cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buckra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckras
form: backra
form: bakra
form: buccra
Etymology: From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara; compare Gullah buckra (“white person”). Doublet of bakkra.
Senses: examples: text: As he was going to the stake, he turned about, and addressed himself to Mr. Jeffreys […] and said, “Buckra, you see me now, but to-morrow I shall be like that,” kicking up the dust with his foot.
ref: 1791, An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791, on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, London, page 77:
text: To show the deadly hatred they bore the white people, Thicknesse, who was the first in the town, and the person left with them as a hostage, related, that having taken up his abode with Quao, his children could not refrain striking their pointed fingers at his breast as they would have done knives, had they been permitted, calling out, “Buckra, Buckra.”
ref: 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 3, p. 73:
text: Oh the Buckra people who keep slaves think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise.
ref: 1831, Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself, London: F. Westley and A.H. Davis, page 9:
text: They kick me in the face, beat me with the baton, whip me in me balls, beat me with a cat o’ nine like them name buckra massa […]
ref: 2014, Marlon James, “General Rockers: December 2, 1976”, in A Brief History of Seven Killings, London: Oneworld:
glosses: A white person.
examples: text: “Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep him here till de corporal ob de guard come.”
ref: 1865 January, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Leaves from an Officer’s Journal”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 87, page 69:
text: 1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,
What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A poor white person.
buckra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: backra
form: bakra
form: buccra
Etymology: From Efik mbakara or Ibibio mbakara; compare Gullah buckra (“white person”). Doublet of bakkra.
Senses: examples: a buckra yam
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: White.
potty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: potties
Etymology: From pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A chamber pot.
examples: text: If you just let him know you want him to go on the potty, or anything, he's miles away.
ref: 1940, William Carlos Williams, In the Money:
text: Mothers very often make the baby and themselves unhappy by setting the child on the potty every hour.
ref: 1949, Edith Buxbaum, Your Child Makes Sense: A Guidebook for Parents:
glosses: A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.
glosses: Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.
Synonyms: sense: chamber pot
word: chamber pot
sense: other places for urination and defecation
word: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived terms: birth-to-potty
birth-to-potty diaper
birth-to-potty nappy
go potty
Pittsburgh potty
pity potty
porta-potty
port-o-potty
potty break
potty chair
potty chart
potty dance
potty humor
potty language
potty learning
potty mouth
potty-mouthed
potty pants
potty parity
potty princess
potty stool
potty talk
potty-train
potty train
potty trained
potty-trained
potty training
potty untraining
squatty potty
use the potty
potty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: potties
form: pottying
form: pottied
form: pottied
Etymology: From pot (“chamberpot”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: If anybody needs to potty, do it now before we go.
glosses: Synonym of go potty.
synonyms: word: go potty
potty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: pottier
form: pottiest
Senses: examples: text: The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.
text: It’s all very well for the Warden to talk about an open mind, but we shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering what other people are thinking about us, and whether our own conversation doesn’t sound a little potty. It’s the pottiness, you know, that’s so awful.
ref: 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
glosses: Insane.
examples: text: The Eastbourne Green is by no means a " potty " one, and happily belies its appearance.
ref: 1890, Golf...: A Weekly Record of "ye Royal and Auncient" Game:
text: "A potty little nine-hole affair at a hydro in the Midlands. My cousins stay there. Always will. Not but what the fourth and the seventh holes take some doing. You could manage it, though," he said encouragingly.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Easy to pot the ball on.
Derived terms: pottily
pottiness
man magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man magnets
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a woman, who is attractive to men.
Related terms: babe magnet
toper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊpə/
ipa: /ˈtoʊpɚ/
rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: topers
Etymology: From tope + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness:
text: The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 16:
text: […] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons, […]
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating how Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and how They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 304:
text: “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.
ref: 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:
text: George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.
