cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
French coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French coffees
Senses: examples: text: Also the first-named component has to be in excess of a given percentage (e.g. in the UK so-called French coffee has to contain at least 51% roasted coffee, the remainder being roasted chicory).
ref: 1987, R.J. Clarke, R. Macrae, Coffee: Related Beverages, page 150:
text: In the old days, “French Coffee" (with Chicory mixed) used to be in green Colour, and pure Coffee used red Colour.
ref: 2002, Indian Coffee: Bulletin of the Indian Coffee Board:
text: Everything was very simple—typically French coffee, served in a bowl and strongly flavored with chicory, along with a piece of bread—yet I was received as an old friend.
ref: 2014, Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby, My Battle Against Hitler:
text: Emile has a taste for chicory-infused French coffees, a taste Alex doesn't share.
ref: 2014, Maddox Kent, The Writing Class, page 184:
glosses: Coffee mixed with chicory.
French coffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of French coffee
unpollute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unpollutes
form: unpolluting
form: unpolluted
form: unpolluted
Etymology: From un- + pollute.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose the President were to say (copying some language used once before) that, before the end of this decade, we shall unpollute the Great Lakes.
ref: 1970, Monograph - Issues 11-14, page 85:
text: And it is now time for the industry to fully realize that it cannot escape its responsibility to unpollute the American drinking environment, just as other industries have found that they cannot escape their responsibility to unpollute the natural environment.
ref: 1975, Morris E. Chafetz, Research, Treatment, and Prevention:
text: If he wants to unpollute something, let him unpollute the movies. All them nudies.
ref: 1979, Richard Adler, All in the family: a critical appraisal, page 80:
text: How can we throw off the mantle of ethical invisibility and, at the same time, unpollute the atmosphere and the environment, and, as one black poet wrote, "clean out the world for virtue and love"?
ref: 1992, Richard Kenneth Barksdale, Praisesong of Survival: Lectures and Essays, 1957-89, page 51:
text: Let your departure unpollute our city.
ref: 2010, Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid: Seven against Thebes:
glosses: To remove pollutants from; to purify.
unpollutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unpollute
Teba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A town in Andalusia, Spain.
friendiversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfrɛndəˈvɜrsəri/
enpr: fren-duh-vur-suh-ree
Forms: form: friendiversaries
Etymology: Blend of friend + anniversary
Senses: examples: text: “It's our one-month friendiversary,” Maeve explained. “Remember? We met exactly one month ago today.”
ref: 2018, Rachelle Delaney, Clara Voyant, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends.
mindblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindblind
form: most mindblind
Senses: glosses: Unable to deduce or make educated guesses about another person's mental state.
Related terms: mindblindness
cycloidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cycloidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cycloidal manner.
computerful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computerfuls
Etymology: From computer + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher, too, has more than a computerful of information stored away in his brain.
ref: 1987, Joe Kaufman, Joe Kaufman's Big Book About the Human Body, Golden Pr, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Sometimes, though, the absence of information told as important a story as a computerful of data.
ref: 2011, John Gilstrap, At All Costs, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN:
text: Also the computerful of garbage upstairs and the unwritten Great American Novel.
ref: 2015, Peter Israel, chapter 2, in Hush Money, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: the amount that a computer can hold.
Bounds Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊndz.ɡɹiːn/
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Haringey, in northern Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2991).
Ländchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ländchens
Etymology: From German Ländchen.
Senses: glosses: The German name given to several Ice Age plateaux in the Havelland region, which climb to over 70 meters above the formerly marshy urstromtal levels (old glacial meltwater valleys) of the Havelland Luch and the Rhinluch.
Nevada Triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Nevada Triangle
Etymology: From Nevada + triangle.
From being a triangular area mostly in Nevada. Coined in analogy to the Bermuda Triangle.
Senses: glosses: A region bounded by the vertices at Reno, Nevada, US; Las Vegas, Nevada, US; Fresno, California, US; containing part of the Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in the Rocky Mountain Cordillera); the triangle falling mostly in the U.S. state of Nevada; where many plane crashes occur and planes disappear.
