cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
predug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: pre- + dug
Senses: examples: text: a predug grave
glosses: Having been dug in advance.
forefingernail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefingernails
form: forefinger nail
Etymology: Blend of forefinger + fingernail. By surface analysis, forefinger + nail.
Senses: examples: text: Insert the right thumb and forefinger down into the center compartment of the twisted section and with the forefingernail uppermost grasp the center of the original bight (see arrow in the second diagram).
ref: 1944, Clifford W[arren] Ashley, “The Jug Sling or Jar Sling Knot”, in The Ashley Book of Knots, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →OCLC, chapter 14 (Knots Tied in the Bight), page 208:
text: He wiped at the film of dirt settling on his cheeks, digging it out of the serrations in his hide with a horny forefingernail.
ref: 1957 February, Algis Budrys, “The War Is Over”, in John W[ood] Campbell, Jr., editor, Astounding Science Fiction, volume LVIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130, column 1:
text: Don Lane, his ordinarily olive face a dusky rose, was smiling as he speared an onion in his Gibson with his right forefingernail.
ref: 1975 (date written), Charles Willeford, chapter 33, in The Shark-Infested Custard, Novato, Calif.; Lancaster, Pa.: Underwood-Miller, published 1993, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: The nail of the forefinger.
forefingernails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefingernail
forefinger nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefinger nail
forefinger nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefinger nails
Senses: examples: text: He displayed a forefinger nail which had been slit the entire length, leaving a scar, and said that one of his large toenails had undergone similar treatment.
ref: 1925 January 4, “[Arnold Henry Savage] Landor Lived to Tell of Tortures in Tibet […]”, in The New York Times (section 8), volume LXXIV, number 24,452, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025, page 8, column 3:
text: The idea is to see how close the ends of your forefinger nails can be brought together without touching.
ref: 1980 December 28, Janice Okun, “How Do You Spell Re(hic)lief?”, in Barbara Lamb, editor, The Magazine of The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Buffalo Evening News, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
text: This involves some of the intaglios or incised ringstones of the Roman soldiers, with a variety of designs from the head of Jupiter on something the size of your forefinger nail, to the multi-tasking dancing girl, who is certainly swinging her skirts but also playing the pipes at the same time and on a semi-precious cornelian stone of a beautiful blue.
ref: 2019 August 21, “Districts”, in Border Telegraph, Galashiels, Scottish Borders, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of forefingernail.
Archana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अर्चना (arcanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Nicod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Nicodian
large toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large toes
Senses: examples: text: The large toes are also painfully jammed into the end of the shoe, and the front of the foot is crammed into the narrow tip, producing hammertoes and claw toes.
ref: 1979 February 14, Jane E[llen] Brody, “Personal Health”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2018:
text: A litany of horrors followed. Most of the left arm, amputated. Middle finger of the right hand, large toe of the left foot, both amputated.
ref: 2000 June 16, Mike Downey, “Burned Reporter’s Bravery Is Story Worth Telling”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
text: The pedicure began and the salon worker who was handling House’s feet had proceeded to remove an ingrown toenail on the large toe of House’s right foot, a practice that’s arguably done often at nail salons.
ref: 2023 February 21, Cortney Moore, Nicole Pelletiere, “I lost my toe after a pedicure, now I’m ‘a walking PSA’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2023:
glosses: Synonym of big toe.
synonyms: word: big toe
examples: text: The first time they meet, he delicately touches his prey, surveying the surface of her body, from her incipient pubic hair to her unnaturally large toes.
ref: 2004 October 26, Ilan Stavans, “Love: ageless in its power”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see large, toe.
