cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
roach motel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roach motels
Etymology: The meaning "low-priced motel" is because such a place might be expected to be infested with roaches. The meaning "something easy to enter, difficult to leave" is from American roach-bait brand Roach Motel, advertised with the slogan "Roaches check in, but they don't check out!"
Senses: glosses: A low-priced motel in a state of disrepair.
examples: text: 8.3.1 The Importance of Easy Access: Avoid the “Roach Motel!” In Chapter 6, we discussed what a “roach motel” was. You can get data into a “roach motel”, but you can't easily get it out.
ref: 2010, William H. Inmon, Bonnie O'Neil, Lowell Fryman, Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge, page 141:
text: Don't hope for a better shake from Apple, either. Apple's longstanding love-affair with proprietary formats and lock-ins will very likely make the iPad every inch the roach motel that the Kindle is
ref: 2011, Cory Doctorow, Context, page 102:
text: The “Roach Motel” is a broad category of Dark Pattern that subsumes most types listed on this site. Put simply, a Roach Motel makes it very easy for a user to get into a certain situation, but then makes it hard for them to get out of it when they realize it is undesirable.
ref: 2015, Scot R. Wheeler, Architecting Experience: A Marketing Science and Digital Analytics Handbook, page 186:
text: Ever signed up for something online and then found it very difficult to unsubscribe? Then you've been to a roach motel - one of many web design tricks employed by some firms to drum up more trade.
ref: 2016 June 8, Zoe Kleinman, “Is the web full of nasty tricks?”, in BBC News:
text: CAVOLI: If you do not know, 390 was a specific New York Stock Exchange rule that disallowed member organizations from trading off exchange, as late as 2001. MAHONEY: In the beginning, the NYSE was truly the roach motel.
ref: 2022, Robert A. Schwartz, John Aidan Byrne, Eileen Stempel, 40 Years of Experience with the National Market System (NMS), page 51:
text: The research was conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, and the findings point to one conclusion: “Amazon Prime’s subscription model is a “roach motel,” where getting in is almost effortless, but escape is an ordeal.”
ref: 2022 December 9, Itu Rathore, “Is Amazon employing a deceptive strategy to keep its Prime members subscribed?”, in dazeinfo briefs:
glosses: Something that is easy to enter, but is difficult or costly to leave.
qualifier: genericized trademark
glosses: A cockroach trap.
roach motels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roach motel
crunchy granola
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crunchy granola
form: most crunchy granola
Senses: examples: text: We continue to lead advanced economies in per-capita carbon emissions, 28 percent of which come from transportation. But even if the crunchy granola argument isn't good enough to make you see the benefits of public transit, consider that trains, trams, buses, and the like reduces traffic congestion, which is good for the life satisfaction of everybody behind the wheel, since science shows long commutes make us unhappy.
ref: 2013 November 18, Derek Thompson, “The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: crunchy
glosses: Obsessed with health or environmental issues.
crunchy granola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crunchy granolas
Senses: glosses: One who cares about environmental issues.
Synonyms: muesli muncher
tree hugger
crunchy granolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crunchy granola
ice beer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice beers
Senses: glosses: A pale lager beer which has undergone some degree of fractional freezing, similar to the German Eisbock.
ice beers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice beer
lapunyahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lapunyah
narcology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narco- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of drug abuse.
Derived terms: narcological
narcologist
nanovoltmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanovoltmeters
Etymology: From nano- + voltmeter.
Senses: glosses: A voltmeter capable of measuring on the scale of nanovolts.
nanovoltmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanovoltmeter
microvoltmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvoltmeters
Etymology: From micro- + voltmeter.
Senses: glosses: A voltmeter capable of measuring on the scale of microvolts
microvoltmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvoltmeter
microvoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvoid
parges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parge
partitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From partition + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A policy favouring geopolitical partitioning.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The treatment of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as distinct.
parthenogenically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From parthenogenic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By parthenogenesis.
parabronchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + bronchial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the parabronchus.
Derived terms: interparabronchial
intraparabronchial
pathwidths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathwidth
carbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbo
chartbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chartbuster
hexacelsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hexa- + celsian.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal polymorph of celsian.
fabbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fabby: most fabby
girlf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝlf/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːlf/
Forms: form: girlfs
Etymology: Shortening of girlfriend.
Senses: glosses: girlfriend
grammatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to grammatology.
