cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
simplificator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simplificators
Senses: examples: text: Yet this is the supposition of simplificators, who from the impulse of a faulty cerebral conformation, must needs disbelieve, because theology would otherwise afford them no intellectual exercise.
ref: 1845, Isaac Taylor, Natural History of Enthusiasm, page 83:
text: The people, great simplificators that they are, have understood for a long time. They know from instinct that if we do not have as yet a distinctive national emblem, the fault is imputable to their representatives.
ref: 1964, Canada Parliament, House of Commons Debates, Official Report, volume 5, page 4899:
glosses: One who simplifies.
Celtist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Celtists
Etymology: From Celt + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes an interest in the Celts or the Celtic languages.
Celtist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Celtist
form: most Celtist
Etymology: From Celt + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the Celts or the Celtic languages.
stepmam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepmams
Etymology: From step- + mam.
Senses: glosses: Stepmother.
stepmum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepmums
form: stepmom
Etymology: From step- + mum.
Senses: glosses: Stepmother.
kabadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kabaddi.
bonus mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonus mothers
Senses: examples: text: To my brood: cousin Michele, sister-in-law Samantha, brother Michael, bonus mother Elaine, and to my brother David who puts the hysterical in Halpern.
ref: 2007, Adena Halpern, Target Underwear and a Vera Wang Gown: Notes from a Single Girl's Closet, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: I am also enormously grateful for all the ways my bonus mother, Jeri, has enhanced my life and the lives of my family and for the joy she so readily shares with us.
ref: 2010, Ivy Ken, Digesting Race, Class, and Gender: Sugar as a Metaphor, Springer, →ISBN:
text: I am sitting on a balcony with the well-spoken and highly experienced family therapist, Jesper Juul. I am a producer, journalist, lecturer, mother, bonus mother and partner. My partner and I live with three boys: my own son Max who is 13 years and my partner's two sons Carl Frederik who is 14 and Johan who is 11.
ref: 2012, Jesper Juul, Family Time, WestBow Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: bonus mom
glosses: Euphemistic form of stepmother.
Synonyms: For more synonyms
synonyms of stepmother
unannulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + annulled.
Senses: glosses: Not annulled.
wild turmeric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A species of turmeric, Curcuma aromatica.
panax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panaxes
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Panax.
Bodder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Etymology: Jocular modification of Bodleian + -er. See Oxford "-er".
Senses: synonyms: Bod
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: The Bodleian Library.
wikipedia: Oxford "-er"
doublecloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublecloths
Etymology: From double + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A fabric made with two layers of cloth.
Related terms: matelassé
doublecloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doublecloth
truncheoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncheoners
Etymology: From truncheon + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of truncheoneer.
synonyms: word: truncheoneer
truncheoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncheoner
chumpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chumpion
stepmums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepmum
stepmams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepmam
Celtists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celtist
stringendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringendo
Vikky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, alternative form of Vicky.
screen dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screen dumps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of screenshot.
synonyms: word: screenshot
screen dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screen dump
ankle-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She went to the Common to walk Max, but soon found herself ankle-deep in mud.
text: The floor is littered ankle-deep with half-sewn garments.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 125:
text: Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 7:
coordinate_terms: elbow-deep
knee-deep
neckdeep
waist-deep
glosses: Up to one's ankles in something.
pastry bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastry bag
piping bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piping bag
strict ordering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strict orderings
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A relation which is asymmetric and transitive.
in the process of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, process, of.
examples: text: I found him in the process of completing that article about periscopes.
text: It is still in the process of installation.
glosses: Engaged in, but not finished with.
raw_tags: followed by the -ing form of a verb
Synonyms: in the middle of
in the midst of
white sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white sweet potatoes
Senses: glosses: A variety of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) that has a relatively white skin and flesh
Synonyms: tropical sweet potato
Cuban sweet potato
boniato
white-fleshed sweet potato
batiste
batata
batata dulce
camote
protomolecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomolecules
Etymology: From proto- + molecule.
