cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fanlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fan + lore.
Senses: examples: text: But by this time, we'd remembered the location of Clifton's Cafeteria which is well-known in old Los Angeles fanlore.
ref: 1957 May, Ed Cox, “Torus Installment”, in Contour, number 11, page 7:
text: We have moved out of fannish lore and into questions of ontology. I have long been fascinated by anything having to do with the nature of existence, nonexistence, the interplay between the two — even more than being fascinated by discussions of fanlore.
ref: 1981 August, Gary Deindorfer, “Group Sainthood”, in Boonfark, number 5, page 34:
text: The identification of Carl Barks is a crucial part of the fanlore, and the subject of some mild disagreement.
ref: 2021, Peter Cullen Bryan, Creation, Translation, and Adaptation in Donald Duck: Comics The Dream of Three Lifetimes, page 99:
glosses: The history or knowledge of a fandom.
Varderesyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varderesyans
form: Varteresian
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Վարդերեսյան (Varderesyan).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Varteresian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varteresians
Etymology: Variant of Varderesyan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Varteresians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Varteresian
Varderesyans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Varderesyan
diock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɑk/
Forms: form: diocks
Senses: examples: text: The birds live chiefly on the seeds of plants and grasses, on rice kernels, the fruit of the ficus Indica, and […] It is a real little spitfire, and while a pair of these Diocks are busy building the nest, they will quarel and[…]
ref: 1899, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 443:
text: Among the cleverest of the artists is the diock, of the weaver family. His home is in Africa, and he is an expert in the weaving of colour into the patterns of his nest. The finished house is a thing of great charm : soft and tinted[…]
ref: 1917, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Birds, page 4:
text: […] SIX MILLION Sudan diocks (small African birds) were exterminated.
ref: 1962, The Victoria Naturalist:
glosses: Alternative form of dioch.
diocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diock
Ezemaal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Landen municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
wikipedia: Ezemaal
nl:
Serdiuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Serdiuks
Etymology: Derived from Russian and Ukrainian сердю́к (serdjúk).
Senses: glosses: A surname, Сердюк.
FoLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FoLCs
form: FOLC
Etymology: Acronym of fan of Lois & Clark, seemingly chosen as a homophone of folk.
Senses: examples: text: First of all I am a loyal FOLC and will be until it is canceled.
ref: 1996 March 12, Cheryl Moore, “Tonight's Episode (3/10)”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: Hey, if every FOLC out there does the same maybe interest in the show will return.
ref: 1997 March 10, moulds clinton, “Re: Lois and Clarks mumbles? No. Fumbles.”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
text: This is just a new way to get to know some more FoLCs!
ref: 1998 October 27, Mandy Crustner, “New Lois and Clark Mailing List”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
wͨ
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: That which is croked, can none make ſtraight: & that wͨ faileth, cã not be nõbred.
ref: 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 1:15, folio 277, verso:
text: [folio A4, recto] Wee ſawe in this Countrey many Vines growing naturally, which growing vp take hold of the trees as they do in Lombardie, wͨ if by huſbandmen they were dreſſed in good order, without all doubte they woulde yeelde excellent wines: […] [folio B2, verso] They are very pitiful and charitable towardes their neighbours, they make great lamentations in their aduerſitie ⁊ in their miſerie, the kinred recken vp all their felicitie, at their departure out of life, they vſe mourning mixt wͭ ſinging, wͨ continueth for a lõg ſpace. […] [folio D2, recto] He ſaith that it is a very great countrey and as it were a newe world, the people very rude and voyde of all goodneſſe, they goe all naked ſo that they are miſerablie vexed with colde, neyther haue they the wit to couer their bodies wͭ beaſts ſkins, wͨ they take in huntinge, they haue no kind of metal, they liue by hũting, they carie certaine lances of wood, made ſharp at yͤ point, they haue bowes, the ſtringes whereof are made of beaſtes ſkinnes:[…]
ref: 1582, Iohn Verarzanus [i.e., Giovanni da Verrazzano]; and Nicolas [i.e., Nicolò] Zeno; Antonio Zeno, “To the Most Christian King of Fraunce, Fraunces the First. The Relation of Iohn Verarzanus a Florentine, of the Lande by Him Discouered in the Name of His Maiestie, Written in Diepe the Eight of Iuly 1524” and “The Discourse of the Isles of Frisland, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo and Icaria, Made by M. Nicolas Zeno, Knight, and M. Antonio His Brother”, in R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC:
text: Know you on wͨ ſide / They haue plac’d their men of truſt?