Related terms: Bermuda Triangle
Dragon's Triangle
twist around one's little finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists around one's little finger
form: twisting around one's little finger
form: twisted around one's little finger
form: twisted around one's little finger
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrap around one's little finger.
wind around one's little finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winds around one's little finger
form: winding around one's little finger
form: wound around one's little finger
form: wound around one's little finger
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wrap around one's little finger.
get on someone's wrong side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on someone's wrong side
form: getting on someone's wrong side
form: got on someone's wrong side
form: got on someone's wrong side
form: gotten on someone's wrong side
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get on someone's bad side.
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laughs out of the other side of one's mouth
form: laughing out of the other side of one's mouth
form: laughed out of the other side of one's mouth
form: laughed out of the other side of one's mouth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laugh on the other side of one's face.
bobbinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of black powder modified to reduce the risk of gas explosions in mines.
nonfamousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonfamous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of not being famous.
k-algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: k-algebras
Senses: examples: A k'''-algebra A with ring homomorphism ϕ:k→A is a k-vector space with scalar multiplication (i.e., action of k upon A): λ·a=ϕ(λ)a where λ∈k,a∈A.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebra over a field; a ring with identity together with an injective ring homomorphism from a field, k, to the ring such that the image of the field is a subset of the center of the ring and such that the image of the field’s unity is the ring’s unity.
Synonyms: algebra over a field
Hypernyms: ring
vector space
Meronyms: center
field
unity
identity
Ambazonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Ambazonian
form: most Ambazonian
Etymology: From Ambazonia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Ambazonia.
Ambazonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Ambazonians
Etymology: From Ambazonia + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ambazonia.
Hypernyms: African
Ambazonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˌæm.bəˈzoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: Coined by Cameroonian attorney and political activist Fongum Gorji Dinka in 1985 (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: If the expression “Southern Cameroons” has exposed us to any annexationist ambitions, then we will henceforth call ourselves AMBAZONIA.
ref: 1985 March 20, Fongum Gorji Dinka, “The New Social Order”, in Retyped from Ambazonian Archives (PDF), archived from the original on 10 May 2024, page 8:
glosses: An internationally unrecognized Anglophone state which is claimed by Cameroon.
Derived terms: Ambazonian
taking the mick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the mick
Londraville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑn.dɹəˌvɪl/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
milemarker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milemarkers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mile marker.
Portbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Somerset district, Somerset, England; the Royal Portbury Dock is a mile to the north (OS grid ref ST5075).
mile marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mīlʹmär'kər
Forms: form: mile markers
form: milemarker
Etymology: From mile + marker.
Senses: topics: automotive
road
transport
vehicles
glosses: A numbered milepost or sign along a highway, or some other road, used to determine the location of a motor vehicle.
Related terms: sense: verbal form
word: milemark
American handegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈhændɛɡ/
Forms: form: American handeggs
form: American hand-egg
Senses: examples: text: Actually if you overdose on steroids to beef up your muscles as most(?) American handegg players do, there is likely to be a corresponding decrease in masculinity ie shrunken penis, shrivelled testicles.
ref: 2009 September 21, nigel, “Re: Thank God for American Football, Real Football”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):
text: All of this might lead you to believe that American handegg is not very good. On the contrary, it can be thrilling. The moment when Spine Problems Chap flings the egg as many yards downfield as his back will allow and you can't quite see what's going to happen is actually engrossing.
ref: 2014 November 7, Gavin Cleaver, “A Guide to the Dallas Cowboys Handegg Club for My Fellow Brits”, in Dallas Observer, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2015:
text: For those who follow American handegg, Peyton and Eli Manning’s “ManningCast” of Monday Night Football was a huge hit last year, offering fans a different way to watch the NFL.
ref: 2022 May 11, Travis Yoesting, “ESPN Doing A ManningCast For Golf — Now Do Soccer You Cowards”, in The18.com, archived from the original on 24 May 2022:
text: No doubt, I'll be watching some American handegg today on football Sunday.
ref: 2022 December 4, Gary, “Happy Thanksgiving to all”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
glosses: American football (the sport).
examples: text: I want a picture of a football (a real one, not one of those american handeggs) with wings.
ref: 2013 April 17, Stars_InTheirEyes, “Let us play Pic Hunter!”, in Egosoft.com (forum), archived from the original on 08 Oct 2014:
text: I haven't tried it yet but It's been suggested to practice your relese^([sic]) by throwing mini nerf footballs (or American handeggs, for those of you not in 'Murica) underhanded.
ref: 2015 March 16, u/dabobbo, “Practice at home”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2022, r/Bowling:
glosses: The ball used to play American football.