Senses: examples: text: Molecular hydrogen is by the way a very difficult species to form in the gas phase by radiative association of H atoms, mainly because the protomolecule formed in this way is vibrationally highly excited and cannot get rid of the energy excess to enter inside the potential well and reach stability in a time short enough to avoid breaking.
ref: 1991, Ezio Bussoletti, G. Strazzulla, Solid-state astrophysics: 27 June-7 July 1989, →ISBN, page 385:
text: This is a consequence of the fact that the protomolecule, just formed in a high vibrational level, has to release quickly (roughly in a time comparable with its vibrational period) an energy excess of about four and a half electronvolt.
ref: 1998, Julián Chela Flores, F. Raulin, Exobiology, →ISBN, page 287:
text: As pointed out many years ago (see, for example, Duley and Williams, 1984), molecular hydrogen cannot form efficiently in the gas phase in the ISM, when H atoms are neutral and in the ground state, since three-body reactions are necessary to take out the excess energy quickly enough before the protomolecule falls apart.
ref: 2004, M. P. Bernstein, Space life sciences: steps toward origin(s) of life, page 6:
glosses: A collection of unstably bound atoms that has the potential to form a molecule if the structure can shed sufficient energy.
examples: text: It is most probable that all matter is simply the allotropic expression of one element and that the protomolecule is the union of the positively and negatively electrified etheric corpuscle.
ref: 1912, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record:
text: Another example is the technique developed at NRC for synthesizing the insulin protomolecule.
ref: 1982, Canada Parlement House of Commons Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Estimates, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Miscellaneous Estimates:
text: The local structure seen in Figure 3 may in fact be the entire structure of a fundamental melanin protomolecule.
ref: 2001, Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine, page 114:
glosses: A relatively simple molecule from which a more complex molecule is derived.
Related terms: protomolecular
protomolecules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protomolecule
out of step
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: At the march-past, little Johnny was out of step with everyone else.
text: The soldiers […] marched out of step in spite of the drum-beat,
ref: 1940, Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, Penguin, published 1977, Part 1, Chapter 4, pp. 51-52:
glosses: Not matching the movement of one's feet with that of others, or with an accompanying beat, while marching or walking.
examples: text: The government is increasingly out of step with public opinion.
text: If, now and then, during their travels, they had fallen slightly out of step, harmony had been restored by their return to the conditions she was used to.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 21, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book II, pages 207–208:
text: What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with life.
ref: 1930, Dashiell Hammet, chapter 7, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, pages 77–78:
text: Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending.
ref: 2021 October 20, Ben Jones, “The benefits of (and barriers to) more leisure travel by rail”, in RAIL, number 942, page 32:
text: The US president won rave reviews in Kyiv and Warsaw. But his old, cold war mindset is out of step with a changing world[.]
ref: 2023 February 26, Simon Tisdall, “Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: out of tune
glosses: Not matching or in agreement (with someone or something).
Related terms: out of sync
in the shoes of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: He is in the shoes of a dead man.
glosses: In the same (or former) situation as another named person.
Related terms: put oneself in someone's shoes
walk a mile in someone's shoes
tropical sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical sweet potatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white sweet potato.
synonyms: word: white sweet potato
glosses: Synonym of name (yam)
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
Cuban sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban sweet potatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of boniato.
synonyms: word: boniato
white-fleshed sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-fleshed sweet potatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of white sweet potato.
synonyms: word: white sweet potato
Synonyms: WFSP
Japanese sweet potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese sweet potatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of satsumaimo.
synonyms: word: satsumaimo
satsuma imo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satsuma imo
form: satsuma imos
Senses: examples: text: Sweet potato consumption declined dramatically in line with the decline in the rice diet. Nevertheless, satsuma imo is experiencing a revival in popularity associated with the revival in traditional cuisine.
ref: 1995 October, Grant Vinning, “Sweet potato”, in Market Compendium of Asian Vegetables: A Report for RIRDC (Asian Vegetables Series, RRIDC Research Paper No 95/12), Barton, A.C.T.: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 274:
text: I got pages of mostly daikon radishes along with satsuma tangerines, satsuma-age (fish cakes), satsuma imo (sweet potatoes, isn't it fun to learn new things?). satsuma pottery, and other satsuma non-food items.
ref: 2000 November 26, Lucy Kemnitzer, “Save Gary's life (or at least his teeth)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 May 2025:
text: A Japanese sweet simply called ‘sweet potato’ is a baked satsuma imo mixed with eggs and sugar, then reformed to resemble a… Japanese sweet potato!
ref: 2023 January 5, “The Wholesome and Hearty World of Satsuma Imo, Japanese Sweet Potatoes”, in WAMI: Japan-flavored Media, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of satsumaimo.
white sweet potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white sweet potato
Okinawan purple potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Okinawan purple potatoes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Okinawan sweet potato.
synonyms: word: Okinawan sweet potato
Okinawan yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Okinawan yams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Okinawan sweet potato.
synonyms: word: Okinawan sweet potato
jewel yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel yams
Senses: coordinate_terms: garnet yam
glosses: A variety of moist-fleshed sweet potato.
garnet yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnet yams
Senses: coordinate_terms: jewel yam
glosses: A variety of moist-fleshed sweet potato.
