cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sledful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sledfuls
form: sledsful
Etymology: From sled + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: At another time a sledful of several young ladies had just passed one of the most dangerous parts of the road when a shower of rocks fell behind and between them and the next komatik which was but a short distance behind, yet nobody was injured.
ref: 1884, Winfrid Alden Stearns, “Blanc Sablon again—Northern limits of the bittern—Return along the coast of Natashquan—[…]”, in Labrador, a Sketch of Its People, Its Industries and Its Natural History, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham, page 247:
text: Having dispatched (in an innocent way) all the Pets of a general character last week, I intended next to attack the “stack of black cats,” and otherwise colored members of the feline race, about whom their fond owners have from time to time written us. But to my dismay when I went up into the composing-room on the proper day to see if the proof was all right I found it was not all right, for D. F.’s blue pencil had made a long mark to show how much must come out if those two sledfuls of pets went in.
ref: 1897 April 8, Mr. Martin, “The Conversation Corner”, in The Congregationalist, volume LXXXII, number 14, page 491:
text: He didn’t say a word about those two sledsful we were hauling by hand.
ref: 1941, Frances Ella Fitz, as told to Jerome Odlum, chapter 8, in Lady Sourdough, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 150:
glosses: Enough to fill a sled.
sledfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledful
sledsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledful
draconitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more draconitic
form: most draconitic
Etymology: From Latin draco (“dragon”) + -tic. Cognate with draconic.
Senses: examples: text: The periods between successive nodes has, over time, been termed the dracontic, draconic and draconitic month, the words deriving from the Greek for 'dragon'.
ref: 2004, Christopher M. Linton, From Eudoxus to Einstein: a history of mathematical astronomy, Cambridge: University Press, page 7:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the nodal period.
glosses: Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
Related terms: draconitic month
draconic
Sohini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Bengali সোহিনী (śōhini).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Vakhrusheve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vakhrushevo
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ва́хрушеве (Váxruševe).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Bokovo-Khrustalne.
Dzhankoi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jankoy.
Metairie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtəri/
[ˈmɛ.ɾə.ɹi]
Etymology: Borrowed from French métairie (“small tenant farm”).
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
mini-budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-budgets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minibudget.
mini-budgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-budget
nobrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nobrow
form: most nobrow
Senses: examples: text: […]my argument is that, by the first decades of the twentieth century, the popular-highbrow distinction in literature had already dissolved into nobrow art.
ref: 2005, Peter Swirski, From Lowbrow to Nobrow, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: The Simpsons is pure Nobrow, able to slide as effortlessly as Bob himself from slide-whistling slapstick to talk of Susan Sontag, and ultimately oblivious to any prejudicial classifications. It's not such much that lowbrow bludgeoned highbrow to death with a dozen rakes; it's that both of them have been subsumed into the one-stop-shopping megamall of pop.
ref: 2005, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson […] , Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Alternative form of no-brow.
wrinkliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋk(ə)linəs/
/-nɪs/
Etymology: From wrinkly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition or being wrinkly or wrinkled; rugosity, wrinkledness.
Zolote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zolotoye
Etymology: From Ukrainian Золоте́ (Zoloté).
Senses: glosses: A city in Luhansk Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.
Uhniv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ugnev
Etymology: From Ukrainian У́гнів (Úhniv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
Tiachiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tyachev
Etymology: From Ukrainian Тя́чів (Tjáčiv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A raion of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
Rakhiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rakhov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ра́хів (Ráxiv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A raion of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
Figes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Figeses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shonicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shonickers
form: shoniker
form: shonikker
form: shonnicker
form: shonniker
form: schonocker
Etymology: From Yiddish [Term?] (“small trader”).
Senses: examples: text: “Well, if you ask me, Barney is a combination of eight ball, mick, and shonicker,” said McArdle, one of the corner topers.
ref: 1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 6, in Young Lonigan, →ISBN, section 3, page 156:
text: “You and I are expendable here, Charlie,” Humboldt said. “Why? I'll tell you. We're Jews, shonickers, kikes. Here in Princeton, we're no threat to Sewell.”
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 124:
text: He'd cried out, in the last scrap, urging Benny to demolish a Jew, ‘Hit him, he's only a shonicker.’
ref: 1979, James Wreford Watson, quoting James T. Farrell, “The Jewish Scapegoat”, in Social geography of the United States, Longman, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: A Jew.