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 6, column 1:
text: Monſter, your Fairy, wͨ you ſay is a harmles Fairy, / Has done little better then plaid the Iacke with vs.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of which.
Kumtich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Tienen municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Vertrijk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Boutersem municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
wikipedia: Vertrijk
nl:
LeCrone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lecrone.
Boutersem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Boutersem.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
AWOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AWOSes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of automated weather observing system.
Herent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Erps-Kwerps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Kortenberg municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Kortenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Omega Points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Omega Point
Nossegem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Zaventem municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Chingtunghsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 青銅峽／青铜峡 (Qīngtóngxiá) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻing¹-tʻung²-hsia².
Senses: examples: text: The Chingtunghsia water conservancy works on the Yellow River and nine irrigation canals to divert water from the river in the autonomous region have been built or rebuilt with state investments.
ref: 1978, Peking Review, volume 21, numbers 27-52, →OCLC, page 28:
text: A major power-irrigation project has been built at Chingtunghsia on the Yellow River.
ref: 1978 October 19 [1978 October 18], “STATE AID TO NINGSIA REGION OVER 20 YEARS DETAILED”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 203, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M1:
text: Other large stations completed during this period include a 900-megawatt station at Tanch'iangk'ou (Han Shui in Hupei), a 300-megawatt station at Yenkuohsia, a 225-megawatt station at Chingtunghsia, and a 180-megawatt station at Papanhsia, all on the Yellow River.
ref: 1980, Vaclav Smil, “China's Energy Technology”, in China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 222:
glosses: Alternative form of Qingtongxia.
Zaventem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium, to the east of Brussels.
Rosener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roseners
Etymology: Variant of Rosner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Roseners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rosener
Scobie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scobies
Etymology: Scottish habitational surname from a lost settlement in Perthshire named with Scottish Gaelic sgolbach (“thorny place”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Weckesser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weckessers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weckesser.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Weckessers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Weckesser
Scobies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Scobie
Westenberger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Westenbergers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Westenberger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Yeck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yecks
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Jäck, Jeck.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Yecks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Yeck
Westenbergers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Westenberger
Wolber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wolbers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wolber.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Woehrle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Woehrles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wöhrle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Woehrles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Woehrle
calcium fluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inorganic compound and a white insoluble solid, CaF₂, occurring as fluorite.
Whitter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whitters
Etymology: English occupational surname for a whitewasher, caulker or bleacher, from Middle English whitere, an agent derivative of Old English hwītian (“to whiten”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
MAGAism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From MAGA + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: After his loss, Trump spoke of forming a “Patriot Party” that would compete with the GOP to fly the banner of true MAGAism. Such a third party, based on populist rhetoric and grievance, would be a twenty-first-century version of[…]
ref: 2021 June 22, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Melville House, →ISBN, page 238:
text: However, the series also finds Roseanne's performative MAGAism equally humorous. Principle, whichever side of the political aisle it hails from, is set up for mockery in this reboot, and the butt of Roseanne's jokes is no longer systems[…]
ref: 2022 April 12, Karen McNally, American Television during a Television Presidency, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Trumpism.
Van Ryn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van Ryns
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch van Ryn, an archaic variant of van Rijn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Van Ryns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Van Ryn
Whitters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Whitter
Erymna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐρυμνή (Erumnḗ).
Senses: synonyms: Orymna
Erymnae
Ormana
glosses: An ancient town Lycia, modern-day Greece.
Troha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trohas
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian and Slovene Troha.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Booz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boozes
Etymology: Borrowed from South German Booz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Trohas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Troha
Asian box turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian box turtles
Etymology: From Asian + box turtle.
Senses: glosses: Any box turtle of the genus Cuora.
