cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polyrepo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyrepos
Etymology: From poly- + repo.
Senses: examples: text: In situation where there is 2 components, polyrepos are sufficient. In situation where there is 50 components, monorepos shine. And the switch is somewhere in between.
ref: 2024 May 8, u/Haspe, “Mono repo or not?”, in Reddit, r/golang, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2024:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A software project in which different components are located in separate code repositories which can be versioned individually (as opposed to a monorepo in which all the code exists within a single repository).
Related terms: monorepo
multirepo
subrepo
polyrepos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyrepo
snow-in-harvest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cerastium tomentosum.
devil's cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:devil's cut.
glosses: The portion of a distilled alcoholic spirit's volume that is lost by being absorbed into the wood of the barrels it matures in.
Coordinate terms: angel's dram
angel's share
whiskey fungus
OpenType
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊpənˌtaɪp/
ipa: /ˈoʊpənˌtaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Etymology: Compound of open + type.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A file format, developed jointly by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc., for storing computer fonts.
Related terms: OTF
TrueType
next week
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Related terms: last week
this week
black day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black days
Senses: glosses: A day of great disaster, misfortune or unhappiness.
black days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black day
TrueType
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuːˌtaɪp/
ipa: /ˈtɹuˌtaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Etymology: Compound of true + type.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: a file format for storing computer fonts developed by Apple Inc.
Related terms: TTF
OpenType
piecewise-defined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piecewise-defined
form: most piecewise-defined
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: piecewise
glosses: Defined by subfunctions and subdomains
suicide mission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide missions
Senses: examples: text: He said savagely, "We're apt to catch it anyway—here. You're immune, you don't care, you're safe! The rest of us are on a suicide mission—and damn it, when I die I want to take a few of those monkeys with me!"
ref: 1958 November, Marion Zimmer Bradley, “The Planet Savers”, in Amazing Stories:
text: The soldiers, from a unit north of Baghdad, told family members that they considered the convoy destined for Taji to be a "suicide mission", citing the poor condition of their vehicles and the absence of ground and air support to protect the convoy.
ref: 2004 October 16, Dan Glaister, “Doubts about US morale in Iraq as troops refuse 'suicide mission'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A task which is so dangerous for the people involved that they are not expected to survive.
suicide missions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suicide mission
Guyatt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
duck dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck dinners
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Dishonorable discharge.
CuNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CuNTs
Etymology: * (copper nanotube): Cu (“copper”) + NT (“nanotube”)
Senses: examples: text: As a comparison with earlier findings and the hybrid structures studied below, we first investigate the relaxation structures and the magnetic ground states of freestanding Fe [iron] and Co [cobalt] MACs [monatomic chains] as well as the structure parameters of pristine CuNT.
ref: 2017 July 27, Liang-Cai Ma, Ling Ma, Jian-Min Zhang, “First-principles study of the stability, magnetic and electronic properties of Fe and Co monoatomic chains encapsulated into copper nanotube”, in European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, volume 90, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, page 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of copper nanotube.
Hypernyms: sense: copper nanotube
alt: nanotube
word: NT
Derived terms: sense: copper nanotube
english: cobalt-doped copper nanotube
translation: cobalt-doped copper nanotube
word: Co@CuNT
sense: copper nanotube
english: iron-doped copper nanotube
translation: iron-doped copper nanotube
word: Fe@CuNT
sense: copper nanotube
english: palladium-copper alloy copper nanotube
translation: palladium-copper alloy copper nanotube
word: PdCu@CuNT
sense: copper nanotube
english: transition metal doped copper nanotube
translation: transition metal doped copper nanotube
word: TM@CuNT
Related terms: sense: copper nanotube
english: carbon nanotube
translation: carbon nanotube
word: CNT
sense: copper nanotube
english: copper nanowire
translation: copper nanowire
word: CuNW
A-teamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-teamers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A teamer.
A teamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ ˌtiːmər/
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: A teamers
Etymology: From A team + -er.
Senses: synonyms: first-stringer
coordinate_terms: B teamer
glosses: A member of an A team, the best or most effective team.