Derived terms: large toenail
large toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large toe
large toenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large toenail
large toenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large toenails
form: large toe nail
form: large toe-nail
Etymology: Blend of large toe + toenail.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Robert Alexander, 35, St. James’s-place, has had two large toenails and a corn extracted from his feet by Mr. Rendall, and can strongly recommend him.
ref: 1859 April 15, “Corns, Bunions, and Defective Toenails Extracted and Cured […]”, in The Morning Chronicle, 2nd edition, number 28,786, London: […] Josiah Lilly, […], →OCLC, page 1, column 1:
text: He displayed a forefinger nail which had been slit the entire length, leaving a scar, and said that one of his large toenails had undergone similar treatment.
ref: 1925 January 4, “[Arnold Henry Savage] Landor Lived to Tell of Tortures in Tibet […]”, in The New York Times (section 8), volume LXXIV, number 24,452, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025, page 8, column 3:
text: She had surgery in December to remove her large toenails to help with repeated ingrown nails and then developed an infection.
ref: 2024 January 22, Kelly Byer, “Doctor leaves Canton office without notice […]”, in Akron Beacon Journal, volume 185, number 244, Akron, Oh., →OCLC, page 7A, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of big toenail.
synonyms: word: big toenail
examples: text: Did you know that octopuses have three hearts? That a zebra’s hoof is just a large toenail?
ref: 2018 December 6, “This creature-filled anthology is a great Christmas present for kids”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2020:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see large, toenail.
large toe nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large toe nails
Senses: examples: text: I lost my large toe nail about six months ago after it turned black.
ref: 1981 July 6, Tom Donahue, Mack Jacobs, quoting C.S., “Training and Paining: Conquer Blues with Vacation, New Routine”, in Daily Record, volume 82, number 10, Morristown, N.J., →OCLC, page 14, column 2:
text: Berlin held a slim 23-21 edge midway through the second-quarter when [Ivy] Barnes, who had led Maloney in scoring up until that point (eight points), split the large toe nail of her left foot and was taken to the hospital, missing the rest of the game.
ref: 1989 January 24, George Dalek, “Spartans succumb to Berlin pressure”, in Record-Journal, 122nd year, number 24, Meriden, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
text: Another nail problem is when the large toe nail becomes thick, yellow and separates from the nail bed.
ref: 1990 January 18, Gail Hurst, “The Silver Source: With care, foot and nail disorders can be corrected”, in Ottawa Citizen, final edition, Ottawa, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page H7, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of large toenail.
large toe nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large toe nail
large toe-nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large toe-nail
large toe-nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large toe-nails
Senses: examples: text: I certify that Mr. [J.] Picard has much to the satisfaction of Mrs. Lockyer, removed a large toe-nail that had grown exceedingly deep into the flesh, without the least pain or inconvencience.
ref: 1844 February 8, William Lockyer, quotee, “Efficacious Cure for Corns, Bunions, Callosities, &c., &c., […]”, in Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post: […], volume LXXXII, number 4097 (23 May 1844), Exeter, Devon: […] Robert John Trewman […], published 22 May 1844, →OCLC, page [3], column 7:
text: Mr. [T. H.] D’Alton has this day performed a very scientific, delicate, and almost painless operation on one of my large toe-nails, which, from growing down at the sides, has been a source of the greatest annoyance to me for a considerable time past.
ref: 1855 August 25, James Hargreaves, quotee, “Corns and Bunions”, in The Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, number 2244, Preston, Lancashire: […] Lawrence Dobson, […] and William Dobson, […], published 1 September 1855, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:
text: Sir Robert Alexander, 35, St. James’s-place, has had two large toe-nails and a corn extracted from his feet by Mr. Rendall, and can strongly recommend him.
ref: 1857 August 15, “Corns, Bunions, and Defective Toe-Nails Extracted and Cured […]”, in The Morning Post, number 26,092, London: […] Henry Long, →OCLC, page [8#93;, column 6:
text: MY daughter has pinched a few square inches in my jewellery box for her own life’s treasures. What little gems they are. They consist of eight milk teeth, one large toe-nail (the result of a brick falling on her toe in the school holidays), and a surgical stitch from her forehead.
ref: 1981 October 11, Mrs. L. Willox, “Little things mean a lot”, in Sunday People, number 5203, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 5:
glosses: Alternative form of large toenail.
Arpit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अर्पित (arpita).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Niebler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: niebloid
vertical lift module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical lift modules
Senses: examples: text: The global vertical lift module (VLM) market is expected to be valued at US$ 595.86 mn by 2025 from US$ 358.15 mn in 2018. The market will register at a CAGR of 7.58% throughout the forecast period. […] However, the availability of the used vertical lift modules (VLMs) is creating a negative impact on the growth of the market.
ref: 2019 June 4, “Global Vertical Lift Module (VLM) Market Will Register at a CAGR of 7.58% by 2025, Predicts QY Research”, in PR Newswire, United States, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
synonyms: VLM
qualifier: logistics
glosses: An automated storage system composed by shelves disposed vertically in an elevator or extractor.
vertical lift modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical lift module.
