cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
groggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groggeries
Etymology: From grog + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?
ref: 1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal:
text: Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninviting groggery, when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.:
text: The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
ref: 1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success:
text: This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery.
ref: 1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice in the Fog:
text: An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust:
text: I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could.
ref: 1925, Various, Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6):
synonyms: grog shanty
glosses: An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages.
heartsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartsome
form: most heartsome
form: hartsome
form: hertsome
Etymology: From heart + -some.
Senses: examples: text: There thrust the bold straightforward horn To battle for that lady lorn; With heartsome voice of mellow scorn, Like any knight in knighthood's morn.
ref: 1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15,:
text: The delight, Due to this timely notice, unawares Smote me, and, listening, I in whispers said, "Ye heartsome Choristers, ye and I will be Associates, and, unscared by blustering winds, 30 Will chant together."
ref: 1896, William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III:
text: The oak rose before me like a pillar of darkness; and overhead the heartsome stars were set in the face of the night.
ref: 1907, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes:
text: It was a great hour for him as he wheeled the barrow homeward, Elspeth once more by his side; but he could say nothing heartsome in Tommy's presence, and Tommy was as uncomfortable in his.
ref: 1912, J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel:
text: A rainbow is a heartsome thing, for it reminds us of a promise made long ago, and faithfully kept.
ref: 1917, Nellie L. McClung, The Next of Kin:
glosses: merry, cheery, pleasant, delightful, attractive.
Derived terms: heartsomely
heartsomeness
unheartsome
hillcrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillcrests
Etymology: From hill + crest.
Senses: examples: text: But all that sunny hillcrest seemed brightened by the marquis.
ref: 1901, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Lazarre:
text: The light got red and angry as they dipped into the valley; the firs on the hillcrest stood out black and sharp, and then melted into the gray background.
ref: 1917, Harold Bindloss, Carmen's Messenger:
text: The upper half of her torso is raised and she's looking away from the camera, apparently staring over the hillcrest as if hunting for something amid the foliage or plotting an escape route.
ref: 2002 November 22, Justin Matlick, “Feeling the Buzz”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The crest of a hill
hotelkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotelkeepers
Etymology: From hotel + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: The American system is doubtless the best for the hotelkeeper, as there are manifest advantages in feeding masses at once, over feeding the same number in detail.
ref: 1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free:
text: Leon Chevret, the French hotelkeeper, said of him to a lawyer of his acquaintance, "Bret Harte, he have the Napoleonic nose, the nose of genius; also, like many of you professional men, his debts trouble him very little."
ref: 1921, Charles A. Murdock, A Backward Glance at Eighty:
glosses: A hotelier; a hotel owner.
howsomever
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Howsomever, a bullet passes between my arm—just here, and my side, and striked him dead upon the spot.
ref: 1830, [Frederick Marryat], chapter VI, in The King’s Own. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 95:
text: But, howsomever, Cephas wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typhus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown cemetery, Cephas Bodley's folks wuz carried to the county house, S. Annie, the children and all.
ref: 1890, Josiah Allen’s wife [i.e., Marietta Holley], Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete:
text: "I've come, howsomever, your mind to light With a more superior fire: You'll have naught hencefor'ard to do but write, While I sets by and inspire.
ref: 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber:
text: The old woman is over to one of the neighbors', and there ain't no one home but me; howsomever, I'm equal to any two."
ref: 1894, Edward S. Ellis, Brave Tom:
text: There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood."
ref: 1911, James Otis, The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley:
glosses: However; howsoever.
hydropathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropathists
Etymology: From hydropathy + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: hydropath
glosses: An expert in hydropathy
stuffless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stuff + -less.