Related terms: A team
jangmadang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jangmadangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 장마당 (jangmadang).
Senses: glosses: A kind of local market or black market in North Korea that emerged since the famine in the 1990s.
kwalliso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kwallisos
form: kwanliso
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 관리소 (gwalliso).
Senses: glosses: A labour and concentration camp operated by North Korea, especially used for political prisoners.
Coordinate terms: english: a reeducation camp
translation: a reeducation camp
word: kyohwaso
kyohwaso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyohwasos
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 교화소 (gyohwaso).
Senses: glosses: A prison in North Korea used as a reeducation camp.
Coordinate terms: english: political prison
translation: political prison
word: kwalliso
Itallywood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Italywood
Etymology: Blend of Italy + Hollywood, more popular in the silent film era.
Senses: examples: text: Hal Roach Goes Italywood. Hal Roach of bathing beauty and film comedy fame, and Vittorio Mussolini, Il Duce's flying son, announced tonight formation of an equal partnership for production of motion pictures.
ref: 2002, Simon Louvish, Stan and Ollie, the Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy, page 355:
text: From a critical, cinematic point of view, certainly Io Sono con Te can be easily placed within the current, and unfortunately rare category of “contemporary Italian art films” that stand out in contrast for style and themes from en vogue cinepanettone and Itallywood movies.
ref: 2014, Timothy J. Johnson, Barbara Ottaviani-Jones, “The Virgin Mary on Screen: Mater Dei or Just a Mother in Guido Chiesa’s Io Sono con Te (I Am with You)”, in Journal of Religion & Film, page 14:
glosses: Italian actors and directors working in Hollywood
Related terms: Bollywood
Kollywood
Mollywood
Nollywood
and similar
briganteen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briganteens
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of brigantine.
damn you all to hell
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An ungrateful and a dismissive remark.
Win10
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows 10.
Win11
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows 11.
Win2000
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows 2000.
Win8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows 8.
WinMe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Win (clipping of Windows) + Me (Millennium Edition).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Me
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows Me.
WinNT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows NT.
sten do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sten dos
Etymology: Blend of stag do + hen do.
Senses: synonyms: hag do
glosses: A party where the bride and groom decide to celebrate their final night of being single together.
Related terms: hen do
stag do
sten dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sten do
hag do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hag dos
Etymology: Blend of hen do + stag do.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sten do.
synonyms: word: sten do
Related terms: hen do
stag do
hag dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hag do
nuts-to-butts
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nuts-to-butts
form: most nuts-to-butts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nuts to butts.
Hillel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hɪˈlɛl/
/ˈhɪ.ləl/
Forms: form: Hillels
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew הִלֵּל (Hillḗl).
Senses: examples: text: Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hillel sandwich
mountain weasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain weasels
Senses: synonyms: pale weasel
glosses: Mustela altaica, a weasel of central to eastern Asia.
pale weasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pale weasels
Senses: synonyms: mountain weasel
glosses: Mustela altaica, a weasel of central to eastern Asia.
solongoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solongois
Senses: glosses: The mountain weasel.
ideographic description sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ideographic description sequences
Etymology: From ideographic + description + sequence.
Senses: qualifier: Unicode
glosses: A sequence which, taken together, describes (or closely approximates) an ideograph, typically used to describe Han ideographs (Chinese characters) that have not been encoded, and therefore have no codepoint associated with them; comprised of a ideographic description character that gives a layout (e.g. ⿰, ⿸) or transformation (e.g. ⿿), followed by one or more components which that character operates on, which may be encoded characters or other sequences in the same format.
