cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
daft laddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daft laddies
Senses: glosses: A stupid person
glosses: A person feigning stupidity
Derived terms: daft laddie question
daft laddie question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daft laddie questions
Senses: examples: I'm not immersed in Junior football history, and though I've grown to love it over the years I feel I'm missing a lot of stuff that everyone just seems to know. So I thought the off season was a good time to ask my daft laddie questions. -- Forum post 17/06/2017
glosses: A question posed to a group by a person feigning stupidity with the aim of making sure all aspects of a subject have been considered.
Coordinate terms: daft lassie question
devil's advocate
Related terms: Socratic irony
daft laddie questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daft laddie question
daft laddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daft laddie
tax-payer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax-payers
Senses: examples: text: The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
ref: 1848, J. S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy:
text: On the closing night of the session, on that carnival night of confused, headlong, blinded, bedlamite legislation, which costs the tax-payer so dear, Mr. Hollowbread went to bed from his protracted vigils and labors with aching loins and a dizzy sconce.
ref: 1875, J[ohn] W[illiam] De Forest, “Mr. Hollowbread in the Bosphorus”, in Playing the Mischief. A Novel., New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 172, column 1:
text: In other words the hard-earned money of tax-payers like you and me who sweat it out 365 days a year not only to keep our body and soul together but also to keep our sciencemen in form.
ref: 1991, The Astrological Magazine:
text: ‘I'm just not interested in the whole class crap that seems to needle you and all the tax-payers,’ the teenager tells some ‘pre-historic monster’ of an adult, with a ‘cool’ snobbishness which MacInnes's companion on many of his Notting Hill sorties, the late Professor Richard Wollheim, compared to the ‘Sang Froid’ of Baudelaire's Dandy as he cruised through Fin-de-Siecle Paris with a similar sensibility, or lack of it.
ref: 2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of taxpayer.
tax-payers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax-payer
North Wingfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4165).
Jaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jazas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
BFCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BFCMs
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of Black Friday Cyber Monday.
Annarbour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 1824, Ann + arbour. See Ann Arbor.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Ann Arbor.
Cvetko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cvetkos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Edendale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in eastern Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: A township in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
glosses: The historical name for a district in Los Angeles, California, United States.
corrodier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹəʊdɪə/
Forms: form: corrodiers
Etymology: From Latin corrodium, corredium, conredium (“furniture, provision”).
Senses: examples: text: Outside the minster walls were the cottages of the corrodiers, or folk who, for a corrody, or life pittance from the abbey, had given away their lands.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 20, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 279:
glosses: One receiving a corrody, or allowance from the Church, in return for previous payment or service (usually in the Middle Ages)
araneophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: araneophages
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any araneophagous organism.
araneophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being araneophagous.
araneophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araneophage
nonquasianalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasianalytic.
Senses: glosses: Not quasianalytic.
nonquasianalyticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being nonquasianalytic.
non-quasi-continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasicontinuous.
nonquasiconformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasiconformal.
Senses: glosses: Not quasiconformal.
nonquasiconvex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasiconvex.
Senses: glosses: Not quasiconvex.
nonquasifree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasifree.
Senses: glosses: Not quasifree.
nonquasigeostrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasigeostrophic.
Senses: glosses: Not quasigeostrophic.
nonquasilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasilocal.
nonquasilocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being nonquasilocal.
nonquasimonotone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasimonotone.
nonquasineutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasineutral.
Senses: glosses: Not quasineutral.
nonquasistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasistatic.
Senses: glosses: Not quasistatic.
nonquasistationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasistationary.
Senses: glosses: Not quasistationary.
ungivenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ungiven + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being ungiven.
non-quasi-steady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasisteady.
nonquasiuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasiuniform.
Senses: glosses: Not quasiuniform.
quasiuniformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being quasiuniform.
nonquasiunipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasiunipotent.
Senses: glosses: Not quasiunipotent.
paramed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parameds
Etymology: Clipping of paramedic.
