cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Nanping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: nänʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: Nan-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 南平 (Nánpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Work centers in Nanping (formerly called Yenping) where are located the Nanping General Hospital and a high school for boys and girls. The conference has about 50 churches and 3,000 members. This conference is in Free China. Refugee institutions from Foochow have been temporarily located within the Yenping Conference—the Hwa Nan College and Hwa Nan High School at Nanping, and the Anglo-Chinese College and Union Kindergarten Training School at Yankow.
ref: 1944, Arthur J. Moore, Christ After Chaos, New York: Board of Missions and Church Extension The Methodist Church, →OCLC, page 32:
text: We traveled down the Min River from Nanping in a small sampan, flying the American flag for protection against bandits and soldiers. Those were the days when the Stars and Stripes still afforded some protection.
ref: 1953, John C. Caldwell, China Coast Family, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
text: Parents burn paper money to mourn for school students who were stabbed to death by a man at a primary school in Nanping, Fujian province March 24, 2010.
ref: 2010 April 12, “China stabbings spur public call for school security”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 07 May 2022, World News:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Fujian, China.
Derived terms: nanpingite
water adder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water adders
form: water-adder
form: wateradder
Etymology: From Middle English water addre, watyradyr, watir edyr, alteration (see adder) of water neddyr, watyrnedyre, from Old English wæternædre, wæternǣdre, equivalent to water + adder. Cognate with Dutch wateradder (“wateradder”), German Wassernatter (“watersnake”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:
A non-venomous European ringed snake or water snake (Natrix natrix).
glosses: Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:
A venomous American cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus).
glosses: Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:
A non-venomous American northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)
glosses: Any of several aquatic snakes (none of which are true adders) including, among others:
A venomous South Asian crab-eating water snake (Fordonia leucobalia)
Hypernyms: watersnake
overinterest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + interest.
Senses: glosses: too much or excessive interest
water sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English watersiknesse, wæterseocnesse, from Old English wætersēocnes (“dropsy”), equivalent to water + sickness.
Senses: examples: text: Water sickness, or general dropsy, also frequently takes place among sheep.
ref: 1809, Arthur Edmondston, A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands:
text: For water sickness (dropsy), or stones in the bladder, the cure was elder (sambucus, B.P.), for which also it is claimed “all things which are generated on a man's body to loathe, it thoroughly will heal.”
ref: 1908, British Medical Journal, page 999:
glosses: Dropsy.
hotter than a pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "Warm day out there on the highway. . . . It's only June. By the Fourth it'll be hotter than a pistol around here."
ref: 2008, Dorothy Garlock, A Place Called Rainwater, →ISBN:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Very hot.
examples: text: "Carl Perkins and I were in Amory, Mississippi, with Elvis. Now Elvis, of course, was hotter than a pistol. He had his second record out."
ref: 1988, Steve Turner, “Interview with Johnny Cash”, in The Man Called CASH, published 2005, →ISBN:
text: Leasing activity is frenzied throughout Manhattan. . . . "Broadway is hotter than a pistol and you have to shoehorn your way into SoHo," reports Faith H. Consolo.
ref: 1993 September 12, Claudia H. Deutsch, “Commercial Property/Analyzing Trends”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jan 2018:
text: Joey Logano, who's hotter than a pistol, won the NASCAR Chase race at Kansas Sunday.
ref: 2015 October 20, Norris McDonald, “Autos: Racing Roundup”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 10 Jan 2018:
synonyms: hotter than a two dollar pistol
glosses: Exceptionally popular, productive, or marketable.
hotter than a two-dollar pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: THE RESULT? Your cash register will be hotter than a two-dollar pistol! You’ll have toy sales profits in addition to profits on vacation items!
ref: 1949, Chas. Wm. Doepke Mfg. Co., Inc., “Model Toys”, in Life, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Five games remain for each team, including two more with each other over the week-end. But time is running short and the Fenway Millionaires are hotter than a two-dollar pistol. The breaks are now beginning to fall in the direction of the better club.
ref: 1949 September 27, Arthur Daley, “Sports of the Times”, in The New York Times, volume XCIX, number 33,484, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, column 3:
text: Once before I had started after him with no girl involved and had quit the trail cold at the first cross-track. Now I was hotter than a two-dollar pistol. Star was the answer.
ref: 1950, Will Henry [pseudonym; Henry Wilson Allen], chapter 13, in No Survivors: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, part 1, page 120:
glosses: Alternative form of hotter than a two dollar pistol.