Related terms: ideographic description character
ideographic description sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideographic description sequence
tamponning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tampon
tamponned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tampon
Argentine black and white tegus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argentine black and white tegu
Argentine giant tegu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argentine giant tegus
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Argentine black and white tegu.
synonyms: word: Argentine black and white tegu
black and white tegu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black and white tegus
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Argentine black and white tegu.
synonyms: word: Argentine black and white tegu
huge tegu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huge tegus
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Argentine black and white tegu.
synonyms: word: Argentine black and white tegu
earthly paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthly paradises
Senses: glosses: The Garden of Eden.
glosses: A place on Earth that is a perfect combination of beauty and happiness.
earthly paradises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthly paradise
day's age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: which phænomenon denotes full moon a little short of the fifteenth day's age;
ref: 1810, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 9, page 6:
text: Origen's parvuli were those of only one day's age, and on to two or three years.
ref: 1871, Lanceford Bramblet Wilkes, Jacob Ditzler, The Louisville Debate, A Discussion of the Question, what is Christian Baptism, Including Its Proper Subjects and Design, page 176:
text: When Gilbert who lean'd musing whilst she sat, Counting the day's age on a sun-dial near,
ref: 1872, Thomas Norton, The Hermit, a Poem And Miscellaneous Verse, page 48:
glosses: The number of hours that have passed since the beginning of the day; the current time.
clubsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A family of combinatorial principles that is a weaker version of the corresponding diamond principle.
green circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green circles
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
coordinate_terms: bunny slope
black diamond
blue square
double black diamond
glosses: On a trail map, an indicator of a ski slope of the least difficulty, that is usually wide, open, and groomed, with a gradient of 0–25%.
blue square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue squares
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
coordinate_terms: black diamond
bunny slope
double black diamond
green circle
glosses: On a trail map, an indicator of a ski slope of intermediate difficulty, steeper and narrower than a green circle, and with a gradient of 25–40%.
bunny hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunny hills
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bunny slope.
synonyms: word: bunny slope
double black diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double black diamonds
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
coordinate_terms: bunny slope
blue square
black diamond
green circle
glosses: On a trail map, an indicator of the most difficult and dangerous terrain designed for expert skiers and snowboarders, with a gradient of greater than 60%.
double black diamonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double black diamond
bunny hills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny hill
blue squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue square
green circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green circle
funnier-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of funny-looking: more funny-looking
funniest-looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of funny-looking: most funny-looking
black and white tegus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black and white tegu
Argentine giant tegus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argentine giant tegu
huge tegus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huge tegu
go to earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to earth
form: going to earth
form: went to earth
form: gone to earth
Senses: glosses: Of a hunted animal, to hide underground.
glosses: Of a person, to hide from someone or something, to escape.
went to earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go to earth
gone to earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go to earth
going to earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of go to earth
goes to earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to earth
paper currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper currencies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of paper money.
synonyms: word: paper money
Panama Papers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Panama Papers
Senses: topics: business
journalism
media
qualifier: crime
glosses: A trove of leaked documents that were published in 2016.
paper currencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper currency
blackwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwomen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black woman.
blackwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackwoman
White man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: White men
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of white man.
White Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of white man (collectively)
White men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of White man
Black man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black man.
Black men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black man
plays the white man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play the white man
playing the white man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of play the white man
played the white man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play the white man
fuck no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to meet in rendezvous? Fuck no!
How about go for drive thru? Fuck no! It ain’t possible!
glosses: Expressing firm disagreement.
white Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white Russians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of White Russian (“cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk”).
white russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white russians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk”).
white russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white russian
white Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white Russian
White Ruthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of White Russia.
synonyms: word: White Russia
White Rus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of White Russia.
synonyms: word: White Russia
Russia Alba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of White Russia.
synonyms: word: White Russia
neutral spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutral spirits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rectified spirit.
synonyms: word: rectified spirit
neutral spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutral spirit
trail map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail maps
Senses: qualifier: navigation
glosses: A map used to aid in navigation and can symbolize an assorted amount of information of a particular area or contain only a single representation of the data it represents.
trail maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trail map
taste map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taste maps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tongue map.
synonyms: word: tongue map
taste maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taste map
woman talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Discourse between females which is considered to be inappropriate or uninteresting to male ears.
guy talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Discourse between males which is considered to be inappropriate or uninteresting to female ears.
boy talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Discourse between males which is considered to be inappropriate or uninteresting to female ears.
reveto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /riːˈviːtoʊ/
Forms: form: revetos
form: revetoing
form: revetoed
form: revetoed
Etymology: From re- + veto.