Derived terms: grammatologically
grammatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From grammatological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of grammatology.
grammatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: grammatologists
Etymology: From grammatology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies grammatology.
grammatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatologist
butcher paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcher papers
Senses: glosses: A kind of absorbent kraft paper, originally sold to butchers in large sheets for wrapping meat and fish, and now used for arts and crafts in primary education.
lift music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: elevator music
Scotch pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotch pies
Senses: glosses: A small double-crust meat pie eaten in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Scotch pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotch pie
pigeony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigeony
form: most pigeony
Etymology: From pigeon + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a pigeon.
graduate tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduate taxes
Senses: glosses: A proposed method of financing higher education, whereby graduates would pay their tuition costs as additional income tax.
skankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skanker
semesterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semester + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring every semester.
ubacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ubac
antilocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + locking.
Senses: glosses: antilock
paratuberculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + tuberculous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paratuberculosis.
aerovane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerovanes
Etymology: From aero- + vane.
Senses: glosses: An anemometer that combines a propeller and a tail on the same axis to measure wind speed and direction.
aerovanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerovane
electroantennographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electroantennography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electroantennography.
Derived terms: electroantennographically
electroantennographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electroantennographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of electroantennography.
Hellespontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hellespontic
form: most Hellespontic
Etymology: From Hellespont + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Hellespont.
aerofoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aerofoil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having an aerofoil.
airphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airphones
Etymology: From air + phone.
Senses: glosses: An air-to-ground telephone service for passengers on airline flights.
airphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airphone
Eurodisco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + disco.
Senses: glosses: European dance music that originated from disco in the 1970s
Noruz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nowruz.
Eurobeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + beat.
Senses: glosses: A style of European dance music derived from Italo disco, mostly popular in Japan.
electroantennography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the electrical activity of the antennas of insects in response to pheromones and other odours
Derived terms: electroantennographic
Related terms: electroantennograph
Eurojargon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + jargon.
Senses: glosses: political jargon associated with the European Union
sadware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sad (“heavy”) + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Heavy pewter goods.
immunosurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + surgical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to immunosurgery.
Derived terms: immunosurgically
immunosurgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunosurgical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of immunosurgery.
immunosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + surgery.
Senses: glosses: A method of removing an external cell layer of an object by exposing it to a solution containing antibodies.
electroconductivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroconductivity
electrocochleographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + cochleographic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to electrocochleography.
Derived terms: electrocorticographically
electrocochleographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrocochleographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of electrocochleography.
neobladders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neobladder
neogastropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neogastropod
neurobiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neurobiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of neurobiology.
Santalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Santalike
form: most Santalike
Etymology: From Santa + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling Santa Claus.
garlandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more garlandy
form: most garlandy
Etymology: From garland + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a garland
fattenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fattening
diduch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diduchs
form: diduchy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of didukh.
neverwet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From never + wet, because its waxy leaves repel water.
Senses: glosses: Orontium aquaticum, a flowering plant.
didukh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didukhs
form: didukhy
form: diduch
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian діду́х (didúx), from дід (did, “grandfather”) + -ух (-ux, augmentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Before the meal begins the head of the household brings in a sheaf of wheat called the Didukh (from grandfather), a symbol of good harvest, which is usually placed in front of an icon.
ref: 1994, Jo Marie Powers, “Ukrainian-Canadian Breads: Shape, Symbolism and Spirituality”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Look and Feel: Studies in Texture, Appearance and Incidental Characteristics of Food, page 150:
text: The didukh is a sheaf of grain made from the best wheat or grain of the field. It is decorated with flowers, ribbons, a small wreath of sweet basil and other herbs, or an embroidered towel. At Christmas, the didukh is carried into the home amid traditional greetings of "Christ is born!"
ref: 1997, Ann Ball, Catholic Traditions in the Garden, page 79:
text: The spirits of all family members, living and dead, are believed to reside in the didukh, which also symbolizes eternal life through Christ, the fertility of the land, and bread as the staff of life.
ref: 2013, William D. Crump, The Christmas Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, Ukraine, page 420:
glosses: A Ukrainian decoration made from sheaves of wheat tied up with colorful ribbons, which is used in rituals around Christmas and Epiphany, and traditionally believed to contain ancestor spirits.
fatteningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fattening + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fattening.
