cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
douchecanoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchecanoes
form: douche canoe
form: douche-canoe
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of douche + canoe.
Senses: examples: text: Not being a complete douchecanoe is the first step in being your own ideal romance hero or heroine—and it's absolutely an attainable ideal.
ref: 2011, Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: Never brag. It's good to have a healthy pride in your [man] cave. It's not good to be a douchecanoe about it.
ref: 2011, Jeff Wilser, Michael H. Yost, The Man Cave Book, HarperCollins, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: […] No, Collin didn't relay the message—he was too busy signing us up for coaching duty. Why? Because that other guy was a douchecanoe. […]
ref: 2013, Amy Lane, Forever Promised, Dreamspinner Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
douchecanoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douchecanoe
douche canoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douche canoes
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of douche + canoe.
Senses: examples: text: Douche Canoe The worst kind of douche imaginable. This phrase originating in the small college town of Hanover, NH and has spread like wildfire due mostly to its fluid phonetics. 1. Is that douche canoe popping triple collars? 2. Yeah, that douche canoe bragged about blacking out last night when he'd only had 2 beers. 3. I fucking hate those douche canoes. #douchecanoe #douche-canoe #douche #tool #douchebag #canoe
ref: 2006 September 24, Stigmata., “Urban Dictionary: Douche Canoe”, in Urban Dictionary, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2009:
text: Because he's a total douche canoe who only wants what he can't have.
ref: 2011, Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 103:
text: “He is a douche canoe. But he gets great PR with the mortals. They think he's their protector, some kind of hero, but he really should be sent out to sea and set on fire in a proper Viking burial.”
ref: 2011, Kevin Hearne, Hammered, Del Rey, published 2011, →ISBN, page 115:
text: There was a beeping sound, and then Ivy announced, “Brent's a douche canoe. I'll punch him in the teeth for you, if you want.”
ref: 2013, Alison Cherry, Red, Delacorte Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of douchecanoe.
douche canoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douche canoe
job fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job fairs
Senses: glosses: An event organised for employers, recruiters and schools to meet with prospective jobseekers.
Synonyms: career fair
career expo
career fair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: career fairs
Senses: glosses: A job fair.
career expo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: career expos
Senses: glosses: A job fair.
douche-canoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douche-canoes
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of douche + canoe.
Senses: examples: text: […] this flaming douche-canoe totally stepped up and did the honorable thing, which in this case meant taking the day-old infant out into the woods and leaving her there to die a miserable, lonely death from exposure and starvation.
ref: 2011, Ben Thompson, Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned, Harper, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Which meant she'd sound like a gigantic douche-canoe if she asked him if he had any, like, psychic powers or whatever.
ref: 2012, Megan Hart, Reawakened Passions, Harlequin, →ISBN:
text: Yes, some girls could be complete douche-canoes, but so could some guys (and even some babies, apparently), and I was slowly losing a prejudice that I hadn't even realized was holding me back.
ref: 2012, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir), Berkley, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of douchecanoe.
douche-canoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douche-canoe
autoecism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from autoecious.
Senses: examples: text: 1972, B. K. Bakshi, Relative Blister Rust Resistance of Native and Introduced White Pines in Asia, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, US Forest Service, University of Idaho, Biology of Rust Resistance in Forest Trees: Proceedings of a NATO-IUFRO Advanced Study Institute, page 254,
This may possibly be explained by autoecism (pine-to-pine spread) in the aecial stage of the rust, but autoecism has not been conclusively proved (Spaulding, 1922).
text: Other measures[…]are deficient because of the large geographic distribution of the pathogens, their wide host ranges, their high spore dispersal capabilities, and the autoecism of some rusts.
ref: 2005, Salvatore Moricca, Alessandro Ragazzi, Gemma Assante, “Biocontrol of Rust Fungi by Cladosporium tenuissimum”, in Ming Hao Pei, Alistair R. McCracken, editors, Rust Diseases of Willow and Poplar, page 215:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fact of a parasite or dependent organism completing an entire life cycle on a single host species.
examples: text: Along with this view of pleomorphism, goes the generally conceived idea that autoecism is the primitive condition, heteroecism being considered a later adaptation (Klebahn, 1904).
ref: 1911, Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, page 406:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The fact of having male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant.
raw_tags: of a plant
Coordinate terms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: heterœcism
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: heteroecism
dive computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dive computers
Senses: glosses: A device, similar in appearance to a wristwatch, used by underwater divers to measure the time and depth of a dive, calculate a safe ascent profile, and avoid decompression sickness.
Sebeokian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sebeokian
form: most Sebeokian
Etymology: From Sebeok + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomas Sebeok (born Sebők; 1920-2001), American semiotician and linguist.
throughness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From through + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Matter on the physical plane has the dimensions of on-ness, that is, an outside; in-ness, that is, an inside; throughness, that is, consecutive insides; and presence, that is, being anywhere and everywhere at once.
ref: 2002, Harold W. Percival, Thinking And Destiny, page 729:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of being or going through.
