cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gersum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːsəm/
ipa: /ˈɡɝsəm/
Forms: form: gersums
form: grassum
Etymology: From Middle English gersom, gersum, from Old English gærsum, gersum, gærsuma, from Old Norse gersemi, gørsemi (“treasure”), from gerr, gǫrr (“ready”) + -semi (“-ness”), with the ending assimilated to native -sum. Compare garrison.
Senses: examples: text: […]but now it paieth ſeauentie pounds by weight to the King, and an hundred ſhillings for a *Gerſume to the Queene;
ref: 1610, William Camden, “Northfolke”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 474:
text: Otherwise, the gersum was in ready money, and the bulk of the rent in uncoined silver.
ref: 1858, James A. Morgan, “III: Money, Rent, and Agricultural Affairs”, in England under the Norman Occupation, London: Williams & Norgate, →OCLC, page 47:
text: In the latter sample, there are two joint grants, plus one made with the wife's consent. In two more , a gersum rendered to the wife is sole evidence of her participation.
ref: 1996, Emma Mason, “Donors of Westminster Abbey Charters”, in Westminster Abbey and its people, c.1050-c.1216, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 315:
topics: law
glosses: A lump sum paid by individuals who take a lease of landed property in England.
front of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Operationally deployed personnel must "always be front of mind" for Defence, according to new Secretary Duncan Lewis.
ref: 2011 September 15, Air Force News, Australia, page 2, column 1:
topics: business
glosses: Synonym of top of mind.
synonyms: word: top of mind
gersums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gersum
underimpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underimpresses
form: underimpressing
form: underimpressed
form: underimpressed
Etymology: From under- + impress.
Senses: examples: text: The tendency for judges to be overly impressed by family work done by fathers and underimpressed by that done by mothers shows how women can be made vulnerable by a standard designed around gender rather than around sex.
ref: 2001 September 13, Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 230:
text: Farmed trout, which used to underimpress me with its boring tastelessness, has gone through some kind of taste revolution: it's absolutely terrific, now, whenever I buy it.
ref: 2014, Tod Davies, “Three: Food for Home”, in Jam Today Too, United States: Exterminating Angel Press, →ISBN:
text: Just as too much scientific evidence and medical detail may overwhelm or underimpress the court, the opinion should not contain too much 'heart-searching' and repetitive reasoning.
ref: 2020 August 25, Niruj Agrawal, Rafey Faruqui, Mayur Bodani, Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 524:
glosses: To impress less than expected; to disappoint, to underwhelm.
Selecao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Portuguese Seleção.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Seleção.
factrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: factrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin factrīx. By surface analysis, factor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A factoress, a female factor (agent or representative).
specicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speciecide
form: speciescide
form: speciocide
Etymology: From species + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The elimination of an entire species.
Killeshandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Killashandra
Etymology: From Irish Cill na Seanrátha (“the church of the old rath”).
Senses: glosses: A village in County Cavan, Ireland.
expression template
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expression templates
Etymology: Coined by Todd Veldhuizen.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A template that builds structures representing a computation at compile time, where expressions are evaluated only as needed to produce efficient code.
coffee-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffeemaker.
coffee-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee-maker
Shillelagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Ovruch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian О́вруч (Óvruč)
Senses: glosses: A city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine.
Perevalsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Перева́льськ (Pereválʹsʹk)
Senses: glosses: A city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
Perechyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Перечи́н (Perečýn)
Senses: glosses: A city in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
yod-dropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yod-droppers
Senses: examples: text: British English speakers are reluctant yod-droppers here.
ref: 2002, Kate Burridge, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language, ABC Books, →ISBN, page 31:
text: By contrast, Chad, 44, has no academic connection and is, correctly, a self-reported yod-dropper.
ref: 2015, Stefan Dollinger, The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society), 40, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 85:
text: However, there were also several recurrent features at odds with this general pattern: the speaker was variably rhotic, i.e. he pronounced the /r/ in words such as car; he was a yod-dropper, i.e. he did not pronounce post-consonantal /j/ in words such as news; and he pronounced the in the name Palmer, which in almost all British dialects is phonologically /pɑːmə(r)/.
ref: 2019, Paul Foulkes, Peter French, Kim Wilson, “LADO as Forensic Speaker Profiling”, in Peter L. Patrick, Monika S. Schmid, Karin Zwaan, editors, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin: Current Perspectives and New Directions (Language Policy), Springer, →ISBN, part II (Lado Analysis), page 99:
glosses: A person whose speech features yod-dropping.
Pereiaslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Перея́слав (Perejáslav, literally “take over the glory”)
Senses: glosses: A city in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.
Pershotravensk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Першотра́венськ (Peršotrávensʹk)
Senses: glosses: Former name of Shakhtarske.
Petrovo-Krasnosillia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Петро́во-Красносі́лля (Petróvo-Krasnosíllja)
Senses: glosses: A city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
Synonyms: word: Petrovske
word: Petrovskoye
Southon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Southern.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
watched the birdie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of watch the birdie
watches the birdie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of watch the birdie
watching the birdie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of watch the birdie
coffee man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffeeman.
generic term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: generic terms
Etymology: generic + name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of generic name.
synonyms: word: generic name
common term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common terms
Etymology: common + name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of common name.
synonyms: word: common name
coffee-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffeeman.
Lulsgate Bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Backwell parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5165).
wikipedia: Bristol Airport
chestnut-eared buntings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestnut-eared bunting
field eryngos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field eryngo
Stanistreet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
-gene
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From French -gène and German -gen, from Latin -genus and Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs).
Senses: glosses: describes something which is formed in a certain way or produces something
Synonyms: sense: producer
word: -gen
Related terms: gene
genesis
-gen
-genic
-genous
scare-crows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare-crow
scare-crows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scare-crow
scare-crowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scare-crow
scare-crowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scare-crow
pre-setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-set
sacramentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacramentalizes
form: sacramentalizing
form: sacramentalized
form: sacramentalized
Etymology: From sacrament.
Senses: examples: text: Jack now sought to have their marriage sacramentalized, but the bishop refused.
ref: 2008, Marie A. Conn, C.S. Lewis and Human Suffering: Light Among the Shadows, HiddenSpring, page 18:
text: Marriage is the only human relationship that is, or will ever be, sacramentalized.
ref: 2014, John Clark, “A Wedding Toast: Marriage, the Only Sacramentalized Relationship”, in Seton Magazine:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To make sacramental.
examples: text: A majority of American Catholics have been "sacramentalized," but never catechized or evangelized.
ref: 2019, Kathy Schiffer, Sacramentalized But Not Evangelized? Maybe You Just Forgot!, National Catholic Register:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: To receive the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
sacramentalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sacramentalize
sacramentalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sacramentalize
sacramentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sacramentalize
dampning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dampne
dampned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dampne
Zuluises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Zuluise
rakes over old coals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rake over old coals
raking over old coals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rake over old coals
raked over old coals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rake over old coals
raises someone's consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise someone's consciousness
raised someone's consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise someone's consciousness
raising someone's consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise someone's consciousness
raises oneself up by one's bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise oneself up by one's bootstraps
raising oneself up by one's bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise oneself up by one's bootstraps
raised oneself up by one's bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise oneself up by one's bootstraps
races out of the traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of race out of the traps
racing out of the traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of race out of the traps
raced out of the traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of race out of the traps
radioimmunoprecipitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radioimmunoprecipitate
radioimmunoprecipitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radioimmunoprecipitate
radiofluorinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of radiofluorinate
radiofluorinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiofluorinate
rains like cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rain like cats and dogs
raining like cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rain like cats and dogs
rained like cats and dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rain like cats and dogs
raises a stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise a stink
raising a stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise a stink