Grayling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Crawford County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A charter township in Crawford County, Michigan, which surrounds the city.
Norðurland eystra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Icelandic Norðurland eystra.
Senses: glosses: Northeastern Region (an administrative region of Iceland).
Puddicombe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
misbeget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misbegets
form: misbegetting
form: misbegot
form: misbegotten
Etymology: From mis- + beget. Compare Middle English misbeȝete (“an illegitimate child”, literally “one who is misbegotten”).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, Master Giles, buss the old folk, and thank them for misbegetting of thee, and ho ! you, — bring hither his mule !
ref: 1869, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: The greatest of all penalties; for what worse calamity can human beings suffer in the production of offspring than to misbeget?'
ref: 1897, The Works of Xenophon:
text: What about parents who, through fecklessness and stupidity misbeget a sequence of unwanted children and then so ill- treat or neglect them that they have to be removed from their care ?
ref: 1947, The Eugenics Review - Volumes 38-39, page 134:
text: The Philosopher Took the first shot And called a woman Misbegot. But Thomas, tell me, Tete a tete, Whose fault is it To misbeget?
ref: 2000, Cass Dalglish, Nin, page 48:
glosses: To beget wrongly or badly.
To produce children from an illicit or inappropriate union, especially when such children suffer birth defects.
examples: text: Take it; disperse the rich man's store ; Take it, and satisfy your need ; Then misbeget some millions more For our posterity to feed.
ref: 1886, Frederic William Farrar, Sermons and Addresses Delivered in America, page 118:
text: The lawyer's training, experience, and self-discipline can help to bring order into the frequently chaotic world of labor arbitration—to substitute reason and logic for the emotionalism and sloppy thinking that misbeget many arbitration proceedings, and sometimes the decisions as well.
ref: 1970, The practical lawyer - Volumes 16-18, page 42:
text: ...when we recall that the world of young men about to die, and older humans, about to grieve, allowed such crotty creatures to decide for us, to appease for us and themselves, to mismanage, to misread, misprophesy, mistake and misbeget the future as they did, I can only suppose we should decide to accept the worst in life, rather than the best as normal.
ref: 1985, Janet Flanner, Natalia Danesi Murray, Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend, page 22:
glosses: To beget wrongly or badly.
To create or produce something badly.
misbegets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misbeget
misbegetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misbeget
misaffirms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misaffirm
misanthropize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misanthropizes
form: misanthropizing
form: misanthropized
form: misanthropized
form: misanthropise
Etymology: From mis- + anthropize or misanthropy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A thousand cunning things they do, To urge me to misanthropize; My heart is filled with endless rue — (It does no good to alkalize).
ref: 1957, High Points in the Work of the High Schools of New York City:
text: To genuflect is not to misanthropize. To contemplate, even worship, deity is not to misanthropize. To understand man as laughing guanine, as the tarsier that skipped a few grades, may be to berate us, may be to misanthropize.
ref: 2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, page 342:
text: If you fail me I shall misanthropize, misogynize, misobrephize, shut myself up in a cell(ar).
ref: 2012, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite, page 37:
glosses: To hate mankind.
examples: text: The contemptible ignorance, credulity, and fraud, which support its tyrannous authority, as a supernatural revelation, and the futile attempt to enforce a belief of its liberal meaning as indispensable to the happiness of mankind, and the universal degradation and miserty which it perpetuates, by the inbred hostility which all its priesthoods have ever evinced towards every improvement that would enlighten and elevate the human mind, have done more to disgust and misanthropize all ingenuous and rational minds, and to inspire them with a settled aversion for the ways of man and his institutions, than all the other moral and physical evils now experienced in Christendom.