ref: 1953 March, Baynham Honri, “Filming "The Titfield Thunderbolt"”, in Railway Magazine, page 164:
synonyms: word: alcoholic
word: drunkard
word: tosspot
word: alco
word: alcoholic
word: alkie
word: bacchanal
word: bacchant
word: barfly
word: bibber
word: booze artist
word: boozehound
word: boozer
word: borachio
word: bouser
word: carouser
word: cupster
word: dipso
word: dipsomaniac
word: drinker
word: drunk
word: drunkard
word: fuddlecap
word: fuddler
word: grog artist
word: guzzler
word: inebriate
word: juicehead
word: lick-wimble
word: lush
word: lusher
word: maltworm
word: pisshead
word: pisspot
word: plonko
word: reel-pot
word: rinse-pitcher
word: rumpot
word: shicker
word: slubberdegullion
word: soak
word: soaker
word: sot
word: souse
word: sponge
word: squeeze-grape
word: sucker
word: suck-pint
word: swill-belly
word: swill-bowl
word: swill-flagon
word: swill-pot
word: swill-tub
word: swillking
word: tippler
word: toper
word: tosspot
word: tun
word: winebibber
word: winesop
word: wino
glosses: Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.
off one's nut
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Old Smith was awfully bucked because he'd taken four wickets. I should think he'd go off his nut if he took eight ever.
ref: 1909, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in Mike: A Public School Story:
text: "[I]f I was to spring this news in Mr. Wright's hearin', why, such a sensitive, high-tempered gentleman as he would go plumb off his nut."
ref: 1914, Zane Grey, chapter 13, in The Rustlers of Pecos County:
text: "Look at them rapids ahead of us! Why, the guy that laid out this river was off his nut!"
ref: 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 11, in The Winds of Chance:
glosses: Insane, crazy.
raw_tags: in US
Synonyms: word: off one's rocker
goa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goas
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
fingerbang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fingerbangs
form: fingerbanging
form: fingerbanged
form: fingerbanged
form: finger bang
Etymology: From finger + bang.
Senses: examples: text: I would tell her "Your roommate's really pretty," before moving on to long monologues about ex-girlfriends, every cheerleader I ever fucked, a cousin I fingerbanged at a party in Virginia Beach[…]
ref: 1998, Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama:
glosses: To use one or more fingers to stimulate another individual's vulva, vagina, or anus for sexual pleasure.
Synonyms: fingerfuck
Derived terms: fingerbanger
fingerbang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerbangs
form: finger bang
Etymology: From finger + bang.
Senses: glosses: The use of one or more fingers to stimulate another person's vulva, vagina, or anus for sexual pleasure.
north-eastern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more north-eastern
form: most north-eastern
Senses: examples: text: I first examined the large series of fine skulls from the Chen-kou-ting district of North-eastern Ssuchuan, close to the border of Shensi and Hupei.
ref: 1917 [1916 October 9], Arthur de Carle Sowerby, “On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals in the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, Longmans, Green, and Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Alternative form of northeastern.
south-eastern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more south-eastern
form: most south-eastern
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southeastern.
north-western
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more north-western
form: most north-western
Senses: examples: text: In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.
ref: 1972, Paul G. Pickowicz, “Barefoot Doctors in China: People, Politics, and Paramedicine”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 34, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of northwestern.
south-western
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of southwestern.
rajah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ʒə/
ipa: /ˈɹaː.ha/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒə
rhymes: -ɑːʒə
Forms: form: rajahs
form: raja
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi राजा (rājā) and Urdu راجا (rājā), from Sanskrit राजन् (rājan, “king, prince”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrā́ȷ́ā (“king”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrā́ȷ́ā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵ-ō, from *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Doublet of Rex, rex, and roy.
Senses: glosses: A Hindu prince or ruler in India.
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Charaxes.
Coordinate terms: english: wife of a rajah
translation: wife of a rajah
word: rani
Related terms: word: maharaja
word: raj
word: rajbari
word: Rajput
equals sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equals signs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of equal sign.
discomfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/
Forms: form: discomforts
Etymology: From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + comfort.
Senses: examples: text: […] although overcrowding on the trains running via London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:
text: The Western operating authorities are wisely concentrating their main line diesel power at individual sheds, beginning with Laira, so that engine-crews do not have the rather demoralising experience of switching about constantly between the comfort and ease of diesel handling and the relative discomfort and hard work of the steam footplate, as on other Regions.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:
glosses: Mental or bodily distress.
examples: text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
text: This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
ref: 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera:
glosses: Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
Derived terms: motion discomfort
discomfort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/
Forms: form: discomforts
form: discomforting
form: discomforted
form: discomforted
Etymology: From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + comfort.