Mountbatten pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mountbatten pinks
Etymology: Named after the British naval officer Lord Mountbatten.
Senses: examples: text: Before long all the destroyers in his flotilla were painted medium grey with a dash of Venetian red, a tone that quickly became known as Mountbatten pink.
ref: 2016, Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour:
glosses: A pinkish-grey camouflage colour, used to paint several ships of the British Royal Navy during World War II.
Mountbatten pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named after the British naval officer Lord Mountbatten.
Senses: glosses: Of a pinkish-grey colour.
Mountbatten pinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mountbatten pink
Bebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bébé
Etymology: In most cases, the name is a diminutive of Beatrice.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Bébé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bebe.
archeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archeo- + -graphic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archaeographic.
archaeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From archaeo- + -graphic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaeography
Greensville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Greensville County.
Related terms: Grenville
Greenville
Janea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
McKinnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkɪnən/
rhymes: -ɪnən
Forms: form: Mckinnon
form: Mc Kinnon
form: M'kinnon
form: M'Kinnon
form: Mkinnon
form: MKinnon
form: Makinnon
form: MacKinnon
form: Mackinnon
form: Mac Kinnon
form: Kinion
form: Kinnon
form: Fingon
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MhicFhionghain, from Fhionghain (“Fingon”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of the city centre.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Foster County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Houston County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
MacKinnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mackinnon
form: Mac Kinnon
form: M'kinnon
form: M'Kinnon
form: Mkinnon
form: MKinnon
form: Makinnon
form: McKinnon
form: Mckinnon
form: Mc Kinnon
form: Kinnon
form: Fingon
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic MhicFhionghain, from Fhionghain (“Fingon”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Derived terms: english: Clan Fingon
translation: Clan Fingon
word: Clan Mackinnon
Kinnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪnən/
rhymes: -ɪnən
Forms: form: McKinnon
form: Mckinnon
form: Mc Kinnon
form: M'kinnon
form: M'Kinnon
form: Mkinnon
form: MKinnon
form: Makinnon
form: MacKinnon
form: Mackinnon
form: Mac Kinnon
form: Fingon
Etymology: Anglicization of MacKinnon (“McKinnon”).
From Scottish Gaelic MhicFhionghain, from Fhionghain (“Fingon”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Brezmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pawsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
orchestra pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestra pits
form: orchestra-pit
Senses: examples: text: On the stage of the Gotham gloom reigned. . . . Johnson Miller was pacing the gangway between the orchestra pit and the first row of the orchestra chairs.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 14, in Jill the Reckless:
text: Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre.
ref: 1939 December 18, “Music: Rachmaninoff”, in Time, retrieved 11 Jan 2018:
text: An audience member at the Metropolitan Opera sprinkled a powdery substance — what the police said may have been the ashes of his mentor — into the orchestra pit during an intermission of a performance on Saturday, setting off a police investigation and the cancellation of the rest of that opera.
ref: 2016 October 29, Michael Cooper, Christopher Mele, “Powder Tossed at Metropolitan Opera May Have Been Human Ashes, Police Say”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jan 2018:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: A sunken area in front of a stage in which musicians, largely hidden from view, play music to accompany stage performances.
Synonyms: orchestra stalls
orchestra-pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orchestra-pits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orchestra pit.
Camotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camotint
Etymology: Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.
Senses: examples: text: Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'
ref: 1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:
text: But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:
text: Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.
ref: 2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:
glosses: Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.
Derived terms: Camotint green
Camotint pink
camotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Camotint.