Senses: examples: text: It is when parameds get into critical care that serious questions arise about delegation
ref: 1976, John W. Field, Group Practice Development: A Practical Handbook, page 116:
text: The parameds often took several minutes or longer to arrive back then.
ref: 2022, M. Warren Cox, Ancestors in My DNA:
glosses: A paramedic.
parameds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramed
dashes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dash off
dashing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dash off
dashed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dash off
quasimonotone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting weak monotonicity.
nonquasibinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasibinary.
Senses: glosses: Not quasibinary.
nonquasiclassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasiclassical.
nonquasilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasilinear.
Derived terms: nonquasilinearity
nonquasiperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + quasiperiodic.
Senses: glosses: Not quasiperiodic.
valet de chambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valets de chambre
Senses: examples: text: […] he came to this country in the ſervice of an Engliſh gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man’s being overtaken with liquor on the laſt St. Andrew’s day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.
ref: 1789 May 27, [John Moore], “Buchanan’s Letter”, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 241:
text: In order to be sure that it was not some illusion, they called their valets de chambre; but no sooner had these appeared with their flambeaux, than the spectre disappeared.
ref: 1850, Augustine Calmet, translated by Henry Christmas, “Examination of the Apparition of a Pretended Spectre”, in The Phantom World: or, The Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 237:
text: Toward nightfall her valet de chambre brought in a letter that he announced portentously came from the grande duchesse of Berg and Cleves.
ref: 1973, Elizabeth Mayhew, My Son Charles, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1976, page 183:
glosses: Alternative form of valet-de-chambre.
valets de chambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valet de chambre
grandes duchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grande duchesse
Blue Java
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Javas
Senses: glosses: A hardy, cold-tolerant banana cultivar, native to Southeast Asia, with sweet aromatic fruit and a silvery blue color when unripe.
quasisteady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Almost steady.
quasiunipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Almost unipotent.
-latrous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -latry, -later + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Forming adjectives: worshipping.
non-quasi-Newton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasi-Newton.
non-quasiprimitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not quasiprimitive.
nonquasiconvexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being nonquasiconvex.
backwashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being backwashed.
demono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: Demon.
back-washable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backwashable.
acid-washable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being acid-washed.
tieable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tieable
form: most tieable
form: tiable
form: tyable
Etymology: From tie + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be tied.
tyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tyable
form: most tyable
Senses: examples: text: […] tying intricate knots in every portion of them that was tyable; […]
ref: 1864, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 28, page 341:
text: The idea is that you can tie down Gulliver with a thousand threads. But I don't think the Soviet Gulliver is quite so tyable and these threads don't strike me as being able to hold.
ref: 1978, United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, The Soviet Union: Internal Dynamics of Foreign Policy, Present and Future: Hearings... (page 246)
glosses: Alternative form of tieable.
race record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race records
Senses: examples: text: It is a moot point, however, whether Black Swan would have been more successful had there not been segregated markets and had the white-owned record labels not already established the idea of what a race record should be.
ref: 2016, Richard Osborne, Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record:
text: […] Blind Lemon Jefferson would someday be a "race record" star whose music eventually reached hundreds of thousands of eager listeners some fourteen years after their initial meeting in Dallas.
ref: 2023, Alan Govenar, Kip Lornell, See That My Grave is Kept Clean:
glosses: A musical recording featuring a black performer.
race records
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race record
coalwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A granular waste product from coal processing
coalwashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coal + washing.
Senses: glosses: The process of cleaning coal by separating undesirable materials using a fluid.
neurostunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurostunners
Etymology: From neuro- + stunner.
