cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rasping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rasping
form: most rasping
Senses: examples: text: He spoke in a rasping voice due to throat cancer.
glosses: raspy
glosses: exasperating
examples: text: When the opponent has led off with a fine rasping drive, the noble, but somewhat treacherous, spirit of emulation rises in the breast of the rival, and he is tempted to 'press' –ever so little, but just a little too much in order to outdo his antagonist's effort.
ref: 1890, Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Golf, page 249:
text: Myhill gets fingertips onto it and helps the rasping drive onto the bar and over or a corner.
ref: 2009, Ian Waterson, Live Through the Dream, page 7777:
text: Celta then levelled following a crisp move between Daniel Wass, Guidetti and Orellana, the Chilean sending a rasping drive high beyond Casilla.
ref: 2016 August 28, “Toni Kroos missile helps Real Madrid down impressive Celta”, in Stuff:
text: Zeki Amdouni had a rasping long-range drive parried away by David Raya
ref: 2023 November 11, Matthew Howarth, “Arsenal 3-1 Burnley”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Pushing forward with great force.
rasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rasp
rasping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspings
Senses: glosses: A sound that rasps.
glosses: The act of rasping as with a file.
Derived terms: rasping machine
mixologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixologists
Etymology: From mix + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: By the way, the difference between a bartender and a mixologist can be confusing, but normally a bartender serves the patrons at a sit-down style bar, where a mixologist would usually work at a very busy service-style bar.
ref: 1999, Bob Emmons, The Book of Gins and Vodkas: A Complete Guide, page 63:
text: But now we see a split in the mixed-drink community. On one hand, cool bars and star mixologists are lauded and awarded as never before. On the other, booze brands are rushing to develop pre-mixed beverages for a burgeoning Ready to Drink (RTD) market.
ref: 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person who creates cocktails, especially one considered an artist at it; (loosely) any bartender.
glosses: A disc jockey.
Related terms: mixer
mixological
mixology
barista
potionmaker
overbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbets
Etymology: From over- + bet.
Senses: examples: text: Since the pot was only $10, Julie's $100 bet was certainly an overbet.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A bet which is more than standard for a particular situation.
overbet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbets
form: overbetting
form: overbet
form: overbet
form: overbetted
form: overbetted
Etymology: From over- + bet.
Senses: examples: text: Julie overbet by betting $100 into a $10 pot.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To bet an amount which is more than standard for a particular situation.
overbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbet
overbets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbet
overbetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbet
under-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English under-, from Old English under-, from Proto-West Germanic *undar, from Proto-Germanic *under, from Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér (“below”) and *h₁n̥tér (“inside”). For more, see under.
Senses: examples: e.g. underground, underneath, underpass
glosses: Beneath, under
examples: e.g. understand, undergo, underbear, undertake
glosses: To go from one side to the other; to progress along a path
examples: e.g. underadditive, underage, underbound
glosses: Less than, beneath in quantity
examples: e.g. underapply, underbill, underawe
glosses: Deficient, below what is correct, insufficient
examples: e.g. undersecretary, underling, underclass
glosses: Subordinate to
Synonyms: sense: under
word: hypo-
sense: under
word: sub-
sense: under
word: infra-
sense: forming a transitive verb
word: en-
sense: less than
word: hypo-
sense: less than
word: olig-
sense: less than
word: meio-
sense: deficient
word: hypo-
sense: deficient
word: dys-
sense: deficient
word: mal-
sense: subordinate
word: vice-
sense: subordinate
word: sub-
methodologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methodology
shrinkwrap license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrinkwrap licenses
form: shrink-wrap license
Senses: glosses: A license agreement whose contents may only be read and accepted after a product has been purchased and the packaging removed.
Related terms: word: adhesion contract
word: clickwrap license
alt: EULA
word: end user license agreement
unmeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/
Forms: form: more unmeaning
form: most unmeaning
Etymology: From un- + meaning.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis a poor Ideot Boy, / Who sits in the Sun, and twirls a Bough about, / His weak eyes seeth'd in most unmeaning tears.
ref: 1813, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Remorse. A Tragedy, […], 2nd edition, London: […] W. Pople, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 25:
text: The danger is plainly in the other direction,—to regard all truth as scientific, to reverence statistics, to attempt to gauge the soul, to measure the affections, and thus to make all true religion impossible, by limiting our faith by our knowledge, and by dismissing those terrible problems of destiny, with which the select est finds of all generations have wrestled, as unmeaning riddles, because we cannot solve them by the aid of the differential calculus.
ref: 1858, Thomas Henry Burrowes, James Pyle Wickersham, Elnathan Elisha Higbee, The Pennsylvania School Journal, page 281:
synonyms: insignificant
meaningless
glosses: Having no meaning or significance.