HHVM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of HipHop Virtual Machine.
hair salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair salt
archicontinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archicontinents
Etymology: From archi- + continent.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, corresponding to the "Antarctic Archicontinent" that was postulated by von IHERING (1890) and by AMEGHINO (1891) on the basis of palaeontological evidence, RAMOS (1984) has recently presented a reactivated hypothesis.
ref: 1988, Miguel A. Gonzalez, “Late Pleistocene and Holocene Coastal Behaviour front 33° to 40° South, Argentine Republic”, in Journal of Coastal Research, page 59:
text: The archicontinent marginal sedimentary transits to carbonate platform sedimentary from south to north, and the restricted platform and supratidal dolomitic flat develop.
ref: 2015, Lin Yu-xiang, “Lithofacies Paleogeography Characteristics of Early Ordovician in the Eastern Part of North China Platform”, in Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A continental land mass that was present in geologic time
Derived terms: archicontinental
chroma dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chroma dots
Senses: glosses: A type of visual artifact that appears when colour analogue video signals are displayed on black-and-white screens.
chroma dots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chroma dot
Arcturian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arcturus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or from Arcturus
Arcturian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arcturians
Etymology: From Arcturus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of (an exoplanet orbiting) Arcturus.
areniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin arēna f (“sand”) + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: Sandy.
arenophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arenophile + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows in sand (or very sandy soil).
arbitrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to arbitration.
Derived terms: arbitratively
bur-reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bur-reeds
Etymology: From bur (“prickly husk of a small seed”) + reed (“type of tall, thin grass”).
Senses: glosses: A group (genus Sparganium) of widespread flowering perennial marsh plants widespread in wet areas in temperate regions.
spray bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spray bows
form: spraybow
Etymology: From spray + bow, by analogy with rainbow.
Senses: examples: text: M. Kohl gives us some graphic descriptions, especially of the scene behind the Horse-shoe Fall, and of a lunar spray-bow on the American, for which we must refer to his book.
ref: 1861 January, anonymous author, The Westminster Review, Canada, page 34:
text: Now that level place, or bench-table went up to the very gushing and green bow of the water, so Ralph took Ursula's hand and led her along, she going a little after him, till he was close to the Well, and stood amidst the spray-bow thereof, so that he looked verily like one of the painted angels on the choir wall of St. Laurence of Upmeads.
ref: 1896, William Morris, The Well at the World's End: A Tale, Volume 2, page 94:
text: It would need a long essay in optics, I imagine, to explain why the spray-bow was very blue and the cloud-bow quite without this colour ; for rainbows differ more in their attributes than most observers recognise.
ref: 1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 95:
text: I sometimes amuse myself by making spray bows with a plant spray.
ref: 2002, John Naylor, Out of the Blue: A 24-Hour Skywatcher's Guide, page 106:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rainbow formed from water spray, especially that which emanates from a waterfall.
spray bows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spray bow
spraybow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spraybows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spray bow.
spraybows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spraybow
blueprintable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blueprint + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be copied and reused.
Victwardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * Blend of Victorian + Edwardian. Compare Jacobethan.
Senses: examples: text: an amateur method of do-it-yourself exterior house-painting, developed out of military camouflage, whose purpose is, precisely, camouflage: to disguise the silhouettes of Victwardian buildings, to break up the outlines of their structure or pseudo-structure
ref: David Vichnar (2013), The Avant-Postman: James Joyce, the Avant-Garde & Postmodernism, Prague: Charles University, page 42
text: The present inflation of Catullus into a sort of major poet is no doubt in great part due to Victwardian scholars and their naïve biographical impromptus on the juvenile infatuation the poems record for “Lesbia,” whose real name (a writer 200 years after the event assures us) was Clodia.
ref: Steven Moore, editor (2017), “Quis Haec Potest Perferre? Qui Possit Pati”, in On the Decay of Criticism: The Complete Essays of W. M. Spackman, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 197
text: Elsewhere there are Victwardian street lamps, cute signs shaped like miniature Belvedere towers, and fanciful strings of lights.
ref: 1993, Catherine Ormell, “Perspective: Sculpture at Chelsea Harbour”, in World Architecture, number 24, →ISSN, page 91:
text: They also enjoyed that quintessential Victwardian (to coin a phrase) holiday treat: riding donkeys over the sands of Tynemouth.
ref: 2014 June, William Gaul, “The Atkinsons At Home”, in Joburg Heritage Journal, volume 1, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2013:
glosses: Pertaining to, or characteristic or reminiscent of, the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1837–1910)
Synonyms: Belle Époque
Baul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baul
form: Bauls
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali বাউল (baul).
Senses: examples: text: Baul songs
glosses: One of a class of a syncretic religious sect of hardy, mystic minstrels from rural Bengal.
wikipedia: Baul
aristodemocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aristo- + democracy.
