cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
foolproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foolproof
foolproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foolproof
foolproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foolproof
stedfaster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of stedfast: more stedfast
overmagnification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + magnification.
Senses: glosses: excessive magnification
Related terms: overmagnify
invination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The actual, substantial presence of the blood of Christ with the wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Related terms: impanation
consubstantiation
transubstantiation
basilectalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: basilectalizes
form: basilectalizing
form: basilectalized
form: basilectalized
Etymology: From basilectal + -ize.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To diverge from the standard form of a language and become a basilect.
Derived terms: basilectalization
basilectalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of basilectalize
basilectalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of basilectalize
basilectalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of basilectalize
basilectalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From basilectalize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of basilectalizing, becoming a basilect.
baraza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barazas
Etymology: From Swahili baraza.
Senses: glosses: A council or assembly in parts of East Africa.
dogsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogsicles
Etymology: From dog + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: If this had been Noriega's old powerful glory days, my Jazzy could have ended up a dogsicle.
ref: 2004, Cindy Adams, The Gift of Jazzy, page 220:
text: My fur catches the flakes like Velcro and I freeze into a dogsicle.
ref: 2009, Berkeley Breathed, chapter 12, in Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster:
text: Though you weren't cold, you were shivering like a dogsicle.
ref: 2010, Terry Bain, You Are a Dog: Life Through the Eyes of Man's Best Friend, page 28:
glosses: A cold or frozen dog.
Related terms: catsicle
contemptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contemptable
form: most contemptable
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of contemptible.
contemplable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contemplable
form: most contemplable
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin contemplabilis
Senses: glosses: Contemplatable
illustratable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustratable
form: most illustratable
Etymology: From illustrate + -able (but compare illustrable).
Senses: glosses: Capable of being illustrated.
indicatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indicatable
form: most indicatable
Etymology: From indicate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be indicated.
pyramidiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramidiots
Etymology: Blend of pyramid + idiot, influenced by -iot. Coined by archaeologist Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford in 1935.
Senses: examples: text: It has been customary in some circles to dub them ' Pyramid-ites ', but after all ' Smyrniot ' and ' Cypriot ' are used for ' those of Smyrna ' and ' those of Cyprus ', so why not Pyramidiot ?
ref: 1935, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity:
text: If I started babbling about Nefertiti, they would shrug, shake their heads sadly, and write me off as some kind of pyramidiot. But if my wild tale were backed up by two responsible, respected professionals, Bloch would be in real trouble.
ref: 1968, Elizabeth Peters, The jackal's head, Random House Business:
text: Deverell was both a cultural diffusionist and a pyramidiot. He insisted that ancient Egypt had acquired its civilization from England, whose colony Egypt had been in ancient times.
ref: 1971, John David Wortham, British Egyptology, 1549-1906, David & Charles Publishers:
text: Listen how a little of it looked: Wisely, somebody, probably Richard Loren, veteran Pyramidiot as well as promotor, chose to begin the first set with Hamza el-Din, an internationally famous master of the oud.
ref: 1979, Spit in the Ocean, Volume 1, Issues 5-6, page 126
text: His manipulations of figures had enormous appeal and his books were read by thousands, but his conclusions were debunked by scholars, who called him a " pyramidiot."
ref: 1981, Reader's Digest Association, Into the unknown, Readers Digest, →ISBN:
text: The roots of the pyramidologist or pyramidiot probably go back to the time the pyramids were built, but their flowering arrived with the antiquarians of the 19th century.
ref: 1994, Flora S. Clancy, Pyramids, Smithsonian Books, →ISBN:
glosses: pyramidologist; one who believes prophecies are encoded in Egyptian pyramids.
pyramidiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidiot
alabastres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alabastre
arengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areng
sonatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonatina
no sleep for the wicked
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of no rest for the wicked.
synonyms: word: no rest for the wicked
going out on a limb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go out on a limb
keeping an eye out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keep an eye out
picking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pick out
go far
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes far
form: going far
form: went far
form: gone far
Senses: examples: text: Keep studying and you'll go far.
text: The new shed, in conjunction with the existing multiple-unit shed, goes far to provide a complete diesel motive power depot at Stratford, [...].
