cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unduplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unduplicate
unduplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unduplicate
unduteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unduteously
form: most unduteously
Etymology: From unduteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unduteous manner.
unduteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unduteous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unduteous.
corticocancellous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cortico- + cancellous.
Senses: glosses: Both cortical and cancellous.
not worth the powder
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: not worth the powder and shot
Etymology: An allusion to gunpowder being wasted on small birds etc.
Senses: glosses: Not worth the time or effort.
Related terms: juice is worth the squeeze
not worth the powder and shot
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of not worth the powder.
floorway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorways
Etymology: From floor + way.
Senses: examples: text: […] a portion of the northern roadway of the bridge, measuring 70x30 feet, was entirely detached from its supporting cable and was only held up by the indirect support which it derived from the adjoining floorway.
ref: 1901, Scientific American, volumes 84-85, page 74:
text: […] a helical floorway supported on horizontal beams each having one end fixed to said skirt structure and the other end cantilevered over one of said outwardly spaced columns, said floorway extending upwardly […]
ref: 1966, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
text: This afforded direct access to the 'garden crossing' (tōriniwa) and the central courtyard of the garden without having to pass via the raised floorway of the house.
ref: 2013, Nicolas Fieve, Paul Waley, Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective:
glosses: An elevated section of floor over which one can walk.
floorways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of floorway
cheiralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheir- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of chiralgia.
Derived terms: cheiralgia paraesthetica
dystopia canthorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lateral displacement of the inner canthi of the eyes, giving the appearance of a widened nasal bridge, and associated with Waardenburg syndrome.
Levy-Hollister syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disorder characterised by abnormal development of the lacrimal system, ears, teeth, and upper limbs.
Related terms: lacrimoauriculodentodigital
quantoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantoids
Senses: examples: text: […] quantoids and qualitoids have developed different languages and different approaches to their topics. They are accustomed to arguing with each other or ignoring each other.
ref: 2001, John Gerring, Social Science Methodology: A Criterial Framework, page 2:
text: The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.
ref: 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
glosses: An academic who relies purely on quantitative research methods.
examples: text: It indicates a certain relation between two differential equations, quantoids, or quotoids, whereof one is a transformation of the other by change of the independent variable.
ref: 1875, Philosophical Magazine, page 440:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.
quantoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantoid
chloromatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a chloroma.
corticalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Simultaneously the nucleus becomes more distinctly differentiated from the corticalis, by a more or less decided yellowish-brown color; its transparency, however, does not suffer to the same degree as that of the corticalis.
ref: 1878, C. Schweigger, Porter Farley, Handbook of Ophthalmology, page 359:
text: Sometimes it was present within the normal ring of the corticalis and sometimes in a greatly expanded corticalis, extending also into the marrow cavity.
ref: 1956, Progress in radiobiology, page 431:
text: There might be some thinning of the corticalis, but there is no evidence of erosion or destruction.
ref: 2012, T. Rand, P. Ritschl, S. Trattnig, Imaging of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors: A Case Study Approach:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The outer layer of an internal organ; cortex.
poikiloderma congenitale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
corynebacteriosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infection by Corynebacterium species
daddy-oh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daddy-ohs
Etymology: From daddy + -oh.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daddy-o.
daddy-ohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daddy-oh
chloroleukemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to chloroleukemia.
green cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A calque of French cancer vert.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Chloroma.
undissectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dissectable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being dissected.
silicatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: silicatizes
form: silicatizing
form: silicatized
form: silicatized
Senses: glosses: To silicify.
silicatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silicatize
silicatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silicatize
silicatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of silicatize
subantral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + antral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath an antrum.
subgemmal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + gemmal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Beneath a gemma.
submitral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + mitral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath the mitral valve.
confuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confuddle
confuddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confuddle
tetrahydropteroylglutamic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of folic acid.
acne varioliformis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: acne miliaris necrotica
glosses: A form of acne that leaves large scars.
venoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From veno- + active.
Senses: examples: a venoactive drug
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Improving venous tone.
tyrosinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tyrosine + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any abnormality of tyrosine metabolism.
PIAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PIA
trospium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tro(pane) + spi(ro) + -ium (“quaternary ammonium compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug used to treat overactive bladder.