niggerati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Niggerati
Etymology: Blend of nigger + literati
Senses: examples: text: These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.
ref: 1977, Richard Miller, Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now, page 238:
text: […] his experiences in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s did not replicate the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance – there was no cohesive “niggerati” akin to the one Zora Neale Hurston wrote of during the 1920s […]
ref: 1996, Keith Clark, “Baldwin, Communitas, and the Black Masculinist Tradition”, in Trudier Harris, editor, New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, →ISBN, page 151:
text: Using the language of acceptance, members of the niggerati began reimagining the lived experiences and social realities of Black people and their African heritage by retelling generational narratives employing a present day context.
ref: 2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”, in Celucien L. Joseph et al., editors, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
supremacisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supremacism
nincompoopism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nincompoop + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and behaviours of a nincompoop; folly; idiocy.
Palas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pala
neurocytologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + cytologic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurocytology.
neurocytological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + cytological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurocytology.
Asian flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of influenza that originated in China and became a worldwide pandemic in the 1950s.
Petropavlovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Petropavl.
Derived terms: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy
Petrovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɪˈtrɒfsk/
Senses: glosses: A city in Dagestan, Russia.
glosses: A town in Saratov Oblast, Russia.
maskandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zulu umaskandi, from Afrikaans musikant (“musician”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maskanda.
recollectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From recollecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While recollecting or remembering.
fudgicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudgicle
recreatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recreatory
form: most recreatory
Senses: glosses: recreational
recessivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Quality of being recessive.
miscanthuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscanthus
missets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misset
missetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misset
Missouri toothpick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Missouri toothpicks
Senses: glosses: A Bowie knife.
extropians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extropian
mesitoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesitoates
Etymology: From mesitoic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of mesitoic acid.
mesitoates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesitoate
moaniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of moany: most moany
Queen's speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Queen's speeches
Senses: glosses: An address to the people of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth broadcast on radio and television by the Queen on Christmas Day
glosses: An annual statement made by the Queen in the House of Lords to the assembled members of both houses of parliament outlining the government's proposed legislation programme for the next twelve months.
Related terms: King's speech
gobdaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gobdaws
Senses: examples: text: The ignorant self-opinionated sod-minded suet-brained ham-faced mealy-mouthed streptococcus-ridden gang of natural gobdaws!
ref: 1968, Myles Na Gopaleen, The Best of Myles: A Selection from ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’, MacGibbon and Kee, page 81
glosses: A foolish or pretentious person.
gobdaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gobdaw
Riazan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The following telegram reached me to-day from Moscow: “At Riazan the Bolkhofsky regiment mutinied on June 19. The men surrounded the Officers’ Club and fired upon it. Several officers were killed. Panic prevails at Riazan. A pogrom is expected. The Jews are fleeing.” I have received no further details. This is possibly due to the interception of news from Riazan.
ref: 1906 June 21, “Russian Mutineers Kill Their Officers […]”, in The New York Times, volume LV, number 17,680, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025, page 1, column 1:
text: She [Natalia Reshetovskaya] first met Solzhenitsyn in 1936 in Riazan, 125 miles south-east of Moscow. […] Her only contact with the KGB, she says, was when a black Volga took her to meet a security officer staying at a Riazan hotel in 1973: […]
ref: 1994 June 18, Andrew Higgins, “Little flame snuffed out by [Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn: Moscow's tragic tale of a love grown cold”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2022:
text: First, it is described how, after a confrontation by the River Vozhda in 1378, the Golden Horde tried to restore its authority over Rus’, and how Mamai—by that time representing the whole power of the Horde—planned a campaign and made an alliance with Lithuanian Iagailo and Oleg [II] of Riazan.
ref: 2017, Kati Parppei, “‘Light of Freedom Began to Dawn’”, in The Battle of Kulikovo Refought: “The First National Feat” (Russian History and Culture; 17), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 1 (Introduction), page 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Ryazan.
Rode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
glosses: A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.
Related terms: North Rode
Odd Rode
jujubelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jujubelike
form: most jujubelike
Etymology: From jujube + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a jujube.
Sebastopol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sonoma County, California, United States.
glosses: A suburb of Pontypool, Torfaen borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2998).
Sebastopol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sebastopols
Senses: synonyms: Danubian
glosses: A domestic goose of a breed descended from the European greylag, with long, white curly feathers.