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:
synonyms: go a long way
glosses: To attain success, especially from humble origins; achieve a great deal.
examples: text: A ten-pound note doesn't go far these days.
glosses: To cover significant expenses.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
civil court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil courts
Senses: examples: text: The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
glosses: A court dealing with cases in civil law.
Related terms: county court
civil courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civil court
messed around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mess around
over and done with
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: over and done
Senses: examples: text: I'm glad that my exams are over and done with.
text: It was over now. Over and done with. Done and over with. I could put it any way I want but I was still scared shitless.
ref: 2013 April 10, Sarita Diva, “She’s obviously mental”, in Crazy Is Love, retrieved 13 Nov 2018:
glosses: Fully completed and put aside.
Related terms: once and for all
over and done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌn
Senses: examples: text: He had flunked in his examinations, while at that very moment, he knew, Bessie was going triumphantly home, her last examination over and done, and with credit. Oh, it was not to be borne!
ref: 1902, Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler, page 47:
text: Damn her! Why had she questioned him about his past? It was not something he cared to think about. It was over and done and there was no going back. His father had been a worthless gambler, usually drunk, always mean.
ref: 2014, Madeline Baker, The Angel and the Outlaw, page 41:
glosses: Synonym of over and done with.
synonyms: word: over and done with
in the hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Why in the hell did you do that?
glosses: Alternative form of the hell (emphasising an interrogative)
Synonyms: the dickens
handsome is that handsome does
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handsome is as handsome does.
in a way of speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of in a manner of speaking.
synonyms: word: in a manner of speaking
picked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick out
walk of fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walks of fame
Senses: glosses: A street or walkway decorated with memorials to famous or illustrious individuals usually chosen by a group of electors.
Related terms: hall of fame
walk of shame
walks of fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk of fame
turn of the screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turns of the screw
Senses: examples: text: There is every chance that as far as the government's budget cutting goes, the next turn of the screw will see the SRC squeezed, despite the fact that the council has, quite rightly, been spared from the worst of the earlier cuts.
ref: 1980, New Scientist, volume 88, number 1226, page 348:
glosses: One step in a gradual imposition of restrictions.
Related terms: turn the screw
North York
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban district within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formerly a municipality.
Related terms: North Yorkshire
by and bye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But perhaps you have heard people say, “Oh, yes! it is warm to-day, but we have got to pay for it by and bye, when the frost will come and kill the silly buds and blossoms that came out because they thought it was Spring. […]
ref: 1883, Sermons for boys and girls, 2nd series, page 228:
glosses: Dated form of by and by.
strung up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of string up
waterproofings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterproofing
pissaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissaphones
Etymology: Blend of piss + megaphone, from its shape.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A urinal consisting of a funnel set into the ground.
pissaphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pissaphone
WOFTAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒftæm/
Forms: form: WOFTAMs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of waste of fucking time and money.
Diggerese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Digger + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The military slang and jargon used by Diggers (soldiers of Australia and New Zealand).
Willy Pete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Same initial letters.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: White phosphorus.
dabba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɐbˈbɑ/
ipa: /ˈdʌbə/
Forms: form: dabbas
Etymology: From Hindi डब्बा (ḍabbā, “box, container”).
Senses: synonyms: tiffin
glosses: A kind of lunchbox or food container.
Related terms: dabbawalla
dabba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɐbˈbɑ/
ipa: /ˈdʌbə/
ipa: /ˈdæbə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɐbˈbɑ/
ipa: /ˈdʌbə/
Forms: form: dabbas
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: del, the partial difference symbol ∂
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: yabba dabba doo
night shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night shift
counterradical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + radical.
Senses: glosses: Countering politically radical behaviour.
Related terms: counterradicalism
counterradical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterradicals
Etymology: From counter- + radical.
Senses: glosses: One who fights against politically radical behaviour.
counterradicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + radicalism.
Senses: examples: text: Apparently Hoover survived the purge both because of his expertise in counterradicalism and by convincing Palmer, through Garvan, that he was not an "O'Briari man."
ref: 1992, Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, page 76:
text: By the time he had participated in the Belgian relief, by the time he had observed the excesses of counterradicalism during the Red Scare […]
ref: 1993, James D. Calder, The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy:
glosses: Counterradical policies generally.
