cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spɹiːθ/
Forms: form: spreaths
Etymology: From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sprèidh, from Middle Irish spréid (“cattle, wealth”), from Latin praeda (“plunder, spoils; profit; prey”), thus a doublet of prey. Per one hypothesis, also a doublet of spree.
Senses: examples: text: It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
ref: 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
glosses: A raid in order to steal cattle.
spreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreath
Arabophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: An affection for, or interest in, things related to Arabs.
Arabophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arabophilic
form: most Arabophilic
Etymology: From Arabo- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to Arabophilia; fond of Arabs or their culture.
holy fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy fools
Senses: synonyms: fool for Christ
yurodivy
qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A person, often associated with gifts of prophecy and insight, who publicly acts as if mad or stupid, but whose madness is seen as concealing an inner sanctity for the purpose of self-humiliation.
Related terms: fool-saint
Asiatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Asiatically
form: most Asiatically
Etymology: From Asiatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: […] to the Importance of your Mightiness, Prostrate at the Threshold of your Munificence, Do I Asiatically bow my Head;
ref: 1743, George Alexander Stevens, The Dramatic History of Master Edward, London: T. Waller, dedicatory epistle, page 186:
text: 1843, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Emily Brontë dated 2 September, 1843, in Muriel Spark (ed.), The Letters of the Brontës, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954, p. 106,
The weather has been exceedingly fine during the last fortnight, and yet not so Asiatically hot as it was last year at this time.
text: […] the iconoclast sovereigns, strong in the support of an Asiatically recruited army, had added much to the glory of the Empire,
ref: 1929, Robert Byron, The Byzantine Achievement, Routledge, published 2012, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 175:
text: The books in his waiting room inclined Asiatically, as did the knickknacks in his lavatory.
ref: 2011, David Guterson, chapter 6, in Ed King, New York: Knopf, page 133:
synonyms: orientally
glosses: In a (typically) Asian manner; from, in or toward Asia.
Asiaticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Asiatic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Asiatic.
Taff's Well
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taffs Well
Senses: glosses: A village and community (served by Taff's Well and Nantgarw Community Council) in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1283).
inuhariko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inuhariko
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inu hariko.
step out on someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Nikki, who is stepping out on her main squeeze Lee,
ref: 1988 February 7, Elizabeth Pincus, “A Romp Through Lavender Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 7:
text: I could tell from the way she acted that night that she had never stepped out on her man.
ref: 2020, Danesha Little, Getting Even:
glosses: To cheat on someone; to be unfaithful to a lover.
inu-hariko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inuhariko
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inu hariko.
Agamograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agamographs
Etymology: From Agam + -o- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: This show includes serigraphs, Agamographs, sculptures, and tapestries by one of the pioneers of kinetic and optical art.
ref: 1981, New West - Volume 6, Issues 5-9:
text: In 1970 Agam's environmental painting for the Forum Leverkusen in Germany was installed. The next year one of his most popular graphic techniques, the "Agamograph" (a multidimensional graphic) was developed.
ref: 2007, Sayako Aragaki, Agam: Beyond the Visible, page 102:
text: I had seen one or two Agams in books and museums, but I was amazed that almost every wall in Sidney's house seemed to display an Agamograph, and some walls had more Agam than wall showing.
ref: 2015, Seth Schechter, Martini Wonderland, page 42:
glosses: A graphic form, popularized by Yaacov Agam, that uses lenticular printing to create the illusion of kineticism.
wikipedia: Yaacov Agam
Agamographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Agamograph
by any stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Clipping of "by any stretch of the imagination".
Senses: examples: text: With its barred windows and fading paper signs announcing the various forms of its artery cloggers du jour, it couldn't by any stretch be called inviting.
ref: 2011, Marcia Clark, Guilt By Association:
text: I can see nothing in that case which supports the proposition that a right conferred on an individual by the articles of a company to remain as president until removed in general meeting, and which is unrelated to any shareholding, can, by any stretch, be described as a class right.
ref: 2011, Alan J. Dignam, Andrew Hicks, Hicks & Goo's Cases and Materials on Company Law, page 464:
text: I wasn't genetically tied to her by any stretch which gave me some comfort.
ref: 2014, Emivita -, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil:
text: But Louie Ray's mama was a gem, and while the Kirklands weren't rich by any stretch, they were a little better off than us.
ref: 2017, Frank Griffin, Touched by Fire, page 75:
glosses: In any conceivable way.