Derived terms: unmeaningful
unmeaningfully
unmeaningly
unmeaningness
unmeaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmiːnɪŋ/
Etymology: From un- + meaning.
Senses: glosses: Absence of meaning; meaninglessness.
low-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low-born
form: most low-born
form: lowborn
Senses: examples: text: "The shame of refusing to meet you!—from the shame of meeting an equal I might," said Kingston, tauntingly; "but it is absurd to be challenged by my hired servant—a low-born nobody!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Challenge”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 234:
text: This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
Ran on the green-sward.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: Born in a family of low status.
'cuz
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of 'cause (“because”).
Sissel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A female given name from Norwegian.
lemonary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemonaries
Etymology: From lemon + -ary.
Senses: glosses: A sheltered room in which lemon plants are housed (in pots) during cold weather.
Related terms: orangery
arthropodean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːθɹəpɒˈdiːən/
Senses: examples: text: …the tendency at present is to regard such stages as of hardly any importance at all. Then comparisons have constantly been made between Arthropodean and…
ref: 1904, Royal Irish Academy, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, page 320:
text: Passing from the above vertebrate example to the old arthropodean type Periplaneta we find, as fig. 5 and the table on p. will show, that here the number of the types of gemini is reduced from six to five.
ref: 1906, John Edward Salvin Moore with Charles Edward Walker and the Liverpool Cancer Research Committee, First report on the cytological investigation of cancer, 1906, page 77:
text: Briefly the author endeavours to prove that vertebrates are derived directly from arthropods, that the arthropodean alimentary canal is represented by the ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord, the pituitary body and embryonic pharynx represent the mouth of the arthropod, and the neurenteric canal the primitive anus.
ref: 1909, Walter Edward Collinge et al., The Journal of Economic Biology, page 20:
text: 1955: AUTHOR UNKNOWN, Research films, p429 or 119 (sources contradict) — MENTION ONLY
(888) MANTON, S. M. The Evolution of Arthropodean Locomotory Mechanisms. Part I. The Locomotion of Peripatus. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 1950, 41, 529.
text: …the arthropod inherited: — profuse segmentation and its segmental organs; its nervous system and sense organs, including segmental eyes from the peristome as well as from the succeeding segments; besides two pairs of eyes from the prostomium; a pair of antennae and anal cerci, besides the normal appendages, which in the interval between the polychaet and the pro-arthropod had acquired arthropodean character and were biramous; and pleura, which also are appendages, being derived from foliate lobes of…
ref: 2000, The Paleontological Society, the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Journal of Paleontology, page 84:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, resembling, or relating to the Arthropoda.
leguminose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leguminose
form: most leguminose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leguminous.
Sonja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 'At first I couldn't work out what had killed her,' said Sonja Lundin, frowning again, 'but because her head was shaved, I soon discovered it when I looked a bit closer.'
ref: 2011, Kristina Ohlsson, Unwanted:
glosses: A female given name.
last trump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last trumps
form: last trumpet
Etymology: From the Bible, Paul's first letter to the Corinthians: "We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump" (1 Corinthians 15:52, KJV), referring to the last of seven trumpets to be sounded at the Last Judgement. The term used for the instrument in the original Koine Greek is σάλπιγξ (sálpinx), often translated as “war-trumpet”, but not resembling the modern instrument (see Seven trumpets on Wikipedia).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The moment of God's final judgement on Earth.
examples: text: We could wait until the last trump and no-one will turn up.
glosses: A time that will never come; forever.
Hermann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German borrowed from German Hermann.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gasconade County, Missouri, United States.
Derived terms: Hermann grid
Hermann's tortoise
Related terms: Heerman
Heermann
Herman
Herrman
Herrmann
Hermann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hermanns
Etymology: From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
Senses: glosses: A particular pear cultivar.
Alexandre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Alexandre and Portuguese Alexandre.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French or Portuguese, equivalent to English Alexander.