ref: 1842, Logan Mitchell, The Christian mythology unveiled, lectures, page 40:
text: His ways are indeed wonderful, — how wonderful, eternity alone can show, where we shall see the connection of what we are pleased to call trivial events with His most stupendous schemes, and all that is dark and difficult and melancholy in this unintelligible world, all that gives our presumptuous reasoning hard thoughts of God, all that has grieved and disappointed and misanthropized, will be fully explained, and merged in one unclouded blaze of glory.
ref: 1869, Stopford Augustus Brooke, Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, page 38:
text: Here, nature is absent and architecture is simply a "borgo" crammed with generic people ("gente", "persona", "malevoli", "uomini") sometimes deprecatingly reduced to animalesque masses ("stuol", "greggia") who misanthropize the poet's heart.
ref: 1980, Jeanne Carol Dillon, Giacomo Leopardi's Idylls and Nineteenth-century European Landscape Painting:
glosses: To make misanthropic
misanthropizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misanthropize
misanthropizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misanthropize
misanthropized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misanthropize
misanthropise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misanthropises
form: misanthropising
form: misanthropised
form: misanthropised
Senses: examples: text: Selfishness civilises, monopolises, and misanthropises.
ref: 1871, Joseph Longland, Bernard Alvers and the War witch, page 79:
text: Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
ref: 1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243:
text: The older man, whose life has been a failure, notwithstanding his large measure of ability and what must be called personal magnetism, crossed the young one's path when the latter was suffering from a disappointment in love for which he purposed abandoning the world to misanthropise in a distant solitude.
ref: 1891, F. Mary Wilson, A Primer on Browning, page 190:
glosses: Alternative form of misanthropize.
misanthropises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misanthropise
misanthropising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misanthropise
misanthropised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misanthropise
Shapps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæpz/
Etymology: Perhaps from Shapiro?
Senses: glosses: A Jewish surname.
misogynises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misogynise
misogynising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misogynise
misogynised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misogynise
Norristown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Norris + town.
Senses: glosses: A community in Pope County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Emanuel County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A borough, the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
mischieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischieve
mischieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mischieve
Pennick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Grímsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Grimsey.
unreciprocate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreciprocate
form: most unreciprocate
Etymology: From un- + reciprocate.
Senses: examples: text: Although one would wish to share all the best with others, still the unpublished " reams and reams," the unrequited love, and the unreciprocate friendship have not been valueless.
ref: 1940, Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle, The Poetry Review - Volume 31, page 170:
text: The silver belly sullied by slime, Kiss unreciprocate ;
ref: 1942, Richard Eberhart, Song and Idea, page 44:
text: Undying loves, love unreciprocate!
ref: 2010, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology, page 197:
glosses: Unreciprocated.
Conon Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village by the River Conon and its road and rail bridges in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH5455).
unreconstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unreconstructs
form: unreconstructing
form: unreconstructed
form: unreconstructed
Etymology: From un- + reconstruct.
Senses: examples: text: It is interesting that in cases where the surface does not have the geometry and periodicity of the bulk-terminated plane, the interaction of hydrogen with surface atoms is strong enough to unreconstruct the complicated reconstruction patterns.
ref: 1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics, RLE Progress Report - Issue 131, page 83:
text: The argument for describing these surfaces as bulk terminated, as chlorine adsorption is known to unreconstruct silicon surfaces, was presented in chapter 1.
ref: 1997, Carlotta Marie Paulsen-Boaz, The Carrier-mediated Photodesorption Reaction on Chlorinated Silicon Surfaces:
text: Hydrogen adsorption can unreconstruct surfaces and passivate surface dangling bonds, and thus can change the surface properties dramatically.
ref: 2002, Hari Singh Nalwa, Handbook of Thin Film Materials:
glosses: To reverse or undo the effects of reconstruction.
unreconstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unreconstruct
unreconstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unreconstruct
orellanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Orellani + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lethal mycotoxin found in Orellani mushrooms; 3,3′,4,4′-tetrahydroxy-2,2′-bipyridine-N,N′-dioxide.