Coryton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Cory + -ton (in Cardiff and Essex).
Senses: glosses: A northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST1481).
glosses: A former oil refinery (and village?) in Thurrock borough, Essex, England, named after Cory & Co circa 1922, and formerly named Kynochtown (OS grid ref TQ7482).
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Lewdown Grouped Parish Council) in West Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4583).
glosses: A surname.
body man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body men
form: bodyman
Senses: examples: text: Usually terrific with names, the interrupted president had just had a very human brain fart. Jay, his “body man,” sprang forward to remedy this.
ref: 2009, David Baldacci, First Family: King and Maxwell:
text: Of the $30,000-a-plate dinner at the Four Seasons in 2010, at which Obama, after devoting a brisk seven minutes to each table, retreated to a private room to sup with Jarrett and his body man, Reggie Love—a tale that traveled so widely it became a sort of urban legend.
ref: 2013, John Heilemann, Mark Halperin, Double Down, page 30:
text: "We're like The Bucket List, right, Billy?" asks Chris Burch, who is sitting in the front seat of the Escalade that is being maneuvered through Soho traffic by Bill Allen, his body man of twenty-one years.
ref: 2013, Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, The Best Business Writing 2013, page 257:
text: Owens, my body man, didn't like heights.
ref: 2014, M.J. Scott, Fire Kin:
glosses: A male personal assistant.
examples: text: According to manufacturer, the body man has complete control when using the new tools because the application of power is so gradual he can feel the metal unlock itself.
ref: 1958, Autobody and the Reconditioned Car, volumes 37-38:
glosses: A man who works on auto bodies.
body men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body man
West Devon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛvən
Etymology: From west + Devon.
Senses: glosses: A local government district with borough status of Devon, England.
geniculate nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geniculate nuclei
form: geniculate nucleuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Either of two pairs of structures situated on the lower surface of the thalamus that relay sensory impulses to the cortex: the lateral geniculate nucleus, which relays visual impulses, and the medial geniculate nucleus, which relays auditory impulses.
geniculate nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniculate nucleus
geniculate nucleuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniculate nucleus
hypersarcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersarcoses
Etymology: From hyper- + sarcosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: hypersarcoma
glosses: A soft fungous excrescence, especially such as appears upon ulcerated parts.
hypersarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of hypersarcosis.
synonyms: word: hypersarcosis
hypersarcoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersarcosis
colliculo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From colliculus (small elevation).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the inferior colliculus or superior colliculus.
colliculogeniculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colliculo- + geniculate.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the cells of the inferior colliculi send commissural fibers to the opposite colliculus; others send colliculogeniculate fibers (inferior brachium) to the medial geniculate body of the thalamus; some to the superior colliculus (acustico-optic fibers) and some to the cerebellum (tectocerebellar fibers).
ref: 1963, Louis Hausman, Clinical Neuroanatomy, with a Method of Brain Reconstruction, page 40:
text: These may correspond to the thin colliculogeniculate endings previously described in the cat ventral nucleus (Morest 1975: Fig. 7, top) and, perhaps, to the phalangiform axons seen in the dorsal division (W iner and Morest 1984).
ref: 2012, D. Kent Morest, Jeffery A. Winer, The Comparative Anatomy of Neurons:
text: These data suggest that at birth the colliculogeniculate projection is more mature than the corticogeniculate projection but less developed than the retinogeniculate pathway.
ref: 2013, William D. Neff -, Contributions to Sensory Physiology, page 62:
glosses: Pertaining to the connection between the inferior colliculus or superior colliculus and the geniculate nucleus.
passenger-side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From passenger + -side.
Senses: glosses: On the side of a car corresponding to the front passenger's seat.