Derived terms: trospium chloride
vectorcardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to vectorcardiography.
vectorcardiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vectorcardiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of vectorcardiography.
vectorcardiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vectorcardiographs
Senses: glosses: The machine used to carry out vectorcardiography.
vectorcardiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vectorcardiograph
ultralente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌltɹəˈlɛnteɪ/
Etymology: From ultra- + lente.
Senses: glosses: A long-acting form of insulin.
NPH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: isophane
glosses: Initialism of neutral protamine Hagedorn, a type of insulin.
glosses: Initialism of normal-pressure hydrocephalus.
shimstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shimstocks
Etymology: From shim + stock.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Metal foil used for measurement of proposed dental work.
shimstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shimstock
spirillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: spirillary rat-bite fever
glosses: Relating to Spirillum species.
stereoradiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoradiograms
Etymology: From stereo- + radiogram.
Senses: glosses: A diagnostic image produced by stereoradiography.
stereoradiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stereoradiogram
stereoradiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to stereoradiography.
stereoradiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stereoradiographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of stereoradiography.
seromatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a seroma
within one's means
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: within means
Senses: examples: text: live within one's means
antonyms: beyond one's means
glosses: Without spending more than one can afford.
Related terms: cut one's coat according to one's cloth
subnasale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The nasal septum.
one-horse lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-horse lawyers
Etymology: From the agricultural phrase one-horse meaning 'to be drawn/worked by a single horse.' This led to "one-horse" being expanded to mean anything small or contemptible.
Senses: examples: text: The two chatted about several matters, and then the visitor commented, "Mr. Lincoln, if anybody had told me that in a general crisis like this the people were going out to a little one-horse town to pick out a one-horse lawyer for President, I wouldn't have believed it."
ref: 1998, Gene Griessman, B. Eugene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln, The Words Lincoln Lived By, page 53:
text: I was a one horse lawyer in this one horse town.
ref: 2007, Bert S. Lang, A Divine Sneeze, page 89:
text: Then Warren picked up a one-horse lawyer down in his own town and he and that lawyer went to St. Paul where Warren made another speech, which—of course—from a lawyer's standpoint was wholly irrelevant and insulting.
ref: 2013, Clarence Darrow, Randall Tietjen, In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters, page 153:
glosses: A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.
one-horse lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-horse lawyer
one-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more one-horse
form: most one-horse
Senses: examples: text: He constructed a one-horse plough for me about two years ago, which only weighs 581b., for planting potatoes.
ref: 1839, British Farmer's Magazine - Volume 3, page 84:
text: Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh!
ref: 1857, James Lord Pierpont, One Horse Open Sleigh (Jingle Bells):
text: Come to the wagon business I may have a pole put in front of that one-horse wagon and hitch em both to it.
ref: 2013, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers:
glosses: Drawn or worked by a single horse.
examples: text: Let us have no one-horse candidate for the Presidency. General Grant is the man.
ref: 1871, The Catholic Record - Volumes 1-2, page 47:
text: A Nestor may reappear as an elderly pedagogue, a Circe as the "Madam" of a one-horse brothel.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: The Great Powers never think of us as a one-horse state.
ref: 2014, James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, Rascals in Paradise, page 132:
text: Going from its one-horse hotel, to the model hotel of Philadelphia, was almost too sudden a change even for my excellent constitution.
ref: 2016, Fanny Fern, Folly as It Flies, page 112:
glosses: Small, insignificant.
exorbitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ex- + orbit + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: protrusion of the orbits of the eyes
Pequin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pequins
Etymology: Borrowed from French Pequin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Pequin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes, volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:
glosses: Obsolete form of Peking (“Chinese capital city”).
magillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magilla
ginormousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ginormous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Kody chuckled, and then he began banging around pots and pans in the kitchen, probably getting ready to feed his ginormousness.
ref: 2014, Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Oblivion, page 16:
text: The ginormousness of their responsibilities hit her all at once.
ref: 2014, Sophie Bell, Lilac Attack!:
text: I only just survived and we're happy because the bomb made us realise the ginormousness of our love.
ref: 2015, Emma Shevah, Dara Palmer's Major Drama:
synonyms: word: ginormity
word: size
word: bigness
word: bulk
word: largeness
word: magnitude
word: scale
glosses: Hugeness; massive size.
sing-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sing-offs
Etymology: From sing + -off.
