cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lezzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛzəʊ
Forms: form: lezzos
Etymology: Shortened alteration of lesbian, + -o.
Senses: examples: 1984, Barry Dickins, The Crookes of Epping, Pascoe Publishing, →ISBN, page 26,
She was also a lezzo.
1986, Angelo Loukakis, Vernacular Dreams, University of Queensland, →ISBN, page 136,
There is too many hippies and lezzos riding around on bikes these days already.
a'''1997, from The Picture, quoted in Jill Julius Matthews, Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, Allen & Unwin (1997), →ISBN, page 4,
Wot's going down? Hot lezzo love-ins, that's wot . . . The Bisexual revolution has begun. "Lesbian chic" is born—and I can't tell you what GOOD NEWS this is for us.
2006, Craig Price, Birth of the Ecowarriors, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 68,
"Piss off Greek girl," he bluffed. "Go find your lezzo friend."
synonyms: lesbo
lezbo
glosses: A lesbian.
sit tight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits tight
form: sitting tight
form: sat tight
form: sat tight
Senses: examples: text: I'll be back in a few minutes, so sit tight while I go find her.
glosses: To wait patiently; to take no action; to remain quiet or relatively motionless.
Related terms: sleep tight
blot test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blot tests
Senses: glosses: The Rorschach test.
involved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɒlvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɔlvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvoːvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɑlvd/
Forms: form: more involved
form: most involved
Etymology: From involve + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
text: Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Complicated.
examples: text: The people involved in the project for three years.
text: He got/was involved in a bar fight.
text: When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
glosses: Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
examples: text: She has been happily involved with the same woman for almost three years. During that time, they have grown together, dealt well with their problems and have worked consistently for a loving and trusting relationship.
ref: 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8:
glosses: Having an affair with someone.
Derived terms: involvedly
involvedness
justice-involved
noninvolved
officer-involved
officer-involved shooting
overinvolved
self-involved
ultrainvolved
underinvolved
uninvolved
involved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɒlvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɔlvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvoːvd/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɑlvd/
Etymology: From involve + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.
glosses: simple past and past participle of involve
supt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supts.
form: Supt.
form: Supt
form: supt
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of superintendent.
Synonyms: SP
Derived terms: Ch Supt
DSupt
DCS
Related terms: word: SSP
word: CSP
sense: policing
word: WPC
word: PC
word: DCI
word: DI
word: DS
word: DC
listen in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: listens in
form: listening in
form: listened in
form: listened in
Senses: examples: text: Do you mind if I listen in on your meeting tomorrow?
text: We invite you to listen in to our radio broadcast.
glosses: To listen without participating.
examples: text: You should close the door for conversations like that. You never know who might be listening in.
glosses: To eavesdrop; to listen secretly.
examples: text: Did you listen in to the concert last night?
glosses: To listen to a radio broadcast
Synonyms: sense: to listen without participating
word: listen
sense: to listen without participating
word: sit in
sense: to eavesdrop
word: eavesdrop
sense: to eavesdrop
word: overhear
participating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of participate
Rorschach test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːʃɑːk tɛst/
ipa: /ˈɹɔːʃæk tɛst/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɹˌʃæk tɛst/
ipa: /ˈɹɔɹʃək tɛst/
Forms: form: Rorschach tests
Senses: examples: text: Psychologists have dozens of projective methods to choose from beyond the Rorschach Test, the TAT and figure drawings.
ref: 2001 May 24, Scott O. Lilienfeld, James M. Wood, Howard Garb, “What's Wrong with This Picture?”, in Scientific American, →DOI, →PMID, page 85:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A method of psychological evaluation that uses a person's interpretations of inkblots or similar images to discover information concerning his or her personality, emotional functioning, or unconscious mind.
examples: text: She demurely took out a piece of paper with an ink blot on it , a Rorschach test . ... Poe said he had been saved by Desmond FitzGerald , the patron saint of knuckledraggers , who sent him away from headquarters to keep him from getting ...
ref: 1996, Roger Warner, Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos, Steerforth Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: Any test of an individual's perception of phenomena.
examples: text: Because Irvine asserts that the earlier case law interpreting section 2280 was incorporated into Probate Code section 15401, but offers inconsistent interpretations of the law, it has become a Rorschach test for the parties.
ref: 2004, Scott A. Huscher, Appellant, v. Wells Fargo Bank, as Trustee, etc., Respondents (Huscher v. Wells Fargo Bank), Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Eight, Docket #B168103:
glosses: Something which reveals the intent of the person using it rather than fulfilling its designed purpose.