Berrow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berrows
Etymology: From Old English bearu (“grove”), which is from Proto-Germanic *barwaz (“grove”). Compare Beer (“a village in East Devon”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2952).
glosses: A small village and civil parish in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7934).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
put one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's hands on
form: putting one's hands on
form: put one's hands on
form: put one's hands on
Senses: examples: text: I can't believe I put my hands on him like that. I feel awful for hitting him.
ref: 2008, E.N. Joy, Me, Myself and Him:
text: He never physically put his hands on me though he threatened many times.
ref: 2009, Michele E. Davis, On My Way to Heaven, page 59:
text: No, I did not put my hands on your child.
ref: 2012, Daaimah S. Poole, Ex-girl To The Next Girl, page 62:
glosses: To assault.
examples: text: You not supposed to put your hands on my stuff either You racist bitch!
ref: 2006, Rha Goddess, Low, page 92:
text: “How dare you put your hands on my things!” she screamed and growled, slapping and scratching at his face, pulling viciously on the collar of his shirt.
ref: 2010, J. D. Mason, Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It: A Novel, page 84:
text: Well Sergio belongs to me; since you had the balls to put your hands on my property I figured they had to be pretty big.”
ref: 2012, Cam Rascoe, Hennry Horrowitz Presents:Harlots Hustlers & Heroines, page 180:
glosses: To interfere with.
examples: text: If he doesn't already own some helicopters, he's bound to be able to put his hands on some.”
ref: 2006, William W. Johnstone, Invasion Usa: Border War:
text: Any ideas where I can put my hands on some new shoes for the front and rear?
ref: 2007, Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, March 2007, page 48:
text: I would give a great deal if I could put my hands on some of those paintings (now lost) I did at home between the ages of sixteen and seventeen, depictions of “family happiness” in what we might call the Tolstoyan sense of the phrase.
ref: 2011, Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul, page 353:
text: He had to put his hands on some money— and soon.
ref: 2019, Jeanne Charters, Yellow:
glosses: To obtain or find.
examples: text: He put his hands on both sides of the wall.
ref: 2008, Zack Highstreet, A Plague on Both Houses, page 215:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, hands.
puts one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's hands on
putting one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put one's hands on
gets one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get one's hands on
getting one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get one's hands on
got one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of get one's hands on
glosses: past participle of get one's hands on
gotten one's hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get one's hands on
East Brent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish of Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3452)
lays hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay hands on
laying hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lay hands on
laid hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lay hands on
lain hands on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of lay hands on
carrier oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrier oils
Senses: examples: text: Oil that is not suitable for use as carrier oil is baby oil or mineral oil, which is a petrolatum product and essential oils do not disperse well into these products nor do they sufficiently penetrate the skin, which disallows the aroma's molecules entry into the bloodstream.
ref: 2005, Kylie Thompson, Aromatherapy for the Emotions, page 18:
text: Always blend them with a suitable carrier oil in the appropriate dilution when using them for massage.
ref: 2011, Denise Whichello Brown, Healing Massage: Flash, page 3-36:
text: In addition, pomegranate is connected with divination, and sunflower with wisdom. I have not settled on a specific one, yet. Trying a different carrier oil when repeating a blend is good way to experiment and extend your knowledge.
ref: 2013, Sandra Kynes, Mixing Essential Oils for Magic:
text: The specific choice of a carrier oil or the oil which carries the essential oil to the skin, depends on the therapeutic benefit being sought.
ref: 2013, Miriam Kinai, Black Pepper Essential Oil, page 18:
glosses: An oil that is easily absorbed by the skin that is used to dilute an essential oil for use in cosmetics, massage or aromatherapy.
examples: text: Stearic acid dissolved in a carrier oil can effect a strong reduction in the coefficient of friction for metal rubbed against metal.
ref: 1985, A. Dorinson, K.C. Ludema, Mechanics and Chemistry in Lubrication, page 198:
text: The technology uses a food-grade "carrier oil" to extract the oil-soluble contaminants (Figure 1).
ref: 1989, Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation:
text: The acidified manure is mixed up with a non-toxic biodegradable carrier oil with a boiling point far above that of water and a negligible solubility in water.
ref: 1995, International Association on Water Quality, Water Quality International, '94 PT. 7, page 162:
glosses: Any oil used to dissolve and carry an oil-soluble substance into or out of a compound.
carrier oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrier oil
head to foot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: from head to foot
Etymology: From Middle English (fro) hived to þe fot, (fro) þe hed vnto þe feet, (fra) þe hefd vnto þe fote.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of head to toe.
synonyms: word: head to toe
cash on the line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Everything here is cash on the line. You can pay in advance for your room if you like, or you can pay every morning to keep the room that night.
ref: 2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Two-Bit Posse:
text: Cash on the line had to be paid for them cattle.