Senses: examples: text: The two of them engaged in a sing-off until they realized that both tunes had the same beat.
ref: 2014, Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love, page 316:
text: This really is Anything Goes, not just a Cole Porter sing-off using portions of the Anything Goes narrative.
ref: 2015, Ethan Mordden, Sing for Your Supper: The Broadway Musical in the 1930s, page 76:
text: There's nothing like the life-or-death drama of an X Factor sing-off.
ref: 2015, Steve Brookstein, Getting Over the X, page 49:
glosses: A competition between two or more singers where each tries to do better than the last.
sing-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sing-off
no big whoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no big whoops
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, big whoop.
examples: text: Give a call, we'll talk, no big whoop.
glosses: Used to minimize the importance of something
spokescritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokescritters
Etymology: Blend of spokesperson + critter
Senses: examples: text: Tony the Tiger, the longtime spokescritter for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, is just one famous example of how animation can be used in advertising.
ref: 1999, William F. Arens, Contemporary Advertising, page 430:
text: Animated Spokescritters adopted by ASPCA from the Walt Disney animation studios began to appear in public service announcements.
ref: 2007, Marion S Lane, Stephen L. Zawistowski, Heritage of Care:
text: For Alka-Selzer, hundreds of people were audtioned in a nationwide talent search for the voice of Speedy, the brand's diminutive, animated spokescritter.
ref: 2009, Lawrence R. Samuel, Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream, page 128:
text: I want to return to a telling moment in the Telus campaign in which the company defends the naturalness of its spokescritters by insisting that they are not induced or lured into performing any out-of-the-ordinary behaviour for its print or visual media.
ref: 2017, Lynn Turner, Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies:
glosses: An animal or animated creature that is used as a brand representative or spokesperson.
spokescritters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spokescritter
dingbatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dingbatty
form: most dingbatty
Etymology: From dingbat + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Of course she would involve the police and the football coach and a battery of Mark's dingbatty friends.
ref: 1999, Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl:
text: Then they returned in such a giddy mood that I could have easily mistaken my mother for one of Becky's dingbatty friends.
ref: 2001, John Fischer, Saint Ben with the Saint's and Angel's Song, page 142:
text: Minnie's kind of dingbatty sometimes.
ref: 2011, Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control:
glosses: Like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.
coalition builder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalition builders
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A tool, app or program that calculates the sums of Members of Parliament between the parties for possible government coalitions, given the results of an election.
thought up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of think up
cheer pheasant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheer pheasants
Senses: glosses: A species of pheasant, Catreus wallichii, of the western Himalayas.
cheer pheasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheer pheasant
Overground
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Overground
Etymology: From overground, in contrast to the Underground.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it was rather bizarre to make a former underground line into part of a network called London Overground, and at Whitechapel the Overground goes under the Underground. But let's not spoil our happy ending for the East London Line.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 94:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The London Overground, a counterpart of London Underground operated by TfL (Transport for London), which operates some of the various lines around London which are mainly above ground.
Related terms: London Underground
Underground
keep one's ears open
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's ears open
form: keeping one's ears open
form: kept one's ears open
form: kept one's ears open
Senses: glosses: to listen for important information.
Related terms: keep an ear to the ground
keep a weather eye open
keep one's eyes peeled
lend an ear
prick up one's ears
strain one's ears
at a run
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: on the double
glosses: running.
Radlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large settlement in Aldenham parish, Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TQ1699).
passive aggressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passive aggressive
form: most passive aggressive
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of passive-aggressive.
take to the skies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the skies
form: taking to the skies
form: took to the skies
form: taken to the skies
form: take to the sky
Senses: glosses: to start flying.
Related terms: praise to the skies
take to the sky
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the sky
form: taking to the sky
form: took to the sky
form: taken to the sky
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take to the skies.
