cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transmisandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + misandry, modeled on the earlier transmisogyny.
Senses: examples: text: Also, I probably shouldn't ask, and will thus look into it myself, but apparently "transmisogyny" is a thing, separate from transphobia... I guess it's easy to imagine that perhaps transwomen have all the problems of transmen, plus having to conform to beauty standards and all that. I guess? Or is it simply that they have distinct problems (in 99% of sports, no one is going to say a transman has an unfair advantage), so transmen's problems fall under... transmisandry?
ref: 2009 August 22, lullabee_lj, “Health care reform!”, in LiveJournal, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025:
text: The other thing I want to say isn’t about race/ethnicity, but I did want to say it. I know that transmisandry happens. But I think that to treat transmisogyny and transmisandry as equal problems is as broken as treating sexism and “reverse sexism” as equal problems.
ref: 2010 December 7, Cary Gabriel Costello [Intersexroadshow], comment on Matt Kailey, 2010 December 6, “Ask Matt Monday: Antagonism in the White Trans Community?”, in Tranifesto, archived from the original on 19 December 2010
text: A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which Black trans masculine persons live in a sphere of literal and discursive policing […]
ref: 2017, E. C. Krell, “Is transmisogyny killing trans women of color? Black trans feminisms and the exigencies of white femininity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly:
text: Transmisogyny and transmisandry are asymmetrical types of violence. Any claim of transmisandry which is used to vilify trans women and other assigned male at birth trans people should be heavily interrogated if not simply dismissed outright.
ref: 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 277:
synonyms: anti-transmasculinity
transandrophobia
coordinate_terms: transmisogyny
glosses: Hatred of or contempt for trans men.
Bathgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cumbric *bayð (boar) + *cɛ̄d (wood), recorded as Batket c. 1160.
Senses: glosses: A town in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9768).
glosses: A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States, named after the Scottish town.
glosses: A surname
borkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borkages
Etymology: From bork + -age.
Senses: examples: text: It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre.
ref: 2018, Albert Alcherbad, The DreamCorp:
text: Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year.
ref: 2018 December 25, Richard Speed, “Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud”, in The Register:
text: Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work.
ref: 2019 September 19, Roland Moore-Colyer, “GitHub buys Semmle to add flaw-spotting code analysis into its repositories”, in The Inquirer:
text: The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage.
ref: 2019 November 11, Ed Targett, “Google Cloud in Major Global Outage: Numerous Services Fail”, in Computer Business Review:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A failure or breakdown.
borkages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borkage
Qiemo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chiehmo
form: Ch'ieh-mo
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 且末.
Senses: examples: text: To-hu-ti-jou-tzu (Uighur), chief of Kaochao production brigade in the Hunghsing Commune, Chiehmo County, said: Lin Piao hoisted Confucius' tattered banner and clamored about "restoring the rites" in order to reinstate the overthrown landlords, rich peasants, reactionaries, bad elements, and rightists and to make us suffer again.
ref: [1974 March 8 [1974 March 4], “Sinkiang Meeting on Tachai Criticizes Theories of Lin, Confucius”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 47, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Northwest Region, page H 1:
text: These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
ref: 2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China, 5th edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 329:
text: Actors perform during a jujube harvest festival in Qiemo County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 19, 2019. Qiemo County, situated in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin and on the edge of the Tarim Basin, is known for high-quality jujube production.
ref: 2019 October 20, “Jujube harvest festival held in Qiemo County, China's Xinjiang”, in Li Xia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2019:
glosses: A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Jumo
word: Chü-mo
sense: from Uyghur
word: Qarqan
word: Charchan
word: Cherchen
word: Jerjen
Qarqan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Charchan
form: Cherchen
form: Jerjen
Etymology: Borrowed from Uyghur چەرچەن (cherchen).