Related terms: shonk
shonickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shonicker
shonnicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shonnickers
Senses: examples: text: “It was the Jews who did it. And he would have settled those profiteering shonnickers. It’s a lousy thing, if you ask me, Jews ruining a neighborhood just to make money like Judas did. It’s all greed all over again, the greed of the Jews,” Kelly said.
ref: 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, page 298:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shonicker.
shonnickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shonnicker
Jasses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jass
Interrantes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Interrante
Hardinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hardingers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Hartinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hardingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hardinger
Hussars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hussar
Mizzoura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Missouri.
Shnay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shnays
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hanneken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hannekens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hanneken.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Grimwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grimwoods
Etymology: Patronymic surname from a Germanic personal name composed of the Proto-Germanic elements *grīmô (“mask”) and *wardaz (“guard”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Grimwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Grimwood
Hannekens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hanneken
Ozsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ozsus
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Özsu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Turkish.
Gutter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gutters
Senses: glosses: A surname.
re-review
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-reviews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rereview.
re-review
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-reviews
form: re-reviewing
form: re-reviewed
form: re-reviewed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rereview.
re-reviews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-review
re-reviews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of re-review
re-reviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-review
re-reviewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of re-review
Lillas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lilla
Gutters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gutter
Letsinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Letsingers
Etymology: Americanized form of German Lutzinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hindu Rashtra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compound of Hindu + Sanskrit राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “state, nation”); possibly an unadapted borrowing from Hindi or another Indian language.
Senses: examples: text: The RSS has been in existence since 1925. It considered the whole of India to be Hindu Rashtra. The way India was partitioned only confirmed the RSS view about Hindu Rashtra which is in keeping with the modern concept of nationalism.
ref: 1982, Balraj Madhok, Rationale of Hindu State, page 99:
text: Even as Pakistan had been declared an Islamic state, India should be declared a Hindu Rashtra, they argued.[…]A nation is a nation but when everyone starts calling it Hindu Rashtra or a Sikh nation or a Muslim nation then it becomes a theocratic State.
ref: 1998, The Muse and the Minorities: Social Concerns and Creative Cohesion : International Seminar, Papers and Proceedings, Steering Committee the Muse and Minorities, pages 172, 384:
text: The end game is the establishment of a Hindu Rashtra, an ethnic democracy predicated on their ideology of Hindutva, an ethno-religious nationalism holding that the cultural values of Hinduism (as interpreted by the Hindu Right) are indistinguishable from the national identity of India.
ref: 2021 December 11, Antara Chakraborthy, Pravin Prakash, “Uttar Pradesh 2022: A Blueprint for the Yogi’s Hindu Rashtra”, in The Diplomat:
text: He said the country is facing “a moment of crisis” with the RSS aiming to turn it into a Hindu Rashtra if it manages to win the next elections.
ref: 2022 September 20, “Kerala Governor has mindset of an RSS worker, says CPI(M) State Secretary M.V. Govindan”, in The Hindu:
glosses: the (idealised) administration of India under a theocratic government as a Hindu state as sought by Hindu nationalists
Related terms: Ramrajya
Akhand Bharat
Kades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kade
Letsingers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Letsinger
Larchmont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Westchester County, New York.
hamplanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamplanets
form: ham planet
Etymology: Compound of ham + planet.
Senses: examples: text: Deep inside the world of Reddit is a section called r/fatpeoplestories, where 60,000 subscribers gather to invent words (like "hamplanet") and other ways to make fun of overweight people.
ref: [2014 February 24, Nuzha Nuseibeh, “The Best (And Absolute Worst) Body Campaigns”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2022:
text: And you can be damn sure fucking chumps who fit their criteria are actually responding to/validating these mentally ill cows. Even if it's just ultimately to get laid, they're still humouring these fucking deluded hamplanets
ref: 2015 January, Angela Nagle, quoting an anonymous commenter, An investigation into contemporary online anti-feminist movements (thesis), Dublin: Dublin City University, page 118:
text: Reddit is not actually protecting overweight people. Of the five forums banned, two — Fat People Hate and Ham Planet Hatred — did relate to fat-shaming.