Senses: examples: text: Ordained as a priest in 1931, then as a bishop in 1940, this long-time supporter of an 'aristodemocracy' limited to Java also ended up embracing the idea of a parliamentary Republic encompassing the entire Dutch East Indies.
ref: 2011, Michel Picard, The Politics of Religion in Indonesia: Syncretism, Orthodoxy, and Religious Contention in Java and Bali:
glosses: A form of government in which power is shared between the people and the aristocracy.
Derived terms: aristodemocratic
aristodemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aristo- + democratic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to aristodemocracy
arithmographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In which words are encoded as numbers
Related terms: arithmography
Wasembo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Gvl.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Greenville.
BIMARU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Word-play on Hindi बीमार (bīmār, “sick, ill”), coined by Indian demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, the poorest and least developed regions in India.
BIMARU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIMARUs
Etymology: Word-play on Hindi बीमार (bīmār, “sick, ill”), coined by Indian demographer Ashish Bose in the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: a person from said states.
state church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state churches
Senses: glosses: a church established by or controlled by the government of a country.
Synonyms: established church
Related terms: state religion
caesaropapism
theocracy
state churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state church
merry as a cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very merry or cheerful.
Related terms: happy as a lark
merry as a grig
thin as a rail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very thin, unhealthily thin.
Synonyms: skinny as a rail
thin as a rake
thin as a wafer
warm as toast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very pleasantly warm.
Related terms: warm as life
timid as a rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: rabbit-hearted
timid as a mouse
antonyms: brave as a lion
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very timid.
Joehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joeheads
Etymology: From G.I. Joe + -head.
Senses: examples: text: Midnight Angel used a similar metaphor, “a place Joeheads could gather and talk about anything, even beyond collecting, including politics.”
ref: 2014, Dona J. Hickey, Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the G.I. Joe franchise.
wikipedia: G.I. Joe
Joeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Joehead
while one is at it
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: See at it.
Senses: examples: text: If you're going downtown anyway, could you return these books to the library while you're at it?
glosses: While one is doing that; while one is carrying out that action; suggesting another action one could accomplish at the same time.
Synonyms: while one is about it
Related terms: kill two birds with one stone
might as well
while one is about it
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of while one is at it.
synonyms: word: while one is at it
carinulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carinula
Laventille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community in Trinidad and Tobago, known for poverty and crime.
Derived terms: Laventillian
Laventillian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laventillians
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Laventille.
Laventillians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laventillian
composite flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite flowers
Senses: glosses: A flower that is made up of multiple simpler flowers; an inflorescence of the pseudanthium type.
glosses: An entire plant that has such flowers.
glosses: A particular family of such plants, the Asteraceae or Compositae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family).
composite flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of composite flower
Bazin's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An equation used to calculate the flow velocity of a fluid in an open-channel system, relating Chezy's coefficient to variables such as radius, roughness, and discharge.
naur
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɐʉ/
Senses: examples: text: australians be like yeahr but naur
ref: 2021 October 18, Hameda Nafiz, “Twitter Is Roasting Australians About How They Speak And They're Not Wrong TBH”, in BuzzFeed:
text: Even Season 10 winner Aquaria weighed in on who Down Under’s first-ever Drag Race superstar should be, commenting on Scarlet Adams image with a simple but very effective “naur” to show her distaste for the show’s frontrunner.
ref: 2021 June 15, Michelle rennex, “Kita Mean Is The Only Worthy Winner Of ‘Drag Race Down Under’”, in Junkee:
text: naur literally bc it’s the only show i’ve watched that has realistic texting esp w charlie and darcy’s auto capitalization turned off
ref: 2022 May 6, Manorath Thacker, ““Its just so me”: Fans Laud Netflix’s ‘Heartstopper’ for the Most Accurate and Relatable Representation of the Texting Generation”, in Netflix Junkie:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of no, representing Australian English.
fish corral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish corrals
Etymology: Compound of fish + corral.
Senses: glosses: A type of fish trap, often built in stream or tidal flats and originating in the Philippines, that can be used to trap or pen fish.
amatong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cebuano amatong.
