonia's naming dispute with Greece.
Senses: examples: text: > Macedonians show no mercy because the time has come for the
> DAY OF RECKONING and the Traitors in our ranks must be
> dealt with FIRST.
WITH YOUR CRETINOUS LITTLE ANALYSIS I'D SAY !!!YOU!!! AND YOUR ILL-BREED
ARE THE BIGGEST TRAITORS TO MONKEYDONIA!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,
FYRO-MAGGOT!!! WITH ENEMIES LIKE YOU, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS???
ref: 1998 May 29, BaLgArYaN666`@feedme, “Gligorov and his Dictatorial Regime are the”, in alt.feedme (Usenet):
text: European Union Countries---Monkeydonia and Toorkey not now or in the
future members of the UNION. lol
ref: 2007 November 8, Sylvester, “What's missing?”, in alt.news.macedonia (Usenet):
text: One more embargo
and you won't just be back in the stone age...... if every Greek made
an extra tray of ice cubes and we dropped on monkeydonia you'll be
back in the ice age.
ref: 2008 January 6, Drexl Spivey, “Republic of Macedonia Will Defend the Name with Arguments”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Republic of North Macedonia.
Jobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jobian
form: most Jobian
form: Joban
Etymology: From Job + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Biblical character Job.
Joban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Joban
form: most Joban
Etymology: From Job + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jobian (“of or relating to the Biblical character Job”).
namesign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namesigns
form: name sign
Etymology: From name + sign.
Senses: examples: text: One way that deaf Taiwanese assign namesigns is by producing the established sign for a surname and adding the appropriate gender marker for the intended referent […]
ref: 1998, Ceil Lucas, Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communities, page 72:
synonyms: sign name
glosses: A special sign in sign language that uniquely identifies an individual person.
namesigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of namesign
sign name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign names
Senses: glosses: Synonym of namesign.
synonyms: word: namesign
name sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name signs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of namesign.
sign names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign name
name signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name sign
angle stealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The antiradar technique on which the angle stealer is based.
lessgo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “No, suh, that four-moon business settles me! It’s just one thing more’n I can stand! Come, M’lishy, less go!”
ref: 1891 December 3, ““Come, M’lishy, Come!””, in Humboldt County Republican, volume III, number 33, Humboldt, Iowa:
text: “Aincha hungry?” “Yeh.” “So my. Less go neet.” “Where?”
ref: 1903 September 14, “Gum Chewers Bruising English”, in The Sun, volume VII, number 259, Chanute, Kan., page 4:
text: “Lessgo over by the fakry an see if they’re playngame.”
ref: 1913, Frederick Houk Law, Mastery of Speech, a Course in Eight Parts on General Speech, Business Talking and Public Speaking, What to Say and How to Say It under All Conditions, page 50:
text: “Y’all through?” “Yeah.” “So’m I.” “Lessgo.”
ref: 1915 January 20, The Daily Times, volume XXIX, number 30, Davenport, Iowa, page 3:
text: So now I think I will hie me to some little nickle lunch and get something to eat. Whaddya say? Awright, lessgo.
ref: 1917 August 7, “Mr. S. Treet Walker Has a Grouch”, in The Daily Hammer, volume 85, number 1:
text: “This boy Victor’s going to show us where.” “Well lessgo, lessgo!”
ref: 1957, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, page 93:
text: “Who us? We got all day tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. We got all the time in the world to go to bed. But you, you’re a doctor, and doctors have bedtimes. Come on, ya’ll, lessgo.”
ref: 1974, Aphra, page 50:
text: “Lessgo.” “Don’t you want to say good night?” I pointed at the tent. “Nah.” He reeked of tequila. Like he’d taken a shower in it. “Lessgo.”
ref: 2016, Janey Mack, Shoot ’em Up (A Maisie McGrane Mystery), Kensington Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of let's go.
Shiwei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Mongolic people once inhabiting far-eastern Mongolia, northern Inner Mongolia, northern Manchuria, and the area near the Okhotsk Sea beach.
wallet name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallet names
Etymology: So called because it may be found on an identity card, a bank card, or on a similar document in a person's wallet.
Senses: glosses: A person's legal name.
wallet names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wallet name
weirdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weird + -dar.