Related terms: Sevastopol
Bebel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbəl/
Etymology: From German Bebel.
Senses: examples: August Bebel, a socialist leader and writer.
glosses: A surname from German.
grodiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grody + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I mean I get we gotta hide Supergirl and all, but this isn't exactly the Fortress of Solitude, man. It's more like a fortress of grodiness.
ref: 2022, Stranger Things, season 4, episode 9, spoken by Argyle (Eduardo Franco):
glosses: The condition of being grody.
Pittsburgher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pittsburghers
Etymology: From Pittsburgh + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Pittsburgh.
Pittsburghers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pittsburgher
tadasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈdɑːsənə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit ताडासन (tāḍāsana), from ताड (tāḍa, “mountain”) + आसन (āsana, “asana”).
Senses: examples: text: After three or four such movements, you may rest in tadasana and collect your breath.
ref: 2006, Srivatsa Ramaswami, David Hurwitz, Yoga Beneath the Surface, page 68:
text: Naked but for an orange lungi, a great lifesize yogi stands with his palms extended in the yogic posture of tadasana, with the cities and forests of the world spaced out over his face, feet, arms and torso.
ref: 2009 June 20, William Dalrymple, The Guardian:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: A position in which one stands straight upright with feet together and hands by one's sides.
Synonyms: mountain pose
adho mukha svanasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːdəʊ ˌmuːkə ʃvəˈnɑːsənə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit अधोमुखश्वानासन (adhomukhaśvānāsana), from अधस् (adhas, “down”) + मुख (mukha, “face”) + श्वान (śvāna, “dog”) + आसन (āsana, “asana”).
Senses: examples: text: The principles of Adho Mukha Svanasana are simple, but very effective.
ref: 1978 Jul, Yoga Journal:
text: You can press your feet more strongly into the floor in adho mukha svanasana by shifting your weight away from your hands and toward your feet.
ref: 2007, BKS Iyengar, Iyengar: The Yoga Master, page 152:
text: I tried out […] one produced as part of a Christian "Faith in Fitness" series that tries to sweep away the Hindu roots with biblical names for the poses (Jonah's Whale instead of adho mukha svanasana, a.k.a. the ever-popular downward dog), and a dose of Corinthians instead of om shanti shanti shanti.
ref: 2007 August 21, Washington Post:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: Downward-facing dog.
São Francisco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsaʊ fɹænˈsɪskoʊ/
Etymology: From Portuguese São Francisco (“Saint Francis”). Doublet of San Francisco.
Senses: glosses: A river in northeastern Brazil.
virabhadrasana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌviːɹəbəˈdɹɑːsənə/
Etymology: From Sanskrit वीरभद्रासन (vīrabhadrāsana), from वीरभद्र (vīrabhadra) Virabhadra + आसन (āsana, “asana”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh, no! Not you again,’ spits Sergeant Dave Brougham, walking in off the street to start duty, and Trina immediately lunges forward into the virabhadrasana yoga pose.
ref: 2006, James Hawkins, Deadly Sin, page 141:
text: For example, the position and opening of the armpits in virabhadrasana II will help the understanding of their positioning in parsvakonasana.
ref: 2007, BKS Iyengar, Iyengar: The Yoga Master, page 207:
text: "The yogi is really a warrior against his own ignorance," Rosen says. "I speculate that Virabhadrasana I is about rising up out of your own limitations."
ref: 2008 Nov, Yoga Journal, page 76:
qualifier: yoga
glosses: Any of three standing poses (usually specified with a numeral) which involve stretching the upper body.
wikipedia: Virabhadra
Synonyms: warrior
-l-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of -lim-.
false alarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false alarms
Senses: examples: text: "Then, if they rise, shout the alarm at the top of your voice [...] but be careful not to rouse the camp by a false alarm, for if you do, instead of gaining credit we shall become the jest of the whole force."
ref: 1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 9, in Wulf the Saxon:
text: Pistorius explained that a security alarm in his house had gone off the previous night, and that he had taken a gun downstairs to investigate what turned out to be a false alarm.
ref: 2013 February 25, David Epstein, “Pistorius: The Man, The Myth”, in Sports Illustrated, retrieved 18 Apr 2015:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A warning signal (such as the call of sentry, the ringing of a bell, or the shriek of a siren) which turns out to have been given erroneously.
examples: text: "This may be a false alarm, or a forged letter," said De Bracy.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 265:
text: The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm!