Senses: glosses: without unnecessary things.
godspeeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godspeed
top flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top flights
Senses: examples: text: The visitors had not managed an away win in the top flight since the final day of last season, but Mauro Formica set the tone in the second minute with a rasping 25-yard drive which flew narrowly wide.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
text: No team in Spain’s top flight has ever won more points after 13 games. And so a word is increasingly being used: Leicester[.]
ref: 2023 November 13, Sid Lowe, “Girona and their boy from the barrio hit new heights on top of La Liga”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The highest league or division.
full-stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Paul Robinson produced a spectacular full-stretch stop to deny David Fox his first goal of the season from 25 yards before Elliott Bennett fired into the side netting when he should have done much better from eight yards.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Stretched to the fullest extent.
side netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Paul Robinson produced a spectacular full-stretch stop to deny David Fox his first goal of the season from 25 yards before Elliott Bennett fired into the side netting when he should have done much better from eight yards.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of side-netting.
fitty
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪʔi]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪɾi]
Forms: form: fiddy
Senses: examples: text: I need 'bout three dollars and fitty cents.
glosses: Alternative form of fifty.
fitty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪʔi]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪɾi]
Forms: form: fitties
form: fiddy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty, especially a 50-caliber machine gun.
fitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪʔi]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [fɪɾi]
Senses: examples: text: […] Cornish and Catholic, so that Miss Pascoe in the choir-loft of the church of the Immaculate Conception can admonish the organist: 'Do it fitty, my handsome.'
ref: 1957, The Aylesford Review (volume 2, issue 2)
glosses: Properly; fitly.
registered mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registered mails
Senses: glosses: A special type of mail that provides more control than regular mail.
straighty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straighties
form: straightie
Etymology: From straight + -y.
Senses: glosses: One who is straight (legally or morally abiding).
glosses: A heterosexual.
straighties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straighty
ratskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratskins
Etymology: From rat + skin.
Senses: glosses: The hide of a rat.
ratskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratskin
oxskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxskin
oxskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxskins
Etymology: From ox + skin.
Senses: examples: text: They sat around a fire on oxskins spread upon the ground.
glosses: The hide of an ox.
annoy'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annoy'd
form: most annoy'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of annoyed.
annoy'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annoy
otterskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otterskins
Etymology: From otter + skin.
Senses: glosses: The pelt of an otter.
otterskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otterskin
elkskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elkskins
Etymology: From elk + skin.
Senses: glosses: The skin of an elk, or leather made from it.
elkskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elkskin
theatrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of theatric.
theoretick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theoretick
form: most theoretick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of theoretic.
therapeutick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more therapeutick
form: most therapeutick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of therapeutic.
thoracick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of thoracic.
timourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timourous
form: most timourous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of timorous.
topick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of topic.
tragick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tragick
form: most tragick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tragic.
tropick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tropick
form: most tropick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tropic.
tropick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tropic.
tyrannick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyrannick
form: most tyrannick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tyrannic.
unstopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstop
undergoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undergoes
form: undergoing
form: underwent
form: undergone
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of undergo.
undiminisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiminisht
form: most undiminisht
Etymology: From un- + diminisht.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of undiminished.
undipt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dipt.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of undipped.
undipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Fascinated by this art form as it was born somewhere in the early 1970s, McCloud began matting the sheets, framing them, and hanging them like fine art, eventually getting close to the acid dealers themselves that they would supply him with “undipped” (and therefore legal) sheets of the art.
ref: 2018, James Oroc, The New Psychedelic Revolution: The Genesis of the Visionary Age, Park Street Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Not dipped; not plunged; dry.
undipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undip
unextinguisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unextinguisht
form: most unextinguisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unextinguished.
unfinisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfinisht
form: most unfinisht
Etymology: From un- + finisht.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unfinished.
unhelpt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhelpt
form: most unhelpt
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unhelped.
unprest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprest
form: most unprest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unpressed.
unprolifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unprolific.
unpublisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unpublished.
unpunisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + punisht.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unpunished.
unquencht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unquenched.
unscholastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unscholastick
form: most unscholastick
Etymology: From un- + scholastick.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of unscholastic.
unvanquisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvanquisht
form: most unvanquisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unvanquished.
unvarnisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unvarnished.
unwasht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + washt.
Senses: glosses: unwashed
thonself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Etymology: From thon + -self.