Senses: glosses: To cause annoyance or distress to.
examples: text: His funeral shall not be in our camp,
 Lest it discomfort us.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To discourage; to deject.
Derived terms: discomforter
Related terms: discomfit
Ystad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden.
raja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː.ʒə/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒə
rhymes: -ɑːʒə
Forms: form: rajas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rajah.
beer goggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪə ˌɡɒɡl̩z/
ipa: /ˈbɪɚ ˌɡɑɡ(ə)l/
Etymology: Originally 1980s US college slang, from the notion that consumption of beer and other alcoholic beverages causes people to see things differently, as if wearing a type of goggles.
Senses: examples: text: “Their findings essentially suggest that while intoxication may not have resulted in beer goggles, it did seem to increase liquid courage, in that people were more likely to indicate a desire to interact with attractive others,” said Monk, whose previous research had found some evidence to support the beer goggles effect.
ref: 2023 August 30, Linda Geddes, “‘Beer goggles’ study finds alcohol does not make people seem better looking”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The illusion that people are more sexually attractive, brought on by alcohol consumption.
Related terms: deployment goggles
love goggles
money goggles
beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
gigantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪzəm/
/d͡ʒəˈɡæntɪzəm/
/ˈd͡ʒaɪɡəntɪzəm/
Forms: form: gigantisms
Etymology: From French gigantisme, from Latin gigans (“giant”).
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being gigantic; being of abnormally large size.
examples: text: He [...] may have had a condition called gigantism that explained his notable height.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 68:
glosses: A condition where there is over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland in a child before the bone growth plates close, resulting in excessive long bone growth, accompanied by muscular weakness and sexual impotence.
Synonyms: giantism
macrosomia
Derived terms: acromegalogigantism
hemigigantism
local gigantism
Related terms: acromegaly
rani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑː.niː/
Forms: form: ranis
form: ranee
Etymology: From Hindustani رانی (rānī) / रानी (rānī), from Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, “queen, princess”). Doublet of Regina.
Senses: glosses: The wife of a rajah.
glosses: A Hindu princess or female ruler in India.
Related terms: maharani
ranee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rani.
giantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giantisms
Etymology: From giant + -ism, coined in the mid 17th century. In the medical or biological sense of gigantism from the 1880s.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gigantism.
synonyms: word: gigantism
spamvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of spam + advertising
Senses: glosses: The practice of sending spam email, or of posting similar material on a wiki, blog or notice board, in order to advertise or attract search engines to a website.
Related terms: spamvertise
spamvertisement
spamvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of spam + advertising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spamvertise
macrosomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosomias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The state (of a foetus or neonate) of being abnormally large
Derived terms: macrosomic
Related terms: acromegaly
gigantism
LGA
elegant variation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elegant variations
Etymology: Introduced by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English (1906).
Senses: examples: text: A closely related rule for encoding legal texts is the same meaning, same form principle. We saw previously that this rule requires lawyers to avoid elegant variation. Instead, they should consistently use one word if they mean the same thing.
ref: 1999, Peter M. Tiersma, Legal Language, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 131:
topics: journalism
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: inelegant variation
glosses: The use of synonyms to avoid repetition (regarded as a stylistic fault when done excessively).
wikipedia: Francis George Fowler
H. W. Fowler
The King's English
Related terms: monologophobia
synonymomania
sine die
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌɪ.ni ˈdaɪ.iː/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.neɪ ˈdiː.eɪ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ni ˈdaɪ.i/
ipa: /ˈsɪ.neɪ ˈdi.eɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin sine diē (literally “without a day”).
Senses: examples: text: Years ago […] he might have retrieved his position; but he had done what most people will do in such cases—put off the evil day sine die, and gone on increasing his enormous list of debts.
ref: 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 6:
text: In anticipation of Dr Hassiem's release the inquest of Mr Ngubene's death, originally scheduled for 13 April, was postponed sine die.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 105:
text: In accordance with the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, I now adjourn the Council, sine die.
ref: 1997, Andrew Wong, “Official Record of Proceedings—27 June 1997”, in Official Record of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, page 1407:
glosses: Without specifying a date (for a future event); indefinitely.
Derived terms: adjournment sine die
monorchid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + orchid.