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: Cuthbert had often been summoned to her dying bed, only to find that she was alive and well. He expected that this summons would be another false alarm.
ref: 1905, Fergus Hume, chapter 6, in The Secret Passage:
text: Robert Swanson [...] expected civilization to melt down on Jan. 1, 2000 [...] He's not sure yet that Y2K was a false alarm.
ref: 2000 January 9, “A Night To Remember”, in Newsweek, retrieved 18 Apr 2015:
glosses: A thing or occurrence which initially causes fear, distress, etc. but which is subsequently recognized as being no cause for concern.
examples: text: "I don't believe you're a bank robber, at all! I don't believe you are even a rustler! You're a false alarm!"
ref: 1911, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 22, in Mavericks:
text: "He's an old false alarm, anyway. I'll bet he never heard a real gun go off!"
ref: 1912, G. Harvey Ralphson, chapter 2, in Boy Scouts in a Submarine:
text: "I had a good job, putting in a power plant for his nibs"—he indicated the retreating Gordon with a disrespectful jerk of the thumb—"but I quit [...] Do you think I'd work for this four-flusher if you were in the country?" [...]
"You think Gordon is a false alarm?"
ref: 1913, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 5, in The Iron Trail:
text: "I only came over here to see that darned false alarm of a play of mine put on."
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Jill the Reckless:
antonyms: real deal
glosses: A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.
Related terms: false positive
North African elephant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North African elephants
Senses: glosses: Loxodonta africana pharaoensis, an extinct subspecies of elephant.
wikipedia: North African elephant
Synonyms: Atlas elephant
Carthaginian elephant
ticket point mileage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket point mileages
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: An officially stated distance between two cities, used in airline fare calculations regardless of the airports used
ticket point mileages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket point mileage
MPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPMs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of maximum permitted mileage.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of malignant pleural mesothelioma.
mild-mannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mild-mannered
form: most mild-mannered
Senses: examples: text: That's because, having left behind his senior position on the national network at the West Midlands Rail Executive in mid-March […], the energetic but mild-mannered Holmes has brought a distinctly forward-looking agenda to the Leicestershire heritage operation he now leads.
ref: 2023 August 23, Malcolm Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38:
glosses: Calm, gentle, moderate and unexcitable in attitude or disposition.
Alcibiades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌælsəˈbaɪədiz/
Etymology: From Latin Alcibiadēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs).
Senses: examples: text: Alcibiades was a happy union of coxcomb and conqueror; but there was in him a want of that repose, and of that superb self-reliance, which characterises the Roman.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:
glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs), notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
maximum permitted mileage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximum permitted mileages
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: In fare construction, the permitted total of ticket point mileages allowed between two fare break points.
fare break point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fare break points
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: fare construction
glosses: Any of the cities on an itinerary used as the start and finish of a particular fare.
fare break points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fare break point
higher intermediate fares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher intermediate fare
higher intermediate points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higher intermediate point
Ancus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Ancus.
Senses: glosses: An Italic male given name from Latin, notably borne by Ancus Marcius, a legendary king of Rome
locon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A localized vibration
Related terms: propagon
Marcius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Marcius. See also Mars.
Senses: glosses: a Roman nomen gentilicium
Caquetá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Colombia.
Antigone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪ.ɡə.ni/
Etymology: From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigónē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology
Antisthenes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪsθəniːz/
Etymology: From Latin Antisthenēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντισθένης (Antisthénēs), notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates.
eustresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eustress
eustresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eustress
Appius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Appius, probably a Latinized form of an Italic name Attius, from Oscan, Umbrian, or Sabine.
Senses: glosses: A male given name in Latin, notably borne by Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician of the 4th and 3rd century BC, builder of the Appian Way.
Related terms: Appian
Arius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəɹi.əs/
Etymology: From Latin Arīus, from Ancient Greek Ἄρειος (Áreios), from Ἄρης (Árēs).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἄρειος (Áreios), Arius, notably borne by Arius, circa 250–336, a priest in Alexandria, the founder of Arianism.