Senses: examples: text: Each of the members is expected to inform ‘thonself’ on the topic thus allotted, and to be prepared to give an opinion or ask questions.
ref: 1885 June, “Local Circles”, in The Chataquan, volume 5, number 9, page 544:
text: Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
ref: 1895, Henry Graham Williams, Outlines of Psychology, 3rd edition, Syracuse: C. W. Bardee, →OL, LCC BF141.W72, page 5:
text: Thus neither man nor maid mates for thonself, but both love and move in the tribal interests and along the lines laid down by the tribal leaders.
ref: 1898, W. J. McGee, “The Seri Indians”, in J. W. Powell, editor, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1895-1896, Washington, page 283:
text: Maybe I don't speak for the average American, but I very much doubt that thon wants that word in thons language or that thon would use it thonself.
ref: 1985, William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 3rd edition, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PE1429.Z5 1985, page 121:
glosses: themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with himself or herself, the reflexive form of thon.
Synonyms: word: themself
word: emself
word: hirself
Hyponyms: himself
herself
Related terms: other attested gender-neutral pronouns
ritualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritualisations
Etymology: From ritual + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ritualization.
Abergynolwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanfihangel-y-pennant community, southern Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6707).
popcorn movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popcorn movies
Etymology: Named after popcorn, a popular accompaniment to movies.
Senses: examples: text: Ah well, it's a pure popcorn movie, so what do you expect? Drop Zone doesn't tax many brain cells, but it does keep the pulse pounding right to the end.
ref: 1994 December 9, “Review: Drop Zone Unbelievable, Unpretentious and Great Fun”, in News Tribune, retrieved 29 Oct 2011:
text: Spielberg calls Minority Report the most cynical film he will have made—but yes, it has a happy ending, he says, and yes, it's a popcorn movie, "but a gourmet popcorn movie."
ref: 1999 February 14, Stephen J. Dubner, “Steven the Good”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie.
ref: 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2011:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A motion picture without serious dramatic content, a weighty message, or intellectual depth, which serves simply as enjoyable entertainment.
Related terms: brain candy
Command key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Command keys
Senses: examples: Press ⌘Q to Quit an application.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: ⌘
glosses: A modifier key present on Apple keyboards.
annext
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annex
glosses: simple past and past participle of annexe
gallopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gallop
punisht
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punisht
form: most punisht
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of punished.
Derived terms: unpunisht
punisht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punish
quencht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quench
dript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drip
tabellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabella
rejected takeoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejected takeoffs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A takeoff of an aircraft which is aborted by the pilot.
taxator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxators
Etymology: From Middle English taxatour, from Medieval Latin taxātor.
Senses: examples: text: The halls were in general held only on lease; but by a privilege common to most Universities, houses once occupied by clerks or students could not again be resumed by the proprietor, or taken from the gown, if the rent were punctually discharged, the rate of which was quinquennially fixed by the academical taxators.
ref: 1831 June, “Art[icle] VI.—1. Addenda ad Corpus Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. 4to. Oxonii: 1825. 2. The Oxford University Calendar, for 1829. 8vo. Oxford: 1829.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume LIII, number CVI, Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Company, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London; and Adam Black, Edinburgh, page 408:
text: The taxators appointed by the clerk of the Parliaments have power to administer oaths, and to require the production of proper vouchers for all monies charged as having been paid by a parliamentary agent.
ref: 1844, Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, London: Charles Knight & Co. […], page 460:
text: Farm assaying, i.e. the estimation of the value of farms and of their component parts is the task of specialized assayors or taxators and therefore we shall limit ourselves in this pamphlet to a short statement of their work.
ref: 1945, E. Taschdjian, Agricultural Economy and Farm Management with Reference to China, Catholic University of Peking and Chinese Catholic Agricultural Research Assocation, page 57:
glosses: Synonym of taxer.
synonyms: word: taxer
tepefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tepefy
testatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testatums
form: testata
Etymology: From Latin testatum.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Edwin perceives no contradiction in the two clauses; certainly the testatum proceeds to say that the assignment is made “in accordance with the bequests in the said will contained,” but the executor and legatees by the deed put their own construction on the will […]
ref: 1857, The Law Chronicle, page 59:
topics: law
glosses: One of the clauses of an English deed, enumerating the operative words of transfer, statement of consideration, money, etc.
branny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæni/
Forms: form: brannier
form: branniest
Etymology: From bran + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Miller, miller, jolly and gay, / Grind me some of your best to-day; / Wholemeal flour branny and bold / Fill me as much as my bin will hold.
ref: 1929, Robert Thurston Hopkins, “A Ballade of Excellent Bread”, in Kipling's Sussex Revisited:
glosses: Full of or resembling bran.