AS/RS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Robotic AS/RS has been around for a while. Shuttles and bots, you know. If nothing else, you’ve probably seen them at the shows.
ref: 2025 March 1, Gary Forger, “Robotic automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) on the move”, in Logistics Management, United States, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ASRS.
Upasana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit उपासना (upāsanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Vandana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वंदना (vaṃdanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Prarthana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रार्थना (prārthanā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
hornussen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hornussen
Senses: glosses: A Swiss sport in which a rubber ball is hit from a tee with a flexible stick onto a patch of turf, while the opposing team uses large paddles to prevent it from landing on the patch.
ideophonographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Representing both sound and meaning.
raw_tags: of a writing system or a unit thereof
me-firstism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: me-firstisms
Etymology: me first + -ism
Senses: glosses: The tendency to put oneself first; individualistic selfishness.
monoglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoglossias
Senses: glosses: The use or dominance of only one language or dialect; the absence of diglossia or heteroglossia.
phonoideogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonoideograms
Senses: glosses: A phono-semantic compound.
phonoideograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonoideogram
morphosyllabograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphosyllabographs
Senses: glosses: A symbol that represents a monosyllabic morpheme.
anti-leadership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: anti (“against”) + leadership
Senses: glosses: The absence, rejection, or active opposition to traditional or established forms of leadership.
glosses: A style of management or governance characterized by the subversion, disruption, or decentralization of hierarchical authority.
glosses: Behavior or ideology that challenges the necessity, legitimacy, or effectiveness of conventional leaders.
weaponised incompetence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Weaponised incompetence is a non-clinical term that has gained traction over the past decade.
ref: 2024 June 4, Kellie Scott, “What is weaponised incompetence and how does it affect sharing the load in the home?”, in ABC News:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponized incompetence.
for sport
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: for fun
not a soul
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: not a living soul
Senses: glosses: nobody, no one
not a living soul
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of not a soul
calculing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calcule
calculed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calcule
hocketors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hocketor
hockettors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hockettor
cloudcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: cloud + cast
Senses: examples: text: [Weather:] Still, cloudcast sky.
ref: 1875, Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, Under Command of Sir T. D. Forsyth: With Historical and Geographical Information Regarding the Possessions of the Ameer of Yarkund, page 518:
text: Fit ending to the cloudcast day. But ah! that was a golden time I spent beneath yon giant lime (And e'en to-day as I look back Through the dark haze of grief and pain That hangs o'er true devotion's track, I'd fain live o'er it all again, For […])
ref: 1889, The Scottish Art Review, page 64:
text: […] the sun's warm rays / Shine out to welcome. Yet- / 'Neath cloudcast skies, "the weeping rain," / Or evening's darkest shade, / You still shine on with unclosed eye, / Undaunted, Undismayed!
ref: 1918, The Vineyard, page 387:
text: […] one leafless / Cloudcast morning he appeared to me, / Taking time off from his rind-research / To spread his chestnut throat and sing / Outside my window.
ref: 1993, Michael Hulse, David Kennedy, David Morley, The New Poetry:
text: One never gets angry at a cloudcast sky, because to be overcast is not the true nature of the sky. It is other factors that make it overcast. Similarly, anger is not natural to sattvas; it is the consequence of some other causes.
ref: 1999, Madan Gopal Chitkara, Encyclopaedia of Buddhism: A World Faith: Bodhisattva and Selflessness V. 14, →ISBN:
text: ... as when a cloudcast day turns gloriously sudden at sunset's end.
ref: 2007 September 1, Philip Wesley Comfort, Spirit Journey: Second Edition, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Overcast.
raw_tags: of the sky
examples: text: ... frowns come and go / Like cloudcast shadows on the frozen snow.
ref: 1851, Francis May, Empyrean: And Other Poems, page 18:
text: Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.
ref: 2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: […] die in the shadows cloudcast / Darken the night […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Nolan Dannels, March of the Unreal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Cast by clouds.
raw_tags: of shadows
yeag
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of yeah.
yeag
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of yeah.