Heighington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɪŋ.tən/
note: County Durham
ipa: /ˈheɪ.ɪŋ.tən/
note: Lincolnshire
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Darlington borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2422).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0369).
way leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: way leaves
Senses: examples: text: [...] the building of the base of the cursed Inner Circle. This was to be built beneath property considerably more desirable and expensive even than those in the District's suburbs, and the costs of way leaves, of compensation, underpinning and outright purchases would prove crippling.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of wayleave.
way leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of way leave
pleasure trips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasure trip
flak catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flak catchers
form: flak-catcher
form: flack catcher
form: flack-catcher
Etymology: Coined by American author and journalist Tom Wolfe in his 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, from flak, meaning "criticism".
Senses: examples: text: As the mau-mauing brigade heads downtown to the welfare office, they run into the chief flak catcher.
ref: 1995, William McKeen, Tom Wolfe, page 78:
text: But as superintendent in charge of external relationships for the RCMP — image polisher and flak catcher — Edwards had learned to become patient and thick of skin.
ref: 2006, William Deverell, High Crimes:
text: We can't afford to go out there blind, hollering and acting the fool, and get to the table and don't know who it is we're talking to—or what we're going to ask them—whether it's someone with real power or just a third-string flak catcher.”
ref: 2010, David Remnick, The Bridge:
glosses: A person whose job is to conduct public relations by shielding a more prominent person by intercepting and deflecting complaints and criticism.
flak catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flak catcher
flak-catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flak-catchers
Senses: examples: text: Joseph especially had been the ideal "flak-catcher” ready to turn the other cheek when abused.
ref: 1977, Andrea Fontana, The Last Frontier: The Social Meaning of Growing Old, page 81:
text: I try to think of a new way of asking the Health Department's nominated flak-catcher, junior minister David Mellor, about the impending back-bench revolt over health charges.
ref: 1989, Sean Day-Lewis, One day in the life of television, page 4:
text: Is the flak-catcher going to tell you not to call The Boss? It's possible, but if you invite him to the meeting too, he'll have a tough time justifying the demand.
ref: 2000, Dave Donelson, Creative Selling:
glosses: Alternative form of flak catcher.
flak-catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flak-catcher
flack catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flack catchers
Senses: examples: text: As indicated above it is frustrating and a waste of time to talk to a "flack catcher" who has no authority.
ref: 1986, Bill Lee, Pragmatics of Community Organization, page 129:
text: It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called "mau-mauing the flack catcher."
ref: 2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West:
text: The flack catcher's job is to try to entangle them in their tricky game of catch questions.
ref: 2011, Peter J Miele, Baptism of Fire:
glosses: Alternative form of flak catcher.
flack catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flack catcher
flack-catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flack-catchers
Senses: examples: text: The biography of Edward S. Gruson states that “after being flack-catcher to the president of Harvard University during the recent years of student and community unrest,” the author searched for a totally irrelevant area of study and ended up writing Words for Birds.
ref: 1972, Man & Nature:
text: I don't think I'm cut out to be a flack-catcher."
ref: 1993, Dean Tjosvold, Learning to Manage Conflict:
text: A top tobacco industry PR man, Smith had spent 15 years as senior flack-catcher for Phillip Morris.
ref: 1998, William Thomas, Peter Tompkins, Christopher C Bird, Bringing the War Home, page 240:
glosses: Alternative form of flak catcher.
flack-catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flack-catcher
mau-maus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mau-mau
mau-mauing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mau-mau
mau-mauer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mau-mauers
Etymology: From mau-mau + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The successful mau-mauer knows that differences in treatment on the job based on sex are illegal. The sophisticated mau-mouer must organize women to seek representation in both management and union decision-making.
ref: 1974, Chicago Journalism Review - Volume 7, page 40:
text: There was another mau-mauer named Chaser. Chaser was the central character in Wolfe's essay, the supreme mau-mauer, the sweetest talking, smoothest flowing operator.
ref: 1984, Michael Bernick, The Dreams of Jobs:
text: Mau-mauers know that the lack of density between groups means that there is an opportunity to use duplicity to their own advantage.
ref: 2013, Katherine Giuffre, Communities and Networks:
glosses: One who agitates for change; rabble rouser.
mau-mauers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mau-mauer
ctetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ktetic.
