cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
savingram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savingrams
Etymology: Blend of saving + telegram
Senses: examples: text: Savingrams were used where there was not sufficient urgency to necessitate telegrams and they were sent in the same way as despatches.
ref: 1995, Anne Thurston, Sources for Colonial Studies in the Public Record Office, →ISBN:
text: In light of this the colonial secretary noted in a draft savingram to the Colonies "cotton is one of those commodities of which it is necessary to increase production in the Sterling Area in order to reduce dollar expenditure and to assist in closing the dollar gap."
ref: 1996, The International Journal of African Historical Studies:
text: This series contains copies of outward cablegrams and savingrams from Canberra either to Jakarta or to Dili, which were classified secret and below.
ref: 2001, Karl Metcalf, Near Neighbours: Records on Australia's Relations with Indonesia:
glosses: A piece of administrative correspondence that uses the informal and abbreviated language of a telegram, but sent by mail, which is less expensive.
savingrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savingram
shmekl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowing from Yiddish שמעקל (shmekl), diminutive of שמאָק (shmok), “penis; contemptible person”. Compare schmuck.
Senses: examples: text: Here, Leon, put on your bathrobe. It's not nice talking to a young lady with your shmekl hanging out.
ref: 1993, Carl Reiner, All Kinds of Love, page 117:
text: Look, virtuous or depraved, there’s no law against a man making a living starring in films in which he sticks his shmekl into anything that moves, and possibly things that don't.
ref: 2011, Scott Sherman, Bad for the Jews, page 93:
glosses: a penis
examples: text: And then a year later some young American-born shmekl who doesn't know the first thing about Hebrew, who obviously hasn't devoted his life to it — I had never even heard of him then — comes along and translates “The Yemenite Girl” into English.
ref: 1978, Curt Leviant, The Yemenite Girl, page 110:
text: There were people in Israel working all their lives in politics, and here was this rich young shmekl (‘little prick’) from Australia, a gvir, suddenly become’s ^([sic]) the Rebbe’s emissary!
ref: 2000, David Bernstein, Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story, page 80:
glosses: a fool, a jerk, a contemptible person
overglorify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overglorifies
form: overglorifying
form: overglorified
form: overglorified
Etymology: From over- + glorify.
Senses: examples: text: Abraham Lincoln is often overglorified in elementary school classrooms.
glosses: To glorify excessively; to praise too much.
Related terms: overglorification
underglorified
overglorifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overglorify
overglorifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overglorify
overglorified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overglorify
underglorified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underglorified
form: most underglorified
Etymology: From under- + glorified.
Senses: glosses: Not glorified enough; not praised enough.
overglorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overglorifications
Etymology: From over- + glorification.
Senses: glosses: Excessive glorification; excessive praise.
Related terms: overglorify
overglorifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overglorification
nigga nod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigga nods
form: nigga-nod
form: nigga's nod
Senses: examples: text: Inside the room were three African American males sitting, waiting, and thumbing through various magazines. They looked up at me briefly without saying a single word before resuming their reads. I didn't get a hello, a how you doing, a what's up, or what's happening. Not so much as a nigga's nod. So much for either hospitality or congeniality.
ref: 2004, Freddy Cee, Post-9/11, African American Style: Laughter, Still Da Best Medicine, page 35:
text: I gave him the nigga-nod and he hit me right back so I knew we were cool
ref: 2012, Mat Johnson, Pym, page 12:
text: "How you feeling?" Roxy asked from the couch. "I'm okay," Stephen answered, giving Roxy the Negro nod of acknowledgment.
ref: 2015, Luv Alwayz: The Opposite Sex and Relationships, page 271:
synonyms: Negro nod
glosses: An affectionate nod of respect shared between two black people, which goes down-up-down instead of up-down-up.
bean weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean weevils
Senses: synonyms: seed beetle
glosses: Any of the subfamily Bruchinae of bean beetles.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Acanthoscelides obtectus
word: common bean weevil
Related terms: taxonomic: Bruchus rufimanus
word: broad-bean weevil
bean weevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bean weevil
linear order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear orders
Senses: examples: A set of numbers on a number line form a linear order.