Senses: glosses: A supposed intuitive ability to detect that a person or thing is eccentric.
Arse-end Charlie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arse-end Charlies
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of Tail End Charlie.
synonyms: word: Tail End Charlie
cripqueers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cripqueer
catch a packet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a packet
form: catching a packet
form: caught a packet
form: caught a packet
Senses: examples: text: While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.
ref: 1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436:
text: From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]
ref: 2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To be fired upon.
Fort-Lamy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of N'Djamena, Chad.
popcorn effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popcorn effects
Senses: glosses: The tendency of larger particles to bounce higher than smaller ones on high-frequency vibrating screens.
glosses: Certain situations in which moisture can cause defects in electronics.
popcorn effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popcorn effect
oddity effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oddity effects
Senses: glosses: The posited phenomenon that any shoal member that stands out in appearance will be preferentially targeted by predators, which may explain why fish prefer to shoal with individuals that resemble themselves.
oddity effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oddity effect
eyegaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyegazes
Etymology: From eye + gaze.
Senses: examples: text: They described three types corresponding to my narrator's eye contact with the receiver, imitative eyegaze, and configurational eyegaze; that is, they do not single out the narrator's reference-tracking eyegaze.
ref: 2003, Sotaro Kita, Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet, page 285:
glosses: The act of looking at something with the eye; a gaze.
eyegazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyegaze
buttock-clenching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buttock-clenching
form: most buttock-clenching
Senses: examples: text: At the end of a buttock-clenching trip, we landed to find Eritrean helicopters crouched on the tarmac of an airport that had just been bombed by Ethiopian jets.
ref: 2012, Michela Wrong, I Didn’t Do It For You, page 19:
text: I would zoom through the uphill left-hander at Coppice at a buttock-clenching 90mph (145km/h) in fourth, but on the climb up to Charlies the revs would fall away and third was needed just to maintain speed up the hill.
ref: 2019, John Aston, Driven:
synonyms: word: butt-clenching
word: affreux
word: alarming
word: spine-tingling
word: appalling
word: awful
word: buggish
word: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: dismayful
word: dreadful
word: fearful
word: flaysome
word: flesh-crawling
word: formidable
word: freaky
word: frightening
word: frightensome
word: frightful
word: ghastly
word: ghostly
word: grisly
word: hair-curling
word: hair-raising
word: horrible
word: horrid
word: horrific
word: horrifying
word: horripilating
word: pulse-pounding
word: scaring
word: scary
word: shocking
word: skin-crawling
word: terrible
word: terrifying
word: terrorsome
glosses: Suspenseful, frightening; causing anxiety.
small firm effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small firm effects
Senses: glosses: The posited phenomenon that small companies tend to outperform larger ones.
Related terms: neglected firm effect
small firm effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small firm effect
in-jokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in-jokey
form: most in-jokey
form: in-joky
Senses: examples: text: No amount of sartorial or physical detail, no amount of scattergun introspection, can create character (God knows how that miracle is ever accomplished) any more than the frequent, sometimes in-jokey name-dropping—Goldwater.
ref: 1967, The New York Times Book Review, page 36:
text: There are various in-jokey things about it, the main one being the photographs heading each chapter.
ref: 1972, Australian Book Review, page 254:
text: Echoes of familiar films keep popping up everywhere. So in one way (I started to say “at one level,” but pictures like this don’t have levels), “What’s Up, Doc?” is a sort of spot-the-reference game for movie buffs. This kind of thing could seem awfully arch and in-jokey if it weren’t done with such fun-sharing affection.
ref: 1972 March 26, Giles M. Fowler, “‘Doc’ … In Zany Tribute To Screwball Comedy”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 92, number 191, Kansas City, Mo., page 1 G:
text: ‘[…]I weep or I laugh when I am writing.’ ‘Which do the reviewers do?’ ‘Fatuous last words.’ ‘That's rather in-jokey.’
ref: 1973, John Brooks, The Expert, Tom Stacey Ltd, →ISBN, page 120:
glosses: Characteristic of an in-joke.
in-joky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in-joky
form: most in-joky
Senses: examples: text: As it is, with in-joky program bios and little in the way of song introductions, “Out of Hiding” brings its music into the light but leaves its creators in the shadows.