Senses: synonyms: miracle hole
glosses: A type of fish trap made by piling rocks underwater.
ice monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice monkey
Marilou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
besalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bɪˈsɑltɪd/
Etymology: From be- + salt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1870 July 9, "Nature-development and Theology", Littell's Living Age, Vol. 106 (Vol. 18 of the fourth series), No. 1362, page 69, quoting The Contemporary Review.
He could no more believe it than he could believe in petrified sea-shells or besalted “Edith, Lot's wife.”
text: There they ate raw onions and allspice soused in vinegar and a caligot of eels so bepeppered and besalted that if applied as liniment it would have raised a blister on a rhinoceros.
ref: 1933, Susanne Rouviere Day, Where the Mistral Blows: Impressions of Provence, Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 118:
text: Though desertlike at first glance, this landscape is, in fact, not deserted — and certainly not desertified, unlike its besalted, besotted counterparts downvalley.
ref: 1995, Tom Wolf, Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, University Press of Colorado, page 27:
glosses: Treated with salt, covered with salt or turned into salt.
bepepper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepeppers
form: bepeppering
form: bepeppered
form: bepeppered
Etymology: From be- + pepper.
Senses: glosses: To pepper, to spice with pepper, to add pepper to.
examples: text: Wherefore I refrain from recording the truth with which I bepepper my letters and our passionate conversations.
ref: 1995, Frances Gregg, “Mystic Leeway”, in Ben Jones, editor, Women's Experience Series, volume 6, Carleton University Press, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: To pepper, to add to.
bepeppered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepepper
bepeppering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepepper
baclad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog baklad.
Senses: glosses: A fish corral
sciencism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From science + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scientism.
bepeppers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepepper
Sachertortes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sachertorte
Sacher tortes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sacher torte
astaciculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: crayfish farming
eschel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eschels
Etymology: From Middle English eschele, from Old French eschele, eschelle, esciele, eskiele, variants of Old French esquiere, scare ( > modern French échauguette), from Frankish *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a portion, share, division, troop”). Cognate with German Schar. Doublet of share.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A troop or company.
eschel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for Eschel blue (a tradename).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of smalt.
synonyms: word: smalt
forecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English *forcomynge, *forcumande, from Old English forecumende, from Proto-Germanic *furaquemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *furaquemaną (“to come before”), equivalent to fore- + coming (present participle).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forecome
forecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forecoming
form: most forecoming
Etymology: From Middle English *forcomynge, *forcumande, from Old English forecumende, from Proto-Germanic *furaquemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *furaquemaną (“to come before”), equivalent to fore- + coming (present participle).
Senses: glosses: coming before; preceding
forecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecomings
Etymology: From fore- + coming (gerund).
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, our earnest desire to interest the members of the profession of these United States in the forecoming of social insurance against sickness.
ref: 1916, Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine, volume 17, page 462:
text: The important thing is to be aware of one's own bias, so that the text may present itself in all its newness and thus be able to assert its own truth against its own forecomings.
ref: 2006, Vanessa Joosen, Katrien Vloeberghs, Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children's Literature, page 55:
text: All of these new political arrivals are results of the governmental change, thus all are for bettering our nation's internal forecomings.
ref: 2011, Frederick Johnson Sr., The Authentic American Spirit, page 96:
glosses: The act or process of coming before, to the front, or to the fore; forthcoming; advent
forecomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecoming
Dirty Dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dirty Dozen
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of certain groups of twelve people.
The twelve rookies who made the Dallas Cowboys team in 1975.
glosses: Any of certain groups of twelve people.
A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of certain groups of twelve people.
The United States' men's basketball team (which consists of twelve players) at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.
glosses: Any of certain groups of twelve people.
Saddam Hussein and eleven others who carried out his orders.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A one-day road cycling race founded in 1983 (which originally featured twelve hills, but since 1988 has typically featured a baker's dozen of thirteen hills), held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The twelve most common aircraft problems, resulting from human error, that may lead to accidents etc.
glosses: The twelve species of fruits and vegetables that are declared the most likely to be contaminated by pesticides over the last year.