Synonyms: furfuraceous
Derived terms: branny desquamation
bathybic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Living in the depths of the water, or near the bottom under the deep water.
geophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + -philous.
Senses: glosses: Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground.
glosses: growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements to a class of fungi.
glosses: Fruiting underground.
pultaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pʌlˈteɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more pultaceous
form: most pultaceous
Etymology: From Latin puls (“meal, porridge”) + -aceous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Macerated; softened; nearly fluid; gloopy
step forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps forward
form: stepping forward
form: stepped forward
form: stepped forward
Senses: examples: text: Private Johnson, step forward!
glosses: to take one or more steps forward, especially in response to a request for identification
examples: text: Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers!
Ambassador Udina: The others will follow us, Shepard. They know we're their only hope. We will have a human Council with a human Chairman.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: to volunteer for something; to offer one's services
glosses: to admit one's wrongdoing, to own up
trecena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trecenas
Senses: glosses: A 13-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars.
trecenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trecena
trientes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triens
tutelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tutela
thalamegos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalamegoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek θᾰλᾰμηγός (thălămēgós).
Senses: glosses: A state barge fitted with cabins, on the Nile
Good Samaritans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Good Samaritan
yeees
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of yes.
nooo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: A quick search behind you, above you and below you reveals nix, not even an old postage stamp. Anything would do but nooo.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 142:
glosses: Elongated form of no.
assman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assmen
Senses: examples: text: 1856, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South, London: Printed for Private Circulation: Volume 2, Chapter 14, p. 173,
We met several camelestrians on our road, and horsemen and assmen; and the scenery in many parts was very pretty.
text: No sooner was Tom upright than the donkey gave the whole of his skin and muscles a wrench sidewise, which felt as if the seat was being dragged away. ¶ The consequence was that Tom nearly went off to the right. He was too good an assman, though […]
ref: 1885, George Manville Fenn, chapter 15, in Dick O’ the Fens, London: Blackie & Son, published 1888, page 244:
text: Even the asses have a fashionable air, large white beasts loaded with cushions, fringes, and tassels; so that horsemen and assmen trot side by side on equal terms in the gay parade.
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 4, p. 154:
glosses: Someone who rides a donkey.
glosses: An individual male who prefers voluptuous buttocks in a female.
Derived terms: assmanship
assmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assman
whatya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: whaddaya
form: whatcha
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what do you.
thnx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thanks.
thnk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of thank.
glosses: Abbreviation of think.
cheatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of cheating.
sweatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sweating.
greetin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of greeting.
seatin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːtɪn/
rhymes: -iːtɪn
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of seating.
whattaya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whatya.
prob'ly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒb.li/
Forms: form: more prob'ly
form: most prob'ly
Etymology: Clipping of probably (clipped pronunciation).
Senses: examples: text: I should prob'ly keep my eyes on the road.
text: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
All I want to do is write 'n write. But I'll prob'ly end up in COLLEGE. Ugh.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of probably.
Synonyms: probly
prolly
seminal fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lamprey: This eel-like pseudo-fish is said to increase the seminal fluid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 135:
glosses: semen
sex-starved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sex-starved
form: most sex-starved
Senses: examples: text: The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.
ref: 6 August 1953, “Jet”, in American political and entertainment news., volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22:
glosses: Undersexed, sexually unsatisfied.
sex gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gland in which sex cells are produced.
Synonyms: gonad
sex cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex cells
Senses: glosses: germ cell
sewen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sew
sewen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewens
Etymology: Cf. sewin (“brown trout”).
