cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
troilist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But, once they had properly got into their stride, the three singers whipped themselves up into a frenzy of sexual abandon, attaining heights of troilist ingenuity worthy of some erotomaniac Heath Robinson […]
ref: 1992, Gilbert Adair, The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice:
text: She has a troilist marriage with two men in her home department in South America.
ref: 1999, W Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future, page 198:
text: They were both small, with the sort of dark-and-comely, fair-and-goodly features which could give Popes troilist fantasies – although nothing was in their minds much beyond flip-charts, language schemes, lip-patterns and audiograms.
ref: 2010, Alan Richardson, On Winsley Hill, page 65:
glosses: Involving three sexual partners; pertaining to a threesome.
troilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troilists
Senses: glosses: A participant in a sexual threesome.
Related terms: troilism
Liator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tymoshenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timoshenko
Etymology: From Ukrainian Тимоше́нко (Tymošénko).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Тимоше́нко (Tymošénko).
Timoshenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Тимоше́нко (Timošénko).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian
glosses: Alternative form of Tymoshenko.
donair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donairs
Etymology: From Turkish döner (“rotate”).
Senses: glosses: A Nova Scotian variant of the doner kebab, including breadcrumbs and spices, and served with a sweet sauce made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and garlic.
glosses: A British Columbian variant of the doner kebab, served as a wrap and with a choice of three sauces (tzatziki, sweet garlic sauce, or hot sauce), but no breadcrumbs or spices.
Derived terms: donair sauce
donairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donair
homo marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homo marriages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of same-sex marriage.
synonyms: word: same-sex marriage
Mickeymania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mickey + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: There are, of course, perfectly reasonable explanations for Mickeymania.
ref: 1990, The New York Times Magazine:
text: Similar to California's Disneyland, it's the wellspring of Mickeymania, a paradise for the young at heart, and the most popular individual theme park in the United States, welcoming more than 11 million visitors every year.
ref: 1997, Alison Stern, Fodor's Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Orlando, page 2:
text: Over the next few years, Mickeymania swept the country. Fans across the globe from Franklin Roosevelt to Mussolini applauded his antics in the films that followed.
ref: 2007, Todd G. Buchholz, New ideas from dead CEOs:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.
disadvantageth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: disadvantage + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disadvantage
card-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card-rooms
Etymology: From card + room.
Senses: examples: text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A room set aside for playing card games in.
Pakistani English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Much more common was the bureaucratic use of Pakistani English. Below the level of the most highly educated, whose English was invariably modelled on old-fashioned teaching, were the English-using clerks of the Imperial administration.
ref: 1986, Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 329:
glosses: A dialect of the English language, having one variety in Pakistan, and also spoken by Pakistani expatriates, Pakistani migrants, and Pakistani tourists throughout the world.
motor show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor shows
Etymology: From motor + show.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of auto show.
synonyms: word: auto show
auto show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɾowˈʃow/
ipa: /ˈɑɾowˈʃow/
Forms: form: auto shows
Etymology: From auto + show.
Senses: examples: text: They went to the auto show to see the new models for next year.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: motor show
car show
hypernyms: show#Noun
exhibition#Noun
coordinate_terms: car show
glosses: A typically annual or semiannual public event for exhibition of new automobiles and new automobile designs.
Related terms: concept car
roaring forties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its official demarcation is forty degrees south latitude. It includes the latitudes sailors long-ago nicknamed the roaring forties, the furious fifties, and the screaming sixties. It's an area of almost constant high wind and frequent gales, often exceeding hurricane strength.
ref: 1998, Derek Lundy, chapter 1, in Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, page 5:
topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The area of the earth between 40 and 50 degrees south, prone to gale-force westerly winds.
Related terms: furious fifties
screaming sixties
auto shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auto show
motor shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor show
body stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body stockings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bodystocking.
Alteza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Sipocot, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
Antioquia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Colombia.
CEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CEPs
Senses: examples: text: The Circular Error Probable (CEPs) of SLBMs and SLCMs ought thus to be deliberately kept above the 'Hard Target Kill' (HTK) level.
ref: 1989, Marlies ter Borg-Neervoort, Wim Smit, Non-provocative Defence as a Principle of Arms Reduction:
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An initialism of three synonymous phrases, namely:
Initialism of circular error probable.