Related terms: dirty dozens
Ataturkist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ătʹə-tûrk-ĭst
Forms: form: more Ataturkist
form: most Ataturkist
Etymology: From Atatürk + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: Kemalist
glosses: Relating to the politics of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Ataturkist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ătʹə-tûrk-ĭst
Forms: form: Ataturkists
Etymology: From Atatürk + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: Kemalist
glosses: A political supporter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
44th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Utah in 2022 ranked 44th in the nation for the percentage of residents that receive fluoridated water, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ref: 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press:
glosses: Abbreviation of forty-fourth.
nutmeg geranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutmeg geraniums
Senses: glosses: A type of geranium with a fragrance like nutmeg, belonging to the hybrid species Pelargonium × fragrans.
nutmeg geraniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutmeg geranium
Almaqah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Semitic, compare Sabaean 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠 (ʾlmqh) and Ge'ez አለመቀሀ (ʾälämäḳähä)
Senses: glosses: A god once worshiped in Yemen and Ethiopia
Synonyms: Al-maqah
Al-muqh
after-reward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-rewards
form: afterreward
form: after reward
Etymology: From Middle English after-reward, equivalent to after- + reward.
Senses: examples: text: The Christian acted distinctly for a selfish end — “pro remedio minus,” the heathen may often have acted (as M. Allard unfairly assumes that he always did) from vanity or caprice, but he surely sometimes acted from a sense of right without hope of afterreward.
ref: 1876, The Pall Mall Budget:
text: After 18 months' industrial training, with daily secular and religious instruction, inmates are sent to service, with an adequate outfit, and obtain certain after rewards and gratuities, if deserved, by good conduct in their situations.
ref: 1890, The Charities Register and Digest, page 523:
text: It is as if he said: the glory is not an external afterreward of the shame; the glory is in the shame; the life in the death.
ref: 1902, Queen's Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 44:
text: This system works at any drugstore chain. Each offers different free or cheap after-rewards items every week, so keep rolling your rewards to pick up different HBA (health-and-beauty aisle) items all the time.
ref: 2012, Rachel Singer Gordon, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing:
text: What is the after-reward for taking pains in the act of seeing?
ref: 2013, Charlotte Mason, Home Education:
glosses: A reward that follows or which comes after
after-rewards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-reward
traveller's palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveller's palms
form: traveler palm
form: traveller palm
form: traveler's palm
Senses: synonyms: traveller's tree
East-West palm
glosses: A tropical plant, Ravenala madagascariensis (not a true palm), native to Madagascar but grown elsewhere for its distinctive appearance: banana-like leaves are arranged in a flat, fan-like pattern atop a palm-like trunk.
traveller's palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traveller's palm
travellers' palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travellers' palms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of traveller's palm.
travellers' palms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travellers' palm
sulfur buckwheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfur buckwheats
Senses: glosses: A wild buckwheat, Eriogonum crocatum, native to a small area around the Conejo Valley in Ventura County, California, but grown in similar climates for its tolerance to drought, silvery foliage and deep yellow flowers.
Synonyms: Conejo buckwheat
sulfur buckwheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfur buckwheat
Conejo buckwheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conejo buckwheats
Senses: glosses: The sulfur buckwheat, Eriogonum crocatum
Conejo buckwheats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Conejo buckwheat
turn-up for the book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-ups for the book
Senses: examples: text: Well I never, all these plenums! What a turn-up for the book, eh?
ref: 2011, Ismail Kadare, The Concert, →ISBN, page 412:
text: When examined and identified, the jewelry in the nosebag was found to be loot from the Dog Man jobs; almost all the rings, brooches and watches which the man had stolen in Granchester. This 'turn-up for the book' eased matters considerably in the C.I.D.
ref: 2013, Maurice Procter, The Dog Man, →ISBN:
text: “Well! That's a turn-up for the book,” Jim said when Richard told him of the latest mystery.
ref: 2014, Marjorie Owen, The Poison Pen, page 93:
glosses: Alternative form of turn up for the book.
turn up for the books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn ups for the books
Senses: examples: text: What a turn up for the books. Monty; dead. She couldn't deny that he'd been a pain in the arse sometimes, pompous and pedantic, but then, that was a byproduct of his job and she knew that he'd loved Sharon and their children.
ref: 2011, Lee Martin, The Lipstick Killers, →ISBN:
text: Well, this is a turn up for the books . . . After weeks of 'Tobias, I want you', 'Tobias, I need you' you just want to call it a day?