ref: 2012, James Still, Ted Olson, The Hills Remember: The Complete Short Stories of James Still:
text: On this lovely day, amid the song of birds and the aroma of coffee, let us take a holy oath not to sell these two crosses except for cash on the line!
ref: 2013, Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk, page 114:
text: But one of the boys, who didn't believe in anything either, found it even more convenient to make blood money on you and sold you out to fat policemen—cash on the line.
ref: 2014, Victor Serge, Birth of Our Power, page 36:
glosses: Synonym of cash on the barrelhead.
synonyms: word: cash on the barrelhead
examples: text: We'll need some decent equipment and plenty of cash on the line—if only for drugs and a super-sensitive tape recorder, for the sake of a permanent record.
ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream:
text: Many of us are, after all, writers manqué: we too were going to be men of letters once — novelists, columnists, editors — men whose words would change the world, men whose words would even mean cash on the line.
ref: 1988, Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988:
glosses: Cash that is on hand for any expenses.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cash, on the line.
Long Marston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Tring Rural parish, Dacorum borough, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP8915).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5051).
glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Marston Sicca Parish Council) in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP1548).
Southam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Southams
Etymology: From Old English sūþ (“south”) + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9725).
glosses: A placename:
A market town and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4161).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: Eastham
Northam
South Ham
Westham
change horses in mid-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes horses in mid-stream
form: changing horses in mid-stream
form: changed horses in mid-stream
form: changed horses in mid-stream
Senses: examples: text: “It is not good to change horses in mid-stream”, is what the famous American President Abraham Lincoln said.
ref: 2010, Hendrick C. Verton, In the Fire of the Eastern Front:
text: Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”
ref: 2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting:
text: The excuse given by his Democrat Party was that the war was going on, and it was not wise to “change horses in mid-stream,” as the popular phrase was used during the months of electioneering before the votes were cast.
ref: 2012, Eugene G. Schulz, The Ghost in General Patton's Third Army, page 237:
glosses: Alternative form of change horses in midstream.
changes horses in mid-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of change horses in mid-stream
changing horses in mid-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of change horses in mid-stream
changed horses in mid-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of change horses in mid-stream
mid-stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So I was constrained to turn again to the mid-stream.
ref: 1800, Joseph Benson, The life of the Rev. John W. de la Flechere, page 16:
text: We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
text: The boundary should be demarcated along the mid-stream of the course at the time of the demarcation of that branch of the Fenny River indicated as the Fenny River on Survey of India Map Sheet no 79 M/15.
ref: 2010, Brig (Retd)V P Malhotra, Security and Defence Related Treaties of India, page 244:
text: Starting from the coast at Point Playa, the line of boundary shall run in a straight line to the River Barima at its junction with the River Mururuma, and thence along the mid-stream of the latter river to its source, and from that point to the junction of the River Haiowa with the Amakura, and thence along the mid-stream of the Amakura to its source in the Imataka Ridge,...
ref: 2013, Odeen Ishmael, The Guyana Story:
glosses: Alternative form of midstream.
Pitlochry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɪtˈlɒxɹi/
Senses: glosses: A town or burgh in Perthshire, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN9458).
house brand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house brands
Senses: examples: text: Supermarkets are fighting national brands with house brands.
text: Some house brand products are even made on the same production line as the comparable name brand products.
text: The house brand is one of the most traditional ways of branding.
ref: 1998, Torsten H. Nilson, Competitive Branding, page 89:
text: Having been around wine in college, conscious that norther Santa Barbara County was spawning vineyards and wineries with increasing speed, and looking for a creative way to have some fun, Ostini got the idea to improve the restaurant's unimpressive list of basic Paul Masson varietals with good value, local wine that — in an unusual twist on the "house brand" story — he would make himself.
ref: 2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir:
text: It makes no budget shopping sense to buy condensed cream of chicken soup in a brand-name can with a coupon when the house brand is still ten cents less than that.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Maughan, 100 Meals for $5 or Less, page 9:
glosses: Synonym of own brand.
synonyms: word: own brand
house brands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of house brand
give a hang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a hang
form: giving a hang
form: gave a hang
form: given a hang
Senses: synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: give a hoot; give a damn (to care about; to place value on something)
Asherah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæʃəɹə/
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲשֵׁרָה ('asherá).