Japanese mountain yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese mountain yams
Senses: glosses: A Japanese species of yam, Dioscorea japonica
glosses: Another species of yam, Dioscorea polystachya, which is sometimes referred to as a mountain yam in China.
Synonyms: sense: Dioscorea japonica
word: yamaimo
pan fried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pan fry
pan fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pan fries
form: pan frying
form: pan fried
form: pan fried
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pan-fry.
malanga blanca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To add to the confusion, there are three different varieties of malanga. Malanga blanca, the white version considered the true malanga, grows on dry land while the malanga amarillo grows in wetlands or bogs.
ref: 1980 May 1, David Futch, “Cuban vegetables crop into diets”, in The Miami Herald, volume 70, number 153, Neighbors, page 26:
text: A member of the taro faily, the malanga produces a dark brown tuber with a rough, thick skin. The malanga blanca is the most popular variety grown here, but the malanga amarilla is also cultivated. The flesh varies from the off-white of the malanga blanca to the yellow of the malanga amarilla.
ref: 1982 May 13, Kathryn W. Foster, “Tropical Treats”, in The Miami Herald, volume 72, number 164, page 16E:
text: Choose 1 lb (500 g) yautía or malanga from these varieties:
• 1 lb (500 g) white yautía or malanga blanca (white flesh with potato-like texture; mild to earthy flavor; the most common variety in North America)
• 1 lb (500 g) purple yautía or malanga lila (light purple flesh with dense, potato-like texture; earthy flavor; color fades to grayish when cooked)
ref: 2010, “Yautía”, in David Joachim, The Food Substitutions Bible: More Than 6,500 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment & Techniques, 2nd edition, Toronto, ON: Robert Rose Inc., →ISBN, page 627:
glosses: A white variety of malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, a starchy tropical root vegetable related to taro.
Related terms: malanga coco
malanga lila
malanga coco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malangas coco
Senses: examples: text: Stemberg paused next to the yautias and the malangas coco. Yautias and malangas coco? “We're trying out a line of Spanish foods,” he explained earnestly, one arms waving across a small garden of browns, greens and yellows.
ref: 1982 April 28, Nathan Cobb, “Supermarkets: Checking out the changes at your local”, in The Boston Globe, volume 221, number 118, page 41:
text: Tropical tubers alone are staggering in their diversity, including white and yellow true yams, sweet potatoes, yucca, yautia, African yams, malanga coco, fresh batata, and several kinds of potatoes.
ref: 2010, “Greater Boston”, in Patricia Harris, David Lyon, Food Lovers’ Guide to Massachusetts: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, and Events, 2nd edition, Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 182:
text: In the 1960s, newly arrived Cuban farmers, mostly from Las Villas, planted tropical tubers and fruits, such as yuca (cassava), sweet potato, malanga coco, and mamey, near those same fields, changing the landscape and providing the raw materials for a transplanted Cuban cuisine.
ref: 2013, Maricel Presilla, “Cuban American Food”, in Andrew F. Smith, editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 582:
glosses: A variety of malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, a starchy tropical root vegetable related to taro, distinguished by having corms that are round like coconuts.
Related terms: malanga blanca
malanga lila
malanga lila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Choose 1 lb (500 g) yautía or malanga from these varieties:
• 1 lb (500 g) white yautía or malanga blanca (white flesh with potato-like texture; mild to earthy flavor; the most common variety in North America)
• 1 lb (500 g) purple yautía or malanga lila (light purple flesh with dense, potato-like texture; earthy flavor; color fades to grayish when cooked)
ref: 2010, “Yautía”, in David Joachim, The Food Substitutions Bible: More Than 6,500 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment & Techniques, 2nd edition, Toronto, ON: Robert Rose Inc., →ISBN, page 627:
text: At the Soon Lee Supermarket in the super-strip mall on the northeast corner, for example, there was a bustling Chinese grocery, stocked with all manner of exotica: bitter melons, which look like cucumbers cross-bred with porcupines; malanga lila, like turnips with hair; dried seaweed; exotic dried mushrooms; and pickled bamboo shoots.