Hyponyms: Amboina box turtle
Bourret's box turtle
Burmese box turtle
Chinese box turtle
Chinese three-striped box turtle
domed Malayan box turtle
flowerback box turtle
golden coin turtle
golden-headed box turtle
golden-headed turtle
green rice turtle
Indochinese box turtle
keeled box turtle
Malayan box turtle
McCord's box turtle
Pan's box turtle
Southeast Asian box turtle
Southern Vietnamese box turtle
Vietnamese box turtle
Vietnamese three-striped box turtle
Wallacean box turtle
West Indonesian box turtle
yellow-headed box turtle
yellow-margined box turtle
Yunnan box turtle
Zhou's box turtle
McCree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McCrees
Etymology: Variant of McRae.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McCrees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McCree
Ouseleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ouseley
Owsleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Owsley
Montegnée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Saint-Nicolas municipality, Liège province, Belgium.
primarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: the main leader of a group
Saint-Nicolas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Liège province, Belgium.
glosses: A community in Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest borough, Lévis, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A commune in Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France.
glosses: A town and comune in the Aosta Valley, north-west Italy.
drinkstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinkstuffs
Etymology: From drink + stuff.
Senses: examples: text: Rumor has it that the price of beer is preparing to join the aviation corps of the foodstuffs and drinkstuffs with a raise of $2 a barrel, to be effective about May 1.
ref: 1917 April 26, “Thirsty Citizens Now Face Prospect of 10-Cent Beer”, in The Detroit Free Press, volume 82, number 211, Detroit, Mich., page 5:
text: The waste of food in drinkstuffs doubtless is the strongest possible argument for war time prohibition.
ref: 1917 June 14, “Congress and Booze”, in The South Bend Tribune, volume XLV, number 16, South Bend, Ind., page 6:
text: It is rather a relief to find that war, the high price of foodstuffs, including drinkstuffs, an increased income tax, and all the rest of our daily bothers have not quite quenched the brave old English sense of humor.
ref: 1917 August 3, “British “Healthy, Wholesomee^([sic]) Fun.””, in The Daily Pantagraph, volume LXXI, number 185, Bloomington, Ill., page 12:
text: Barley was the principal drinkstuff.
ref: 1995, Christian Petersen, edited by Andrew Jenkins, Bread and the British Economy, c 1770–1870, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 18:
text: It has led to a style of presentation that does its very best to make foodstuffs, or at least drinkstuffs, look as unnatural but as stylish as possible.
ref: 2002 February 8, Albert Hill, “Bottle weary: Why is it that modern drinks seem to be aimed more at our eyes than our palates?”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, page 7:
text: The Fringe Festival, opening the Tuesday after Labor Day, includes several shows that combine theater and foodstuffs and drinkstuffs.
ref: 2017 August 29, John Timpane, “Gin and theater: Together at last”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 187th year, number 90, page C1:
glosses: A material that may be used as drink.
Coordinate terms: foodstuff
drinkstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinkstuff
AmeriKKKunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AmeriKKKunt
cassidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cassidines
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Cassidinae
Senses: examples: text: Novel host records and feeding behaviors are reported for five species in three genera of two cassidine beetle tribes, Hemisphaerotini and Imatidiini, from Ecuador.
ref: 2009 September 25, Wills Flowers, Caroline S. Chaboo, 0095. Novel host records of some cassidine leaf beetles from Ecuador (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae):
glosses: Any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.
banjo fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjo fittings
Senses: glosses: A hydraulic fitting consisting of a perforated hollow bolt, or internally relieved bolt, and a spherical union for fluid transfer.
Related terms: banjo bolt
banjo union
banjo fittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banjo fitting
Korbeek-Lo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Leuven municipality and Bierbeek municipality, Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
Diocletian window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Diocletian windows
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A large semicircular window, characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome.
Diocletian windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Diocletian window
sparklemuffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparklemuffin
naturallest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of natural: most natural
naturalest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The naturalest way is the best way, and the naturalest way is your own way.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of natural: most natural
Bierbeek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Flemish Brabant province, Belgium.
bileing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bile
relational adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relational adjectives
Senses: examples: text: In some languages, a noun cannot modify another noun by being placed right next to it (like an adjective); for such languages a noun might have a corresponding relational adjective (obtained from the noun by some morphological adjustment) which can modify another noun. For example, in the English expression architectural heritage, "architectural" does not refer to a property or quality; it expresses a relationship to the corresponding noun "architecture". For languages which do allow direct adjective-like modification of a noun by another noun, they might have relational adjectives anyway, for example, due to borrowing them from the former type of languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adjective that defines a relation and not a qualification.
relational adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relational adjective
whole boiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the whole boiling
Etymology: Suggesting a large load of laundry to be boiled clean.