Synonyms: sense: method of evaluation
word: blot test
sense: method of evaluation
word: inkblot test
sense: method of evaluation
word: Rorschach
sense: method of evaluation
word: Rorschach inkblot test
viscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsɪd/
Forms: form: more viscid
form: most viscid
Etymology: From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).
Senses: synonyms: viscous
antonyms: inviscid
glosses: Having a high viscosity.
examples: text: They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room:
text: The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump.
ref: 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, Epilogue, pp. 315-316:
synonyms: mucilaginous
antonyms: inviscid
glosses: Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
antonyms: inviscid
glosses: Covered with a viscid layer.
Derived terms: viscidity
viscidly
viscidness
inviscid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inviscid
form: most inviscid
Etymology: From in- + viscid.
Senses: glosses: not viscid
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: having a gradient of zero
raw_tags: of a scalar field
Derived terms: inviscid flow
inviscid fluid
inviscidness
Taoism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaʊ̯.ɪzm̩/
Forms: form: Daoism
form: Tauism
form: Taouism
Etymology: From Tao + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The philosophical Taoism of the “Tao Te Ching” seeks to remain connected to this “mother of the world,” the formless Tao (meaning “Way” or “Course”), that is seemingly the opposite of all we value, but is actually the source of all we value, as manure is to flowers, as the emptiness of a womb is to the fullness of life.
ref: 2020 September 16, George Yancy, quoting Brook Ziporyn, “How to Die (Without Really Trying)”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2020:
text: Taoism puts a significant emphasis on noninterference, imbuing the decision not to act with moral quality. As a result, Taoism seems like a virtue ethic, with wu-wei as its chief virtue.
ref: 2022 Jan-Mar, Liam C. Butchart, “Taoism, bioethics, and the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Tzu Chi Medical Journal, volume 34, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022:
glosses: A Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C.E. that teaches conformity to the tao by unassertive action and simplicity.
examples: text: The Chinese New Year holiday period, being disrupted this year by the outbreak of a viral illness, has evolved over more than 3,000 years to become the most important of China’s traditional festivals.
As celebrated in China and in many other places where its known as the Lunar New Year, it is largely a secular holiday, yet it includes rituals and traditions that derive from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as from ancient myths and folk religions.
ref: 2020 January 23, David Crary, “Chinese New Year secular now but kept religious underpinning”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022:
glosses: A religion developed from Taoist philosophy and folk and Buddhist religion and concerned with obtaining long life and good fortune often by magical means.
examples: text: Buddhism is the most followed religion in Singapore, with over 40 percent of the population declaring themselves believers, according to the latest census. Most of these practice a form of the religion that incorporates elements of Taoism and traditional Chinese faiths.
ref: 2010 May 17, Edgar Su, “Lasers, iPods, for a Singapore funeral of a lifetime”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022, Lifestyle:
glosses: Traditional Chinese folk religion
Related terms: tao
Taoist
blots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blot
blots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blot
offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offences
Senses: glosses: British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
Derived terms: arrestable offence
cognisable offence
cognizable offence
offenceful
offenceless
reoffence
self-offence
donuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donut
exhausted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑstɪd/
Forms: form: more exhausted
form: most exhausted
Etymology: From exhaust + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.
glosses: Very tired; zonked (out).
examples: text: The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.
glosses: Depleted of resources.
examples: text: A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 839:
topics: sciences
glosses: Emptied of contents, especially of air; that has been made into a vacuum.