ref: 2013, Edward Keenan, Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto, Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The selection is vast, and includes common ingredients such as peppers, apples, squash and onions. But it also carries more exotic ingredients such as malanga lila from Central America, taro from East Asia and jicama, originally from Mexico, which according to Stagner, works great in a coleslaw or salsa.
ref: 2015 November 15, Nate Thurman, “Homegrown for the holidays: Four Seasons market makes buying fresh produce easy”, in Sun Herald, volume 132, number 43, Biloxi, MS: Gulf Publishing Company, Inc., Business, page 10F:
glosses: A purple variety of malanga, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, a starchy tropical root vegetable related to taro.
Related terms: malanga blanca
malanga coco
true yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: true yams
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Dioscorea, or its tubers, so called to distinguish them from the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties known as yams in the US, and from the New Zealand yam, Oxalis tuberosa .
tropical yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical yams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of name (yam)
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
greater yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater yams
Senses: glosses: Synonym of name (yam)
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
yampi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yampis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of name (yam)
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
namé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namés
Senses: glosses: Synonym of name (“yam”).
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
nyami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyamis
Senses: glosses: Synonym of name (yam)
synonyms: word: name
extra: yam
MISB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mint in sealed box.
OoB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: out of box
OOBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OOBEs
Senses: examples: text: We can formally define an OOBE as an event in which the experience (1) seems to perceive some portion of some environment which could not possibly be perceived from where his physical body is known to be at the time; and (2) knows at the time that he is not dreaming or fantasizing.
ref: 1971, Robert Monroe, “Introduction”, in Journeys Out of the Body, 1st US edition, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Initialism of out-of-body experience or out-of-the-body experience.
glosses: Initialism of out-of-box experience.
dance gypsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance gypsies
Senses: glosses: A person who travels frequently to attend contra dances.
gypsy meltdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsy meltdowns
Senses: glosses: A move in contra dancing in which a gypsy precedes a swing.
separature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From separate + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: The heating of the milk makes it less viscous, hence skimming at a high temperature will give closer separature than when skimmed at a low [...] If a machine is receiving more than the proper quantity, the separation is not complete.
ref: 1902, Iowa. Department of Agriculture, Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, page 540:
text: [...] (fracture strength of interface between inclusion and matrix), interfacial separature takes place to form voids. According to the law on the release of elastic energy equal to the increase in surface energy during fracture[…]
ref: 2013 October 22, M. Jono, T. Inoue, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials - VI: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 29 July - 2 August 1991, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: The process of separation.
contra dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contra dance
whole gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole gyps
Senses: glosses: A move in contra dancing related to the gypsy.
Related terms: half gyp
half gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half gyps
Senses: glosses: A move in contra dancing related to the gypsy.
Related terms: whole gyp
whole gip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole gips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whole gyp.
whole-gip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole-gips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whole gyp.
whole-gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole-gyps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whole gyp.
half gip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half gips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half gyp.
half-gip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-gips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half gyp.
half-gyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-gyps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half gyp.
permabull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permabulls
Etymology: From perma- + bull.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial pundit who is permanently bullish on the stock market.
teuchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teuchats
Senses: examples: text: And had I not come in past fields loud with teuchats calling? A house had a plaque mentioning that it was here Robert Louis Stevenson had stayed as an invalid in 1881, and written Treasure Island, which made his name.
ref: 1980, Hamish M. Brown, Hamish's mountain walk: the first traverse, page 132:
text: Sang would have stoned you out of his parks looking for teuchats’ eggs, or sent the dog at you, or he would have cheated your father out of a week's pay if he thought he could get away with it, especially if your father couldn't count money
ref: 1982, David Toulmin, A Chiel Among Them: A Scots Miscellany, page 24:
text: The first oystercatchers trilled along the river; a couple of teuchats flapped their lazy dance in the cool spring air; high above a buzzard circled, screaming his cat-like cry; a couple of Dodd's new black lambs staggered beside their mother;
ref: 2005, A Sense of Place: A Collection of New Scottish Writing, page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of tewit.
teuchit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teuchits
Senses: examples: text: There were the fields over which as a boy he had wandered to pluck the gowan or seek for teuchits’ nests ; there the long stretches of breezy heather, and the low- lying moss where he had helped to dig and wheel the peats[.]