Related terms: counterradical
counterradicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterradical
ganzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ganza
abiosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abio- + sphere.
Senses: glosses: All the parts of the Earth in which life is not possible
Bellarminian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bellarminian
form: most Bellarminian
Etymology: From Bellarmine + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Saint Robert Bellarmine (Italian: Roberto Bellarmino; 1542–1621), Italian Jesuit and Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation.
Related terms: bellarmine
caporals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caporal
ferms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferm
khis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khi
biotites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biotite
'stache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'staches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stache.
'staches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'stache
frens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fren
lieks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liek
gyaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡjɑːɹuː/
/ˈɡjæɹuː/
Forms: form: gyaru
form: gyarus
Etymology: From Japanese ギャル (gyaru), from English gal, from English girl.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese subculture and fashion style popular in the 1990s, typically involving ostentatious clothing, tanning, and heavy makeup.
examples: text: Nowadays, many say that Japan is all about public show and the power inherent in planned and controlled display. If so, then perhaps the young gyarus are enjoying the power of the tease; […]
ref: 2011 January, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, “Embarkations”, in Peripatetic Postcards: The Journey of Life, Through 25 of the World’s Cities, Pasadena, Calif.; Sendai, Miyagi: The Self-Made Press, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Among the young, there are signs that cars are becoming deeply uncool. The celebrity entrepreneur Shiho Fujita, an idol of the gyarus—Japan’s high-consuming post-adolescent “gals,” fond of fake tans and blond hair extensions—recently proclaimed: “If I was with my friends and my boyfriend pulled up in a car to pick me up, I’d feel kind of embarrassed.”
ref: 2012, Taras Grescoe, “City of Trains: Tokyo, Japan”, in Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, pages 195–196:
text: The concept of Galeo was created because we would hear from those overseas that a lot of Gyaru-kei clothes do not fit. So, we are making variety of sizes for women and the theme of the brand is “Get wild and be sexy” for independent women. This is not only for Japanese gyarus but also for foreign gyarus.
ref: 2014 November, Dennis A. Smith, quoting Rise, “Gyaru Fashion!”, in J!-ENT, page 54, column 1:
text: In the ’90s, the Shibuya gyarus (gals) brought 109 into popular culture with their dyed blond hair, fake tans, miniskirts, and makeup.
ref: 2017 January, Booth Moore, “[Tokyo] Shibuya 109”, in Where Stylists Shop: The Fashion Insider’s Ultimate Guide: The Secret Source List of Designers, Stylists, Editors, Bloggers, Models, Costume Designers, Street-Style Stars, and Tastemakers, New York, N.Y.: Regan Arts, →ISBN, page 332, column 1:
glosses: A girl or woman of this subculture.
Related terms: gyaru-moji
kogyaru
battery-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From battery + powered.
Senses: examples: text: "These next-generation trams are battery-powered, and designed to operate on new sections of the line between Grand Central and Hagley Road which are free of overhead cables," said West Midlands mayor Andy Street. [...] Catenary-free testing has taken place on the Centenary Square extension; this was the first time battery-powered trams had operated in the UK.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, pages 26, 27:
glosses: Fitted with a battery or batteries, which provide the power to operate the device.
Synonyms: battery-operated
Hypernyms: powered
battery-operated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From battery + operated.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of battery-powered.
synonyms: word: battery-powered
brimfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brimful
outdooring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outdoorings
Etymology: From outdoor + -ing.
Senses: qualifier: Ghana
glosses: A ceremony in which a new baby is taken out of the house for the first time and given a name.
outdoorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outdooring
IFID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IFIDs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of illocutionary force indicating device: an element or aspect of language indicating that an utterance is made with a certain illocutionary force, or else that it constitutes the performance of a certain illocutionary act.
IFIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IFID
Woolfish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfiʃ/
homophone: wolfish
Forms: form: more Woolfish
form: most Woolfish
Etymology: From Woolf + -ish, playing on wolfish.