ref: 2015 June 12, Caitlin Dewey, “Censorship, fat-shaming and the ’Reddit revolt’: How Reddit became the Alamo of the Internet’s ongoing culture war”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023:
text: According to the sidebar, "This sub is a place for you to tell us about hamplanets in your life and your relationships/encounters with them. Remember that hamplanet is not just about the weight, but also the hamentality—rudeness, entitlement, fatlogic, etc. Not all fat people are hambeasts but all hambeasts are fat people".
ref: 2016 November 10, Sofia Apostolidou, Jules Sturm, “Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity”, in Social Inclusion, volume 4, number 4, Lisbon: Cogitatio Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 154:
text: Like a majority of the other FPS moderators, SometimesIArt shared that she once was a self-professed hamplanet and that many members are overweight and in the process of shedding the excess pounds.
ref: 2017, Julia A. Signorelli, Of Pumpkin Spice Lattes, Hamplanets, and Fatspeak: The venting genre as support and subversion on Reddit's r/FatPeopleStories (thesis), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, page 70:
synonyms: word: hambeast
word: landwhale
word: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled
word: butterball
word: chubster
word: chunker
word: chunky monkey
word: elephant
word: fat
word: fatfuck
word: fatso
word: fattie
word: fatty
word: fatty bom bom
word: fatty boombalatty
word: fat-ass
word: fatass
word: fat fuck
word: fatshit
word: fussock
word: gorbelly
word: hambeast
word: hamplanet
word: heffalump
word: landwhale
word: lardass
word: lardbucket
word: lardo
word: oinker
word: obeast
word: pig
word: podge
word: porker
word: pudge
word: roly-poly
word: salad dodger
word: swagbelly
word: thunder thighs
word: tubbo
word: tub of guts
word: tub of lard
word: whale
glosses: An extremely obese person, especially one prone to entitled behaviour and fat logic.
hamplanets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamplanet
ham planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham planets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamplanet.
ham planets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ham planet
Rye Brook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Westchester County, New York.
Kachmar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kachmars
Etymology: Americanized spelling of Czech Kačmář, Slovak Kačmár and Polish Kaczmarz.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Langeliers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Langelier
Kachmars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kachmar
McKeough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKeoughs
Etymology: Variant of McGough.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Hannibalesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hannibalesque
form: most Hannibalesque
Etymology: From Hannibal + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Hannibal (247–183/182 BC), Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Aversas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aversa
McKeoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McKeough
Vieillot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vieillots
Etymology: Borrowed from French Vieillot.
Senses: glosses: A French surname.
upgoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upgo
upwent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of upgo
escape route
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape routes
Senses: examples: text: In case of emergency, all personnel must follow the escape routes.
text: The UN estimates that 368,000 people have already fled from Ukraine into neighbouring countries in recent days, and for many the train remains the most reliable escape route, not least to Przemyśl, the first station in Poland across the border.
ref: 2022 February 27, Peter Beaumont, “‘Everyone was fighting to get on a train’: the desperation of Ukrainians trying to reach safety”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A path used by someone to escape from a dangerous place.
examples: text: Success was a laugh for Dizzee, but it was also his escape route from a tense upbringing: he was expelled from four schools and often ran into trouble; shortly after winning the Mercury prize in 2003, he was stabbed by a rival crew member in Ayia Napa. Now, suddenly, he could travel freely, support his family, make a difference in people’s lives with his music.
ref: 2017 July 16, Tim Jonze, “Dizzee Rascal: ‘I’m the one person who can say, Grime? Nah, I seen it, sorry!’”, in The Guardian:
text: Books and stories have always been my escape route from busy London life. As a child I was often found reading – in a corner at home in Battersea, or in the library, on a bus, or the back of a car, drifting into the lives of others for hours on end, with only the act of turning the page occasionally jolting me back into reality.
ref: 2018 March 18, Sharmaine Lovegrove, “Sharmaine Lovegrove: ‘If you don’t have a diverse workforce or product, sooner or later you won’t exist’”, in The Observer:
glosses: A way out of a difficult or unpleasant situation.