ref: 1899, Gavin Greig, Logie O'Buchan: An Aberdeenshire Pastoral of Last Century, page 184:
text: He saw from the twigs on the ground that a gale had been blowing, and knew it would be the teuchit-storm on which the teuchit, or green plover, is blown home.
ref: 1951, Nancy Brysson Morrison, The hidden fairing: a novel, page 203:
text: The new century brought my seventieth birthday, on which Gillian gave me a watercolour of a lapwing, or teuchit, with her chick by local artist Keith Brockie.
ref: 2012, Robin Hull, Scottish Mammals, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tewit.
tuchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuchets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tewit.
stringendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringendo
out-of-box experience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out-of-box experiences
Senses: glosses: The experience that a person has with a newly purchased product.
subtexture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtextures
Etymology: From sub- + texture.
Senses: examples: text: Their modeling can be simplified if they are considered composites of simpler subtextures. After an initial, unsupervised segmentation of the composite texture into subtextures, it can be described at two levels.
ref: 2008, Majid Mirmehdi, Handbook of Texture Analysis, page 281:
glosses: A texture that is part of another texture.
shit talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-talk
form: shittalk
Senses: synonyms: trash talk
glosses: Derogatory speech regarding someone or something.
shit talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shit talks
form: shit talking
form: shit talked
form: shit talked
form: shit-talk
form: shittalk
Senses: synonyms: talk shit
glosses: To make disparaging comments about.
Related terms: pooh-pooh
shit-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit talk.
shit-talk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shit-talks
form: shit-talking
form: shit-talked
form: shit-talked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shit talk.
deep fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep fries
form: deep frying
form: deep fried
form: deep fried
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep-fry.
deep fat fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep fat fries
form: deep fat frying
form: deep fat fried
form: deep fat fried
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep-fat-fry.
deep-fat-fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-fat-fries
form: deep-fat-frying
form: deep-fat-fried
form: deep-fat-fried
form: deep fat fry
Senses: glosses: Synonym of deep-fry.
synonyms: word: deep-fry
Related terms: deep-fat-fried
deep-fat fryer
truncature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncatures
Senses: glosses: Synonym of truncation.
synonyms: word: truncation
velaturas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velatura
cinemagraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinemagraphs
Senses: examples: text: One creative form of advertising that has already created a stir in the Tumblrverse makes use of a new visual medium called a cinemagraph, a still photograph in which a minor and repeated movement occurs.
ref: 2013, Monique Vescia, David Karp and Tumblr, →ISBN:
text: The camera will fire 18 JPEGs and then it will provide a preview image with a brush tool that you can use to specify the area that will be animated: depicted as moving in the cinemagraph.
ref: 2014, David Busch, David Busch's Sony Alpha a5000/ILCE-5000 Guide to Digital Photography, →ISBN:
text: In fact, shooting and editing a cinemagraph can be easy; it is its content that will make it successful.
ref: 2016, Anna Fox, Richard Sawdon Smith, Langford's Basic Photography, →ISBN, page 477:
glosses: A digital image in which an element or small area is animated, such as in an animated GIF.
examples: text: Intermittently might be heard the voice of the “barker” droning his droll catch-phrases, informing the inquisitive populace that for “one dime, ten cents or a tenth part of a dollar," they could see “the greatest wonder of the age, the cinemagraph showing -- MOV-ING PIC'-CHURES."
ref: 1921, George W. Beynon, Musical Presentation of Motion Pictures, page 3:
text: At the end of each a sign is thrown from the cinemagraph on the canvas announcing that those who came late may stay for the next 'performance.'
ref: 2003, David Kiehn, Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Once they all went to a dance hall called the Rialto which she hadn't liked much, but when they went to the cinemagraph, she'd really enjoyed it.
ref: 2010, Lyn Andrews, The House on Lonely Street, →ISBN:
glosses: A movie, especially one from the silent era.
cinemagraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinemagraph
ho ho ho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ho, ho, ho.
mashuganuh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mashuganuh
form: most mashuganuh
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshuggener.
NZer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnˈzɛdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: NZers
form: Enzedder
Etymology: Abbreviation of New Zealander. Compare NZ.
Senses: glosses: A citizen or resident of New Zealand; a New Zealander
chalant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈlɑnt/
Forms: form: more chalant
form: most chalant
Etymology: A back-formation from nonchalant, itself from Old French non- + chalant (“concerning, bothering”). By this process, the original Old French participle was coincidentally re-formed.