Senses: examples: text: "She fries my synapses with a neurostunner whose insurance warranty ran out around the time of the Skytube, then she asks if I'm okay," he said, attempting to laugh but coughing instead.
ref: 1993, Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background:
text: I grabbed the neurostunner from the drawer — the kind allowed in the house, but not beyond its doors — and hurried toward the front door, querying the system.
ref: 2004, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Flash, page 178:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A weapon that stuns a person by affecting their nervous system.
neurostunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurostunner
LRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LR
Thomas's nectar bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomas's nectar bats
Senses: glosses: Hsunycteris thomasi, a bat of South and Central America.
hyperketonuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A medical condition in which an elevated level of ketone bodies is present in the urine.
Dashe's nectar bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dashe's nectar bats
Senses: glosses: Hsunycteris dashe, an American bat.
Golden Banana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Golden Banana
Etymology: Named from its shape on a map.
Senses: synonyms: Sun Belt
coordinate_terms: Blue Banana
glosses: An area of higher population density lying between Cartagena in the west and Genoa in the east along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
and then everyone clapped
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of and then everyone on the bus clapped.
screech-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screech-ins
Etymology: See screech (“rum”).
Senses: glosses: An informal ceremony introducing a person to the culture of Newfoundland, often involving drinking rum and kissing a codfish.
screech-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screech-in
ornithologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithologers
Etymology: From Latin ornithologus + -er.
Senses: examples: text: So although Galen ſaith that it is harder, than that of the Partridg, Pigeon, or Henne, &c; yet where he ſpeakes of meats of good and bad juyce, he affirmeth the former, as alſo that it’s neither thin nor groſſe, and Savonarola preferreth it before the Buſtard or Thruſh, ſo Bapt Fier. Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it.
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, Πανζωορυκτολογια. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, […], Oxford, Oxon: […] Hen: Hall, for Jos: Godwin, page 134:
text: You see, he had killed hundreds and hundreds of them, and that ’s the way to find out about birds. That ’s the way people does that writes books about birds, and loves them so that they ’ll go hungry and tired and take any amount of trouble to find a new bird and kill it. Their name is ornithologers, and I could have been an ornithologer myself, because I always loved birds and creatures; […]
ref: 1893 December, Huck Finn [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, chapter V, page 124, column 2:
text: Funeral services for Richard A. Herbert, 53, nationally-known ornithologer, will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Middletown, with a memorial service next Tuesday in Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York.
ref: 1960 April 12, “[Obituary] Richard A. Herbert”, in Journal-Every Evening, volume 28, number 87, Wilmington, Del., page thirty-five, column 6:
text: Ornithologers meet / FOND DU LAC — The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology will sponsor it s^([sic]) annual swan trip Sunday.
ref: 1980 April 12, Leisure & Home (The Post-Crescent), Appleton, Wis., page 11, column 2:
glosses: An ornithologist.
ornithologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ornithologer
anthologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthologers
Etymology: From anthology + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Although the anthologer Al-Bakharzi says that the passages in Abu ’l-‘Alā’s letters first called his attention to the eminence of AI-Maghribi as a writer, the phrase used is scarcely an exaggeration.
ref: 1898, D[avid] S[amuel] Margoliouth, The Letters of Abu ’l-‘Alā of Ma‘arrat al-Nu‘mān (Anecdota Oxoniensia: Texts, Documents, and Extracts Chiefly from Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Other Oxford Libraries; Semitic series, part X), Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 2:
text: A few pages of unadulterated Twain are inserted in the end, and there are unsimplified pieces by James Thurber and Dorothy Canfield, as well as many other selections, both contemporary and classic, which show that the anthologers set about their task with imagination and taste.
ref: 1953 March 7, Sloan Wilson, “Lures to Learn”, in Saturday Review, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, Inc., page 13, column 2:
text: It became extremely popular, finding its way into all sorts of anthologies. (Once a poem’s in one anthology it shoots up the charts – most anthologers only read anthologies.)
ref: 1991, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Mitchell’s Greatest Hits, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: An anthologist.
anthologers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthologer
Carhampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and West Somerset district before that (OS grid ref ST0042).
daymaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of daymare
daymared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of daymare
object clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object clauses
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A clause that is the object of a sentence.