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An initialism of three synonymous phrases, namely:
Initialism of circular error probability.
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An initialism of three synonymous phrases, namely:
Initialism of circle of equal probability.
Cirilo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cirilos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Cirilo or Portuguese Cirilo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish or Portuguese
Cnossos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Knossos.
Conrado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conrados
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Conrado.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ancestral name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancestral names
Etymology: From English ancestral + name.
Senses: glosses: A surname, particularly used in contexts where other surnames (such as patronymics or clan names) need to be distinguished
glosses: The xing surname in its ancient use where it was distinguished from the shi clan name, as opposed to its modern use as a simple surname
ecopreneurship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecopreneur + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being an ecopreneur.
ecopreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiː.kəʊ.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌi.koʊ.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌi.koʊ.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ecopreneurs
Etymology: From eco- + -preneur.
Senses: glosses: An entrepreneur operating an environmentally sustainable business.
Related terms: ecopreneurship
ecopreneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecopreneur
unh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uh.
Related terms: unh-uh
microfeatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microfeature + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to microfeatures.
microfeature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfeatures
Etymology: From micro- + feature.
Senses: qualifier: neural networks
glosses: A small feature making up part of the mental representation of an object or concept.
Derived terms: microfeatural
microfeatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfeature
phrenocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phreno- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ribs and diaphragm.
phrenicocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phrenico- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the ribs and diaphragm.
protonitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protonitrate
dryside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dry + side.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the terrestrial side of a coastline.
wetside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wet + side.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the marine side of a coastline.
pernitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pernitrates
Etymology: From per- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of nitric acid with the peroxide of a metal.
pernitrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pernitrate
protonitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protonitrates
Etymology: From proto- + nitrate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of nitric acid with the protoxide of a metal.
protosulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protosulphates
Etymology: From proto- + sulphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of sulphuric acid with the protoxide of a metal.
protosulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protosulphate
protochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protochlorides
Etymology: From proto- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of chlorides of a particular metal that has the fewest atoms of chlorine per molecule
protochlorides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protochloride
manganeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manganese
butter tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter trees
Senses: glosses: The tree that produces shea butter (Vitellaria paradoxa)
Hypernyms: tree
swage block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swage blocks
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A perforated iron block with grooved sides and variously-sized holes in its face, used to hold in hot metal bars while swaging large objects.
swage blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swage block
stand upon one's dignity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands upon one's dignity
form: standing upon one's dignity
form: stood upon one's dignity
form: stood upon one's dignity
Senses: examples: text: They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.
ref: 1881, Richard Grant White, “Habits of English Life”, in The Atlantic Monthyl:
text: "By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow," cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.
ref: 1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 2 Chapter 2:
glosses: To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.
scrape acquaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes acquaintance
form: scraping acquaintance
form: scraped acquaintance
form: scraped acquaintance
Senses: glosses: To seek acquaintance (with somebody) without a formal introduction.
exposed beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exposed beams
Senses: glosses: A wooden beam supporting a wall, ceiling etc. which has been left uncovered by plasterboard for aesthetic effect, typically seen as imparting rustic or traditional charm.
fixatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fixate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: which fixates, or is fixated
Lafarge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lafarges
form: LaFarge
form: La Farge
form: laFarge
form: la Farge
form: De Farge
form: de Farge
form: deFarge
form: DeFarge
form: Defarge
form: Farge
form: Delafarge
form: DeLaFarge
form: DelaFarge
form: deLafarge
form: deLaFarge
form: delaFarge
form: de la Farge
form: De la Farge
form: de La Farge
form: De La Farge
form: de Laforge
form: De Laforge
Etymology: From French Lafarge.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Xicano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xicanos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chicano.
Xicana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xicanas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chicana.
Xicanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xicano
Xicanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xicana
grillmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grillmasters
Etymology: From grill + master.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: grillmistress
glosses: One who operates the grill at a barbecue.
