cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
loof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: From Egyptian Arabic لُوف (lūf).
Senses: glosses: The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca).
Related terms: loofah
Weegie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Alteration of Glaswegian + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: How ya doin, ya Weegie bastard!
glosses: Of or pertaining to Glasgow, Glaswegian.
Weegie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weegies
Etymology: Alteration of Glaswegian + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: It was always a tough match between the Weegies and the Edinbuggers but, on that occasion, we came out on top and afterwards we went to Glasgow University Union to celebrate our success.
ref: 2009, Dennis Canavan, Let the People Decide: The Autobiography of Dennis Canavan:
glosses: A Glaswegian.
IAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IAQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of infrequently asked question, one that does not merit inclusion in a FAQ.
glosses: Initialism of indoor air quality.
ascendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascendencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ascendancy.
adjudication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(d)ˌd͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adjudications
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adiudicatio, adiudicationem.
Senses: examples: text: All too often nowadays, in the majority of cases, the commissioners have no familiarity at all with the case decided in their names, and do not even read the order they sign. Thus, the entire procedure of adjudication by the commission has become a farce and a travesty, which has outlived its usefulness.
ref: 1984 February 4, Franklin Kameny, quotee, “A Call For Reorganization”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 2:
glosses: The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
examples: text: 16 June, 1784, Edmund Burke, speech on reform of representation in the House of Commons
An adjudication in favour of natural rights.
text: [Mr. C.] says he confessed to avoid a lengthier sentence after his original attorney told him that the prosecutor claimed DNA evidence conclusively identified him as the attacker. [Mr. C.] had an earlier deferred adjudication for indecency with a minor.
ref: 2007 June 17, Houston Chronicle:
glosses: A judgment or sentence.
examples: text: In case two or more petitions for adjudication of bankruptcy shall be filed in different districts by different members of the same copartnership for an adjudication of the bankruptcy of said copartnership , the court in which the petition is first filed having jurisdiction[…]
ref: 1869, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, A Treatise Upon the United States Courts, and Their Practice:
topics: law
glosses: The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
qualifier: emergency response
glosses: The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
topics: law
glosses: A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
Derived terms: adjudicational
nonadjudication
readjudication
self-adjudication
Related terms: adjudicate
adjudicator
alarmingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɑːm.ɪŋ.li/
ipa: /əˈlɑɹm.ɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more alarmingly
form: most alarmingly
Etymology: From alarming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He sneezed alarmingly.
text: Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 173:
glosses: In an alarming way, frighteningly.
examples: text: Alarmingly, he went into a severe sneezing fit.
glosses: Causing fear or concern.
examples: text: He went into an alarmingly severe sneezing fit.
glosses: To an extent that causes alarm.
appellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɛlət/
rhymes: -ɛlət
Etymology: From Latin appellātus.
Senses: examples: text: In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228:
glosses: That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
Derived terms: appellate court
appellate jurisdiction
nonappellate
noobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nuːbz/
ipa: /njuːbz/
rhymes: -uːbz
Senses: glosses: plural of noob
sliced bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sliced breads
Senses: synonyms: sandwich bread
glosses: Bread from a loaf that is sold sliced into pieces of equal thickness by an automated process.
Derived terms: greatest thing since sliced bread
ZIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIPs
Senses: examples: text: For the fifth consecutive year, the 94027 ZIP code (primarily Atherton) led the nation with a median list price of $7.75 million. Two more California ZIPs — both picturesque, coastal communities — made the top 10: 92657 (mostly Newport Coast), at $4.965 million, and 93108 (primarily Santa Barbara), at $4.85 million.
ref: 2024 November 28, Josh Ocampo, “Expensive ZIP Codes Have Something in Common”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A zip code.
ZIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Zone Improvement Plan (see ZIP Code).
qualifier: file format
glosses: A common file format for data compression.
ZIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A zip file.
Related terms: .zip
wantonness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wantonnesses
form: wantonnesse
Etymology: From Middle English wantonnesse, wantonesse, wantounesse, wantownesse, equivalent to wanton + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The ſpirit of vvantonness is, ſure, ſcared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-ſimple, vvith fine and recovery, he vvill never, I think, in the vvay of vvaſte, attempt us again.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: A vvantonneſſe in vvealth, methinks I agree not vvith, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jevvells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains vvhimſied with his vvealth: […]
ref: 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 16:
text: A Svveet diſorder in the dreſſe / Kindles in cloathes a vvantonneſſe: […]
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: The desert Pelican had built her nest / In that deep solitude. / And now returned from distant flight / Fraught with the river stream, / Her load of water had disburthened there. / Her young in the refreshing bath / Sported all wantonness; […]
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The Fifth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, pages 258–259:
text: The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 16, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
examples: text: These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
ref: 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, volume 3, Boston: Little Brown, page 366:
glosses: A particular wanton act.
UNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of unlocked nucleic acid.
Related terms: topics: genetics
biology
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
word: LNA
topics: genetics
biology
medicine
sciences
natural-sciences
word: BNA
SAG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Screen Actors Guild.
Derived terms: SAG-AFTRA
SAG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: on a letter
glosses: Initialism of Saint Anthony guide.
SAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SAGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of straight-acting gay.
faune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faunes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faun.
cella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: cellae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell and hall.
Senses: examples: text: Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: architecture
glosses: The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.
cappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpə/
rhymes: -æpə
homophone: kappa
Forms: form: cappae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capa and cape.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
Related terms: cappa magna
cappula
cappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpə/
rhymes: -æpə
homophone: kappa
Forms: form: cappas
Senses: examples: text: I tend to like lattes or cappas, and have been known to have two or three a day, usually when I'm stressed.
ref: 2010, Janey Lee Grace, Look Great Naturally...Without Ditching the Lipstick, page 211:
glosses: A cappuccino.
chapitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapitres
Senses: examples: text: And ſeke to this in the .xii. chapitre in the lettre D. after that ſeke for this i^([sic]) the xxvii. chapitre in the lettre J.
ref: [1528?], Jherom Bruynswyke, translated by Laurence andrew, The Vertuose Boke of Distyllacyon of the Waters of All Maner of Herbes […], [London]:
text: […] thoſe thynges, which ſhall be ſayd hereafter, in the .ix. the .x. yͤ .xiiii. and the .xviii. chapitres of this preſent dyccyon.
ref: 1535 July 27, [Marsilius of Padua], translated by Wyllyam Marshall, The Defence of Peace: […], [London]: […] Robert wyer / for wyllyam marshall, folio 65, recto:
text: For the firſt, let Nicephorus be examined, whome you here alleage in two places, the 9. boke the 13. and the 27. chapitres. I meane the 27. for in the other chapitre there is no worde of that matter, and ſo ſhall it appeare whether you be a lyer or no.
ref: 1565 December 3, Thomas Dorman, A Disproufe of M. Novvelles Reproufe, Antwerp: […] Iohn Laet, folio 36, verso:
glosses: Obsolete form of chapter.
czapka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: czapkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chapka.
PPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPPs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of polyparaphenylene.
glosses: Initialism of purchasing power parity.
glosses: Initialism of pearly penile papules.
examples: text: The necessity of contractual safeguardings in PPPs was emphasized by most interview partners.
ref: 2018, Thomas S. Konrad, Management Control in Public-Private Partnerships, page 305:
glosses: Initialism of public-private partnership.
glosses: Initialism of perfect passive participle.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: Initialism of personal pension scheme.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of piss-poor protoplasm.
Synonyms: sense: pearly penile papules
english: papillae of the corona of the glans
translation: papillae of the corona of the glans
word: papillae coronae glandis
sense: public-private partnership
word: P3
Derived terms: PPTP
PPPoE
PPPoA
Related terms: slip
PPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Point-to-Point Protocol.
examples: text: And Congress made that lifeline even stronger with two big tax breaks: Forgiven PPP loans will not be subject to federal income tax and small business owners may deduct business expenses paid for with their PPP money.
ref: 2021 February 23, Jeanne Sahadi, “So you got a PPP loan? Here’s what that means for your state taxes”, in CNN Business:
topics: government
politics
qualifier: employment
glosses: Initialism of paycheck protection program A U.S. federal government business loan program to allow businesses to continue to pay fixed costs and employees, for those business adversely impacted by COVID-19.
qualifier: Pakistani politics
glosses: Initialism of Pakistan People's Party.
qualifier: Singaporean politics
glosses: Initialism of People's Power Party
RAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RAPs
Senses: glosses: recognized air picture
qualifier: pensions
glosses: Initialism of retirement annuity plan.
topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: rap
rapsheet
glosses: Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution.
charpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑɹpi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːpi/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pi
Forms: form: charpies
Etymology: From the feminine past participle of Old French charpir (“to pluck”), carpir (“to pluck”), from Latin carpō (“I pluck”). Compare carpet.
Senses: examples: text: M. d'Arblay filled a Closet with Charpie, compresses, and bandages – All that to me was owned, as wanting, was an arm Chair and some Towels.
ref: 1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 436:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth, used for surgical dressings.
PUD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of peptic ulcer disease.
Bahrein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bahrain: An archipelago, island, and country in West Asia in the Persian Gulf
bachelorhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachelorhoods
Etymology: From bachelor + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: He had been alone, girlfriendless, for nearly a year, and had sort of adjusted to bachelorhood […]
ref: 2009 July 21, David Updike, Old Girlfriends:
glosses: The condition of being a bachelor.
Synonyms: bachelordom
bachelorship
connector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛktɚ/
Forms: form: connectors
Etymology: From connect + -or.
Senses: examples: text: There are only a few genuine social connectors. True connectors collect people like other collectors collect stamps.
ref: 2008, Duncan Brown, Nicky Hayes, Influencer Marketing, page 38:
glosses: One who connects.
glosses: A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary.
glosses: A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometer) U.S. Route 24 Connector.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc.
Derived terms: banana connector
barrel nut connector
blade connector
BNC connector
cone connector
connectorize
connectorless
DIN connector
dock connector
Euroconnector
microconnector
miniconnector
Molex connector
park connector
thimble connector
TRS connector
wire connector
BJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BJDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ball-jointed doll.
BJD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Biju Janata Dal, a political party.
cacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cachers
Etymology: From cache + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Of “World War II — Austin,” which turns out to lead cachers to a war memorial, a poster named Sumbirdy wrote, “We enjoy virtual caches,” and then, “Thank goodness for the oldies!”)
ref: 2009 March 29, Virginia Heffernan, “G.P.S. Marks the Spot”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who caches.
Derived terms: cacher box
kalopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλοψία (kalopsía), from καλός (kalós, “good, beautiful, lovely”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”).
Senses: examples: text: China can bring on serious bouts of kalopsia in otherwise intelligent observers.
ref: 2006 April 23, The Times:
glosses: The delusion of things being more beautiful than they are.
acne vulgaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory disease of the skin, caused by changes in the pilosebaceous units.
Synonyms: acne
Related terms: comedo
comedo extraction
gutbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutbusters
Etymology: From gut + buster.
Senses: glosses: Something very funny.
Related terms: gutbusting
fur-flying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Since a particularly vicious fight between cats or other animals sends fur flying.
Senses: examples: 2006: 'Anticlimactic as it may have been, the news last week that Meredith Vieira would replace Katie Couric on the “Today” show marked the dénouement of a fur-flying, nail-biting, years-long game of musical chairs among television’s leading ladies.' — The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
glosses: Vicious.
pilosebaceous unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilosebaceous units
Senses: topics: anatomy
dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The structure consisting of the hair, hair follicle, arrector pili muscle and the sebaceous gland.
chaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/
Forms: form: chaperones
Etymology: See chaperon.
Senses: glosses: An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
topics: business
glosses: An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
Derived terms: autochaperone
bichaperone
chaperokine
chaperome
chaperoneless
chaperoneship
chaperonic
chaperonin
chaperonopathy
cochaperone
heterochaperone
metallochaperone
molybdochaperone
multichaperone
pharmacochaperone
superchaperone
chaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/
ipa: /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/
Forms: form: chaperones
form: chaperoning
form: chaperoned
form: chaperoned
Etymology: See chaperon.
Senses: examples: text: They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 183:
text: 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
ref: 2006 April 17, The New Yorker, page 27:
text: TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49:
glosses: To act as a chaperone.
topics: business
glosses: To work as a chaperone.
pilocarpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaɪ.ləˈkɑɹˌpiːn/
Forms: form: pilocarpines
Etymology: From translingual Pilocarpus (“genus name”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A miotic alkaloid C₁₁H₁₆N₂O₂ obtained from jaborandi that is used chiefly in the form of its hydrochloride or nitrate especially in the treatment of glaucoma.
Related terms: jaborine
muscarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscarines
Etymology: From the fungus Amanita muscaria, from Latin musca (“fly”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
Derived terms: muscarinergic
muscarinic
muscarinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more muscarinic
form: most muscarinic
Etymology: From muscarine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, usually with regard to agonism or antagonism (blocking) of receptor activity.
qualifier: Original (etymonic) sense but not the usual sense
glosses: Of or pertaining to muscarine.
Derived terms: antimuscarinic
muscarinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: muscarinics
Etymology: From muscarine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A muscarinic drug: one that modulates (enhances or blocks) the activity of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.
Related terms: muscarinergic
pharmacologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəli/
Etymology: From pharmacological + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: In a pharmacological manner; with regard to pharmacology.
Derived terms: nonpharmacologically
suprapharmacologically
pharmacologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪk/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Relating to pharmacology
Synonyms: pharmacological
Derived terms: nonpharmacologic
phytopharmacologic
pharmacologic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪk/
Forms: form: pharmacologics
Senses: glosses: Such a drug
Isidore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isidores
Etymology: French form of the name of early Spanish saints, from Ancient Greek Ἰσίδωρος (Isídōros), meaning "gift of (the goddess) Isis".
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Related terms: sense: female given names
word: Isidora
sense: female given names
word: Isadora
wake up on the wrong side of bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wakes up on the wrong side of bed
form: waking up on the wrong side of bed
form: woke up on the wrong side of bed
form: woken up on the wrong side of bed
Senses: examples: text: He can't stop shouting at me: he must have woken up on the wrong side of bed this morning.
glosses: To feel grumpy and irritable; to be easily annoyed.
boys will be boys
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: enpr: boiz wĭl bē boiz
ipa: /bɔɪ̯z wɪl biː bɔɪ̯z/
ipa: /bɔɪ̯z wɪl bi bɔɪ̯z/
ipa: /boɪ̯z wɪl biː boɪ̯z/
ipa: /boɪ̯z wəl biː boɪ̯z/
ipa: /bɔjz wɪl biː bɔjz/
Senses: examples: text: But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses:
glosses: It is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys.
examples: text: Boys will be boys, grinned Grandpa as he watched his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he had given his grandson for Christmas.
glosses: Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish at heart.
examples: text: It's not hard to see the parallels between the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the 2012 Steubenville rape case. Three decades apart, there is one central difference: Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, and has never been criminally charged. In the Steubenville case, two star football players were convicted of raping a girl, and sentenced to prison. But amid the outrage in both cases, there has been a chorus of "boys will be boys," the excuse of youth, of teenage brains that can't control themselves and the victim shaming that accompanies that perception.
ref: 2018 September 27, Mary Kilpatrick, “Why the 'boys will be boys' justification of sexual violence doesn't fly: Comparing Kavanaugh to Steubenville”, in Shatter on Cleveland.com, published 29 January 2019, retrieved 19 Mar 2021:
glosses: Any potentially objectionable behavior (especially predatory sexual behavior) that the speaker considers to be commonly practiced by many boys and men should be viewed as excusable because it comes naturally to them.
big bucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.
text: Ohio always was home, where his family and friends were, and such is the man’s allegiance to Ohio State that he once donated the equivalent of a full scholarship back to the school—and this was before he was making the big, big bucks.
ref: 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 64:
text: But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman
ref: 1999, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, page 96:
text: After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
ref: 2006, Ann Coulter, Godless:
glosses: Lots of money.
Synonyms: megabucks
cashew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæʃuː/
ipa: /ˈkæʃjuː/
ipa: /kəˈʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: cachou
Forms: form: cashews
Etymology: Reanalysis of French acajou as a + cajou, from Old Tupi akaîu. Doublet of acajou.
Senses: examples: text: Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.
ref: 2002, P. K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, page 221:
text: Also known as the Native Cashew, it is a member of the Anacardiaceae, the same plant family to which the Cashew and Mango trees belong.
ref: 2005, Roger Martin, Tree-Kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea, page 106:
text: Cashew (Anacardium occidental L.) is an export-oriented crop grown for its nuts, a true drupe.
ref: 2007, Alice Kurian, K. V. Peter (series editor), Commercial Crops Technology (Horticulture Science; 8), page 63:
synonyms: acajou
glosses: A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
examples: text: In some countries, cashews continue to be cracked manually although cracking machinery and other shelling mechanisms have been introduced.
ref: 1996, Thomas Payne, “17: Nuts”, in Laszlo Somogyi, Diane M. Barrett, Y. H. Hui, editors, Processing Fruits, page 529:
text: The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews.
ref: 2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts, page 46:
text: This is a spicy variation of Kung Pao Chicken using cashews rather than the more common peanuts.
ref: 2010, Dick Logue, 500 Low Glycemic Index Recipes, page 413:
glosses: A cashew nut.
Derived terms: word: cashew apple
word: cashew bird
word: cashewlike
word: cashew milk
word: cashew nut
word: cashew nutshell liquid
word: cashew tree
word: Otaheite cashew
alt: Anacardium excelsum or Anacardium giganteum
word: wild cashew
be my guest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: If you want to give it a try, be my guest!
text: If you want to think you're smart because you and your stupid family elected to live in a cesspool...Hey, be my guest, ASSHOLE!
ref: 2001 July 10, Robert Chin, “Re: Manila Girl in Chitown”, in soc.culture.filipino (Usenet):
text: Lai: Can I leave?
 Frank: Be my guest.
ref: 2002 October 11, Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen, The Transporter, 20th Century Fox:
synonyms: be my pest
glosses: Do as you wish; go ahead; help yourself; go for it!
cashew nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashew nuts
Senses: examples: text: Cashew nut is made up of a fruit in which the kernel is embedded. The real fruit of the cashew is commonly a nut. It is a kidney- or heart-shaped achene, in any normal variety.
ref: 2015, Encyclopedia of Food and Health, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 683:
synonyms: cashew
hypernyms: seed
coordinate_terms: cashew apple
glosses: The seed of the cashew tree, often viewed as a nut in the culinary sense.
word of mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-of-mouth
Senses: examples: text: The book didn't need to be advertised; it became popular solely by word of mouth.
text: Kevin heard it on the radio / Hugh informed word of mouth / Carla read it in the news / Caught it all, just a touch
ref: 1983, R.E.M., “Just a Touch”, in Lifes Rich Paegent:
glosses: The verbal means of passing on information; viva voce.
Related terms: word of finger
cashew apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashew apples
Senses: examples: text: The cashew apple is really the swollen flower stalk to which the nut is attached.[…]Generally, not more than two or three cashew apples are eaten at a time because the apple is fibrous and has an astringent and acrid taste due to the presence of tannins and substances of a phenolic nature which will irritate the throat. That is why the bulk of cashew apples in this country is wasted.
ref: 1995, “Appendix III: Cashew Apple Preparations”, in Regional Meeting on Cashew Research and Development, page 44:
text: 2000, L. R. Verma, V. K. Joshi (editors), Postharvest Technology of Fruits and Vegetables, Volume 1: General Concepts and Principles, page 1091,
In Brazil, cashew apple wine is prepared and marketed on a commercial scale, but its sale is declining. Another fascinating product is bottled cashew-apple-in-sugarcane brandy.
text: 2008, Anacardiaceae, entry in Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull (editors), The Encyclopedia of Fruit & Nuts, page 9,
In Brazil, the cashew apple is sold fresh and the juice is widely available. […] In 16th-century Brazil, cashew apples and their juice were taken by Europeans to treat fever, to sweeten breath and to 'conserve the stomach'.
coordinate_terms: cashew nut
glosses: An ovoid to pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower (the true fruit being the cashew nut).
false fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false fruits
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but some adjacent tissue.
Synonyms: accessory fruit
pseudocarp
pseudofruit
wear down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears down
form: wearing down
form: wore down
form: worn down
Senses: examples: text: The eight hour shift in the mine began to wear Tim down after a few months.
text: (sports) To make the opponent tired after using a strategy while conserving own energy to attack later.
text: He tried to wear down the bowlers before lunch so he could attack the bowlers after lunch.
glosses: To cause (someone) physical or mental fatigue.
examples: text: At first she refused to buy the kids sweets, but eventually they wore her down.
text: Congratulations, you got your shot in
You wore me down
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
glosses: To eventually persuade or defeat (someone) through persistent effort.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wear, down.
Coordinate terms: english: often synonymous; sometimes hyponymous
translation: often synonymous; sometimes hyponymous
word: grind down
Related terms: noli illegitimi carborundum
accessory fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessory fruits
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.
Synonyms: false fruit
pseudocarp
pseudofruit
wet the bed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛt ðə ˈbɛd/
Forms: form: wets the bed
form: wetting the bed
form: wet the bed
form: wet the bed
form: wetted the bed
form: wetted the bed
Senses: examples: text: Unsecure is what she was. She wetted the bed a lot, and always she was sucking on her thumb.
ref: 1998 November, Bethany Campbell [pseudonym; Sally Lea McCluskey], Hear No Evil, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: To urinate in one's bed (during sleep).
glosses: To go bad, to fail. Often said of machines; a euphemism for shit the bed.
Coordinate terms: english: nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep
translation: nearly synonymous, whereas the distinction is wetting one's clothing while awake versus wetting the bedclothes, usually while asleep
word: to wet oneself
Derived terms: bedwetter
bedwetting
Related terms: alt: pissabed
word: piss-the-bed
urushiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʊˈɹuːʃiˌɔl/
Forms: form: urushiols
Etymology: From Japanese 漆 (うるし, urushi, “lacquer tree”) + -ol (“oil”).
Senses: examples: text: All three produce an oil, called urushiol, that is a potent allergen. Urushiol is most abundant in the leaves and stems of these plants...
ref: 1986, Francine Brown, Skin Care:
text: Poison ivy vines also contain the irritating oil urushiol, so it is important to be able to recognize them in winter.
ref: 1993, Jacquelyn G. Black, Microbiology: principles and applications:
text: Upon exposure to air, urushiol can turn dark brown, which makes it easier to spot.
ref: 2000, C. Franklin Goldsmith, Shannon E. G. Hamrick, H. James Hamrick, The Best Hikes of Pisgah National Forest:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: toxicodendrol
glosses: An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.
Coordinate terms: anacardic acid
cheat on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheats on
form: cheating on
form: cheated on
form: cheated on
Senses: examples: text: I was disqualified for cheating on my final exam.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheat, on.
examples: text: Six years of a happy relationship, and then she had the nerve to cheat on me with a barman!
glosses: To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship.
Related terms: have an affair
oversprinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversprinkles
form: oversprinkling
form: oversprinkled
form: oversprinkled
Etymology: From over- + sprinkle.
Senses: glosses: To sprinkle over.
examples: text: While the stars that oversprinkle / All the heavens seem to twinkle / With a crystalline delight.
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells:
glosses: To be sprinkled over (something).
cheesed off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheesed off
form: most cheesed off
Senses: examples: text: I'm really cheesed off about the lack of hand dryers in this washroom!
text: You have no reason to be mad at me. I mean, you know, you broke my heart. I should be royally ticked off at you, you know. I should be really cheesed off. I shouldn’t wanna talk to you anymore.
ref: 2007, Diablo Cody, Juno, spoken by Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera):
glosses: Annoyed, upset, angry.
cheesed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheese off
Synonyms: browned off
hacked off
peed off
pissed off
teed off
ticked off
every cloud has a silver lining
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: See entry for silver lining.
Senses: examples: text: Every cloud has a silver lining; but in the old-fashioned meeting-houses every cloud of hymnal melody generally had a nasal lining before the congregation […]
ref: 1881, National Academy of Code Administration (U.S.), Folio, page 417:
text: […] that "a little reserve and thou'lt fail surely," will prove to be true in our experience. Every cloud has a silver lining and so has every sorrow, […]
ref: 1887, Shakers, Religion, page 36:
text: But the most popular attitude toward what we may call "sad" plays is the peculiar one of believing that, since every cloud has a silver lining, […]
ref: 1918, George Jean Nathan, Performing Arts, page 222:
text: Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job.
Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: There is something good in any bad situation.
Related terms: every silver lining has a cloud
every dark cloud has a silver lining
the darkest hour is just before the dawn
every rose has its thorn
April showers bring May flowers
necessary evil
blessing in disguise
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
with it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: There is also the snag that many people prefer aircraft simply because they regard this is a travel medium that is "with it".
ref: 1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, page 160:
glosses: Aware of current trends and fashions.
examples: text: Jack is sick today and doesn't really seem with it.
antonyms: un-with-it
glosses: Attentive, alert.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: with-it-ness
horse chestnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɔːs ˈtʃɛsnʌt/
ipa: /ˌhɔɹs ˈtʃɛsnʌt/
Forms: form: horse chestnuts
form: horse-chestnut
Etymology: Translating obsolete Latin name Castanea equina.
Senses: glosses: Any of several tree species of genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum, common in temperate northern hemisphere.
glosses: The large nutlike seed of these trees.
Synonyms: sense: tree
word: buckeye
sense: tree
word: conker tree
sense: seed
word: buckeye
sense: seed
word: conker
yeshivish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yeshiva + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a yeshiva.
glosses: Relating to the culture of non-Hasidic Haredi Jews.
God forbid
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: If, God forbid, there's a fire, head for the nearest exit.
glosses: indicating that the occurrence of something is very undesirable
Synonyms: word: God forbid
word: heaven forfend
word: absit omen
word: heaven forbid
word: God forfend
word: I should hope not
caught with one's pants down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Presumably engaged in some private or intimate activity. Pants may refer to either trousers or underpants.
Senses: glosses: Caught off guard, unprepared, or in an embarrassing situation.
Synonyms: flat-footed
Derived terms: with one's pants down
with one's dick in one's hand
off guard
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: off-guard
Senses: examples: text: His sudden appearance at the office caught her completely off guard.
antonyms: on guard
glosses: Not vigilant; unprepared; inattentive.
glosses: Unexpectedly or by surprise.
irking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of irk
wire rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire ropes
Senses: glosses: A strong cable consisting of twisted strands of wire, generally intended for supporting heavy loads.
Synonyms: cable
funicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of catenary.
synonyms: word: catenary
Derived terms: intrafunicular
perifunicular
funicular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: funiculars
Etymology: From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.
Senses: examples: text: England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.
ref: 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50:
synonyms: funicular railway
cliff railway
glosses: A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
counterweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterweights
Etymology: From counter- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Four 110-ton counterweights, one in each tower, make this feat possible by reducing the effective weight to be lifted to some 25 tons; but an additional 20 tons (a very heavy snow load) can be lifted if necessary.
ref: 1960 May, “Talking of Trains: The new Kingsferry Bridge”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265:
text: Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents.
ref: 2025 October 19, “A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
examples: text: A counterweight to the anti-immigrant fear mongering of the former leader of the right-wing U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, Lexiteers^([sic]) argued a left-wing, democratic and internationalist case for Brexit.
ref: 2017 March 28, Alan Johnson, “Why Brexit Is Best for Britain: The Left-Wing Case”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A counterbalance.
counterweight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterweights
form: counterweighting
form: counterweighted
form: counterweighted
Etymology: From counter- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
ref: 2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical:
glosses: To fit with a counterweight.
socket wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socket wrenches
Senses: synonyms: ratchet wrench
hypernyms: wrench
spanner
<
tool
glosses: A type of wrench (spanner) featuring multiple removable and interchangeable socket heads (sockets), each designed to fit a particular size of bolt head or other fastener, which can be attached by the drive to a ratcheting handle, breaker bar, or other driver.
hypernyms: wrench
spanner
<
tool
glosses: Any wrench, including a nonratcheting one with an integral (nonremovable) head, that has an internal/concave feature (a socket) that engages the head of an external-wrenching fastener.
slunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: slunks
Etymology: From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).
Senses: examples: text: Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition.)
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press:
text: Calf heads were tanned from yearling calves less than a year in age. Slunk skins were tanned from unborn calfskins which, gruesome as it sounds, were often by products of the cow slaughtering process.
ref: 2001, ed. Rob Cook, The Making of a Drum Company, Hal Leonard, published 2001, page 53:
glosses: An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
slunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Forms: form: slunks
Etymology: Compare slank (“low place, especially one which fills with water”), dialectal slonk (“depression, hollow, slough”).
Senses: examples: text: Amang the harbour's sludge and mud; They row'd thegither in the slunk; Their heads were up, their bodies sunk; What wi' the slusch they ate and drunk, […]
ref: 1827, William Tennant, Papistry Storm'd: Or, The Dingin' Down O' the Cathedral : Ane Poem, in Sax Sangs, page 88:
text: He made the road, and since it was made there was never anything done to it except when men were carting turf and then they would fill in a "slunk." You might say now it is no road.
ref: 1907, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, page 202:
text: […] a 'slunk' is a 'slonk' (depression) with mud; […]
ref: , Gordon Kendal, Gavin Douglas's Translation of 'The Aeneid' (1513), page 580
glosses: A slough, a low, wet, miry place. (Compare slank.)
slunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slink
heresthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by William Riker, as the companion to rhetoric. From heresy.
Senses: examples: text: Logic is concerned with the truth-value of sentences. Grammar is concerned with the communications-value of sentences. Rhetoric is concerned with the persuasion-value of sentences. And heresthetic is concerned with the strategy-value of sentences. In each case, the art involves the use of language to accomplish some purpose: to arrive at truth, to communicate, to persuade, and to manipulate.
ref: 1986, William H. Riker, The Art of Political Manipulation:
glosses: The art of political manipulation, especially by the use of language.
gars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑːz/
ipa: /ɡɑɹz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of gar
gars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑːz/
ipa: /ɡɑɹz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garce (“unit of measure”).
jel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕl
ipa: /d͡ʒɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
homophone: gel
homophone: jell
Forms: form: more jel
form: most jel
form: jeal
Etymology: Clipping of jealous
Senses: examples: text: 2012 May 12, Kate Middleton looked amaze at London Olympic Gala concert, totally jel of the dress!, OK! Magazine
text: What more could a girl want? Everyone that I knew was either so happy for me, or completely well jel of me.
ref: 2015, Dani K., Footballers and Louboutins, Sly Fox / Ravenswood Publishing, →ISBN:
text: We can't figure out if we're more jel of her insane bod or luxurious lifestyle.
ref: 2016 January 6, “Check out the bod that launched a bikini empire”, in Daily Star:
synonyms: jelly
glosses: jealous
zeme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zemes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zemi.