Senses: examples: text: 'I draw the line at nonchalant. Sometimes I think you're very chalant.'
ref: 2001, Gill Sanderson, A Full Recovery, page 20:
text: Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.
ref: 2008, Golf Jokes and Anecdotes from Around the World, page 28:
text: Lawrence Lipton responded, "The lady is quite right, of course. It's sinful to be nonchalant. We shall endeavor to be more chalant in the future."
ref: 2011, Sarah Schrank, Art and the City:
glosses: Not nonchalant; careful, attentive, or concerned.
triturature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of triturating.
hind quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hindquarters.
Shanahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shanahans
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Seanacháin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
gunline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunlines
Etymology: From gun + line.
Senses: glosses: A line or cable that can be shot across a gap.
glosses: Alternative form of gun line.
à trois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ ˈtɹwɑ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French à trois.
Senses: examples: text: a discussion à trois
text: à trois in a Europe of five powers
translation: being allied with three of the five main powers in Europe
english: being allied with three of the five main powers in Europe
text: Everything, now, is done à trois.
ref: 2014, Naomi Wood, Mrs. Hemingway, →ISBN:
text: In the event Lady Adelaide looked rather overdressed for an informal dinner à trois.
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Jeffrey, Meadowlands, →ISBN:
text: Nor, he warned, would he have anything to do with an agreement à trois with Russia.
ref: 2016, From Sadowa to Sarajevo, volume 6, →ISBN:
glosses: For or between three parties. Often used in reference to alliances.
Related terms: ménage à trois
induc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of induction.
screendump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screendumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of screen dump.
screendumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screendump
troccle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troccles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of truckle.
troccles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troccle
pablumish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pablumish
form: most pablumish
Etymology: From pablum + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This is not a "protest" song as they have come to be called, but it makes most everything recently done in that bag look pretty pablumish. Mick opens the song with these lines: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."
ref: 1974, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rolling stone rock'n'roll reader, page 92:
text: The stuffing gets zapped in the microwave, but you get impatient and slap the turkey on straight out of the fridge. I ate it all up, peering under turkey stragglers on my plate for any last remaining bits of wonderful, moist, pablumish stuffing.
ref: 2014, Malcolm Bedell, Jillian Bedell, Eating In Maine: At Home, On the Town and On the Road, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling pablum.
OTG
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of off the grid.
glosses: Initialism of USB On-The-Go.
off-gridder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-gridders
form: off gridder
Etymology: From off-grid + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who lives off the grid.
Roman road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman roads
Senses: glosses: Any of many roads built in Europe, including Britain, by the Ancient Romans, many of which survive in various forms.
impalisade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impalisades
form: impalisading
form: impalisaded
form: impalisaded
Etymology: From im- + palisade.
Senses: examples: text: In treating of the attack of posts, I referred only to the impalisaded turf works usually thrown up by infantry in the midst of a campaign.
ref: 1836, The United Service Magazine - Part 3, page 402:
text: It is consequently most significant to find, as we do upon due investigation, that wherever it occurs in the pre-Christian classics it is used as meaning to impalisade, or stake, or affix to a pale or stake; and has reference, not to crosses, but to single pieces of wood.
ref: 1896, John Denham Parsons, The Non-Christian Cross: An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion, →ISBN:
text: In fact, the word atavpów never signified in true classical Greek to 'crucify,' but to “impalisade by striking in pales'—that is to say, to 'enclose,' or to “fence': 'Thou fencest him from the multitude—who will fence him from himself?' (Empedocles on Etna); and so to 'set apart,' to 'consecrate.'
ref: 1905, The Nineteenth Century and After - Volume 57, page 498:
glosses: To fence with pales.
impalisades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impalisade
impalisading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impalisade
impalisaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impalisade
introflexive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Considering the effect segmentation has on this introflexive type it may be viewed as a special case of the agglutinative type: Every "normal" word (word stem) can be broken down into a (discontinuous) root (normally consisting of three consonants C₁C₂C₃) and a stem-constitutive morpheme: fataha 'to open (tr.)' must be analyzed as /f...t...h/ 'OPEN' (the root) plus /CaCaCa/, which represnents the basic verbal stem, also called the first (verbal) stem or stem I.
ref: 1991, Hansjakob Seiler, Waldfried Premper, Partizipation, →ISBN, page 635:
text: The introflexive type is relatively strongly developed in the Semitic languages; it never serves as a basis for the whole structure of a language, but is always combined with another, more extensively developed type.
ref: 1999, Masayoshi Shibatani, Theodora Bynon, Approaches to Language Typology, →ISBN, page 57:
text: The above sections have shown that there is much more to morphological typology than the traditional scale ranging from isolating to introflexive languages given in (27) can capture.
ref: 2012, Viveka Velupillai, An Introduction to Linguistic Typology, →ISBN, page 108:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to languages in which grammatical information is conveyed through the insertion of a pattern of vowels into a consonantal root, also called root-and-pattern.