Bertrand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname from French
Derived terms: Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem
Bertrand-Edgeworth model
Canavan-Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease
Armand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Jemima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James.
Senses: examples: text: He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 42:13-15:
text: -- and at last Jemima was fixed upon, because it would do either for a Scripture name or for a heroine out of a book."
"I did not know Jemima was a Scripture name," said Ruth.
"Oh yes, it is. One of Job's daughters; Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-Happuch. There are a good many Jemimas in the world, and some Kezias, but I never heard of a Keren-Happuch; and yet we know just as much of one as of another. People really like a pretty name, whether Scripture or out of it."
ref: 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter XVII, in Ruth:
text: But then, thought Kiki, they were brought up that way, these white American boys: I'm the Aunt Jemima on the cookie boxes of their childhoods, the pair of thick ankles Tom and Jerry played around. Of course they find me funny.
ref: 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Fancy southern names which she couldn't remember five minutes after they'd told her. Camilla? Amelia? Jemima? It didn't matter. Ashworth would have made a note of them.
ref: 2011, Ann Cleeves, Hidden Depths, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 165:a:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Jemima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jemimas
Etymology: From the name of a minor biblical character, from Hebrew יְמִימָה (“dove”). By folk etymology also used as a feminine form of James.
Senses: glosses: An elastic-sided boot.
like it or lump it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: likes it or lumps it
form: liking it or lumping it
form: liked it or lumped it
form: liked it or lumped it
Senses: examples: text: We’re going to stay home this year. No holidays. You can like it or lump it.
text: I see you dont like that, any of you; but its true, for all that; so if you dont like it you can lump it.
ref: [1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act III, page 118:
text: I’m pussyfooting around you no more – like it or lump it, my father is part of my life, I’m part of him, and I won’t let you pull me in two over this any more.
ref: 2004, Jean Chapman, chapter 15, in Danced Over the Sea (Philipps-Sinclair; 2), Sutton, London: Severn House Large Print, →ISBN, pages 237–238:
synonyms: like it or leave it
love it or lump it
glosses: To accept a situation whether one agrees with it or not.
Related terms: lump it
lump it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lumps it
form: lumping it
form: lumped it
form: lumped it
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, but you'll just have to lump it.
glosses: To endure, accept, put up with a situation one does not like.
Related terms: like it or lump it
Bradshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brayshaw
Etymology: From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent to broad + shaw.
Senses: glosses: The name of some places in Northern England.
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7312).
glosses: The name of some places in Northern England.
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0830).
glosses: The name of some places in Northern England.
A hamlet in Longsdon parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9455).
glosses: The name of some places in Northern England.
A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0514)
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English derived from these places.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in York County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County and Roanoke County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in McDowell County, West Virginia.
Bradshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bradshaws
form: Brayshaw
Etymology: From Old English brād + sceaga (“thicket”), equivalent to broad + shaw.
Senses: examples: text: He was at breakfast at nine, and for the twentieth time consulted his Bradshaw to see at what earliest hour Dr Grantly could arrive from Barchester.
ref: 1855, Anthony Trollope, The Warden:
text: The "5th Mo. (May) 1939" issue of Bradshaw's Railway Shipping, and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland appears in a cream cover printed in blue and gold, and a prefatory note explains that, as 1939 is being celebrated as the centenary year of Bradshaw, it is intended to adopt this livery from now until the September issue inclusive. For October, the centenary month, Bradshaw will be published in a gold cover printed in red and blue.
ref: 1939 June, “Railway Literature: Bradshaw's Guide”, in Railway Magazine, page 465:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A former railway guide and timetable published by George Bradshaw. Publication ceased in May 1961.
specchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specchie
Etymology: From Italian specchia.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A megalithic pile of stones found in the Salento region of Italy.
lump in one's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lump to one's throat
Senses: examples: text: After hearing his story I could hardly speak for the lump in my throat.
text: There was a lump in Katie Hayward’s throat as she spoke about the emotional impact of the thefts that have cast a shadow over Britain’s beekeepers. “The heartbreaking thing is that it’s a very close community. The fact that one beekeeper does this to another is the hardest thing of all,” she says.
ref: 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:
glosses: Strong emotion, either happy or sad, causing someone to be on the verge of crying; a sensation of tightness in the throat associated with this.
lump to one's throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lump in one's throat
Senses: examples: text: The final scene of Romeo and Juliet always brings a lump to my throat.
glosses: On the point of crying due to strong emotion, either happy or sad.
tempietto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tempiettos
Etymology: From Italian tempietto.
Senses: examples: text: Trowbridge & Livingston designed a chubby granite tower in the neo-Classical style topped not by a tempietto, a cupola or a spire — all used in previous high buildings — but a steep, massive pyramid of 24 steps.
ref: 2007 January 21, Christopher Gray, “Bankers Trust: The Building Known for Its Ziggurat Top”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: A small, temple-like building
Petri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Derived terms: Petri dish
Petri net
child of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: children of the manse
Etymology: A figurative use of the literal sense of “one born in a manse (a dwelling for a minister of certain Christian churches)”, attributed to be hard-working and disciplined due to life-long indoctrination with the Protestant work ethic.
Senses: glosses: A diligent and industrious person.
Related terms: daughter of the manse
son of the manse
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children of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of child of the manse
daughter of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughters of the manse
Senses: glosses: A female child of the manse.
Related terms: son of the manse
daughters of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daughter of the manse
son of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sons of the manse
Senses: examples: text: Dr McIntyre . . . is a son of the manse, always a good step on the high road to fortune in Scotland.
ref: 1962 October 8, The Glasgow Herald:
text: The next prime minister is always referred to as a son of the manse, but what was his Scottish upbringing really like?
ref: 2007 June 9, “The making of Gordon Brown”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: A male child of the manse, the son of a Christian minister or a diligent male person. Most often used in Scotland of the sons of Presbyterian clergy.
Related terms: daughter of the manse
sons of the manse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son of the manse
standardisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standardisations
Etymology: From standardise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The final remnants of the competitive spirit between companies will be eliminated, and there is no reasonable prospect that the dull uniformity of standardisation will be offset by greater efficiency in operation.
ref: 1947 January and February, “The Transport Nationalisation Bill”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:
text: Standardisation of locomotive design is an essential feature of an efficiently run modern railway.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of standardization.
underemployed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + employed.
Senses: examples: text: I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.
glosses: Employed in a job that offers fewer work hours than desired.
Related terms: unemployed
malemployed
raggedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡɪdi/
Forms: form: raggedier
form: raggediest
Etymology: From ragged + -y. By surface analysis, rag + -ety.
Senses: glosses: Torn, ragged or tattered.
raw_tags: of clothing
glosses: Wearing torn or tattered clothes.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: raggedy-ass
railroader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroaders
Etymology: From railroad + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who works for a railroad company.
glosses: One who railroads people.
rainmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rain + making.
Senses: examples: text: There are endless varieties of rain-making practised by witch-doctors[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 171:
glosses: The attempted artificial production of rain, either by use of magic or by seeding clouds.
examples: text: His firm's goal was to fill their gender quota—and simultaneously do some rainmaking by hiring the daughters of CEOs.
ref: 2005, Steve Sailer, Why (Some) Men Don’t Support Summers:
glosses: Hiring someone who creates business opportunities or revenue.
Related terms: make it rain
rainmaker
rake-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rake-offs
Senses: examples: text: The local party machines took control of the cajas, the local savings banks. They encouraged them to lend to developers, in many cases taking a rake-off for party coffers.
ref: 2012 November 24, “Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together”, in The Economist:
glosses: A percentage of an amount of money taken by a third-party as a bribe, as part of an unlawful enterprise, or as a commission from the pot of a casino game.
rampancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rampancies
Senses: glosses: The state of being rampant.
rancidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rancidities
Etymology: From rancid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being rancid.
ranginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rangy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being rangy.
rapid-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rapid-fire
form: most rapid-fire
Senses: glosses: Able to fire bullets in quick succession.
raw_tags: of a gun
glosses: Delivered in a rapid continuous stream.
raw_tags: of a series of questions
rathskeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rathskellers
Etymology: From German Rathskeller, obsolete spelling of Ratskeller. In English the obsolete spelling has often been retained to avoid the association with rodents.
Senses: glosses: A bar or restaurant in a basement, especially one that serves beer.
Related terms: bierkeller
rationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rationalistic
form: most rationalistic
Etymology: From rationalist + -ic or rational + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to rationalism.
rattlebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattlebrains
Etymology: From rattle + brain.
