cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Alice in Wonderland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alices in Wonderland
form: Alice in Wonderlands
form: Alice-in-Wonderland
Etymology: Derived from the children's fantasy story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Senses: examples: text: After three years of meeting in a tiny room in the student center, we were stunned that we could all get in one room and move around without stepping on each other. It wasn't crowded; and besides that, it was beautiful. We felt like 50 Alices in Wonderland.
ref: 1965, Alpha Omicron Pi, To Dragma - Volume 56, Issue 11, page 24:
text: But I do not live in a riding that represents the Alice in Wonderlands of the world, Mr. Speaker.
ref: 1980, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates, Official Report - Volume 3, page 3251:
text: I'm giddy. I haven't even stopped to notice my surroundings. I'm not much of an Alice in Wonderland.
ref: 2014, Jane Peranteau, Jumping: A Novel, page 189:
text: Brackett views the community rather as might an Alice in Wonderland according to the entries in his diaries, although the same diary entries do not reflect his later claim that he “was assigned to twelve different stories in my first year."
ref: 2014, Anthony Slide, It's the Pictures That Got Small, page 4:
glosses: An observer of strange, incomprehensible or disorienting situations.
examples: text: I think it is an Alice in Wonderland to say we are going to approve another drug, yet the whole fundamental thing is we still have exactly the same mortality and nobody has anything that impacts on it.
ref: 2012, J. Morganroth, E. Neil Moore, Congestive Heart Failure:
text: Sgt. Pepper seemed to be nothing less than an Alice in Wonderland for the brave new psychedelic world.
ref: 2014, Penelope Rowlands, The Beatles Are Here!::
text: Some context: The Aviary is like the Alice in Wonderland of cocktail bars, a place where drinks are served in porthole vessels or in sphere/foam/gelee form (there’s an outpost in New York City, but the original is in Chicago).
ref: 2019 June 26, Kevin Pang, “Eric Trump went to a fancy Chicago cocktail bar and got spat on”, in The Takeout:
glosses: A strange, fantasy-like creation or situation that follows its own bizarre logic.
Derived terms: Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Related terms: caucus race
Cheshire cat
rabbit hole
mad hatter
dwell time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwell times
Senses: examples: text: The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield.
text: The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes.
text: Mr Thomas also confirmed that dwell times at New Street [Birmingham] are being examined to assess whether lengthening these would give the service more resilience, ...
ref: 2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The amount of time that a user spends on a certain page or site.
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The amount of time a container is sitting onshore before being loaded onto trucks.
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The amount of time that an antenna beam spends on a target. See Dwell time (radar) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
qualifier: radar
examples: text: Due to overcrowding, the train network is experiencing very long dwell times.
topics: transport
glosses: The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.
The duration of a stop made by a train, tram or other transport vehicle to allow passengers to board or alight.
glosses: Synonym of contact time.
synonyms: word: contact time
dwell times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwell time
amylmetacresol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antiseptic used to treat minor infections of the mouth and throat.
Cobb salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cobb salads
Etymology: Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.
Senses: examples: text: She ignores: olives, blue cheese, boiled eggs, bacon and avocado – in other words, all of the parts of the Cobb salad that, technically speaking, make it a Cobb salad.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 180:
glosses: A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.
spoilerific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɔɪ.ləˈɹɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more spoilerific
form: most spoilerific
Etymology: From spoiler + -ific.
Senses: glosses: Containing significant spoilers of a story.
lame-o
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lame-os
Etymology: From lame + -o.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lameo.
lame-o
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lame-o
form: most lame-o
Etymology: From lame + -o.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lameo.
hard copies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard copy
crimes against humanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crime against humanity
the enemy of your enemy is your friend
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the enemy of my enemy is my friend
Senses: glosses: Two parties who have an enemy in common should join forces against it.
desert islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert island
safety islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety island
transferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transferrer
academisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academism
Academism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From academy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived, […]
ref: 1733, Andrew Baxter, An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul, volume 2, A. Millar, published 1745, page 254:
text: Skeptical Academism, on the other hand, was certainly influenced by Empiricism’s topics […]
ref: 2018, Fabio Stok, “Medical Sects: Herophilus, Erasistratus, Empiricists”, in Paul T. Keyser, John Scarborough, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: The philosophy of the Platonic Academy; Hellenistic Platonism and skepticism.
dry hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry holes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hole drilled into the ground for oil or gas exploration which fails to yield enough oil or gas to justify the establishment of a well.
examples: text: Ultrasound as a treatment for degenerative arthritis was in its infancy. It might eventually turn out to be as effective as the Salk vaccine, or as bogus as the science of phrenology. Either way, it didn't make sense right now. The chances were a thousand to one that it was a dry hole.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: Something that brings no success or profit; a dead loss.
homoiohydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to obtain water from the environment through a system of roots (or similar organs) rather than through the surface of leaves etc.
Related terms: homoiohydry
academic art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After a three years’ study in Italy, where he [Benjamin West] became imbued with the traditions of Academic art, but remained curiously insensible to the real excellences, especially that of colour, of the old masters, […]
ref: 1873, Mrs. Charles Heaton, A concise history of painting, Bell and Daldy, pages 511–512:
text: So let me finally quote again from Véron who made a bitter fight against the fossilism of the old Academic Art of his day, one who may be said to be the real father of modern Individualism in æsthetics, and the best friend that mere “technicians” ever had.
ref: 1917 February, Frederick Wellington Ruckstull, “A Standard of Art Measurement, Part I”, in The Art World: Volume 1 Number 5, page 327:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of art influenced by European art academies, especially one which lacks innovation or individualism; academism.
expansure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now loue in night, and night in loue exhorts / Courtſhip and dances: all your parts employ: / And ſute nights rich expanſure with your ioy, […]
ref: 1598, George Chapman, “Fifth Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlo[w]e, George Chapman, Hero and Leander: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Richard Hawkins: […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: Expanse.
angwantibos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angwantibo
herostratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Herostratically
Etymology: From herostratic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason, as she said, that France had planned to march through it if she did not.
ref: 1921, Jacob Wittmer Hartmann, Soviet Russia Pictorial, volume 3, page 67:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To an extent that attains infamy; infamously.
examples: text: This is just another piece of common sense about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else.
ref: 1964, Gustav Bergmann, Logic and Reality, page 21:
topics: manner
glosses: In a manner using any means necessary.
capital gains tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital gains taxes
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
synonyms: word: CGT
glosses: A tax levied on the profit made from selling any "capital" (i.e. non-inventory) asset.
that's a wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From film production; see wrap.
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that the activity being engaged in has just ended.
triple threater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple threaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triple threat.
triple-threater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple-threaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triple threat.
explodent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explodent
form: most explodent
Senses: glosses: plosive
run with scissors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs with scissors
form: running with scissors
form: ran with scissors
form: run with scissors
Senses: examples: text: Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic, run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right?
ref: 2005, Bob Wallace, Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood, page 48:
text: It is dangerous, dumb, and highly delinquent (CRAZY) for a professional educator to goad our poor little misunderstood and hormonally-challenged children to run with scissors.
ref: 2008, Andrew Gideon, Harrier Hawks Fly High, page 6:
text: I wonder if God has made a note on your record and mine that says; “he tends to run with scissors, but I've got him covered by My grace”. Perhaps your scissors thing is; getting too busy to spend time in the world, or getting too interested in the business of others, or perhaps allowing the world to set up wrong priorities in your life.
ref: 2010, Roger Allen Cook, Into Deeper Grace, Xulon Press, page 148:
text: “No. That happened when I was a kid. I was playing at a neighbor’s house, running around with a knife.” […] “Holy shit. Mister responsible undercover government badass was the kid who ran with scissors!”
ref: 2012, Scott Gesinger, Pleiades Rising, page 88:
glosses: To behave recklessly.
examples: text: Fly solo. Sure it’s safer to go with a partner, but every once in awhile^([sic]) you have to run with scissors.
ref: 1998 June, Jim Gorman, “Get out!”, in Backpacker, page 67:
text: I'm a firm believer that we should all “run with scissors” from time to time.