Related terms: Arian
maneens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneen
aloins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aloin
rub along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs along
form: rubbing along
form: rubbed along
form: rubbed along
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Dinsmore has experienced 'love in a cottage,' and probably has no very idyllic recollections; she knows what it is to rub along with one servant, or even none, and keep up appearances and worry about the next month's rent
ref: 1905, Arthur Stanwood Pier, The Ancient Grudge, Chapter 11:
glosses: To survive or get by with some difficulty.
examples: text: Though he had at first to rub along in coarse society, he always maintained his inward refinement; he liked the table in the office to be of polished wood, and everything to be on a gentlemanly scale
ref: 1922, Nikolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett, Dead Souls—A Poem, Chapter XI:
glosses: To get along, to have an amicable relationship.
Synonyms: rub on
e-dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-dictionary
in this connection
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We Americans have not yet thoroughly acquired the habit of regarding the museums as great picture books, and yet such they are, and in this connection I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. J. A. Allen, […] for much valuable assistance and advice in connection with this book.
ref: 1895, Mabel Osgood Wright, “To The Reader”, in Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds:
text: Information technology contributes to making society and the individual person's everyday more transparent than earlier. Bulk information concerning the individual is collected at an apparently uncontrollable number of points in society. In this connection there is a continuous need for mapping out the occurrence and the possibility of abuse of the electronic traces consumers leave behind in society.
ref: 1995, “Consumer Research”, in Hans Jeleby, editor, Facts and Views on Nordic Consumer Policy[:] An Anthology, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: In connection with this subject; in this regard.
luck pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luck penny
luck penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luck pennies
form: luck-penny
form: luckpenny
Senses: examples: text: I mean, had he not luckily exposed his legacy to jeopardy, having offered it as bounty-money and luckpenny to the patron
ref: c. 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), originally byJean Paul Friedrich Richter, The Campaner thal, and other writings, Life of Quintus Fixlein:
synonyms: God's penny
glosses: A small sum of money given back for luck when paying.
examples: text: 'A kind harvest to you, John Dolan,' cried the postillion, 'and success to ye, Winny, with the quality. There's a luck-penny for the child to begin with,' added he, throwing the child a penny.
ref: 1812, Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee, Chapter X:
glosses: A coin carried or given for luck.
Related terms: strike me lucky
mala in se
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malum in se
mala prohibita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malum prohibitum
Chinese rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese room
dunter geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunter goose
dunter goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunter geese
Senses: examples: text: All sorts of Duck and Drake, Dunter-Geese, Cleck-Geese, Ember-Geese &c. they have as in Orkney
ref: 1701, John Brand, A Brief Description of Orkney […] :
glosses: The eider duck.
winter aconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winter aconites
Senses: glosses: A European plant (Eranthis hyemalis).
winter aconites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of winter aconite
gilding metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gilding metals
Senses: glosses: A tough kind of brass from which artillery shells, as well as some jewellery, are made.
analogous pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analogous poles
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The pole of a crystal that becomes positively electrified when heated.
analogous poles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogous pole
fairy bluebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy bluebirds
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird of the genus Irena, from southern Asia.
fairy bluebirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy bluebird
harpy bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harpy bats
Senses: glosses: An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Nyctimene (especially Nyctimene cephalotes), with prominent tubular nostrils.
glosses: A small insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia); the lesser hairy-winged bat.
harpy bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpy bat
mestizo wool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mestizo wools
Senses: glosses: Wool produced by mixed breeds of sheep, originating from South America, .
German tinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When lucifers were struck they only fizzed and sputtered, would not burn. German tinder succeeded better; for the exhausted atmosphere, hungering for oxygen, uniting with the atoms of saltpetre in the process of ignition, the tinder, instead of its usual dull glow, threw out a long bright flame, made as it were of electric sparks.
ref: 1862 August 23, Mrs. H. Stanley, “The trials of an inventor”, in Once a Week:
text: The inflammation of German tinder in the so-called pneumatic tinder-boxes; which are, as we know, little pump-chambers in which the air is rapidly compressed.
ref: 1897, Sadi Carnot (original), R. H. Thurston (translator), Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat, Appendix B:
glosses: amadou
Farewell Rock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Said to have been coined by ironstone miners who once worked the siderite deposits which stratigraphically overlie this rock unit. Digging beyond this bed would yield no further iron ore and so, on reaching it, they could bid a farewell to further riches.
Senses: glosses: A series of sandstones which lie at the boundary of the Coal Measures with the underlying Marros Group in South Wales.
burpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəɹpi/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: burpee
Forms: form: more burpy
form: most burpy
Etymology: From burp + -y.