Gilett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname, variant of Gillette
skitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: ... so skitty, because it was alarmed by its own moving shadow. Alexander succeeded in taming Bucephalus by turning him towards the sun and by coaxing him very gently. Rottmayr turns Alexander's first ride on the tamed, white stallion[…]
ref: 1994, Gabriele Groschner, Johann Michael Rottmayr, Johann Michael Rottmayer: Barock in Salzburg:
text: Every few minutes a camper van rolls past followed by its personal mini-tailback. A mangy dog is sniffing around the edges of the car park. A skitty cat darts along the wall.
ref: 2011 August 1, Nick Alexander, Good Thing Bad Thing, Atlantic Books Ltd, →ISBN:
text: ... a skitty doe was glaring at him like a bobcat at a rabbit - just what kind of game was she playing? Bub chuckled.
ref: 2024 August 6, Richard Slotkin, The Return of Henry Starr: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: Skittish.
dog-earedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡɪədnəs/
Forms: form: dog-earednesses
Etymology: dog-eared + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The book's pages' dog-earedness considerably lowers its value.
glosses: the quality/situation/fact of being dog-eared
strong localization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong localizations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Anderson localization
synonyms: word: Anderson localization
strong localizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong localization
Anderson squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Anderson squat
bottoms up squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottoms up squat
pin squats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pin squat
slaistry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Wet, dirty; characteristic of slaister.
Tuktoyaktuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtʌktəˈjæktʌk/
Etymology: Anglicized form of the native Inuvialuit place-name, Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq, meaning "resembling a caribou".
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in the Northwest Territories.
synonyms: Timbuktu
Woop Woop
glosses: Any proverbially distant or remote place.
dog fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog foxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog-fox (“a male fox”)
dog foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog fox
Ghon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Ghon complex
Ghon's complex
fox bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox bats
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flying fox (“type of bat”)
synonyms: word: flying fox
extra: type of bat
fox bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox bat
inheritocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or related to a inheritocracy.
fox dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crab-eating fox
synonyms: word: crab-eating fox
glosses: Synonym of bat-eared fox
synonyms: word: bat-eared fox
fox dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox dog
Bitsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Östlich Raron district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
fox-hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox-hunters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foxhunter
fox-hunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox-hunter
Fox Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in North America:
A small group of islands in British Columbia.
glosses: A number of places in North America:
A chain of islands part of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
glosses: A number of places in North America:
A pair of islands in Lake Michigan.
fox mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox marks
Senses: glosses: A dark spot or discoloration, especially on old paper.
fox marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox mark
fox plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox plums
Senses: glosses: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi.
fox plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox plum
slart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slarts
Etymology: Unclear.
Senses: examples: text: […] they must be able to measure any earth—any inch-space of the heart whatever—else they are mere orts and slarts.
ref: 1892 [????], The Sewanee Review, volume 63, page 396:
text: MINNIE: […] You kept the solid meal, and the orts and slarts any other woman could have. But I tell you, I'm not for having the orts and slarts,* and your leavings […] I'll have a man, or nothing, I will. […] MINNIE: Yes! What did you care about the woman who would have to take your sons after you? Nothing! You left her with just the slarts of a man. […]
 *the leftovers of a meal, often subsequently served up cold
ref: 2001 [1913?], David Herbert Lawrence, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd and Other Plays, →ISBN, page 148,277:
text: In 1700 Swift was hectically cramming his Tub with the orts and slarts of discursivities then à la mode ranging from West-End chic to the hullabaloo of bullies, beggars, and doxies that he had agglomerated "from the Books, Pamphlets, and single Papers, offered us every Day in the Coffee-houses."
ref: 2003, Hermann Josef Real, Helgard Stöver-Leidig, Reading Swift: Papers from the Fourth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift, volume 4, Brill Fink, page 179:
text: Existenz, seems to me such a pot au fen of all the others, such a soup of the orts of the past and the future, of the slarts of the mediocre events and despairs of the present, that I do not have much appetite for it.