ref: 2011, Ron Henchel, The Guilty Mirror, page 81:
text: The leadership stories show how leaders can “run with scissors” in uncertain spaces as they engage in self-reflection, flexibility, systems thinking, shared leadership, charisma, and teamwork to successfully lead.
ref: 2019, Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, “Educating in complex times: an introduction”, in J. Moss Breen, H. Abduljawad, J.N. Font-Guzmán, editors, Running with Scissors: Leading in Uncertainty, page 94:
glosses: To take a calculated risk.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, scissors.
suck lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks lemons
form: sucking lemons
form: sucked lemons
form: sucked lemons
Senses: examples: text: Aunt Charlie, Dreya, and Manny moved here a year ago when they got evicted from their duplex. My aunt doesn’t keep a job for longer than three weeks, and they never have enough money for rent, so they live with us off and on. It really sucks lemons.
ref: 2010, Nikki Carter, chapter 1, in Not a Good Look (A Fab Life Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of suck a lemon.
make a meal out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a meal out of
form: making a meal out of
form: made a meal out of
form: made a meal out of
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make a meal of.
expurges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expurge
extincture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extinct + -ure.
Senses: glosses: extinction
holes in one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hole in one
thundercunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thundercunts
Etymology: From thunder + cunt.
Senses: examples: text: Whether it be good or bad, I guarantee you I will have no problems calling you a cock-juggling thundercunt.
ref: 2004, Hannibal King in the film Blade: Trinity
text: But I really think that thundercunt, Connors, overreacted.
ref: 2018, Amali Rose, Dandelion Dreams:
glosses: An extremely objectionable person.
thundercunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thundercunts
form: thundercunting
form: thundercunted
form: thundercunted
Etymology: From thunder + cunt.
Senses: glosses: To throw (something, into something else such as a wall) with great force.
hab or nab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Probably representing a present subjunctive and a negative form of have. Compare Old English hæbbe, næbbe, and the negative particle ne.
Senses: examples: text: But hab or nab [translating à toutes adventures] we can never take too much advantage of it.
ref: , II.6
glosses: Win or lose; however things turn out, in any case.
exuperant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exuperant
form: most exuperant
Etymology: From Latin exuperans, exsuperans, present participle.
Senses: glosses: surpassing; exceeding; surmounting
Related terms: exuperance
exuperate
exuperate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exuperates
form: exuperating
form: exuperated
form: exuperated
Etymology: From Latin exuperatus, exsuperatus, past participle of exuperare, exsuperare (“to excel”); ex (“out”) + superare (“to go over”), super (“above, over”).
Senses: glosses: To excel; to surmount.
Related terms: exuperant
exuperance
exurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exurgent
form: most exurgent
Etymology: From Latin exurgens, exsurgens, present participle of exurgere, exsurgere (“to rise up”); ex (“out”) + surgere (“to rise”).
Senses: glosses: Arising; coming to light.
œdemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These œdemata are not very constant, appearing when the patients are recumbent on the back, and disappearing when they get up, and vice versâ.
ref: 1858, Carl Rudolf Braun, J. Matthews Duncan, chapter I, in The Uræmic convulsions of Pregnancy, Parturition, and Childbed, Samuel S. & William Wood, page 17:
glosses: plural of œdema
fastidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat
feraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferace
self-gratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + gratification.
Senses: examples: text: It turns out that overworking your brain with either physical or mental exercise may lower your ability to delay self-gratification.
ref: 2019 September 26, Sandee LaMotte, “Too much exercise could lead to bad decisions on what you eat and buy”, in CNN:
glosses: Self-satisfaction.
glosses: Masturbation.
Synonyms: sense: masturbation
word: autoeroticism
fidejussor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪdɪˈd͡ʒʌsə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fidejussors
Etymology: From Latin fīdēiussor: compare French fidéjusseur.
Senses: examples: text: they also take recognizances or stipulations of certain fidejussors in the nature of bail
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A surety or guarantor.
Related terms: fidejussion
Kikuchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 菊池 (Kikuchi).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan.
eudæmonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Eudaimonia.
hydrofracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + fracking.
Senses: examples: text: The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives into rock formations deep underground.
ref: 2011 April 17, New York Times:
glosses: hydraulic fracturing
heling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hele
colossæums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “The Pagans,” as an old Spanish writer observes, “spent their riches in erecting baths, colossæums, pyramids, arches, and those insane edifices which antiquity celebrated.
ref: 1840, Kenelm-Henry Digby, Mores Catholici; or Ages of Faith (Bookers & Dolman), Book X, Chapter XIX, page 625
glosses: plural of colossæum
Drambuie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Drambuies
Etymology: Supposedly from Scottish Gaelic an dram buidheach (“the satisfying drink”).
Senses: glosses: A Scottish honey-flavoured whiskey liqueur.
front money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: down payment
text: "I wouldn't have given him any front money. I don't trust him that much."
ref: 1997, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: business
synonyms: up-front money
advance payment
glosses: Money paid for goods or services in advance, sometimes through an intermediary.
examples: text: Promoters of SMR deals usually charge investors thousands of dollars in front money to help them obtain SMR licenses, and later solicit more money to build the systems.
ref: 1994 June 27, “Information Highwaymen”, in Business Week, retrieved 19 Apr 2011:
topics: business
synonyms: up-front money
glosses: Capital which is required in order to establish a business and begin operations.
up-front money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Without up-front money from subscribers to pay for seed, property taxes and insurance, Huasna's Skinner says he would be overwhelmed with debt.
ref: 2003 October 26, Margot Roosevelt, Arroyo Grande, “Fresh Off the Farm”, in Time:
glosses: Alternative form of front money.
inner planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inner planet
giant planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant planet
outer planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outer planet
ice giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice giant
silicate planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicate planet
silicon planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicon planet
carbide planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbide planet
carbon planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon planet
mesoplanets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesoplanet
cooish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooishes
Etymology: Manx cooish.
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: Chat; conversation.
Schütz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃʊts/
/ʃuːts/
Etymology: * As a German and Jewish surname, variant of Schuetz. Found in several other countries such as the form Slovene Šuc.
* Also as a German surname, from Schutz in Vulkaneifel.
Compare Sic, Shutz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from German.
Heinrich Schütz (18 October 1585 – 6 November 1672), a German composer and organist.
BRICS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Earlier BRIC.
Senses: examples: text: As shown by the BRICS expansion and the long waiting list to join, Xi’s offer of an alternative world order is finding receptive ears in the Global South, where many countries feel themselves marginalized in an international system they see as dominated by the US and its wealthy allies.
ref: 2023 August 28, “BRICS expansion is a big win for China. But can it really work as a counterweight to the West?”, in CNN:
topics: economics
geopolitics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, an international economic organization comprising several fast-growing economies.
wikipedia: BRICS
Related terms: word: IBSA
english: Turkey
translation: Turkey
word: CIVETS
A2S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A2Ss
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Assist-2-Sell, a real-estate franchise organisation in the United States of America
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Amazon Associates Web Service
A2Ss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A2S
soft tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ソフトテニス (sofuto tenisu), from English soft + tennis.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variant of tennis, developed in Japan, differing in the tennis ball used, from regular tennis (lawn tennis), having a softer rubber ball.
Related terms: tennis
royal tennis
lawn tennis
tennis ball
horsetrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horsetrades
form: horsetrading
form: horsetraded
form: horsetraded
Etymology: From horse + trade.
Senses: examples: text: Nobody appeared to have told [Woodrow] Wilson that [William F.] McCombs had, in fact, already horsetraded the position to [Thomas R.] Marshall in exchange for Indiana's votes.
ref: 2013, A. Scott Berg, Wilson, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: To negotiate informally, especially when bargaining or reciprocal concessions are included, frequently regarding politics.
fixure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixures
Etymology: From Latin fixura (“a fastening”), from figere (“to fix”). See fix, and compare fixture.
Senses: examples: text: Divert and crack, rend and deracinate / The unity and married calm of states / Quite from their fixure!
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 3:
glosses: Fixed position; stable condition; firmness.
cervicalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cervix + -algia.
Senses: glosses: neck pain
fraena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraenum
cymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /saɪˈmæ.tɪk/
Etymology: First attested in 1828; formed as cymat- (the long stem of cyma) + -ic; compare the later cymatics (1966) and the earlier Latin cȳmaticus (1753).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to cymatics.
glosses: Describing any secondary effect of sound or similar vibrations.
cassicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassican
royal tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: real tennis
loss of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: losses of life
Senses: examples: text: The new age comes through the death of Jesus, and his loss of life brings abundance to everyone.
ref: 2004, Susan Miller, Women in Mark's Gospel, page 137:
text: Chief Superintendent Alasdair Robinson said the device left below the M1 motorway was "sophisticated and substantial" and could have caused huge devastation and loss of life.
ref: 2011 April 10, Henry McDonald, The Guardian:
glosses: Death.
generalissima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalissimus
generalissima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generalissimas
Senses: examples: text: In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
ref: 2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243:
glosses: A female generalissimo.
generalissimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of generalissima
eulogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eulogism
last hurrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læst həˈɹɑː/
ipa: /lɑːst həˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: last hurrahs
form: last hoorah
Senses: glosses: A final act (by a politician, etc.) or performance (by an actor, etc.) that marks the end of a career.
examples: text: There was the heavy scent of the end of an era for a great side as there was no glorious last hurrah for Kevin de Bruyne, whose City career is coming to a close, while Silva may also come into the same category.
ref: 2025 July 17, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC:
glosses: Any final effort or performance.
copacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copack
copacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The manufacture and packaging of a product under contract to a client (and having the client's name/brand on the packaging).
glosses: Alternative spelling of co-packing.
Related terms: copacker
graphium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphia
Etymology: From Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft.
Senses: glosses: A stylus (for writing).
graphium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphiums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Graphium, from Latin graphium (“stylus”). Doublet of graft.
Senses: examples: text: Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers.
ref: 1993, John Feltwell, The Encyclopedia of Butterflies, page 41:
glosses: A butterfly of the genus Graphium.
graphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphium
Derived terms: agraphia
dysgraphia
guttula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guttulae
Senses: examples: text: The sputa, during pneumonorrhagia and peripneumony, is often yellow also, not from bile, but from the guttulæ of blood; […]
ref: 1822, The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 341:
glosses: A droplet.
guttulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guttula
habilitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habilitators
Etymology: From habilitate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: If the mine itself and its machinery, stores, and other valuable things that form part of the undertaking, should be attached and sold in execution, the provisions of the foregoing articles shall be observed in favor of the habilitators, as to the preference of their several claims among themselves, and with regard to the other creditors.
ref: 1892, Alejandro K. Coney, The Legal and Mercantile Handbook of Mexico, page 177:
glosses: One who supplies money to work a mine.
Related terms: habilitation
gasometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gas + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The measurement of gases; the determination of the relative proportion of gases in a mixture.
money's worth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌnizˌwɜːθ/
ipa: /ˈmʌnizˌwɚθ/
Senses: examples: text: Goodenough's partizans, however, observed that he got his money's worth out of every man he employed; and that this was the way to grow rich.
ref: 1857, Maria Edgeworth, “The Will”, in Tales and Novels: Volume II:
text: In the appearance of his shops and in the quality of his merchandise, Mr. Schulte promises to give the public its eye's worth and its money's worth.
ref: 1928 January 23, “Business & Finance: Schulte Ubiquitous”, in Time:
text: Soo, which couldn't afford to make a mistake, purchased just 4 Northerns (the only new road power the line purchased between 1929 and 1947!) and received its money's worth.
ref: 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 40:
topics: business
glosses: A good or service whose value meets or exceeds the amount of money paid for it.
examples: text: Carl Edwards spent most of his Saturday evening trying to get to Kyle Busch’s rear bumper. Once he finally got there, Edwards made sure he got his money’s worth.
ref: 2008 August 24, Dave Ongie, “Edwards eases Busch aside, claims Sharpie 500 victory”, in timesnews.net, US, retrieved 20 Apr 2011:
glosses: Satisfaction.
examples: text: "Listen, Mikey," she said, "when somebody tries to bully you, just punch him on the end of the nose the way you did old Panfilo. […] [Y]ou be just as mean as you want to be and at least give him his money's worth.
ref: 2007, J. P. S. Brown, The World in Pancho's Eye, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: Recompense or just deserts, especially as resulting from dealing with a perceived injury or injustice.
Related terms: good value
moneyworth
pennyworth
run for one's money
value for money
you get what you pay for
Sabin vaccines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sabin vaccine
Sagans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sagan
Sagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sagan
Wykehamist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Wykeham + -ist, after William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College.
Senses: examples: text: A prized possession of mine is a recording of Empson reading his poems in a tone of voice that I believe no other human being can match, even if that person also combined Wykehamist, Cantabrigian, and Chinese accents.
ref: 2010, Steven L. Isenberg, The American Scholar, Lunching on Olympus:
synonyms: Wykehamical
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College.
Wykehamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wykehamists
Etymology: From Wykeham + -ist, after William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College.
Senses: glosses: An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of Winchester College.
A−
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A−'s
Senses: glosses: Academic grade issued by some institutions, which is inferior to an A and superior to a B+.
A−'s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A−
ionosonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionosondes
Etymology: From iono- + sonde.
Senses: glosses: A radar for the examination of the ionosphere.
laughs out of court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh out of court
laughing out of court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh out of court
laughed out of court
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh out of court
subtlely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subtlely
form: most subtlely
Etymology: From subtle + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then the ministers and two Christian men, Theodorus and Rufinus, wrote their martyrdom and laid it subtlely among the stones.
ref: 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:
text: She walked about for a moment or two in order the more thoroughly to show off her paces, and as she walked she smiled subtlely, closed her eyes demurely and managed her skirts with great dexterity.
ref: 2006, Emile Zola, Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille:
text: But you must insinuate the idea very slowly and subtlely.
ref: 1890, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, For Woman's Love:
text: Never was man so subtlely flattered, so tempted.
ref: 1892, Annie S. Swan, The Guinea Stamp:
text: The door sprang subtlely open unto me, and said "Go!"
ref: 1911 & 1914, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, edited by Oscar Levy, Friedrich Nietzsche[:] Thus Spake Zarathustra[.] A Book for All and None[.] (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche[.] The First Complete and Authorised English Translation[.] Volume Eleven[:] Thus spake Zarathustra.), 2nd & 3rd edition, The Macmillan Company, translation of original in German, page 196:
glosses: Alternative spelling of subtly.
inconceivabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconceivability
San Diego-Tijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: San Diego –Tijuana
Etymology: From San Diego + Tijuana.
Senses: glosses: An international metropolitan region centered on the cities of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, and composed of the counties and municipalities of Rosarito Beach, San Diego, Tecate, and Tijuana.
proœmium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proœmia
form: proœmiums
Senses: examples: text: These are the Proœmiums of these Orations, that I might lay down in order every thing whereof thou maist doubt, without any other definition.
ref: mid-17th century, Joseph H. Peterson, editor, The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis: Detailing the Ceremonial Art of Commanding Spirits Both Good and Evil, York Beach, Me.: Weiser Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
glosses: Obsolete form of proemium.
billy-oh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billio
form: billy-o
form: billyo
Senses: examples: text: I bashed my thumb with a hammer, and it hurts like billy-oh.
text: "For the wooden fence leading up to the bridge had caught fire, and it was burning like billy oh."
ref: 1901, Edith Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods, T. Fisher Unwin:
text: "'You know—if you've ever picked the scab of a sore place. It hurts like billy-oh but it is such fun to see it coming away.'"
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, HarperTrophy:
text: "'Our old saw's as blunt as billy-oh! You couldn't cut butter with it!'"
ref: 1995, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill, Boolarong Press:
glosses: The greatest extent or degree of something; used in comparisons to indicate a superlative.
raw_tags: in the phrase 'like billy-oh'
short-tailed parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-tailed parrots
Senses: glosses: A species of parrot, Graydidascalus brachyurus, native to tropical rain forests of South America.
vatrushka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatrushkas
form: vatrushki
Etymology: From Russian ватру́шка (vatrúška).
Senses: examples: text: Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.
ref: 1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16:
text: Bake about 25 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked. Cool on a rack. Yield: About four dozen vatrushki
ref: 1977, Jane Kinderlehrer, “[You’ll Find That Good Food Makes the Party Better] Russian Vatrushki (Cheese-Filled Tarts)”, in The Art of Cooking With Love and Wheat Germ (And Other Natural Foods), Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, Inc., →ISBN, part 4 (Any Age, Any Time), page 273:
text: Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the vatrushki are golden.
ref: 1996, “[Baked Goods] Vatrushki”, in Caroline Ball, editor, East European Cookbook: Discover the Traditional Tastes of Russia, Romania, Hungary, Scandinavia, and Poland, Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, Book Sales, Inc., →ISBN, page 151, column 2:
text: But at night when they came to see me in the Ural, when they had knocked back huge amounts of Kunzevskaya and Stolichnaya and devoured piles of piroshki, oladyi, vatrushki, and bulochki with zimmes, they spoke French, English, kissed hands and paid compliments, knew the wittiest toasts, and fiddled their Russian souls inside out in order to dance on the most crooked roofs of the most Eastern shtetl at dawn.
ref: 2005, Ulla Berkéwicz, translated by Katharina Rout, Love in a Time of Terror, Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan Books, →ISBN, page 29:
text: “You look wonderful,” he said, unable to hold his tongue. / “So do you,” she replied with an amused smile, “but I think you raided the fat end of Vasily’s wardrobe. He has a thin end which he uses when he’s off the vatrushki and vodka.”
ref: 2005, Kim Wilkins, chapter 3, in Rosa and the Veil of Gold, London: Gollancz, published 2007, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Typically, vatrushki are made from a yeasted wheat flour dough enriched with butter, eggs, and sugar rather like brioche, shaped into a flattened round that is pinched up and then filled with tvorog—a kind of farmer’s curd cheese similar to German quark or Italian ricotta.
ref: 2008, “[Bakery] Vatrushka”, in Frances Case, editor, 1001 Foods You Must Try Before You Die: A Global Guide to the Best Ingredients, London: Cassell Illustrated, →ISBN, page 878, column 2:
glosses: A sort of small, round pastry filled with cottage cheese, popular in Eastern Europe.
imo
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of IMO.
Related terms: satsuma imo
light-off temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light-off temperatures
Senses: glosses: The temperature at which catalytic reactions are initiated within a catalytic converter.
botifarra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botifarras
form: butifarra
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan botifarra.
Senses: examples: text: He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.
ref: 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
impervium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impervious + -ium.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An impervious substance.
impressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impressures
Etymology: Compare Old French impressure, Late Latin impressūra.
Senses: examples: text: Lean but upon a rush, / The cicatrice and capable impressure / Thy palm some moment keeps.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], lines 22-24:
glosses: dent; impression
impressum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impressums
Senses: glosses: A statement of the ownership and authorship of a document, which must be included in books, newspapers, magazines and websites published in Germany and certain other German-speaking countries.
tyubeteika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyubeteikas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tubeteika.
impire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: impires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of empire.
inauspicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɔːspɪkət/
Forms: form: more inauspicate
form: most inauspicate
Etymology: From Latin inauspicatus; prefix in- (“not”) + auspicatus, past participle auspicari. Equivalent to in- + auspicate.
Senses: examples: text: And this was the successe of his first invasion, which though it bore an inauspicate face, it proved of a friendly event
ref: 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:
synonyms: word: foreboding
word: portentous
word: augurous
word: baleful
word: bodeful
word: boding
word: dire
word: disastrous
word: fatal
word: foreboding
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-omened
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicate
word: inauspicious
word: nefastous
word: omenic
word: ominous
word: brooding
word: portentous
word: presageful
word: presagious
word: prodigious
word: sinister
word: star-crossed
word: sullen
glosses: inauspicious
VAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VADs
Senses: examples: text: A young girl in V.A.D. uniform ran lightly across the lawn.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 12:
text: ‘You've not been caught in bed with a V.A.D.?’ Tietjens asked.
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 328:
text: ‘A nurse is like a doctor. It takes a long time to be. A VAD is a short cut.’
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 32:
text: If Mollie Skinner was ever technically a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment in India she would have been an unusually experienced and well-qualified one. VADs were more frequently lady amateurs[…].
ref: 1998, David Ellis, D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence, page 29:
text: There was also the Dublin University VAD, or Voluntary Aid Detachment branch of Dublin University Women graduates and undergraduates.
ref: 2006, Desmond Keenan, Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland as it Really Was, page 176:
text: 2008, Celia M. Kingsbury, Chapter 2: Food Will Win the War, Kathleen LeBesco, Peter Naccarato (editors), Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning, State University of New York Press, 46,
Smith, pseudonym for freelance writer Evadne Price, obtained the war journal of a V.A.D. by the name of Winifred Young, who had turned over the diary with the stipulation that Price remain faithful to the tone.
glosses: Initialism of Voluntary Aid Detachment: a women′s first-aid organisation active during World War I and World War II, or a member of this detachment; also V.A.D.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ventricular assist device.
tyubeteyka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyubeteykas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tyubeteika.
piss flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piss flaps
form: piss-flap
form: pissflap
Senses: glosses: A woman's labium.
post-translational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + translational.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of posttranslational.
wide-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide-ons
Etymology: From wide + on, after hard-on.
Senses: examples: text: When DeLaria thinks of Madonna, she gets a ‘wide-on’.
ref: 1998, Stephen Wagg, Because I Tell a Joke or Two, page 152:
text: “You see, Kit, the trouble is, I've now had a wide-on for” —she checked her watch— “exactly 120 hours—so it's no wonder I've been a little bit irritable, okay?”
ref: 2005, Kathy Lette, Dead Sexy, page 170:
text: He massaged me and I resisted the urge to fall asleep because something was stirring in the valley below – I had a wide-on the size of the Grand Canyon.
ref: 2007, Letitcia, Body Worship, page 90:
glosses: A sexually aroused vagina; a state of female sexual arousal.
incrustate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌstət/
Forms: form: incrustates
form: incrustating
form: incrustated
form: incrustated
Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin incrustātus, perfect passive participle of incrustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of encrust.
Senses: examples: text: Novv ſhou'd it happen that any of theſe Sun-like Bodies in the Centers of the ſeveral Vortices ſhou'd be ſo incruſtated and vveaken'd, as to be carried about in the Vortex of the true Sun, if it vvere of leſs Solidity, or leſs capable of Motion than the Globules, tovvards the extremity of the Solar Vortex, then it vvou'd deſcend tovvard the Sun, till it met vvith Globules of the ſame Solidity, and capable of the ſame degree of Motion vvith it, and being fixt there, it vvou'd for ever be carried about by the Motion of the Vortex, vvithout either approaching to, or receding from the Sun, and ſo become a Planet.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III. Corollary V.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXII, page 32:
text: The Ship-VVorm of Jamaica. This inſect is extremely deſtructive to all the ſhips that anchor for any time in the harbours of Jamaica, or in any other part vvithin the tropics: They cut vvith great facility through the planks, and burrovv a conſiderable vvay in the ſubſtance of them, incruſtating the ſides of all their holes vvith a ſmooth teſtaceous ſubſtance[…].
ref: 1756, Patrick Browne, “Of Insects”, in The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. […], London: […] T[homas] Osborne, and J. Shipton, […], →OCLC, part II, book III, class I, section II, order IV, page 395:
glosses: To encrust.
incrustate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹʌstət/
Forms: form: more incrustate
form: most incrustate
Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin incrustātus, perfect passive participle of incrustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of encrust.
Senses: examples: text: the finer part will be turned into air , and the grosser stick as it were baked , and incrustate upon the sides of the vessel
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Encrusted
incrustator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incrustators
Senses: examples: text: […] the Incrustator in the boiler prevents any deposit of "fur" whatever. The Incrustator itself becomes laden with deposit, and when removed weighs more pounds than it originally weighed ounces.
ref: 1892, The Ironmonger: Builders Merchant and Hardwareman, page 77:
synonyms: anti-incrustator
glosses: A device for preventing the buildup of sediment in a boiler.
inducturae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inductura