raised a stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise a stink
raises an eyebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise an eyebrow
raising an eyebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise an eyebrow
raised an eyebrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise an eyebrow
raises oneself up by one's own bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps
raised oneself up by one's own bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps
raising oneself up by one's own bootstraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise oneself up by one's own bootstraps
raises Cain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise Cain
raised Cain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise Cain
raising Cain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise Cain
raises a flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise a flag
raising a flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise a flag
raised a flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise a flag
raises eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise eyebrows
raising eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise eyebrows
raised eyebrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise eyebrows
raises someone's shag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise someone's shag
raising someone's shag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise someone's shag
raised someone's shag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise someone's shag
raises unshirted hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise unshirted hell
raising unshirted hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of raise unshirted hell
raised unshirted hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of raise unshirted hell
rallies around the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rally around the flag
rallied around the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rally around the flag
rallying around the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rally around the flag
rallies round the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rally round the flag
rallying round the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rally round the flag
rallied round the flag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rally round the flag
rapping someone's knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rap someone's knuckles
raps someone's knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rap someone's knuckles
rapped someone's knuckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rap someone's knuckles
rattles around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rattle around
rattling around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rattle around
rattled around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rattle around
Baldovinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baldovinoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Baldovinos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Aryal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aryals
Etymology: Borrowed from Nepali अर्याल (aryāl).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Nepali.
Aryals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aryal
Baldovinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Baldovinos
Blish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blishes
Etymology: Rare variant of Bliss.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Boehnke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boehnkes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Böhnke.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Burkina Fasoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Burkina Fasoan
form: most Burkina Fasoan
Etymology: From Burkina Faso + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".
ref: 1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa:
text: In the light of some new findings the Burkina Fasoan records of Phrynobatrachus francisci and P. natalensis are now regarded P. c.f. latifrons Ahl.1924 and P. c.f. francisci (Boulenger, 1912) respectively.
ref: 1995, The British Herpetological Society Bulletin, page 26:
text: Sankara, Thomas (1950–87) Burkina Fasoan soldier and president
ref: 2000, Bill Swainson, editor, Encarta Book of Quotations, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 822:
text: We should see in every prostitute an accusing finger pointing firmly at society as a whole. […] —Thomas Sankara, Burkina Fasoan President, March 8, 1987
ref: 2001, Michael Pennock, Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality, Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 238:
text: One of the youngest of the plethora of new African filmmakers was the Burkina Fasoan Idrissa Ouedraogo. […] Burkina Fasoan cinema
ref: 2004, Mark Cousins, The Story of Film, New York, N.Y.: Thunder’s Mouth Press, →ISBN, pages 432 and 497:
text: On the sex industry Burkina Fasoan President Thomas Sankara made a seemingly religious-based statement: […]
ref: 2012, G. A. Mohr, The War of the Sexes: Women Are Getting on Top, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: It was this inspiration and hope that Sankara gave the youths of Africa and Pan Africanist like me that inspired me to compose this poem and song in his honour and that of Bamuni, my Burkina Fasoan Friend who graduated from the University of the Sorbonne in Journalism and mass Communication, and was invited by Thomas Sankara to go home and become part of his new revolutionary government, who was also assassinated with him titled: Thomas Sankara The African Nationalist […]
ref: 2015, Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni, Pan-Africanism: Political Philosophy and Socio-Economic Anthropology for African Liberation and Governance, volumes two (Caribbean and African American Contributions), Langaa RPCIG, →ISBN, page 522:
glosses: Of or from Burkina Faso.