Senses: examples: text: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
ref: 1973, Old Testament (New International Version), Exodus 34:13
text: Asherah worship continued in many places, though.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 373:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A mother goddess in ancient Semitic religion, consort of the supreme god El.
semi-daily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semidaily
Etymology: From semi- + daily.
Senses: examples: text: Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night's best basketball action.
ref: 2013 February 14, Myron Medcalf, “Saddle Up: Minnesota is in trouble”, in Men's College Basketball Blog, ESPN:
text: They’re also trying to cause more fumbles, evident by a semi-daily drill in camp …
ref: 2016 August 5, Andrew Krammer, “Vikings defense works on polishing its theft techniques”, in Star Tribune:
text: … he is going to ask a higher court to intervene over the false arrests, imprisonments, and other issues that arise on a semi-daily basis …
ref: 2016 November 29, Malaika Fraley, East Bay Times:
glosses: Occurring twice a day
semi-daily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: semidaily
Etymology: From semi- + daily.
Senses: examples: text: The documents say the 17-year-old told police he had been carrying the gun to school semi-daily since the beginning of the school year, …
ref: 2018 December 3, “Threats shut down 15 Lord Selkirk School Division schools on Monday”, in CBC News:
glosses: Twice a day.
Synonyms: bidaily
semidaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + daily.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-daily.
moronocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moronocracies
Etymology: From moron + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A government run by morons.
post-Homeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + Homeric.
Senses: glosses: After Homer.
low life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lowlife.
South Ayrshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A council area of Scotland, one of 32 formed in 1996; it has its headquarters in the town of Ayr.
the fat is in the fire
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Trouble will happen soon.
Related terms: pull the fat out of the fire
pull someone's fat out of the fire
antiphlogiston
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiphlogiston
form: most antiphlogiston
Etymology: From anti- + phlogiston.
Senses: examples: text: Jameson had heard the last dying echoes of the battle between the partisans of the phlogiston and the antiphlogiston camp.
ref: 1861, George Wilson, Archibald Geikie, Memoir of Edward Forbes, page 117:
text: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier's Opuscules Physiques et Chemiques […] laid some of the foundation for his later antiphlogiston theory of chemistry.
ref: 1979, Gerald P Tyson, Joseph Johnson, University of Iowa, page 48:
glosses: Opposed to the phlogiston hypothesis.
rubber ducked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubber ducked
form: most rubber ducked
form: rubber-ducked
Senses: examples: text: 'That's good,' said my soon-to-be-ex-brother-in-law. 'Kravitz said he was a solid guy, and well-connected too. How you feeling, anyway'? ¶ I suppressed a yawn. 'Rubber ducked,' I told him, lapsing in to Edinburgh rhyming slang.
ref: 2002, Quintin Jardine, chapter 23, in Poisoned Cherries, Headline Publishing:
text: "Yeah, sort of. 'Ang abaht, there's a boozer other there," still short of breath Jimmy pointed to a corner they were approaching, "I'm rubber ducked, d'ya fancy a pint?"
ref: 2014, Emmel Pound, The Barren Seed, Booktango:
glosses: Fucked.
rubber ducked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubber-ducked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubber duck
rubber-duck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubber-ducks
form: rubber-ducking
form: rubber-ducked
form: rubber-ducked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubber duck.
rubber-ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubber ducks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubber-duck
rubber-ducking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber ducking
form: rubberducking
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubber ducking.
rubber-ducking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubber ducking
form: rubberducking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubber-duck
Heaton Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A park in the city of Manchester and adjacent suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8203).
ring-fenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: To have ring-fenced funding that can't be taken away when there's a change of political wind is immensely beneficial.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Byford talks to Paul Clifton, “I enjoy really big challenges...”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ring-fence
ring-fencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring-fence
rubber-ducked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubber-ducked
form: most rubber-ducked
Senses: examples: text: 'Thanks, boss, but I won't if you don't mind. I'm rubber-ducked. So I'm bound for an early night, Saturday or not!'
ref: 1994, Quintin Jardine, chapter 14, in Skinner's Festival, Headline Publishing:
text: If the world decides to move out of the dollar and into gold then we are, not to put too fine a point on it, totally rubber-ducked. See Seb, I'm definitely getting the hand of cockney!