ref: 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 394:
text: It was still reasonably early when I'd been fed and watered so I headed back to the hotel and, low and behold, here was another turn up for the books. About fifty metres ahead of me was another of Jan's cronies.
ref: 2014, Alfie Robins, Just Whistle, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of turn up for the book.
turn-up for the books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-ups for the books
Senses: examples: text: What a turn-up for the books: the prettiest boy in the seventies pop stratosphere had prematurely gone to fat.
ref: 2010, Nick Kent, Apathy for the Devil, →ISBN, page 189:
text: What a turn-up for the books, Portia thinks, what a lark!
ref: 2011, Nina Bawden, A Nice Change, →ISBN:
text: 'Well now, that's a turn-up, Eddie Godolphin said, settling himself back into the only comfortable chair in the minuscule room. He picked up the plate of scones and stuffed one whole into his mouth. “That's a real turn-up for the books.' Or at least that was what Alex thought he said; it was hard to tell through the crumbs, cream and jam.
ref: 2013, Scarlett Bailey, Just for Christmas, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of turn up for the book.
turn ups for the book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn up for the book
turn-ups for the book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-up for the book
turn ups for the books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn up for the books
turn-ups for the books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-up for the books
literature searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literature search
many-kinded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From many + kind + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: What are the kingdoms of matter to the kingdom of men, and what the kingdom of men to the gorgeous empire of the many-kinded angels?
ref: 1860, Frederick William Faber, Bethlehem, page 307:
text: But many-kinded as they were, and numerous as they were, and whether they ploughed the sea or drummed the land for a living, a day came for each when Life grew surfeited with affluence, irritated with the connection, and disturbed in spirit.
ref: 1899, James A. Fitz Simon, Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon, The Gods of Old: And the Story that They Tell, page 402:
text: Lovers of fashion sometimes put on odd ornaments, fancy buttons on dresses, extremely large ear-rings, many-kinded necklaces, ridiculous head- ornaments chiefly made of false diamonds — similar to the ornaments of the fair sex of the Indians here of the Kurds in Asia.
ref: 1918, Sarkis M. Ohanesian, Life's Demand in Twentieth Century, page 481:
text: Now through the grinning death's-head in the paint,
Within the tavern-song, hid in the wine,
In many-kinded man, emperor and saint,
I see you pass, you breath of the divine.
ref: 1946, John Masefield, Poems, page 347:
text: The seeds of alienism, of unnatural, unauthentic elements/phenomema, multiplied and many-kinded, have been sewn and grown tall during the epochs of alienism.
ref: 2011, L.S. Heatherly, The Last Human Spring, page 86:
glosses: Consisting of many kinds; sundry
Synonyms: manifold
multiplicious
sea-gooseberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-gooseberries
form: sea gooseberry
Senses: glosses: Any of order Lobata of lobed comb jellies.
glosses: A common comb jellyfish (Pleurobrachia pileus) (order Cydippida), with a spherical body bearing two long retractile branching tentacles, typically occurring in swarms.
fun fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun facts
Senses: examples: text: My name is John, and I'm a biology major. Fun fact: though I grew up here, I was originally born in Brazil.
text: Fun fact: 60% of the deaths in this area are from drop bear attacks.
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: A short fact that is usually about something irrelevant to the general context; trivia.
fun facts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fun fact
daytrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daytrips
Etymology: From day + trip.
Senses: examples: text: According to the DTES, average expenditure per daytrip in 1992 was $41, but was $63 for business or conference visitors. The equivalent figure from the present study was $124, suggesting that, even after allowing for inflation, daytrip visitors attending meetings, seminars and conferences spent more per trip than a typical daytrip visitor.
ref: 1999, Leanne Johnson, Lee Mei Foo, Mick O'Halloran, Meetings Make Their Mark:
text: I thought maybe . . . would you fancy a daytrip to London?
ref: 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 459:
text: Lübeck is a popular daytrip from Hamburg, but few would regret staying longer.
ref: 2012, Henk Bekker, Germany Pocket Adventures, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: Alternative form of day trip.
daytrip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: daytrips
form: daytripping
form: daytripped
form: daytripped
Etymology: From day + trip.