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: total order
weedfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weed + fish.
Senses: examples: text: 1957, N. J. Berrill and Jacquelyn Berrill, 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore, New York: Dover, p. 278,
In spite of fishermen’s opinions and complaints, cormorants feed principally on bottom fish of no commercial value, such as rockfish and weedfish.
text: They’d been crammed like weedfish aboard the boat for two days; the trip home would probably be longer.
ref: 1989, Roland J. Green, The Mountain Walks, New York: Ace, Prologue, page 3:
glosses: One of a variety of species of fish of the family Clinidae found in the waters off Australia and New Zealand.
citraconyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical cis-CH₃-C(CO₂H)=CHCO- derived from citraconic acid
Derived terms: citraconyl-aldolase
citratase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From citrate + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: citrate lyase
cittosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pica.
synonyms: word: pica
white Easter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white Easters
Senses: glosses: An Easter Sunday on which there is a ground covering of snow or snowfall.
Related terms: snow day
white Christmas
cladiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A skin disease caused by fungi of the genus Scopulariopsis.
white Easters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white Easter
dummymander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dummymanders
Etymology: Blend of dummy + gerrymander.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.
dummymanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummymander
micro-targeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “This story is more evidence that the online political advertising market is essentially the Wild West. Whether it’s allowing Russians to purchase political ads, or extensive micro-targeting based on ill-gotten user data, it’s clear that, left unregulated, this market will continue to be prone to deception and lacking in transparency,” he said.
ref: 2018 March 17, Carole Cadwalladr, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of microtargeting.
paper books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper book
clapotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The splashing sound heard on succussion of a stomach after fasting
clasmatocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clasmatocytes
Etymology: Probably from Ancient Greek κλᾰ́σμᾰ (klắsmă, “a fragment, rupture”) + -cyte.
Senses: examples: text: The mobilization of clasmatocyte which Gay and his collaborators found produced such a remarkable increase in the resistance of rabbits to intrapleural infections with streptococcus caused no appreciable increase in their resistance to this strain of pneumococcus.
ref: 1929, Ada Clark, Role of Clasmatocytes in Protection Against the Pneumococcus, page 2:
glosses: Synonym of macrophage.
synonyms: word: macrophage
clasmatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fragmentation of cells to form pseudopodialike processes
claval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the clava
clavipectoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clavi- (“key”) + pectoral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the clavicle and the chest
cleidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clidal
Etymology: cleid-, form of cleido- + -al
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the clavicle.
clidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cleidal
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the clavicle
cleidocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clidocostal
Senses: glosses: Relating to the clavicle and the ribs
clidocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cleidocostal
Senses: glosses: Relating to the clavicle and the ribs
clidocranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cleidocranial
Senses: glosses: Relating to the clavicle and the cranium
clidinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An anticholinergic drug, usually administered as the bromide
Derived terms: clidinium bromide
clidoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cleidoic.
clinocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to clinocephaly
clinocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A congenital concavity of the top of the head
Related terms: clinocephalic
clinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinoscopes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of clinometer.
synonyms: word: clinometer
pleasure cruise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasure cruises
Senses: examples: text: The problem arises about a third of the way through the film, after Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up from cryogenic sleep to find himself alone on the Avalon, a massive commercial space liner that’s equal parts resettlement program and pleasure cruise.
ref: 2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2018:
glosses: A pleasure trip, especially on a ship.
examples: text: I thank you all / But it's been no bed of roses / No pleasure cruise
ref: 1977, Freddie Mercury, “We Are the Champions”, in News of the World, performed by Queen:
synonyms: bed of roses
smooth sailing
glosses: A pleasant or easy situation without any challenges.
solar cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar crosses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sun cross.
synonyms: word: sun cross
faithful functor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faithful functors
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is injective into the corresponding target hom-set.
full functor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full functors
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source hom-set is surjective into the corresponding target hom-set.
blue-gray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-gray
form: most blue-gray
form: blue-grey
Etymology: From blue + gray.
Senses: glosses: Of a bluish grey color.
Synonyms: word: gray-blue
word: grey-blue
english: chiefly Scots
translation: chiefly Scots
word: blae
Hyponyms: english: pale bluish-gray
translation: pale bluish-gray
word: clair de lune
english: grayish blue
translation: grayish blue
word: Copenhagen blue
english: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
translation: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
word: slate
english: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
translation: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
word: slate blue
english: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
translation: a dark bluish-gray color of slate
word: slate gray
english: pale gray-blue
translation: pale gray-blue
word: Wedgwood blue
Related terms: english: dark greyish blue (or purple)
translation: dark greyish blue (or purple)
word: perse
english: a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray
translation: a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray
word: blunket
english: light bluish grey color
translation: light bluish grey color
word: gainsboro
english: dark grey or bluish-grey color
translation: dark grey or bluish-grey color
word: gunmetal
english: greyish blue color, tinted with green
translation: greyish blue color, tinted with green
word: petrol blue
english: blue very low in chroma
translation: blue very low in chroma
word: caesious
english: pale green with a bluish-grey tinge
translation: pale green with a bluish-grey tinge
word: glaucous
blue-grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-grey
form: most blue-grey
Etymology: From blue + grey.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue-gray.
gray-blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gray-blue
form: most gray-blue
Etymology: From gray + blue.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blue-gray.
synonyms: word: blue-gray
grey-blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grey-blue
form: most grey-blue
Etymology: From grey + blue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gray-blue: Synonym of blue-gray.
weight for age
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: [H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
synonyms: word: WFA
glosses: Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).
weight for age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
synonyms: word: WFA
glosses: A weight for age race.
mob programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A software development approach where the whole team works on a single project at a single computer at the same time.
Synonyms: mobbing
Related terms: pair programming
showfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showfloors
Etymology: From show + floor.
Senses: glosses: The main area of a show, where goods or services are exhibited.
stormie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stormie
form: most stormie
Senses: examples: text: And here and there he cast in seas, to whome he gave a lawe: / To swell with every blast of winde, and every stormie flawe.
ref: 1567, Ovid, Arthur Golding, Metamorphoses, London: William Seres, page 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of stormy.
solar crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar cross
swimmability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swim + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being swimmable, especially in terms of water being sufficiently unpolluted to be safely used for swimming.
seafooder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafooders
Etymology: From seafood + -er.
Senses: glosses: A seafood restaurant.
seafooders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafooder
tradability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trade + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tradable.
tradeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tradability.
treadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treadable
form: most treadable
Etymology: From tread + -able.
Senses: examples: a patch of treadable ground in the swamp
glosses: Able to be trodden.
examples: a treadable pump
glosses: Able to be operated by treading.
raceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raceable
form: most raceable
Etymology: From race + -able.
Senses: examples: a raceable horse; a raceable car
glosses: Able to be raced; suitable for racing.
Derived terms: unraceable
diphaphatha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional form of bread from Botswana.
implantment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implantments
Etymology: From implant + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of implanting something; implantation.
implantments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implantment
cyclodestruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyclo- + destruction.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: cyclodestructive damage
blondens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blonden
cheat meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheat meals
Senses: examples: text: Reward yourself for a week of healthful eating with breakfast at a greasy spoon. Nutritionists say an occasional cheat meal can make it easier to stick with a healthy diet.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: An occasional meal for which a person on a diet is free to disregard the normal restrictions on what to eat.
Related terms: cheat day
cheat meals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheat meal
clithrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪθɹəˈfoʊbiə/
ipa: /klɪθɹəˈfəʊbɪə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλεῖθρον (kleîthron, “bar for closing a door”) + -phobia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fear of being locked in.
locked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lock in
clition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clitions
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The midpoint of the anterior border of the clivus
renod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renods
form: renodding
form: renodded
form: renodded
Etymology: From re- + nod.
Senses: examples: text: The sheikh comes back in, and slowly, we can become a little more personal in our discussion and he nods sagely and then renods.
ref: 1977, Edna O'Brien, Arabian Days, page 102:
text: “Are we calm yet?” Alonn nodded. “Are we sure?” Alonn renodded.
ref: 2012, Joab Russo, The Sethelian Archives, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Keith renods. Dreamin' as usual.
ref: 2015, Eddie Robbert, The Rock Pile, →ISBN:
glosses: To nod again.
repod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repods
form: repodding
form: repodded
form: repodded
Senses: examples: text: Mirage 2000 / Recon / 35 / repodded and reworked avionics for recon mission
ref: 1996 January 26, William Baird, “Theoretical Air Forces: India”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet):
text: The question comes when the enemy is counter-sortieing air from 500-1,000nm distributed basing (big country threat like China or India) and you /cannot/ back up the JSF with F-18E/F carrying, gollee, AMRAAM and maybe a repodded ALQ-99.
ref: 1999 November 25, Kurt Plummer, “Super Hornet questions”, in rec.aviation.military (Usenet):
text: When the signal came to repod, I trod toward the sleep pods.
ref: 2002, James Van Pelt, Strangers and Beggars, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: To reenter a pod or put back into a pod.
examples: text: The plants start out runners, blossoms, and repodding; and, instead of producing two bags to the acre, they go 12 or 15.
ref: 1933, The Bean-bag and Pea Journal - Volumes 16-17:
text: Frost damage was also reported in patches on low lying areas in the Wimmera, though later sown crops have had a chance to repod and are still expected to achieve 70 per cent of their yield potential.
ref: 1996, Australian Crop Report - Issues 93-112, page 46:
text: Chickpeas can certainly have a long flowering period, depending on moisture availability, and I could look back through the years and many frosted chickpea crops have reflowered and repodded due to decent soil moisture in August and September.
ref: 2018 September 7, Paul McIntosh, “Calculating day degrees and thermal time for legume crops”, in The Weekly Times:
glosses: To produce pods again.
repod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Conseco ( used to be green tree) has 13000 repod trucks but they are closing their commercial credit division ( at least as far as truck financing). They called me a week ago tyo see if I might be interested in picking up a repo truck....
ref: 2000 December 3, The-48th Ronin, “The economy is great!”, in (Usenet):
text: The economic crisis of the trucking industry has now spread from the independent owner-operators having their tractors repod by the thousands per month to the truck makers themselves - unable to compete with a glut of their own very-depreciated product they are trying to sell off their own repo lots.
ref: 2000 December 12, GLC1173, “MORE Americans hurting in Clintons/Gore Boom!”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):
text: On a bright note, the new year seems to be starting out good. I found out my unemployment was extended, so I my van won't be repod this month.
ref: 2004 January 3, Steph Barrett, “today”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: Misspelling of repoed.
pseudocorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + correct.
Senses: glosses: Seeming or presented to be correct, but actually incorrect.
Derived terms: pseudocorrectness
Related terms: hypercorrect
pseudocorrectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + correctness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being pseudocorrect; of being incorrect but seemingly correct.
Related terms: hypercorrectness
Robinsonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Robinsonesque
form: most Robinsonesque
Etymology: From Robinson + -esque.
Senses: synonyms: Crusoean
Crusoesque
Robinsonian
glosses: Suggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island.
Related terms: Heath Robinsonesque
supercorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + corporeal.
Senses: glosses: Beyond the corporeal.
O'Donnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: O'Donnells
form: O'Donald
form: O'Donnel
Etymology: From Irish Ó Dónaill, Ó Domhnaill (“of Domhnall”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A place name:
A minor city mainly in Lynn County, Texas, United States, named after Tom J. O'Donnell.
glosses: A place name:
A ghost town in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A barangay of Capas municipality, Tarlac province, Philippines.
like a knife through butter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: like a hot knife through butter
qualifier: simile
glosses: With great ease and effectiveness.
reborings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reboring
Talivan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talivans
Etymology: Blend of Taliban + van
Senses: glosses: A portable speed camera inside a police van, moved from place to place to detect speeding motorists.
Talivans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Talivan
litigationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litigationers
Etymology: From litigation + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Dey began his argument by characterizing Mr. Meyer as one of “those chronic litigationers” who was out to “get” the Southern Pacific regardless of the merits of his cause or the amount of money required to carry out the litigation.
ref: 1940, Railway Age - Volume 109, page 516:
text: The practicing lawyers in Korea are mostly known to be litigationers in general practice.
ref: 1971, Hanʼguk Yŏnʼguwŏn, Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities - Issues 34-35, page 6:
text: Attorneys, Counsel reprimanded for being litigationers. — The Court cannot ignore the proclivity or tendency of appellant herein to file several actions covering the same subject matter or seeking substantially identical relief, which is unduly burdening the courts.
ref: 1972, Supreme Court Reports, Annotated - Volume 45, page 252:
glosses: A litigator who conducts an excessive number of lawsuits.
litigationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litigationer
HIGNFY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Have I Got News for You.
Have I Got News for You, a British TV panel game based on newspaper headlines
topics: broadcasting
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Have I Got News for You.
Have I Got News for You, an American TV panel show based on trendy and viral news stories
cloacin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloacins
Senses: glosses: A bacteriocin produced by Enterobacter cloacae
cloacitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloaca + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: A typical sign of cloacitis is smelly slime oozing from the vent and sticking to the feathers.
ref: 2016, Gail Damerow, The Chicken Health Handbook:
glosses: Inflammation of the cloaca.
clofenapate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antilipaemic agent for dogs and rats.
Trinitarian formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of trinitarian formula.
make a good fist of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a good fist of
form: making a good fist of
form: made a good fist of
form: made a good fist of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make a fist of.
on the bash
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: From the hours you keep […] I'd say you were on the bash.
ref: 1959, Streetwalker, page 58:
text: A quick smile played around her lips. "It's from Bondi Beach. Right near Sydney. In Australia, where I'm from. My mom always said I was conceived on that beach, so she gave me that name. She was a young girl then, working square, before she went on the bash. All she could tell me about my dad is that he was a soldier.
ref: 2001, Andrew Vachss, False Allegations, →ISBN:
text: Once they had lost the first flush of youth, started to look like they were on the bash, he saw to it that they were relegated. Like West Ham, his home team, he loved them, but he knew they were not going to win any prizes. Basil's main girls were big earners and, as such, he expected them to look the part. He believed that you got what you paid for, and he saw to it that his girls were paid very well. He walked all the new girls through their first steps personally; he told them how to sit, […]
ref: 2008, Martina Cole, The Business: A compelling suspense thriller of danger and destruction, →ISBN:
text: The only bloody difference between serving drinks to the passengers of British Airways and handing out aperitifs in Mrs Leighton Hunt's Mayfair drawing room was 35,000 feet. It was at a small cocktail party in St John's Wood that I met Amy, a strikingly beautiful young woman who told me that she worked as an escort for an exclusive agency off Park Lane, as indeed did all the other female guests at the party. I'd sort of guessed that they were on the bash, […]
ref: 2010, Paul O'Grady, The Devil Rides Out, →ISBN, page 243:
synonyms: on the game
glosses: Working as a sex worker.
examples: text: In the evidence he gave before the committee he said that 50 complaints a week were received by his authority. When asked what they were he said late delivery, dirty bottles, wrong change, milk bottles in the wrong place, changing the caps on the tops of bottles, delivery on the wrong days, and vendors going on the bash. That is an indictment of the milk vendors. If the Hutt Valley and Bays Metropolitan Milk Board is giving licences to people to carry on like that, …
ref: 1967, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives [of New Zealand]; Mr McCready, in debate about the Milk Bill, page 3917
text: […] cooked lunch, three o'clock smoko, a big dinner and then supper. We always kept a man cook, and you'd never believe how we got them. At the hotel in Wanaka they'd always be getting chefs who were alcoholic; they'd work till they had enough money to go on the bash, then they'd be sacked, so the hotel owner would ring Minaret and send the chef up to us. He'd work as station cook for a while and then, when he wanted a bash again, off he'd go and the hotel would take him back.
ref: 1979, Christine Hunt, Something in the Hills: Yesterdays in Central Otago, page 34:
glosses: On an alcoholic drinking binge.
so is life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The end brings a beginning. As a walk begins, so it ends, often on some obscure shore. But we do not walk to reach the end. Rather we walk today to feel the sting of the highway, the cold of the morning, the heat of the sun, and the disquiet and ecstasies of the wind on our bodies, our minds, and our souls. And so is life. We are here now to feel all that and more—and then the door closes.
ref: 2007, Michael Metras, Walking Life: Meditations on the Pilgrimage of Life, page 50:
text: He just didn't give a fuck about anything, and that's when I met Arron. I should never have gone there, he was trouble from the start, but you really don't see it when you're in it, You think its love, but really it was stupidity on my part. We were together about a year and you know the rest, it didn't end too good. But so is life.
ref: 2012, Georgina Campbell, The Kickdown Girls, page 102:
text: I begged my mother to write notes excusing me from taking the gym classes. She used to get upset at me. I don't know when she realized the reason why I was acting the way I was but she did. She wrote a long letter to the gym teacher and explained my problem. They made an exception and I was excused from having to partake in gym. To this day, even in my prime, I couldn't do a summersault or cart wheel. Oh well, so is life.
ref: 2013, Brenda Sue, Jack and Jill, Not an Easy Climb:
text: Life is not like an oil painting, which can be rubbed out and done over time and again until the artist is satisfied. With the sumiye painting any brush-strokes painted over a second time results in a smudge; the life has left it. All corrections show when the ink dries. So is life.
ref: 2013, Osvald Sirén, The Chinese on the Art of Painting:
glosses: Synonym of such is life.
synonyms: word: such is life
examples: text: It may be that the realistic story is commonplace, but so is life, and the realistic tale is true.
ref: 1894, Current Opinion, volume 15, page 210:
text: If there is one who knows, I know more than he, and if there is one who ignores it, even more than he I ignore it. My life is a fight between this knowing and this ignorance and so is his life and so is life.
ref: 2000, Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, page 55:
text: If it has respected me so far, I don 't see why it would decide to consume me now, when all my body has to offer are weakened bones and sagging flesh. Malaria can be fatal in the long run, I know. Well, so is life.
ref: 2007, Enrique de Hériz, Lies, page 7:
text: We can come across the hill and die from anything, anything can happen and often does, and we must be prepared for that. Nothing, nobody is permanent, and everything will change. Death is inevitable, but so is life.
ref: 2016, Abraham Pedro, Peyote: The Divine Flower of Life, page 115:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see so, is, life. i.e. life is, as well; life is (something) too.
knifehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knifehands
Etymology: From knife + hand.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist); a karate chop.
knifehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knifehand
hairplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hair + play.
Senses: examples: text: But because of little girls' fascination with "hairplay," the dolls have lengthy locks.
ref: 1995, M. G. Lord, Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, page 174:
text: One could make out a faint sucking-sound^([sic]) coming from her mouth, but the flattened lips would only brush the fine down while two fingers of the other hand went in search of more such hairplay on her—or his—body.
ref: 2003, Rolf Schroers, A Thousand Fathoms Under the Skin, volume 1, page 167:
glosses: The act of playing with one's own or someone else's hair (usually on the head).
parallaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parallax
parallaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parallax
embowerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embowerments
Etymology: From embower + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enclosing something in a bower (a shady, leafy shelter or recess).
glosses: An enclosure like a bower.
embowerments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embowerment
head-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: head-hops
form: head-hopping
form: head-hopped
form: head-hopped
Etymology: From head + hop.
Senses: examples: text: Editors are very sensitive to POV slips; many consider it the mark of an amateur. So be careful to maintain your point of view; don't head-hop from character to character.
ref: 2014, Paula Munier, Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene:
text: Here we head-hop from Madison to Betsey, as signaled by the text abruptly naming Madison “that bitch.” Both the hop and the term feel harshly out of tune with the preceding action. As a reader, I have barely started getting to know Madison as a character and investing in her as the protagonist; should I now make a similar investment in Betsey? Only time will tell: If we return to Betsey's POV, then yes, I should pay close attention to her.
ref: 2016, Cheryl Klein, The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults:
glosses: In writing fiction, to switch suddenly from one character's perspective to another's, disrupting the flow of the story.
head-hopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of head-hop
head-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of head-hop
head-hops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of head-hop
tick tocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tick tock
tick-tock model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A model of microprocessor production in which each microarchitecture change is followed with a die shrink of the process technology.
encorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If Particular persons members of a Corporate Town were lyable to answer for the Kings Debt before the time of their Encorporation, probably they continue lyable after the encorporation. Their Charters would not alter their case in this respect.
ref: 1726, Thomas Madox, Firma Burgi, Or an Historical Essay Concerning the Cities, Towns and Buroughs of England:
glosses: Obsolete form of incorporation.
burough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buroughs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of borough.
buroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burough
shotlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotlists
Etymology: From shot + list.
Senses: examples: text: The shotlist should be short — if you find yourself typing up more than one page per scene, you're not really getting the hang of it. Use common terminology whenever possible. From the shotlist, the DP can figure out, to some extent, how many lighting changes each scene will require.
ref: 2013, Arthur Vincie, Preparing for Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A detailed list of all the shots required for a film.
shotlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotlist
shot list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shotlist.
shot lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot list
displaced people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displaced person
man-scape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-scapes
Senses: examples: text: We might call it the fashion of man-scapes. A rough count discloses an overwhelming preponderance of man-scapes — pictures in which man-made forms, such as houses, factories, bridges, and so forth, furnished the dominant interest; as against landscapes in which nature, much less modified by man, is the subject matter.
ref: 1940, Carnegie Magazine - Volumes 14-15, page 267:
text: Meanwhile we take pleasure in the sculpture of the natural landscape and find that distance sometimes lends enchantment even to intrinsically dreary man-scapes.
ref: 1984, Elizabeth Bauer Kassler, Modern gardens and the landscape, page 45:
text: Shibata's photographs bear witness to this shift in contemporary Japanese terrain by exploring the landscape as a "man-scape."
ref: 2005, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of manscape.
man-scape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: man-scapes
form: man-scaping
form: man-scaped
form: man-scaped
Senses: examples: text: A Libra Groomzilla always man-scapes his business—but prefers waxing to Nair (he dislikes the chemical smell it leaves on his man berries).
ref: 2009, Craig Bridger, Surviving Groomzilla, →ISBN:
text: If your man is a hairy man (and perhaps sometimes a bit much in certain areas), this would be a good time to man-scape him.
ref: 2012, Karen Holder, Be "The Other Woman" in Your Man's Life, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Most other medical tapes stick very well to skin. Too well. Well enough to completely man-scape my chest and arms.
ref: 2012, Jay Little -, Come Back To Me, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: Alternative form of manscape.
man-scapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-scape
man-scapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of man-scape
man-scaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of man-scape
man-scaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Must have good hygiene; man-scaping is optional— maintained is preferred
ref: 2011, Lori Lemon-Geshay, Dating Diva Adventures, →ISBN, page 96:
text: A little man-scaping goes a long way, Mark.
ref: 2013, Dylan Newton, Any Witch Way, →ISBN:
text: Eric felt a sense of titillation being paraded around by such a talented, handsome man, and so kind to have gone out on a limb for Eric to groom and educate him on man-scaping.
ref: 2015, L.K. Scott - -, Massacre'ade Party, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of manscaping.
man-scaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of man-scape
spit in the ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lawrence Venuti, a translator and author of The Translator's Invisibility, said that, beyond high-profile bestsellers, translations in the UK and US were still "a spit in the ocean" compared with countries such as Spain, France or Italy.
ref: 2014 August 24, Dalya Alberge, “British readers lost in translations as foreign literature sales boom”, in The Observer:
synonyms: word: drop in the ocean
word: bagatelle
word: bag of shells
word: bric-a-brac
word: dicky
word: dicky-bird
word: fico
word: fig
word: flyspeck
word: minuity
word: niff-naff
word: picayune
word: scuddick
word: sop
word: toy
word: trick
word: trifle
word: triviality
word: whiffle
word: white chip
glosses: A very small or insignificant amount; something of little importance.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A variety of poker involving an extra dealt card shared by all players.
manscaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manscapers
Etymology: From manscape + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The eyebrows alone would have driven a manscaper absolutely nuts.
ref: 2012, Christian W. Allers, Half a Vamp - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The gruffness in Russell's voice faded in an instant. "Hoy crap, for real? Who is she, man?" “Your manscaper.”
ref: 2015, Vivienne Savage, The Purr-fect Soldier, page 26:
text: I just finished an order for my manscaper, Dolleen Doyle.” “Man what?” Birdie's eyes widened. Jazz cleared his throat. “Manscaper. That's someone who specializes in male waxing.
ref: 2016, Mary Marks, Something's Knot Kosher, →ISBN:
text: Remember. Shaving your beard is fine. Anything lower is not. Manscapers are part of the metrosexual tribe.
ref: 2015, Man Points: How Manly Are You?, →ISBN, page 147:
text: I was also in charge of what I considered to be an important part of the dressing room etiquette: manscaping. I was (and still am) a dedicated manscaper—I'm talking about shaving the chest and all that.
ref: 2016, Tie Domi, Shift Work, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: One who is employed manscaping men; one who shaves, trims, or waxes off the hair on men.
examples: text: The site says that “the informed manscaper, who wants nothing more than an alluring pubic area, should be acquainted with all his options of pubic hair removal" and then goes on to describe the pros and cons of these methods.
ref: 2012, Gary F. Kelly -, America's Sexual Transformation, →ISBN:
text: She hadn't pegged him for a manscaper. 'Styling wax doesn't get any manlier just because you put the word “hard” in front of it.
ref: 2014, Nikki Logan, Awakened by His Touch, →ISBN, page 121:
text: When beach-going, the Texanist is always coated with a liberal slathering of cocoa butter and always has his full, uncut chest, leg, and back plumage on display (no manscaper he).
ref: 2017, David Courtney, Jack Unruh, The Texanist: Fine Advice on Living in Texas, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A man who has some of his hair removed for cosmetic purposes.
manscapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manscaper
jettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jetting
man-scaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-scapers
Senses: examples: text: Even more disconcerting, evidence suggested that Foy was a man-scaper, because other than the slicked back hair on his head he was as bald all over as a newborn.
ref: 2012, Kate Hoffmann, Rhonda Nelson, The Professional/The Mighty Quinns: Ronan, →ISBN:
text: But there's a certain carefree swagger that comes from being a hairy dude among a populace of man-scapers.
ref: 2016 June 18, Michael Kaplan, “After years of jokes, I finally got my back waxed”, in New York Post:
glosses: Alternative form of manscaper.
man-scapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-scaper
streptamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of streptamine
renods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of renod
renodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renod
renodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renod
yanaconas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yanacona
carqual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carquals
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of carrier qualification: a series of test maneuvers by which a ship demonstrates its fitness for sea duty.
carquals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carqual
Tomcatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tomcatters
Etymology: From tomcat + -er.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of VFA-31, a strike fighter squadron of the US Navy.
Tomcatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tomcatter
timescaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From time + scaling or timescale + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The time-stretching of an audio signal (i.e. changing its duration without changing the pitch).
screwjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screwjacks
Etymology: From screw + jack.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of jackscrew.
synonyms: word: jackscrew
thred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threds
Senses: examples: text: […] that all the businesses of Men do very much depend upon these little long fleaks or threds of Hemp and Flax.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61
glosses: Obsolete form of thread.
screwjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwjack
shoe-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoe-in
unsupped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + supped.
Senses: glosses: Not having eaten supper.
unsuppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + supper + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not having eaten supper.
tittivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tittivations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of titivation.
tittivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tittivation
hip-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hip-shot
form: most hip-shot
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hipshot.
mattaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattak
form: mattaq
Senses: glosses: whalemeat consisting of the skin and blubber, a delicacy among the Inuit
mattaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mattaaq.
mattak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mattaaq.
postfamilial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + familial.
Senses: glosses: After the decline of the family as a social unit.