Senses: glosses: A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.
sewing circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewing circles
Senses: synonyms: word: kensington
glosses: A social meeting of women who congregate to sew and talk together.
examples: text: If Tallulah wasn't a member of the Sewing Circle it was one of the few lesbian adventures she missed. The Sewing Circle was made up of Hollywood women who were either bisexual, committed to lesbianism, or just visiting. They met at one another's houses for lunch, conversation and possibilities. The Sewing Circle sometimes met at the house of Dolores Del Rio, then married to Cedric Gibbons, the MGM art director.
ref: 2001 January 7, David Freeman, “Closet Hollywood”, in New York Times:
glosses: A discreet code for lesbian or bisexual actresses during Hollywood's golden age.
shadfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadflies
Etymology: From shad + fly.
Senses: glosses: mayfly
sharksucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharksuckers
Etymology: From shark + sucker.
Senses: examples: text: Shark fishermen sometimes receive an unexpected bonus in the form of small fishes known as remoras, or sharksuckers, which are attached to the sharks by a sucking disk located on the top of the head.
ref: 1972, Earl Stannard Herald, Fishes of North America, page 155:
text: The sharksucker may be found free swimming but is most often found hitchhiking on a larger fish by attaching itself to the fish with the sucker disk on top of its head.
ref: 2007, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 191:
text: Remoras and sharksuckers directly attach themselves to large sharks, Manta Rays, and large bony fish, feeding on scraps of their hosts' dinners and taking smaller fish not eaten by the host.
ref: 2012, Noble S. Proctor, A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico:
glosses: The remora or suckerfish.
Synonyms: echeneid
echeneidid
remora
suckerfish
Derived terms: taxonomic: Echeneis naucrates
word: live sharksucker
taxonomic: Echeneis neucratoides
word: whitefin sharksucker
Related terms: taxonomic: Remora australis
word: whalesucker
sharksuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharksucker
sharpbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharpbills
Etymology: From sharp + bill.
Senses: glosses: A small bird of Central and South America, Oxyruncus cristatus.
sharpbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sharpbill
shipside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipsides
Etymology: From ship + -side.
Senses: glosses: The part of a harbour or dock by a ship.
shipside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ship + -side.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: On a spaceship, rather than on a planet etc.
shipside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ship + -side.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: On a spaceship, rather than on a planet etc.
short back and sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short back and sides
Senses: hyponyms: whitewall
glosses: A typically men's haircut where the sides and the back are left shorter than the top of the hair.
show-and-tell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: show-and-tells
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show and tell.
show biz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of showbiz.
showerproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more showerproof
form: most showerproof
Etymology: From shower + -proof.
Senses: glosses: That does not absorb water during light rainfall.
showerproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: showerproofs
form: showerproofing
form: showerproofed
form: showerproofed
Etymology: From shower + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to light rainfall.
showwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showwomen
Etymology: From show + woman.
Senses: examples: text: A consummate showwoman, she led the community theater in Barringtonville for many years. In lieu of flowers, donations to the theater may be made in her honor.
hypernyms: showperson#Noun
performer#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: showman#Noun
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showgirl#Noun
showboy#Noun
glosses: A female showperson, especially one with a central role.
showpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showperson
showwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showwoman
shrievalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrievalties
Senses: examples: text: After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison with some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull.
ref: 1663, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1663:
text: --Can any of your readers inform me the origin of the delivery of water-buckets, glazed and painted with the city arms, given to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex at the expiration of the year of their shrievalty?
ref: 1851, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851:
text: He ought to do something to make his shrievalty memorable .
ref: 1911, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Brother Copas:
text: John Timbs, in his Walks and Talks about London, tells us that Phillips's colleague in the shrievalty was one Smith, who afterwards became Lord Mayor: The personnel of the two sheriffs presented a sharp contrast.
ref: 1913, Clement King Shorter, George Borrow and His Circle:
text: The district court granted the shrievalty to contestor Shaw! Shaw pointed out that he had lost the income from the shrievalty for eighteen months and deserved recompense. However, Paul was unwilling to concede this claim. Shaw served out the last months of Paul's term, […]
ref: 1996 March 1, Larry D. Ball, Desert Lawmen: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona Territories, 1846-1912, UNM Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff (chiefly in reference to the British office; uncommon in reference to the American office).