Senses: examples: text: For the training college annual magazine, at the end of the reports of the sports clubs, I wrote a Woolfish piece set in a city dancehall.
ref: 2005, Damien Wilkins, Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine, 1988-2004, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 420:
text: A Woolfish “she missed the film. For she was late” takes us back to the edges of sanity. Today, the idiomatic usage of for seems a little arch.
ref: 2011, Simon Heffer, Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters, Random House, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Marsha – Miss Francomb? – is tall and imposing, with aquiline features that give her an intimidating Woolfish quality. In her early forties, her grey hair cropped and brushed forward Soviet-style, her voice husky and commanding, she stands and offers her hand.
ref: 2011, David Nicholls, One Day, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Mom's turned my childhood bedroom into a Woolfish “Writing Room.” It's packed with a new lacy daybed, an army of cushions, a rich wood desk, a computer.
ref: 2013, Laura Gray-Rosendale, College Girl: A Memoir, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf or her writing.
Synonyms: Woolfesque
Woolfian
Hypernyms: sense: In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing
word: Bloomsburyan
sense: In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing
word: modernist
affirmational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From affirmation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.
ref: 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
glosses: Relating to affirmation.
Derived terms: affirmationally
baby fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then a man passed by with his child on his shoulders. This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous.
ref: 2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, published 2004, →ISBN, page 75:
text: I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever.
ref: 2011, Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: A year after we married, I got a bad case of baby fever.
ref: 2011, Sara Horn, My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife: A One-Year Experiment... and Its Surprising Results, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: An urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
Synonyms: baby rabies
military hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military hotels
Etymology: Shortened from earlier Hindu military hotel, named so because they originally catered to Hindu non-vegetarians of the military.
Senses: examples: text: 11 Gajendra Vilas Hindu Military Hotel, Alps Restaurant, Mount Road.
ref: 1954, Large Industrial Establishments in India, Indian Labour Bureau, page 455:
text: Mutton or chicken curries and various other non-vegetarian dishes are served in the Moslem restaurants and in those labelled in English "Military Hotel."
ref: 1962, Jean Filliozat, India: The Country and Its Traditions:
text: The Star of India, as the board outside proclaimed, was a "military hotel"; in other words, it served meat, which my grandmother did not. "I am thinking you might be missing it," Charlis said, ushering me to a chair.
ref: 2011 October 18, Shashi Tharoor, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A restaurant serving non-vegetarian food.
military hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of military hotel
Woolfesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Woolfesque
form: most Woolfesque
Etymology: From Woolf + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In the style of Virginia Woolf.
Synonyms: Woolfian
Woolfish
Hypernyms: Bloomsburyan
modernist
banded archerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banded archerfish
Senses: glosses: An archerfish of species Toxotes jaculatrix, known for its ability to spit a jet of water to "shoot down" prey, found in coastal waters from India to the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Australia.
poopsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poopsicles
Etymology: Blend of poop + popsicle, or poop + -sicle.
Senses: glosses: Frozen excrement.
color blindnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of color blindness
largescale archerfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: largescale archerfishes
form: largescale archerfish
Senses: synonyms: common archerfish
seven-spot archerfish
glosses: An archerfish of species Toxotes chatareus, which is sooty in colour compared to the silveriness of most archerfish.
menstruater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstruaters
Etymology: From menstruate + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Rhythm is the least efficient of the contraceptive methods thus far discussed, because of the variability of the menses even in regular menstruaters, […]
ref: 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday, page 50:
text: The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death.
ref: 1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Benedict announces the topic of girls' puberty by sketching various rites of passage that display dramatic practices of purity/pollution: first, Carrier Indians who figuratively bury alive novice menstruaters, isolating them for three years; second, Apache attitudes about first menses as occasions for supernatural sources of beneficial cure.
ref: 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of menstruator.
emergency escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency escapes
Senses: glosses: A fire escape.
emergency stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fire escape.
fire stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fire escape.
emergency escapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emergency escape
Magdalene laundry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magdalene laundries
Etymology: Named after Mary Magdalene, traditionally associated with prostitution and patron saint of penitent sinners.
Senses: glosses: A religious facility in which prostitutes and unmarried mothers were kept, usually against their will, as a source of forced labour to launder clothes.
wikipedia: Mary Magdalene
Synonyms: Magdalene asylum
Hypernyms: labour camp
workhouse
Magdalene asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Magdalene asylums
Etymology: Named after Mary Magdalene, traditionally associated with prostitution and patron saint of penitent sinners.
Senses: glosses: A religious prison for prostitutes and unmarried mothers, usually as a source of forced labour.
wikipedia: Mary Magdalene
Synonyms: word: Magdalene hospital
word: Magdalen hospital
word: Magdalene laundry
Hypernyms: asylum
labour camp
prison
workhouse
Magdalene laundries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdalene laundry
Magdalene asylums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Magdalene asylum
four thieves' vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Possibly originally a corruption of "Forthave's vinegar", Richard Forthave being the publisher of an early recipe.
Senses: glosses: Vinegar mixed with camphor and essential oils, formerly used as medicine.
Synonyms: Marseilles vinegar
thieves' vinegar
Marseilles vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: four thieves' vinegar
Shariaphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sharia + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Our Human Rights Town Hall calls out Islamic supremacist groups in America to cease and desist their subversive activity under the guise of 'civil rights' or Shariaphobia.
ref: 2012, "jwshe", AFDI/SIOA, FMU to Host "Summer Night for Human Rights" in Defense of Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death for Leaving Islam (on newsgroup soc.culture.iranian; reposted from Yahoo! News)
text: Badawi also said there is wide misunderstanding and fear of the Sharia, which can be explained as “Shariaphobia,” a mindset of Islamophobia.
ref: 2013, Fouzia Khan, Conference vows to combat extremism (arabnews.com)
text: In the United States, a proposal to build an Islāmic community center and a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, New York, led to an increase in Islāmophobia and “Shariaphobia” in 2010.
ref: 2014, C. B. Pratt, “My God is Not Your God”: Applying Relationship Management Theory to Managing Ethnoreligious Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa:
glosses: Fear or hatred of sharia law.
monolinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolinguists
Etymology: From mono- + linguist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who speaks only a single language.
Synonyms: monoglot
uniglot
unilinguist
monolinguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monolinguist
unilinguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unilinguists
Etymology: From uni- + linguist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One who speaks only a single language.
Synonyms: monoglot
monolinguist
uniglot
unilinguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unilinguist
Dubaization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Dubai + -ization.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The process of urbanizing a city with futuristic, pioneering architecture.
Salang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: languages
glosses: A Bahnaric language of the Mon–Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family that is spoken in the southern Laos and Vietnam. The name is used more in Vietnam.
Synonyms: Halang
Halang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: languages
glosses: Synonym of Salang (This name is used more in Laos.)
synonyms: word: Salang
extra: This name is used more in Laos.
Synonyms: english: This name is used more in Vietnam.
translation: This name is used more in Vietnam.
word: Salang
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Halang terms
octochamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒktəʊˌt͡ʃamp/
Forms: form: octochamps
form: octo-champ
Etymology: From octo- (“eight”) + champ (short form of champion).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:octochamp.
glosses: A winner of eight consecutive heats of the British television game show Countdown.
octo-champ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octo-champs
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:octo-champ.
glosses: Alternative spelling of octochamp.
octo-champs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:octo-champs.
glosses: plural of octo-champ
octochamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:octochamps.
glosses: plural of octochamp
tickles the dragon's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tickle the dragon's tail
tickling the dragon's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tickle the dragon's tail
tickled the dragon's tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tickle the dragon's tail
teppo snapping shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teppo snapping shrimps
form: teppo snapping shrimp
Senses: glosses: Any of species Alpheus brevicristatus of snapping shrimp, distributed in East-Asian coastal waters.
daltonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daltonian
hot takes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot take
zygophyllaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Zygophyllaceae of bean-capers, caltrops, and related plants.
menstruaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstruater
Low Franconian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A group of continental West Germanic varieties, most prominent of which is the Dutch language.