ref: 2017, Brian Terry, Gold ₂ Dust, Matador, page 145:
glosses: Alternative form of rubber ducked.
rubber-ducked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubber ducked
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubber-duck
ring-fences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring-fence
West Hampstead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An urban area of London in the borough of Camden, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2585).
data-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: data driven
Senses: examples: text: Better characterisation of the individual is at the core of the emerging data-driven economy, which will be significantly expanded in scope and depth by the internet of things. We obtain free services from Google and Facebook because they are characterising our desires and matching us to companies that can satisfy them.
ref: 2015 July 23, Neil Lawrence, “The data-driven economy will help marketers exploit us”, in The Guardian:
text: Buttigieg also speaks the language of the tech industry, from “data-driven” to “disruption”. Matt Hartman, a partner at Betaworks Ventures, appreciated how Buttigieg brought that data-driven mindset to municipal matters, such as the South Bend sewer system.
ref: 2019 July 30, Julia Carrie Wong, “Young, Ivy League and data-driven: why venture capitalists love Pete Buttigieg”, in The Guardian:
text: The projects, which are due to start in November, are: […] Data-driven robust timetabling - […]
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:
text: We can already see that the fourth industrial revolution will be data driven.
ref: 2019, Peter Jackson, Caroline Carruthers, Data Driven Business Transformation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: Dependent on or determined by the collection or analysis of data.
Derived terms: data-driven design
data-driven programming
Umberleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village on the River Taw in Atherington parish and Chittlehampton parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6023).
Eggesford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish and railway station in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6810).
light money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: ē
enpr: lītʹmŭn'
Forms: form: light moneys
form: light monies
Etymology: From light (noun) + money (noun).
Senses: glosses: Money levied for the maintenance of lighthouses; light dues.
Lapford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, England (OS grid ref SS7308).
light due
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹdo͞o
Forms: form: light dues
Etymology: From light (noun) + due (noun).
Senses: glosses: A duty or toll levied on ships navigating certain waters, for the maintenance of lighthouses; light money.
Copplestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊn
Forms: form: Copplestones
Etymology: Perhaps from Old English copel (“unsteady, rocking”) + stān (“stone”). Alternatively, the first element might be related to Old English copp (“top, summit”), through the adjective coppel (“peaked, rounded”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7602).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
fleeky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: fleekier
form: fleekiest
Senses: examples: 2016 February 26, Tinie Tempah, “Girls Like”, Youth (2017), Parlophone, Disturbing London
Man of the year, I’m fleeky / Had a couple man wanna be me.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: On fleek.
feed back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds back
form: feeding back
form: fed back
form: fed back
form: feedback
Senses: examples: text: His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted.
glosses: To provide informational feedback to.
examples: text: Customers fed back their complaints and some praise.
glosses: To convey by means of specialized communications channel.
examples: text: Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.
ref: 2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54:
glosses: To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid.
Yeoford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the local River Yeo + ford.
Senses: glosses: A village in Crediton Hamlets parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7898).
risk one's life and limb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: risks one's life and limb
form: risking one's life and limb
form: risked one's life and limb
form: risked one's life and limb
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of risk life and limb.
King's Nympton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kings Nympton
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6819).
Related terms: Bishop's Nympton
George Nympton
Queen's Nympton
off-side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offside.
off-side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offside.
near-side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nearside.
Stoke Gifford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6279).
cooking on gas
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cooking with gas.
handweed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handweeds
form: handweeding
form: handweeded
form: handweeded
Etymology: From hand + weed.
Senses: examples: text: Snce the plots were wheel-hoed and handweeded twice, the number of man-minutes to handweed each plot is a good indication of the effect of the different treatments on the different weed species.
ref: 1956, The Philippine Agriculturist - Volumes 40-41, page 435:
text: Filipino farmers usually handweed upland rice twice.
ref: 1989, Tropical Pest Management, page 34:
text: Thus, an additional 283.5 hours per acre were required to handweed plots not treated with Prowl.
ref: 1993, New York State Vegetable Growers Association, Proceedings of the New Your State Vegetable Conference, page 163:
glosses: To remove weeds using only hand tools, that is, without spraying or using other weed-suppression technology.
handweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handweed
handweeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handweed
handweeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handweed
ECCCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Everything we want to tell you about our extensive work in ECM, ECCM, ECCCM, etc., is classified, so we won’t tell you what we've been up to.