ref: 2003, Minutes of the Charles Olson Society, numbers 49-61, page 18:
text: In focusing on what (to borrow a phrase from D. H. Lawrence) we call the 'orts and slarts' of various song traditions, we want to break the persistent habit of looking at such pieces from the centre outwards, from the full or 'complete' narrative to the 'broken' edges—a habit which, long since[…]
ref: 2003 August 7, Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter, Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN:
text: CHAPTER. 20. SLARTS! Well, would you look at that? I still have some slarts left in my linguistic grab bag.
ref: 2025, Martha Barnette, Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland:
glosses: Leftover(s), especially of food.
raw_tags: in the phrase "orts and slarts"
Related terms: orts
manavelins
slart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slarts
form: slarting
form: slarted
form: slarted
Etymology: Unclear.
Senses: examples: text: Luke at that dolly! — slarting t' barns wi' t' dish-clart, astead o' gehring wesh'd up,[…]
ref: 1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and Tales of Common Life, Etc. To which are Added a Copious Glossary; Notices of the Various Antiquities, Manners, and Customs, and General Folk-lore of the District, page 411:
text: Wheer t'much [muck] slarts daan t'winders / We've all on us coil up / We're agait naah wi't cinders / And if t'bum bailiff cums lads / E'll nivver find us / Cos we're right daan in t'coil oil / Wheer t'much slarts daan t'winders. Bob Schofield, Francis, Day & Hunter […]
ref: 1997, English Dance and Song, volumes 59-60, page 19:
text: […] on his throne the slarting / Thunderer turns, / Melts with soft sighs, with kindling rapture burns; / Clasps her fair hand, and eyes in fond amaze / The bright Intruder with enamour'd gaze. / "And leaves my Goddess, like a blooming bride,[…]"
ref: 2025 August 18, Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden; A Poem in Two Parts, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants: Volume 1 - in large print, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To splash or splatter, especially with something dirty.
slarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slart
slarts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slart
slarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slart
slarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slart
Fox River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
A tributary of the Hayes River, Manitoba.
glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
Three streams in Ontario.
glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
A waterway on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska.
glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
Three tributaries in Illinois.
glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
A tributary of the Mississippi River through Iowa and Missouri.
glosses: A number of tributaries and streams in North America:
A tributary of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of settlements in North America:
A rural community in Nova Scotia.
glosses: A number of settlements in North America:
A census-designated place in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska.
glosses: A number of settlements in North America:
A community in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
insular grey fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insular grey foxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of insular gray fox
insular grey foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insular grey fox
island grey fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: island grey foxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of island gray fox
island grey foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of island grey fox
fox-shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox-sharks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fox shark
fox-sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fox-shark
fairy fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of foxfire
synonyms: word: foxfire
stone lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone lions
Senses: examples: text: In the revival of Buddhism during Tang times (618–907), all Buddhist temples were protected by a pair of these stone lions.
ref: 2014, Shelia Hollihan-Elliot, Art and Architecture of China, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of foo dog
synonyms: word: foo dog
guardian lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guardian lions
Senses: glosses: Synonym of foo dog
synonyms: word: foo dog
Foo dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Foo dogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of foo dog
Foo dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Foo dog
stone lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone lion
guardian lions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardian lion
omnivisible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: omni- + visible
Senses: glosses: Always or everywhere visible.
hors-catégorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hors-catégories
Senses: glosses: Attributive form of hors catégorie.
Jungfraujoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain saddle in the Bernese Alps, between Bern canton and Valais canton, Switzerland.
Related terms: Jungfrau
Jableh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jebleh
form: Jabala
form: Jablah
form: Gabala
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جَبْلَة (jabla).
Senses: glosses: A city in Latakia governorate, Syria.
red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning
form: red sky at night, shepherds' delight; red sky at morning, shepherds' warning
form: red sky at night, shepherds' delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds' warning
form: pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky at morning, sailors take warning
form: pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky in the morning, sailors take warning
form: red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morn, sailors forlorn
form: red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky in the morn, sailors forlorn
Etymology: A maritime phrase used for at least two millennia, likely as a shortening of Matthew 16:2b–3: "When it is evening, you say, "It will be fair weather; for the sky is red." And in the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening." You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times."