Synonyms: Burkinabe
Burkina Fasoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burkina Fasoans
Etymology: From Burkina Faso + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] Indonesians, Kurds, Pakistanis (or maybe Palestinians), and Albanians, too, Bosnians, Moors, and Khmer, among which there were, categorically, Haitians, Tahitians, Cretans, Cypriots, Congolese, Bangladeshis, Côte d’Ivoirians, and Burkina Fasoans, and all of them entirely not too badly bore this most complex of melodies, uttering something like, “Di herbal gaadín a di Joiman gate stan before wi and be wid wi, mek we knife fall an fill all a wi—wid a young son a big fish,[…]”
ref: 2005, Yurii Andrukhovych, translated by Michael M. Naydan, Perverzion, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Burkina Fasoans use the plant for malaria (UPW).
ref: 2009, James A. Duke, Mary Jo Bogenschutz-Godwin, Andrea R. Ottesen, Duke’s Handbook of Medicinal Plants of Latin America, Boca Raton, Fla.; London; New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Whether people are concerned with God (like Christians), gods (like the Egyptians of antiquity), ancestors (like the Burkina Fasoans), or spirits (like the ancient Hawaiians), supernatural consequences tend to result from behavior that is perceived as “good” or “bad” for the community as a whole (and also often for the individuals themselves). […] Ancestors can still haunt the lives of atheists just as they do for Hawaiians or Burkina Fasoans.
ref: 2016, Dominic Johnson, God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 94 and 125:
glosses: A person from Burkina Faso.
Synonyms: Burkinabe
Burkina Fasoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burkina Fasoan
Bodmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bodman
Blishes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blish
Boehnkes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boehnke
Bogden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bogdens
Etymology: Americanized form of the Slavic personal name Bogdan.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Bojanowski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bojanowskis
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Bojanowski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Bojanowskis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bojanowski
Bogdens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bogden
Villapandos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Villapando
Biebels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Biebel
Seigers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Seiger
electro-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of electropop.
Trines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Trine
Sellinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sellingers
Etymology: Either a variant of Salinger or borrowed from German Sellinger, a Bavarian habitational surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rattles someone's cage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rattle someone's cage
rattling someone's cage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rattle someone's cage
rattled someone's cage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rattle someone's cage
Schrade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schrades
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schrade.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Windons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Windon
Sellingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sellinger
Schrades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schrade
Milford Sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A fiord and small village in Fiordland, Southland region, south-west New Zealand, a popular tourist destination.
wikipedia: Milford Sound
Godbouts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Godbout
Pyriatyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Пиря́тин (Pyrjátyn)
Senses: glosses: A city in Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
Knebels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Knebel
Blasis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Blasi
overstep the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversteps the line
form: overstepping the line
form: overstepped the line
form: overstepped the line
Senses: examples: text: And they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way
ref: 2006, Alex Turner, “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: Alternative form of overstep the mark.
Pryvillia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Приві́лля (Pryvíllja)
Senses: glosses: A city in Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
Prymorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Примо́рськ (Prymórsʹk)
Senses: glosses: A city in Berdiansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
Putyvl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Пути́вль (Putývlʹ)
Senses: glosses: A city in Konotop Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
mail bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail bags
Senses: examples: text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
ref: 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
glosses: Alternative form of mailbag.
mail bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mail bag
bembé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A common bell rhythm in sub-Saharan Africa.
ludopaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ludopath
engine house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine houses
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A building housing one or more engines.
A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
examples: text: Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."
ref: 1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A building housing one or more engines.
A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.
glosses: A building housing one or more engines.
A building housing a stationary engine.
Billy Wigglestick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Billy as a diminutive of William, and wiggle + stick as a reinterpretation of Shakespeare as shake + spear.
Senses: examples: text: Shakespeare chaired the meeting and tabled the motion where they decided to turn nouns into verbs. You dont like it? Take it up with Billy Wigglestick.
ref: 2022 December 3, from_dust, “I don’t think definitions of words should change just because people are commonly using the word wrong.”, in Reddit, unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:
glosses: William Shakespeare.
Kharkivite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kharkivites
Etymology: From Kharkiv + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Kharkiv is 25 miles from the Russian border. Like many Kharkivites, he had family in Russia. The distinction between the two countries meant little to him before the war. His father’s people lived near Moscow.
ref: 2022 May 19, James Verini, “Surviving the Siege of Kharkiv”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Let me finish with a quote from a small book, just received from Ukraine. Titled 30 Poems about Love and the Railways, and written by Serhiy Zhadan, my fellow Kharkivite and Ukraine's best (in my view) modern writer and poet, it was published in April 2023 - one year into the full-scale invasion: […].
ref: 2025 August 20, Vitali Vitaliev, “A railway's human qualities”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 68:
synonyms: Kharkivian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
engine houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engine house
Kharkivian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kharkivian
form: most Kharkivian
Etymology: From Kharkiv + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or associated with Kharkiv, city of Ukraine.