Synonyms: orellanin
orellanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: orellanine
overcancel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcancels
form: overcanceling
form: overcancelling
form: overcanceled
form: overcanceled
form: overcancelled
form: overcancelled
Etymology: From over- + cancel.
Senses: examples: text: Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to "overcancel" the input signal with the higher level output.
ref: 1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58:
text: Don't overcancel our FDCs. Don't obliterate with felt-tipped markers.
ref: 1995, The American philatelist - Volume 109, Issues 1-6, page 418:
text: The self-diffusivities of a rod, in general, decrease with the concentration because of the rod entanglement and hydrodynamic interaction, but the excluded volume effect in the polarized scattering largely cancels (and sometimes overcancels) the decrease.
ref: 2012, Akira Onuki, Kyozi Kawasaki, Dynamics and Patterns in Complex Fluids:
glosses: To cancel too many or too forcefully.
Derived terms: overcancellation
overcancels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcancel
overcancelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcancel
overcanceling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcancel
overcancelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcancel
overcanceled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overcancel
Kyle of Lochalsh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Lochalsh refers to Loch Alsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG7627).
wikipedia: Loch Alsh
overcancellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcancellations
Etymology: From overcancel + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The test is seen to be biased towards overcancellation, in particular when the series contains seasonality.
ref: 1992, Agustín Maravall, Encompassing univariate models in multivariate time series, page 22:
glosses: The act of overcancelling.
Cameron Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3499).
Enniskillen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɛnɪsˈkɪlən/
Etymology: From Irish Inis Ceithleann.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
dig a hole for oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs a hole for oneself
form: digging a hole for oneself
form: dug a hole for oneself
form: dug a hole for oneself
Senses: glosses: To take an action or create a situation from which it is difficult to extricate.
Related terms: dig oneself in a hole
dig one's own grave
shoot oneself in the foot
dig oneself into a hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs oneself into a hole
form: digging oneself into a hole
form: dug oneself into a hole
form: dug oneself into a hole
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dig oneself in a hole.
Culross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9886).
glosses: An unincorporated community in south-central Manitoba, Canada.
Low Valleyfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0086).
Related terms: High Valleyfield
turnip cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnip cakes
Senses: synonyms: radish cake
carrot cake
chai tow kway
glosses: A savoury Chinese dim sum dish made with radish and usually pan-fried.
radish cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radish cakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turnip cake.
synonyms: word: turnip cake
bulldyking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull dyking
form: bulldiking
Etymology: See bulldyke.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bulldyking.
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: The practice of engaging in lesbian sex (sometimes especially tribadism), especially among black women. (Sometimes used adjectivally.)
rileks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rilek
Ruoqiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɹwoʊˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/
Forms: form: Jochiang
form: Jo-chiang
form: Jo-ch'iang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 若羌 (Ruòqiāng).
Senses: examples: text: The satellite photo captured on May 13 in Xinjiang's Ruoqiang county shows the dummy target with twin engines and a large, disc-shaped radar on its fuselage parked on a runway. It appears to be surrounded by a number of smaller fighter aircraft.
ref: 2022 May 24, John Feng, “Satellite Images Hint at China's Taiwan Invasion Plans”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, World:
glosses: A county of Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
glosses: A town in Ruoqiang, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Uyghur
word: Qakilik
word: Charkhlik
word: Charklik
word: Erh-ch'iang
sif
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sif
form: most sif
Senses: glosses: Foul, disgusting.
tradcath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
ipa: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: tradcaths
Etymology: From trad (“traditional”) + Cath(olic).
