cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
break new ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks new ground
form: breaking new ground
form: broke new ground
form: broken new ground
Senses: glosses: To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.
examples: text: One of the Birmingham R.C.W. diesel multiple-units on the Calder Valley service broke new ground on August 12 when it was enployed for a works excursion from Halifax to Windermere, [...].
ref: 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Central Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 280:
text: Some of these things were possible to do with earlier A.I. models. But OpenAI has broken new ground, too. According to the company, GPT-4 is more capable and accurate than the original ChatGPT, and it performs astonishingly well on a variety of tests […]
ref: 2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To initiate a new venture, especially something never before attempted; to advance or innovate.
Related terms: break ground
premeditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: premeditations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātiō.
Senses: synonyms: malice aforethought
glosses: The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
hanky panky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hanky-panky.
funny business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Unethical behaviour.
examples: text: ‘I’ll be square with you. No funny business.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 15:
text: '[…] I tipped her double to pretend we were dating on a regular basis, and to act as if she was crazy about me. Only in public,' Rimmer waved his hand, as if to ward off evil thoughts, 'there was no funny business. Oh, how I longed for the funny business! But that wasn't the deal. It was all above board.'
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: Sexual intercourse or other sexual activity.
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: skanks
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from skag (“unattractive woman”), but the origins of skag are unknown. Compare scold (“troublesome woman”), skeevy (“disgusting”). Attested from the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever a slang word is heard, the youngsters note it, then write sentences which include the word. […]Hawk: to watch – as in “Man, that skank steady hawks me in school.”
ref: 1965 March, “Youths compile slang book to develop literacy”, in Ebony, page 98:
text: It's also my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
ref: 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire, spoken by Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr), Culver City, Calif.: TriStar Pictures; distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Video, published 1997, →ISBN:
text: I'd been used to a lot of jawns following me around from when I first got out there on the rap scene. They were usually chickenhead skanks attracted to the gangsta culture who would lick and suck and fuck any and everything you wanted them to. Four and five times, if you told them to.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 261:
text: Speaking exclusively to Mirror TV, Josie revealed: "I've just split up from somebody because he was a skank and was selling stories to the press, and he was a loser."
ref: 2017 March 30, Hayley Minn, “Josie Gibson reveals she's found 'The One' a week after splitting from 'skank' ex as she talks new dating show”, in Daily Mirror:
glosses: A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
examples: text: Virgins. I love 'em. No diseases, no loose as a goose pussy, no skank. No nothin'. Just pure pleasure.
ref: 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly:
text: Hughes CRAVED dirt. Hughes CRAVED slander skank to share with Mr. Hoover. What Hughes CRAVED, Hughes BOUGHT. ¶ Pete bought an issue’s worth of dirt. His cop contacts supplied him with a one-week load of lackluster skank.
ref: 2011, James Ellroy, American Tabloid, page 21:
glosses: Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.
Synonyms: sense: lewdly disreputable woman
word: promiscuous woman
Derived terms: skank up
skanky
Skanksgiving
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: more skank
form: most skank
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from skag (“unattractive woman”), but the origins of skag are unknown. Compare scold (“troublesome woman”), skeevy (“disgusting”). Attested from the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: "I wear provocative clothes because they make me feel sexy," Toni says without apology. "If an artist like Madonna is wearing her booty hanging out, she's considered a genius. But if a black person does it, we're considered skank whores or sluts."
ref: 1997 June–July, Michael A. Gonzales, “Toni's secret: Miss Braxton lets it all hang out”, in Vibe, volume 5, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Time Publishing Ventures; Intermedia Vibe Holdings, →ISSN, page 92:
text: You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.
ref: 2001, Angela Nissel, The Broke Diaries, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Lewd, vulgar, skanky.
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: skanks
Etymology: Originally Jamaican, attested from the twentieth century, but earliest source is uncertain. The verb sense be dishonest is evidently older. Perhaps originally onomatopoeic. The dance senses may come from a resemblance to motorcyclists weaving between larger vehicles. Compare skanker.