ref: 1972, “Spooky Microwave Opportunities”, in Microwaves, volume 11, page 37:
text: There are countermeasures to deceptive jamming, too, just as there are ECCCM to ECCM, all the way to infinity. It’s a giant chess game out there, moves to countermoves, and it never stops.
ref: 1983, Michael Skinner, USAFE, a primer of modern air combat in Europe, page 69:
text: (a) Intelligence.—This includes SIGINT, ELINT and their Electronic countermeasures (ECM, ECCM, ECCCM and so on).
ref: 2002, Indian Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 23, page 163:
glosses: Initialism of electronic counter-counter-countermeasures.
bodalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bodalicious
form: most bodalicious
Etymology: Blend of bodacious + delicious
Senses: examples: text: Pull up to Tosha's bodalicious bumper.
ref: 2008, Hip-hop Connection - Issues 222-223, page 4:
text: No amount of soil in her capris could ever weigh down such a bodalicious babe.
ref: 2013, Ariel Kiley, Simone Kornfeld, Smitten: The Way of the Brilliant Flirt, page 155:
text: Because your bodalicious body has been disturbing me all friggin' semester, and my hard on is making me damn uncomfortable.
ref: 2014, A.B. Michaels, Sinner's Grove:
glosses: Sexy; seductive.
raw_tags: of a person
cheese bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese buses
form: cheese busses
Etymology: From cheese + bus.
Senses: examples: text: He was singing what he had been humming earlier that morning, first quietly, then as loud as he could: If you ride on the short bus clap your hands If you ride on the cheese bus, clap your hands.
ref: 2007, Jonathan Mooney, The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal, page 8:
text: Then the cheese buses pulled up and all the kids except us headed for the bus.
ref: 2009, Simon Jean, Do Nice Guys Ever Finish, page 14:
text: For me the good old days included walking a long distance to all-black Crummell Elementary School (there were no “cheese” busses back then) and attending all-black schools up through university.
ref: 2013, Carrolyn Pichet, Growing up in the Nation’s Capital, page 101:
text: So anyway, William Esham and I would be in school, but we were not in the same clasroom, but we rode the same bus home, so when it was time to get on the cheese bus (in those days we were not assigned seats, but nowadays, you are), I would get on the bus but I would never talk to anybody because I didn't know anybody at that time.
ref: 2014, Ebony Price, Shattered Pieces To A Broken Heart:
glosses: A yellow schoolbus, especially the smaller sized versions that are used to transport students with special needs.
examples: text: Distribution and sales are maintained with the help of a "cheese bus", which covers eleven routes, each of which take two days.
ref: 1955, Dairy Industries - Volume 20, page 231:
text: The driver of each cheese bus (which, when loaded, weighs 10,500 kg) is a really skilled truck driver who has received sales training. The bus visits the customers in accordance with a fixed programme and the buyers take the cheeses they require direct from the bus.
ref: 1959, International Dairy Federation, XVth International Dairy Congress - Volume 4, page 2296:
text: Some of these plants have a special "cheese bus", visiting stores and other types of customers regularly.
ref: 1991, International Dairy Federation, Bulletin - Issues 257-268, page 7:
glosses: A bus that transports cheese from the factory to retailers.
cheese buses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese bus
cheese busses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese bus
tram-train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tram-trains
Senses: examples: text: One million passengers have used the Sheffield tram-train in the first year of its trial, according to South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE). [...] Tim Bilby, Stagecoach Supertram Managing Director, said passenger numbers and customer satisfaction had exceeded expectations, showing that tram-trains offer an affordable and efficient way to connect Sheffield city centre and Rotherham.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Sheffield lays groundwork for tram-train schemes”, in RAIL, page 24:
text: One of the key features associated with VLR [very light rail] vehicles is that they are not interoperable with main line trains. That is the domain of tram-trains.
ref: 2025 July 23, Peter Plisner, “You say you want a revolution...”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 39:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A design of tram which can operate over standard railway track as well as tram track.
tram-trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tram-train
lightliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English lightlines, lightlinesse, from Middle English lyghtly, liȝtliche, lihtliche + -nes, -nesse. Equivalent to lightly + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of one who acts lightly; ease; facility.