Senses: examples: text: a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right.
ref: 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Isaac Bachevis Singer and Cecil Hemley, The Slave, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1985, Part III, p. 297:
glosses: A rattlebrained person.
rattlebrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rattlebrained
form: most rattlebrained
Etymology: From rattle + brained.
Senses: glosses: Foolish
rattly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rattlier
form: rattliest
Etymology: From rattle + -y. Compare rattling.
Senses: examples: a rattly air conditioner
glosses: That rattles.
glosses: Resembling the sound of a rattle.
glosses: Of a vehicle, that shakes when being driven.
glosses: Of the lungs, chest, etc., producing raspy or gurgling sound due to excess mucus.
national holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national holidays
Senses: glosses: A statutory holiday enacted by a country to commemorate the country itself.
glosses: A public holiday.
Synonyms: sense: holiday to commemorate the country itself
word: National Day
Related terms: sense: public holiday
word: bank holiday
rattrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rattraps
form: rat trap
form: rat-trap
Etymology: From Middle English rat trappe; equivalent to rat + trap.
Senses: examples: text: ... the whole world with its lands and seas, its cities and villages - was nothing but a big rattrap. It had never existed for any other purpose than to set baits for people. It offered riches and joys, shelter and food, heat and clothing, exactly as the rattrap offered cheese and pork, and as soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, it closed in on him, and then everything came to an end.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Selma Lagerlöf, The Rattrap:
hypernyms: trap#Noun
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device#Noun
coordinate_terms: mousetrap#Noun
mouse trap#Noun
glosses: A device (trap) used to catch rats.
glosses: A dilapidated building, a place that is run down and unsanitary.
glosses: A difficult, entangling situation.
glosses: A type of bicycle pedal made of metal with no rubber.
Related terms: rat poison
rat terrier
ratting
rat-trap cheese
magnetic North Pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The point on the Earth where compasses point to. It is constantly drifting and is currently located on Ellesmere Island some 1,000 km from the geographic North Pole.
modus tollens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MT
Etymology: From Latin modus tollendō tollēns (“the mode where the denying denies”), from modus (“mode”) and forms of tollō (“I take away”).
Senses: examples: 1. If P, then Q.
2. Not Q.
3. Therefore, not P.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A valid form of argument in which the consequent of a conditional proposition is denied, thus implying the denial of the antecedent. Modus tollens has this form
Hypernyms: inference rule
Related terms: modus ponens
siking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sike
siked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sike
McFarlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFarlans
Etymology: Variant of McFarlane.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McFarlane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFarlanes
form: MacFarlane
form: McFarlain
form: McFarlan
form: McFarland
form: McFarlen
form: McFarlin
form: McFarling
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Pharthaláin (“son of Parthalán”), probably a Gaelicized form of the personal name Bartholomew.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: Oliver-McFarlane syndrome
mental gymnastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To cope with these mental gymnastics we apply various ways of simplifying and reducing the information.
glosses: Difficult and complex logical thought processes, especially when performed effortlessly.
examples: text: People often perform mental gymnastics in order to blame anyone but themselves.
text: But the end of science is to know reality. It is not mental gymnastics or a logical pastime.
ref: 1949, Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, Mises Institute, page 65:
glosses: Inventive, complex arguments used to justify what is otherwise unjustifiable.
Derived terms: mental gymnast
Related terms: mentastics
Suzuki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [syˈzyː.ki]
Forms: form: Suzukis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese Suzuki (Suzuki), from Japanese すずき (Suzuki, “surname”) or Japanese スズキ (Suzuki, “automaker”); from Japanese 鈴木 (Suzuki) (automaker from the surname).
Senses: examples: text: For the past four years, Naoko Suzuki and her husband Koiji have been trying various ways to coax their 26-year-old son to leave the tight cocoon of his room and join a training programme that may help him get a job and enter mainstream society. […] The Suzukis belong to a growing pool of anxious parents in Japan who are trying to nudge their adult children to becoming socially responsible by seeking employment, studying at colleges, or simply finding a spouse or even friends.
ref: 2006 October 31, Suvendrini Kakuchi, “Turning to 'NEETS' to Cover Labour Shortages”, in Inter Press Service, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2006:
glosses: The second most common Japanese surname from Japanese.
glosses: A Japanese automotive and motorcycle manufacturer.