Related terms: escape road
escape routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escape route
at swords' points
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: at swordpoints
form: at sword's point
Senses: examples: text: Following the news over the past weeks and months was making me sad. It gave the impression of an America hopelessly hostile and divided by race, class and politics, at swords’ points over even the smallest disagreements, with a government that seemed unable to perform the simplest task effectively.
ref: 2017 September 5, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, “Hurricane Harvey revealed the awesome power of real America”, in USA Today:
text: The seven sisters, as if Sabine women out for revenge, vie with one another, exponentially expanding complications. As they do, Fillinger is looking to decimate Great White Way hilarity records. (She’s likely already breaking the vulgarity glass ceiling.) As the at-sword’s-point encounters mount, they women are frustrated but hardly lost for dirty words or actions.
ref: 2022 April 27, David Finkle, “POTUS: Foul-Mouthed Women on Comedy Rampage”, in New York Stage Review:
text: For example, during his entire time in office (but especially after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961), Kennedy and the CIA were at sword’s point. Kennedy didn’t trust the CIA as far as he could throw Allen Dulles […] and the spooks out at Langley thought the president was callow and not up to the job of being butch with the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro.
ref: 2022 September 17, Charles P. Pierce, “The Republicans Built a Time Machine, Powered by Racism”, in Esquire:
synonyms: at daggers drawn
at each other's throats
at odds
up in arms
glosses: In strong conflict with each other, ready to fight.
Related terms: at swordpoint
ghostwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostworts
Etymology: From ghost + wort.
Senses: glosses: A species of liverwort (Aneura mirabilis) in the family Aneuraceae.
ghostworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostwort
sooty grunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sooty grunter
black bream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black bream
Senses: glosses: sooty grunter
witcho
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: “A nigga high key obsessed witcho ass. Been this way since the day I met you.” “Yeah, well, I guess your attention just wasn't enough at the time.” Alexa gave him a toothless grin as she thought about her upbringing.
ref: 2017 May 22, Sol, The Plug Next Door 3, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
text: “Anyway, I'm finna grab my strap 'cause I'm rolling witcho ass.” she threw the sheet from off her and jumped out of bed. “Are you serious, man?” he asked her as she walked past him, headed towards the closet. “Yep.
ref: 2018 October 17, Tranay Adams, Bury Me a G 3.5: Certified Gangstas, Tranay Adams:
text: ... lock her down and throw away the key, so her pretty ass couldn't go anywhere. “You just be walkin' around the house like this?” he questioned, pulling on the bottom hem of her pink tie-dyed minidress. “Witcho ass all out and shit?
ref: 2019 March 12, Chase Sidora, The Girl Next Door 2, Sullivan Group Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Contraction of with yo'.
misproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misproofs
Etymology: From mis- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: Only a misproof of Nöebling [66] (for any m) ensued in the 1930's.
ref: 1977, Robion C. Kirby, Laurence C. Siebenmann, Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations., volume 88, page 308:
text: This is what applied mathematics should be about; not the fallacious misproofs of Stoke's theorem or the relentless linearisation of the nonlinear that put me off applied mathematics for 15 years.
ref: 1983 May 12, David Cohen, “Developing psychological thought”, in New Scientist, volume 98, number 1357, page 391:
text: The three basic theorems of three-manifold topology -- Dehn's Lemma, the Loop Theorem, and the Sphere Theorem -- were proved in 1957 by Papakyriakopoulos. (Dehn stated his result in 1910, but gave a misproof.)
ref: 2012, D. S. Freed, K. K. Uhlenbeck, Instantons and Four-Manifolds, page 15:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical proof that contains logical errors.
examples: text: Misproof occurs when some other than the proposition stated is proved. This may occur from confusion, or may be intentional, as in attacking the character of an opponent (argumentum ad hominem); appealing to the prejudice (ad populum); or to authority without evidence of validity (ad verecundiam).
ref: 1914, William Dinwiddie, Essentials of Logic, page 125:
text: However, the probability of such a misproof goes to zero exponentially with the number of questions asked and hence the probability of giving an interactive “proof” for a false statement can be easily made arbitrarily small.
ref: 1995, Yuri Matiyasevich, “On Some Works of Avi Wigderson”, in S.D. Chatterji, editor, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, page 26:
text: The 38-year-old Malone currently resides in Triangle, NC and referred to herself during the interview as Kellie's "mystery mom" and said she decided to talk because "a lot of misproof has been printed" about her.