Senses: glosses: Having only one testicle within the scrotum.
Related terms: cryptorchid
polyorchid
monorchism
monorchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monorchids
Etymology: From mono- + orchid.
Senses: glosses: A person having only one testicle within the scrotum.
Derived terms: monorchidic
monorchidism
antibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.tə.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: antibiotics
Etymology: Borrowed from French antibiotique; by surface analysis, anti- + -biotic.
Senses: examples: text: On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all.
ref: 2009 August 22, Nicholas Kristof, “Food for the Soul”, in The New York Times:
text: We selected colistimethate sodium (CMS) as our antibiotic of choice.
ref: 2015 November 7, “Lung Microbiota Changes Associated with Chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Infection and the Impact of Intravenous Colistimethate Sodium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
hypernyms: antimicrobial#Noun
glosses: Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms, generally transported by the lymphatic system.
Synonyms: word: antibiotic
Hypernyms: word: pharmaceutical
Hyponyms: word: erythromycin
word: moenomycin
word: penicillin
word: phytoalexin
word: polymyxin
Derived terms: antibiotically
antibioticked
antibioticogram
antiboyotic
broad-spectrum antibiotic
enzybiotic
metalloantibiotic
multiantibiotic
nanoantibiotic
nonantibiotic
polyantibiotic
postantibiotic
preantibiotic
sactibiotic
antibiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.tə.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more antibiotic
form: most antibiotic
Etymology: Borrowed from French antibiotique; by surface analysis, anti- + -biotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
hypernyms: antimicrobial#Adjective
glosses: Of or relating to antibiotics.
glosses: Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist.
Related terms: abiogenetic
abiotic
antibiosis
gnotobiotic
xenobiotic
antibacterial
antiseptic
hols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒlz/
rhymes: -ɒlz
homophone: halls (cot–caught merger)
homophone: hauls (cot–caught merger)
homophone: holes (doll–dole merger)
Etymology: Clipping of holidays.
Senses: examples: text: Where are you off to on your hols this year?
text: "A lot of queer things happened to me in the hols," said Eustace mysteriously.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Holidays (time off work or time spent travelling).
Northern Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː(ɹ)ðə(ɹ)n ˈaiə(ɹ)lənd/
Forms: form: NI
form: N. Ireland
form: N.Ireland
form: Norn Iron
Senses: glosses: A constituent country and province of the United Kingdom, situated in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland.
Synonyms: word: NI
word: North of Ireland
english: Irish nationalist
translation: Irish nationalist
word: Six Counties
alt: unionist
word: Ulster
word: the North
word: Norn Iron
word: Northern Ireland
Meronyms: word: Antrim
word: Armagh
word: Derry
word: Down
word: Fermanagh
word: Tyrone
Related terms: Northern Irelander
Northern Irish
Northern Irishman
Northern Irishwoman
Ireland
Ulster
Southern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Eire
pissed as a newt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Drunk to the point of incapacity; inebriated.
Synonyms: paralytic
drunk
beer ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer tickets
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: beer money
glosses: Paper money.
coordinate_terms: beer money
;
meal ticket
bread ticket
glosses: A slip of paper which entitles the bearer to obtain a serving of beer.
feisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪsti/
rhymes: -aɪsti
Forms: form: feistier
form: more feisty
form: feistiest
form: most feisty
Etymology: 1896, American, feist (“small, aggressive dog”) + -y; the term feist (now rare) itself originally meant “stink”, and earlier “fart”, from Middle English, from Old English, from Proto-Germanic, presumably from Proto-Indo-European – see feist for details.
Senses: examples: text: spirited and feisty
text: She gave a feisty response during the debate.
text: The feisty puppy barked at everyone.
glosses: Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
examples: text: small but feisty
text: The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
ref: 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2016:
glosses: Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.
examples: text: feisty attitude
glosses: Easily offended and ready to bicker.
Derived terms: feistily
feistiness
shiesty
unfeisty
trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: plural of trot
trots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: examples: text: I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.
synonyms: screaming trots
glosses: Diarrhoea/diarrhea.
examples: text: A lot of people used to go out to the trots at Wayville. You′d see them all dressed up in their beads and bonnets and looking all flash, going off to the trots.
ref: 2002, Veronica Brodie, Mary-Anne Gale, My Side of the Bridge: The Life Story of Veronica Brodie as Told to Mary-Anne Gale, South Australia: Wakefield Press, page 49:
text: ‘Russ drank two bottles of Coruba rum at the races then demanded to be driven to the Auckland night trots. We hadn′t been that keen on going to the trots, but when we dropped him there we figured we might as well stay for a couple of races.[…]’
ref: 2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, HarperCollins New Zealand, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: I like both kinds of racing, thoroughbred and standardbred. Despite their lower social status, I like betting the trots just as much as I do the flats.
ref: 2008, J. D. Carpenter, Twelve Trees, Canada: Dundurn Press, page 24:
text: “[…]It is a fact that thousands come, pay their fee, and go straight to the amphitheater to see the trots, without whose fees premiums could not be paid to other classes.”
ref: 2008, Drake Hokanson, Carol Kratz, Purebred & Homegrown: America′s County Fairs, US: Terrace Books, page 45:
text: 2011, Mike Walsh, 8: From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia, Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies, Wiley, page 164,
The introduction of harness racing on Saturday nights at nearby Wayville in 1934 caused serious consequences for the rest of the 1930s as ‘the trots’ regularly attracted crowds of 20 000. When the trots began to offer free admission to children accompanying their parents, the state Exhibitors′ Association, of which Thompson was then chair, tried to agitate against this on moral grounds.
glosses: A trotting race meet; harness racing.
Derived terms: backdoor trots
runner's trots
Related terms: the runs
the shits
the squirts
the squits
trots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trot
monetary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnɪtəɹi/
ipa: [ˈmʌnɪtɹi]
ipa: /ˈmɑnɪˌtɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmʌnəˌtɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɐn.ə.teː.ɹi/
Etymology: From Middle French monétaire, from Late Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presence—from 273 BC to AD 84—of the chief Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. Doublet of minter.
Senses: examples: text: Although of little monetary value, Rosie treasured her late grandfather's old hunting gear.
text: So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass.
ref: 2019 August 1, Mark Zandi, “Blame Trump for the Fed’s broken monetary policy compass”, in CNN:
text: Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.
ref: 2019, Emerson Kathy Lynn, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries:
text: The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.
ref: 2022, Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music, page 62:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.
Derived terms: monetarily
monetarization
monetary impotence
monetary instrument
monetary policy
monetary unit
non-monetary
nonmonetary
premonetary
unmonetary
Related terms: mint
monetarism
monetarist
money
polyphagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: Animals show various degrees of adaptation aimed at taking advantage of available resources, but. . . most can be considered either specialists or generalists. Among plant-eating insects the more specific terms polyphagous, oligophagous, and monophagous are widely employed in relation to the variety of plant species they use. The majority of phytophagous insects are oligophagous. While they differ in their behavior from monophagous insects (which feed on only a single plant species), they are selective as far as which plant families or genera are acceptable. Other factors besides nutritional composition of the plant are important in guiding their behavior. Specialist animals exploit a particular resource: perhaps a particular plant part such as leaves or fruit, or perhaps a single plant species. . .
By contrast, humans are extreme generalists. Like other omnivores such as rats, bears, pigs, and many primates, we eat a range of animal and plant foods. For omnivores, not only sensory perception but also the lessons learned from the physiological consequences of ingestion are important in determining food selection.
ref: Timothy Johns: The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine -- CHEMICAL ECOLOGY. →ISBN, p. 5
glosses: Eating many types of food.
examples: 2024 WA Government Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development: Agriculture and Food
Polyphagous shot-hole borer Euwallacea fornicatus is a beetle native to Southeast Asia. The beetle attacks a wide range of plants by tunnelling into trunks, stems and branches.
Polyphagous shot-hole borer has a symbiotic relationship with a Fusarium fungus, farming it inside the tree as a food source for the beetle and its larvae. In susceptible trees, the fungus kills vascular tissue causing Fusarium dieback and tree death.
glosses: Feeding on many different species of host plants.
raw_tags: of a herbivorous species of insect
Related terms: sense: eating many types of food
word: euryphagous
sense: eating many types of food
word: omnivorous
FMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of false memory syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fibromyalgia syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of facial masculinization surgery.
Coordinate terms: topics: surgery
medicine
sciences
english: facial feminization surgery
translation: facial feminization surgery
word: FFS
FMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federated Malay States.
false memory syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: A condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories which are factually incorrect but strongly believed.
Related terms: FMS
fantasy football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A competition in which participants select combinations of football players in a real league and score points according to their performance.
frequently asked questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequently asked question
Senses: glosses: An online document containing a list of the questions most often asked about a particular subject, together with answers.
Related terms: FAQ
home-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts.
ref: 2007, Allen Makepeace, And Such Great Names as These, Leicester: Matador, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
ref: 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of homemade.
cached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cache
Derived terms: noncached
uncached
cottonmouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonmouths
form: cotton-mouth
Etymology: From cotton + mouth.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An oral dryness often associated with certain medicines and recreational drugs.
glosses: A snake, Agkistrodon piscivorus, the water moccasin.
glosses: A snake, Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead.
Synonyms: sense: oral dryness
word: dry mouth
sense: oral dryness
word: xerostomia
Derived terms: cottonmouthed
taas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taa
interlingua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlinguas
Etymology: From inter- + Latin lingua (“language”).
Senses: glosses: an interlanguage
bask
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bäsk
ipa: /bɑːsk/
enpr: băsk
ipa: /bæsk/
homophone: Basque
homophone: basque (in some dialects)
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: basks
form: basking
form: basked
form: basked
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English basken, from Old Norse baðask (“to take a bath”, literally “to bathe oneself”), mediopassive form from underlying baða (“to bathe”) + sik (“oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *baþōną and *sek. Doublet of English bathe.
Senses: examples: text: to bask in the sun
text: The naked Negro, panting at the line, / Baſks in the glare, or ſtems the tepid wave, / And thanks his Gods for all the good they gave.
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: There will be no problems with visibility, or the highly changeable Highland weather, as Scotland basks in what is reported to be the country's hottest September day for more than a century.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and Pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
glosses: To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.
examples: text: to bask in someone’s favour
text: I basked in her love.
text: As President Obama turns his attention once again to filling out a cabinet and writing an Inaugural Address, this much is clear: he should not expect to bask in a surge of national unity, or to witness a crowd of millions overrun the Mall just to say they were there.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
text: On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (Usually followed by "in".)
Hyponyms: sense: to be exposed to the sun's heat
word: apricate
sense: to be exposed to the sun's heat
word: sun
Derived terms: abask
bask in the sunshine
bask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bäsk
ipa: /bɑːsk/
enpr: băsk
ipa: /bæsk/
homophone: Basque
homophone: basque (in some dialects)
rhymes: -æsk
rhymes: -ɑːsk
Forms: form: basks
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English basken, from Old Norse baðask (“to take a bath”, literally “to bathe oneself”), mediopassive form from underlying baða (“to bathe”) + sik (“oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *baþōną and *sek. Doublet of English bathe.
Senses: examples: text: Most cats enjoy a bask in the sunshine.
glosses: The act of bathing in warmth.
examples: text: The threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to health systems in subSaharan Africa (SSA) can be compared metaphorically to a lake in Africa infested with a bask of crocodiles and the saying “the eye of the crocodile.”
ref: 2020 March, “COVID-19 threatens health systems in sub-Saharan Africa: the eye of the crocodile”, in Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 130, number 6, page 2741:
glosses: A group of crocodiles; the collective noun for crocodiles.
chain gang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain gangs
form: chain-gang
Senses: examples: text: My idea was to let that chain-gang get out of sight before I climbed the hill.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
text: I am presently donating my time and energies unwillingly to the Florida Dept. of 'Corrections', a modern institution on the surface, but a southern style chain-gang below.
ref: 1983 December 24, David Leon Barth, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 20:
glosses: A group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A group of cyclists riding in a close-knit formation akin to a road race, normally for the purposes of training.
Derived terms: chain-ganger
chain-ganging
meningoencephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meningoencephalitides
Etymology: From meninges + encephalitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the brain and the meninges.
Derived terms: primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
swizzle stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swizzle sticks
form: swizzle-stick
Etymology: 1859, from swizzle (“alcoholic drink”, noun).