Related terms: pitmaster
grillmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillmaster
theopoetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + poetics.
Senses: glosses: An interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, theology, and postmodern philosophy.
Related terms: theopoesis
theopoetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theopoetic.
theopoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theo- + poetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to theopoetics.
glosses: Relating to theopoesis.
metapoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapoems
Etymology: From meta- + poem.
Senses: examples: text: The three metapoems of L'Allegria make the point that poetry is concerned with transcending the real, and representing the Ideal.
ref: 2000, Vivienne Suvini-Hand, Mirage and Camouflage:
glosses: A work of metapoetry; a poem about poetry.
metapoetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapoetries
Etymology: From meta- + poetry.
Senses: glosses: poetry dealing with the topic of poetry
Related terms: metapoem
metapoems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapoem
Leidener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leideners
Etymology: From Leiden + -er. Compare German Leidener.
Senses: examples: text: The choice to retain a tax rather than to forgo a university (whose benefits Leideners continue to enjoy) demonstrated that the burghers of the Netherlands did not object to taxes as such.
ref: 1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:
synonyms: word: Leidenite
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.
Leyden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my Father; where, by the Aſſiſtance of him and my Uncle John, and ſome other Relations, I got forty Pounds, and a Promiſe of thirty Pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ſtudied Phyſick two years and ſeven months, knowing it would be uſeful in long Voyages.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 2:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Leiden: a city in South Holland, Netherlands.
glosses: An unincorporated community near Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A town in Lewis County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Leyden jar
Fuji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -uːdʒi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 富士 (ふじ, Fuji).
Senses: glosses: A city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
glosses: Ellipsis of Mount Fuji.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: Fujian
Fuji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -uːdʒi
enpr: fo͞oʹjēʹ
ipa: /ˈfuːd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -uːdʒi
Forms: form: Fuchi
Etymology: From Mandarin 富基 (Fùjī).
Senses: examples: text: After taking some time to dry off while having a seafood lunch at the nearby Fuchi (Fuji) Fishing Harbor 富基漁港, we continued down the coast to the Temple of the Eighteen Lords 十八王公廟.
ref: 2008 February 9, Kaminoge, “Welcoming in the Year of the Rat in Tansui and Hokutō Onsen 子年の旅行：淡水、北投温泉”, in A Curmudgeon Abroad (Blog), archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023:
text: A Wanli Crab is pictured in the northern coastal fishing port of Fuji Thursday by the Agriculture Department of the New Taipei City Government. Seafood promotional sales will be held during the 4-day Tomb Sweeping holiday from April 2-5. Photo courtesy of the Agriculture Department of New Taipei City Government March 31, 2016
ref: 2016 March 31, “Seafood sales”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2023, Photos of the Day:
text: Fuji Fishing Port is in the Fuji Neighborhood of Shimen District in New Taipei City.
ref: 2017 November 13, “FUJI FISHING PORT”, in Fisheries and Fishing Port Affairs Management Office, New Taipei City Government, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2022:
glosses: A harbor in Shimen district, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Reykjavikian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Reykjavík + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Reykjavík.
Reykjavikian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reykjavikians
Etymology: From Reykjavík + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Reykjaviker
glosses: A person from Reykjavík.
Vanji
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, the Vanj River.
Vanji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An extinct Iranian language formerly spoken in the Vanj River valley of Tajikistan.
Tijuanan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈ(h)wɑːnən/
ipa: /tiˈhwɑnən/
rhymes: -ɑːnən
Etymology: From Tijuana + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Tijuana.
Tijuanan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈ(h)wɑːnən/
ipa: /tiˈhwɑnən/
rhymes: -ɑːnən
Forms: form: Tijuanans
Etymology: From Tijuana + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Tijuana.
Bujumburan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Bujumbura + -an.
Senses: examples: text: You don't understand. She's been reprimanded once already by the Bujumburan police for frightening people, but apparently it did no good.
ref: 1981, Jamey Cohen, The Night Chasers, New York: Signet, published 1983, →ISBN, page 50:
text: […] I found further escapes from my Bujumburan escape, to UNHCR refugee camps on the Congolese border and in Tanzania, where families hung clotheslines between their white tents with blue tarps for roofs, […]
ref: 2019, Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House, Grove Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Bujumbura.