higher off the hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of high off the hog: more high off the hog
highest off the hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of high off the hog: most high off the hog
higher on the hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of high on the hog: more high on the hog
highest on the hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of high on the hog: most high on the hog
Luy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luys
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer លុយ (luy). This surname could also derive from Spanish Luy and German Luy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bath chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath chairs
Senses: examples: text: Watkin attended the opening of Marylebone station in a bath chair, having recently suffered a stroke.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Alternative form of Bath chair.
glosses: A chair that can be used in a bath (bathtub), coming in different sizes for babies and adults.
bath chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath chair
Liong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Roxas, Capiz, Philippines.
luminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of luminate
luminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luminate
luminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of luminate
deluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deluminates
form: deluminating
form: deluminated
form: deluminated
Etymology: From de- + luminate.
Senses: examples: text: A modification of the above has a stopcock at the base for controlling the flow of gas into the burner, simultaneously admitting the proper proportion of air to deluminate the flame.
ref: 1902, Frank Julian, A Text-book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis:
text: The smoky deluminated lounge was a sunken scatter of driftwood booths and castaway tables.
ref: 1998, Writers Forum - Issues 24-26, page 52:
text: He watches the flickering black lights, as they deluminate, the world around him.
ref: 2008, Michael Stapp, Gravedust & Grace, page 52:
text: But I still would like to deluminate rooms and let only the light from the daffodil shine,
ref: 2016, Andrey Astakhov, Tamerlis:
glosses: To extinguish a light; to darken.
deluminates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deluminate
deluminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deluminate
deluminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deluminate
self-caused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: If the theory of everything exists, it necessarily has to be self-caused, otherwise it will be merely a partial theory; but the mathematical definition of everything is undecidable, no single set may hold its supposed components, thus the theory of everything by definition does not exist.
glosses: Of self-sufficient causality/causation.
Synonyms: word: self-causal
word: self-created
word: self-composed
word: self-content
word: self-decidable
word: autogonous
english: self-created
translation: self-created
word: autogonic
english: self-originated
translation: self-originated
word: autogenous
word: self-fulfilled
word: self-fulfilling
sense: two-worded
word: metalogically self-sufficient
word: self-originated
word: self-satisfied
word: self-generated
word: self-justified
word: self-justifiable
Dely
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dely
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Delhi.
armchairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of armchair
puzzlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From puzzle + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?
ref: 2004, Aaron Parry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud:
text: Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.
ref: 2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:
glosses: Something that contains puzzles;
examples: text: The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.
ref: 1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3:
text: Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.
ref: 1976, Two Tone, page 6:
text: I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as "Fatima," etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.
ref: 2007, G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, page 150:
glosses: The process of solving puzzles.
front-desk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: front-desks
form: front-desking
form: front-desked
form: front-desked
Senses: examples: text: The Supreme Court pointed out a possible exception: "front-desking" may also produce the concrete effects necessary for a claim to be ripe.
ref: 1998, Bernard D. Reams, American international law cases. Ser. 3, 1994, 6, page 3208:
text: Under the Supreme Court's holding, the LULAC stay order survives only for the small group of cases in which aliens were front-desked by the INS in their application for legalization.
ref: 1998, P. J. Patel, Patel's Immigration Law Digest:
text: Moreover, the Government has represented to Federal courts its willingness to accept applications of any alien who alleges he or she was "front-desked."
ref: 2001, Labor Law Reporter Employment Practices:
text: Under the court's order, front-desked class members may have had the right to file and have the Immigration Service process their amnesty applications, and to be issued or reissued work authorization.
ref: 2003, Immigration Legislation Handbook, page 8-211:
qualifier: immigration law
glosses: To be denied by an INS agent without filing because the officer believes the application invalid at face value.
raw_tags: of a claim for legalization
front-desks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of front-desk
front-desking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of front-desk
front-desked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of front-desk
Horobets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorobec
form: Gorobets
form: Horobec
Etymology: From Ukrainian горобець (horobecʹ).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Горобец (Horobec).
Gorobets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Alternative spelling of Horobets, from Ukrainian горобець (horobecʹ).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Горобец (Horobec).
Vorobey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vorobeys
form: Vorobei
form: Vorobej
form: Worobey
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Воробе́й (Vorobéj).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Воробе́й (Vorobéj).