Derived terms: Suzuki coupling
Suzuki group
suzukiite
Suzuki reaction
Suzuki reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suzuki reactions
Etymology: Named for the discoverer, Akira Suzuki.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide or pseudohalide, such as triflates, catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, widely used to synthesize polyolefins, styrenes, and substituted biphenyls.
Synonyms: Miyaura-Suzuki reaction
Suzuki coupling
Suzuki-Miyaura reaction
Suzuki reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suzuki reaction
pseudohalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohalides
Etymology: From pseudo- + halide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound that is not a halide, but which resembles a halide in its charge and reactivity.
Related terms: pseudohalogen
pseudohalides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohalide
barocco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of baroque.
synonyms: word: baroque
Rightpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rightpondian
form: most Rightpondian
Etymology: Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: ref: 2000 May 5, Andy Minter , “Rightpondian query”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
ref: 2002 November 8, Mike Harrison , “Rightpondian Shopping Tip”, in alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea.cheerslove (Usenet):
text: On the BBC news today, a Rightpondian used the term "transportation services".
ref: 2007 September 5, Dr Peter Young , “Creeping Rightpondian usage.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
glosses: From or of Rightpondia.
glosses: Like a Rightpondian person.
Rightpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rightpondians
Etymology: Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: text: Gobbledegook to this Rightpondian.
ref: 2003 February 5, Graybags , “Re: preference preference”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
text: On the BBC news today, a Rightpondian used the term "transportation services".
ref: 2007 September 5, Dr Peter Young , “Creeping Rightpondian usage.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
glosses: A Rightpondian person.
Leftpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leftpondian
form: most Leftpondian
Etymology: Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: text: 1999 December 29, Garry J. Vass , "London Boink -> update (Leftpondian)", alt.usage.english, uk.culture.language.english, Usenet.
text: As has been pointed out here before, Leftpondian check forms typically have a blank for the amount in words followed by "/100 dollars", to be filled in in the style "Forty-five and 37/100 dollars".
ref: 2001 January 4, Mark Brader , “Re: Twenty-six-hundred”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
text: Or is there perhaps some Leftpondian region where "rather" is used as an intensifier?
ref: 2003 February 5, Harvey V , “Re: preference preference”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
ref: 2006 August 10, Dr Peter Young , “Leftpondian circumlocution.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
glosses: From or of Leftpondia.
examples: text: I may be *so* Leftpondian, but you love me anyway!
ref: 2000 March 12, Polgara The Sorceress , “Re: Nouns as Verbs”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
text: How very Leftpondian of you to refer to them thus...
ref: 2000 August 3, John Ward , “Re: Point this friday ( 28th July)”, in uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social (Usenet):
glosses: Like a Leftpondian person.
Leftpondian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leftpondians
Etymology: Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: text: No, not particularly. That's why I offered it as an example of a large place well known to Brits but not to Leftpondians. It is very close to Manchester.
ref: 2003 June 20, Jacqui , “Nu Salford displaces Real Manc [was Re: Between X to Y]”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
text: Leftpondians are at least 24,000 years older than previously thought, according to an article in today's Independent.
ref: 2005 July 5, Peter Boulding , “Attention Leftpondians: you're older than you think”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
text: Just heard a Leftpondian, on the radio news and in relevance to airport security, refer to "specially trained canine units".
ref: 2006 August 10, Dr Peter Young , “Leftpondian circumlocution.”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
glosses: A Leftpondian person.
can't help
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: can't help
form: couldn't help
form: cannot help
Senses: examples: text: I can't help crying whenever I see Romeo and Juliet.
glosses: Be unable to avoid a situation, or stop something from happening.
mutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutant
highfalooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of highfalutin.
Rightpondia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From right (“east”) + pond (“Atlantic Ocean”) + -ia. Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: ref: 2001 November 24, Ray Heindl , “Monetary trouble in Rightpondia?”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
text: One difference between Rightpondia and Leftpondia is that Arpudlians go 'to hospital' and Elpudlians go 'to the hospital'.
ref: 2003 October 30, tomcatpolka@yaNOSPAMhoo.com, “to Rightpondia”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
text: I wonder how I would go about getting something similar over here in Rightpondia.
ref: 2003 December 14, Maggie Davey , “Re: Glucose Tolerance Test”, in alt.support.diabetes.uk (Usenet):
glosses: The British Isles.