Senses: examples: text: Chesterton was Edwardian England's most eloquent advocate for distributism, a Catholic social and economic system that contemporary TradCaths embrace, more (skepticism of big-government socialism) or less (actually distributing anything to anyone).
ref: 2019, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, page 115:
text: Overlapping with groups within the ‘Manosphere’, tradcaths use fundamentalist Christianity as a vehicle to spread and legitimize their gospel of traditional family values […]
ref: 2020 December 24, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021, page 32:
text: This group is comprised of networks—such as Catholic identifying Groypers and TradCaths […]
ref: 2021 December 24, David Hoa Khoa Nguyen; Jeremy F. Price, & Duaa H. Alwan, “The Influence of Christian Nationalism on U.S. Public Educators' Speech: Implications from Meriwether vs. Hartop”, in Laws, volume 2, number 4:
text: She [Brittany Hugoboom] was raised Catholic by parents who often moved around the country because of her father’s job in banking, and said she became a “tradcath,” a trendy term for Traditionalist Catholic, around a decade ago.
ref: 2025 March 21, Katie J. M. Baker, “The Conservative Women’s Magazine With Big Ambitions, and Sex Tips for Wives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A Catholic who seeks to change the practices of Catholicism back to the norms of before the Second Vatican Council.
tradcath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
ipa: /ˈtrædˌkæθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: more tradcath
form: most tradcath
Etymology: From trad (“traditional”) + Cath(olic).
Senses: examples: text: But there are not enough ‘TradCath’ priests to serve all the parishes who want us, leaving churches and people vulnerable to takeover by ‘Affirming’ clergy or pastoral reorganisation into liberal teams.
ref: 2014 June, Fr. Martyn Neale, “Looking to the Future”, in Forward in Faith Guildford:
text: In fact, the TradCath Weirdo is so obsessed with fecundity and nonprocreating marriages that he represents the only type of contemporary white person that actively hates dogs.
ref: 2019, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, page 154:
text: Sharing little in common with a true traditionalist stance of Catholicism, the tradcath movement within the Groyper Army is more akin to heavily meme-ified, internet-based understanding of Francoist Catholic fascism […]
ref: 2020 December 24, Mariel Hope Cooksey, The Alt-Right and Christianity, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2021, page 32:
glosses: Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to traditionalist, conservative Catholicism.
Related terms: sedevacantism
tradcaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradcath
Mulroney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mulroneys
Etymology: Variant of Moroney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Valleyfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the municipality of New-Wes-Valley, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A community in the town of Three Rivers, Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada, formerly a municipality.
glosses: Ellipsis of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: Two villages in Fife council area, Scotland, High Valleyfield and Low Valleyfield.
Derived terms: Low Valleyfield
Bessacarr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛsəkər/
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE6101).
Santomeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Santomean
Guardbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO4519).
office plankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Russian о́фисный планкто́н (ófisnyj planktón) having the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth group is made up of office employees, the so-called "office plankton," "white-collar workers" or ...
ref: 2008, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, page 7:
text: They were workaholics in their 20s — “office plankton,” as they are sometimes called here — punchy from an apocalypse-themed office party, some headed for winter vacations in Egypt and Turkey.
ref: 2011 December 23, Ellen Barry, “Young and Connected, 'Office Plankton' Protesters Surprise Russia”, in The New York Times:
text: But how can you invent a distinction if you feel you are part of ordinary office plankton? What if this is how the people around view you?
ref: 2012, Polina Kudiyevskaya, Gennadiy Balashov, How to Become an Adventurist? The Reflections of a Millionaire:
text: What type of personality and whose values — the traditional worker or "the office plankton" — are preferable?
ref: 2013, Slovo: Issues 63-65:
text: Office plankton is mentioned often are numerous small employees, which salary is a little connected with result of their work.
ref: 2018, Due Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli, The President / The Prince:
text: Washington office plankton, as it turns out, are unhappy that the commander-in-chief did not heed their opinion.
ref: 2019 November 6, Gary Gindler, “Who Can Stop Trump Now?”, in American Thinker:
glosses: Anonymous office workers.
Inverkeithing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A harbour town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1383).
Dalgety Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and bay in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1683).
Dalgety
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently a surname (also spelt Dalgetty), although Dalgety Bay was originally named Dalgety.
Senses: glosses: A small town in southern New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Dalgety Bay
Aberdour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Pictish *aber (“estuary”) + Dour, a river-name.
Senses: examples: text: Aberdour station opened in 1890, welcoming day-trippers and travellers to the picture-postcard seaside village.
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 56:
glosses: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1985).
Burntisland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A royal burgh (town) in the Fife council area of Scotland (OS grid ref NT2385).