Senses: examples: text: "And Toughey—him as you call Jo—was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and the law-writer that you know of was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and your husband, with no more knowledge of it than your great grandfather, was mixed up (by Mr. Tulkinghorn, deceased, his best customer) in the same business, and no other; and the whole bileing^([sic]) of people was mixed up in the same business, and no other. […]"
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: Well, I gave a better account of myself than Paddy here, for I made most of them keep their distance from me; but him they got on the turf before you could say Watch me eye, and the whole boiling of them was on top of him in the twinkling of the same.
ref: 1903, Robert Barr, Stephen Crane, The O'Ruddy:
glosses: The whole lot; all, or everybody.
ceratitidine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ceratitidine
form: most ceratitidine
Etymology: From translingual Ceratitidi + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The research included development of a diagnostic tool for identification of ceratitidine tephritids, and we had an opportunity to test this on maggots that were intercepted from a shipment originating in Europe.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Related to flies of the tephritid tribe Ceratitidini.
dacine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dacines
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Dacinae
Senses: examples: text: Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White).
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.
olive fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olive flies
Etymology: From olive + fly.
Senses: examples: text: This included work on 3 species of Psyttalia and on Tetrastichus giffardii by S. Mohamed. Identifications were provided for biocontrol programs on olive fly, and we made several attempts to collect more olive fly parasitoids in Kenya.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:
synonyms: olive fruit fly
glosses: A fruit fly of species Bactrocera oleae.
Haycox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haycoxes
Etymology: Variant of Haycock, with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
acanthocinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acanthocinines
Etymology: From translingual Acanthocinini.
Senses: examples: text: Also collected one A. cazieri on a rain gauge, Mecas rotundicollis and one as yet undetermined acanthocinine cerambycid on miscellaneous foliage, one tiger beetle (Cicindela sedecimpunctata?) on the roadside, and two orange lycids in flight.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any longhorn beetle of the tribe Acanthocinini.
bumelia borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumelia borers
Etymology: From bumelia + borer.
Senses: examples: text: A notable find was the pile of larval frass of Plinthocoelium suaveolens (bumelia borer) at the base of a living Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia) tree—a sure sign of active infestation by a beetle I have yet to formally record from this place.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Plinthocoelium suaveolens, a species of beetle which bores into bumelia trees.
cactus longhorn beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cactus longhorn beetles
Etymology: From cactus + longhorn beetle.
Senses: examples: text: We checked the cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata) along the way hoping to see Coenopoeus palmeri (one of the cactus longhorns, which I’m not sure has been recorded from Oklahoma) or at least one of the more widespread Moneilema species, but none were seen (nor really expected).
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cactus longhorn
glosses: Any beetle of the genus Moneilema, which are commonly found on cacti.
hister beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hister beetles
form: Hister beetle
Senses: examples: text: While I was on the ground photographing the flowers, I noticed a red and black hister beetle that proved to be Margarinotus bipustulatus—aptly named considering the two red maculations on the elytra.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
synonyms: clown beetle
histerid
glosses: Any beetle of the family Histeridae.
Carolina metallic tiger beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carolina metallic tiger beetles
Etymology: From Carolina + metallic + tiger beetle.
Senses: examples: text: I managed to snag the larva in one of the burrows, which I believe is Tetracha carolina (Carolina metallic tiger beetle) by virtue of the thin white margin around the prothorax and the open habitat in which the larval burrow occurred.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
synonyms: Carolina tiger beetle
glosses: Tetracha carolina, a species of tiger beetle.
cryptocephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultimately translingual Cryptocephalus + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: I rarely get anything beating Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia), but I beat most of the trees that I saw anyway and collected one cryptocephaline chrysomelid and two curculionoids.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.
amyl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See amylo- § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amylo- (before a vowel)
funeral pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeral pies
Etymology: So-called from the Amish custom of serving them at wakes and funerals, which developed because raisins are available year-round, unlike seasonal fruits.