Bujumburan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bujumburans
Etymology: From Bujumbura + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Many poor and middle class Bujumburans had to move to the outskirts of the capital, and even some INGOs were forced to seek offices at a distance from the center of the city where ONUB was located.
ref: 2006 July, Xavier Zeebroek, Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Burundi and Liberia Country Studies, Medford: Feinstein International Center, pages 11–12:
text: Bujumburans really enjoy nightlife and are fond of a variety of popular music. They dance to all kinds of music—Congolese, Malinke, Zuluka, American, rap, reggae, funk, and other styles.
ref: 2009, Timothy L. Gall, Jeneen Hobby, editors, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life: Africa, 2nd edition, volume 1, Farmington Hills: Gale, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A person from Bujumbura.
Tijuanans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tijuanan
Abidjani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Abidjan + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Abidjanian
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Abidjani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abidjanis
Etymology: From Abidjan + -i.
Senses: synonyms: Abidjanian
glosses: A person from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Bujumburans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bujumburan
Abidjanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abidjani
welladjusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more welladjusted
form: most welladjusted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-adjusted.
injunctionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From injunction + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking an injunction
overjittery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overjittery
form: most overjittery
Etymology: From over- + jittery.
Senses: glosses: Excessively jittery.
subjugative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] throwing them first backward and then allowing them to occupy their country again—a policy which was neither subjugative of the Kaffirs on the one hand, nor humane nor conciliatory towards them on the other.
ref: 1851, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 231:
glosses: Of or pertaining to subjugation.
conjunctivital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conjunctivital
form: most conjunctivital
Etymology: From conjunctivitis + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to conjunctivitis.
Derived terms: photoconjunctivital
duodenojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duodeno- + jejunal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining both the duodenum and jejunum
Derived terms: gastroduodenojejunal
mesojejunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + jejunal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the middle of the jejunum.
jejunoduodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From jejuno- + duodenal.
Senses: glosses: duodenojejunal
jejunocolostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jejunocolostomy
Hajjam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hajjams
form: Hajjam
form: Hajaam
form: Hajam
Etymology: From Hindustani حجام / हज्जाम (hajjām, “barber”), from Classical Persian حجام (hajjām), from Arabic حَجَّام (ḥajjām).
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group of North India and Pakistan, traditionally working as barbers.
Hajjam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Hajaam
form: Hajam
Etymology: From Hindustani حجام / हज्जाम (hajjām, “barber”), from Classical Persian حجام (hajjām), from Arabic حَجَّام (ḥajjām).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the above ethnic group, or the language they speak.
Ngaatjatjarra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ngadadjara
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in central Australia; a major dialect of the Western Desert language group.
Ngaatjatjarra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Ngadadjara
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Ngaatjatjarra language or the people who speak it.
Related terms: Ngaanyatjarra
Pitjantjatjara
Yankunytjatjara
Hajjams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hajjam
undress parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undress parades
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A substitute for dress parade in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.
undress parades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undress parade
whewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whew
tarento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarentos
form: tarento
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese タレント (tarento, “television star”), from English talent. Doublet of talent.
Senses: examples: text: It was the first baby for the 37-year-old pro golfer, the daughter of former Seibu Lions manager Osamu Higashio and the much younger wife of fellow tarento Junichi Ishida.
ref: 2013 March 24, Philip Brasor, “Abortion controlled by the state”, in The Japan Times, Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2019:
text: Every time I go to Japan, I'm amazed that the same pop stars and tarentos (the Japanese rendition of television "talents") who were around when I was a kid are still there.
ref: 2016 January 19, Ryu Spaeth, “The sickness of Japan, in one groveling apology by the oldest boy band in the world.”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2022:
text: Imai and her brother's snowboarding careers were all but over within a year or two of Turin. They became tarentos, a Japanese word for a Kardashian-type celebrity who is famous for being famous, and both pursued acting.
ref: 2018 February 17, “Troubled tale of Japanese snowboarding prodigy turned prostitute Melo Imai”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: NZME, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023:
glosses: A celebrity who regularly appears on mass media in Japan, especially as a panelist on variety shows.
lift shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lift shafts
Senses: examples: text: Installing lift shafts in station buildings which were not originally designed to accommodate them can be a fraught exercise, but a necessary one if the legitimate aspiration of the travelling public for step-free access is to be achieved. At Sudbury Hill, on London Underground's Piccadilly Line extension out to the north-western suburbs, Transport for London has achieved this with aplomb.
ref: 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Sudbury Hill”, in RAIL, number 972, page 57:
glosses: Alternative form of liftshaft.