Related terms: introflexion
Buttfuckistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From buttfuck + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: "In Buttfuckistan or Kleptomalia. Where being a warez dOOd is an honorable trade. We release our libraries and binaries and APIs and fifteen minutes later, they're burning CDs in every souk and selling them for ten cents a throw."
ref: 2003, Cory Doctorow, A Place So Foreign and Eight More Stories:
text: Door would slam shut whenever they needed the slightest favor, suppliers would sneer and shit on them with impunity, making things so humiliating and disagreeable that it would almost be a mercy when the final blow fell, and they were banished to run fertiliser sales in Buttfuckistan.
ref: 2012, Francis Spufford, Red Plenty:
glosses: A mythical far away uncivilized country.
couche-couche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cush-cush
glosses: A breakfast or supper dish made with cornmeal, often eaten with milk, coffee or syrup and served with caillé.
ratfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ratfucks
form: ratfucking
form: ratfucked
form: ratfucked
form: rat-fuck
form: rat fuck
Etymology: From rat + fuck. Metaphorical use arose c. 1950 in the United States, likely from college slang; see Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: “In my brief absence they ratfucked my bag and distributed the contents among themselves.”
ref: 2007, Marcus Eriksen, My River Home: A Journey from the Gulf War to the Gulf of Mexico, →ISBN:
text: “If I was in your shoes pal, getting ratfucked would be the least of my worries.”
ref: 2010, Paul Thomas, The Ihaka Trilogy, The Ihaka Trilogy page 349:
text: “I follow along with several on a mission to ratfuck the main office tower.”
ref: 2011, Evan Wright, Generation Kill, →ISBN, page 410:
glosses: To steal or disorganize items that do not belong to one.
examples: text: “Unless what's happening here is that we're getting ratfucked ourselves.”
ref: 1990, Mick Farren, Mars: The Red Planet, →ISBN, page 136:
text: “Rove had been ratfucking for Republicans ever since.”
ref: 2007, Larry Jackson Kolb, America at Night:
text: “Ratfucking took money—and drained money away from throwing a proper national party convention.”
ref: 2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:
glosses: To sabotage; to fight dirty against or betray and cause disarray among.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To interfere in an election.
Derived terms: ratfucker
ratfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratfucks
form: rat-fuck
form: rat fuck
Etymology: From rat + fuck. Metaphorical use arose c. 1950 in the United States, likely from college slang; see Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: “I want the ratfucks who did this,” Sula said.
ref: 2015, Walter Jon Williams, Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall Series): Dread Empire's Fall 3:
glosses: Someone who engages in dirty tricks.
examples: text: You ratfuck. You ratfuck! You gotta say something!
ref: 2012, Robert Anasi, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, →ISBN:
text: I can't think of any plausible harm you can do. And I know you're not a ratfuck just for the sake of being a ratfuck.
ref: 2013, Matthew Stover, Caine's Law, →ISBN:
text: Yeah. Okay. I want the little ratfuck dead.
ref: 2014, George R. R. Martin, Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone despicable.
examples: text: The Humphrey campaign had been able to undo a ratfuck at the last minute by getting a notice into the Saturday Milwaukee Sentinel saying there would be no free lunch that afternoon with the candidate and Lorne Green of Bonanza, as advertised in a flyer circulated in the ghetto.
ref: 2010, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, →ISBN:
text: The REDMAP ratfuck was done in such plain sight that Karl Rove himself announced it on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.
ref: 2016, David Daley, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of sabotage or dirty tricks.
examples: text: The Lord knew, he'd always tried to do his job; but it was hard to see what good he was doing there, or what good he or anybody else could do in a ratfuck like Plattner's World was turning into
ref: 2002, David Drake, Paying the Piper, →ISBN:
text: Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined. What a ratfuck!