Senses: examples: text: She daytripped cross-country to star in her soap. With the travel and stress, she began using dope.
ref: 2001, Matt Drudge, Drudge Manifesto, →ISBN:
text: We've boarded ships piloting themselves across oceans portioned out to the last molecule just as we have daytripped over the sunburst the bountiful plains.
ref: 2006, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, The Case Against Happiness, →ISBN, page 46:
text: She didn't invite me to join herself and her friends when they went swimming in the river or daytripped to a neighbouring town
ref: 2010, Sonya Hartnett, Surrender, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of day-trip.
daytrips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daytrip
daytrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daytrip
Dais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dai
daytripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daytrip
daytripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daytrip
day-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: day-trips
form: day-tripping
form: day-tripped
form: day-tripped
Senses: examples: text: Been day-tripping to the market and around the city for big sun hats, sundries and sights.
ref: 1984 April 28, Loie Hayes, “Passionate Politics in Nicaragua”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: From Polly, we day-tripped to Koma and Malberg under a gorgeous blue sky and then traveled up the Lady Chain to Beth, where we camped near the rock cliff next to the portage on the east shore.
ref: 2011, Stephen Wilbers, A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, →ISBN:
text: Before I met Tommy, I would not have day-tripped to the spot where James Dean died.
ref: 2015 -, Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist, →ISBN:
text: By the end of the summer, I had day-tripped with Quita around New England and ferried to Martha's Vineyard with Carol.
ref: 2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN:
glosses: To go on a one-day excursion; To visit someplace and return within a day.
day-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-trips
Senses: examples: text: Using this relationship, the day-trip changes caused by changes in travel costs can be converted to a change in the number of fishing licenses by dividing the day-trip changes (AYij) by the average day-trip per fisherman (Yij).
ref: 1988, Financing Alternatives for Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Programs:
text: I boarded my first train at Broad Street Station in 1968 for a fifth-grade class day-trip to Washington, D.C. Upon arriving in Washington, I experienced that city's monumental Union Station.
ref: 2008, Michael Mulligan, Railroad Depots of Central Florida, →ISBN, page 7:
text: My short day-trip to Chillicothe inspired a confident desire to make future journeys to signature locations throughout Ohio during 2003.
ref: 2011, Keith A. Elkins, Mr. E. 2003: Manifest Lessons from Ohio’s Bicentennial Celebration, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative form of day trip.
old master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old masters
Senses: examples: text: Opening on 30 September, the exhibition Michaelina Wautier, Painter for the first time gathers into one show all known works by an artist who is belatedly coming to be recognised as one of the old masters of her age.
ref: 2025 September 28, Philip Oltermann, “Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Old Master.
athermochroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + thermochroic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not thermochroic
FHIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
TMNT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
flirtaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flirtaholics
Etymology: From flirt + -aholic.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is addicted to flirting.
Related terms: coquet
coquette
flirtaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flirtaholic
Wikian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wikians
Etymology: From Wikia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person who contributes to the wiki farm Wikia (now called Fandom since 2016), especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.
wikipedia: Wikia
wikian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wikians
Etymology: From wiki + -an.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:wikian.
glosses: A contributor to any wiki or any number of wikis.
wikians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wikian
Wikians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikian
wiki farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiki farms
Senses: examples: text: Soon after, in 2007, Wikidot Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware. Since that time it has grown into the world's third‒largest wiki farm, with almost half a million users running 120,000 sites and serving about 40M unique visitors per year.
ref: 2012, Roger McHaney, The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education:
glosses: A type of server farm that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.
wiki farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiki farm
server farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: server farms
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of computer servers that is usually maintained by an organization to supply server functionality far beyond the capability of a single machine.
Synonyms: sense: collection of computer servers
word: server cluster
Hyponyms: sense: collection of computer servers
word: compile farm
sense: collection of computer servers
word: link farm
sense: collection of computer servers
word: render farm
sense: collection of computer servers
word: wiki farm
sense: collection of computer servers
word: content farm
server farms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of server farm
gold farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gold farms
form: gold farming
form: gold farmed
form: gold farmed
Etymology: Back-formation from gold farming.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: To participate in gold farming; to farm/grind for in-game currency (gold in many games) and items in massively multiplayer online games for for-profit resale outside of the game.
gold farms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gold farm
gold farmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold farm