Synonyms: Low Frankish
Meronyms: word: Hollandic
word: Central Dutch
word: Zeelandic
word: Zealandic
word: Brabantian
word: Brabantic
word: Brabantish
word: Flemish
word: Dutch = Netherlandish
word: Netherlandic
word: Afrikaans
word: Limburgan
word: Limburgian
word: Limburgic
word: Limburgish
word: Kleverlandish
Derived terms: Old Low Franconian
Middle Low Franconian
Related terms: word: West Low Franconian
overclose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overclose
form: most overclose
Etymology: From Middle English overclose, equivalent to over- + close (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: She knew he was being only sensible, pity rather, and she said she was sorry, and they didn't stand overclose after that, the weight of the rain was seeping through the branches and now a great low gust of wind swept up the park, driving the soft ground spray in their faces.
ref: 2013, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, →ISBN:
glosses: In too great a proximity.
examples: text: As the child grows older mother and child have to separate, a complex process in which both child and parent need to find the right balance between love and intimacy, without becoming overclose, sexual or incestuous.
ref: 2012, Michael Jacobs, The Presenting Past:
glosses: Having too great an emotional attachment.
examples: text: Cows are also more liable to congestion of the lungs and to tuberculosis than are other cattle. The former may be induced by being kept in overclose, hot, and badly ventilated houses, rendering them liable to chills when turned out; and there is no doubt tuberculosis is largely spread by the presence of infected animals in such houses.
ref: 1908, Charles Edward Green, D. Young, Encyclopædia of Agriculture:
glosses: Lacking adequate ventilation; stuffy.
overclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcloses
form: overclosing
form: overclosed
form: overclosed
Etymology: From Middle English overclosen, equivalent to over- + close (verb).
Senses: glosses: To close prematurely or excessively.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To form a closed universe before it has attained its present age.
interrogants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrogant
isards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isard
paloverdes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paloverde
powderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From powder + -less.
Senses: examples: text: powderless gloves
text: powderless ammunition
text: a powderless etching
text: Jeanne sucked back air in a gasp; the ravaged face of this pretty woman, powderless, splotched, and tearstained, one she had known for a lifetime, was frightening.
ref: 2009, Donna Russo Morin, chapter 17, in The Courtier’s Secret, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Without the use or presence of powder.
spelch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛltʃ
Forms: form: spelches
form: spelching
form: spelched
form: spelched
Etymology: From Middle English spelc, or spilc (“little rod by which things are kept straight or a splint for binding up broken bones”), ultimately from Old Norse spelkur (“splints”).
Senses: examples: text: Spelching can be avoided by cutting in from the outside face where possible.
glosses: To splinter while being crosscut.
catsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catsicles
Etymology: From cat + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: He slipped out the back door, and we did not see him for two full days. The temperature dropped dramatically, it was close to freezing those two nights. We figured, too bad, the little bugger had it made, with us, and now he'll be a catsicle or a catsplat in the road...So we gave up on him, and went to the Humane Society, and adopted a bouncing bruiser named Smokey.
ref: 1995 November 21, Virtuanna [username], “Re: A Pox Upon The Kitten Dumpers”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet):
text: 'The cat's gone,' my father said. 'Face it, that cat can hardly stay alive inside the house. She's not coming back. And if you hold the door open much longer, the rest of us will freeze to death too.'
'Poppy!' my stepmother shouted.
'She's frozen now,' I said helpfully. 'She's a catsicle.'
ref: 2003, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, published 2004, →ISBN, page 145:
text: I know for damn sure watching catsicles form outside my kitchen window would drive me out of my mind with guilt.
ref: 2006, Nina Malkin, An Unlikely Cat Lady: Feral Adventures in the Backyard Jungle, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A cold or frozen cat.
Related terms: dogsicle
catsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catsicle
-sicle
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -icle
Etymology: From icicle or popsicle.
Senses: glosses: Combined with a noun to indicate something cold or frozen.
frogsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogsicles
Etymology: From frog + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: When spring comes, the frogsicle defrosts and shivers back to life.
ref: 1997, James Martin, Frogs, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Some frogs can become frogsicles and still live! The North American wood frog can withstand brutal winters.
ref: 2005, Aimee H. Bakken, What's Inside a Frog, Tangerine Press/Scholastic, →ISBN:
text: The Canadian wood frog turns into a frozen frogsicle every winter […]
ref: 2008, William Hanson, The Edge of Medicine: The Technology That Will Change Our Lives, Palgrave Macmillan, published 2009, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: A cold or frozen frog.
frogsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogsicle
pigsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigsicles
Etymology: From pig + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, I jokingly offered the girls our frozen pig. After wiping away the snow and rapping my knuckles on it to demonstrate that it was a solidly frozen pigsicle, the girls looked at each other in amazement and politely refused.
ref: 2006, Ben Applebaum, Ryan McNally, & Derrick Pittman, Class Dismissed: 75 Outrageous, Mind-Expanding College Exploits (and Lessons That Won't Be on the Final), Villard, →ISBN, page 24:
text: I was buried with only my snotty snout sticking out. I was frozen. I could become a pigsicle.
ref: 2011, James V. Shubert, Salami's Fire: A Piggy's Trial by Fire, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 31:
text: “I don't have to worry about my bed partner turning into a pigsicle any longer.”
ref: 2013, Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig, Harcourt Children's Books, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: A cold or frozen pig.
pigsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigsicle
A-Life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)
a-life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)
ALife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)
aLife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)
Alife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A-life (artificial life)
kidsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidsicles
Etymology: From kid + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: And because Ilene also had one of those houses that are always cold, she'd automatically assumed that her fragile, delicate infant would turn into a kidsicle without all those layers.
ref: 2007, Michele Gendelmen, Ilene Graff, & Donna Rosenstein, What the Other Mothers Know: A Practical Guide to Child Rearing Told in a Really Nice, Funny Way That Won't Make You Feel Like a Complete Idiot the Way All Those Other Parenting Books Do, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 21:
text: When the deep freeze sets in and temperatures dip to the single digits (on a warm day), we can't be outside for me than two minutes without turning into kidsicles.
ref: 2014, Annie Tipton, Diary of a Real Payne: Oh Baby!, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Then there's the hilarity and sunny weirdness of the school train (led by Scott Pilgrim's Alison Pill), complete with a rotating organ and the children singing songs about not being turned into kidsicles.
ref: 2014 June 18, Julie Crawford, “Snowpiercer takes us on one wild ride”, in North Shore News:
glosses: A cold or frozen child.
kidsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kidsicle
Patella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Patellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Patella.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
totsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totsicles
Etymology: From tot + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: I've got some "totsicles" left, so we'll be trying again, but I was so convinced that for the magic cycle, I was just going thru the motions...I didn't give up caffeine, but I kept on the vitamins...who knew?
ref: 1999 February 23, Trisha93 [username], “Re: 5 failed IVFs, any hope? Pg ment”, in alt.infertility (Usenet):
text: We had discussed this and came to the conclusion that if we had to go to IVF, we were going to wait until we delivered then decide what to do w/the leftover 'totsicles'.
ref: 1999 December 10, Mary McK, “Re: Baby Name Question(m/c ment) (religion ment)”, in alt.infertility.pregnancy (Usenet):
text: The embryos.
My totsicles, waiting for me.
ref: 2010, Kristy Kiernan, Between Friends, Berkley, →ISBN:
glosses: An embryo conceived through in vitro fertilization and cryopreserved for later use in an attempt to achieve pregnancy through embryo transfer.
embryo transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryo transfers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The practice of placing an embryo or embryos into the uterus of a female with the intent of establishing a pregnancy.
sillyhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillyheads
Etymology: From silly + head.
Senses: glosses: silly person
fishsicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishsicles
Etymology: From fish + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: This would certainly be a perfect time to replace it [your aquarium's heater] — if something goes wrong you'll either have fishsicles or bouillabaisse.
ref: 1994, Aquarium Fish Magazine, volume 7, number 3, page 8:
text: Fish can swim in the icy waters without turning into fishsicles because many of them make chemicals that keep their blood from freezing.
ref: 2008, Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, & Laura Silverstein Nunn, Adaptation, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 51:
text: […] The ice boat had carried them home with their baskets of fish. Elsa froze the fish and snuck them into the kitchens.
"Fishsicles!" five-year-old Anna shouted in delight.
ref: 2015, Memory and Magic, Disney Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cold or frozen fish.
fishsicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishsicle
mansicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mansicles
Etymology: From man + -sicle.