Vorobej
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vorobejs
form: Vorobei
form: Vorobey
form: Worobey
Etymology: From Russian воробей (vorobej) or Belarusian верабей (vjerabjej).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Воробей (Vorobej).
Vorobei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vorobeis
form: Vorobej
form: Vorobey
form: Worobey
Etymology: From Russian воробей (vorobej, “sparrow”) or Belarusian верабей (vjerabjej). Doublet of Wrobel.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Воробей (Vorobej).
Horobec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorobec
form: Gorobets
form: Horobets
Etymology: From Ukrainian горобець (horobecʹ).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Горобец (Horobec).
Frobel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frobels
form: Frubel
form: Robel
form: Vrobel
form: Vrubel
form: Wrobbel
form: Wrobel
form: Wrubbel
form: Wrubel
Etymology: Germanized variant of a Slavic surname. From a Slavic word meaning "sparrow", e.g. Lower Sorbian wrobel, Upper Sorbian wrobl, or Polish wróbel, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vorbьľь. Doublet of Wrobel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
coal-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coalbearing
Senses: synonyms: carboniferous
glosses: Containing or yielding coal
Vrobel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vrobels
form: Frobel
form: Frubel
form: Robel
form: Vrubel
form: Wrobbel
form: Wrobel
form: Wrubbel
form: Wrubel
Etymology: From a Slavic word meaning "sparrow", e.g. dialectal Czech or Slovak vrobel or vrobeľ, Lower Sorbian wrobel, Upper Sorbian wrobl, or Polish wróbel, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vorbьľь.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Vrubel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vrubels
form: Frobel
form: Frubel
form: Robel
form: Vrobel
form: Wrobbel
form: Wrobel
form: Wrubbel
form: Wrubel
Etymology: From Polish wróbel or dialectal Czech or Slovak vrubel or vrúbel, all meaning sparrow. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vorbьľь.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rag on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rags on
form: ragging on
form: ragged on
form: ragged on
Etymology: Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).
Senses: examples: text: Spencer knew his second homer—a two-run drive in the Yankee’s five-run eighth—was gone well before it landed in the second deck in left field.[…] “They were ragging on me because the first one was close,” Spencer said.
ref: 1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93:
text: They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:
text: From back at the mill came the sounds of men laughing and joking about how dumb Joe Reese had been. ¶ Their humor disgusted him. Reese had been careless, and it had cost him his life. There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now.
ref: 2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel:
glosses: To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
Priewe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Priewes
form: Priebe
Etymology: From Germanized short forms of Polabian or Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Pribyslav or Pribygněv.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
wikipedia: Pomeranian language
tee-hee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tee hee.
tee hees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tee hee
tee heeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tee hee
tee heed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tee hee
tee hee'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tee hee
opium-eating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The opium-eating sod sidled off gurgling. He hadn't understood.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 72:
glosses: That uses opium as a recreational drug.
opium-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opium-eaters
Senses: examples: text: Turkish opium-eaters it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.
ref: 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, page 103:
text: The mind (brain), utterly prostrate after the effect had ceased, required still more imperatively than in the case of the opium-eater a fresh supply to the deceased imagination[.]
ref: 1868, John P. Brown, The Dervishes: Or, Oriental Spiritualism, page 309:
text: We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The opium-eater prepares "Number Seven" and the Chowdhri sips it, along with information regarding market conditions, the rise and fall in prices, and the prevailing political atmosphere, all of which he gets from an Urdu daily[.]
ref: 2005, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, Gods on Trial and Other Stories, page 151:
glosses: A person who uses opium as a recreational drug; an opium addict.
opium-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opium-eater
Volodymyr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vələˈdiːmiə(ɹ)/
/vəˈlɒdɪmiə(ɹ)/
/ˌvoʊloʊˈdiːmiə(ɹ)/
/vəˈloʊdɪmiə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Володи́мир (Volodýmyr), Old East Slavic Володимѣръ (Volodiměrŭ). A Ukrainian cognate of Russian Влади́мир (Vladímir). Doublet of Vladimir.
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kira in the hospital to celebrate her return, also giving her an iPad to entertain her as she recovers.
ref: 2022 April 28, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, “After epic journey, orphaned Ukrainian girl is reunited with grandfather”, in CNN:
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Володи́мир (Volodýmyr), equivalent to Vladimir.
glosses: A city and raion of Volyn Oblast, in western Ukraine.
glosses: Ukrainian form of Vladimir, a city, the administrative centre of Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
sateh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of satay.