Markinch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2901).
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Cupar, southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
Cardenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2295).
Lochgelly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Situated near Loch Gelly.
Senses: glosses: A town in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT1893).
wikipedia: Loch Gelly
quadrimester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrimesters
Etymology: From French quadrimestre.
Senses: glosses: A period of four months or about four months.
Related terms: trimester
semester
kicked into touch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kick into touch
American hand-egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American hand-eggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of American handegg.
kawal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A meat substitute made in Sudan from the fermented leaves of the sicklepod.
human geographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human geographers
Senses: glosses: A specialist in human geography.
Appleby-in-Westmorland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district, formerly named Appleby (OS grid ref NY6820).
boab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boabs
Etymology: Clipping of boabab.
Senses: glosses: The tree Adansonia gregorii, a baobab species endemic to the Kimberley region and the Northern Territory of Australia.
separation constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separation constants
Senses: examples: The partial differential equation a sin ²(θ)Φ(ϕ)+Φ(ϕ) cos (θ)(∂Θ(θ))/(∂θ)+(∂²Φ)/(∂ϕ²)=0 can be rewritten a sin ²(θ)+ cos (θ)(∂Θ(θ))/(∂θ)=-1/(Φ(ϕ))(∂²Φ)/(∂ϕ²)≡K, where K is a separation constant that depends on neither θ nor ϕ. This then yields two ordinary differential equations.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: a constant that may be introduced upon separation of variables
Tebay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6104).
rat racer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat racers
Etymology: From rat race + -er.
Senses: glosses: An individual who partakes or is mired in the rat race.
rat racers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat racer
rat races
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rat race
Bowness-on-Windermere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town on Lake Windermere, in Windermere and Bowness parish, Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4096).
dodge the column
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dodges the column
form: dodging the column
form: dodged the column
form: dodged the column
Etymology: From column in the sense of "a body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road."
Senses: glosses: to avoid doing work.
Related terms: swing the lead
Bowness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A civil parish (served by Bowness-on-Solway Parish Council) in Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bowness-on-Solway
Bowness-on-Windermere
Windermere and Bowness
Related terms: Bo'ness
nonhypotenuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhypotenuse
Grasmere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English græs (“grass”) + mere (“lake”); "the lake with grassy shores".
Senses: glosses: A village next to a lake of the same name in Lakes parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref NY3307).
glosses: A suburb in the Macarthur Region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand.
glosses: A hamlet in the Regional District of East Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Staten Island, New York, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
Rotheram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rotherams
Etymology: Heterographic variant of Rotherham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
enemying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enemy
enemied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enemy
enemied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enemied
form: most enemied
Senses: examples: text: Processes of mystification deny the existence of oppression in this setting, and as a result, antagonistic and often enemied relations between professors and students are understood minimally.
ref: 1979, Valerie Polakow Suransky, Paulo Freire in Ann Arbor - Volumes 1-2, page 62:
text: That's us in other but as part of it however special we think to be, however enemied and set apart we make of other, the way life fades to death and is in all is how we are.
ref: 1996, William Bronk, The cage of age, page 64:
text: Through this service he was able to sketch a portrait of Kardinal Albergati, who, as legate to the pope, travelled to the enemied courts of England, France and Burgundy to mediate peace during the "One-hundred-Year War".
ref: 2006, Georg Johannes Kugler, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna:
glosses: Characterized by enmity.
Shoveller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Westfjords
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Icelandic Vestfirðir.
Senses: glosses: A region of Iceland.
deepdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deepdraws
form: deepdrawing
form: deepdrew
form: deepdrawn
Senses: examples: text: The Hydent indentation "deepdraws" the metal of the connector barrel; coins the metal into the wire or cable; and permanently holds the conductor in place without release of pressure due to "spring-back"
ref: 1944, Aero Digest - Volume 45, page 205:
text: The axial length of the cylindrical body was to be ahnost three times the diameter. He decided to deepdraw this cup in one stroke.
ref: 1947, Blast Furnace and Steel Plant - Volume 35, page 1003:
text: How far does the nature and weight of phosphate coatings used on pre-painted strip affect the ability to deepdraw or otherwise form the metal and are there any substantial modifications necessary in phosphating practice.