Senses: glosses: To veto again.
exit sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit signs
Senses: glosses: An electric lit up device in buildings that displays where the exits are.
Quilley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
APISAA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APISAAs
form: APISAA
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian American.
Synonyms: APIDA
Related terms: AANHPI
AAPI
APA
APISAAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of APISAA
Erykah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erica
form: Erika
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.
Badu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from ?
townmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of townman
Symeon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪ.mi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪmiən
homophone: simian
Forms: form: Simeon
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Symeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sŭmeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, “hearkening, listening”), originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob. Doublet of Simon.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Symeon.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
go fuck yourself sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: dismissal
glosses: go to hell!, get lost!, fuck off!
urgent care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urgent cares
Senses: glosses: A walk-in medical facility that provides treatment on a customer basis, typically focusing less serious complaints than would be treated at a hospital.
glosses: The type of treatment offered at such facilities.
Rosneath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Ros Neimhidh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS2583).
honscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hon + science.
Senses: examples: text: I heard it does something about pelvic tilt to make you shorter but maybe thats jut honscience
ref: 2023 October 21, u/socuvheal, Reddit, r/4tran4:
text: I used to say i was ace pre hrt. But I also remember having crushes on guys so idk how true that was. I think the whole sexuality change thing is just honscience tbh.
ref: 2024 October 16, u/Sure_Carpet4819, Reddit, r/4tran4:
text: I'm waiting on height shrink honscience because I hate being 5'10
ref: 2024 November 9, u/ThinDoughnut976, Reddit, r/4tran4:
qualifier: 4chan /lgbt/ slang
glosses: Pseudoscientific claims regarding medical gender transition and its effects or methods, usually expressed by hons.
Related terms: broscience
touch the body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dodgeball (the game of dodging balls)
synonyms: word: dodgeball
extra: the game of dodging balls
GenSan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn̪.sɐn̪/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of General Santos City.
forefounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forefounders
Etymology: Likely a conflation between forefather and founder, equivalent to fore- + founder.
Senses: examples: text: Let us take a look at a specific individual, Jihan Wu, who has been dubbed as the forefounder of Bitcoin Cash, the Believer, the “Big Mine”, and the “Jihad”.
ref: 2018 January 31, Prime Editor, “The World of Bitcoin: The Believer, The Power Holder, and The “Jihad” — Jihan Wu”, in Medium:
text: Societal metabolism, therefore, is a representation of the economic process through biophysical transformations associated with the production and consumption of goods and services - a process that was first described by its forefounder, the economist Nicholas Georgesu-Roegen in his book The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in 1971.
ref: 2024 August 5, Alevgül H. Sorman, “Fueling Civilization: Unraveling the Energetic Metabolism of Societies”, in Energy Humanities:
glosses: A founder; one who founds or establishes something.
forefounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forefounder
Muscatatuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Indiana, United States, a tributary of the White River.
agawan base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
synonyms: washington
glosses: team game whose main objective is to touch the base of the opposition without getting tagged
Related terms: capture the flag
washington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: Synonym of agawan base (a team game)
synonyms: word: agawan base
extra: a team game
shakeshake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Crotalaria incana, a tropical American plant, also introduced to many other tropical regions.
Guerreran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Mexican state of Guerrero.
straggler daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straggler daisies
Senses: synonyms: horseherb
glosses: Calyptocarpus vialis, a creeping plant native to the American tropics and introduced widely.
horseherb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of horse + herb.
Senses: glosses: The straggler daisy.
lawnflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The straggler daisy
food oasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food oases
Etymology: Earliest known use appears c. 2007 in a research article by Darcy A. Freeman.
Senses: glosses: An urban environment with an abundance of grocery stores, and thus, inmediate access to healthy food.