Synonyms: sheriffalty
sheriffdom
shrievalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrievalty
sicklebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicklebills
Etymology: From sickle + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds of paradise (Drepanornis spp., Epimachus spp.) and hummingbirds (Eutoxeres spp.) with a sickle-shaped bill.
Derived terms: alt: Drepanornis albertisi
word: black-billed sicklebill
taxonomic: Epimachus fastuosus
word: black sicklebill
taxonomic: Epimachus meyeri
word: brown sicklebill
taxonomic: Eutoxeres condamini
word: buff-tailed sicklebill
alt: Drepanornis bruijnii
word: pale-billed sicklebill
taxonomic: Eutoxeres aquila
word: white-tipped sicklebull
sicklebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sicklebill
side plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side plates
Senses: glosses: A plate used to serve the side dish.
glosses: The side dish itself.
side whiskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidewhiskers
form: side-whiskers
Senses: examples: text: The first who entered was a little ribston-pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.
ref: 1904 February 27, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Black Peter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: sideburns
Related terms: side-whiskered
siegecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From siege + -craft.
Senses: synonyms: poliorcetics
glosses: The science of besieging; warcraft of sieges.
silent butler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silent butlers
Senses: glosses: A dustpan with a hinged lid for collecting crumbs of food or ash from an ashtray.
silver salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver salmons
form: silver salmon
Senses: glosses: Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
synonyms: flat salmon
slender bream
skippy
glosses: beachsalmon (Leptobrama muelleri)
silvicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silvicolous
form: most silvicolous
Etymology: From Latin silva (“forest”) + -colous.
Senses: glosses: Growing in woodlands.
sixth-form college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth-form colleges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixth form college.
sixth-former
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth-formers
Etymology: From sixth form + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
glosses: A pupil in the sixth form.
Skegness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskɛɡˈnɛs/
Etymology: From either (East) Old Norse Skeggi (personal name) or skegg (“beard”) + nes (“headland”).
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England (OS grid ref TF5663).
Synonyms: Skeggers
Skeggy
Skeggers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Skeg(ness) + -ers.
Senses: examples: text: I lost a Kevin Keegan football at Skeggers :-(
ref: 2001 April 30, Alistair Mann, “Travelogues Needed”, in uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):
text: I thought that too - love that skeggers one!
ref: 2010 March 4, Sofa - Spud, “OT: BBC in pictures, Railways golden age!”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Skegness
Synonyms: Skeggy
Skeggy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Skeg(ness) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: After 170416 heads into the bay platform (2) to be prepared for its next trip to 'Skeggy', there's time to grab a coffee and await the arrival of RAIL's next train - the 1144 Leicester-Grimsby Town.
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: Skegness.
Synonyms: Skeggers
skim off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skims off
form: skimming off
form: skimmed off
form: skimmed off
Senses: examples: text: There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
glosses: To separate (the best part of something from the remainder).
skittle out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skittles out
form: skittling out
form: skittled out
form: skittled out
Senses: examples: text: His team was skittled out for 34.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dismiss (batsmen) quickly.
sleuthhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsluːθˌhaʊnd/
Forms: form: sleuthhounds
form: sleuth-hound
form: slot-hound
form: slothound
Etymology: From Middle English sluth hunde (and earlier as slodogge), from Old Norse slóð (“track”) + hound.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.
ref: 1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:
glosses: A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.
examples: text: And straightway the minions of the law led forth from their donjon keep one whom the sleuthhounds of justice had apprehended in consequence of information received.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 310:
text: Of course, that may be an accident and couldn't possibly be called a case against anybody; but then we haven't the means to make a real case against anybody. Till the police come we are only a pack of very amateur sleuthhounds.
ref: 1922, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 6, in The Man Who Knew Too Much:
glosses: A detective; a sleuth.
Derived terms: sleuth
sleuthhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleuthhound
smallsword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallswords
Etymology: From small + sword.
Senses: glosses: A light one-handed sword, designed for thrusting, which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance.
sneezeguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneezeguards
Etymology: From sneeze + guard.