ref: 2007 September 11, Christopher Rocchio, “Kellie Pickler's estranged mom: Leaving was the hardest decision”, in Reality TV World:
text: With one misproof piled on top of another, we end up under an avalanche of falsehoods, distortions, and non-evidence.
ref: 2013, Tony Burke, Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery?:
glosses: Evidence or convincing argument that misleads one to the wrong conclusion.
examples: text: That he could claim close kinship with a maiden so sweet and fair as Phyllis Maybird seemed almost incredible, but her own words placed the matter beyond misproof or doubt.
ref: 1897, Richard Gilbert Soans, John Gilbert, Yeoman: A Romance of the Commonwealth, page 25:
text: Misproof of the declared condition of mind falsifies the statement.
ref: 1914, Esten Kenneth Williams, Digest of Canadian Case Law, page 359:
text: They may believe what they will — it is a story strong enough against misproof.
ref: 1924, John Drinkwater, Mary Staurt: A Play, page 76:
glosses: Evidence that contradicts or casts doubt on.
misproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misproof
misprosecute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misprosecutes
form: misprosecuting
form: misprosecuted
form: misprosecuted
Etymology: From mis- + prosecute.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is a resonable basis to question that Cannada has deliberately and fraudulently misinvestigated or misprosecuted allegations with the aim of shielding a suspected war criminal;
ref: 2000, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates - Issues 75-84, page 5805:
text: Child-abuse scandals are prosecuted and misprosecuted with almost Salem-witch-trial fervor.
ref: 2004, David Brooks, On Paradise Drive, page 137:
text: Bucky the Beater, who'd made a career out of misprosecuting gangsters, finally hitting one because the jerk confessed—at least he hadn't fucked that one up.
ref: 2011, Richard Barre, Bearing Secrets:
glosses: To prosecute badly or ineptly.
misprosecutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprosecute
misprosecuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprosecute
misprosecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprosecute
misprove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misproves
form: misproving
form: misproved
form: misproved
Etymology: From mis- + prove.
Senses: examples: text: At this Giulio abode stupefied and well-nigh beside himself, acknowledging that Delio spoke the truth; nevertheless, impatient to rid himself of the annoy wherein he found himself, "I know very full well," quoth he, "that thou sayest sooth and that, if this wicked woman choose to be obstinate and persist in her lies, I can nowise misprove her by evidence and we shall be worse off than ever; but meseemeth Camillo should put far more trust in my most true words than in thelies of a woman of the vilest sort, whom he hath again and again proved to be a liar.
ref: 1890, Matteo Bandello, The Novels of Matteo Bandello: Bishop of Agen - Volume 4, page 277:
text: The history of how the thing came to be written, and why I kept it unaltered in translating, would prove ( or misprove ) this mistake the critic makes.
ref: 1899 (work published in 2000), Mary Antin, edited by Evelyn Salz, Selected Letters of Mary Antin, page 18:
text: “You yourself misprove that,” Dewar said.
ref: 2018, Elizabeth Willey, A Sorcerer and a Gentleman:
text: if the different study of rocks and formations, and stalactites and stalgmites and so forth, prove that, dripping, of millions of years, and God said He made the heavens and earth in one twenty-four hours, doesn't that misprove, disprove the Bible?
ref: 2021, Kyle Morton, Some Thoughts:
glosses: To disprove; to provide evidence that contradicts.
examples: text: It is easy to ignore the difference between theory and law. It is easy to pull data out of context to misprove things. (They make it look like something is true when it is really false.)
ref: 2018, Douglas K. Johanson, Creationism and the Book of Revelation:
glosses: To provide an erroneous proof for.
misproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misprove
misproving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misprove
misproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misprove
sees coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see coming
seeing coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see coming
saw coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see coming
seen coming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see coming
Kosiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kosov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ко́сів (Kósiv).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Krasyliv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krasilov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Краси́лів (Krasýliv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.
Nemyriv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nemirov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Неми́рів (Nemýriv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
touristic guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touristic guides
Etymology: Independently borrowed from French guide touristique, Italian guida turistica, and Spanish guía turístico.