Derived terms: Rightpondian
Related terms: Leftpondia
fowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fower
Leftpondia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From left (“west”) + pond (“Atlantic Ocean”) + -ia. Apparently from the Usenet newsgroup alt.usage.english circa 1997. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_frm/thread/f0a61071e7d33b56
Senses: examples: ref: 2002 June 17, Graybags , “Some Thoughts On Leftpondia”, in alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe (Usenet):
text: One difference between Rightpondia and Leftpondia is that Arpudlians go 'to hospital' and Elpudlians go 'to the hospital'.
ref: 2003 October 30, tomcatpolka@yaNOSPAMhoo.com, “to Rightpondia”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
ref: 2007 August 16, K_S_ONeill@yahoo.com, “Regarding Leftpondia”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
glosses: English-speaking parts of The Americas.
Derived terms: Leftpondian
Related terms: Rightpondia
ick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: Probably imitative. First use appears c. 1942.
Senses: examples: text: Lizzie grabbed a frog out of the lake and put it in her hair! Ick!
text: An aside for those who think “ick” about goat milk: If there are no billy goats around to arouse those sex hormones, goat milk does not taste “goat-y.
ref: 2014, Vicki Robin, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet:
glosses: An exclamation of disgust.
Synonyms: ew
ugh
yuck
Derived terms: icktastic
Related terms: icky
ick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: icks
Etymology: Back-formation from icky.
Senses: examples: text: Like it wasn't bad enough that I was soaked to the bone, now I had to lug an ick covered designer original across a puddle filled runway.
ref: 2011, J. Morgan, Southern Werewolf Chronicles Book Two: Were the Moon Don't Shine:
text: The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.
ref: 2013 August 6, John Michael McGrath, “The Frankenmeat of the Future”, in Hazlitt:
text: Did you get ick all over my things? Should I walk myself through a car wash on the way home?
ref: 2015, Chris Lynch, Killing Time in Crystal City, page 182:
glosses: Something distasteful or physically unpleasant to touch.
examples: text: to have the ick
text: And I was nodding, "Uh-huh," trying not to have an ick attack, worrying, Is my face giving something away?
ref: 1999 March 30, judy wieder, “Steve Kmetko's true hollywood story”, in The Advocate, page 36:
text: I wish none of this bothered me, but I feel this ick about Burnham and it isn't going away.
ref: 2017, Caragh M. O'Brien, The Keep of Ages, page 36:
text: She'd woken up today with a general ick about doing this job, but every time she considered canceling and giving Hailey her money back, she couldn't do it.
ref: 2018, NJ Damschroder, Manifest Destiny:
text: And as sad as that can be, we can't fake our feelings – if you've got the ick, you've got the ick.
ref: 2022, Anna Williamson, Where is the Love?: The Honest Guide to Dating and Relationships:
text: “People use dating apps, but I don’t know anyone who pays for it,” Ms. Wang said. In fact, she said that she would consider it an “ick” if she learned somebody was paying for a subscription.
ref: 2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A feeling of revulsion.
examples: text: How can you stand such an ick ?
ref: 1963, Thomas A. Erhard, The Electronovac Gasser: A Farce in Three Acts, page 45:
text: Of course, the idea of drinking blood is a total ick right now, but I suppose once you—
ref: 2009, Mary-Janice Davidson, Nina Bangs, Janelle Denison, Surf's Up:
text: For the umpteenth time that day one of my fellow men regarded me with scorn. “You're so icky. Such an ick.”
ref: 2012, Doris Piserchia, The Dimensioneers:
text: I keep thinking back to last Valentine's Day—I was such an ick—and you sent me that card.
ref: 2013, Tara Taylor Quinn, It Happened on Maple Street:
text: The thought of him and his obsessive begging for sex gave me a predatory vibe and was a total ick.
ref: 2022, Jamila Coleman, Surviving Seventeen… And The Years Leading Up To It, page 159:
glosses: Anything moaned about; a gripe.
ick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: Back-formation from icky.