Senses: examples: text: The rum-based mixed drink came with a swizzle stick shaped like a pirate's sword.
text: Churn up the mixture with a swizzle-stick, which can be easily made with the assistance of a short length of cane (the ordinary school-treat brand) a piece of cork, a bit of string, and a pocket knife.
ref: 1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:
text: And as a neon swizzle stick is stirring up the sultry night air
ref: 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
text: Ting, ting, ting! Tracey hit her swizzle stick against her glass.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 289:
glosses: A small utensil, often disposable, used to mix or stir drinks, commonly iced tea or cocktails.
Derived terms: word: swizzle
razzle dazzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of razzle-dazzle.
vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiɑl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiɒl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiəl/
Forms: form: vitriols
Etymology: From Middle English vitriol, from Old French vitriol, from Medieval Latin vitriolum (“sulfuric acid”), from vitrum (“glass”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various metal sulphates.
glosses: oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid).
examples: text: For days, online forums sparked with outrage against politicians and race organizers, a tone that turned to vitriol against runners, even from some shaming other runners for being selfish.
ref: 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012:
glosses: Bitterly abusive language.
Derived terms: blue vitriol
copper vitriol
elixir of vitriol
green vitriol
hurl vitriol
iron vitriol
oil of vitriol
red vitriol
Roman vitriol
salt of vitriol
spirit of vitriol
vitriolage
vitriolate
vitriol attack
vitriolic
vitriolize
vitriol of Mars
white vitriol
vitriol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiəl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiɑl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiɒl/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɹiəl/
Forms: form: vitriols
form: vitrioling
form: vitriolling
form: vitrioled
form: vitrioled
form: vitriolled
form: vitriolled
Etymology: From Middle English vitriol, from Old French vitriol, from Medieval Latin vitriolum (“sulfuric acid”), from vitrum (“glass”).
Senses: glosses: To subject to bitter verbal abuse.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To dip in dilute sulfuric acid; to pickle.
glosses: To vitriolize.
bikeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bikeways
Etymology: From bike + way.
Senses: examples: text: Efficient measures have been taken to combine with the native cultural elements. Further, walkways and guardrails are also constructed along the bikeway that has been planned by the county government in order to magnify the sightseeing momentum for Chutien Township.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “優質工程”, in Irrigation Agency, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2022:
synonyms: cycleway
glosses: A bicycle lane or path.
injuria sine damno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin injūria (“injury”) + sine (“without”) + damnō, ablative singular of damnum (“financial or property loss”). Literally meaning "injury without financial loss".
Senses: glosses: A legal wrong that causes no actual damage or injury to anyone.
Falk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Falks
Etymology: * As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from the nouns Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk.
* As an English surname, variant of Faulks.
Senses: examples: text: They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.
ref: 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States.
glosses: A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.
Ixion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪ.ən
ipa: -ɒn/
enpr: ĭk-sī'-ən
enpr: -ŏn
Etymology: From Latin Ixīōn, from Ancient Greek Ἰξίων (Ixíōn, literally “strong native”).
Senses: examples: text: As to fitfulness, I have never learnt the art of binding myself to any of the wheels on which the Ixions of these days are turning round and round.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: The complicated conjunction and adverb “ut” also looms. Mr. Butterfield said that it is “the sort of infernal business that would make Sisyphus and Ixion smile kindly on the job satisfaction they got from their daily toil,” referring to figures from classical mythology forced to labor in pain for eternity.
ref: 2019 November 30, Annalisa Quinn, “Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting)”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: King of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A Kuiper belt object (KBO), 28978 Ixion (provisional designation 2001 KX₇₆), once thought to be a possible dwarf planet.
Derived terms: Ixionian
constituent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɪtjuənt/
ipa: /kənˈstɪt͡ʃuənt/
Etymology: From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“I establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuo (“I set, place, establish”); see statute or statue, and compare institute and restitute.
Senses: examples: text: Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Being a part or component of a whole.
glosses: Constitutive or constituting.
examples: text: the Constituent Assembly
text: A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.
ref: 1769, Junius, letter on 19 December, 1769, (part of Letters of Junius)
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Constitutive or constituting.
Authorized to make a constitution.
Derived terms: biconstituent
bioconstituent
constituently
macroconstituent
microconstituent
multiconstituent
nonconstituent
phytoconstituent
subconstituent
Related terms: constituency
constitute
constitution
constitutional
constitutive