Kharkivian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kharkivians
Etymology: From Kharkiv + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: “Russia has a real blind spot when it comes to Kharkiv,” said Dobczansky. “Kharkivians claim Ukrainian identity in their own way... They are Russian speaking, yes, but that’s a whole different thing than your political identity.[”]
ref: 2022 March 29, Isobel Koshiw, “Writers in bombed out Kharkiv seek inspiration in historical resistance”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Kharkivite
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Kharkivians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kharkivian
Kharkivites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kharkivite
ruffleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruffleable
form: most ruffleable
Etymology: From ruffle + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In answer to your Ladyship's other question, in good truth my serenity is not at all ruffled; nor would it be yet, were it ever likely to be. It would be as ruffleable as a porcupine, had it set up its quill yet, for hitherto I am only reading both Bryant and Milles by deputy.
ref: 1866, [Horace Walpole], “2100. To the Countess of Ossory. Berkeley Square, Dec. 22, 1781.”, in Peter Cunningham, editor, The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (Bohn's English Gentlemans's Library), volume VIII, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 130:
text: Elsewhere in his correspondence, we witness le Carré pace the room about his notices anyway. His feathers were, it turns out, quite ruffleable. / When his breakthrough novel, “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” appeared in 1963, le Carré wrote that the reviews were good with the exception of “some callow ape” who panned it in The Times Literary Supplement.
ref: 2022 December 5, Dwight Garner, “John le Carré: The Spy Novelist Who (Mostly) Kept Quiet”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Able to be ruffled.
Grissell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
load voltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: load voltages
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The voltage that is able to be supplied by a power source to be consumed by the electrical load.
fulgurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌlɡjʊrəns/
ipa: /ˈfɐlɡjɵrəns/
ipa: /ˈfəlɡ(j)ərəns/
ipa: /ˈfʊlɡ(j)ərəns/
Etymology: From fulgurant + -ance.
Senses: glosses: brilliance, effulgence, light like lightning
glosses: brilliance
CMCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMCAs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: CM
ALCM
airborne aircraft carrier
flying aircraft carrier
gunship
bomber
arsenal plane
glosses: Initialism of cruise missile carrier aircraft (“a cargoplane loaded with cruise missiles, that are dropped out the rear cargo door to launch while airborne”).
Ettington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2648).
glosses: A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada in the Rural Municipality of Sutton No. 103.
Pennan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Pictish *pen (“head, top, summit”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ8465).
updoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updoots
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from up- + doot.
Senses: examples: text: 'Thanks for the updoots in hopes of finding her. I'm hoping she didn't cease to exist after I saw her.'
ref: 2015, Amanda Fisher, quoted in "My identical stranger: Woman is shocked to find her doppelganger on Instagram", Daily Mail, 11 August 2015
text: Creating and designing asthetically pleasing maps to share on Reddit for updoots and karma.
ref: 2015, anonymous, quoted in Kim Axelsson & Kasper Batalje, "Utforskning i spel och immersionens djup", thesis submitted to Södertörn University, page 34
text: A third poster provided a more detailed response, writing “Woke up to so many kind words and updoots [upvotes]. Thank you everyone! I’m really touched by the support of this community. You guys are awesome.”
ref: 2019, anonymous, quoted in Brent J Hale, "Responding to depression-related Imgur posts: A content analysis of social support and nonbona fide features in user-generated comments", Digital Health, Volume 5 (2019) (link)
glosses: An upvote.
Derived terms: updooterino
updoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: updoots
form: updooting
form: updooted
form: updooted
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from up- + doot.
Senses: glosses: To upvote.
updoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of updoot
updoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of updoot
plenary indulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plenary indulgence
partial indulgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial indulgence
nondenom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-denom
Senses: glosses: Clipping of nondenominational.
nondenom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondenoms
form: non-denom
Senses: glosses: Clipping of nondenominational.
re-etymologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-etymologize
re-etymologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-etymologize
re-etymologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-etymologize
re-skills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-skill
re-skilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-skill
re-skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-skill
reaches across the aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reach across the aisle
reaching across the aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reach across the aisle
reached across the aisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reach across the aisle
reads into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read into
reading into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read into
reads oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read oneself in
reading oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read oneself in
reads someone for filth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read someone for filth
reading someone for filth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read someone for filth
reads someone's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read someone's lips
reading someone's lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read someone's lips
reads through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read through
reading through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of read through
reaps the harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reap the harvest
reaping the harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reap the harvest
reaped the harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reap the harvest
rears one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rear one's head
rearing one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rear one's head
reared one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rear one's head
rearranges someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rearrange someone's face
rearranging someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rearrange someone's face
rearranged someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rearrange someone's face
abated of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abate of
abates of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abate of
abating of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abate of
abjures the realm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abjure the realm
abjuring the realm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abjure the realm
abjured the realm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abjure the realm
abounds in one's own sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abound in one's own sense
abounding in one's own sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abound in one's own sense
abounded in one's own sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abound in one's own sense
about-turning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of about-turn
about-turned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of about-turn
absorbs oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absorb oneself in
absorbing oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absorb oneself in
absorbed oneself in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absorb oneself in
accepts service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accept service
accepting service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accept service
accepted service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accept service
accounts for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of account for
accounting for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of account for
accounted for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of account for
accounts of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of account of
accounting of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of account of
accounted of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of account of
accredits with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accredit with
accrediting with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accredit with
accredited with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accredit with
aces into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ace into
acing into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ace into
aced into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ace into
aces out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ace out
acing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ace out
aches for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ache for
ached for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ache for
acknowledges the corn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acknowledge the corn
acknowledging the corn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acknowledge the corn
acknowledged the corn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acknowledge the corn
acting a fool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of act a fool
Oratory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Oratory
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.
Derived terms: Oratorian
Oratory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oratories
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of oratory: a church belonging to the Oratory.
Oratories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oratory
fallen off the back of a lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall off the back of a lorry
falls off the back of a lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall off the back of a lorry
falling off the back of a lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall off the back of a lorry
robe à la française
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French robe à la française
Senses: glosses: A sack-back
cyamella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyamellae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small sesamoid bone situated in the popliteus muscle found in primates (rarely humans) and certain other animals.
l8est
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of l8: most l8
guykerl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guykerls
Etymology: From English gyre-carlin, from Old Norse gýgr (“ogress”) + English carline (“old woman”).
Senses: examples: text: He went up his hill for a large stone he knew would be sufficient, but as he was returning, staggering under the weight of the enormous boulder, his Guykerl saw him and cried out jeeringly.
ref: 1932, Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby, Shetland Traditional Lore, page 132:
text: The giantesses or guykerls seem to have survived their husbands for some considerable time, for they continued to play an active part in folklore.
ref: 1981, James R. Nicolson, Shetland Folklore, page 91:
glosses: A giantess, typically a giant wife.
Related terms: gyre-carlin
guykerls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guykerl
MIPCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mass injection and pre-compressor cooling technology, a type of water injection cooling for jet engines.
quasiconverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasiconverbs
form: quasi-converb
Etymology: From quasi- + converb.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb form which functions as a converb, but is constructed differently.
quasiconverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasiconverb
arsenal plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsenal planes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A cargoplane filled with munitions, that are deployed when airborne by dropping them out the rear door, and having the weapons perform any necessary targetting and maneuvering by themselves.
Coordinate terms: airdrop
bomber
CMCA
gunship
Related terms: arsenal ship