Senses: glosses: A red sky at dusk usually indicates a high atmospheric pressure system from the west, denoting stable weather. A red sky at dawn usually indicates a low atmospheric pressure system from the west, denoting unstable weather.
red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
red sky at night, shepherds' delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds' warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky in the morning, sailors take warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky in the morn, sailors forlorn
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
red sky at night, shepherds' delight; red sky at morning, shepherds' warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky at morning, sailors take warning
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morn, sailors forlorn
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red sky at night, sailors' delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Dorasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hill close to Paju, South Korea, on the edge of the Korean Demilitarised Zone.
j*b
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: j*bs
Etymology: Censored spelling of job as part of an Internet meme revolving around exaggerated anti-work attitudes, in which people pretend to be offended by the notion of employment, treating related words as swear words.
Senses: synonyms: j-word
j-slur
glosses: Censored spelling of job (“employment role”).
wikipedia: anti-work
wireback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wirebacks
Etymology: By surface analysis, wire + back, in reference to protruding wires on the backs of some real and fictional robots. Adapted from wetback.
Senses: examples: text: I don't support giving rights to tinskin wireback clankers!
text: Clanker. Wireback. Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs.
ref: [2025 August 6, CT Jones, “How ‘Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur”, in Rolling Stone, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 19 Oct 2025:
synonyms: clanker
cogsucker
rust monkey
tinskin
glosses: A robot or artificial intelligence.
D2C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
related: word: DTC
synonyms: B2C
BTC
glosses: Initialism of direct-to-consumer
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
related: word: DTC
glosses: Initialism of direct-to-cell
direct-to-cell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Allowing satellites to communicate direct to cellular telephones.
Coordinate terms: mobile
mobile device
mobile phone
mobile telephone
satellite phone
satellite telephone
satphone
smartphone
Derived terms: D2C
DTC
Related terms: cell
cellphone
cellular
cellular phone
cellular telephone
direct-to-cellphone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of direct-to-cell
direct-to-cellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of direct-to-cell
satellite telephone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellite telephones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of satellite phone
fagot iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fagot irons
form: faggot iron
Senses: examples: text: 29. Bloomingdale Bloomery on the Pequannock river, five miles above Pompton and thirteen miles northwest of the New York and Erie railroad Paterson station, owned by Martin J. Ryerson, Bloomingdale P.O, Passaic county New Jersey, was built about 1800, rebuilt in 1839 and again in 1841, has 4 fires and 2 hammers, driven by water, and made in 1855 255 tons of bars and fagot iron for shafts and boiler plate, out of Ringwood ore.
ref: 1859, J. Peter Lesley, The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States: With Maps and Plates, Wiley, page 152:
glosses: Iron produced by welding together fagots of iron bars or rods, typically used in forging or refining processes.
fagot irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fagot iron
slatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ... slatty wood door. Can only see the roof and garden and a gravel pathway.
ref: 2003 May 1, Oonya Kempadoo, Tide Running: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
text: ... slatty wood planks on a crude stone foundation, and a concrete-block Masonic Lodge.
ref: 2008 11, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 75:
text: "[…] slatty kind of door." "Damper," Bruce corrected him. "Well, it was also locked."
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Chris Bucholz, Severance, Apex Publications, page 144:
glosses: Slatted, having slats.
examples: text: I can imagine an angel named Marjorie- an angel with- "A red nose," Susan put in, "a thin, slatty looking angel."
ref: 1908, Jacques Futrelle, The Simple Case of Susan, page 21:
text: […] slatty wench, no longer young, And mostly eyes and ears and tongue, She gallops; joyous and alert To ferret out the latest dirt. February 6, 1942 No Horned Heads Sweet peace eludes the grasp of little v 7 v Have You Met Miss Pry?
ref: 2008 05, Bee Lewis, Lewis Bee Lewis, Gems of Yesterday: The Poetry and Philosophy of Bee Lewis, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Dirty.
slatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] stony, slatty Sort of Marl, called by some Slat, and by others Dice-Marl, which must be dug with Pick-ax and Crow, and riseth in great Blocks, as much as two Men can carry.