ref: 2004, A. J. Liebling, Mollie and Other War Pieces, →ISBN, page 151:
text: So the LOJ turned out to be a ratfuck, working with a bunch of clueless turkeys playing stupid games.
ref: 2003, Shelly Waxman, James Nathan Post, J. D. Post, Piranhas on the Loose, →ISBN, page 29:
text: This was going to be a ratfuck, and the campaign that followed was going to be a bigger ratfuck... but that's what wars were, individual ratfucks multiplied by the number of combatants.
ref: 2013, David Drake, Northworld Trilogy, →ISBN:
glosses: A violent or disastrous situation.
examples: text: That was the first thing Leland had ever said to her the first time she met him, at one of those Hollywood Hills ratfucks Lucy had dragged her to.
ref: 2005, Carrie Fisher, The Best Awful: A Novel - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 7:
text: "Were you girls at the lunch?" my father asked. "What a ratfuck, huh?"
ref: 2012, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep, →ISBN, page 239:
glosses: An overcrowded party.
examples: text: “I don't give a ratfuck,” he said.
ref: 2016, Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest: Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Something of no value.
ratfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ratfuck
ratfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratfuck
ratfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratfuck
ratfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Political sabotage or dirty tricks.
ratfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ratfuck
-sal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /sæl/
Forms: form: sal-
form: -sal-
Etymology: From salicylic acid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of salicylic acid derivatives.
veinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more veinously
form: most veinously
Etymology: From veinous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Breasts are rarely pert, self-sustaining, in these pictures; they droop and sag, veinously overabundant, from bodies marked by the dimples and creases and stretchmarks of time.
ref: 1996, Anne Glyn-Jones, Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline:
glosses: In a veinous manner.
Related terms: venously
undoubtlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undoubtlessly
form: most undoubtlessly
Etymology: From un- + doubtlessly.
Senses: examples: text: “Now, little girl,” he says, with a fatherly smile (he'll soon be twenty-six), “tell me just what your difficulty is, and undoubtlessly we'll fix it up in a jiffy!”
ref: 1920, American Magazine, volume 90, page 70:
glosses: Synonym of without a doubt.
synonyms: word: without a doubt
unforbidding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforbidding
form: most unforbidding
Etymology: From un- + forbidding. Attested since the 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists.
ref: 1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502:
glosses: Not forbidding.
trepidative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trepidative
form: most trepidative
Senses: examples: text: Trepidative moments trailed off around him, the broad beam of the moon bewitched him.
ref: 2007, Mark Cody, Mosquitoes Don't Drink Rakia:
glosses: Causing or having the quality of trepidation.
uninhabitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninhabitedly
form: most uninhabitedly
Etymology: From uninhabited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The procuratorial palace of Aquincum was declining uninhabitedly from the end of the IIIrd century on.
ref: 1973, Akadémiai Kiadó, Archaeology, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Volume 21
text: This morning before she'd left the house, she had carefully tidied away everything she had brought with her into its appropriate shelves and drawers until the room was once more almost uninhabitedly neat.
ref: 2010, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ghostlight:
glosses: In an uninhabited fashion; without inhabitants.
uninhabitedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uninhabitedly
form: most uninhabitedly
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the tendency of man to breed uninhabitedly must be curbed.
ref: 1986, K. L. Bhowmik, Current Anthropological and Archaeological Perspectives: Man:
glosses: Misspelling of uninhibitedly.
awfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more awfy
form: most awfy
Senses: glosses: Informal form of awfully.
ground meat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground meats
Senses: glosses: Any meat that has been finely chopped, often with a meatgrinder.
Synonyms: mince
minced meat
Hyponyms: word: hamburger
word: ground beef
word: beef mince
word: chopped beef
english: ground meat made of beef
translation: ground meat made of beef
word: mince steak
circuitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuitors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of circuiter.
hazel nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazel nuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hazelnut.
hazel nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazel nut
eor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eors
Senses: glosses: The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
Synonyms: either … or
xor
people watching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peoplewatching.
antifoamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifoamers
Etymology: From anti- + foamer.
Senses: glosses: An antifoaming agent.
antifoamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifoamer
promotionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From promotional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Promotionalism has been on the rise in the West since the beginning of the mass production of goods, as it addressed the need to advertise and market those goods to consumers.
ref: 2004, Susan Murray, Laurie Ouellette, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, page 166:
glosses: The policy of promoting something.
floordrobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floordrobe
moderateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: moderate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moderate