Diniz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dinizes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Diniz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
scaleboard plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaleboard planes
Senses: glosses: A plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
scaleboard planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaleboard plane
elevator shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevator shafts
Senses: examples: text: You know when winter comes to visit these big cities and / the wind starts howling through the elevator shafts
ref: 1979, The Boomtown Rats, “Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:
text: Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.
ref: 2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2020:
glosses: Synonym of liftshaft.
synonyms: word: liftshaft
smell of the shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smells of the shop
form: smelling of the shop
form: smelled of the shop
form: smelled of the shop
form: smelt of the shop
form: smelt of the shop
Senses: examples: text: They may purchase estates, and become squires, and marry women "of condition;" but the way in which their money was acquired must exclude at least that generation. Their money smells of the shop.
ref: 1834, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine:
text: […]the acceptance of a consulship is held by the young diplomatic aspirants as an implied engagement to attend to the national trade, to the imminent risk of smelling of the shop
ref: 1851, The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review:
glosses: To indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
Duarte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duartes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Duarte. Doublet of Edward.
Senses: examples: text: Tenants Mauricio Alves Lucas, Samantha Rodrigues Siqueira, and Dayse Duarte (left to right) say they are owed deposits back from Spencer Accommodation
ref: 2018 May 30, Jack Power, “Landlord criticised for witholding ^([sic]) deposits from 39 tenants”, in Irish Times:
glosses: A surname from Portuguese or Spanish.
glosses: A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
finishedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From finished + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being finished.
unfinishedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfinished + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfinished.
Synonyms: incompletion
incompleteness
acousmatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acousmatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an acousmatic manner.
suckerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sucker + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a sucker, or gullible person.
suckerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sucker + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a sucker, or gullible person.
glosses: The world or sphere of suckers.
readabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readability
back and fill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs and fills
form: backing and filling
form: backed and filled
form: backed and filled
Senses: examples: text: We brought the other end to the capstan, and hove in upon it until we came to the slip-rope, which we took to the windlass, and walked her up to her chain, the captain helping her by backing and filling the sails.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
text: There were no bells in the engine hold and the signals were passed by word of mouth from the man at the wheel. Backing and filling by turns the desired position was finally secured and I heard the rasping roar of the chain cable as the descending anchor ran it out through the hawse hole.
ref: 1923, F. Hopkinson Smith, The Arm-chair at the Inn, Chapter 10:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind.
topics: nautical
transport
examples: text: Joe found McDowell a vast improvement upon Hagel. Where the latter had backed and filled and referred to his directors, McDowell, to whom responsibility was as the breath of life, decided instantly.
ref: 1911, A. M. Chisholm, The Boss of Wind River:
glosses: To take opposite positions alternately; to flip-flop
reefing bowsprit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reefing bowsprits
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bowsprit rigged so that it can be easily run in, or shortened by sliding inboard. It was popular in cutters.
reefing bowsprits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reefing bowsprit
dors-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dorso-.
wristiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wristy: most wristy
wristier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wristy: more wristy
wristguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wristguard
wristily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wristily
form: most wristily
Etymology: From wristy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wristy manner.
wristiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wristy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being wristy.
modesty piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modesty pieces
Senses: examples: text: Now, sir, what I have to communicate to you at present is, that at a late meeting of the stripping ladies, in which were present several eminent toasts and beauties, it was resolved for the future to lay the modesty-piece wholly aside
ref: July 27, 1711, Leonilla Figleaf, letter to Spectator No. 118
glosses: A piece of lace or other fabric worn over a woman's dress to cover the bosom.