Senses: examples: text: We give any touristic service in Madrid. Information, hotel reservations, privete^([sic]) touristic guide, holiday planning etc etc.
ref: 2001 April 8, ALFONSO MUÑOZ, “accomodation^([sic]) in Madrid? (Spain)”, in alt.hotel666 (Usenet), retrieved 24 Sep 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A tour guide.
touristic guides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touristic guide
how's it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "How's it?" Stan asked. He looked like he was having real trouble focusing his eyes, and he smelt very strange. 'It's all right, Stan,' Granddad replied. 'What's up?' 'Had any more news there, boss?' Granddad didn't look up.
ref: 2015 September 1, James Roy, Billy Mack's War, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of how's it going.
synonyms: word: how's it going
Novyi Kalyniv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Novyy Kalinov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Но́вий Кали́нів (Nóvyj Kalýniv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Franzetti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franzettis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Franzetti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Murder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Murders
Etymology: English surname from the verb murder, originally given to someone who had a reputation of being a murderer or was accused of committing murder.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ilsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ilsas
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Ilsas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ilsa
quad suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quad suit
homoglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + -glossia.
Senses: examples: text: On the one hand, the literary use of Spanish is a mark of resistance to the American notion of a literary homoglossia (to use Bakhtin's term), in particular to the Anglocentrism of the East Coast literary establishment.
ref: 1999, Paul Beekman Taylor, “Bronzing the Face of American English: The Double Tongue of Chicano Literature”, in Ton Hoenselaars, Marius Buning, editors, English Literature and the Other Languages, BRILL, page 256:
text: Discussion of the intertextual relationship in terms of homoglossia emphasizes the lack of stratification and the resultant amplifying effect without obfuscating differences between the content of the texts.
ref: 2013, Anna Kathryn Grau, “Hearing Voices: Heteroglossia, Homoglossia, and the Old French Monet”, in Musica Disciplina, volume 58, →JSTOR, page 81:
text: This is, undoubtedly, the hierarchically superior discourse—the critics soon detected it—in the dense interdiscourse of a kind of images whose apparent realistic homoglossia transmits a rich and varied critical heterology.
ref: 2021, Manuel González de Ávila, “On Narrative Hypersign and Feminine Imaginary: Audrey Flack's Photorealism”, in Popular Inquiry, volume 1, page 136:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.
homoglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homoglossic
form: most homoglossic
Etymology: From homoglossia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture.
ref: 2007, Nick Bentley, “Re-writing Englishness: imagining the nation in Julian Barnes’s England, England and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”, in Textual Practice, volume 21, number 3, →DOI, pages 496–7:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting homoglossia.
stindie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stindies
Etymology: Blend of studio + indie.
Senses: examples: text: Parallel to this expansion has been the concentration of the film industry in fewer studios and their specialty subsidiaries generating ‘stindie’ productions and the growing central role Sundance and the IFP (Independent Feature Project) market.
ref: 2004 October 18, Claus Mueller, “NY IFP Market Proves Central for Independents”, in Filmfestivals.com:
text: Following in the footsteps of Disney’s success with Miramax, every major studio acquired a stable of subsidiaries (sometimes referred to as “stindies” or “mini-majors”) in order to profit from notoriety gained at the Academy Awards and prestigious film festivals.
ref: 2007, Andrew deWaard, “The Global Social Problem Film”, in Cinephile, volume 3, number 1, page 13:
text: “I was called ‘Queen of the Indies’ by Time magazine (1997),” she tells Made in Hollywood. “Around that time, the whole [industry] changed — a kind of a studio-indie film, a stindie kind of formed.”
ref: 2015 July 22, “Parker Posey Laments Loss of the True Indie Movie Era”, in Moviefone:
glosses: A subsidiary of a major film studio that operates in a similar way to independent film studios.
Related terms: minimajor
vacaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacay
vacayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacay
sub-genre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-genres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subgenre.
sub-genres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-genre
Irshava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ірша́ва (Iršáva).
Senses: glosses: A city in Zakarpattia Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Mukachevo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Мука́чево (Mukáčevo).
Senses: examples: text: “I plan to go to my coach, Enver Ablaev, he lives in Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region,” Abramenko said. “I go by car, I take essential things with me, food, and my Olympic medals.”
ref: 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A city in Zakarpattia Oblast, in western Ukraine.
glosses: A raion of Zakarpattia Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Stryi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Стри́й (Strýj).
Senses: glosses: A city, raion, and river in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Abramenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Абра́менко (Abrámenko).
Senses: examples: text: Sixteen days earlier, Oleksandr Abramenko was in China, celebrating his silver medal — the only medal of any kind won by Ukraine at the Beijing Winter Games.
ref: 2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Абра́менко (Abrámenko).
Chervonohrad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Червоногра́д (Červonohrád).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Sheptytskyi.
Sambir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Са́мбір (Sámbir).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Derived terms: Staryi Sambir
Staryi Sambir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Старий Са́мбір (Staryj Sámbir).
Senses: glosses: A city in Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Nikolaev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nikolayev.
Kremenets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Кре́менець (Krémenecʹ).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Ternopil Oblast, in western Ukraine.
Barangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug Barangaru, name of Bennelong’s (Binilang) first wife. The meaning of the name is unknown.
Senses: glosses: A district of Sydney, New South Wales.
wikipedia: Bennelong
Kirribilli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
flyin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of flying.
flyin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of flying.
LMST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMSTs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of Local Mean Sidereal Time.
Hypernyms: english: Local Sidereal Time
translation: Local Sidereal Time
word: LST
Hyponyms: english: Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time
translation: Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time
word: GMST
aerial skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Oleksandr Abramenko of Ukraine took second in men’s aerial skiing on Wednesday, earning the country’s first medal of the Beijing Games.
ref: 2022 February 16, Lauren McCarthy, “After winning medals in men’s aerial skiing, a Ukrainian and a Russian athlete embrace.”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
synonyms: aerials
glosses: A freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill.
Related terms: aerialist
aerial skier
LMSTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LMST
make a dent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a dent
form: making a dent
form: made a dent
form: made a dent
form: leave a dent
form: put a dent
Senses: examples: text: If an actor doesn't have a point of view, he doesn't make a dent. And I mean to make a dent.
ref: 1938 December 18, Bosley Crowther, quoting John Garfield, “A man who means to make a dent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But I am not yet persuaded that Clintonomics will make much of a dent in the persistent problems of unemployment in the U.S. economy.
ref: 1992 December 6, David M. Gordon, “Clinton May Fall Short on Easing Unemployment”, in Los Angeles Times, page D2:
text: Clinton's budget plan on social needs will barely make a dent [title]
ref: 1999 February 4, Michael M. Weinstein, “Clinton's budget plan on social needs will barely make a dent”, in The New York Times:
text: China's Efforts Against Crime Make No Dent [title]
ref: 2001 December 26, Craig S. Smith, “China's Efforts Against Crime Make No Dent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Think about surfing on the front edge of a wave. It's really exhilarating. Now think about dog-paddling at the tail end of that wave. It wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun. Come down here and make a dent in the universe.
ref: 2011, Walter Isaacson, quoting Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: To make an impression; to have an effect on; to chip away at.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, a, dent.
GMST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Initialism of Greenwich Mean Sidereal Time.
topics: climate
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Global Mean Surface Temperature.
Hypernyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
sense: navigation
english: Local Mean Sidereal Time
translation: Local Mean Sidereal Time
word: LMST
blow the doors off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows the doors off
form: blowing the doors off
form: blew the doors off
form: blown the doors off
Senses: examples: text: You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career?
Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss.
ref: 2019 July 25, Vicki Dean, “Josh Blue on social media, improvisation and more”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:
glosses: To be much more important or impressive than.
Related terms: blow the doors open
ala carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of à la carte.
ala carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of à la carte.
Piersma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piersmas
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Piersma.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
anonettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anonette
pee oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pees oneself
form: peeing oneself
form: peed oneself
form: peed oneself
Senses: examples: text: I think I peed myself.
glosses: Synonym of wet oneself.
synonyms: word: wet oneself
shitehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiteheads
Senses: qualifier: very uncommon
glosses: Alternative form of shithead.
keelfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelfats
Etymology: From keel (“to cool”) + fat (“tub, vat”). Cognate with Dutch koelvat (“cooler, keelfat”).
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A cooler; a vat in which liquor or wort is set for cooling.