Coordinate terms: food desert
food swamp
food oases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food oasis
quizzicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪzɪkəl/
Forms: form: quizzicles
Etymology: From quiz + -icle (diminutive suffix). The term is associated with, and possibly originates from, an old joke: "if a quiz is a quizzicle, what's a test?" (or variations). Later reanalyzed as (or recoined from) a blend of quiz + article.
Senses: examples: text: OOP in school consists mostly of memorizing a bunch of vocabulary terms like "encapsulation" and "inheritance" and taking multiple-choice quizzicles on the difference between polymorphism and overloading. Not much harder than memorizing famous dates and names in a history class, OOP poses inadequate mental challenges to scare away first-year students.
ref: 2005 December 29, Joel Spolsky, “The Perils of JavaSchools”, in More Joel on Software: […], Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, published 2008, →ISBN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2024, page 57:
text: My teacher used to call quizzes "quizzicles." You don't want to know what he called "tests." #myweirdteacher
ref: [2013 September 18, @jimmyfallon [Jimmy Fallon], Twitter, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2024:
text: Back on Earth, teens and young adults were getting down with Snapchat, the Fastest Rising Startup of 2012 that was on a quick, meteoric rise to the top of the teen texting throne. And when they weren't snapping they were on BuzzFeed, the Best Time Sink of 2012 with all of the quizzicles and listicles.
ref: 2016 February 2, Matt Burns, “Revisit The Crunchies Of Yesteryear Ahead Of The 9th Annual Crunchies”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2024:
text: In October, one of the company's monstrous acquisitions, the TV and movie empire NBCUniversal, revealed that it had peeled off $200 million to buy another taste of BuzzFeed, the trendy shareable-content producer. BuzzFeed has been best known — until recently — for its many irreverent lists and quizzes and "listicles." And I guess "quizzicles." These include the recent viral sensation "How Millennial Are You?" and a 2015 debate, involving millions of agitated people, over whether a striped dress was white and gold or black and blue.
ref: 2017 February 18, Don Steinberg, “Comcast's Surprisingly Viral Future”, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, P.A.: Metrocorp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2024:
text: [BuzzFeed is] A sad rotting corpse stinking up the interwebs. I think it's just one person creating an infinite number of quizzicles.
ref: 2024 January 29, u/LibraryLuLu, “Clock The Tea: The Show vs Actual Villain”, in Reddit, r/rupaulsdragrace, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2024:
glosses: A short quiz.
Related terms: listicle
quizzicle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪzɪkəl/
Etymology: From quiz + -icle (diminutive suffix). The term is associated with, and possibly originates from, an old joke: "if a quiz is a quizzicle, what's a test?" (or variations). Later reanalyzed as (or recoined from) a blend of quiz + article.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of quizzical.
quizzicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quizzicle
pissbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissbags
Etymology: From piss + bag.
Senses: examples: text: To piss, they hitched oilskin sacks under their trousers so they didn’t expose themselves to the weather and they learned to cradle the warmth of the pissbag between their legs and sometimes the warmth helped them think of women, until the bag froze and they were nowhere again, just a simple snowfield lit by an oil-refinery fire.
ref: 2003, Colum McCann, “Soviet Union 1941–56”, in Dancer, London: Phoenix House, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, pages 7–8:
text: Wandering that desolated sooty landscape with a pissbag leaking down your back, looking for smokes to break up and scatter (holding your own water like a dog, for some place to use it constructively), it is harder to see in this the carrying-out of some great natural plan; […]
ref: 2004 November, George Sibley, “Forest, Slums and the Fire This Time”, in Dragons in Paradise: On the Edge Between Civilization and Sanity, Frisco, Colo.: Mountain Gazette Publishing, →ISBN, page 159:
text: After the first two weeks, I was able to stand on my own and wobble to the toilet to empty my pissbag; […]
ref: 2014, Ksenia Anske, “Cows”, in Irkadura, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: A bag holding urine.
examples: text: I’ll know you again, arsehole, and your pissbag of a driver.