Synonyms: modesty bit
modesty pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modesty piece
graphologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From graphological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of graphology.
graphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From graphology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to graphology.
Derived terms: graphologically
pickelhaubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickelhaube
insidiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insidiate
Freiburg im Breisgau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Freiburg im Breisgau.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Khodorkovsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Ходорко́вский (Xodorkóvskij).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Ходорко́вский (Xodorkóvskij).
GNV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: 1599 Geneva Bible
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Gainesville Regional Airport, by FAA airport code
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Gainesville Regional Airport, by FAA airport code
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Coordinate terms: word: KJV
beach flea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach fleas
Senses: glosses: Any of various amphipod crustaceans of the family Talitridae, which live on beaches and jump like fleas.
Synonyms: sand flea
sandhopper
beach wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach wagons
Senses: examples: text: How many young ladies are there?" asked her mother, beginning to look sober.
"Twelve or fourteen in the class, but I dare say they won't all come."
"Bless me, child, you will have to charter an omnibus to carry them about."
"Why, mother, how can you think of such a thing; not more than six or eight will probably come, so I shall hire a beach-wagon and borrow Mr. Laurence's cherry-bounce." (Hannah's pronunciation of char-a-banc.)
ref: 1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 26, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: The Scottsburg road from Drain's was the one usually taken. At the former place the stage was abandoned for a small steamer to Gardiner, or to the mouth of the river (I took the mail-carrier's small boat from Gardiner to the coast), whence a beach-wagon conveyed passengers twenty miles to the north side of Coos Bay, where they were met by a steamer and taken across to Empire City. The beach ride is wearisome, with the perpetual roll of the broad-tire wheels over the unelastic wet sand, and the constant view of a restless waste of water on one hand, with dry, drifting sand between us and the mountains on the other, varied only with patches of marsh and groups of scraggy pines at intervals.
ref: 1891, Frances Fuller Victor, Atlantis Arisen, Chapter 10:
glosses: A light open wagon with two or more seats, designed to transport people on sand.
beachlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachline
Geena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gina.
Gengis Khan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Genghis Khan.
Chardzhou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Çärjew
form: Chardjui
form: Charjou
form: Chardzhev
form: Charjev
form: Chärjew
form: Charjew
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Чарджо́у (Čardžóu), ultimately from Persian چهارجوی (čahârjuy, literally “four canals”).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Türkmenabat: a city in Turkmenistan.
Çärjew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkmen Çärjew.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
local cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local cells
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A very small galvanic cell formed by differences in potential between adjacent areas of a metal surface in contact with an electrolyte; implicated in surface corrosion
P&H
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: p&p
S&H
glosses: Abbreviation of postage and handling or processing and handling.
Chardjui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Charjou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Chardzhev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Charjev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Chärjew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Charjew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chardzhou.
Türkmenabat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Turkmenabat
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Turkmen Türkmenabat.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lebap, Turkmenistan.
Synonyms: sense: former name
word: Chardzhou
Turkmenabat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Türkmenabat.
Golias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
evolutionistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From evolutionistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an evolutionistic manner
ancestral names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancestral name
Peipsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Estonian Peipsi.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chudskoye.
synonyms: word: Chudskoye
Chudskoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chudskoye.
Lake Peipus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Peipus.
synonyms: word: Peipus
Pskovsko-Chudskoye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pskovsko-Chudskoe
Etymology: From Russian Пско́вско-Чудско́е (Pskóvsko-Čudskóje).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Peipus.
synonyms: word: Peipus
Pskovsko-Chudskoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pskovsko-Chudskoye.
Lake Chudskoye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lake Chudskoe
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chudskoye.
synonyms: word: Chudskoye
Lake Chudskoe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lake Chudskoye.
Iguaçu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Iguazu.
Derived terms: Declaration of Iguaçu
Chukchi Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in northeastern Russia, bordered by the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the Bering Strait to the east; part of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
Synonyms: Chukotka
Chukotka Peninsula
Chukotski Peninsula
Chukotka Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chukchi Peninsula.
synonyms: word: Chukchi Peninsula
Chukotski Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Chukchi Peninsula.
synonyms: word: Chukchi Peninsula
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous okrug of Russia, located partly on the Chukotka Peninsula.