Synonyms: gentleness
unconcernedness
between two stools
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From an old proverb, "Between two stools, one falls to the ground", which dates from 1390. This, in turn, is most likely a translation of the medieval Latin proverb labitur enitens sellis herere duabus ("he falls trying to sit on two seats").
Senses: examples: text: Accusing the opposition of attempting to "sit between two stools," he further explained: We will unite with no party, as a party -- and with individuals of all parties, if we believe them to be sincerely the friends of the people.
ref: 1967, Walter Hugins, Jacksonian Democracy and the Working Class:
text: There are many obstacles to the attainment of position, these being largely caused by clergymen or lawyers; moreover, the native is sometimes apt to come to grief “between two stools,” or from want of decision in professional or business matters, while secret enemies injure the position, though the marriage partner benefits it.
ref: 1996, Alan Leo, Astrology for All, page 168:
text: Sleep, however, was my only refreshment: I was as it were between two stools; one of my friends did not think it necessary, and the other never intended, to send me any supper.
ref: 2011, Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa:
text: Military leaders become nervous about being sucked into combat with limits and provisos typical of political compromises in a democracy, but which risk leaving their effort between two stools: too much to avoid embroilment, but not enough to win.
ref: 2011, Richard K. Betts, American Force:
glosses: Not fitting neatly into either of two categories or positions.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see between, two, stool.
Derived terms: fall between two stools
caught between two stools
caught between two stools
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are caught between two stools. On the one hand, they have been brought up to apply rigorous experimental procedures to precisely defined problems with results that have to meet standards of peer review. On the other hand, they are being told that such reductionism is insufficient and that unless they broaden the scope of their work they will suffer reduced support.
ref: 2011, Mohammed Saad, Girma Zawdie, Theory and Practice of Triple Helix Model in Developing Countries:
text: No matter how hard they tried to clarify their position, the universalists found themselves “caught between two stools”—that is, Nazism and Austrofascism— rejected by the former and rejecting the latter.
ref: 2014, Janek Wasserman, Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918–1938:
text: As a result, they are caught between two stools: on the one hand, they model their social integration on traditional gender roles and struggle to live by these standards, even though these roles are at odds with what they actually feel; and on the other hand, they feel that these gender roles constrain them and diminish their sense of their personal identity, either because they cannot live by the standards these roles imposed on them or because their aspiration to put them selve first encourages them to refuse to allow themselves to be hemmed in.
ref: 2016, Laurent Vidal, Alain Musset, Waiting Territories in the Americas, page 214:
glosses: Unable to fit into either of two conflicting categories, and as a result likely to fail.
roadburner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadburners
Etymology: From road + burner.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, it fell between two stools: it was not good enough to be a competition car and those who wanted a roadburner preferred the Iso Grifo, which was better equipped.
ref: 1996, Mike Lawrence, A to Z of Sports Cars, 1945-1990:
text: With more power and 600 lbs less weight, the GTO was a real roadburner.
ref: 2003, Edward Herridge, America's Favorite Cars, page 70:
text: Numerous triumphs in production racing confirmed that the Jota was not a bike to be messed with and it soon gained a fearsome reputation as a mean roadburner.
ref: 2007, Mark Holmes, Ultimate Motorcycles: The Most Exotic & Exclusive Bikes on Earth:
glosses: A motor vehicle (car or motorcycle) designed for fast acceleration, high speeds, and good handling.
roadburners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadburner
do cheetah flips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does cheetah flips
form: doing cheetah flips
form: did cheetah flips
form: done cheetah flips
Senses: examples: text: The first step is to get a grip on why the client is not doing cheetah flips over the creative.
ref: 2003, Don L. Dickinson, The New Account Manager, page 133:
text: You almost did cheetah flips when we were in Lebanon and Coop brought Liz out of that refugee camp.
ref: 2009, Chuck Holton, Meltdown, page 137:
text: The monkey darted into the stairwell and waited for me impatiently, showing his disapproval for my failure to keep up by screaming and doing cheetah flips.
ref: 2011, Matthew Jackson, The Lost Art of a Dying Breed, page 128:
glosses: To exhibit a strong emotional reaction to something; to lose one's cool.
does cheetah flips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of do cheetah flips
doing cheetah flips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do cheetah flips
did cheetah flips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of do cheetah flips
done cheetah flips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do cheetah flips