Senses: examples: text: […]the ability to double up with contagious laughter; the feeling of pure child-like glee; and the mesmerizing, trance-like skank dancing that looks like African aerobics after centuries of rhythm.
ref: 1989, “Reggae: The revolution continues”, in Link, volume 32, number 1, page 35:
text: All reggae dance represents a dialogue with that basic movement which is the skank — a kind of offbeat walking on the spot
ref: 1999, Kwame Dawes, Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic in Caribbean Writing, page 110:
glosses: A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music.
examples: text: A typical skank guitar rhythm:
{\time3/4\tempo4=180\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"electric guitar (muted)"\repeat unfold2{r8a4}\repeat unfold2{r8g4
text: He took it another step and brought blues into reggae music. I don’t play skank. I don’t play reggae guitar. So I had to call.
ref: 2017, Jas Obrecht, “Ben Harper in San Francisco, May 3, 1994”, in Talking Guitar, page 279:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk.
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: skanks
form: skanking
form: skanked
form: skanked
Etymology: Originally Jamaican, attested from the twentieth century, but earliest source is uncertain. The verb sense be dishonest is evidently older. Perhaps originally onomatopoeic. The dance senses may come from a resemblance to motorcyclists weaving between larger vehicles. Compare skanker.
Senses: examples: text: Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese.
ref: 1998, Billy Bergman, Hot Sauces: Latin and Caribbean Pop, 1985, quoted in Craig Lockard, Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia, page 51:
glosses: To dance the skank.
examples: text: Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats.
ref: 1999, Tobias Hurwitz, Punk Guitar Styles, page 24:
glosses: To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
examples: text: Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their wages) that he would not skank them.
ref: 2011, Colin Grant, I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer, page 210:
glosses: To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal.
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: skanks
Etymology: Slang word used in Northern England. Unknown. Perhaps from etymology 2, above; attested in West Indian and UK black slang from the twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: That's not a good deal; it's a skank.
text: As for the identities of those behind the plan, the mere mention of ‘some millionaire’ reinforced the conviction of those who were ready to part with their money that they were onto a winner. While for others, the mere mention of the names Nestor Riley and Desmond Palmer was enough to confirm that this whole business was a skank which would end in tears.
ref: 2006, Sylvester Young, More than a Game: A Story about Football and Other Stuff, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: The act of cheating a person.
skank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæŋk/
ipa: /skeɪŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: skanks
form: skanking
form: skanked
form: skanked
Etymology: Slang word used in Northern England. Unknown. Perhaps from etymology 2, above; attested in West Indian and UK black slang from the twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: He short-changed a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
text: He thought I was trying to skank him and wouldn’t wait any more; he wanted to be there. He wouldn’t wait!
ref: 2000, Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says - Don't Get High on your Own Supply, page 101:
glosses: To cheat, especially a friend.
Derived terms: skanker
oshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oshi
form: oshis
Etymology: From Japanese 推(お)し (oshi).
Senses: examples: text: For me, my Oshi is Watame. I find her content very relaxing and calming, it helps bring me a smile whenever I see that wonderful sheep doing anything and it’s sometimes exactly what I need after a stressful day at work. I really admire all the hard work she puts into her music as well as how inclusive she always attempts to be as far as reaching out to overseas fans with everything. Everything about her just makes me feel happy and I really value everything she does here at HoloLive.
ref: 2022 April 19, /u/Daniel101773, Who’s your Oshi & why?:
text: Among the most popular oshi are "VTubers," or entertainers who represent themselves as an avatar online and livestream concerts and interact with fans.
ref: 2025 April 5, Satoshi Sugiyama, “Can Japan's take on fandom help drive spending?”, in The Japan Times, Tokyo, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2025:
qualifier: VTuber fandom slang
glosses: A person’s favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.
Related terms: kamioshi
frivolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪv.ə.ləs/
Forms: form: more frivolous
form: most frivolous
Etymology: From Latin frīvolus (“silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless”), with the ending modified to match -ous.
Senses: glosses: Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.
synonyms: word: base
word: contemptible
word: foolish
word: for the birds
word: futile
word: frivolous
word: idle
word: ignorable
word: immaterial
word: inconsequential
word: inconsiderable
word: indifferent
word: insignificant
word: like a fart in a windstorm
word: meager
word: mean
word: minor
word: negligible
word: nothingburger
word: nondescript
word: paltry
word: petty
word: picayune
word: picayunish
word: piddling
word: piddly
word: pissant
word: pitiful
word: pointless
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: tin-pot
word: trifling
word: trivial
word: two-bit
word: unimportant
word: unweighty
word: vain
word: worthless
word: wretched
glosses: Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
examples: text: There is no easy definition for the phrase 'frivolous lawsuit,' but I imagine any claim for damages where the injuries are minimal or where the basis for the defendant's liability is hard to believe, might qualify as frivolous.
ref: 1996 August 31, Paul F. Waldner, President-Elect, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, “Viewpoints”, in Houston Chronicle, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2005:
text: One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits.
ref: 2005, Factcheck.org
topics: law
glosses: Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
raw_tags: said of a lawsuit
Derived terms: frivolent
frivolosity
frivolousity
frivolously
frivolousness
nonfrivolous
ultrafrivolous
unfrivolous
Related terms: frivol
frivolity
inappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnəˈpɹəʊpɹi.ət/
ipa: /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/
Forms: form: more inappropriate
form: most inappropriate
Etymology: From in- + appropriate.
Senses: examples: text: It is inappropriate to burp at a formal dinner.
text: The violent movie is inappropriate for school.
glosses: Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
examples: text: kids saying inappropriate things
glosses: Improper; adult; sexual.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: Discrimination and abuse are examples of inappropriate actions.
glosses: (of an action or thing) vile or unpleasant; repulsive.
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: too vile.
raw_tags: in particular
Synonyms: improper
inadequate
out of line
out of place
unfit
unseemly
unsuitable
Derived terms: inappropes
inappropriacy
inappropriately
inappropriateness
upper arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper arms
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The section of an arm from the elbow to the shoulder.
Synonyms: brachium
aftarm
Coordinate terms: antebrachium
lower arm
outer arm
shoulder
forearm
unfit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: unfitter
form: more unfit
form: unfittest
form: most unfit
Etymology: From un- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
text: The latter engine was found unfit to take its return working at 5.35 p.m. from Luton, and No. 45616, Malta G.C., was provided by Kentish Town as substitute.
ref: 1953 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 284:
text: On September 7, 1993, Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her own mother. A Virginia judge found that her sexual relationship with her lover was immoral and rendered her an unfit parent.
ref: 1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
ref: 2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN:
synonyms: unsuitable
antonyms: fit
suitable
glosses: Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
examples: text: I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
synonyms: out of shape
antonyms: fit
in shape
glosses: Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
examples: text: Sadly, the station that proves to be the busiest - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is unfit for purpose. It possesses a tiny canopy back from the platform that offers little in the way of shelter or amenities, other than a couple of benches.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 56:
glosses: Unsuitable for a particular purpose.
raw_tags: with for
Derived terms: unfitly
unfitness
unfit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: unfits
form: unfitting
form: unfitted
form: unfitted
Etymology: From un- + fit.
Senses: examples: text: He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
text: This life entirely unfits you for general practice.
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 403:
text: The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: "Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties."
ref: 2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 31:
glosses: To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
Derived terms: unfitting
Related terms: unfittingly
unfittingness
catalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌlɑɡ/
Forms: form: catalogues
form: cataloguing
form: catalogued
form: catalogued
form: catalog
Etymology: From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος (katálogos, “enrollment, register”), from καταλέγω (katalégō, “to recount, make a list”), from κατα- (kata-, “downwards, towards”) + λέγω (légō, “to say, to speak, to tell”). Equivalent to cata- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: To put into a catalogue.
examples: text: The consequences were catalogued by the Royal Commission for Environmental Pollution in 1994, which recommended several measures to constrain the emission of greenhouse gases.
ref: 2023 March 22, 'Industry Insider', “Restoring Your Railway”, in RAIL, number 979, page 68:
glosses: To make a catalogue of.
glosses: To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: to value or sort stamps using a catalogue
Synonyms: sense: make a catalogue of
word: list
word: tick off
sense: add to an existing catalogue
word: put down
word: enlist
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the verb “to catalogue”
word: cataloguer
sense: terms derived from the verb “to catalogue”
word: cataloguing
sense: terms derived from the verb “to catalogue”
word: recatalogue
catalog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of catalogue.
Derived terms: catalogful
catalogise
cattlelog
e-catalog
noncatalog
catalog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catalogs
form: cataloging
form: cataloged
form: cataloged
Senses: examples: text: And the exclusions are a statement about life itself: the words that were left out haven’t been co-opted; by not yet being cataloged, they still belong to us.
ref: 2022 March 30, Ilan Stavans, Margaret Boyle, “How Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
glosses: Alternative spelling of catalogue.
Derived terms: catalogable
miscatalog
recatalog
psilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /psɪˈlɒsəfə/
ipa: /psɪˈlɑsəfɚ/
Forms: form: psilosophers
Senses: glosses: A false philosopher.
glosses: One who professes to have knowledge or education which they, in fact, lack.
polyhistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒliˈhɪstɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: polyhistors
Etymology: From Latin polyhistor (“very learned”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πολυΐστωρ (poluḯstōr, “greatly learned”).
Senses: examples: text: A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.
ref: 1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 24:
text: [Carlfriedrich] Claus is an artist, though he does not like to call himself one, and a scholar. As such, he personifies the polyhistor, a species rarely found today.
ref: 1997, Eckhart Gillen, quoting Henry Schumann, German Art from Beckmann to Richter, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar.
Synonyms: sense: gifted in multiple disciplines
word: polymath
sense: gifted in multiple disciplines
word: Renaissance man
chitterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.tɚ.lɪŋz/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɾɚ.lɪŋz]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪt.lɪnz/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈtʃɪt.lɪnz]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʃɪːlɪnz]
Etymology: From Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz, *kut-, from Proto-Indo-European *gud-, *gewd- (“intestine, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”).
Compare Middle Low German kǖtel (“entrails, tripe”), German Kutteln (“tripe”) and Scots kyte (“belly, stomach”). Compare also Icelandic kviður (“stomach”).
Senses: examples: text: How fare I? troth for ſixpence a meale, wench, as well as heart can wiſh, with Calves chaldrons and chitterlings […]
ref: 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, “The Honest Whore, […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume II, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 40:
glosses: Small intestine, cleaned and defatted, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.
Synonyms: chitlins
chitlings
Related terms: tripe
chitterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪ.tɚ.lɪŋz/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɾɚ.lɪŋz]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪt.lɪnz/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ˈtʃɪt.lɪnz]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʃɪːlɪnz]
Etymology: From chitterling + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of chitterling
hog maws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog maw
masculin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of masculine.
reckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkləs/
rhymes: -ɛkləs
Forms: form: recklesser
form: more reckless
form: recklessest
form: most reckless
form: rechless
form: retchless
Etymology: From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English rēcelēas (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck + -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”).
Senses: glosses: Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
examples: text: Escalation is the film’s nuclear energy source. It’s there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by [Tom] Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment.
ref: 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:
glosses: Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof.
Synonyms: word: daring
word: devil-may-care
word: headstrong
word: heedless
word: impetuous
word: imprudent
word: impulsive
word: precipitant
word: precipitate
word: precipitous
word: quick-and-dirty
word: rash
word: reckless
word: sudden
word: temeritous
Hypernyms: word: carefree
word: careless
Derived terms: reckless endangerment
recklessly
recklessness
Related terms: word: brave
word: cavalier
word: hasty
word: hotheaded
word: self-destructive
word: uncaring
word: arrogance
word: cheeky
word: maverick
word: pride
wild cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild cats
form: wild-cat
form: wildcat
Etymology: From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.
Senses: glosses: An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
glosses: A feral cat.
glosses: Alternative form of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.
glosses: Alternative form of wildcat in its other extended senses.
Synonyms: big cat
great cat
Hyponyms: sense: panthers
word: tiger
sense: panthers
word: lion
sense: panthers
word: jaguar
sense: panthers
word: leopard
sense: panthers
word: snow leopard
sense: clouded leopards
word: Formosan clouded leopard
sense: cheetahs
word: South African cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Namibian cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Tanzanian cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: East African cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Sudan cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Central African cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Northeast African cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Northwest African cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Saharan cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Asiatic cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Iranian cheetah
sense: cheetahs
word: Indian cheetah
word: cougar
word: mountain lion
word: catamount
word: black panther
word: Florida panther
word: Argentine cougar
word: Costa Rican cougar
word: Eastern South American cougar
word: North American cougar
word: Northern South American cougar
word: Southern South American cougar
sense: hybrids
word: liger
word: tion
word: lipard
word: leopon
US survey acre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US survey acres
Senses: glosses: Unit of measure for areas, defined as 43,560 square feet,https://web.archive.org/web/20041204052555/http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm or 4,046.8564224 square meters. A square mile has 640 acres.
Odinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Odinists
Etymology: From Odin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of Odinism.
Columbusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Columbus
discernable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discernable
form: most discernable
Etymology: From Middle French discernable, equivalent to discern + -able.
Senses: examples: text: These marks produce the corduroy sort of stripes discernable in the tappa in its finished state.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life:
glosses: Alternative spelling of discernible.
Derived terms: discernably
undiscernable
dissolutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dissolution + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Anarchist and nihilist social theory, taken as a whole or type.
derivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈɹaɪvəbəɫ]
Etymology: From derive + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be derived; deducible.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Differentiable.
Derived terms: derivably
inderivable
Related terms: derivability
rederivable
homa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).
enunciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnʌnsiˌeɪt/
homophone: annunciate
Forms: form: enunciates
form: enunciating
form: enunciated
form: enunciated
Etymology: From Latin ēnuntiātus, past participle of ēnuntiō (“to report, declare”), from ē- + nūntiō (“to report”).
Senses: glosses: To make a definite or systematic statement of.
examples: text: the terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel
ref: 1829, Reverend James Marsh, Preface to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (originally published 1825)
glosses: To announce, proclaim.
examples: text: You must enunciate all the syllables.
glosses: To articulate, pronounce.
examples: text: Enunciate when you speak.
glosses: To make sounds clearly.
Derived terms: misenunciate
overenunciate
Related terms: enunciable
enunciation
enunciator
trailer trash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: human dross
glosses: A poorly-educated, and usually white individual(s) of low social status who stereotypically reside(s) in a trailer park.
Related terms: white trash
pronounciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By confusion of pronounce with pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: To pronounce.
impeccable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛkəbəl/
Forms: form: more impeccable
form: most impeccable
Etymology: From Middle French impeccable, from Latin impeccabilis (“not liable to sin”), from im- (“not”) + peccare (“to err, to sin”).
Senses: examples: text: He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
text: The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
ref: 1821–1822, William Hazlitt, “(please specify the essay name)”, in Table-Talk; or, Original Essays, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Warren; Henry Colburn and Co.:
glosses: Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
examples: text: It was easy for James V to imprison Lady Glamis, but actually convicting her was far more difficult; her character was impeccable and she was highly respected by all who knew her.
glosses: Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
Synonyms: flawless
Derived terms: impeccableness
impeccably
Related terms: peccable
peccant
shirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɝ.ti/
ipa: /ˈʃɜː.ti/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: shirtier
form: shirtiest
Etymology: From shirt + -y, probably based on the phrase get one's shirt out.
Senses: examples: text: "You ain't shirty 'cause I kissed yer last night?"
"I'm not shirty; but it was pretty cool, considerin' like as I didn't know yer."
ref: 1897, W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, chapter 3:
text: "Well, so help me Bob, you are a shirty old cow, Mudgy."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: Ill-tempered or annoyed.
Derived terms: shirtily
shirtiness
Geelong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A port city in Victoria, Australia, 75 km south-west of Melbourne, Australia. Gateway to the surfcoast of Victoria, and Great Ocean Road.
Derived terms: Geelong West
Greater Geelong
Geelongite
sensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈsɛnʃuːəl/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ʃu.əl/
Forms: form: more sensual
form: most sensual
form: sensuall
Etymology: From Late Latin sensualis (“endowed with feeling, sensual”), from Latin sensus (“feeling, sense”).
Senses: examples: text: That massage was a very sensual experience!
glosses: Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.
examples: text: Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
glosses: Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.
Derived terms: asensual
con-sensual
hypersensual
multisensual
nonsensual
pretersensual
sensualise
sensualize
sensualism
sensualist
sensualistic
sensuality
sensualization
sensually
sensualness
sensual play
supersensual
suprasensual
transsensual
ultrasensual
unisensual
unsensual
Related terms: sense
sensible
sensuous
sensuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnʃuəs/
Forms: form: more sensuous
form: most sensuous
Etymology: From Latin sensus (“sense”) + English -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Although we rarely see Casanova himself on our tour of his sensuous world, we feel his presence as we look at paintings, sculpture, snuff boxes, embroidered vests, silk dresses, silver candy dishes, etc.
glosses: Appealing to the senses, or to sensual gratification.
examples: text: The antithetical features of atomist doctrine are no longer seen as undetermining the principle of the atom, or negating sensuous appearance, but rather as intrinsic to both. Nature is full of contradictions […]
ref: 2000, Daniel Tiffany, Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric, page 173:
glosses: Of or relating to the senses; sensory.
Derived terms: sensuousness
supersensuous
Related terms: sense
sensible
sensual
parchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtʃmənt/
ipa: /ˈpʰɑɹt͡ʃmənt/
Forms: form: parchments
Etymology: From Middle English parchemyn, parchement, from Old French parchemin, via Latin pergamīna, from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνός (Pergamēnós, “of Pergamon”), which is named for the ancient city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) in Asia Minor, where it was invented as an expensive alternative for papyrus. Cognate with Danish pergament, Dutch perkament, French parchemin, German Pergament, Greek περγαμηνή (pergaminí), Italian pergamena, Norwegian pergament, Portuguese pergaminho, Galician pergameo, Romanian pergament, Russian пергамент (pergament), Spanish pergamino, and Swedish pergament.
Senses: examples: text: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Never found Hattie and they never found the shack
Never made the trip back in
There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump
Said: Don't come lookin' again.
ref: 1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:
synonyms: bookfell
membrane
vellum
glosses: Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
glosses: A document made on such material.
glosses: A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
synonyms: vegetal parchment
parchment paper
wax paper
glosses: Stiff paper imitating that material.
glosses: The creamy to tanned color of parchment.
glosses: The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Derived terms: baking parchment
parchmental
parchmented
parchmenter
parchmentization
parchmentize
parchmentless
parchmentlike
parchment paper
parchment worm
parchmenty
unparchmented
unparchmentized
vegetable parchment
virgin parchment
Related terms: 📜
squatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒ.tə/
ipa: /ˈskwɑ.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: squatters
Etymology: From squat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: One who squats; one who sits down idly.
examples: text: While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.
ref: 2004, James Jupp, The English in Australia, page 62:
glosses: One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
One who occupied Crown land.
glosses: One who occupies a building or land without title or permission.
A poor vagrant; a hobo or beggar; one suffering from extreme poverty.
synonyms: informal settler
examples: text: Down came the squatter, a'riding his thoroughbred, / Down came policemen, one, two and three. /'Whose is the jumbuck you've got in the tucker bag? / You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me.'
ref: 1895, “Waltzing Matilda”, Banjo Paterson (lyrics):
text: Boldrewood was a squatter, a magistrate and a commissioner of goldfields and knew thoroughly the life he described in Robbery Under Arms (1888), the story of the bushranger Captain Starlight—first serialised in The Sydney Mail in 1881—and in his numerous other novels, which included The Squatter′s Dream (1890).
ref: 1970, George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3rd Edition, p.754
text: In Parliament, at least, the squatters were secure. ¶ In the early 1840s a severe depression threatened livelihoods in all the colonies except South Australia and many squatters resorted to slaughtering their sheep and boiling them down for tallow.
ref: 1993, Manning Clark, Michael Cathcart (abridging editor), Manning Clark′s History of Australia: Abridged by Michael Cathcart, p.218
text: His dealings with squatter R. R. McBean and superintendents Hare and Nicolson amaze the 16-year-old, who has little experience with the wealthy privileged class.
ref: 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 233:
glosses: A large-scale grazier and landowner.
examples: text: All of the toilets in both the men's and women's sides were squatters.
ref: 2012, Randall L. Erickson, Traveling Business Class, page 54:
glosses: A squat toilet.
Derived terms: cybersquatter
squatter camp
websquatter
squatter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒ.tə/
ipa: /ˈskwɑ.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From squat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nearer at hand, to the left of a huge block (a telephone exchange) and over the top of another, lower, survivor of the blitz, rises the pinnacled tower of St. Alban's Church, and just to the left a glimpse can be obtained of the top of the squatter tower of St. Mary's Aldermanbury.
ref: 1950 July, J. G. Gibbons, “Sightseeing on the Inner Circle”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:
glosses: comparative form of squat: more squat
gaduin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Gadus (“cod genus”) + -in
Senses: glosses: a yellowish cod-liver oil derivative
spic and span
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spic and span
form: most spic and span
Senses: examples: text: Lady Thatcher received a spic and span welcome yesterday from Tory bigwigs. Before she walked on stage yesterday, an official was sent out to hoover the blue carpet.
ref: 2000 October 4, Kevin Maguire, “Bournemouth diary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spick-and-span.
Related terms: spic
glomp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒmp/
ipa: /ɡlɔmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: glomps
form: glomping
form: glomped
form: glomped
Etymology: An emphatic form of glom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glom.
examples: text: You glomp onto her, and she punts you through the wall....but you don't care!
ref: 1994, John Walter Biles, “Kunou's Excellent Adventure [FanFic]”, in rec.arts.anime.stories (Usenet):
text: 2000, KATHYNEW, Re: Ranma Fanfiction Cliches (draft), rec.arts.anime.fandom, http://groups.google.com./group/rec.arts.anime.fandom/msg/f1d35cbb99146224?dmode=source
Nope. Every instance he's near her he tries to glomp her. If she shows affection to Ranma, he attacks Ranma.
text: 2002, cb, Re: Dead end jobs, alt.support.shyness, http://groups.google.com./group/alt.support.shyness/msg/5e4cae69c77bbb32?dmode=source
Girls would ask for people to glomp them and dish them out, even to complete strangers. The most recent one I was at, there were several girls wearing huge signs that read "GLOMP ME!", one of them being a former date I had that turned out really badly.
text: I like your name, for some reason it makes me want to glomp you
ref: 2002, Soffia Parry, “Re: ATTN: STRYDER167”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet):
text: 2006, starcade, With spoilers abounding, Kaleido Star Grand Finale discussion..., rec.arts.anime.misc, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime.misc/msg/14cb5eb77c375a63?dmode=source
Can I glomp Sora's and Rosetta's voice actresses?? Please??
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To embrace enthusiastically; to pounce on and hug, often from a running start.
Derived terms: glomp on
glomp onto
glomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒmp/
ipa: /ɡlɔmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: glomps
Etymology: An emphatic form of glom.
Senses: examples: 1996 Mar 23, RpM-acct2/5, Surreal World pt 3 [fanfic][Ranma/UY/Nuku/Tenchi/SM/A!MG/KOR], rec.arts.anime.stories, http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime.creative/msg/4be30a5c086f64af?dmode=source
Ryoko zoomed in for the glomp when suddenly she got glomped herself.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An embrace of this kind.
Synonyms: pouncehug
wiener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wieners
form: weiner
Etymology: Clipping of wienerwurst, from German Wienerwurst (“Vienna sausage”), from Wiener (“of Vienna, Viennese”) + Wurst (“sausage”), because sausages were originally made in Vienna, Austria.
In Germany today this sausage is known as Wiener Würstchen (“small sausage from Vienna”), but in Vienna and the Netherlands it is called a Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstchen (“small sausage from Frankfurt”).
Senses: synonyms: wienie
glosses: A type of sausage made from beef, chicken or pork.
examples: text: Two figures crossing the windy park. Miss Martin taking Smith's arm over the street. And inside where wieners were being turned on a hot skillet behind the steamed glass. Always wanted to have the constitution to eat these fearlessly, perhaps with a glass of orange.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 104:
glosses: A hot dog or frankfurter.
glosses: The penis.
glosses: A person who is nervous or afraid to partake in certain activities.
glosses: An irritating or disliked person.
Synonyms: sense: penis
word: weenie
word: winky
word: penis
sense: nervous person
word: nervous wreck
word: worrywart
word: worrier
sense: annoying person
word: nuisance
word: pain in the neck
word: nuisance
Derived terms: cheese wiener
cocktail wiener
hot wiener
wiener breath
wiener dog
wiener roast
Related terms: wiener schnitzel
wienerschnitzel
breast milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast milks
Senses: glosses: Milk produced by human mammary glands.
Synonyms: word: boob milk
word: human milk
word: mother's milk
word: titty juice
middle name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle names
Etymology: First recorded from Harvardiana in 1835.
Senses: examples: text: I go by David but it's my middle name; my full name is William David Mason.
text: María is a common middle name in Spanish, as in José María García.
glosses: A name between the first given name and the family name or surname; a second or subsequent given name.
examples: text: Think twice about playing for cash because "Poker" is her middle name.
text: I won't tell anyone. "Discretion" is my middle name.
glosses: A trait, activity, or action closely associated with or aptly describing a person.
middle name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle names
Etymology: Historically in the Spanish colonial era of the Philippines, the Spanish naming customs traditionally displayed the full name as:
: first name + second name + father's surname + Spanish y (“and”) + mother's surname
During the US colonial era of the Philippines, the US naming custom took effect where the mother's maiden name is used as a middle + name, which displayed the full name as:
: first name + second name + middle name (“mother's surname before marriage”) + last name (“father's surname”)
Senses: examples: text: Juan Rico Martinez dela Cruz III is my full name, where Martinez is my middle name, but people just call me "JR".
text: Maria Clara Teresita Reyes dela Cruz is my full name, where Reyes is my middle name, but you can call me Tessie or Tess.
glosses: one's mother's maiden name
Related terms: personal name
first name
last name
danger is one's middle name
is my middle name
NMN
aunty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aunties
Etymology: From aunt + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of auntie.
Derived terms: agony aunty
auntyish
auntyji
kopi aunty
homeorhesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeorrhesis
Etymology: From homeo- + Ancient Greek ῥεῦσις (rheûsis, “flow”), the dropped u probably resulting from analogy with ῥέω (rhéō) or its derivatives.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A dynamical system which returns to a trajectory, as opposed to a system which returns to a particular state, which is termed homeostasis
Related terms: homeorhetic
diaphane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəfeɪn/
Forms: form: diaphanes
Etymology: From Middle French diaphane, from Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) and φαίνω (phaínō, “show”); by surface analysis, dia- + -phane.
Senses: examples: text: The corporal nature is deuided into bright and ſhining bodies, as earth and metalles: Eyther into Diaphane or tranſparent bodyes, as ayre and water.
ref: 1561, Martin Cortes [i.e., Martín Cortés de Albacar], “Of the Generall Distinction of Creatures”, in Richard Eden, transl., The Arte of Nauigation: Conteynyng a Compendious Description of the Sphere, with the Makyng of Certen Instrumentes and Rules for Nauigations: and Exemplified by Manye Demonstrations. […], London: […] Richard Jugge, […], →OCLC, 1st parte (Which Entreateth of the Composition of the Worlde: […]), folio iv, verso:
text: And for man's life as the clear sparkling wine, Gladding the heart and lifting up the soul From its frail diaphane of petulant flesh, Yet whence doth flow this liquor of delight?
ref: 1919, Donald F. Goold Johnson, Poems, page 71:
text: Here, dragonflies of metallic emerald-gold or ruby iridescence froze in midair on almost-invisible wings of diaphane.
ref: 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3, →ISBN:
text: I moulded with my hands The mobile breasts, the valley; and the waist I touched; and pigments reverently placed Upon their thighs in sapient spots and stains, Beryls and crysolites and diaphanes, And gems whose hot harsh names are never said.
ref: 2011, Valentine Cunningham, Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics, →ISBN:
glosses: Something transparent.
glosses: A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures.
examples: text: The figure of the diaphane, "this clear crystal nature," is a person so perfect that his simple presence would do more for the world than others manage to do through their actions.
ref: 2004, Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, →ISBN, page 168:
text: Thus dreams and daydreams, stray thoughts, and all the other products of imagination are not simply inside one human brain; some are created by the diaphane of the person who experiences them, others come form outside, but all are projected onto the astral light.
ref: 2008, John Michael Greer, The Druid Magic Handbook: Ritual Magic Rooted in the Living Earth, →ISBN:
text: What becomes a topic of conversation, what becomes the subject of publicly circulating discourses, is what lies beyond the senses — the land above the sky, the world of the dead, the other side of the diaphane.
ref: 2010, Greg Urban, Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect, →ISBN:
qualifier: Aristotelian philosophy
glosses: Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct.
Derived terms: cellophane
Related terms: word: diaphanous
word: see-through
word: show-through
stinkbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkbushes
Etymology: From stink + bush.
Senses: glosses: star anise plant