Senses: glosses: A transparent panel mounted above a food counter, to prevent food from being contaminated by someone sneezing.
sneezeguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sneezeguard
snippety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsnɪpɪti/
Forms: form: more snippety
form: most snippety
form: snippity
Etymology: From snippet + -y.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: choppy
synonyms: snippy#Adjective
snipped#Adjective
glosses: Made up of short snippets.
examples: text: “He tole that little snippity nurse of his’n to give me ten dollars and make me sign a ‘paid in full’ receipt […]”
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 24, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 164:
synonyms: snippy#Adjective
snitty#Adjective
coordinate_terms: snide#Adjective
glosses: Irritable; impatient; short-tempered; often, in a condescending way.
Derived terms: snippetiness
Related terms: snippiness
snotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snotters
form: snouter
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
snotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snotters
form: snottering
form: snottered
form: snottered
Senses: examples: text: Araund the woman her lile ans ſprawl'd on the hearth, ſome, whiting ſpeals, ſome, ſnottering and crying, and ya ruddy cheek'd lad threw on a bullen to make a loww, for its mother to find her loup.
ref: 1785, William Hutton, A Bran New Wark:
text: What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
text: 'Aaaaaah. and that's another thing, I want a home,' I snottered. What the hell was going on? I was an emotional wreck[…]
ref: 2021, Alison Craig, Blue Skies at the Birdie and Bramble:
glosses: To snivel; to cry or whine.
examples: text: 'You snottered a sergeant, didn't you? My oh my! Clouting a police sergeant is something I've dreamed about for years.'
ref: 2013, Maurice Procter, Devil's Due:
glosses: To smack; to hit
snotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snotters
Senses: glosses: The wattles of a turkeycock.
glosses: Snot; mucus.
examples: text: We had our regular rendezvous, […] where we refreshed ourselves with meat and drink, sung obscene and abominable songs […], instructed the younger members systematically in prigging (stealing,) concerted robberies, washed and valued "snotters" (handkerchiefs,) and disposed of them, besides the other practices of a nefarious and abandoned fraternity.
ref: 1849, The Ragged School Union Magazine, volumes 1-2, page 175:
glosses: A handkerchief.
examples: text: You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.
ref: 2020, Ellie Jacobs, The Last Orphan: A Victorian Romance:
glosses: A pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs.
bonker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bonkers
Etymology: From bonk + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bonks.
souvlakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of souvlaki (“a Greek dish”)
souvlakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souvlaki
Spanish guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish guitars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of classical guitar.
synonyms: word: classical guitar
glosses: Synonym of Baroque guitar.
synonyms: word: Baroque guitar
sperm oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm oils
Senses: glosses: Whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.
spiderman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spidermen
Etymology: From spider + man; in reference to Spider-Man, a superhero who can climb walls.
Senses: glosses: A steeplejack.
glosses: A free climber.
spidermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiderman
vigintivir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigintivirs
form: vigintiviri
Etymology: From Latin vīgintivir.
Senses: glosses: Any member of a group of twenty officials.
Related terms: vigintivirate
vigintiviral
Paranda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Maharashtra.
glosses: A style of Garifuna music.
splooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spluːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːdʒ
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from the ejection of a liquid. Compare with spooge, spoo, spooch.
The term is first attested isolatedly in sense 2 ("ejection", "ejaculation"), referring to a dripping mop, in a 1919 St. Nicholas issue (see quotations); it is used in Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange to represent the impact of a sudden, forceful, splashing blow; it also appears in a 1966 book as an onomatopoeia for the milking of a cow. The term was popularized in all its senses around late 1980s, as evidenced in two 1991 slang dictionaries.
Senses: examples: text: 10. Buy a new sheep -- wool's all soft and furry, but it gets matted if you don't wash the splooge out now and then.
ref: 1990 December 11, STella, “Uncertain pleasures”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
text: I looked at the splooge on the mirror and grabbed a tissue.
ref: 2011, Shane Allison, Frat Boys: Gay Erotic Stories:
glosses: Semen.
examples: text: The suds of battle rose on high amid the flips and flops of well-aimed soap and sponges wet, and splooge of dripping mops.
ref: 1919 August 24, “Still More "Ad" Ventures of the Ivory Heroes”, in St. Nicholas, volume XLVI, number 10, Chapter VIII, page 28, column 2:
glosses: Ejaculation.