ref: 1989 September 15, Scott Rosenberg, “S.F. stage composers get a reprise of sorts in ‘Everything’”, in San Francisco Examiner, 125th year, number 83, page C-11:
text: Selfmade Music Theatre’s plan to demystify and develop opera is laudable, but this odd, in-joky piece isn’t the way to do it.
ref: 1996 February 21, Nick Curtis, “The Self-made show of modern-day dropouts”, in Evening Standard, page 50:
text: Robert Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter took the world of Catwalk and made it into a great film about fame, media, dreams and image. Catwalk is just a celluloid fanzine, a 95-minute authorised industry fame-fest that is tame and predictable. Mostly it’s the kind of chaotic, in-joky, dialogue-scrambled, giggly doco-mess that was sent up in This Is Spinal Tap.
ref: 1996 May 16, Anna Maria Dell’oso, “Homage to hips and lips”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, page 14:
glosses: Rare spelling of in-jokey.
neglected firm effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neglected firm effects
Senses: glosses: The posited phenomenon that lesser-known companies, followed by fewer analysts, tend to produce abnormally high returns on their stocks, perhaps because of the lower liquidity or higher risk associated with the stock.
Related terms: small firm effect
neglected firm effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neglected firm effect
Pockels effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pockels effect
Droste effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Droste effect
Kerzaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and commune in Kerzaz district, Algeria.
glosses: A district in Béchar province, western Algeria.
rushdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushdowns
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: In fighting games, a strategy that aims to overwhelm the opponent through speed and aggression.
rushdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rushdown
s*ck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: s*cks
form: s*cking
form: s*cked
form: s*cked
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of suck.
s*cks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of s*ck
s*cking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of s*ck
s*cked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of s*ck
guevedoce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guevedoces
form: guevedoche
Etymology: From Spanish güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce (“testicles at twelve”).
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: kwolu-aatmwol
glosses: In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
wikipedia: Dominican Spanish
guevedoces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guevedoce
distributedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distributed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being distributed.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a mostly underwater mountain range on the ocean floor of the Atlantic Ocean about midway between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas; includes Iceland, the Azores, Ascension, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha and other islands
go country
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes country
form: going country
form: went country
form: gone country
Senses: examples: text: He's gone country
Everybody's gone country
Yeah, we've gone country
The whole world's gone country
ref: 1994, Bob McDill, “Gone Country”, in Who I Am, performed by Alan Jackson:
coordinate_terms: go Hollywood
glosses: To adopt or further embrace the culture of country life or country music.
examples: text: 2016, Allegra Stratton, Going country': ITV News reveals scale of children being exploited and sent around Britain to carry drugs (ITV News) https://www.itv.com/news/2016-09-29/going-country-itv-news-reveals-the-scale-of-children-being-exploited-and-sent-around-britain-to-carry-drugs
Experts think many of the children who go missing every year in this country may have actually have "gone country". In one London borough, Lewisham, the local authority believes half of its missing children have been groomed to carry drugs.
text: For five days "I didn't know if he was alive", says Jenny. Then she saw on a social media chat group Robbie's friends saying he had "gone country". She discovered it was a phrase often used to describe county lines. "That's when it all clicked," she says, realising he was in an organised crime gang.
ref: 2022, Steve Swann, County lines: Inside the complex battle against drug gangs exploiting children, BBC News:
related: word: go cunch
glosses: To take part in a county line scheme for drug distribution.
Related terms: countrify
countryish
countrylike
Jindyworobak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒɪndiˈwɒrəbæk/
Forms: form: Jindyworobaks
Etymology: R. Ingamells took this word from the Woiwurrung word jindyworobak meaning "to annex" or "to join"
Senses: examples: text: No, Brian Elliott's hobby-horse is not the Jindyworobaks' political links—it is his conviction that they are to be remembered and well respected for their awareness of Aboriginal myth and legend and for their understanding and symbolic poetical use of the alcheringa concept (the Dreamtime myth of the creation of geological Australia and its flora and fauna with the related religious and moral connotations of site-worship and animism) .
ref: 1980, Meanjin - Volume 39, page 402:
text: Some writers tried to recreate the mythology of the aboriginals, and the Jindyworobaks in particular endeavoured, with small success, to recall Alcheringa.
ref: 2023, T. Inglis Moore, Social Patterns in Australian Literature, page 303:
synonyms: word: Jindy
glosses: A proponent of the Jindyworobak Movement, an Australian literary movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
Jindyworobaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jindyworobak
Hillarygate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hillary + -gate.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Hillary Clinton email controversy.
pronggill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronggills
Senses: glosses: a prong-gilled mayfly, any insect in the Leptophlebiidae family
cycletrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycletracks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cycle track.