Senses: examples: text: Taking hold of a box of raisins, she wondered how many more funeral pies she'd be making in the future. “None,” she whispered resolutely. She spent a moment in front of her spice tins and ran her fingers across the tubs filled with sugar, flour, and nuts.
ref: 2015 April 7, Ellery Adams, Lemon Pies and Little White Lies, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Tiffany helped her pack the funeral pies into the buggy. “Why are they called funeral pies again?” Tiffany asked her. Miriam sighed. She hoped Tiffany would not ask too many questions that she had already answered previously.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ruth Hartzler, Amish Romance: Amish Romance, Amish Romance Books:
text: “Would you make some funeral pies?” “Sure.” I turned to Eleanor and Matilda. “I'll show you how to make funeral pies.” Eleanor raised her eyebrows. “But no one has died.” The Amish ladies standing by all chuckled.
ref: 2019 July 28, Ruth Hartzler, Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery Box Set Book 1-3: Cozy mysteries, Clean Wholesome Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A sweet pie with a spiced raisin- (or sometimes dried cherry-) based filling, found in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
funeral pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funeral pie
antirobotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antirobotic
form: most antirobotic
Etymology: From anti- + robotic.
Senses: examples: text: I have not been personally in a conversation with anybody in the Astronaut Office that is antirobotic for some philosophical reason. They are a group of people who, in the final analysis, have the responsibility to get the job done.
ref: 1990, United States. Congress House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, page 90:
glosses: Opposed to robots.
clytrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Clytrini.
Senses: examples: text: I was committed to trying to find Agrilus on the plants—a single individual of which I’d beaten from the plants three days earlier, and after beating several plants and seeing none (but collecting a great number of clytrine and cryptocephaline chrysomelids along with other insects) I finally found one!
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the beetles of the tribe Clytrini or the former family Clytrinae.
pachybrachine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Pachybrachis + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The first one I beat yielded a very large cryptocephaline that I had not seen on any of the other Prosopis, so I continued beating them and collected a nice series along with a few other clytrines, pachybrachines, and curculionoids.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: Any beetle of the chrysomelid tribe Pachybrachini (subtribe Pachybrachina in some classifications).
curculionoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curculionoids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Curculionoidea
Senses: examples: text: The first one I beat yielded a very large cryptocephaline that I had not seen on any of the other Prosopis, so I continued beating them and collected a nice series along with a few other clytrines, pachybrachines, and curculionoids.
ref: 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:
glosses: Any insect of the superfamily Curculionoidea, also known as weevils.
Related terms: curculionid
curculionoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curculionoid
bokikokiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Kiritimati reed warbler
Christmas Island warbler
glosses: Acrocephalus aequinoctialis, a warbler found only on Kiritimati and Kiribati.
Ua Huka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, situated in the northern group of the archipelago.
Stresemann's bristlefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stresemann's bristlefronts
Etymology: Named after Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972), German ornithologist.
Senses: glosses: Merulaxis stresemanni, a tapaculo endemic to Brazil.
wikipedia: Erwin Stresemann
slaty bristlefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaty bristlefronts
Senses: glosses: Merulaxis ater, a tapaculo endemic to Brazil.
slaty bristlefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slaty bristlefront
canebrake groundcreeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canebrake groundcreepers
Senses: glosses: Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides, a bird of South America.
canebrake groundcreepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canebrake groundcreeper
Wailaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wailakis
form: Wailaki
Senses: glosses: A member of one of the Eel River Athabaskan groups of Native Americans.
Wailaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Wailakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wailaki
waivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waiveries
Etymology: From waive + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Significantly, on documenting Thomas's subsequent outlawry and Margery's waivery, the court clerk recorded that it was not known whether they had any chattels because they were strangers.
ref: 2015, Louise J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, page 92:
glosses: The outlawry of a woman.
waiveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waivery
waremaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ware + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of wares.
waremaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waremakers
Etymology: From ware + maker.
Senses: glosses: A manufacturer of wares.
waremakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waremaker
waterbailage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water bailage.
weathermaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weather + making.
Senses: examples: text: Tell us a little more, please, Dr. von Braun, about weathermaking.
ref: 1958, United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services, Inquiry Into Satellite and Missile Programs, page 613:
text: The ritual was barely finished when it began to rain. Naturally the Celts and Germanic peoples also had weathermaking.
ref: 2003, Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, Wolf-Dieter Storl, Witchcraft Medicine:
glosses: The (attempted) influencing of the weather, by magic or technology.
weathermaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weathermakers
form: weather maker
form: weather-maker
Etymology: From weather + maker.