Senses: examples: text: 'It's a bit ick, to be honest, but Rochelle thought it would be funny. Last year we did dragon's diarrhoea, with Tia Maria and chocolate Angel Delight, but nobody would touch it.'
ref: 2012, Sue Moorcroft, Dream a Little Dream:
text: He thought she would be an embarrassment. That kind of made me feel a bit ick.
ref: 2015, Candy J Starr, Bad Boy Rock Star: The Complete Story:
text: There's nothing “ick” about him, but I'm not sure how to say that without sounding like I'm reciting lines from that terrible bodice ripper I took on Theo's practice date.
ref: 2021, Jacqueline Firkins, How Not to Fall in Love, page 201:
glosses: Icky; distasteful or unpleasant.
Derived terms: ick factor
ick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: Probably a pronunciation spelling, but no doubt influenced by the other etymologies and distaste for the disease.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ich (“fish disease”).
suq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of souq.
vug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: vugs
form: vugh
form: vogle
Etymology: From Cornish vooga (“cave”); compare fogou.
Senses: examples: 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
The Bureau explored on both the Crystal Spar and Calcium groups. An adit was driven 128 feet on the Crystal Spar group to intersect vug 1, which showed in the outcrop of the vein. The adit penetrated the vug 57 feet below the outcrop and at this level found that it was filled with material that had rolled in from the surface and sloughed off the walls. Only a few small crystals were found in the mud above the adit level. A winze 20 feet deep was then sunk in this vug to explore it below the adit level to make sure no valuable crystals were overlooked, but only small noncommercial crystals were found. A station was cut 28 feet from the face of the adit and a crosscut was driven 39 feet northerly to intersect the vein west of the vug 1, but only small pockets of bony calcite were found. A 40-foot crosscut was then driven easterly to intersect the vein on the east side of the vug 1. After hitting the vein, this working was continued 74 feet in bony calcite to intersect vug 2 below Burch's and Cartwright's old workings. Upon encountering the vug, the drift was continued another 76 feet. It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.
glosses: A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
Derived terms: vugginess
vuggy
vughy
kex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Forms: form: kexes
form: kix
Etymology: From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same source as Latin cicūta (“hemlock”).
Senses: examples: text: "I suppose you'll want a dish o' tay, or victuals of some sort, hey? […] I should be as dry as kex wi' travelling so far."
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
glosses: The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
examples: text: On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 100–101:
glosses: A dry husk or covering.
khi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khis
Senses: examples: text: It is known, from the existence in his time¹ of the Delphic tripod, that all these letters existed in 480 B.C. ; but on that monument the Khi and Psi differ from the forms used later.
ref: 1898, Claude Reignier Conder, The Hittites and Their Language, W. Blackwood and Sons, page 249:
text: The letters upsilon, phi, khi, psi, δ were Greek additions
ref: 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics, Mouton, page 404:
text: Greek scripts display notable local characteristics — principally with regard to the shape of letters but also in the matter of the phonetic values attributed to signs such as san, sigma, khi, and psi.
ref: 2006, Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, Blackwell Publishing, page 57:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
ods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of od
ods
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: Ods bodikin.
Ods pity.
glosses: God's
raw_tags: used in oaths etc.
insobriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insobrieties
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + sobriety, possibly influenced by and punning on inebriation, intoxication, where in- has the sense “in, into”.
Senses: glosses: The state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety.
incumbency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkʌmbənsi/
Forms: form: incumbencies
Etymology: From incumbent + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The state of being incumbent.
glosses: An obligation or duty.
glosses: A tenure.
examples: text: The early antitrust reformers warned that even beyond its effect on prices, economic power could buy influence in Congress. Monopolies don’t just dominate their own industries, Justice Louis Brandeis said in 1933; they monopolize political power as well, which allows them to protect their incumbency and stifle competition in myriad ways.
ref: 2016 October, Derek Thompson, “America’s Monopoly Problem”, in The Atlantic:
text: ORR believes the two companies have incumbency advantages dating back to privatisation.
ref: 2021 May 19, “Network News: ORR: signalling market lacks sufficient competition”, in RAIL, number 931, page 23:
text: They do so on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, animal farming, finance, construction firms, car manufacturers and airline companies, but also on behalf of something bigger than any of those interests: the power of incumbency.
ref: 2022 July 18, George Monbiot, “This heatwave has eviscerated the idea that small changes can tackle extreme weather”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Benefice, lucrative position or possession.
Derived terms: superincumbency
zoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈzoʊ.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of zoon
glosses: plural of zoön