ref: 1738, Thomas Cox, Staffordshire. Warwickshire, page 91:
text: This is a rich slatty marle […]
ref: 1816, Richard Polwhele, The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, Architectural, Agricultural, Commercial, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, page 124:
text: […] in a clayie and slatty countrey, if there be any inlets and passages into the earth by reason of its discontinuity here and there , they are likely enough to be kept open , because such kind of earth is not apt to moulder with wet[…]
ref: 1884, Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, page 253:
glosses: Obsolete form of slaty.
motherlogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motherlogical
form: most motherlogical
Senses: glosses: Possessing and/or radiating extreme power, elegance, beauty, positive influence.
nersick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nersick
form: most nersick
Etymology: Blend of nervous + sick.
Senses: examples: text: I felt nersick from the fever.
glosses: Feeling nervous and sick at the same time.
periapicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periapical.
probvious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of probabilistically + obvious.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to be shown to hold with almost arbitrarily high confidence via heuristic arguments, but not formally provable.
Related terms: quasitrivial
tin-skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin-skins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinskin.
tinskins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinskin
hyreling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyrelings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hireling
elizor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elizors
Senses: examples: text: If the sheriff be a party, the writ should be directed to the other sheriff, if there be two; or if there be but one, then to the coroners; and if the coroners also be parties, then to persons appointed by the court, or nominated by one of the masters, usually called elizors.
ref: 1840, Thomas Chitty, “Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 6: The Writ of Capias”, in Archbold's Practice of the Court of Queen's Bench in Personal Actions and Ejectment, 7th edition, London: S. Sweet; V. & R. Stevens; G. S. Norton, page 508; Direction of Writ:
glosses: Alternative spelling of elisor.
Minusinsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Минуси́нск (Minusínsk).
Senses: glosses: A town in Krasnoyarsk Krai of Siberia in the Russian Federation.
dramatic license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramatic licenses
Senses: examples: text: Gertrude Stein and a Companion begins with Stein's death in 1946 and ends with Toklas' in 1967. In between, thanks to dramatic license, Stein speaks to Toklas from beyond thee grave, and together they retrace their shared life.
ref: 1986 February 15, Nicholas Deutsch, “Gertrude Stein and a Companion (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 15:
glosses: artistic license used in or for drama.
elizors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elizor
Ladapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday.
ref: 2025 September 3, Deidre McPhillips, Shawn Nottingham, “Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildren”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
SIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of solar induced fluorescence
synonyms: solar-induced fluorescence
solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence
solar-induced vegetation fluorescence
glosses: ;
poopjeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poopjeets
Etymology: Blend of poop + pajeet.
Senses: synonyms: pajeet
street shitter
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: Alternative form of poojeet.
poopjeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poopjeet
Hotspurs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Synonym of Spurs
synonyms: word: Spurs
medigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medigans
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Medigan.
little toenail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little toenails
form: little toe nail
form: little toe-nail
Etymology: Blend of little toe + toenail.
Senses: examples: text: E. W. Hays, Box 636, hit a chair with his foot, knocking his right little toenail loose.
ref: 1966 June 15, “6 Emergencies Get Treatment”, in Corsicana Daily Sun, volume 70, number 290, Corsicana, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 4:
text: Bench said he lost both little toenails to foul tips and half of both of his big toenails.
ref: 1977 March 1, Tom McEwen, “On Divorce Proceedings, Salary Desires: Mum’s the Word for [Johnny] Bench”, in The Tampa Tribune, 83rd year, number 50, Tampa, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4-C, column 5:
text: But noooooo! Some wiseacre “expert” will patronizingly explain that because gymnast Kim Zmeskal’s left little toenail was off center by the length of an eyelash, the judges will be forced to dock a tenth of a point from her score.
ref: 1992 August 5, Daniel Ruth, “Failing to nail dismount won’t ruin your life”, in The Tampa Tribune, Tampa, Fla., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2-BayLife, column 1:
text: Treinta balazos en la uña del dedo chiquito del pie izquierdo.
ref: 2011 [2010], Juan Pablo Villalobos, translated by Rosalind Harvey, chapter 1, in Down the Rabbit Hole, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: And Other Stories, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: The nail of the little toe.
examples: text: With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it. Didn’t he deserve a really big horse?
ref: 2000 April 6, Jane Smiley, “Jack Russell”, in Horse Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, toenail.