ref: 2008, Charlie Owen, chapter 21, in Bravo Jubilee, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 313:
text: 'Carvin's feasting tonight, so I'll be left in peace.' She hoped. / Bride made a dark sound and gave Riard a look that sent him scurrying on alone to the rowan trees. 'That pissbag.' She added a string of Tartessian curses. 'Where's that ring of yours?'
ref: 2009 June, Lindsay Townsend, “Isle of Stones, 1561 BC. Early Fall.”, in Bronze Lightning, BookStrand, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Above the sound of my breathing, I began to notice a voice speaking over the action, a commentary where every other phrase coincided with a strike. / ‘Ya sanava bitch. Thought you could fuck with me? Muth-a-fuck-a! Sana-va bitch!’ / I’d recognise that pissbag even if I went deaf.
ref: 2012, M Y Alam [pseudonym; Yunis Alam], “The art of getting jumped”, in Red Laal, Pontefract, West Yorkshire: Route, →ISBN, section 1 (Raining stones), page 47:
glosses: An objectionable person.
poop pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːp ˌpaɪ̯p/
Forms: form: poop pipes
Senses: glosses: The rectum, or a similar structure in another animal.
glosses: Any plumbing pipe from which human bodily waste, particularly feces, proceeds through water into the sewage system.
Related terms: poop chute
mattress actress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mattress actresses
Senses: glosses: A female porn star; an adult actress.
two times
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: twice
Synonyms: sense: see
word: twice
antishippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antishipper
thash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ðæʃ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thass.
thazz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ðæz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thass.
order-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: order-marks
Senses: examples: text: "If you don't attend, Gwendolen," said the mistress, "and stop looking out of the window, I shall have to give you an order-mark." […] "Take two order-marks for talking nonsense," said Miss Frizzle.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: Alternative spelling of order mark.
PWN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pē dŭb′əl-yo͞o ĕn
-yo͝o-
Forms: form: PWNe
Etymology: Abbreviation of pulsar wind nebula.
Senses: synonyms: plerion
glosses: Abbreviation of pulsar wind nebula.
PWN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pē dŭb′əl-yo͞o ĕn
-yo͝o-
Forms: form: PWNs
Etymology: Abbreviation of person with narcolepsy.
Senses: synonyms: narcoleptic
glosses: Abbreviation of person with narcolepsy.
Qurʔān
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Qurʔān
Senses: examples: text: Its origins are clearly the Basrah and Kuwfah schools of the 8th century, where the procedures of data analysis and the nature of valid linguistic data from the Qurʔān, the poets, and dialectal authenticity were set.
ref: 2006, S.I. Sara, “Ibn Mada’al Qurtubi (1120–1196)”, in Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2nd edition, volume 5 (Gen–Int), Elsevier, page 454, columns 1–2:
text: For this quotation from the Qurʔān see n. 332, p.259.
ref: 2015, Aicha Rahmouni, Storytelling in Chefchaouen Northern Morocco: An Annotated Study of Oral Performance with Transliterations and Translations, Brill, →ISBN, page 149:
text: It is the language of the Qurʔān and of the Classical Arabic culture, which grants it divine and authoritative indexes, and also the only unifying factor for Arabs all around the world.
ref: 2018, Reem Bassiouney, “Identity, repertoire, and performance: The case of an Egyptian poet”, in Reem Bassiouney, editor, Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects (Routledge Studies in Language and Identity), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, Part IV (The media, dialect performance, and language variation):
glosses: Rare form of Qur'an.
someone's cup of tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Daytime television is not my cup of tea.
synonyms: word: bag
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: affinity
word: bag
word: bent
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: fancy
word: liking
word: partiality
word: penchant
word: predilection
word: predisposition
word: preference
word: proclivity
word: propension
word: propensity
word: shine
word: taste
word: thing
glosses: An activity or domain in which someone is interested or skilled in.
Related terms: up someone's alley
byte-order mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byte-order marks
Senses: examples: text: To communicate which byte order was in use, U+FEFF (the byte-order mark) was used at the start of the stream as a magic number that is not logically part of the text the stream represents.
ref: 2013 January 31, Richard Ishida, “The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 24 Nov 2024:
text: A byte-order mark (BOM) is a special Unicode character.
ref: 2020 July 8, “Byte-order mark”, in Distributed Proofreaders, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of byte order mark.
Redbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Newland parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England, on the River Wye (OS grid ref SO5310).
glosses: A hamlet in Bronington community, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales, on the border with England (OS grid ref SJ5041).
strawberry clover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawberry clovers
Senses: glosses: Trifolium fragiferum, a clover of Europe and West Asia.
strawberry clovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawberry clover
chipil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipiles
Senses: glosses: rattlebox, crotalaria.
Bolivian coriander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an edible herb of species Porophyllum ruderale, native to South and Central America.
black pod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black pods
Senses: glosses: A fungal disease of cocoa caused by Phytophthora palmivora.
onaga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 尾長 (onaga) or 尾長鯛 (onagadai).
Senses: glosses: Longtail snapper (Etelis coruscans), a species of ray-finned fish.
Dawnland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Translation of Wabanaki
Senses: glosses: An indigenous alternative to the name New England
Dawnland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Fandom site "The Anglish Moot", blend of dawn + land. Calque of Japanese 日本
Senses: glosses: Japan.
immasculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immasculates
form: immasculating
form: immasculated
form: immasculated
Etymology: The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.
Senses: examples: text: A larger number of plays than novels seem not to immasculate the female reader in the precise way Fetterley articulates. After having made my choices, I realized that the male-written plays analyzed in this book are all written by heterosexual-identified playwrights […]
ref: 1990, Gayle Austin, Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: His seminal readings of eighteenth-century all-male environments such as prisons and boys' schools have tended to "immasculate" the asylum, the clinic, and the confessional as well. Related is the question of whether this de fact androcentrism derives from something subversively queer or discouragingly traditional (i.e., misogynist) in Foucault or[…]
ref: 2007 May 14, J. Foertsch, Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies, Springer, →ISBN, page 90:
text: .The concept of 'reading as a woman' (Culler 1982) permits entry into women-centred text that, unlike male-centred mainstream works, does not immasculate women.
ref: 2013 November 5, Miriam Catterall, Pauline Maclaran, Lorna Stevens, Marketing and Feminism: Current issues and research, Routledge, →ISBN, page 61:
text: By definition, she [a female reader] cannot resist this danger as herself, as a woman, because as a creature of the flesh she is the danger, but only by renouncing her nature as a woman, remaining a virgin, and identifying herself with male spirit. Such a woman, according to Saint Jerome, is virile in her virtue, as good as a man. If the Power of Women topos in "Ad Virgines" addresses women at all, it appeals to their potential to identify with men and as men, to "immasculate” themselves, in Judith Fetterley's term.
ref: 2016 November 11, Susan L. Smith, The Power of Women: A "Topos" in Medieval Art and Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
raw_tags: of a woman
Related terms: effeminate
impossible tridents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impossible trident
multiships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multiship
multishipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multiship
Wyesham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village on the east bank of the Wye in Monmouth community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5112).
loses the bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lose the bubble
losing the bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of lose the bubble
lost the bubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose the bubble
finalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of final
finaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of final
scace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scacer
form: scacest
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scarce.
scace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: and when we had ſayled ſlowly many dayes / and ſcace were come over agaynſt Gnydon (be cauſe the wynde with ſtode vs) we ſaled harde by the coſtes off Candy / over agaynſte Salmo.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvij:[7], folio cxcxv, verso:
text: Nowe ſcace wyll any man dye foꝛ the righteous: Yet peraduenture foꝛ the good ſome men durſt dye.
ref: 1568, The Holie Bible: conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe […] (the Bishops' Bible), London: R. Iugge, Printer to the Queene, Romanes v:7, folio xcij, recto:
glosses: Alternative form of scarce.
finalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of final
finaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of final
search-engine optimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although much has been said about the value of television and billboard advertisements driving traffic to Web sites, the main way that people reach sites is by typing an inquiry into one of the many search engines that index the Web, [Rob M.] Laporte said. “I used to think that the search engines would become less important than other methods, but I was surprised to find that doesn’t seem to have happened.” Advertising and search-engine optimization are complementary, Laporte tells clients.