Senses: examples: text: A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]
ref: 1999, Felix Speiser, Ethnology of Vanuatu, page 211:
glosses: One who attempts to influence the weather by magic; one who performs a weathermaking ritual.
examples: text: At first glance, that looks like a severe weather maker to our south, with the potential to move into our part of the world. Worth watching.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Saturday Afternoon Update”, in Kentucky Weather Center:
glosses: A storm; a meteorological event that creates unpleasant weather.
examples: text: It's right on the shore of a body of water that is considered Central New York's principal weather-maker. That makes this place the perfect seasonal bellwether: When it opens for the season, spring is here. When it closes, winter's not far behind.
ref: 2010 August 4, “Answers to Quiz de Cuisine, our test of Syracuse-area restaurant knowledge”, in Syracuse.com:
glosses: A geographical feature that tends to cause weather to form.
weathermakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weathermaker
two-spotted scoliid wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-spotted scoliid wasps
Senses: synonyms: blue-winged scoliid wasp
glosses: A wasp of species Scolia dubia, principally of the US.
weighment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighments
Etymology: From weigh + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The weighing of goods.
weighments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighment
weightbear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weightbears
form: weightbearing
form: weightbore
form: weightborne
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of weight-bear.
weightborne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of weightbear
weightbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weightbear
weightbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of weightbear
Kozlovsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Козло́вский (Kozlóvskij)
Senses: glosses: A raion of Chuvash, Russia.
westlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of westland
neutercane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutercanes
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small subtropical cyclones below 100 miles in diameter, formed from mesoscale features.
neutercanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutercane
whitecup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecups
Etymology: From white + cup.
Senses: glosses: The solanaceous plant Nierembergia rivularis.
whitecups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitecup
field night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field nights
Senses: coordinate_terms: field day
glosses: A night marked by some important gathering, discussion, etc.
field nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field night
cone of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cones of silence
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A hypothetical device or instrument which prevents eavesdropping on a private conversation.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: An order or directive which prohibits verbal communication about a particular subject.
cones of silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cone of silence
nonserrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + serrate.
Senses: glosses: Not serrate.
why come
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "Why come y'all ain't staying with me? You know you're welcome anytime. Your cameraman. What's his name? Bill?” “Bob.”
ref: 2008 September 1, Linda Leigh Hargrove, Loving Cee Cee Johnson, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 40:
text: "A letter." "From who?" "A friend." “Can I try to read it?" "No." "Why not?" "Because it's a letter to me, that's why." "Were you taking another nap, Mama?" "Yes, I was." "Why come you're smiling like that?"
ref: 2011, Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale, Penguin, →ISBN, page 383:
text: God begins to deal with me. “Why can't you trust me? Can't you trust Me with that? You say you believe in Me. You say I'm your God, trust Me. What's the problem? Why come you can't let Me handle it? Why come you can't give it to me?"
ref: 2012 March 23, Tetie Sessoms, Spiritual Journey Poetry and Praise, Booktango, →ISBN:
text: "Why come y'all din't wait for me???" Tommy bellowed at them. “Well, well, well!” Merle said, slowing to a stop as the boys walked up to within a few feet of him.
ref: 2020 July 22, J. D. Riley, A Jeweler’s Eye View: Volume One: Diamond in the Rough, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of how come (“why”).
synonyms: word: how come
extra: why
short-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-coats
Senses: glosses: The shortened skirts of a child when it no longer wears long clothes.
short-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: short-coats
form: short-coating
form: short-coated
form: short-coated
Senses: examples: text: Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated.
ref: 1885, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 1, page 85:
glosses: To dress in short-coats.
short-coated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of short-coat
short-coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-coat
short-coats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short-coat
short-coating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short-coat
short hose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The stockings of the Highland dress, reaching to the knee, as opposed to the long hose formerly worn by Englishmen.
cowboy steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowboy steaks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ribsteak (“a beefsteak with rib bone attached”).
synonyms: word: ribsteak
extra: a beefsteak with rib bone attached
cowboy steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowboy steak
buzzard bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dead meat; a corpse.
violetwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From violet + wood.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kingwood (“the wood of Dalbergia cearensis”).
synonyms: word: kingwood
extra: the wood of Dalbergia cearensis
1040-NRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 1040-NR
kicked the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick the beam
kicks the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick the beam
kicking the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick the beam
W-8BENs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of W-8BEN
Paracleticon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paracletice
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An office-book in the Greek Orthodox Church containing the troparia of the whole ferial office for the year.