Synonyms: depleted
Derived terms: exhausted combination
exhaustedly
exhaustedness
exhausted receiver
exhaustipated
inexhausted
unexhausted
exhausted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔstɪd/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑstɪd/
Etymology: From exhaust + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhaust
necroposting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of necropost
depleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpliːtəd/
Senses: examples: text: The depleted aerosol can spray no more since there was no propellant left.
synonyms: spent
used up
glosses: Used up, expended; of which nothing is left.
Synonyms: word: consumed
word: depleted
word: done up
word: effete
word: exhausted
word: expended
word: gone
word: finished
word: forworn
word: low
word: spent
word: used up
Hypernyms: word: deteriorated
Hyponyms: word: dead
word: discharged
word: drained
word: flat
Derived terms: allodepleted
codepleted
cryodepleted
depleted uranium
hemidepleted
immunodepleted
leukodepleted
nondepleted
photodepleted
predepleted
undepleted
Related terms: word: fatigued
word: impoverished
depleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpliːtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deplete
eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of egg
eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of egg
eggs Benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg Benedict
form: eggs benedict
Etymology: Disputed. Likely from the given name or family name Benedict, with several individuals suggested as a possible eponym. A less common surmise suggests borrowing from French oefs bénédictine (“Benedictine (nuns’) eggs”). Attested since 1898.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, if we each had taken up the 1811's offer of two eggs Benedict apiece the next morning, we might not have needed any lunch.
ref: 1997 March 23, Joseph Siano, “Since 1811, a Cozy Vermont Inn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2009:
text: But the problem is that at the beginning, eggs Benedict had a much higher value than cornflakes, and now she has arrived at a point where eggs Benedict is no longer a special meal—in fact, it is approximately equal to cornflakes.
ref: 2008, Stuart Vyse, Going Broke, page 73:
text: Eggs Benedict are fairly easy to make at home, and if you’ve read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, home is the only place you’ll want to eat them.
ref: 2012, Jennifer Reese, Make the Bread, Buy the Butter, page 55:
glosses: A dish consisting of slices of English muffins with poached eggs, ham or bacon and hollandaise sauce.
raw_tags: ~
Synonyms: bene
Bene
benny
Benny
eggs bene
eggs Bene
eggs benny
eggs Benny
Related terms: benedict
Benedict
Benedictine
benediction
pectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛktɪn/
Forms: form: pectins
form: pectine
Etymology: From French pectine, coined in the 1830s by Henri Braconnot, from acide pectique "pectic acid", from Ancient Greek πηκτικός (pēktikós, “curdling”), from πηκτός (pēktós, “curdled”), from πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “stiffen”).
Senses: examples: text: Apple is rich in pectin and so is often added to other fruits when making jam so it will set.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide extracted from the cell walls of plants, especially of fruits; under acidic conditions it forms a gel. It is often used in processed foods, especially jellies and jams where it causes thickening (setting).
wikipedia: Henri Braconnot
Synonyms: word: E440
word: vegetable jelly
Derived terms: agaropectin
amylopectin
hydropectin
metapectin
oligopectin
parapectin
pectinaceous
pectinase
pectinated
pectinesterase
pectinolytic
pectocellulose
protopectin
Related terms: pectic
cell wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛl wɔːl/
ipa: /sɛl wɔːl/
ipa: /sɛl wɑːl/
Forms: form: cell walls
form: cell-wall
Senses: examples: text: The name of Chlamydomonas is applied to certain microscopic green bodies, each of which consists of a protoplasmic central substance invested by a structureless sac. The latter contains cellulose, as in ordinary plants; and the chlorophyll which gives the green colour enables the Chlamydomonas to decompose carbonic acid and fix carbon, as they do. Two long cilia protrude through the cell-wall, and effect the rapid locomotion of this "monad," which, in all respects except its mobility, is characteristically a plant.
ref: 1876, T. H. Huxley, “On the Border Territory between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms”, in Littell's Living Age, vol. 128, no. 1657:
text: The structural distinctiveness of the cell—in plants especially—is dues in large part to the presence of an outer layer, or coat, the cell wall, which in plants is usually firm, and often hard and thick; in animals, delicate or lacking.