OCE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Office of Congressional Ethics.
tren goblin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tren goblins
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An avid user of trenbolone.
tren goblins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tren goblin
Melincourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Haute-Saône department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A small village in Clyne and Melincourt community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SN8101).
superhunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhunks
Etymology: From super- + hunk.
Senses: glosses: A very physically attractive man.
superhunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superhunk
Clyne and Melincourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) in Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales. which includes the named places.
misvenerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misvenerates
form: misvenerating
form: misvenerated
form: misvenerated
Etymology: From mis- + venerate.
Senses: examples: text: Images were surely often misread — and misvenerated — and by the sixteenth century reformers were all too ready to exploit such mistakes.
ref: 2004, T. A. Ralph Evans, Lordship and Learning: Studies in Memory of Trevor Aston, page 201:
text: And lest you retort in some weak revenged-filled-yet-nevertheless-impotent insult: “twat doth a misvenerated drulltonic-for-the-masses composor of catchy-one-off, unmotley motifas sentimentally overwrought for on-screen antsy kiddie manga know-a-whiff-and-shiver of reel awe-thespian spate-conjuring awthentic squidjuice-to-bark etchying??
ref: 2013 July 14, “Epigrammatic Exuviae”, in SalmonBerg:
text: War between England and France, to be known as Queen Anne's War, had already broken out in 1701, effectively placing control of the new Queen's government under the commander of British forces, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, whose family spawned generations of everything from genocidal colonialism and international drug trafficking to Winston Churchill, that misvenerated encyclopedia of all their vices.
ref: 2015, H. Graham Lowry, How The Nation Was Won:
glosses: To venerate something or someone that does not deserve it.
misvent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misvents
form: misventing
form: misvented
form: misvented
Etymology: From mis- + vent.
Senses: examples: text: In the event of misventing the transfer cask, a worker near the cask could receive a dose by inhaling contaminated atmosphere.
ref: 2004, Proposed Idaho Spent Fuel Facility at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory in Butte County, Idaho., pages 4-28:
text: From behind Whitehead's bulk, a white plume of misvented woodsmoke escaped out the door, and Lee remembered the stench of the cabin, or smelled it again, as it made its way across the cold to him.
ref: 2008, Susan Choi, A Person of Interest:
text: They misvented the thing, or failed to vent it properly.
ref: 2014 June 1, Chris Cioffi, “Woman, daughter likely died from carbon monoxide; coroner identifies victims”, in Billings Gazette:
glosses: To vent improperly.
misvents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misvent
misventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misvent
misvented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misvent
Standarin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of standard + Mandarin.
Senses: glosses: Standard Mandarin (the official language of China and Taiwan).
femme-y
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I had been spending my allowance on Radio Electonics Quarterly ^([sic]) and sneering at those femme-y morons who read Sixteen magazine and its ilk.
ref: 1979 April 28, Maida Tilchen, “Can You Take A Joke?”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of femmy.
behind the scene
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of behind the scenes.
behind the scene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A bill before the city council to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals may possibly pass this year because of diligent behind the scene action.
ref: 1974 April 20, “News Shorts”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of behind the scenes.
gdlk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gdlkg
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of good-looking.
raw_tags: in personal advertisements
eithers
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: Nor Court nor Citie had ſhe ſeene, yeat eithers prayſe ſhe had: / So much more vvorth by hovve much leſſe ſhe vvas vn-nicely clad.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Seventh Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 173:
text: [T]he friends that in one Couch did ſleep, / Each others blade in eithers breſt do ſteep: / And all the Camp with head-les dead is ſowen, / Cut-off by Cozen-ſwords, kill'd by their owne.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. Abraham. […].] The Captaines. The IIII. Part of the III. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 499:
text: That eithers friends, adherents, and ſequels, ſhould be comprehended in the truce, and that the truce ſhould extend it ſelfe to the titlers in Britaine and their ſides; and that the Cardinals ſhould doe their beſt to obtaine abſolution from the ſentence of Interdict executed vpon the Countrey of Flaunders.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Third, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 72, page 575, column 1:
text: Ganges (that great, rich and deified river which ſay the Bannyans iſſues out of a rock at Siba formed like a Cowes head) a whiles forbad them, reſtranyning eithers fury, ſave what volleyed from the roring guns to eithers prejudice.
ref: 1638, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. […], 2nd edition, London: […] R[ichard] Bi[sho]p for Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, →OCLC, book I, page 91:
text: [A]middle of meeting waters of river Yssia and Essia river on this one of eithers lone navigable lake piously Kevin, […]
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part IV, page 605:
glosses: Any one of two or more.
Related terms: either
friend of court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friends of court
Senses: examples: text: The bill […] was introduced after the Idaho Education Association filed a "friend of court" brief against a similar Oklahoma law that was challenged by the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) […] and struck down by a tie vote of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26.
ref: 1985 April 20, Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, “Idaho House Defeats Anti-gay Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Synonym of amicus curiae.
synonyms: word: amicus curiae
purrful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more purrful
form: most purrful
Etymology: From purr + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: 8 months old, tortoise-shell coloring, have had shots, been spayed; one is forward, friendly, purrful, other is shy, withdrawn.
ref: 1979 April 28, Lester, “Two Lesbian Sister Cats (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 22:
glosses: Tending to or actively purring.
rebarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebarrel
Shit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian شيت (šīt).
Senses: glosses: A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
glosses: A village in Zanjan Province, Iran.
Sadeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian سده (“hundred”). The name refers to the remaining one hundred days and nights before the beginning of spring.
Senses: glosses: an Iranian winter festival
glosses: A village in Fars Province, Iran.
glosses: A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
Ekbatan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian اکباتان.
Senses: glosses: A town in Tehran, Iran.
g'way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Can you please g'way?
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of go away.
city upon a hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city on a hill
Etymology: From Matthew 5:14. Cited by English colonist John Winthrop in the 1630 sermon A Model of Christian Charity. In turn, Winthrop's sermon was co-opted by later figures as an example of American exceptionalism.
Senses: glosses: A morally exemplary settlement, destined by God for greater things. Most often used to refer to the United States, or more specifically the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
wikipedia: A Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop
city on a hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of city upon a hill.
springin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of springing.
letter of recall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of recall
Senses: topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: formal correspondence from one head-of-state notifying a second head-of-state that he or she is recalling their state's ambassador.
Related terms: letter of credit
letter of credence
letter of recommendation
kikeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kike + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Of course there are goyish liars, just like there are kikeish liars. You for one. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure if I'm anti-Zionist or pro-Zionist. I don't have rigid views, unlike you. My views change.
ref: 2004 May 16, Paul Abeles, “Jewish Yahoo Groups”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
text: You mean Paul Bremer was Jewish too? - I don't automatically assume that anybody with a German sounding name in the US is really Jewish. But if Bremer was actually kikeish then.... (judged by Jew, Uncle Al Schwartz's remarks that Jews were kiting checks since antiquity)... it is not surprising that billions and billions of US tax dollars that were shipped over there by the truck loads & ended up in the hands of the kikes, instead of their intended purpose for reconstruction to "win the hearts & minds" of the Iraqis..
ref: 2007 December 23, hanson, “Jewish Intelligence?”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
text: No such thing. It's a race...a SUBHUMAN Asiatic race. A jew can be any religion it wants to be...or none at all. Would Mel Brooks look any LESS kikeish if he became a Methodist?.
ref: 2017 September 9, jew pedophile Ron Jacobson, “Dishonest Solicitor”, in uk.legal (Usenet):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of Jews.
glosses: Miserly, greedy, stingy.
Related terms: heebish
cottage-core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cottagecore.
solarpunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solarpunk
anticholesterolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anticholesterolemic.
anticholesteremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anticholesterolemic.
antiischaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiischemic.
anti-academic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiacademic.
anti-academic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-academics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiacademic.
anti-ischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiischemic.
anti-ischaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiischemic.
anticholesteraemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anticholesteremic.
dysglycaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dysglycemic.
quasi-academic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling academic work.
beta quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stable form of quartz above 573° C.
beta-quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beta quartz.
quartz-beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beta quartz.
cytocenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytocenters
Senses: glosses: Synonym of centrosome.
synonyms: word: centrosome
watercressy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watercressy
form: most watercressy
Etymology: From watercress + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Did these French trout expect me to dress my fly in garlic or tomato sauce before they would look at it? For that trout must be in such a stream—so clear, so sparkling, so flowing, so curvy, so watercressy—was as clear as that the Republic is a dreadful come-down from the Empire.
ref: 1884 November 15, Cotswold Isys [pseudonym; Richard H. Glover], “Trouting in Normandy”, in R[obert] B[right] Marston, editor, The Fishing Gazette; Devoted to Angling, River, Lake, and Sea Fishing and Fish Culture, volume IX, London: […] Charles William Bradley & Co. […], page 237, column 1:
text: Two quick hot soups . . . one’s garlicky, one’s watercressy / Those long-time salad favorites, watercress and garlic, take the leading role in these two quick soups for fall.
ref: 1981 October, Sunset: The Magazine of Western Living, volume 167, number 4, Menlo Park, Calif.: Lane Publishing Co., →ISSN, page 216:
text: Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.
ref: 1989, Allan Gurganus, “Black, White, and Lilac”, in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, book two (Time Does That), page 231:
text: Perched up there she could gaze down on the rivulet bubbling through its green watercressy bed, with soft water-meadows, a grazing pony or two, and the fields rising in a smoothly, well-ordered chalk-country way to the near horizon.
ref: 2001, Jane Brown, “Carrington”, in Spirits of Place: Five Famous Lives in Their Landscape, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Now we’ll hear all the newses from Ballyvadlea – births, deaths, marriages, childer an’ by-childer, the price of eggs, turkeys, hins, guinea-hins, what the priest roared outa him last Sunda, various unrests, another landlord shot, a bullock maimed, who won the hurlin’ at Mullinahone, who was stretched an’ who The Hayro, an’ who put the bad eye on them geese in the meado’ other side o’ the watercressy strayme there …
ref: 2005, Tom Mac Intyre, What Happened Bridgie Cleary: A Play, Dublin: New Island/New Drama, →ISBN, page 57:
synonyms: watercressed
glosses: With watercress.
bathyseism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathyseisms
Senses: glosses: A deep earthquake.
diskoseismology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of seismic oscillations of accretion disks around black holes.
macroseismology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of macroseisms.
unnuancedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unnuancedly
form: most unnuancedly
Etymology: From unnuanced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unnuanced manner; without nuance.
paleoseismogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Paleoseismic and geological.
concert band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concert bands
Senses: glosses: A musical ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally others; and generally playing light and popular music, marches, transcriptions of orchestral arrangements, etc.
Related terms: concert music
concert bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concert band
Wilson's bird of paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson's birds of paradise
form: Wilson's bird-of-paradise
Etymology: Named after British ornithologist Edward Wilson, who procured a trade specimen.
Senses: glosses: Diphyllodes respublica, a passerine bird of the family Paradisaeidae.
clinomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The deliberate or unintentional simplification, alteration, or amplification of the term for a medical condition, usually for dramatic effect.
entertrainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of entertainment + train.
Senses: examples: text: […] entertrainment holds over formal, by-the-book training. For instance, many entertainers keep attention levels high by using energizers — brief, playful activities that move people around.
ref: 1996, Training and Development Yearbook, pages 4-21:
text: In-flotilla training should take place at every flotilla meeting. A half hour of every meeting agenda should be set aside for the "entertrainment" of all members. It should be interactive and enjoyable.
ref: 1998, Navigator: The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Magazine, page 24:
text: […] entertrainment. That is, we tend to entertain as we train, and our audience members both expect and appreciate this. We interact with the audience, smile a lot, add a bit of humor, and inject some fun.
ref: 2013, Gayle Cotton, Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere, page 21:
text: If you do and practiced Entertrainment 1 and 2 very well, you can go straight forward to the Entertrainment 3 in my next chapter. You already made the strong foundation for starting your Positive & Powerful & Happiness!™ Life Style!
ref: 2016, Carolyn A. W. van Ravenhorst, Positive Power & Happiness!:
topics: business
glosses: Training designed to be entertaining for the person being trained.
côteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: côteaux
Etymology: From French côteau.
Senses: examples: text: In every direction along the côteaux which skirt this beautiful drive, we find country-houses, whose situations are judiciously chosen in reference to the views and freedom from atmospheric inconveniences.
ref: 1842, A[lexander] Taylor, On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees, on Disease. […], London: John W. Parker, […], page 334:
text: […] thence, at fourteen miles from the St. Lawrence it reaches the Kempt Road near the sixteenth mile post, after traversing a series of côteaux of gentle acclivity, excepting that nearest to Paquet’s Brook, which is objectionable on account of its steepness, but could not be avoided; […]
ref: 1858 February 22, G. F. Baillargé, “I.”, in General Report of the Commissioners of Public Works, for the Year Ending 31st December, 1857: Furnished in Compliance with the Provisions of the Act, 9 Vict. Cap. 7, Toronto, Ont.: John Lovell, […], page 74:
text: The côteaux lay smiling in the dewy sparkle of the morning sunshine, and all glad and beautiful with the coming spring.
ref: 1876, [Maria M. Grant], “One Word—Farewell”, in The Sun-Maid. A Romance., volume III, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], page 53:
glosses: Rare form of coteau.
côteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French côteaux.
Senses: glosses: plural of côteau
cotechinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotechino
rmb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pseudo-acronym of remember.
vibroseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to seismic vibrations.
volcanoseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to seismic activity caused by volcanoes.
SHIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Social Health Insurance Fund.
NSSF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Social Security Fund.
qualifier: Tanzania
glosses: Initialism of National Social Security Fund.
glosses: Initialism of National Social Security Fund.
KCSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.
blotter art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Marc McCloud is a San Francisco artist and former art professor who started collecting blotter art—printed tabs or sheets of paper LSD over forty years ago.
ref: 2018, James Oroc, The New Psychedelic Revolution: The Genesis of the Visionary Age, Park Street Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An art form printed on blotter acid (small sheets of blotting paper infused with LSD), often with bright, contrasting colors and repeating patterns.
wokens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of woken
peneseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: pene- + seismic
Senses: glosses: Of a region, having infrequent earthquakes.
Dersingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England, just north of Sandringham (OS grid ref TF6830).
304
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 304s
Etymology: The number 304, when displayed on a seven-segment display (e.g. of a calculator), looks like "Hoe" when viewed upside down. See also calculator spelling.
Senses: examples: text: On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).
ref: 2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post:
text: When a woman is done with her 304 phase, […]
ref: 2023 December 28, @coachaksingh, Threads:
glosses: A ho, a sexually promiscuous woman, a prostitute
wikipedia: calculator spelling
Derived terms: 304tok
kirktown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirktowns
Etymology: From kirk + town.
Senses: glosses: A small town or village in the vicinity of a parish church.
kirktowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirktown
abandonwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abandonware
klip-salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klip-salamanders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cape girdled lizard (“Cordylus cordylus”).
synonyms: word: Cape girdled lizard
extra: Cordylus cordylus
klip-salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klip-salamander
k'ri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: k'ris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kere.
k'ris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of k'ri
kumarahou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: The plant Olearia colensoi.
glosses: The plant Pomaderris kumeraho.
kvutza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kvutzas
form: kvutzot
form: kvutzoth
form: kevutza
form: kevutzah
form: kvutzah
Etymology: From Hebrew קבוצה (literally “group”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: kibbutz
glosses: A Jewish communal settlement, primarily in Israel before it became a modern state.
kvutzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kvutzahs
form: kvutzot
form: kvutzoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kvutza.
kevutza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevutzas
form: kevutzot
form: kevutzoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kvutza.
kevutzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kevutzahs
form: kevutzot
form: kevutzoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kvutza.
kvutzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kvutza
kvutzot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kvutza
glosses: plural of kvutzah
kvutzoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kvutza
glosses: plural of kvutzah
kvutzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kvutzah
kevutzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevutza
kevutzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevutzah
kevutzot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevutza
glosses: plural of kevutzah
kevutzoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kevutza
glosses: plural of kevutzah
cinevideodensitometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cinevideodensitometry.
mouthpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthpipes
Etymology: From mouth + pipe.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of leadpipe.
synonyms: word: leadpipe
leadpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leadpipes
form: lead-pipe
Etymology: From lead + pipe.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: mouthpipe
glosses: The pipe or tube of a brass instrument into which the mouthpiece is placed.
Related terms: lead-pipe cinch
mouthpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouthpipe
leadpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadpipe
rabbit tobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium.
laryngovideostroboscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Laryngeal videostroboscopy.
laryngostrobovideography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Laryngoscopy, stroboscopy and videography combined.
lamb's-quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lamb's quarters.
lip-deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Let us bring no more vain oblations, nor the empty formality of a lip-deep service.
ref: 1870, Edward Garbett, The Soul's Life: Its Commencement, Progress and Maturity, page 115:
coordinate_terms: skin-deep
glosses: Spoken or claimed but not actually believed; insincere.
Related terms: lip devotion
lip-labour
lip service
lip wisdom
longshucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longshucks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of loblolly pine.
synonyms: word: loblolly pine
love-in-winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love-in-winters
Senses: glosses: An umbellate wintergreen (Chimaphila umbellata).
Maarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maarads
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?].
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A kind of Egyptian cotton.
Maarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maarad
stickshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticksheds
Etymology: From stick + shed.
Senses: examples: text: Coal, coke and sticks were needed, and boys would be designated alley and stickshed boys. Kindling wood logs were provided and those had to be chopped into sticks.
ref: 1984, York Memories: Nine First-Hand Accounts of Life in York 1900-1939, York: York Oral History Project, →OCLC, page 30:
text: My parents sent the foreman, Bill Taylor, down to Newburgh with a load of sticks for the Duncans’ fire. When he arrived the old man told Bill just to coup them in the street and he would take them round to the stickshed at the foot of the garden at the back.
ref: 2008, Charlie Allan, “Joe Duncan”, in The Truth Tells Twice: The Life of a North-east Farm, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 117:
text: I have been attuned to cracks // the slit in the bark of the old chestnut tree / where the wee folk lived // the split in the stickshed door / where I watched the world beyond // […]
ref: 2011, Kirsteen Scott, “Cracks”, in Alan Bissett, Carl MacDougall, editors, The Flight of the Turtle (New Writing Scotland; 29), Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, →ISBN, page 170:
hypernyms: woodshed#Noun
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shed
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structure#Noun
glosses: A shed for firewood in the form of sticks.
sticksheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stickshed
Twitpocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twitpocalypses
Etymology: Blend of Twitter + apocalypse. Originally referring to the moment when the tweet identifier was expected to reach the 32-bit signed integer limit in June 2009.
Senses: examples: text: This crash was supposed to happen sometime tomorrow, according to the countdown, but it looks like Twitter has just moved up the Twitpocalypse time to 21:00 GMT, which is 2 PM Pacific/5PM Eastern time today. Yes, in a couple hours.
ref: 2009 June 12, M. G. Siegler, “Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today.”, in TechCrunch:
text: The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]
ref: 2023 February 9, Simon Sharwood, “The Twitpocalypse may have begun today”, in The Register:
glosses: A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.