ref: 2000 November 24, William Freebairn, “Web: Hadley firm helps dress up sites”, in Union-News, Springfield, Mass.: The Republican Company, →ISSN, page B10, columns 3–4:
text: Sometimes you may not actually want the search-engine spiders to visit certain pages within your Web site. Although this is often not the case, especially because the goals of search-engine optimization are to increase search-engine-generated traffic, there are situations where the privacy of a particular Web page or Web site is of utmost concern.
ref: 2008, Kristopher B. Jones, “An Introduction to Creating Pages”, in Search Engine Optimization: Your Visual Blueprint for Effective Internet Marketing, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 33, column 1:
text: And second, by leaving the writing for last, chances are that no one has planned the site properly. The designer cares about how the pages look. The programmers are concerned with site structure and navigation. Other specialists may focus on search-engine optimization. Who asks what the site’s goals are, who its audiences will be, what features might draw visitors, and how they will use it?
ref: 2010, Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz, “Truth 34. Writing is the missing factor in your competitors’ Web sites”, in The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (Truth About), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, →ISBN, Part VI (The truth about Web sites):
glosses: Alternative form of search engine optimization.
be kind, rewind
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: A friendly reminder for a customer who is renting a VHS videotape to rewind it for the next customer.
overworkedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overworked + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Breakdown cum a foul form of anaemia cum general overworkedness did the trick and I went off for over seven months, tasting to the full the horrors of all those vile vague diseases blud'n'nerves can inflict on one. I lived a bloody life for months on liver, raw steak and iron[…]
ref: 2001, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters, Univ. of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: No one at the office is every terribly sympathetic to your overworkedness, since they got neither a fancy lunch nor a big bag of beauty products. Then add in the fact that most beauty editors end up going not just to a lunch, but to several events, every day[…]
ref: 2006 April 18, Jean Godfrey-June, Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup, Crown, →ISBN:
text: […] a dramatic groan for his overworkedness. Took out a pencil and began adding up a column of figures on a small notebook he carried. He didn't even bother to look up at her.
ref: 2014 October 7, Tina Connolly, Silverblind, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: burnout syndrome (resulting from common 'overworkedness' and workaholism) often being an augury and omen of deepening depression combined combined with anxiety, overwhelming stress which (if not prevented or substantially reduced) ravages not only the body but also the brain,[…]
ref: 2024 May 24, Tomasz Klonowski, From the Darkness into the Light, Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being overworked.
tag alders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tag alder
samurainess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From samurai + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: the present worker-company bond is therefore to be seen as a contrived rather than a cultural or hereditary "samurainess." There is also much in the political domain to remind one of the samurai era.
ref: 1993, Winston L. King, Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 227:
text: Which is absent from Mishima's samurainess. The purity in his work does go hand in hand with selflessness, but this as oblivion of the ego rather than self-effacement.
ref: 1996, P. Abelsen, “Irony and Purity: Mishima: I. A Puzzling Event at Ichigaya Garrison 1”, in Modern Asian Studies:
text: Freed of the feudal baggage of the samurai caste system, the outlaw ronin fumbles towards a samurainess (if so grotesque a neologism can be borne) not restricted to or built on any […]
ref: 2000, E. von Mueller, “Naked Swords: The Zen Warrior Tradition and the Intertextual Odyssey of the Nameless Ronin in" Seven Samurai," Yojimbo," and" Sanjuro"”, in Post Script:
text: From a Japanese point of view, the notion of a black Samurai [...] calls into question the meaning of Japaneseness [...]. From an African American perspective, the "samurainess" of Afro may provide him with the irresistible odds needed to fight the world. From a different, perhaps global, perspective, the fusion of a samurai and an African American in a transcultural production[…]
ref: 2020 October 26, Michael Daliot-Bul, Nissim Otmazgin, The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries, BRILL, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being a samurai.