Synonyms: keelertub
keelfats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keelfat
RIP troll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RIP trolls
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, they illustrated RIP trolls' deeply privileged (not to mention paternalistic) worldview, which the trolls subsequently used to justify what were still often quite destructive behaviors.
ref: 2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, page 84:
text: He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.
ref: 2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game:
glosses: An Internet troll who leaves deliberately offensive messages on online memorials to the deceased.
RIP trolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RIP troll
unrecitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrecitable
form: most unrecitable
Etymology: From un- + recitable.
Senses: glosses: Not recitable; unable to be recited.
godawfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From godawful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being god-awful.
recitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reciting
tannedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tanned + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Over the years my looks have changed as much as I could change them, with every color and length of hair, a big weight range, wide variety of whiteness or tannedness.
ref: 2012, Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls:
glosses: The quality of being tanned.
hairwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairwashes
Etymology: From hair + wash.
Senses: examples: text: I had a hairwash today and the barber came and cut my nails.
ref: 2014, Pavit Kaur, Stolen Years: A Memoir of Simranjit Singh Mann’s Imprisonment:
glosses: The act of washing the hair on a person's head.
examples: text: Chokecherry bark […] A hairwash to strengthen the hair and encourage growth.
ref: 2012, Judith Griffin, Mother Nature's Herbal, page 27:
glosses: A preparation used for washing the hair on a person's head: shampoo or similar.
hairwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairwash
kitchenetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From kitchenette + -ed.
Senses: examples: a kitchenetted bungalow
glosses: Furnished with a kitchenette.
deskunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deskunks
form: deskunking
form: deskunked
form: deskunked
Etymology: From de- + skunk.
Senses: examples: text: Don't panic. Don't grab the tomato juice. This home remedy will help deskunk your dog just fine.
ref: 2021 April 27, Morgan Cutolo, “My Dog Got Skunked, Now What?”, in Reader's Digest, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
glosses: To remove the smell of a skunk from (a pet dog, etc.).
deskunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deskunk
deskunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deskunk
deskunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deskunk
metal rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metal rubbers
Senses: glosses: Any of various conductive plastic polymers with metal ions, having various desirable physical and chemical properties.
metal rubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metal rubber
pteridinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pteridine + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: Few of the potential displacement or other reactions of pteridinyl sulfoxides and sulfones have been reported but enough are known to confirm the utility of such substituents […]
ref: 1988, D. J. Brown, The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Fused Pyrimidines, page 340:
text: Simultaneously, Stiefel and taylor were exploiting this methodology of cyclo-addition of quinoxalyl and pteridinyl acetylenes with a Mo-(S₄) reagent 22 to generate mono-dithiolene complexes of molybdenum(IV) (Scheme 2.22).
ref: 2016, Russ Hille, Carola Schulzke, Martin L. Kirk, Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes: Bioinorganic Chemistry, page 35:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: pteridyl
glosses: The functional group derived from pteridine.
Maya blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maya blues
Senses: glosses: A bright azure pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
Maya blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Maya blue
South Side
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: The South Side
Senses: glosses: An area of Chicago, Illinois.
Singmaster's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the British mathematician David Singmaster, who proposed it in 1971.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conjecture in combinatorial number theory, stating that there is a finite upper bound on the multiplicities of entries in Pascal's triangle (other than the number 1, which appears infinitely many times).
Cramér's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Formulated by the Swedish mathematician Harald Cramér in 1936.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: An estimate for the size of gaps between consecutive prime numbers, stating that p_n+1-p_n=O(( log p_n)²), where pₙ denotes the nth prime number, O is big O notation, and log is the natural logarithm.
underivables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underivable
Sendov's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Bulgarian mathematician Blagovest Sendov.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Ilieff's conjecture
glosses: A conjecture concerning the relationship between the locations of roots and critical points of a polynomial function of a complex variable. It states that for a polynomial f(z)=(z-r_1)⋯(z-r_n), qquad (n>2) with all roots r₁, ..., rₙ inside the closed unit disk |z| ≤ 1, each of the n roots is at a distance no more than 1 from at least one critical point.
wikipedia: Blagovest Sendov
Ilieff's conjecture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after L. Ilieff, to whom the work was popularly misattributed.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Sendov's conjecture.
synonyms: word: Sendov's conjecture
unit disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit disk