Related terms: little fingernail
little toenails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little toenail
little toe nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little toe nails
Senses: examples: text: When my little chickens are hatched, I cut the right little toe nail off, then the next year I let both of them stay on, and sell off all my hens with the little toes not cut off, and in that way I can tell the age of every hen I have.
ref: 1901 May 24, Mrs. G. A. Gibbons (Journal of Agriculture), “Poultry and Bees: How to Make Chickens Pay”, in Edwards’ Fruit Grower & Farmer, volume XI, number 2, Missoula, Minn., →OCLC, page [7], column 1:
text: The other day I woke up and found my right big toe asking my left little toe nail, “Why do you suppose this guy never washes his feet?”
ref: 1927 October 31, Karl K. Kitchen (The Evening World), quotee, “Froth”, in Dean Hoffman, editor, The Patriot, volume 88, number 260, Harrisburg, Pa.: The Patriot Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 7:
text: The average liability of each underwriter is under £50—but some of the risk-holders have small worries. For example—the man responsible for one forty-first part of fourth-fifths parts of £250 of the legs will keep a sharp eye on the left little toe nail as Miss [Cora] Goffin clambers over the stage rocks in her perilous ascent to the genie’s cave as Aladdin in the Golders Green Hippodrome pantomime.
ref: 1936 December 6, “Panto. Star Insures Her Legs for £50,000”, in Sunday Dispatch, 136th year, number 7,049, London, →OCLC, page 18, columns 5–6:
glosses: Alternative form of little toenail.
little toe nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little toe nail
little toe-nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little toe-nails
Senses: examples: text: The other questions which have been proposed to both him and me, are—‘Will you vote for the ballot?’ ‘Will you vote for an extension of the suffrage?’ ‘Will you vote for shortening the duration of Parliaments?’ To all these he answered in the affirmative. But how absurd, I again exclaim, to ask the foot, say rather the little toe-nail or a pairing off it, what it will do? Why not ask the head? Ask Lord John Russell himself what he will do?
ref: 1841 April 24, [John] Walter, quotee, “Nottingham Election”, in The Times, number 17,653, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 4:
text: The rocks as big as yours, are all solid gold—so solid that, as yet, they have never been broken to afford sordid ambition a piece as big as your little toe-nail; […]
ref: 1849 March 7, “From the Sunday Mercury. Short Patent Sermon. […]”, in Chester Tuttle, editor, Luzerne Democrat. […], volume 3 (New Series), number 25 (215 overall), Wiles-Barre, Pa., →OCLC, front page, column 5:
text: Now a woman isn’t usually so particular about her husband’s feet as to notice whether the little toe-nail or the big toe-nail is gone, or whether the lapping of the toes includes and covers a deformity or not, […]
ref: 1876 March 25, “About a Body. Complaints from the Friends of Captain [Thomas A.] Hamlin. […]”, in Brooklyn Daily Union, volume XIII, number 166, Brooklyn, N.Y., →OCLC, page [3], column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of little toenail.
little toe-nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little toe-nail
Templarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Templarisms
Etymology: From Templar + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The ideology or practice of the Knights Templar.
glosses: A type of freemasonry that incorporates Templar degrees and elements.
glosses: neo-Templarism; a Knights Templar revivalist movement.
Derived terms: neo-Templarism
Templarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Templarism
Prashant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रशांत (praśāṃta).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
beer clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer clocks
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't see whether the carpet was purple, but the jukebox lights and about half the fifty or so beer clocks on the walls had some kind of neon work in the team color.
ref: 1999, Pamela Diamond, “Whitey”, in Southwest Review, volume 84, number 2, page 259:
glosses: A kind of artwork created and displayed in and around beer parlours, professionally designed for advertisement, or consisting of branded crown caps for the reference marks of a clock face, collected in breweriana.
Related terms: beer o'clock
brewing clock
beer clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beer clock
quasiplatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasiplatonic
form: most quasiplatonic
Etymology: From quasi- + platonic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of queerplatonic.
synonyms: word: queerplatonic