Little-Parks effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little-Parks effects
Etymology: Discovered in 1962 by William A. Little and Roland D. Parks.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A phenomenon whereby passing a fluctuating magnetic field through a superconductor can slightly suppress its superconductivity.
Little-Parks effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Little-Parks effect
cycletracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycletrack
Perky effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Perky effects
Etymology: Named after Cheves Perky (1874–1940), American psychologist, who carried out a related experiment in which subjects were asked to visualize various objects on a screen while, unknown to them, very faint patches of color resembling these objects were projected onto the screen.
Senses: examples: text: If Perky effects like these are indeed indicative of visual imagery making use of the same neural resources recruited for actual vision, then they can naturally be extended to language processing.
ref: 2007, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, page 286:
glosses: The phenomenon whereby sensory input, or perceptions, can be mistaken for a mental image when perceptual processes and mental imagery interfere with each other.
wikipedia: Cheves Perky
Perky effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Perky effect
Béchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Béchar Province, Algeria.
glosses: A province in western Algeria.
pragmaticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pragmaticizes
form: pragmaticizing
form: pragmaticized
form: pragmaticized
Etymology: From pragmatic + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pragmatize.
synonyms: word: pragmatize
pragmaticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pragmaticize
pragmaticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pragmaticize
pragmaticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pragmaticize
defaultism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɒl.tɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈdiːˌfɒl.tɪ.zəm/
ipa: /-fɔːl-/
ipa: /dɪˈfɔl.tɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈdiːˌfɔl.tɪ.zəm/
ipa: /dɪˈfɑl.tɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈdiːˌfɑl.tɪ.zəm/
Etymology: From default + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: US defaultism
text: But, in being an African-American politician, [Obama] […] introduces race by default. This racial defaultism is what must be considered as far as a potential limitation in the president's bargaining power, despite whites' liberalization about race and race-related policy issues.
ref: 2012, William Crotty, editor, The Obama Presidency: Promise and Performance, page 132:
text: Defaultism ¶ The defaultist view is that some conversational implicatures are default inferences—presumptive meanings—that the hearer makes unless given reason not to by the speaker.
ref: 2019, Shalom Lappin, Chris Fox, The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, page 185:
glosses: An approach or situation in which something occurs by default, without being explicitly introduced.
glosses: The often misguided belief that the circumstances surrounding an individual are the default for everyone else.
Related terms: defaultist
defaultists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defaultist
defaultings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defaulting
BookTokker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BookTokkers
Senses: examples: text: I was heartened to see that like every other reader, BookTokkers acquire more books than they read.[…]BookTokkers are thoroughly digesting what they’re reading.
ref: 2022 February 6, John Warner, “From my first forays into Book TikTok, 5 things I’ve learned”, in Chicago Tribune, 174th year, number 37, section 4, page 7:
text: To the #22Debuts and incredible Bookstagrammers/BookTokkers, thank you for your support, community, and rallying.
ref: 2022 May, Timothy Janovsky, “Acknowledgments”, in Never Been Kissed, Sourcebooks, →ISBN:
text: To every librarian, bookseller, blogger, BookTokker, and reader out there, we hope this year is full of love, health, happiness, and most of all: adventure.
ref: 2022 May, Christina Lauren (combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings), “Acknowledgments”, in Something Wilder, Gallery Books, →ISBN:
text: We would also like to thank the Bookstagrammers, BookTokkers, Facebook reading groups, bloggers, and everyone on social media who put our book in front of potential readers and has helped us stay connected during these pandemic days.
ref: 2022 June, Ali Brady, “Acknowledgments”, in The Beach Trap, Berkley, →ISBN, page 360:
glosses: Alternative spelling of BookToker.
BookTokkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BookTokker
Sowa-Rigpa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Traditional Tibetan medicine.
wild-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild-cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wildcat.
wild-cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild-cat
Lake Chad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in Central Africa surrounded by the countries of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger.
Related terms: Chad Basin
brother chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare chips (“a carpenter”).
Senses: examples: text: He was saluted by Mr. James Hall, with these words: “Well, brother chip! How many murders have you been committing?”
ref: 1853, Talbot Gwynne, The School for Dreamers: A Story of the Present Day, page 208:
glosses: Term of address for a fellow tradesman, originally a carpenter.
nol-kole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knol-khol
form: knol-kohl
form: nol-kohl
Senses: glosses: kohlrabi
nol-kohl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nol-kole.
knol-kohl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nol-kole.
knol-khol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nol-kole.
pot modded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pot mod
pot modding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pot mod
pot mods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pot mod
Parakou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large city, the capital of Borgou department, Benin.
pot noodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot noodle
delings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deling
delingos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delingo
chashew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chashews
Senses: examples: text: Portions of them are fringed at intervals by the tamarind, chashew, and other ornamental trees; […]
ref: 1852, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, page 336:
glosses: Obsolete form of cashew.
chashews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chashew
massalgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massalgees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mussaulchee.
mussalgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussalgees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mussaulchee.
mussaulgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mussaulgees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mussaulchee.
massalgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massalgee
mussalgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mussalgee
mussaulgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mussaulgee
masalchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masalchees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mussaulchee.
masalchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masalchis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mussaulchee.
masalchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masalchee
masalchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masalchi
Borgou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department, one of twelve in Benin.
sumjao
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?], an imperative verb form meaning "cause to know, warn, correct", usually with the implication of physical coercion.
Senses: examples: text: […] to double the number of the secretaries, so that one portion of them may do the work, while the other carry up papers to the Council and sumjao its members.
ref: 1883, Hyderabad Affairs, volume 3, page 210:
text: He comes to sumjao the English and incidentally to crown the great work of his lifetime. Not, be it observed, to sumjao the Ministry or the Foreign Office. They are apparently quite tractable already.
ref: 1912, The National Review, volume 59, page 607:
glosses: To threaten or coerce.
Quiloa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Kilwa (“former Swahili sultanate of East Africa”).
Rosalgat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raselgat
form: Rasselgat
form: Rosalgate
form: Rozelgate
Etymology: From the Arabic name رَأْس ٱلْحَدّ via Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: The easternmost point of the coast of Arabia.
Raselgat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosalgat.
Rasselgat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosalgat.
Rosalgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosalgat.
Rozelgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rosalgat.
Isaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Somali clan that traditionally inhabits Somaliland, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Isaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isaaqs
Senses: glosses: A member of the Isaaq.
Kaura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and local government area in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
haybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haybags
Etymology: From hay + bag.
Senses: examples: text: If your horses are being kept in slip stalls you will find it convenient to feed their hay in haybags.
ref: 1998, Robert A. Mischka, It's Showtime!: A Beginner's Guide to Showing Draft Horses, Mischka Press/Heart Prairie, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Alternative form of hay bag (“bag filled with hay”).
examples: text: The only women in the town were the storekeeper's wife, and a fat old haybag who had been scalped by Indians at the mouth of the Musselshell a few years before, and was laying up with the barber.
ref: 2015, E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher (page 78)
glosses: Alternative form of hay bag (“a woman”).
haybags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haybag
Harrhy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shoffices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoffice
Hagen-Poiseuille equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hagen-Poiseuille equation
Etymology: It was experimentally derived independently by Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille in 1838 and Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen, and published by Poiseuille in 1840–41 and 1846.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A physical law that gives the pressure drop in an incompressible Newtonian fluid in laminar flow flowing through a long cylindrical pipe of constant cross section.
Tessalit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and rural commune in the Kidal Region of Mali.
leaf notchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf notcher
leaf-notchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf-notcher
ISMs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ISM
hay bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay bags
form: haybag
Senses: glosses: A bag filled with hay.
glosses: A woman.
hay bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hay bag