Senses: examples: a burpy baby
glosses: Full of burps.
examples: a burpy sound
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a burp.
prominent moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prominent moths
Senses: synonyms: prominent
notodontid
glosses: Any moth of the family Notodontidae, whose larvae have a hump or prominence on the back.
prominent moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prominent moth
thick and threefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.
text: They came thick and threefold for a time, as she expected they should, till at last, one experienc'd stager that had baffled twenty traps and tricks before, discover'd the plot, and quite spoyl'd the jest.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In quick succession, or in great numbers.
yoke elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoke elms
Etymology: So called because it was often used for making yokes for cattle
.
Senses: synonyms: common hornbeam
glosses: A European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), a small tree with tough wood.
glosses: A Himalayan hornbeam (Carpinus vimineus).
glosses: The wood from these trees.
yoke elms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoke elm
ultraparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + parallel.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Sharing a common perpendicular.
raw_tags: of lines in hyperbolic geometry
boot catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot catchers
form: boot-catcher
Senses: examples: text: Where's the Boot-catcher gone? I cannot get any thing to eat here, nor my boots, to go any where elſe.
ref: 1767, David Garrick, A Peep Behind the Curtain:
glosses: A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.
mastiff bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastiff bats
Etymology: These bats' faces are supposed to resemble those of mastiff dogs.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain species of the bat family Molossidae, usually the genera Eumops, Mops, Promops, or Chaerephon.
mastiff bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastiff bat
meritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From merit + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: Yet God forbid, we should with Ribera attribute this reward, to any meritorious worke: seeing a far other meritious cause thereof is noted unto us ver. 14. & 17.
ref: 1644, Elias Arnold, translation of David Pareus, A Commentary Upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John, p. 146
glosses: Having merit.
Synonyms: meritorious
vellum cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fine kind of cotton fabric, made very transparent, and used as a tracing cloth or book cover.
YouTube poop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YouTube poops
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of YouTube Poop.
YouTube poops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YouTube poop
keels over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of keel over
keeling over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of keel over
gender identities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender identity
Numunuu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Comanche autonym, Nʉmʉnʉʉ (“the people”).
Senses: glosses: The Comanche.
Trinidadians and Tobagonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trinidadian and Tobagonian
imbuias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbuia
CEPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CEP
frolicsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frolicsome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This indefatigable artist is known as "the painter of cats," and she has charmingly "hit off" both the heavy laziness of the mature animal, and the frolicsomeness of the kitten.
ref: 1905, Walter Shaw Sparrow, Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, page 261:
glosses: The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
microrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrads
Etymology: From micro- + rad.
Senses: glosses: A unit of radiation equal to one millionth of a rad.
microrads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrad
gigarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigarads
Etymology: From giga- + rad.
Senses: glosses: A unit of radiation equal to 10⁹ rads.
gigarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigarad
gigaseals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaseal
bagholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagholders
form: bag holder
Etymology: Blend of bag + shareholder, referring to the phrase "leave someone holding the bag".
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An investor left holding on to worthless financial assets (especially shares).
Related terms: bagholding
bagholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagholder
neutron activation analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutron activation analyses
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An analytical technique that measures the decay of elements when bombarded with neutrons
Jagoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Macedonian Јагода (Jagoda), from јагода (jagoda, “strawberry”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Јагода (Jagoda)
Jagoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jagodas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Jagoda.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
schnookered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schnookered
form: most schnookered
Senses: glosses: excessively drunk (from alcohol)
Synonyms: drunk
scrunchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrunchis
Senses: examples: text: Brooke pulled the purple scrunchi off her ponytail and ran her fingers through her hair.
ref: 2003, Dori Hillestad Butler, Sliding into Home, page 172:
text: The girl tossed the book on the planks of the swing and rocked back and forth, as she pulled the scrunchi out of her hair and rebound her ponytail.
ref: 2007, Jeffery Deaver, The Sleeping Doll, page 282:
text: Prepared as I was for the worst, the utter ordinariness of the scene took me by surprise: covers turned back on the bed, an indentation in the pillow where Caroline's head had been, her lavender scrunchi on the nightstand.
ref: 2011, Leslie Wheeler, Murder at Plimoth Plantation:
glosses: Alternative form of scrunchie.
scrunchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunchi
Assen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, municipality, and capital of Drenthe, Netherlands.