Related terms: paraclete
Paracletice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Paracleticon.
paraclimaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraclimax
amnioserosae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amnioserosa
pin and web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web and pin
Senses: glosses: A cataract of the eye.
web and pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pin and web (“a cataract of the eye”).
Iron Crown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Iron Crown
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A reliquary from the early Middle Ages, consisting of a circlet of gold and jewels fitted around a central silver band, which tradition held to be made of iron beaten out of a nail of the True Cross.
set one's hand to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets one's hand to
form: setting one's hand to
form: set one's hand to
form: set one's hand to
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turn one's hand to.
handscrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handscrews
Etymology: From hand + screw.
Senses: glosses: An appliance for raising heavy weights; a jack.
handscrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handscrew
Republic of Nauru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Nauru
Etymology: Calque of Nauruan Ripubrikin Naoero.
Senses: glosses: The full official name of Nauru.
flag station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag stations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flag stop.
synonyms: word: flag stop
flag stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag station
sand rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand rats
Senses: glosses: Any of the rodents in the genus Psammomys, related to gerbils.
glosses: A geomyoid rodent, especially the camass rat (Thomomys bulbivorus).
Derived terms: fat sand rat
lesser sand rat
pale sand rat
thin sand rat
sand rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand rat
sand reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand reels
Senses: glosses: A windlass used in working a sand pump.
sand reels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand reel
sand pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand pumps
Senses: glosses: A long cylinder with valved piston for use in drilling rocks.
sand pumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand pump
red mulga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fabaceous tree Acacia cyperophylla, found in parts of Australia.
Anglo-Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo- + Australian.
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging to, or involving both England (or Britain) and Australia.
Anglo-Australian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglo-Australians
Etymology: From Anglo- + Australian.
Senses: glosses: An Australian of English ancestry.
spacequake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacequakes
Etymology: From space + quake.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A tremor in space or spacetime.
spacequakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacequake
Anglo-Australians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anglo-Australian
heart beats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heart beat
turn around one's finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns around one's finger
form: turning around one's finger
form: turned around one's finger
form: turned around one's finger
Senses: examples: text: She could do anything with him, she thought, turn him around her finger.
ref: 1943, Faith Baldwin, Washington, USA, page 330:
glosses: Alternative form of wrap around one's little finger.
take one's turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's turn
form: taking one's turn
form: took one's turn
form: taken one's turn
Senses: examples: text: I took my turn at the wheel.
text: You can take your turn now.
text: Then doth the joyfull feast of John the Baptist take his turne.
ref: 1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome:
glosses: To assume a place in a sequence of successions; to be one of a group that takes turns.
turn forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns forth
form: turning forth
form: turned forth
form: turned forth
Senses: glosses: To expel.
faculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: faculous matter
glosses: Of or relating to a facula.
iotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iotates
form: iotating
form: iotated
form: iotated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To perform iotation.
iotates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of iotate
iotating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of iotate
figurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From figure + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.
Related terms: figurist
figurette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figurettes
Etymology: From French figurette. By surface analysis, figure + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.
ref: 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444:
text: […] the sausages of Bologna, and even the macaroni of Naples and the plaster figurettes of Lucca.
ref: 2006 July 28, Megan Marshall, “The boisterous life of a libertine who worked with Mozart”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A figurine.
figurettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figurette
figurings out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figuring out
financist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financists
Etymology: From finance + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person involved in finance.
financists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financist
chairwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chair + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner or orientation of a chair.
examples: text: Chairwise, the Latvians have done some very arresting things lately.
ref: 2021, S. J. Perelman, Adam Gopnik, S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346):
glosses: In terms of chairs.
flankwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From flank + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: The battalion advanced flankwise.
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, a flank.
DCEU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: lifestyle
coordinate_terms: DCAU
DCU
DC
DCverse
MCU
glosses: Initialism of DC Extended Universe (“a shared universe centered on DC Comics-based superhero films, introduced with the 2013 film Man of Steel”).