Synonyms: word: Chukotka
carbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbivores
Etymology: Blend of carb + carnivore
Senses: glosses: A person who eats food high in carbohydrates.
Shamakhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Şamaxı
form: Schemacha
form: Shemakha
form: Shamakhy
Etymology: Borrowed from Azerbaijani Şamaxı.
Senses: glosses: A city in Azerbaijan.
Şamaxı
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shamakhi.
Schemacha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shamakhi.
Shemakha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Шемаха (Šemaxa).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shamakhi.
Shamakhy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shamakhi.
Schmidt Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Soviet scientist and first head of the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, Otto Schmidt.
Senses: glosses: an island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago of the Russian Arctic
Erymanthian Boar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a giant boar that ravaged the area round Mount Erymanthos; captured by Heracles
Istambul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Istanbul.
1984-ish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnʌɪntiːneɪtiˈfɔːɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more 1984-ish
form: most 1984-ish
form: 1984ish
Etymology: From 1984 + -ish, a reference to the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: I have no idea what this 1984-ish-sounding organization actually does, though I suspect it has something to do with industrial processes.
ref: 2000, G. R. Evans, Martyn Percy, Managing the Church?: Order and Organization in a Secular Age, page 128:
text: The poems were then posted on a Library of Congress website, and high school principals were encouraged in the slightly 1984-ish task of reading them over their loud speakers each morning at the beginning of the school day.
ref: 2007, Jerome Sala, What if someone were listening? Contemporary poetry and the problem of popularity, page 140:
text: A truly 1984-ish paradox. What had gone down the memory hole?
ref: 2011, Charles Forbin, The Diaries of Ay'esha: Trapped and Trained, page 171:
text: All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context.
ref: 2011, John E.B. Myers, The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, page viii:
glosses: Resembling or pertaining to a totalitarian society, especially one characterised by intensive surveillance of the population.
wikipedia: Nineteen Eighty-Four
pukish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pukish
form: most pukish
Etymology: From puke + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling vomit, especially in color.
glosses: Nauseated, queasy.
moth-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moth-balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mothball.
moth-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moth-ball
moth ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moth balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mothball.
moth balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moth ball
re-run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-runs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rerun.
re-run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-runs
form: re-running
form: re-ran
form: re-run
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rerun.
re-runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-run
re-runs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-run
re-running
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-run
re-ran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of re-run
tropify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tropifies
form: tropifying
form: tropified
form: tropified
Etymology: From trope + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To make a trope.
glosses: Alternative form of trope.
tropifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tropify
tropifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tropify
tropified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tropify
tropers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of troper
tropable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊpəbəl/
Forms: form: more tropable
form: most tropable
Etymology: From trope + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But if we agree with Stevens that Tennessee nature is tropable as wilderness and with the Modern Language Association's advertisements for its 2001 convention that New Orleans' climate is "tropical," from which we might reasonably infer its nature is tropable as jungle, then Mississippi, perhaps especially north Mississippi, does constitute such a liminal space.
ref: 2003 Fall, Jon Smith, “Hot Bodies and "Barbaric Tropics": The US South and New World Natures”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 36, number 1, pages 108–109:
text: Exploiting the visual rhetoric of the page, the spatial hiatus between the two hemistichs mimetically distances utterance from intention, and encourages readers to treat the speaking 'I' less as a confessional vessel than a reusable, tropable token, a rhetorical posture or per-sona—an assumed 'mask' to 'sound through'.
ref: 2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: 'Turning the Word', →ISBN:
text: Contributors who have found a candidate for a trope are encouraged to submit it to the Trope Launch Pad, and to discuss in the community whether it is “tropable” or not.
ref: 2016, C Rughinis, “Citizen science, gallaxies and tropes: Knowledge creation in impromptu crowd science movements”, in Networking in Education and Research:
glosses: That can be troped or is subject to tropes.
Related terms: trope
troper
tropist
tropify
fishing lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishing line