cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
puddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌdl̩/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: puddles
Etymology: From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]
ref: 1560, “Pſalme. xxxvi”, in Matthew Parker, The whole Pſalter tranſlated into Engliſh metre […] , Iohn Daye, page 98:
glosses: A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
examples: text: And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle, that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 90:
glosses: Stagnant or polluted water.
glosses: A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
examples: text: I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.
ref: 1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88:
text: As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet.
ref: 2007, Rowing News, volume 14, number 5, page 36:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
Derived terms: cuddle puddle
puddle ball
puddle bar
puddle hopper
puddle-jump
puddle jump
puddle-jumper
puddle jumper
puddle pirate
puddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌdl̩/
rhymes: -ʌdəl
Forms: form: puddles
form: puddling
form: puddled
form: puddled
Etymology: From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.
Senses: glosses: To form a puddle.
glosses: To play or splash in a puddle.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
glosses: To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
glosses: To line a canal with puddle (clay).
glosses: To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
examples: text: Soon the Latino warrior had bared his beefy body. His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.
ref: 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:
glosses: To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
examples: text: Some unhatched practice […] / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
Derived terms: puddle up
Raaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Associated with Hindi [Term?], meaning "royal" or "royalty", from the terms rai, raj, etc. Some texts also indicate it means "always". Also associated with the term Rah, meaning path, road or journey.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from India, masculine equivalent Rai.
glosses: A surname from India.
wellbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellbores
Etymology: From well + bore.
Senses: examples: text: The overflush consisted of 100 bbls of uncrosslinked 3000 ppm polymer, followed by one wellbore volume (~150 bbls) plus 450 bbls crude behind pipe.
ref: 1995, Proceedings, International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering, page 63:
glosses: The hole produced when drilling an oil or gas well.
Synonyms: borehole
pali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palus
passes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass out
passing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass out
passed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass out
brainfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainfoods
form: brain food
Etymology: From brain + food.
Senses: glosses: Any food consumed for the purpose of energizing the brain or promoting intellectual thought.
man-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-bags
form: man bag
form: manbag
Etymology: From man + bag, influenced by (punning on) handbag.
Senses: examples: text: Unisex styling gave the ‘man-bag’ its brief moment and many rough hewn embroidered denim and handtooled leather shoulder bags were worn by both sexes.
ref: 2005, Valerie Steele, Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion:
synonyms: man purse
murse
glosses: The equivalent of a woman's small handbag designed for use by men, having compartments for mobile phones, etc.
anelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian anelli (literally “rings”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Small, thin rings of pasta, mainly used in soup or salads.
panettoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panettone
man flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cold, influenza, or similar minor ailment as suffered by a male seen as wildly exaggerating the severity of his symptoms.
intagli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intaglio
concertini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concertino
Londonistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Londonstan
Etymology: From London + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: The term “Londonistan” apparently originated with a sarcastic remark by a French intelligence officer frustrated by Britain’s failure to crack down on radical Islamists in their midst.
ref: 2017 April 6, Leela Jacinto, “Is Londonistan calling jihadists back to the fold?”, in France 24:
glosses: London, perceived as having been culturally conquered by Muslims.
wikipedia: Londonistan
decime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈsiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: decimes
Etymology: From Latin decima (“a tenth; a tithing”). Doublet of decim, decima, and dime.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England)
synonyms: word: tithing
extra: a division of the hundreds of medieval England
decime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈsiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: decimes
form: décime
Etymology: From French décime (“a tenth; a decime”). Doublet of decim, decima, and dime.
Senses: glosses: A French coin minted from 1795 to 1801 and from 1814 to 1815, valued at one-tenth of a franc.
glosses: A 10-centime coin, minted up to 1999 and bearing the same value.
solfatare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solfatara
plasma screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma screens
Senses: glosses: A plasma display
lotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lottes
Etymology: Borrowed from French lotte.
Senses: glosses: burbot (fish)
vani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: swara
glosses: A custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.
plasma display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma displays
Senses: glosses: A flat-screen display, for television or personal computers, consisting of a matrix of cells filled with an inert, ionized gas; three cells (red, green and blue) constituting a single pixel
pistole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪstəʊl/
ipa: /pɪˈstəʊl/
ipa: /ˈpɪstoʊl/
ipa: /pɪˈstoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: pistoles
Etymology: Borrowed from French pistole, of uncertain origin. Probably ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Alternatively, perhaps from Pistoia (a city in Tuscany).
Senses: examples: text: Ralph and I were inseparable Companions. We took Lodgings together in Little Britain at 3/6 per Week, as much as we could then afford. He found some Relations, but they were poor & unable to assist him. He now let me know his Intentions of remaining in London, and that he never meant to return to Philadelphia. He had brought no Money with him, the whole he could muster having been expended in paying his Passage. I had 15 Pistoles: So he borrowed occasionally of me, to subsist while he was looking out for Business. [...]
ref: 1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, §21:
glosses: A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this.
examples: text: They were exceptional semi-sweet chocolate chips, with a flat shape that I’ve recreated here with chocolate pistoles, flat wafers or disks each about ⅞ inch in diameter. The pistoles disperse randomly through the dough, so that slicing the logs into cookies creates an attractive mosaic, with little spokes of chocolate scattered here and there.
ref: 2008, Flo Braker, “Say It with Cookies”, in Baking for All Occasions: A Treasury of Recipes for Everyday Celebrations, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, Chocolate Chip Cookie Logs, page 275:
text: The chocolate that I prefer for most recipes for this book is bittersweet chocolate pistoles. I like their flavor, size, and convenience.
ref: 2008, Warren Brown, “Pound Cakes”, in CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, →ISBN, Chocolate-Apricot Pound Cake:
text: Chocolate pistoles from the manufacturer work best, as they arrive tempered and are uniform in size.
ref: 2017, R. Andrew Chlebana, The Advanced Art of Baking & Pastry, Wiley, →ISBN, page 430:
glosses: A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a coin, designed for melting when cooking.
size zero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: size zeros
Senses: glosses: The smallest size of women's clothing
glosses: A woman with a very low body mass index, especially such a fashion model
scudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scudo
McMansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McMansions
Etymology: From Mc- + mansion, 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: Twenty mansions were planned for the development, each designed to look like the biggest house in town. The McMansion we thought of as ours had an enormous kitchen, more than two stories high.
ref: 1998 August 27, Benjamin Cheever, “Life in a Crater Will Do, For Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: After decades of ever-rising square footage in the McMansions that dot the suburbs, the idea of downsizing is gaining champions.
ref: 1998 September 19, “Getting Smart About Art of Living Small”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: They're ignorant of their social status. They think because they've built a McMansion on twenty acres, they're elite—if you can stand that word.
ref: 2006, Rita Mae Brown, The Hounds and the Fury, Center Point Pub., →ISBN, page 112:
text: Such places exist, and they exist just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, through the rainbow tunnel, where McMansions meet divination on Highway 1, Marin County, California.
ref: 2016, Melissa Broder, So Sad Today, Grand Central:
text: He got out and ambled noisily into his dark, cavernous house. After leaving him and others eerily like him off at their McMansions, I often worry about who else might be inside those houses. My kids would be terrified if I came home like that at 3 a.m.
ref: 2020 February 27, Peter Jakubowicz, “The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night”, in Slate Magazine:
text: […] although the show deliberately showcases various luxury goods […], the overall ambience is extraordinarily bare of style and beauty, offering instead a world of blah décor, undistinguished fashions and cavernous homes that just look like overpriced McMansions.
ref: 2025 May 6, Ross Douthat, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Miserable”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A large, imposing and ostentatious house that lacks architectural integrity.
Related terms: McChurch
prede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹiːd/
Forms: form: predes
form: preding
form: preded
form: preded
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedārī. Doublet of prey.
Senses: examples: text: One of the Geraldins, who was ancestor to those that now are lords of Lackath, preded an enimie of his
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: To prey; to plunder.
prede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹiːd/
Etymology: From Middle English prede, from Latin praeda. Doublet of prey.
Senses: examples: text: bringing of the prede homeward
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
glosses: prey; plunder; booty
staffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staffes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of staff.
cesti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cestus
spatule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatules
Senses: glosses: A spatulate formation.
social psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social psychologies
Senses: examples: text: Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.
ref: 2000, Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White, Self, Identity, and Social Movements, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.
ref: 2006, Mohammad Qadeer, Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, →ISBN:
text: It is essential to identify user perspectives and relate their social psychology to meaningful trust determinants in the system to be automated.
ref: 2014, Sjouke Mauw, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Security and Trust Management, →ISBN:
text: The roots of black crime are threefold: a different social psychology resulting from blacks' exclusion from the dominant experience with factory, bureaucracy, and schooling; a heritage of economic and other insecurities; and a long and complex experience with criminal activity.
ref: 2015, Orlando Patterson, The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: The interplay between the individual and society.
glosses: The study of how people and groups interact.
ruote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuˈəʊ.teɪ/
ipa: /ɹuˈoʊ.teɪ/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian ruote (“wheels”). Doublet of rotor and rota.
Senses: synonyms: wagon wheels
glosses: A type of pasta in the shape of a spoked wheel.
fossette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˌfɔˈsɛt/
ipa: /ˌfɑˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: fossettes
Etymology: From French, a diminutive of fosse (“a fosse”).
Senses: glosses: A little hollow; a dimple.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small, deep-centred ulcer of the transparent cornea.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small depression in the crown of a tooth.
Derived terms: fossettid
metafossette
parafossette
postfossette
prefossette
social psychologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social psychology
pizzaioli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzaiolo
boccali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boccale
scatole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skatole.
tartufi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartufo
zite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ziti.
ripieni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripieno
finocchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭnŏʹkē
enpr: fĭnōʹkē
ipa: /fɪˈnɒkiː/
ipa: /fɪˈnəʊkiː/
homophone: finoki
Forms: form: fenocchi
form: fenochi
form: fenochii
form: finocchie
form: finocchii
form: finochi
form: finochii
Senses: glosses: plural of finocchio
peperoncini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian peperoncini.
Senses: examples: text: Stir in sugar, parsley and peperoncini.
ref: 2007 February 21, “Recipe: Zappa Family Spaghetti Sauce”, in New York Times:
glosses: A spicy variety of pepper used in Greek and Italian cuisine.
pecorini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pecorino
amorini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorino
padroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padrone
carbonari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonari
Etymology: From Italian carbonari, plural of carbonaro.
Senses: examples: text: I saw Sir Hudson Lowe standing on the same rug with one of Buonaparte's old generals; one of our Tory members, to whom innovation is the 'word of fear,' who considers anarchy and annihilation as synonymous, shrinking in the doorway from the carbonari atmosphere of General Pepi.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: member or members of the carboneria secret society
cappucci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cappuccio
nimbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nimbuses
Senses: glosses: plural of nimbus
noie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: noies
form: noying
form: noied
form: noied
Senses: examples: text: Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what.
 If noise ye heare,
 Looke all be cleare:
 Least drabs doe noie thee,
 And theeues destroie thee.
ref: 1878, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 166:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of noy.
bocci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bocce.
calami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamus
sila-explosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪləˌɛksˈpləʊsɪv/
ipa: /ˌsɪləˌɛksˈpləʊsɪv/
Forms: form: sila-explosives
Etymology: From silicon + explosive.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several highly unstable explosives that are the silicon analogues of existing carbon ones.
canini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caninus
island of stability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: islands of stability
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A grouping of isotopes of some transuranic elements that are predicted to be more stable than others due to having filled shells of protons and neutrons.
Related terms: island of inversion
sea of instability
continent of stability
impresari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impresario
ciabatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciabatta
PCDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin.
dibenzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibenzos
Etymology: From di- + benzo.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two benzo groups in a single molecule
Derived terms: deptropine
dibenzepin
cippi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cippus
manchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manchis
Etymology: From a Mapudungun word.
Senses: examples: text: Again, the Manchi, or medicine-man of the Peguenches and other Indian tribes in the Argentine Provinces, is skilled in the use of herbs.
ref: 1876, Carl Engel, “Music and Medicine”, in Musical Myths and Facts, volume II, London: Novello, Ewer & Co., […], pages 89–90:
glosses: A Pehuenche medicine man.
PBDE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polybrominated diphenyl ether.
PCDF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polychlorinated dibenzofuran.
cognati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: examples: text: with the consent of her cognati
ref: 1858, George Long, M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes:
topics: law
glosses: relatives by the mother's side
coloni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonus
sterne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sterner
form: sternest
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stern.
sterne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stern.
colpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colpus
Derived terms: apocolpial
apocolpium
tazze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tazza
correi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏʹrĭī
enpr: kərēʹī
ipa: /ˈkɒɹɪaɪ/
ipa: /kəˈɹiːaɪ/
Forms: form: correis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corrie.
correi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏʹrĭī
enpr: kərēʹī
ipa: /ˈkɒɹɪaɪ/
ipa: /kəˈɹiːaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of correus
cortili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cortile
intermezzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian intermezzi
Senses: glosses: plural of intermezzo; Alternative form of intermezzos.
clingfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋfɪlm/
Forms: form: clingfilms
form: cling film
Etymology: From cling + film.
Senses: glosses: Light, transparent plastic film used as a wrapping for food, etc.
Synonyms: word: glad wrap
word: Saran Wrap
Derived terms: clingfilmed
glad wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Glad Wrap, a trade mark owned by the Union Carbide Corporation.
Senses: examples: text: ‘My best one was using a Coles bread cake,’ says Ngareta Rossell. ‘You could cut it in half, take out the centre, put in a phone or charger wrapped in glad wrap, put the top back on and wrap it all up in glad wrap so the guards could see what it was.’
ref: 2008, Margot O'Neill, Blind Conscience, page 97:
text: Cover with a piece of glad wrap or a large tea towel and let stand in a warm place until doubled in size, 1 to 2 hours.
ref: 2010, Lukas Volger, Veggie Burgers Every Which Way, page 118:
text: Wrap each portion in glad wrap and place in freezer.
ref: 2011, Patricia Murray-Chute, From Dinosaur to Dynamite: The Secret of Joyful Sex, page 123:
glosses: Thin plastic film used as a wrap for food, etc.
Synonyms: clingfilm
Saran Wrap
good to go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡʉd.təˈɢo/
Senses: examples: text: I replaced the broken spring and now the toaster is good to go.
text: On paper, the Japanese had come out on top of the engagement; granted, Hiei had taken a worrying level of damage, but Kirishima was still intact, the light cruiser Nagara and four destroyers were likewise good to go, and four more were damaged but operational. Apart from Hiei, only three destroyers were missing from the roll call.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:24 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022:
glosses: Ready for use or normal operation, especially after repair or renewal.
raw_tags: of a thing
examples: text: The doctor examined me and says I'm good to go.
glosses: Ready for some specific task or ready for normal activity, especially after preparation or recovery.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: hot to trot
raring to go
yomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒmp/
ipa: /jɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: yomps
Etymology: 1980s British military slang. Unknown origin.
Senses: qualifier: Royal Marines military slang
glosses: A long-distance march carrying full kit.
yomp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒmp/
ipa: /jɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: yomps
form: yomping
form: yomped
form: yomped
Etymology: 1980s British military slang. Unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Whilst 3 Para and 45 Commando yomped across East Falkland, accompanied by the two Troops of Blues and Royals, 42 Commando were helicoptered forward to Mount Kent and 2 Para to Bluff Cove.
ref: 1989, Derek Oakley, The Falklands Military Machine, page 155:
text: She gestured out of the window wall. "Unless it was a real professional who yomped in over the fields, the only way to get here is to drive through the village. And believe me, that's not so easy."
ref: 2001, Peter F. Hamilton, The Suspect Genome, part 2:
text: He was French, and spoke in damning terms of the 'contre-la-montre' walkers who yomped in before lunch-time and yomped out again before dawn
ref: 2006, Tim Moore, Travels with My Donkey, page 133:
glosses: To make a strenuous long-distance march.
Synonyms: sense: to make a march
word: trek
yomps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒmps/
rhymes: -ɒmps
Senses: glosses: plural of yomp
yomps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒmps/
rhymes: -ɒmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yomp
afuera
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Spanish afuera, the English definition originates from a video where Javier Milei removes the names of government agencies off a board.
Senses: examples: text: South Africa needs a milei!
Socialist ANC? Afuera!
Communist EFF? AFUERA!
LONG LIVE FUCKING FREEDOM!
ref: 2024 April 15, @Zanitus, Twitter:
text: Javier Milei has been officially inaugurated as president of Argentina.
Our plan is to apply his plan for Argentina in this video to US agencies.
IRS, Fed, NSA, DHS, FBI, CIA, DOE, CDC, FDA, FEC...AFUERA!
ref: 2023 November 12, @LPNational, Twitter:
topics: government
politics
glosses: used aggressively towards leftist and statist views as a form of get out!
raw_tags: used by libertarians
wikipedia: Javier Milei
umbrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrettes
Etymology: French ombrette.
Senses: examples: text: We cannot see that the haer-head is exposed to any greater present dangers than are its cousins, or that it gains much or anything from its superior comforts and defenses — that is, the umbrettes do not seem to increase faster than do the other African waders.
ref: 1906, Ernest Ingersoll, The wit of the wild, page 235:
glosses: Synonym of hammerkop (Scopus umbretta, a bird)
synonyms: word: hammerkop
extra: Scopus umbretta, a bird
petti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛt.ɪ/
Forms: form: pettis
Etymology: Clipping of petticoat.
Senses: glosses: A petticoat.
significate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkət/
Forms: form: significates
Etymology: From Latin significatus, past participle of significare.
Senses: examples: text: “Britain is an island;” “all tyrants are miserable; ” “no miser is rich; ” are universal propositions, and their subjects are therefore said to be distrubted. being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its Significates: but, “some islands are fertile;” “all tyrants are not assassinated;" are Particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their Significates
ref: 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of several things signified by a common term.
Related terms: significand
signified
passaggi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passaggio
cunette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuːˈnɛt/
ipa: /kjuːˈnɛt/
ipa: /kuː-/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: cunettes
Etymology: From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lacūna (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Senses: examples: text: Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]
ref: 1773, “Progress and State of the Works beyond the Great Ditch”, in Further Report (being the Eighth) from the Committee of Secrecy Appointed by the House of Commons, Assembled in Westminster in the Sixth Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, to Enquire into the State of the East India Company, London: Sold by T[homas] Evans, at No. 54, in Pater-noster Row; and W. Davis, the corner of Sackville-Street, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 234:
text: Nor was anything done at San Pablo except the cutting of two cunettes necessary for working with heavy machinery, and the projection of a plane for a passage under the Panama Railway, by which the excavations made at K. 35.700 could be carried to the banks of the Chagres.
ref: 1889, Charles Rogers, Intelligence Report of the Panama Canal (50th Congress, 1st session, 1887–1888; House; Miscellaneous Document), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 11:
text: In principle, cunettes are carried out with a view to substituting poor load bearing and highly compressible strata with sand with a view to a) reducing residual settlements and b) improving stability.
ref: 1996, Centre for Civil Engineering Research and Codes, “Construction Methods”, in Building on Soft Soils: Design and Construction of Earthstructures both on and into Highly Compressible Subsoils of Low Bearing Capacity, Rotterdam; Brookfield, Vt.: A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema, →ISBN, page 164:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
wikipedia: Feyzin
Fort de Feyzin
viole da gamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viola da gamba
matri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin māter.
Senses: glosses: mother
Synonyms: materno-
Related terms: matr-
matro-
dipinti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipinto
variable costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: plural of variable cost
curari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curare.
matr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: matronym
glosses: Form of matro- used before a vowel.
arvicole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arvicoles
Etymology: From Latin arvum (“field”) + colo (“I inhabit”); compare Italian arvicola.
Senses: examples: text: A single species, A. quasiater, is known from Mexico. Evotomys rutilus, a form very closely related to the arvicoles, inhabits the circumpolar regions of both hemispheres.
ref: 1887, Angelo Heilprin, The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals, page 356:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: field mouse (US, Canada), vole
wainscots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒts/
Senses: glosses: plural of wainscot
wainscots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wainscot
Christo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: Christiano-
Etymology: From Christ + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Christ.
glosses: Christian.
elenchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈlɛŋ.kaɪ/
/-ki/
Senses: glosses: plural of elenchus
relazioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relazione
bilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + lineal.
Senses: glosses: Tracing descent through both the patriline and the matriline.
Synonyms: duolineal
poesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poesies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poesy.
dinosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Through camera trickery, dinosauri and other beasts of the prehistoric past live again.
ref: 1925 February 21, “Goings On”, in The New Yorker, volume 1, number 1, New York City, New York, United States: F-R Pub. Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: plural of dinosaur
wainscotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪd/
Forms: form: wainscoted
Etymology: From wainscot + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Well, the Miss Willises took a lease of the house; it was fresh painted and papered from top to bottom: the paint inside was all wainscoted; the marble all cleaned; […]
ref: 1835 June 18, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Parish”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume I, London: John Macrone, […], published 1836, →OCLC, chapter III (The Four Sisters), page 25:
glosses: Having a wainscot.
wainscotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪd/
Forms: form: wainscoted
Etymology: From wainscot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wainscot
wainscoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Well, the Miss Willises took a lease of the house; it was fresh painted and papered from top to bottom: the paint inside was all wainscoted; the marble all cleaned; […]
ref: 1835 June 18, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Parish”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume I, London: John Macrone, […], published 1836, →OCLC, chapter III (The Four Sisters), page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
wainscoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪnskɒtɪd/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wainscotted.
cumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.mjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: cumulates
form: cumulating
form: cumulated
form: cumulated
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: synonyms: amass
heap up
see Thesaurus:pile up
glosses: To accumulate; to amass.
glosses: To be accumulated.
Derived terms: adcumulate
cumulative
orthocumulate
cumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːmjʊlət/
Forms: form: more cumulate
form: most cumulate
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.
examples: text: A cumulate or heaped fulness, when it overflows the continent.
ref: 1633, Thomas Adams, A commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter, chapter II:
glosses: Cumulated.
raw_tags: as a participle
cumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumulates
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma by either settling or floating.
panelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəlɪŋ/
Forms: form: panellings
form: paneling
Senses: examples: text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
glosses: The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively.
panelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəlɪŋ/
Forms: form: paneling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of panel
paneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panelling.
paneling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænəlɪŋ/
Forms: form: panelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panelling.
almae matres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælmaɪ ˈmætɹɛs/
Senses: examples: text: Instead, he gave himself over to a course in books; through a long life they were his unnumbered and always unforgotten almae matres.
ref: 1936, American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography, page 463:
text: His three happiest almae matres in New York were the Fishing Gazette, the New York Tribune and the New York Times.
ref: 1977, Christopher Darlington Morley, Ironing Board, page 177:
text: Whether a professor will help you learn cannot be revealed by the number and prestige of his or her almae matres.
ref: 2000, Donald Asher, Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different, page 9:
glosses: plural of alma mater
Shaquille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A fanciful spelling of Arabic شَكِيل (šakīl, “handsome”).
Senses: examples: text: This comes after the center topped the charts last year, becoming the first player at the position since four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal to win the scoring title and the first center to average over 30 PPG in 40 years – Embiid averaged 30.6.
ref: 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić vs. Giannis Antetokounmpo: What’s the latest in the race to become the NBA MVP?”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage.
maters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mater
matres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mater
Big Muddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Muddy
Senses: examples: text: The roar of the river announced its presence, but right up on it the Big Muddy felt peaceful and quiet.
ref: 2024, Percival Everett, James, Picador (2025), page 220:
glosses: Nickname for the Mississippi: a river in the United States.
glosses: Nickname for the Missouri: a river in the United States.
Derived terms: knee-deep in the Big Muddy
Magnolia State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Magnolia State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Mississippi: a state of the United States.
bilateral descent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilateral descents
Senses: glosses: Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.
examples: text: Only by bilateral descent is a boy related to his mother's grandfather.
glosses: Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.
procelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procelles
Etymology: From Middle French procelle, from Latin procella (“storm”), from procello (“to throw violently forward”), from pro- (“pro-: forward”) + cello (“to rise, to tower”).
Senses: glosses: A storm, a tempest.
categorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch categorie and French catégorie.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of category.
frati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frate
rilievi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rilievo
decani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkeɪnaɪ/
Forms: form: Dec.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decānī (“of the dean”).
Senses: examples: text: You want a few more daffs on the decani side […]
ref: 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors:
qualifier: church architecture
glosses: Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
decani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkeɪnaɪ/
Forms: form: Dec.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decānī (“of the dean”).
Senses: examples: text: All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.
ref: 1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan, page 105:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The higher of two choral voice parts sung when a part splits into two; traditionally sung by members of the choir on the decani side.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That half of the choir singing decani parts, collectively.
committer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: committers
Etymology: From commit + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
examples: text: The ſin of many men Is within you, and thus much I ſuppose
That if all committers stood in ranke,
They'd make a lane[…] <br<And with their spaces reach from hence to hell.
ref: 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:
glosses: A fornicator.
examples: text: For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: A person who commits a crime; perpetrator.
gite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʒiːt/
Forms: form: gites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gîte.
gite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʒiːt/
/ɡiːt/
/ʒiːt/
Forms: form: gites
form: gyte
Etymology: Unclear; perhaps related to Old French guite.
Senses: examples: text: Whan she doth her aray / And gyrdeth in her gytes : / Stytched and pranked wyth pletes.
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng, section 68:
text: Thy brodred gyte makes thee a gallant gyrle.
ref: 1567, Turberville, Epithets & Sonnets (1837), 295
text: Done is thy pride, dim is thy glorious gite, / Slaine is thy prince in this unhappy fight.
ref: 1589, George Peele, Tale Troy, 558/1:
text: How suddenly declineth David's pride! / As doth the daylight settle in the west, / So dim is David's glory and his gite. / Die, David; for to thee is left no seed.
ref: a. 1597, George Peele, David & Bethsabe, II, iii:
text: When Phœbus rose, he left his golden weed,
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liv
roman: And don'd a gite in deepest purple dy'd.
glosses: A gown.
toccata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈkɑːtə/
Forms: form: toccatas
form: toccate
Etymology: From Italian toccata.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music (usually for a keyboard instrument) designed to emphasise the dexterity of the performer.
Related terms: toccatella
toccatina
toccate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toccata
speed loader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed loaders
form: speedloader
Senses: examples: text: With a speed loader, a practiced user can dump and reload their revolver's cylinder surprisingly fast — even, in some cases, no slower than someone can swap magazines in a semiauto.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: charger
glosses: A pressed metal (or plastic) clip, holding a set number of cartridges for a firearm, and used for rapid reloading of the weapon or its magazine.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: turboload
turboloader
glosses: A software technique for loading programs (e.g. from cassette tape) more quickly than normally possible.
Related terms: autoloader
handloader
reloader
avvocati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avvocato
autostrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autostrades
Senses: examples: text: He also had business in several foreign countries and I recall that he mentioned to me at one time a plan for an autostrade across the Polish corridor.
ref: 1948, Pierre Laval, The Unpublished Diary of Pierre Laval, page 37:
text: An autostrade at last where we could make up a bit for lost time!
ref: 1949, Clara Longworth Comtesse de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen: The Story of My Life, page 80:
text: Granted, there's no seatbelt, so it could have been a James Dean tragic scenario in the event of an autostrade collision.
ref: 2015, Suze Clemitson, Ride the Revolution: The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling, →ISBN:
glosses: A highway in southern Europe.
autostrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian autostrade.
Senses: glosses: plural of autostrada
conversazioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversazione