cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
subdivisibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being subdivisible.
undehumanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dehumanized.
Senses: glosses: Not dehumanized.
lawn gnome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn gnomes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of garden gnome.
synonyms: word: garden gnome
lawn gnomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawn gnome
historical society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historical societies
Senses: glosses: An organization dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often related to a specific geographic area or time period.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see historical, society.
historical societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historical society
A-t'u-shih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 阿圖什 /阿图什 (Ātúshí), Wade–Giles romanization: A¹-tʻu²-shih².
Senses: examples: text: The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih.
ref: 1963, Henry Guenter Schwarz, Policies and Administration of Minority Areas in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, 1949-1959, volume 2 (PhD Thesis), University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 338:
text: The name Saifudin is a Chinese corruption of Saif-al-din Azia (or Seyfudin Azizov, the Russian variant), and it is transliterated into Chinese as Sai Fu-ting. The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 743, column 1:
text: The destination of the second excursion, led by envoy Forsyth himself and participated in, apart from Stoliczka, by Dr. Bellew, Capt. Chapman and Capt. Trotter, was Altyn-Artysh, situated approximately 23 miles to the north-east of Kashgar (now A-t'u-shih, the administrative centre of the Kyzyl-su Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture in the Hsin-chiang Uighur Autonomous Region), and its environs.
ref: 1982, Josef Kolmaš, Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874): The Life and Work of the Czech Explorer in India and High Asia, University of Vienna, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023, page 23:
text: China's ethnic minority autonomous territorial and administrative units are: The Sinkiang Uyghur Autonomous region, capital Urumchi (Tihua). This has a majority Turkic population located in five chou (autonomous administrative districts). They are (1) The Qïrghïz Autonomous Chou ((K'o-tzu-lo-su (Qyzyl Su/Qïzïl Su)), center Artus (A-t'u-shih);[…]
ref: 1984, Harold R. Battersby, Some Introductory Notes on Altaic and Uralic Studies for Potential Contributors to Ultimate Reality and Meaning, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of Atushi (Artux)
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Frederick A. Praeger
resistance arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resistance arms
Senses: synonyms: load arm
glosses: The part of a lever between the load and the fulcrum.
faitheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of faith + atheism.
Senses: glosses: Atheism, with a belief that faith should not be criticized.
glosses: Atheism that derives from faith.
Related terms: faitheist
faithism
ear-piercingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ear-piercingly
form: most ear-piercingly
Etymology: From ear-piercing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
glosses: In an ear-piercing manner; at an ear-piercing volume.
werrit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: werrits
form: werriting
form: werrited
form: werrited
Etymology: Unknown; used since at least the 1860s across England.
Senses: examples: text: I can't see it, says he, and he sets to werriting and haggling about it, and goes and tells everybody, as what I finds ain't there, and what he finds is, and that's what no tradesman will stand.
ref: 1863, Owen v. Huxley (The Huxley Files):
glosses: To worry needlessly over trivial things, often aloud and in a repetitive manner.
bookname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booknames
Etymology: From book + name.
Senses: glosses: A name, such as of a plant or animal, that occurs in (especially technical) literature but does not have much currency in the spoken language.
glosses: In Imperial China, a name given to a student on starting school.
booknames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookname
Hipwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hipwoods
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hipwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hipwood
do someone's heart good
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone's heart good
form: doing someone's heart good
form: did someone's heart good
form: done someone's heart good
Senses: synonyms: warm the cockles of someone's heart
gladden someone's heart
glosses: make someone happy
out of the goodness of one's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You really think that conman offered you assistance out of the goodness of his heart? Doubtful. He must be working an angle.
glosses: Motivated by genuine altruism, as opposed to self-serving incentives.
Ah Chee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ah Chees
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 阿 + one of the Chinese names which can be romanised as Chee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
Ah Chees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ah Chee
home duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A paid administrative leave for police officers during a disciplinary investigation.
four-tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Arlesey: Demolition of Three Counties station in connection with four-tracking through Arlesey.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of trains: Sunday on the G.N. line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 322:
text: DfT said the £589m that has been released will be used on design and enabling works for TRU. This includes partial electrification, a new through platform at Huddersfield, and around eight miles of extra four-tracking.
ref: 2020 August 12, “Network News: Release of £589 million kick-starts Trans-Pennine Route upgrade”, in Rail, page 9:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Provision of four running lines on a stretch of railway track, usually two in each direction.
Related terms: four-tracked
hushing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hush up
hushed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hush up
wokefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wokefish
form: wokefishes
Etymology: Blend of woke + catfish.
Senses: examples: text: Couple this with the apparent nationwide divide over issues ranging from George Floyd’s death to wearing coronavirus masks, and you’ve got the ideal environment for the wokefish to thrive.
ref: 2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:
text: “A wokefish may at first present themselves as a protest-attending, sex-positive, anti-racist, intersectional feminist who drinks ethically sourced oat milk and has read the back catalogue of Audre Lorde, twice.” However, in actuality, these practitioners of false identity politics couldn’t care less.
ref: 2020 August 1, 'Wokefish' dating trend sees people pretending to be progressive on apps, in Fox News
text: When is a wokefish not a wokefish?
ref: 2021 January 8, Marianne Eloise, “A guide to spotting and avoiding 'wokefishing' in dating”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: You’re also a monumental wokefish.
ref: 2021 May 26, Georgia Mooney, “What your choice of Crocs colour says about the type of person you are”, in The Tab:
text: If you find yourself dating a “wokefish,” it can be a lot trickier to identify than your garden variety catfish.
ref: [2021 August 4, Molly Longman, “‘Wokefishing’ Is A Uniquely 2021, Uniquely Terrible Dating Trend”, in Refinery 29, Vice media group:
glosses: Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform.
wokefish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wokefishes
form: wokefishing
form: wokefished
form: wokefished
Etymology: Blend of woke + catfish.
Senses: examples: text: Wokefishing notwithstanding, Layla told Vice she isn’t optimistic about the prospects of dating outside of political bubbles.
ref: 2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “‘Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:
text: Smith, from Leeds, claims she herself was a victim of wokefishing, as her former partner had lured her in believing the pair had similar beliefs, but revealed his true self when she decided to become vegan, sending her patronising texts with derogatory language.
ref: 2020 August 6, Bridie Pearson-Jones, “Have YOU been wokefished? New dating trend sees singles pretending to be more progressive than they are to attract sexual partners including a neo-Nazi who claimed to long for diversity”, in Daily Mail:
text: If someone says that they’re vegan but you find out that they occasionally eat a box of fried chicken when they’re very drunk or very sad, they’re not necessarily wokefishing you - they’re just human.
ref: 2021 January 8, Marianne Eloise, “A guide to spotting and avoiding 'wokefishing' in dating”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: Like catfishing – where someone pretends to be another person in order to attract more attention on dating apps – wokefishing is a similar kind of deception.
ref: 2021 April 4, Natalie Morris, “Black Lives Matter hashtags are making dating apps even more complicated”, in Metro:
text: People have even been known to “wokefish”: to pretend they're progressive in order to get a date.
ref: 2021, F.H. Buckley, Curiosity: And Its Twelve Rules for Life:
glosses: To pretend to be woke on an online platform to deceive (someone).
Related terms: blackfish
catfish
fauxgressive
headectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: headectomies
Etymology: From head + -ectomy (“surgical removal”).
Senses: glosses: The surgical removal of the head.
sphragistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sphragistics
hoodectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: hoodectomies
Etymology: From hood + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Clitoridotomy.
homecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homecations
Etymology: Blend of home + vacation.
Senses: examples: text: Vaction time has come to this fair land but with the price of gas and the dismal prospects of flying (airlines will soon be taking out all the seats in a plane, giving poles to passengers so they can shove them up their rearends and sit anywhere or beat each other up with them enroute), it is time to consider a homecation.
ref: 2008 June 15, flanier, “'Homecations'”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):
glosses: A vacation spent at home or close to home; a staycation.
staycay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staycays
Etymology: Clipping of staycation, modeled after vacay (< vacation).
Senses: glosses: A staycation.
staycays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staycay
molar mashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molar masher
Great Paxton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2063).
Related terms: Little Paxton
Macrae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Macraes
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Macraes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Macrae
Bontempelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bontempellis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bontempelli.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bontempellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bontempelli
de-stress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-stresses
form: de-stressing
form: de-stressed
form: de-stressed
Etymology: From de- + stress.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of destress.
de-stressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Crow Park: De-stressing of long-welded rails on the down main line.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: Sunday on the G.N. line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 322:
glosses: present participle and gerund of de-stress
square script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɛː(ɹ)skɹɪpt/
ipa: /ˈskwɛɚ skɹɪpt/
Senses: glosses: A script type used for Aramaic and Hebrew among other languages, derived from the ancient Aramaic alphabet, as opposed to types that are closer to the Phoenician alphabet.
glosses: ʼPhags-pa script, a vertically written Mongolian script.
barfly jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pastime of jumping at, and sticking to, a Velcro-covered wall while wearing a Velcro suit
Scottishman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scottishmen
Etymology: From Scottish + -man.
Senses: examples: text: “I am much obliged to you, Mr. Thomas,” added Buchanan; “but neither Frenchman nor Spanishman shall dress my wounds when a Scottishman is to be found, for love or money.”
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 247:
text: It seems almost unnatural for Scottishmen and English to meet and part without a buffet.
ref: 1832, Walter Scott, Castle Dangerous:
glosses: A Scotsman.
Scottishmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scottishman
Cwmdu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Talley community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6330).
glosses: A village in Cwmdu and District community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO1823).
glosses: A suburb in Cwmbwrla community, Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6494).
sport truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sport trucks
Etymology: Blend of sports car + pickup truck
Senses: glosses: A type of street truck and lifestyle truck, a high-speed high-performance high-powered pickup truck, frequently with lowered suspension and lessened cargo capabilities.
SHO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of super-high-output.
Related terms: english: ultra high output
translation: ultra high output
word: UHO
Blaengwynfi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Gwynfi and Croeserw community, Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS8996).
Sho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shö, a Kuki-Chin language/dialect group
Llantwit Major
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + (Saint) Illtud.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and community with a town council in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9768).
wikipedia: Illtud
resolvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolvements
Senses: glosses: A method of solving a problem; resolution.
Shipston-on-Stour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2540).
LZO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of lanthanum-zirconium-oxide (“La₂Zr₂O₇; a dielectric”).
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of lithium-zinc-oxide (“lithium-doped zinc oxide”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer, a lossless data compression algorithm.
cadmous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cadmium + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a compound, containing cadmium with an oxidation number of 1, however most have been proved to not exist.
self-deprecatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-deprecatory
form: most self-deprecatory
Etymology: From self- + deprecatory.
Senses: glosses: Expressing disapproval of oneself.
standard of comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standards of comparison
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That which something is compared to in a comparative construction.
standards of comparison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard of comparison
blanchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌblænt͡ʃəˈbɪlɪti/
/ˌblɑːnt͡ʃəˈbɪlɪti/
/ˌblænʃəˈbɪlɪti/
/ˌblɑːnʃəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From blanchable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: These germplasm lines are unacceptable commercially due to their late maturity and poor blanchability.
ref: 1987, Crop Science, volume 27, page 1319:
text: To determine the blanchability of genotypes a laboratory type blancher, based on the model developed by Wright and Mozingo (1975), was fabricated at ICRISAT Center (Singh et al. 1996).
ref: 2013, Siva Kumar Panguluri, Phenotyping for Plant Breeding: Applications of Phenotyping Methods for Crop Improvement:
glosses: The condition of being blanchable.
Dayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Daynes
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Daynes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dayne
Xanadus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xanadu
helmeted guineafowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmeted guineafowl
Zealot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zealots
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of zealot.
Artush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtuʃ/
Senses: examples: text: The name Saifudin is a Chinese corruption of Saif-al-din Azia (or Seyfudin Azizov, the Russian variant), and it is transliterated into Chinese as Sai Fu-ting. The son of a businessman, he was born into a Uighur Muslim family in the small town of Artush (A-t’u-shih), located about 15 miles northwest of Kashgar, not far from the Russian border.
ref: 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 743, column 1:
text: A state-owned steel company from Jiangxi pledged to invest 7.5 billion yuan in the proposed Ganxin Iron and Steel plant in Artush, outside of Kashgar, with a projected annual production capacity of one million tons.
ref: 2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 378–379:
text: I took the bus to Artush, which was about sixty miles to the north, and got off at a pass in the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.
ref: 2009, Rebiya Kadeer, Alexandra Cavelius, “A Feather Fell Down From One Angel”, in Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China, Kales Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 133:
text: The dome of a Uighur mosque in Artush, Xinjiang, was removed in 2018.
ref: 2019 November 3, Fred Hiatt, “In China, every day is Kristallnacht”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2019, Opinions:
glosses: Synonym of Artux.
synonyms: word: Artux
wikipedia: Army Map Service
nignay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nignays
form: nigg-nye
form: nig-naye
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps compare knick-knack.
Senses: examples: text: And if you were only to see the sums which those thoughtless young lads, who have ten times more money than wit to guide it, throw away on useless nigg-nyes, while thousands around them are pinched for the necessaries of life, it would make the very hair of your head, my dear Archy, stand up like the locks of Medusa.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 270:
text: He had a lot o' curious auld nig-nayes.
ref: 1884, James Nicholson, Willie Waugh:
glosses: Something trivial or worthless.
nignays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nignay
pawkery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pawk + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: In short, the inhabitants of Italy first subdued mankind by open force; and secondly, by imposition and pawkry.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 271:
text: Pawkrie is no' an ill nest-egg to begin with!
ref: 1830, John Galt, Lawrie Todd:
glosses: Trickery, cunning.
gewgawry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gewgaw + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: [R]eligion […] here consists almost entirely of external show and gewgawry, of bowings, courtesies, and various gesticulations […].
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 272:
glosses: Gaudiness; ornamentation, show.
poopsock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poopsocks
form: poopsocking
form: poopsocked
form: poopsocked
form: poop-sock
form: poop sock
Etymology: From poop + sock, suggesting defecation in a sock.
Senses: examples: text: Blizzard has slammed the unhealthy practise of 'poopsocking'- the act of neglecting basic hygiene in favour of remaining at your PC.
ref: 2008 November 18, Adam Hartley, TechRadar:
topics: video-games
glosses: To be engrossed in a video game so much as to not leave to go to the toilet.
Jarryd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
today years old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was four years old when he learned that toads are different from frogs, but he was today years old when he learned that the mutual exclusiveness of that distinction is only a matter of folk taxonomy, not scientific taxonomy.
text: 2018 September 1, Spohr, Mike, “19 Mind-Blowing Things People Learned When They Were "Today Years Old"”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
text: My word. I can't believe I was today years old when I first heard of this.
ref: 2019 July 3, Jaimie Vandenbergh, “OT Jeff Bezos: Forget Mars, humans will live in these free-floating space pod colonies”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <ubunhelmhocu69hg4h0f28koec2au11j8p@4ax.com>:
text: Steve was today years old when he learned not to guess at a woman’s weight.
ref: 2020 May 5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!, “Admissions of Things You Ought to Have Known But Did Not: A Thread”, in RBW Owners Bunch (Usenet), message-ID <4C0F9CD0-262B-4D76-8485-411F4C33286A@gmail.com>:
glosses: One's current age (to the day).
Related terms: english: today I learned
translation: today I learned
word: TIL
word: born at night but not last night
word: born yesterday
Caligulean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caligulean
form: most Caligulean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Caligulan.
Caligulian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Caligulian
form: most Caligulian
Etymology: From Caligula + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: a Caligulian orgy
text: The misdeeds were many, and he was known by all who knew him to be a ridiculous man, but this new plan was too much, was Caligulian, Roveian, and she had no obligation to cooperate.
ref: 2016, Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Caligulan.
aerosoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aerosol
aerosoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerosol
kapelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kapelles
form: kapellen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of capelle.
befraud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: befrauds
form: befrauding
form: befrauded
form: befrauded
Etymology: From be- + fraud.
Senses: examples: text: Her new experiences were to change her habits of consumption further and to make her more susceptible to the befrauding frills that she could now afford, but which would exploit her.
ref: 1934, Albert Ernest Croft, Conditioning Buyer Personality:
text: Then I believed I had learned to know the measure of earthly suffering; but all sufferings of the world are nothing compared to the sufferings of the befrauded German emigrants in North America.
ref: 1970, Missouri Historical Society, The Bulletin, volume 27, page 113:
text: You talk ceaselessly about the 'fraud of 'those who make a business out of anti-Semitism.' Who is befrauding? In what manner?
ref: 1987, Moshe Zimmermann, Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-Semitism, page 104:
text: Therefore, it is always possible for persons to enter into conflicts of nonmalicious wrong when they disagree over what factors are the rightful property they have recognized, to befraud one another by using the contractual form of reciprocal recognition to acquire property through misrepresentation, and finally to commit crimes by simply choosing to violate openly the property rights of others.
ref: 1991, Richard Dien Winfield, Freedom and Modernity, page 121:
text: Vitelleschi, an invaluable friend who had emerged so unexpectedly, had kept his promises to the letter, ruining that fearsome woman he had befrauded, along with his competitor Filson, had won Johanna for him, whose possession had become a point of pride.
ref: 1996, Emil Klauprecht, Steven Rowan, Cincinnati, Or, The Mysteries of the West:
text: When grown up, once he went on a voyage in the company of his younger step-brother, who befrauded and deserted him twice over on a lonely island.
ref: 2000, T. R. S. Sharma, C. K. Seshdri, June Gaur, Ancient Indian Literature: Tamil and Kannada, page 875:
glosses: Synonym of defraud.
synonyms: word: defraud
befrauded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of befraud
befrauds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befraud
befrauding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befraud
fraudfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fraudful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being fraudful; deceitfulness.
lubricating oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lubricating oils
Senses: examples: text: Safety devices ensure that the engines are automatically shut down in the event of overspeed, low pressure in the lubricating oil system, low cooling-water pressure, or high cooling-water temperature.
ref: 1955 October, “Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Ireland”, in Railway Magazine, page 718:
text: Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: New B.R. research laboratory”, in Trains Illustrated, page 329:
hypernyms: oil#Noun
lubricant#Noun
coordinate_terms: heating oil
bunker oil
<
fuel oil
glosses: An oil for lubrication of engines and other components.
dehead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deheads
form: deheading
form: deheaded
form: deheaded
form: de-head
Etymology: From de- + head.
Senses: examples: text: An operator of these types of machines is able to dehead up to 40 fish per minute.
ref: 1990, Zdzislaw E. Sikorski, Seafood: Resources, Nutritional Composition, and Preservation:
glosses: To remove the head (from).
named parameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: named parameters
Senses: examples: text: In the function call foo(3, 6, type="bar"), type is a named parameter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A parameter that is passed by name, rather than by position, in a function call.
Coordinate terms: positional parameter
named argument
positional parameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positional parameters
Senses: examples: In the function call foo(3, 6, type="bar"), there are two different positional parameters, to which are passed the values 3 and 6.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: a parameter that is passed by position, rather than by name, in a function call
Coordinate terms: named parameter
positional argument
lubricating oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubricating oil
tanzaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanzaku
Senses: qualifier: Japanese culture
glosses: A slip of paper that can be written on, especially those hung on bamboo or other trees during the Tanabata festival.
examples: text: On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese. When he tried to include the "Willow with Tanzaku" card in a "Nanatan" suit, someone pointed out, "Oh, but the 'Willow with Tanzaku' isn't allowed."
ref: 2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation, →ISBN, The Path, page 64:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A hanafuda playing card depicting a tanzaku (slip of paper) attached to the plant corresponding to the card's suit.
Einstellung effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einstellung effects
Etymology: Coined by Luchins and Luchins in 1942 after publishing a study of their water-jar experiment. Einstellung is a German borrowing, hence the capitalisation.
Senses: glosses: A problem-solving mindset displayed where a simpler solution for solving a particular problem type is not noticed due to thinking being fixed into a particular logic pattern by earlier repetitions of similar solutions.
Einstellung effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Einstellung effect
demonette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonettes
form: daemonette
form: dæmonette
form: demonet
Etymology: From demon + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female demon.
glosses: A little demon.
Synonyms: sense: Female demon
word: fiendess
sense: Female demon
word: fiendette
sense: Female demon
word: deviless
sense: Female demon
word: devilette
sense: Female demon
word: fiendet
sense: Female demon
word: devilet
sense: Little demon
word: devilet
sense: Little demon
word: fiendlet
sense: Little demon
word: devillet
sense: Little demon
word: devilkin
sense: Little demon
word: fiendkin
sense: Little demon
word: devilette
sense: Little demon
word: fiendette
sense: Little demon
word: fiendling
sense: Little demon
word: devilling
Related terms: demonlet
demonling
demonkin
demoness
demonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonette
Manston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish served by Manston and Hammoon parish council, in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8115).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3466).
glosses: A suburb near Cross Gates, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3635).
Hammoon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish served by Manston and Hammoon parish council, in north Dorset, England (OS grid ref ST8114).
koebnerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koebnerization
form: koebnerisation
form: Koebnerisation
Etymology: From Koebner + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The Koebner phenomenon.
have to say for oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has to say for oneself
form: having to say for oneself
form: had to say for oneself
form: had to say for oneself
Senses: examples: text: Your teacher told me that you vandalized a library book today. I am very disappointed in you. What do you have to say for yourself? Now I don't know if I can trust you around library books.
glosses: Used with other words to show that someone lacks an explanation for what he or she is doing or has done.
bibrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bibrows
Etymology: From bi- + brow, modeled after unibrow or monobrow.
Senses: examples: text: And, for the avoidance of doubt among the slower portion of the readership, I don't *actually* believe the monobrow to be a criminal indicator. That, of course, is the sole province of the tribrows like myself, monstrous offspring of a monobrow and bibrow parent.
ref: 2003 January 26, Peter Ellis, “Re: [I] Is Long, Was Bowling for Columbine”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: [> He would be more likely to have children with unibrows or good thick eyebrows, until one day there would be a whole unibrow race.]
What do you think would happen if bibrow people tended to die before they had children and unibrow people tended to survive?
ref: 2005 August 10, Matt Silberstein, “Re: What Darwinism is good for.”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
text: Now he was taller, more muscular, and he'd let his hair grow out quite a bit – it was brown and curly, like Davin's, only Hunter's was longer. And the unibrow had graduated to a bibrow, with an ample amount of hairless skin in between.
ref: 2010, Molly Patton, Just South of Normal, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 239:
antonyms: unibrow
monobrow
glosses: A pair of eyebrows which do not meet in the middle, as opposed to a unibrow.
bhop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bhops
form: bhopping
form: bhopped
form: bhopped
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Alternative form of b-hop.
baby-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-faces
Senses: examples: text: [T]he jolly, broad, fooliſh, humorous, half-laughing, half-crying, baby-face of the Major extorted peals of laughter from all who were preſent.
ref: 1769, [Henry] Brooke, “XVII [The Three Estates in Parliament.]”, in The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry Earl of Moreland, volume IV, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, page 237:
text: Say that the Cherubs carved in stone, / [...] / Used to sing in heavenly tone, / Above and round the sacred places / They guard, with wingèd baby-faces.
ref: 1834, William Wordsworth, “The Redbreast. (Suggested in a Westmoreland Cottage.)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 286:
text: Now Sir Wigolais was not only very young, but extremely young-looking; he had one of those baby-faces that obstinately refused to look manly at any age, and a chin that seemed destined never to wear a beard.
ref: 1849 March, John Oxenford, “Sir Wigolais of the Wheel”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume LXXXV, number CCCXXXIX, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter I (How Sir Wigolais set out for Corotin, Accompanied by a Sulky Damsel), page 315:
glosses: Alternative form of baby face.
baby-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-face
UwU
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more UwU
form: most UwU
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uwu.
Koebnerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koebnerization.
koebnerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of koebnerization.
Galton board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Galton boards
Etymology: Named after Sir Francis Galton.
Senses: glosses: A device in which small objects tumble through a set of pegs, coming to rest in a pattern that approximates a normal distribution.
wikipedia: Sir Francis Galton
Synonyms: bean machine
Galton box
quincunx
Eskimo Nebula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From looking like the fur-lined hood of an Inuit (“Eskimo”) animal skin parka, while being worn.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A planetary nebula in Gemini, Milky Way Galaxy.
Synonyms: NGC 2392
Caldwell 39
C39
Clown Nebula
Clownface Nebula
Clown Face Nebula
Hypernyms: bipolar double-shell nebula
bipolar double-shell planetary nebula
bipolar nebula
bipolar planetary nebula
double-shell nebula
double-shell planetary nebula
emission nebula
nebula
planetary nebula
Lower Edmonton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Edmonton, borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3494).
Dirac's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dirac constant.
Siamese Twins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Siamese Twins
form: Siamese Twin Galaxies
form: Siamese Twins Galaxies
form: Siamese Twin Galaxy
form: Siamese Twins Galaxy
Etymology: From being a pair of galaxies that are similar in appearance and appearing conjoined, analogous to a pair of Siamese twins.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy pair in Virgo, Virgo Cluster.
Synonyms: NGC 4567
8
PGC 42064
9
UGC 7776
VV 219
Butterfly Galaxies
Butterfly Galaxy
Hypernyms: galaxy pair
colliding galaxies
interacting galaxies
Hyponyms: NGC 4567
NGC 4568
PGC 42064
PGC 42069
UGC 7776 A
UGC 7776 B
VV 219 A
VV 219 B
Coordinate terms: spiral galaxy
unbarred spiral galaxy
barless spiral galaxy
disc galaxy
disk galaxy
galaxy
Forty Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Fortey c. 1350; from Old English.
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3398).
Highams Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Waltham Forest, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3892).
mythinformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of myth + misinformation.
Senses: glosses: False information, when seen as having its own mythology or being believed in like a myth would be.
Antwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of French Antoine. Compare Antoine, Antwon.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English Anthony.
Antjuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of French Antoine, influenced by Spanish Juan. Compare Antoine, Antwon.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English Anthony.
sacrodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sacro- + -dynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the sacral region; sacralgia.
splenodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spleno- + -dynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the region of the spleen; splenalgia.
pyloralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pylor(us) + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain in the region of the pylorus.
pyopericarditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyo- + pericarditis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inflammation of the pericardium accompanied by the formation of pus; purulent pericarditis.
West Sleekburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Sliceburn c. 1050, from Old English slicu or slic + burna. The Sleek Burn is a minor local river.
Senses: glosses: A village in Choppington parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ2785).
Related terms: East Sleekburn
pharyngoplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharyngo- + -plegia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Paralysis of the pharynx.
Charcot's neurologic triad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of nystagmus, tremor, and staccato speech, associated with multiple sclerosis.
perineotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perineotomies
Senses: glosses: Surgical incision into the perineum.
Related terms: episiotomy
perineotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perineotomy
FMIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
fiendette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiendettes
form: fiendet
Etymology: From fiend + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female fiend.
glosses: A little fiend.
Synonyms: sense: Female fiend
word: demoness
sense: Female fiend
word: demonette
sense: Female fiend
word: deviless
sense: Female fiend
word: devilette
sense: Female fiend
word: demonet
sense: Female fiend
word: devilet
sense: Little fiend
word: devilet
sense: Little fiend
word: demonet
sense: Little fiend
word: devillet
sense: Little fiend
word: demonlet
sense: Little fiend
word: devilkin
sense: Little fiend
word: demonkin
sense: Little fiend
word: devilette
sense: Little fiend
word: demonette
sense: Little fiend
word: devilling
sense: Little fiend
word: demonling
Related terms: fiendlet
fiendling
fiendkin
fiendess
N99
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N99s
Etymology: From Initialism of Not resistant to oil particles with 99% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: N99; Ellipsis of NIOSH N99.
N99 standard
glosses: N99; Ellipsis of NIOSH N99.
N99 filter
Coordinate terms: R99
P99 (99% filtration)
R100
P100
N100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R95
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P95
N100
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N100s
Etymology: From Initialism of Not resistant to oil particles with 100% filtration efficiency in NIOSH air filtration ratings.
Senses: glosses: N100; Ellipsis of NIOSH N100.
N100 standard
glosses: N100; Ellipsis of NIOSH N100.
N100 filter
Coordinate terms: R99
P99
N99 (99% filtration)
R100
P100 (99.97% filtration)
Related terms: english: oil-resistant filter standard
translation: oil-resistant filter standard
word: R100
english: oil-proof filter standard
translation: oil-proof filter standard
word: P100
ubernerd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubernerds
form: uber nerd
form: über nerd
form: uber-nerd
form: über-nerd
form: übernerd
Etymology: From uber- + nerd.
Senses: examples: text: It is totally counter-intuitive. How do these ubernerds get the cute girls? Is it the ultimate triumph of the Bill Gates era, in which geek is the new cool?
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 265:
glosses: An outstandingly nerdy nerd; a superlative nerd.
Related terms: ubernerdy
ubernerds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubernerd
kick-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I guess it helped that they were one of the few bands with an environmental sensibility but, more importantly, they played some kick-arse rock'n'roll.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 276:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kick-ass.
LFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LFOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of low-frequency oscillation.
birdwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birdwalks
form: bird-walk
form: bird walk
Etymology: From bird + walk.
Senses: examples: text: I joined Andrew on the morning bird walk and had seventy-five species before I even left Kingfisher Park.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 296:
glosses: A walk taken for the purpose of birdwatching.
birdwalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdwalk
runs amok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run amok.
runs amuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of run amuck.
running amok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run amok
running amuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of run amuck
ran amok
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run amok
ran amuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of run amuck
fiendettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiendette
shooting war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting wars
Senses: coordinate_terms: cold war
war of nerves
glosses: An outright war between military powers.
UNHCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.
ref: 2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters:
synonyms: HCR
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
carbamido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The radical -NHCONH₂ derived from urea (carbamide)
HCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Clipping of UNHCR.
glosses: Initialism of High Commission for Refugees.
glosses: Abbreviation of High Commissioner for Refugees.
sambuseh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambusehs
form: sambuseh
Etymology: Borrowed from Iranian Persian سَمْبوسِه (sambuse), from Classical Persian سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag.
Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuusa, samosa, and samsa.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An Iranian pastry with a triangular shape, similar to the South Asian samosa.
sambousek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambouseks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sambusak.
bird-walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird-walks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of birdwalk.
bird-walks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird-walk
bird walk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird walks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of birdwalk.
bird walks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird walk
slow study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow studies
Senses: examples: text: I used to write as slow as judgment; now I write rather fast; but I am still 'a slow study,' and sit along while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in —and there your stuff is, good or bad.
ref: 1891 November, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to W. Craibe Angus:
text: He does it so badly, and he is such a slow study, that I'm afraid the first act will break down if I don't give it some vim; after you are once on, the thing will go and I shan't care a red.
ref: 1897 August, Charles Egbert Craddock, “The Juggler”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 80, number 478, page 254:
text: I was always a slow study, imp, but I made my own decisions.
ref: 1982, Kasey Michaels, The Belligerent Miss Boynton:
text: Although I'm a very slow study, Annie Dillard's simple observation is beginning to seep in.
ref: 2017, Vance G. Morgan, Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World, page 68:
antonyms: quick study
glosses: One who takes a long time to learn or understand things; a slow learner.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slow, study.
Bearsted
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7955).
Hollingbourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Maidstone borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8455).