Senses: examples: text: Two pieces of embroidery found in Turpan and Qarqan (Qiemo), respectively, are decorated with the same design of a bird with two facing heads set in the midst of swirling grass and other tiny birds.
ref: 2002, 韦黎明 [Wei Liming], 中国的丝绸 [The Land of Silk], Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, page 20:
english: The Land of Silk
translation: The Land of Silk
text: Qarqan Man
One of the most striking finds was made at Zaghunluq, a site close to the town of Qarqan (also known as Cherchen) in the southeastern Tarim.
ref: 2004, Tony Allan, The Archaeology of the Afterlife, London: Duncan Baird Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Synonym of Qiemo.
synonyms: word: Qiemo
wikipedia: Dungan Revolt
Bayinguoleng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bäʹyǐnʹgwôʹlŭngʹ
Forms: form: Payinkuoleng
form: Pa-yin-kuo-leng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴音郭楞 (Bāyīnguōléng).
Senses: examples: text: While conveying the directives of Chairman Hua, who has high hopes for Sinkiang, Comrade Wang Feng also analyzed the excellent situation in both Sinkiang and Payinkuoleng Prefecture.
In light of actual conditions in Sinkiang and Payinkuoleng Prefecture, Comrade Wang Feng emphatically said: In order to implement Chairman Hua's directives it is imperative that we do a good job in the exposure-criticism-investigation and "two blows" movement and in implementing party policies.[…]
During his stay in the Payinkuoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Comrade Wang Feng also went to seven new people's communes in Yenchi Hui Autonomous County to examine their work, investigate the local people's living conditions and inspect crops in the fields.
ref: [1978 September 26 [1978 September 18], “Wang Feng Conveys Hua's Instructions”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 187, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, Northwest Region, pages M 2–M 3:
text: The Bayinguoleng Mongolian autonomous prefectural CCP Committee has organized a new leadership group. With the approval of the Xinjiang regional CCP Committee, the new group is composed of 11 persons.
ref: 1983, Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: In Xinjiang, the census workers of the joint census team of Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture and Jing County were caught in a storm and stranded in a desert 5,000 metres above sea level as their lorry had got stuck in the snow.
ref: 1987, Li Chengrui, editor, A Census of One Billion People, Hong Kong: State Statistical Bureau, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 119:
text: Korla is the capital of the Bayinguoleng Mongolian Prefecture, the largest prefecture in all of China, encompassing the eastern half of the Taklamakan Desert and extending to the borders of Tibet, Qinghai and Gansu.
ref: 1993, Judy Bonavia, Sarah Jessup, Edward Juanteguy, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar, Passport Books, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: Synonym of Bayingolin: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Bayingolin
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Blanc de Hotot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blanc de Hotots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Blanc de Hotot (“White of Hotot”), after Hotot-en-Auge (a commune in Normandy, France).
Senses: examples: text: Blanc de Hotots are considered an endangered breed.
ref: 2012, Angela England, Backayrd Farming on an Acre (More or Less), Alpha, page 204:
text: The breed nearly disappeared during World War II, but a few Blanc de Hotots remained in Switzerland and Germany.
ref: 2016, Lynn M. Stone, Rabbit Breeds: The Pocket Guide to 49 Essential Breeds, Storey Publishing, page 78:
synonyms: Hotot
glosses: A breed of rabbit, characterized by having short ears and being all white except for black rings around the eyes.
Related terms: Dwarf Hotot
Xbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xbones
Etymology: Abbreviation of Xbox One for quicker use on Twitter.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of Xbox One.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of Xbox.
synonyms: word: Xbox
Xbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks.bəʊn/
Forms: form: Xbones
Etymology: Blend of Xbox + bone, variously from the idea that Microsoft was "boning" their customers with their planned digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One, or from the idea that Microsoft was "throwing a bone to" gamers by changing their controversial digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One. May also have been coined from Microsoft's press conference during E3 2013, during which Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Studios at the time, partially obscures the Xbox One wordmark placed behind him.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of Xbox One.
synonyms: word: Xbox One
Synonyms: word: Xblocks
word: Xbrick
word: Xcox
Related terms: Xbot
Xblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xblockses
Etymology: Blend of Xbox + blocks.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Xbox.
synonyms: word: Xbox
Synonyms: word: Xbone
word: Xbrick
word: Xcox
labiomental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From labio- + mental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the lips and the mentum (chin)
labrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labrectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: excision of a labrum
labrectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labrectomy
laronidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of iduronidase
Nasu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Related terms: Nasu-Hakola disease
Feng-shan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鳳山 (Fêng⁴-shan¹).
Senses: examples: text: The Governor-General and Governor of Fuhkien memorialize on the appointment of a Magistrate for the district of Fêng-shan in Formosa.[…]It is accordingly proposed that his late post at Fêng-shan be filled by the present Magistrate of the Wua-p’ing district, named Têng Kia-shêng, aged 43, a native of Nanking.
ref: [1875 May 1 [1875 April 3], “Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XIV, number 416, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 414, column 1:
text: Cimex hemipterus. DDT resistance in this tropical bedbug appeared in 1952 at Feng-Shan, southern Taiwan, in barracks sprayed for two years (95).
ref: 1958, A. W. A. Brown, “The Spread of Insceticide Resistance in Pest Species”, in R. L. Metcalf, editor, Advances in Pest Control Research, volume II, Interscience Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 359:
text: In June he filled the vacated post of the Taiwan brigade-general located in the Tainan prefectural center. Accordingly, he moved his headquarters from the district seat of Feng-shan to Tainan-fu.
ref: 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
text: On the civilian side, the prefecture was divided into three districts (hsien), one centered at the prefectureal capital at Tainan, one in the south (Feng-shan), and one in the north (Chu-lo).
ref: 1979, Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: Over the next few days the rebels defeated government troops in several skirmishes and forced them to withdraw from Feng-shan and return to Tainan.
ref: 1999, John R. Shepard, “The Island Frontier of the Ch’ing, 1684-1780”, in Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of Fongshan.
wikipedia: Army Map Service
Carmarthen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kə(ɹ)ˈmɑː(ɹ)ðən/
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Keyrmerthyn, Kairmerthen, from an earlier form of Welsh Caerfyrddin.
Senses: glosses: A town and community (with a town council) in and the county town of Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN4120).
Keay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English, spelling variant of Kay.
Related terms: Keays
radical empiricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A theory of knowledge championed by William James which contested that the relations between objects are as real as the objects themselves and values experience as a way of knowing.
Grayrigg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5797).
leiomodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leiomodins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, in muscle cells, that binds actin
leiomodins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leiomodin
lenticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticles
Senses: glosses: A small lens or window.
lenticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenticles
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lenticel.
leucomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to leucomas
licomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lincomycin.
lignoseric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lignoceric.
lincomysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lincomycin.
lipofectamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipofectamine
lithophytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithophytic
logopedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of logopedic.
lopadolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lopadoliths
Senses: glosses: A coccolith shaped like a basket or cup
lopadoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lopadolith
lumbocaudal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lumbo- + caudal.
Senses: glosses: lumbar and caudal
sportswashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sports + -wash + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: From the 2016 European Formula 1 Grand Prix, matches at football's 2020 European Championship, and now the European Games, Azerbaijan is practicing sportswashing – using major sporting events as a way of diverting attention from human rights violations.
ref: 2015, Caroline Christie, “Human Rights Abuses and the European Games in Azerbaijan”, in Vice:
text: By taking this line are we as sports fans not also complicit in this sportswashing?
ref: 2018, César Jiménez-Martínez, Michael Skey, “How repressive states and governments use 'sportswashing' to remove stains on their reputation”, in The Conversation:
text: 2019 Felix Jakens, quoted in Sean Ingle, "'They want the money': the real reason boxing is going to Saudi Arabia", The Guardian
The fight is pure sportswashing and that's why it’s so important to challenge the Saudi propaganda machine and its increased use of sport to gloss over its abysmal human rights record.
text: 2020 Hatice Cengiz, quoted in Stephanie Kirchgaessner, "Khashoggi fiancee: stop Saudi takeover of Newcastle United or be complicit", The Guardian
I trust the Premier League and British authorities value their own principles and reputation above this transparent attempt at sports-washing
text: There is this assumption that sportswashing works, especially with football fans. I suspect there is a bit of a class thing going on here – as in, we are all thought gullible enough to have our awareness of the Saudis’ human rights record washed clean out of our simple minds.
ref: 2023 July 12, Adrian Chiles, “Is anyone convinced by Saudi sportswashing? Only the crooks who sell fake football strips”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The use of sporting events to improve a polity's reputation, especially to distract from human rights abuses.
Coordinate terms: greenwashing
pinkwashing
purplewashing
Related terms: alt: n., v.
word: sportswash
word: sportswashed
sportswashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sportswash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sportswash
Great Heck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5921).
Related terms: Little Heck
Kronstadt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Kronstadt.
Senses: glosses: A municipal town near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Located on Kotlin Island (also known as Retusaari or Reitskär).
sportswash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sportswashes
form: sportswashing
form: sportswashed
form: sportswashed
Etymology: From sports + -wash.
Senses: examples: text: Asked how he would feel if the event was part of a move to "sportswash" over wrongdoing, he said: "If that was the case I would definitely have to say I would be bothered – but my only focus is the boxing."
ref: 2019, “Joshua v Ruiz II: Anthony Joshua responds to 'sportswashing' Saudi human rights claims”, in BBC:
glosses: To use sporting events to improve a polity's reputation, especially to distract from human rights abuses.
sportswash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportswashes
Etymology: From sports + -wash.
Senses: glosses: An incidence of sportswashing
Coordinate terms: greenwash
pinkwash
purplewash
whitewash
Related terms: word: sportswashed
word: sportswashing
Buyid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buyids
form: Buwayhid
Senses: glosses: A member of a Shi'a Muslim Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, founded by 'Ali ibn Buya.
Buyid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Buwayhid
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Buyid dynasty.
hairful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hairful
form: most hairful
Etymology: From hair + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: In appearance he is a hairful gnome, born to ghost the fringes of rock and roll culture.
ref: 2010, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 196:
text: As you can see, I am far less hairful than an ape.
ref: 2010, Peter Josyph, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, page 102:
glosses: Characterised by fullness of hair; hairy.
Derived terms: hairfulness
hairful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairfuls
Etymology: From hair + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The cinema advertisements were spectacular, since local audiences seemed to be impressed by commercials only if they lasted at least two minutes and included stunning action shots, dashing men laden with hairfuls of Brylcreem, fast cars and sexy girls.
ref: 1988, James Saunders, “The Making of a Marketing Man”, in Nightmare: Ernest Saunders and the Guinness Affair, Arrow Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Largely because you've now got a hairful of finely sprayed boiling hot musician's shit.
ref: 2008, Jon Holmes, Rock Star Babylon:
text: He growls to reach a necktie
and dress for the table while she
climbs him, hairful by hairful.
ref: 2008, Cate Whetzel, The Bride at the Four Seasons Bar, page 45:
text: He reached out, grabbed a hairful of hair, and pulled.
ref: 2014, Kevin D. Randle, Target!:
text: He'll scare you and stab you, and tear out a hairful!
ref: 2019, James M. Campbell, One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas:
glosses: The amount (of hair) typical in a head of hair.
Samanid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Samanid dynasty.
Derived terms: Samanid Empire (819-999 A.D.)
Ghurid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ghurid dynasty.
Larbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8682).
Greenfaulds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7573).
raisin black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æk
Senses: examples: text: This new scooter is available in six different colors such as raisin black, silver, white dove, couture brown, rogue matt blue and moonlight silver.
ref: 2019 November 21, “Global e-scooter/moped and e-motorcycle market omprehensive Analysis 2019-2026”, in Hitz Dairies, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2019:
text: The designs showcased were two structured, sci-fi silhouettes in the Watson-generated colour palette of raisin black and Yankees blue. The third, the showstopper, modelled by actor Pooja Hegde, was a textured grey gown paired with silver pumps.
ref: 2017 June 2, Komal Sharma, “Where AI and fashion cross paths”, in liveMint:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A faintly purplish or brownish shade of black, like that of raisins.
Whifflet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7364).
Gobowen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Selattyn and Gobowen parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3033).
Llandudno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lænˈdɪdnoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Llandudno.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in Conwy borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SH7882).
glosses: A seaside suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Derived terms: Llandudno Junction
Clinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Senses: glosses: A surname.
white-knuckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of white-knuckle
white-knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of white-knuckle
white-knuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of white-knuckle
pistolwhips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pistolwhip
pistolwhipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pistolwhip
DAWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of DAW
bibliokleptomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From biblio- + kleptomania.
Senses: glosses: A mental disorder that produces a compulsion to steal books.
bibliokleptomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibliokleptomaniacs
Senses: glosses: Someone who suffers from bibliokleptomania.
Related terms: biblioklept
banana fold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana folds
Etymology: From the resemblance of this fold of flesh to the shape of a banana.
Senses: examples: text: Patients with good skin tone will be treated with superficial liposuction of the lower third of the buttock and the "banana fold," combined with fat injection of the gluteal depresion.
ref: 1999, Luiz Sergio Toledo, Refinements in Facial and Body Contouring, page 137:
text: interior buttocks, banana fold, and posterior thigh are suctioned through both trochanteric and tnfragluteal crease entry sites.
ref: 2000, Gregory R. D. Evans, Operative Plastic Surgery, page 95:
text: With the patient in the lateral position, the flanks and lateral thighs, the gluteal fold, and the “banana” fold are treated.
ref: 2016, Melvin A. Shiffman, Alberto Di Giuseppe, Liposuction: Principles and Practice, page 535:
glosses: A long crease below the buttock that results from a deposit of fatty tissue.
banana folds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana fold
unindividuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of not being individual.
unindividually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unindividual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unindividual manner.
spudzooka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spudzookas
Etymology: Blend of spud + bazooka
Senses: glosses: A spud gun.
spudzookas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spudzooka
unestranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + estranged.
Senses: glosses: Not estranged.
Tommy K
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: tomato ketchup
faggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faggishly
form: most faggishly
Etymology: From faggish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a faggish manner.
faggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faggish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being faggish.
Panes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fragonardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fragonardian
form: most Fragonardian
Etymology: From Fragonard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), renowned French rococo painter.
opening nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opening night
technical week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical weeks
Senses: synonyms: tech week
glosses: The week prior to the opening night of a play, musical, etc., during which technical elements such as costumes, lights, sound, set and makeup are tested during rehearsal.
technical weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technical week
tech week
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tech weeks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of technical week.
synonyms: word: technical week
tech weeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech week
McNicholas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McNicholases
Etymology: From the Irish patronymic from the personal name Nicholas.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
degenerationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From degeneration + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A theory stating that human conditions such as disease and savagery represent a reversion to an earlier evolutionary stage.
Related terms: degenerationist
Saltwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1535).
Minfeng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Min-feng
Etymology: From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 民豐／民丰 (Mínfēng).
Senses: examples: text: 247. Brocade mitten with the characters: Yen Nien Yi Shou 1st-2nd century A.D. (Eastern Han) Length 24 cm. Unearthed in 1959 from a site at Niya, Minfeng county in Sinkiang
ref: 1975, The Chinese Exhibition A pictorial record of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The People's Republic of China, Burd & Fletcher:
text: On the ancient Niya delta plain, more than 120 km north of the modern Minfeng (Niya) oasis, the famous Jin-Jua kingdom was founded during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).
ref: 1984, Chao Sung-chiao, edited by Farouk El-Baz, Analysis of desert terrain in China using Landsat imagery (Deserts and arid lands), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 127:
text: These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
ref: 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 329:
text: A Uyghur woman named Turakhan who lives in a suburban village of Niya (in Chinese, Minfeng) county in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture told RFA’s Uyghur Service on Wednesday that the village chief and police had informed all residents about “the list of forbidden Muslim names.”
ref: 2015, Roseanne Gerin, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Chinese Authorities Ban Muslim Names Among Uyghurs in Hotan”, in Eset Sulaiman, editor, Radio Free Asia:
glosses: Niya
Godwilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: ...so, on the other pairt, it wes to me no small confort that I sould now liue and, Godwilling, end my dayes in the tyme of a most gratious Pharao, who bothe knowes and will not forgett his evir deutisull and devoited Joseph.
ref: 1838, Publications - Issue 13, Edinburgh: Abbotsford Club, page 223:
text: By vertue whereof, they do hereby Declare and Publish, That they intend (Godwilling) in convenient time, to alter and abolish all such Lawes in the same, as shall be found inconsistent with the Government of the Common-wealth of England, or the Union and Incorporation of England and Scotland, and to frame and make others in their room.
ref: 1895, Scottish History Society, Publications - Volume 18, page 44:
text: I am about to hit a button at the base of the back of the vest, Godwilling, that will arm it.
ref: 2016, Yusuf Toropov, Jihadi: A Love Story:
glosses: Alternative form of God willing.
Godwilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Godwillings
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A printed circular sent in advance by a travelling salesman to customers, naming the dates on which he hoped to visit them.
God-willing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Concerning the cure thereof I meane (God-willing) to handle it hereafter.
ref: 1635, Jacques Guillemeau, Child-birth; Or, The Happy Delivery of Women:
text: At a signal from the captain they stumbled back into line to start the final slog of 780 yards, uphill all the way, taking them to the Dook, and thence, God-willing, to the West Mine.
ref: 2009, Arthur V. Sellwood, Mary Sellwood, Black Avalanche: The Knockshinnoch Pit Disaster:
text: I want to get more people aware, and God-willing I will.
ref: 2009, Carol J. Franz, There But for the Grace of God: Surviving Cancer with Adult Stem Cell Transplants:
text: I could never get my fill of looking at you in your bra and slip, and some day, God-willing, I will be looking at you in your bra and slip again.
ref: 2014, Martin McDonagh, McDonagh Plays: 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane:
glosses: Alternative form of God willing.
Hainanese chicken rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dish of poached chicken and seasoned rice, served with chili sauce and usually cucumber garnishes; a national dish of Singapore.
Gothish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gothish
form: most Gothish
Etymology: From Goth + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Let the Italians deride our English and condemn them for Gothish buildings.
ref: 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England:
text: 1724, Louis Ellies Du Pin, Vertot (abbé de), Jean de Vayrac, The History of the Revolutions in Spain
[…] rejoins the Moors with a Number of Gothish Officers […]
text: We may conclude that the last head of the Beast, which is the Papal, did arise either immediately upon the extirpation of the Gothish kingdom, or some time after.
ref: 1849, Robert Fleming, The Rise and Fall of the Papacy: Delivered in London, A.D. 1701:
glosses: Gothic
godwilling
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: But, of all kinde of paſtimes, fitte foꝛ a Ientleman, I will, godwilling, in fitter place, moꝛe at large, declare fullie, in my booke of the Cockpitte: which I do wꝛite, to ſatiſfie ſom, I truſt, with ſom reaſon, that be moꝛe curious, in marking other mens doinges, than carefull in mendyng their owne faultes.
ref: a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, “The First Booke for the Youth [Teachyng the Brynging vp of Youth]”, in Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC, folio 20, recto:
text: That I may cleare all men againe in generall & then, godwilling, I will not desire a penny more then I haue received, till the sow Ironn cast do countervaile it.
ref: 1887, Richard Boyle Earl of Cork, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Lismore Papers of Richard Boyle:
text: Knowing that there are seven hundred and twenty radii, I might calculate, godwilling, the number of seven day cycles that I had endured since the cessation of my toil, if I knew the number of times I had traversed each of the seven hundred and twenty radii, but I did not.
ref: 2008, Michael H. Phillips, Diacatholicon, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of God willing.
oily rice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of oily, flavourful rice prepared with fat, stock, ginger, garlic, and pandan leaves.
porn sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn site
pornsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornsite
porn-sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porn-site
hairpinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hairpinned
form: most hairpinned
Etymology: From hairpin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep.
ref: 1914, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife, page 235:
text: Here was a young woman dressed in drab and severely hairpinned.
ref: 2006, Karen Ann McNeill, Building the California Women's Movement, page 128:
glosses: Wearing hairpins.
examples: text: That said, what they show is still numbing: “Look at that crease,” says Wick, pointing out a cumulus-shaped gash of white in the steepest, most hairpinned part of the river course.
ref: 2000, Todd Balf, The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, page 14:
text: In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, "Kaiser Amer."