ref: 1947, Arthur J. Eames, Laurence H. MacDaniels, An Introduction to Plant Anatomy, 2nd edition:
text: Terrestrial vascular plants contain considerable quantities of lignin, an amorphous phenylpropanoid structural polymer that binds cell wall components and cell walls together providing structural stability to plants.
ref: 1994, Robert A. Blanchette, “Lignin biodegradation in cell walls of woody plants”, in O. Petrini, G. B. Ouellette, editors, Host Wall Alterations by Parasitic Fungi, pages 55–65:
text: Think of the cell wall as a wicker basket in which a balloon has been inflated so that it exerts pressure from the inside. Such a basket is very rigid and resistant to mechanical damage.
ref: 2000, John L. Howland, The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life, page 70:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A thick, fairly rigid, layer formed around individual cells of bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plants, and algae (but not animals and other protists which generally have cell membranes without cell walls). The cell wall is external to the cell membrane and serves a structural function helping the cell maintain its shape and protecting the cell from damage.
hemicrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Forms: form: hemicranias
form: hemicrany
Etymology: From Late Latin hemicrania (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (from whence also cranium).
Cognate to megrim and migraine, which also derive from the Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Gods, gods, why do you punish me? Yes, no doubt it is upon me again, again this terrible, invincible affliction … this hemicrania which grips half the head with pain … without remedy, without escape … I must try not to move my head. …
ref: 1993, The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translation Burgin and O’Connor, Chapter 2, p. 17
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A headache affecting one side of the head.
Synonyms: megrim
migraine
Derived terms: hemicranial
Related terms: megrim
migraine
amphicrania
amphicrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A headache affecting both sides of the head.
Related terms: cranial
cranium
hemicrania
nosy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊziː/
enpr: nō'-zē
ipa: /ˈnoʊzi/
Forms: form: nosier
form: more nosy
form: nosiest
form: most nosy
form: nosey
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They built tall fences, yet the nosy neighbors always seemed to know everything about them.
glosses: Prying, inquisitive or curious in other’s affairs; tending to snoop or meddle.
examples: text: "Look at you, a handsome man of thirty, with thick brown hair and a nosy nose and enormous feet and hands that can drive a team of horses or a yoke of oxen or," she hesitated in a brief shyness, and then went on, "a loving wife."
ref: 1962, Paul Engle, Golden Child, page 25:
text: She had the same sort of handsome, square-cut features as Timothy, with the difference that her nose was small and short — it was obvious that Timothy got his thick dark hair, his brown eyes and his nosy nose from his father, that vigorous impresario who had died suddenly of a heart-attack, his first, two years before the War began.
ref: 1971, William Cooper, You want the right frame of reference, page 22:
text: The problem is particularly acute in caricature when a variety of divergent features is forced into a precarious union, when a "nosy" nose is trying to get along with a hesitant mouth and vigilant eyebrows.
ref: 1982, Art Journal - Volumes 42-43, page 322:
text: Nosy in his looks by the large hooked proboscis, which dominated his face, as well as by character, Ebenezer wanted, perhaps even needed, to know everyone's business.
ref: 2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager, page 99:
glosses: Having a large or elongated nose.
Synonyms: interfering
kibitzing
meddlesome
Derived terms: nosily
nosiness
nosybody
nosy Nancy
nosy parker
nosey parker
nosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊziː/
enpr: nō'-zē
ipa: /ˈnoʊzi/
Forms: form: nosies
form: nosey
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I might wander down to the construction site for a nosy at what they're building.
related: word: nosey
glosses: A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity.
examples: text: There was a little Rosy, / And she had a little nosy; / And she made a little posy, / All pink and white and green. / And she said, “Little nosy, / Will you smell my little posy? / For of all the flowers that growsy, / Such sweet ones ne’er were seen.” / So she took the little posy, / And she put it to her nosy, / On her little face so rosy, / The flowers for to smell; […]
ref: 1890, Laura E[lizabeth] Richards, “Rosy Posy”, in In My Nursery, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, page 174:
text: It’s this time of year when you’re warm and cozy and white snowflakes fall on your little nosy.
ref: 2004 December 19, Mandel Comanda, “[What the holidays mean to me] It’s for family and friends”, in Sunday Courier News, page 140, column 3:
text: Who’s my little mouse? Whose little nosy is this? Who has the biggest eyesies in Agramstadt?
ref: 2011, Miljenko Jergović, chapter IV, in Stephen M. Dickey, transl., Ruta Tannenbaum, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: She pretended to pull off his nose and then held her fist in front of Michael’s face, her thumb peeping out between her fingers. ‘There – I’ve got your nose now!’ […] She pressed her thumb onto his little face. ‘Here’s your little nosy, back safe and sound between your rosy cheeks,’ she said.
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Wilson, Queenie, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 133:
related: word: nosey
word: nosie
glosses: A nose.
nosy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊziː/
enpr: nō'-zē
ipa: /ˈnoʊzi/
Forms: form: nosies
form: nosying
form: nosied
form: nosied
form: nosey
Etymology: From nose + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My brother always nosies into my diary.
glosses: To pry into something.
raw_tags: with into
Darrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæɹɪɫ/
Forms: form: Darrells
form: Dearle
form: Durell
form: Darryl
form: Daryl
Etymology: Derived from d'Airel, name of a Norman family that came from a place called Airelle in Calvados.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname in the 19th century.
greenfeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenfeeds
Etymology: From green + feed.
Senses: glosses: any crop, such as barley, used directly as fodder for animals
Related terms: silage
especial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛsˈpɛʃəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
Forms: form: more especial
form: most especial
form: especiall
Etymology: From Middle English especial, via Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form, beauty”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special. Related to species.
Senses: examples: text: Pay especial attention to chapter five.
text: an especial hatred of cats
text: [...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.
ref: 1941 July, “The Why and the Wherefore: Inner and Outer Distant Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
text: Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:
glosses: Exceptional in importance or significance; special.
examples: text: acting with no especial goal
text: Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Particular.
Derived terms: especially
especialness
in especial
Related terms: special
succulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkjələnt/
Forms: form: more succulent
form: most succulent
Etymology: Borrowed from French succulent, from Latin succulentus.
Senses: examples: text: Escargots, smoked salmon, fresh seafood, and pasta are all presented in succulent style, and the price is right.
ref: 1984 December, Pat Neisser, “Quebec”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 10, number 12, page 98:
text: “Ah. Good evening, sir. Can I interest you in a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (10:58 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: Juicy or lush.
examples: text: "Hotter Than That," written by his wife, Lil Hardin, who had dandy rhythm herself, is scat vocal a la king, as Armstrong trades succulent phrases with guitar whiz Lonnie Johnson before offering a brief but telling solo.
ref: 2000, Stereophile - Volume 23, Issues 7-12, page 167:
text: It could be a verse from God's word that darts straight to the need of your heart with its succulent comfort.
ref: 2003, T. D. Jakes, God's Leading Lady, →ISBN:
text: Not far from me, I noticed a succulent blond.
ref: 2005, Michael Kent, The Big Jiggety: Or the Return of the Kind of American, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Let go of the titles and just be the succulent woman you are each moment changing anew.
ref: 2005, Kathleen Scott, A Woman's Toolbox: Practical Tools for Creating a Balanced Life, →ISBN:
text: It will get a hard-on even if its owner sees a one-breasted woman with no teeth, and squinty eyes, just as long as she holds promise of a nice behind, agreeable thighs — a succulent woman.
ref: 2006, Fred Khumalo, Bitches' Brew, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The peaceful revolution was achieved in the United States following 1820, largely under the guise of succulent phrases and legal technicalities.
ref: 2014, Carle C. Zimmerman, Family and Civilization, →ISBN:
glosses: Luscious or delectable.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water.
Derived terms: Succulent Karoo
succulent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌkjələnt/
Forms: form: succulents
Etymology: Borrowed from French succulent, from Latin succulentus.