Huy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huys
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Vietnamese Huy.
* Borrowed from German Huy.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
fileset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filesets
Etymology: From file + set.
Senses: glosses: A set or group of computer files that are related
old-womanishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more old-womanishly
form: most old-womanishly
Senses: examples: text: He was excessively careful, old-womanishly apprehensive.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 112:
glosses: In the manner or style of an old woman.
hair-clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hair-clip
curry stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry stuffs
Senses: examples: text: The curry powders of India are articles of considerable commercial traffic; 32,550 cwt. of curry stuff was imported into Ceylon, chiefly from India, in 1851.
ref: 1871, Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, volume 1:
text: The Gulnare brought us a few comforts in the shape of fresh provisions, fruits and curry stuffs, for which the Malayan Archipelago is famous, and with her came a supply of cocoanuts, which would have fully stocked an average plantation.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 127:
text: The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
glosses: The ingredients that are ground to make curry powder.
curry stuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curry stuff
Elain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elains
Etymology: From Welsh Elain. Alternatively, a variant of English Elaine.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
chuck off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks off
form: chucking off
form: chucked off
form: chucked off
Senses: examples: text: Even when the Circle was whole, I used often to be chucked off its trains at Edgware Road because something had gone wrong. Now - just to make this clear - it is impossible to negotiate the north-west corner of the Circle without being chucked off at Edgware Road.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: To evict someone, e.g. from a form of transport, perhaps for unruly behaviour, or because the final destination has been reached.
glosses: To insult or verbally abuse (someone); to tease, sneer at or demean (someone).
Related terms: chuck out
throw off
MVNO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MVNOs
Senses: examples: text: The MVNO will be a new phenomenon in most countries at the advent of UMTS. MVNO's will be marketing mobile services but will not own radio network assets nor licenses to use the radio spectrum.
ref: 2002, Tomi T. Ahonen, Joe Barrett, Services for UMTS: Creating Killer Applications in 3G, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 257:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
coordinate_terms: MVNE
MVNA
glosses: Initialism of mobile virtual network operator.
chucked off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chuck off
chucking off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chuck off
chucks off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chuck off
Benidorm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnɪdɔː(ɹ)m/
Etymology: Borrowed from Valencian Benidorm.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Alicante, Valencia, Spain.
brush-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This relegation was not really the cause of the decline of brush-making, which was the town's main industry. That was down to the introduction of nylon bristles.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of brushmaking.
takes the gilt off the gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the gilt off the gingerbread
taking the gilt off the gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the gilt off the gingerbread
taken the gilt off the gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the gilt off the gingerbread
took the gilt off the gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the gilt off the gingerbread
reportatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reportative
through the ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of through the roof.
synonyms: word: through the roof
strain at a gnat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strains at a gnat
form: straining at a gnat
form: strained at a gnat
form: strained at a gnat
form: strain out a gnat
Etymology: From the King James Version of the Bible, verse Matthew 23:24.
Senses: glosses: to make a mountain out of a molehill
half an hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-an-hour
Senses: examples: text: I'll be there in half an hour.
text: And whẽ he had opened the ſeventhe ſeale / there was ſilence in heven aboute the ſpace of halfe an houre /
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Revelation viij:[1], folio cccxxviij, verso:
glosses: Thirty minutes.
Synonyms: half-hour
behaloed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + halo + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a halo.
hatpinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hatpin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Adorned or affixed with a hatpin.
curlered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From curler + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having the hair in curlers.
at the worst
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of at worst.
unfielded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fielded.
Senses: examples: text: Mountford beat out a ground hit by a fraction of a second, took second on Johnson's unfielded hit to Lanphier […]
ref: 1907, Army & Navy Life and the United Service, volume 10, page 690:
glosses: Not fielded.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of data: not organised in a set of fields.
traumatogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: traumagenic
glosses: That leads to trauma.
traumatogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The development of trauma.
Related terms: traumatogenic
psychotraumatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of psychological trauma.
psychotraumatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to psychotraumatology.