ref: 1959, American Electroplaters' Society, Technical Proceedings - Volume 46, Part 1959, page 360:
text: Fig. 15 gives the results of deepdrawing cups with increasing blankholder pressure ; also the diagram gives the number of wrinkles, which increases with increasing blankholder pressure.
ref: 1962, Microtecnic - Volume 16, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of deep-draw.
deepdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deepdraws
Senses: examples: text: It forms better; you get finely detailed deepdraws.
ref: 1966, CSA Super Markets - Volume 42, page E-4:
text: Grid work tests performed at Ford during the past year on stamped parts indicate that manufacturing strains of 70 percent are common and deepdraws and extrusions result In pre-strains near the true fracture strain of the material. .
ref: 1974, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Papers, page 59:
text: The wall thickness remains fairly uniform even after the deepdraw.
ref: 1981, Finnish Trade Review, page 23:
text: In particular multiaxial, woven and knitted fabrics are attractive reinforcement materials because they can be formed into a 3-dimensional shape in a simple deepdraw-like production step.
ref: 1995, B. Gommers, I. Verpoest, “tensile Behavior of Knitted Fabric Reinforced Composites”, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Composite Materials, page 309:
glosses: The act or result of deepdrawing.
deepdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deepdraw
deepdraws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deepdraw
deepdrawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deepdraw
deepdrawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of deepdraw
deepdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of deepdraw
deep-draws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deep-draw
deep-drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deep-draw
deep-drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a ship: requiring a considerable depth of water to float in.
deep-drawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of deep-draw
deep-drawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of deep-draw
dyes in the wool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dye in the wool
dying in the wool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dye in the wool
Cisplatine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Cisplatina.
synonyms: word: Cisplatina
rough-draw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rough-draws
form: rough-drawing
form: rough-drew
form: rough-drawn
form: rough draw
form: roughdraw
Senses: examples: text: His victories we scarce could keep in view, Or polish them so fast as he rough-drew.
ref: 1670, John Dryden, Almanzor and Almahide, or the Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, a Tragedy:
text: My pen is not a fit pencil in the least to rough-draw the great jubilee with which the hearts of the people of Rome were filled, when, on Monday morning, the twentieth of June, it began to be whispered about the city, that so deserving a prelate had been created the sacred Monarch of Christendome;
ref: 1812, Sir Walter Scott, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts:
text: The case standing hereabouts (as near as I could rough-draw the state of it in this instantaneous haste) let us I beseech you be rather Irenei than Cassandri.
ref: 1968, John Cotton, Larzer Ziff, John Cotton on the Churches of New England, page 172:
text: Whether he worked fast or slow, at the flower of the day or not, it appears that from the beginning to the end of his career as a poet, Swift first rough-drew his verse and then revisited it in order to add, blot, and alter.
ref: 1998, Hermann Josef Real, Rudolf Freiburg, Arno Löffler, Swift: The Enigmatic Dean, page 42:
glosses: To sketch roughly; to make a quick, unpolished version.
rough-draws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rough-draw
rough-drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rough-draw
rough-drew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rough-draw
rough-drawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rough-draw
rough draw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rough draws
form: rough drawing
form: rough drew
form: rough drawn
Senses: examples: text: Captain C. McG. BATE, R.E., said that the plane-table had Captain Bate hitherto been recommended to him as an instrument for rough drawing, and general rather than one of minute accuracy.
ref: 1888, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers:
text: Clearly, the very first thing to do when approaching your initial design is to rough draw your thoughts as quick thumbnail sketches.
ref: 2013, Tony White, Kathryn Spencer, How to Make Animated Films:
text: She was instrumental in taking an idea and rough drawing and creating a graphic that works for this book.
ref: 2014, Regis J. Jr (Bud) Bates, Securing VoIP: Keeping Your VoIP Network Safe, page xiii:
glosses: Alternative form of rough-draw.
rough draws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rough draw
rough drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rough draw
rough drew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rough draw
rough drawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rough draw