Senses: glosses: A succulent plant.
Paxil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: glosses: The antidepressant drug paroxetine.
horse pucky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse puckey
Etymology: From horse + pucky.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Mum says I'm too young for caffeinated drinks,’ I say. ‘Horse pucky,’ says Dad.
ref: 2015, David Mitchell, Slade House:
text: When the sky lightened in another of those diffuse spasms, I could see horsepucky pats, some of them fresh.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 804:
glosses: Horseshit, nonsense, horse hockey.
flourine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fluorine.
penne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛneɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian penne, plural of penna.
Senses: glosses: A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
Related terms: penne alla vodka
penne rigate
berylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of beryllium.
gubernator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gubernators
Etymology: * From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“to govern”) + -tor, thus a doublet of governor.
* Alternatively a back-formation from gubernatorial, from same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptians, when they introduce God under the Symbolic Image of one that governes a Ship, thereby signifie his Domination and Empire as Gubernator of the Universe. For as a Gubernator of a Ship […]
ref: 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, page 469:
text: Marcus Minutius Mude, a soldier of the sixth legion victorious, in performance of a vow, dedicated the altar to the African, Italian, Gallican (Goddesses, the) Mothers, to the Gubernator of the Sixth Legion. The writer confessed there was some inconsistency in the dedications to the Matres, &c., and to the Gubernator; […]
ref: 1863, John McCaul, Britanno-Roman Inscriptions: With Critical Notes, page 222:
glosses: Leader.
examples: text: Stanford poll: Terminator in lead to become gubernator
ref: 2003 September, “Stanford poll: Terminator in lead to become gubernator”, in Silicon Valley Business Journal, title:
text: So, why don't we send the gubernator back to Austria,[…]and sponsor a collective effort to repeal the Loud Pipes Law and that ludicrous Healthcare Abomination.
ref: 2010 September 30, Hagar, “California's Gubernator caves ...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
text: So what test did Gubernator Perry pass to became such a brain dead dipshit?
ref: 2013 May 24, ChasNemo, “Texas Sheriff Exam ...”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet):
text: And that is encouraging, because it’s nice to know that if you use Trump tactics in a Virginia gubernatorial election, you do not get to be gubernator.
ref: 2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 30, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Governor.
Related terms: gubernatorial
Türk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Türk
form: most Türk
Etymology: From Turkish Türk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Turk.
Related terms: Türk cell
Türkic
Türkish
Türkiye
Türkman
Türkmen
Türkmenabat
Türkmenistan
Mactard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mactards
Etymology: From Mac (“a Macintosh computer”) + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: Lyle is also a Mactard who should have learned his lesson from the last book.
ref: 2002 May 17, geek_girl, “Re: My little Bromo rant”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):
text: > Because any 'tard can manage to download stuff off of Kazaa.
Except us Mactards.
ref: 2003 July 20, Tonawanda Kardex, “Re: OT Recording industry on attack”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):
text: BTW, you Mactards keep claiming Mac is a Unix (which it isn't), so....when will you Unix guys settle on one "distro"?
ref: 2005 June 14, Liam Slider, “Re: Linux Dev switching to OS X,Mac?”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):
glosses: One who uses and uncritically advocates Macintosh computers.
Related terms: freetard
Lintard
wintard
MTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mountaintop removal.
MTR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mass Transit Railway.
glosses: Initialism of Mavalli Tiffin Room.
superfluity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.pəˈfluː.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: superfluities
Etymology: From superflu(ous) + -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.
Senses: examples: text: Each stores has its own storekeeper, a clerk who specializes in organizing his department so that there is not a superfluity of one article and a scarcity of another.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 32:
antonyms: necessity
glosses: The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
examples: text: As they had almost all the conveniencies of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search of superfluity.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: I really doubt whether there be such a thing as a heart in the world: perhaps, after all, it is only an elegant superfluity kept for the use of poets. Certainly we have no use for it here.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith. Courtiers.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 256:
text: It is to be presumed that Miss Blanche Amory had more than one rose in her bouquet, and why should not the kind young creature give out of her superfluity, and make as many partners as possible happy?
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
antonyms: necessity
glosses: Something superfluous, as a luxury.
examples: text: These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
ref: 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, page 266:
text: Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
ref: 2011, Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies, unnumbered page:
text: […] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”
ref: 2012, Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: Collective noun for a group of nuns.
distressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more distressed
form: most distressed
Senses: examples: text: I'm distressed that sexy John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
text: Oh that thou wer't not, poore distreſſed ſoule.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 4:8:
text: Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?"
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: distraught
word: heartsore
word: pained
word: unglued
word: agonised
word: tortured
glosses: Anxious or uneasy.
glosses: Damaged.
raw_tags: of merchandise
glosses: Offered for sale after foreclosure.
raw_tags: of a property
examples: text: Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?
ref: 2022, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 44:
text: Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”.
ref: 2024 March 19, Maeve McClenaghan, “Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
raw_tags: of furniture
examples: text: distressed debt
text: Funds that buy “distressed” debt, which typically yields ten percentage points or more over Treasuries, are becoming familiar villains.
ref: 2019 November 7, “Distressed debt funds are waiting for a downturn”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: Sam Zell called himself “the Grave Dancer”, even though, as he explained, his penchant for buying distressed assets “wasn’t so much dancing on graves as …raising the dead”.
ref: 2023 May 25, “What properties would Sam Zell invest in next?”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises in distressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.
ref: 2023 December 16, “Musk told lenders they would not lose money on Twitter deal”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
raw_tags: of securities
Derived terms: distressedly
distressedness
distressed sale
nondistressed
predistressed
pre-distressed
undistressed
distressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distress
soldier on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soldiers on
form: soldiering on
form: soldiered on
form: soldiered on
Senses: examples: text: He soldiered on through the night, working hard and not sleeping.
text: But what was Northern meant to do, bearing in mind that the Class 142s and '144s' had to soldier on in service beyond their planned withdrawal dates, due to the late delivery of cascaded trains and the late entry into traffic of the £500m, 101-strong order of CAF multiple units?
ref: 2020 June 17, Jim McMahon tells Richard Clinnick, “Stepping out of the shadows”, in Rail, page 41:
glosses: To continue or persist, despite adversity or difficulty.
Related terms: battler
quake in one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quakes in one's boots
form: quaking in one's boots
form: quaked in one's boots
form: quaked in one's boots
form: shake in one's boots
form: quake in one's shoes
form: shake in one's shoes
Senses: examples: text: The thought of climbing that high had him quaking in his boots.
glosses: To be very frightened, scared, or nervous.
hand it to someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands it to someone
form: handing it to someone
form: handed it to someone
form: handed it to someone
Senses: examples: text: You have to hand it to him for finishing such a big project so quickly.
glosses: To give somebody credit or praise.
Synonyms: give it to someone
be on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is on to
form: being on to
form: was on to
form: been on to
Senses: examples: text: I was planning it as a surprise, but I think he is on to me.
glosses: To figure out; to realize the truth.
Related terms: catch on to
cotton on to
be on
in the hot seat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the hot seat
Senses: examples: text: They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions.
text: Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.
ref: 2021 February 2, Nathaniel Popper, Kellen Browning, Erin Griffith, “Robinhood’s C.E.O. Is in the Hot Seat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Under pressure to perform; under scrutiny; at the center of attention.
all over the map
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The Kip Hanrahan Band, which opened the concert, is after its own ambitious American-Latin fusion, with internationalist rhythms, introspective lyrics and musicians from all over the map.
ref: 1985 October 28, Jon Pareles, “Music: Ruben Blades's Salsa”, in New York Times:
text: The reactions were swift, impassioned and all over the map.
ref: 2008 August 9, “A Financial Earthquake”, in Newsweek:
text: Prices are even more all over the map than usual here; I've seen them range from just $36 all the way up to $160...
ref: 2009, Pauline Frommer, Pauline Frommer's Las Vegas, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Widely scattered or distributed; numerous and differing greatly.
examples: text: “I hit it all over the map,” Anderson joked.
ref: 2008 August 13, Scott Petrak, “Browns notes: PGA contender”, in The Chronicle, Ohio: Telegram, retrieved 13 Aug 2008:
glosses: In widely scattered directions; in a widely varying manner.