ref: 2013, Edward W. Said, Out Of Place: A Memoir:
text: Cross the bridge over the lake and climb a hairpinned road to the village.
ref: 2019, Stuart Haines, Walking in Abruzzo, page 245:
glosses: Containing hairpin turns.
examples: text: The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini.
ref: 1997, Maurizio Zanetti, Donald J. Capra, Antibodies, page 87:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Consisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme
examples: text: The hairpinned substrate was incubated with extracts from cells infected by both AAV and adenovirus.
ref: 2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E. Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Produced by a hairpin transfer.
heterogenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A change of subject to some irrelevant matter in order to distract the listener.
ten-strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten-strips
Senses: examples: text: I took a ten strip that night, and didn't stop tripping until my junior year of high school was over.
ref: 2003, Marc Clearwater, Kids These Days: The Broken Amp Blues, page 121:
text: Put that together with a lot of acid (and the night I got my nickname), and you have a recipe for disaster. She would literally hit her pipe, drop a ten-strip of acid, and wake up the next morning a different person.
ref: 2008, James Cheshire Clayton, Conventional Wisdom: Tales of a Blacklisted Fan-Boy, page 43:
glosses: A strip of ten doses of blotter acid.
ten-strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ten-strip
drivehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driveheads
Etymology: From drive + head.
Senses: examples: text: Stating that the circumstances of this accident disclosed a number of features which ought to be borne in mind in working shearer loader faces, Mr. Nussey points out that the drivehead of the conveyor was not securely stelled before the accident and the extra pull on the haulage rope pulled it towards the centre of the face.
ref: 1963, Steel & Coal, volume 187, page 450:
text: One end of the sleeve is bolted to the drive spring and the other end of the drive spring is bolted to the drivehead. The drivehead is keyed and bolted to the armature shaft by the shank of the same bolt that holds the drivespring to the drivehead.
ref: 1989, Larry D. Duggins, Aviation Support Equipment Technician 2, pages 6–10:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cap or similar end-piece that fits over or into the end of a moving mechanical part to protect the end from driving of that part.
driveheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drivehead
roll-playing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of roll + role-playing
Senses: examples: text: 1996, Jean Carrières, Dream Pod 9 Inc, Heavy Gear Rulebook
This method is the easiest but it lends itself to "roll-playing" instead of roleplaying since it focuses much of the players attention on dice and bookkeeping tasks.
text: After all, this is role-playing, not roll-playing—a distinction commonly made when this question comes up. It's kind of painful when the actual dialogue and behavior is wildly inadequate, but the dice say that no, that was the most persuasive argument you ever heard.
ref: 2017, Marie Brennan, Dice Tales: Essays on Roleplaying Games and Storytelling:
text: Role-playing not “roll-playing,” in-character interaction more so than the rolling of dice and meta-talk, this is what is required to achieve maximum impact.
ref: 2018, René Reinhold Schallegger, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games:
glosses: An approach to roleplaying games that focuses excessively on numerical scores (such as those obtained by rolling dice) at the expense of character and realism.
multi-user
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + user.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multiuser.
link-dead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: netdead
glosses: Of a character in a multi-user dungeon: stuck in a frozen state, but still visible to other players, as a result of sudden disconnection by the user without logging out.
feltwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old English feltwyrt, equivalent to felt + wort, after its felty, flannellike leaves, therefore it is also called feltpypt in Middle English and in German Wollkraut, and listed English names include flannel leaf, old man's flannel, velvet plant. Hence unrelated to felwort, fieldwort.
Senses: glosses: mullein (Verbascum gen. et spp.)
kikey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kikey
form: most kikey
Etymology: From kike + -y.
Senses: examples: text: — You sound like a goddam kikey Jew sonofabitch to me, you Jew bastard.
ref: 1969, Richard Jessup, Sailor, page 30:
glosses: Jewish.
Tele-snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tele-snaps
Etymology: Trade name (Tele-snaps), from tele- + snap.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A still photograph of a television broadcast, taken and sold for commercial use in the days before video recording.
Tele-snaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tele-snap
Rattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ratte
MAPPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAPPAs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement: an arrangement for the management of violent and sexual offenders who pose a serious risk to the public.
MAPPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MAPPA
mudhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudheads
Etymology: From MUD + -head.
Senses: examples: text: […] true mudheads sometimes spent so much time at it that they lost jobs, alienated friends, and failed to obtain academic degrees in the quest to attain wizard status.
ref: 1997, Stuart Berg Flexner, Anne H. Soukhanov, Speaking Freely, page 72:
text: “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.”
“I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]
ref: 2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 104:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.
mudheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudhead
Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Celtic Tiger
form: Celtic tiger
Etymology: A reference to the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan).
Senses: examples: text: Even aside from the emergence of the “Celtic Tiger,” were the foundations of the Irish manifestation of the global financial crisis laid by deeper structural issues in the Irish economy […] and in Irish political culture[…]?
ref: 2017, John Gibney, “Where Historians Disagree: An Epilogue”, in A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN:
text: Ireland shook off its reliance on the UK and became a Celtic tiger. While it might be a pity – and a sad comment on England – Scotland could do the same.
ref: 2024 February 2, Simon Jenkins, “Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The economy of the Republic of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the late-2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fuelled by foreign direct investment.
wikipedia: Four Asian Tigers
Related terms: Baltic Tiger
Tatra Tiger
stearopten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearoptens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stearoptene.
stearoptens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stearopten
ear defender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear defenders
Senses: glosses: earmuff (worn to protect the ears from loud sounds)
ear defenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ear defender
Carsonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carsonists
Etymology: From Carson + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Carsonism; a political supporter of Edward Carson.
Carsonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Carsonist
grammelot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡræməlɒt/
Forms: form: grammelots
form: gromalot
Etymology: Unknown. Dario Fo claims a French origin, and it has been linked to grommeler (“to grumble”).
Senses: examples: text: Actually, much of “Mistero Buffo” doesn't require translation and indeed is untranslatable: Mr. Fo speaks in “grammelot,” a kind of polyglot gabble speckled with an occasional intelligible word.
ref: 1986 May 25, Scott Rosenberg, “Dario Fo, Italy's Political Clown, Pays a Visit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Then, dashing in and out of guises, using his expressive face and body and speaking in grammelot so that everyone can understand him, he might improvise. That would surely be a Nobel first, like the winner himself.
ref: 1997 October 15, Mel Gussow, “The Not-So-Accidental Recognition of an Anarchist”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The language sounds random – “moot moot” and the rest – but it’s actually quite precise. Theatrically, it’s like Grammelot, a technique that has been used in theatre and commedia dell’arte for hundreds of years.
ref: 2016 January 11, David Sant, “How we made Pingu”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A style of language used in satirical theater: a gibberish with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements, used in association with mime and mimicry.
wikipedia: Dario Fo
Related terms: double talk
grammelots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammelot
mountain papaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain papayas
Senses: glosses: Vasconcellea pubescens, an edible white-fleshed yellow-skinned fruit of western South America.
Synonyms: mountain pawpaw
Chapman-Robbins bound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chapman-Robbins bounds
Etymology: Named after Douglas Chapman and Herbert Robbins, who discovered it in 1951, independently of the original (1950) discovery by John Hammersley.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound
glosses: A lower bound on the variance of estimators of a deterministic parameter; a generalization of the Cramér-Rao bound, it is both tighter and more widely applicable, but usually harder to compute.
Chapman-Robbins bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chapman-Robbins bound
Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bounds
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Synonym of Chapman-Robbins bound.
synonyms: word: Chapman-Robbins bound
Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound
mountain papayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain papaya
magic box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic boxes
Senses: examples: text: The viewer sits in front of the "magic box," being entertained.
ref: 1963, Scholastic Voice, volume 34, page 14:
text: A television program is a magic act. […] It was his [Walter Cronkite's] ability to appear in the magic box that gave him the tremendous authority necessary to lay claim to the absolute truth.
ref: 2009, Marianne van den Boomen, Digital Material: Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology, page 174:
glosses: Television.
magic boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic box
puckerbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Scrubby terrain; brushland.
psychosomatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The development of psychosomatic illness.