Senses: examples: text: Or did he freeze into an Alaskan mansicle ice statute with dogsicles and snotsicles?
ref: 2010, Amy Goldman Koss, The Not-So-Great Depression, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN, page 204:
text: You want to camp in the snow and become a "mansicle," that's up to you, but the sane mind says, "Sleeping in snow under canvas, bad."
ref: 2014, Mike Richards, 100 Things Everyone Else Is Wrong About, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: What was she supposed to do with a six-foot-tall mansicle frozen in place at the edge of the lake?
ref: 2015, Christi Barth, All for You, Carina Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cold or frozen man.
mansicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mansicle
whitecoat hypertension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of white coat hypertension.
chesticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛs.tɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: chesticles
Etymology: Blend of chest + testicle.
Senses: synonyms: word: breasticle
word: assets
word: babylons
word: balloons
word: baps
word: badonkers
word: bangers
word: bazongas
word: bazookas
word: bazoombas
word: bazooms
word: bewbs
word: bobas
word: booba
word: boobage
word: boobs
word: boobers
word: boobies
word: boosies
word: bosom
word: breast [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: breasticles
word: bristols
word: bubby
word: bubs
word: bust
word: calcium cannons
word: cans
word: cantaloupes
word: casabas
word: charlies
word: chebs
word: chesticles
word: chest melons
word: chichis
word: coconuts
word: diddy
word: ding-dongs
word: dirty pillows
word: double Ds
word: dugs
word: frontage
word: front bumpers
word: funbags
word: gazongas
word: girls
word: globes
word: grapefruits
word: headlights
word: honkers
word: hooters
word: itty-bittys
word: jahoobies
word: jigglies
word: jubblies
word: jugs
word: knockers
word: lady lumps
word: love pillows
word: mammaries
word: mammary glands
word: mammas
word: maracas
word: megaboobs
word: melons
word: milkbags
word: milk jugs
word: milkers
word: mommy milkers
word: money makers
word: mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: norks
word: paps
word: pair
word: personality
word: puppies
word: rack
word: sweater puppies
word: tatas
word: teats
word: tiddies
word: tits
word: titters
word: titties
word: threepenny bits
word: top bollocks
word: torpedos
word: twin peaks
word: twins
word: udders
word: waps
word: watermelons
word: yabos
word: zoomers
glosses: A breast, (transgender slang) especially that of a trans man.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A roundly defined pectoral muscle.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: breasticle
hypernyms: word: endocrine gland
glosses: Either of a pair of extremely large testicles held underneath the shirt in order to look like breasts.
momzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of momzilla
Momzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Momzillas
Senses: examples: text: "I've definitely got more boy energy going on right now," she [Sally Norvell] admits. "For one thing, I've got a four-year-old boy who I have to run around and play Godzilla with all day long." She chuckles. "I'm Momzilla."
ref: [1996 November, Kurt B. Reighley, “Congo Norvell: Music to Disremember Him by”, in Scott Frampton, editor, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 39, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 1:
text: I tried to breathe, but it was too late. Momzilla had emerged. I could feel her low rumbling growl as she straightened up that last nerve. [...] Momzilla heard the children in the background promising never to be clowns again if Mommy would just come back. Momzilla took a slow deep breath, and then another. As Momzilla returned to the cage that I keep her in, I noticed how cute my little clowns were.
ref: 2002, Elisa Morgan, Carol Kuykendall, “Monster Mom: Real Moms Get Angry”, in Real Moms: Exploding the Myths of Motherhood, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, part 1 (Myths about Me), page 55:
text: It's never too early to become a Momzilla. Momzillas are mothers whose lives are defined by their children, and more specifically, by their children's accomplishments.
ref: 2005, Judith Newman, You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother, New York, N.Y.: Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 70:
text: But difficult clients did suck some of the joy out of her job. Everyone talked about Bridezillas, but in Anne's opinion Momzillas were ten times worse. And she was sure Seattle had ten times more Momzillas per capita than any other city in the country.
ref: 2015, Sheila Roberts, chapter 1, in A Wedding on Primrose Street, Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of momzilla.
Momzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Momzilla
Shiadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Shia + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.
ref: 1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10:
text: In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.
ref: 2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207:
text: As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.
ref: 2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60:
glosses: The Shiite world.