Related terms: all over
all over the board
all over the place
all over the shop
balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːlz/
ipa: /baːlz/
ipa: /bɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: examples: text: Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
text: W. S. Gilbert, HMS Pinafore
When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.
glosses: plural of ball
examples: text: After that shot, his balls were really hurting!
glosses: The testicles.
balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːlz/
ipa: /baːlz/
ipa: /bɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: examples: text: Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
text: He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
text: He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
text: Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
text: Balls is all it takes to handle these people
ref: 1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear, page 80:
text: “Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"
ref: 2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue, page 137:
synonyms: word: audacity
word: balls
word: bield
word: boldhead
word: boldness
word: bravehood
word: braveness
word: bravery
word: courage
word: courageousness
word: daring
word: fearlessness
word: grit
word: guts
word: heart
word: intrepidity
word: intrepidness
word: mood
word: nerve
word: ovaries
raw_tags: for women
word: pecker
word: pluck
word: spunk
word: steel
word: undauntedness
word: valour
glosses: Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
examples: text: That's a load of balls.
glosses: Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
synonyms: word: bollocks
word: nonsense
examples: text: Don't make a balls of it!
glosses: A balls-up; a botched job.
Derived terms: word: amazeballs
word: ballsy
word: barse
word: blue balls
word: bust one's balls
word: bust someone's balls
word: Colemanballs
taxonomic: Daldinia concentrica
word: cramp balls
word: dogballs
word: grab life by the balls
word: have someone by the balls
word: nutballs
balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːlz/
ipa: /baːlz/
ipa: /bɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Forms: form: ballses
form: ballsing
form: ballsed
form: ballsed
Senses: examples: text: You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.
ref: 1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles, A Killing Trade, →ISBN, page 191:
text: The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
ref: 2009, Keith Brooke, The Accord, page 135:
text: He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.
ref: 2014, Claire Farrell, Make You: Stake You #2:
glosses: Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
balls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːlz/
ipa: /baːlz/
ipa: /bɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ball
Derived terms: balls about
balls around
balls on
balls up
balls
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːlz/
ipa: /baːlz/
ipa: /bɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: examples: text: It is balls cold out there.
glosses: Very. Intensifier.
clink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: clinks
Etymology: From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”).
Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call.
Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.
Senses: examples: text: You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
text: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
glosses: The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
glosses: Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
Derived terms: clink-clanks
crambo-clink
clink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: clinks
form: clinking
form: clinked
form: clinked
Etymology: From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”).
Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call.
Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.
Senses: examples: text: The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
text: The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza I, page 10:
text: On the other side: the rich, beautiful tapestry of WASP culture that constituted Levis's life—friends playing horseshoes at backyard cocktail parties, where girls swanned in chaise longues, clinking their gin and tonics.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
glosses: To rhyme.
Derived terms: clinkable
clinker
clinking stuff
clinkstone
clinky
clink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: clinks
form: klink
Etymology: From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.
Senses: examples: text: If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.
glosses: A prison.
clink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: clinks
form: clinking
form: clinked
form: clinked
Senses: glosses: To clinch; to rivet.
square meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square meters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of square metre.
tragus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.ɡəs/
rhymes: -eɪɡəs
Forms: form: tragi
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin tragus, from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “he-goat; part of the ear”); with reference to a tuft of hair, likened to a goat’s beard, that may grow on the tragus, especially in older men.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The small piece of thick cartilage on the inner side of the external ear that is immediately in front of and partly closing the ear canal.
Derived terms: antitragus
intertragic
post-tragus
tragal
ear canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: acoustic meatus
auditory canal
auditory meatus
external acoustic meatus
external auditory canal
external auditory meatus
glosses: The tube or meatus running from the outer ear to the eardrum through which sound enters.