Related terms: see-throughness
dimeticone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimeticones
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preparation containing dimethicone
sweat shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweat shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sweatshop.
dipsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipsies
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of dipsey.
aecial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1984, D. E. Harder, 11: Developmental Ultrastructure of Hyphae and Spores, William Bushnell, Alan P. Roelfs (editors), The Cereal Rusts: Origins, Volume I: Specificity, Structure, and Physiology, page 355,
In the inner wall facing the aecial cavity, the primary wall materials surrounding the processes disintegrate, partially exposing them.
text: Aecial hosts are primarily conifers. Damage to some aecial hosts may also be considered important, as in pine twist rust caused by M.^([Melampsora]) pinitorqua Rostrup.
ref: 1996, George Newcombe, “Chapter 10: The specificity of fungal pathogens of Populus”, in Reinhard Friedrich Stettler, editor, Biology of Populus and Its Implications for Management and Conservation, page 226:
text: The uredo- and teleuto-stages occur on wheat, barley and some grasses and the pycnidial and aecial stages on species of Berberis and Mahonia, the alternate hosts.
ref: 1998, G. Rangaswami, A. Mahadevan, Diseases of Crop Plants in India, 4th edition, page 192:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling an aecium.
Related terms: aecial primordium
into the bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the bargain
Senses: examples: text: That same evening, the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain.
ref: 1837, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 3, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC:
text: He was roofless, dinnerless, breakfastless, supperless, penniless, friendless, all at once; and brandyless into the bargain.
ref: 1870, Blackwood's Magazine:
text: 'Yet here I find you trying it again and looking like a beggar's child into the bargain.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 88:
synonyms: to boot
on top of that
glosses: along with it; additionally; as well
Related terms: to top it all off
Armstrong line
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Armstrong's line
Etymology: Named after Harry George Armstrong (1899–1983), who determined this limit.
Senses: synonyms: Armstrong's line
Armstrong limit
glosses: The altitude above sea level at which water boils without a pressurized environment, and at which a person would require a pressure suit or pressurized environment to survive, and avoid having their bodily fluids boil away.
Coordinate terms: death zone
Kármán line
McDowell line
mesopause
rolling introduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling introductions
Etymology: rolling + introduction
Senses: examples: text: But if that costs three quarters of a billion dollars or billion and a half dollars and you look around for the next one you are not going to do them all at once. I wouldn't say tracked air cushion vehicles will be in widespread use before the year 2000. It would be a rolling introduction, if you understand what I mean.
ref: 1972, Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1973, United States Government Printing Office, page 431:
text: The Conservatives ... had introduced regionalized government executive offices in 1993 on the continental pattern, and John Prescott ... had promised a rolling introduction of regional assemblies along Welsh lines.
ref: 2008, Paul Addison, Harriet Jones, editors, A Companion to Contemporary Britain, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: Through the rolling introduction of the NYSE Hybrid Market the event dates in our analysis are scattered over almost four months.
ref: 2009, Dennis Kundisch, Daniel J. Veit, Tim Weitzel, Christoph Weinhardt, editors, Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: A rollout staggered in time and space.
dyscoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyscorias
Senses: glosses: An abnormality in the shape of the pupil of the eye
dysorthography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From dys- + orthography.
Senses: glosses: An inability to learn how to spell
dromotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromotropes
Etymology: From dromo- + -trope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any dromotropic drug.
first ministers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first minister
klafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑf.tɚ/
Forms: form: klafters
Etymology: From German Klafter.
Senses: examples: text: ... for the purpose of working the machine, employed in raising water from the mines, and a tunnel of 300 klafters long, passing through a mountain, which serves as a road for foot-passengers, between Herrengrund and Altgebirg.
ref: 1818, Richard Bright, Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary: With Some Remarks on the State of Vienna During the Congress, in the Year 1814:
text: The building for the protection of the horses was erected on three sides of a square of 48 klafter, and was 12 klafter wide, making a structure 72 klafters long on each side, giving a covered space of 2,304 square klafter.
ref: 1874, W. P. Blake, Report on the Vienna Exposition, in the United States Congressional Serial Set, page 133
text: Ten or more families unite to dig a hole 20 to 30 klafters long and 3 to 4 wide, add to this excavation with a frame of driftwood,148 of which they also make the roof, and cover it with long dry grass or sod, which is held down with[…]
ref: 1947, Pacific Northwest Quarterly:
text: According to this instruction, one lot must be 75 to 100 klafters long and 12 to 15 klafters wide (1 klafter = 1[.]896 m). A house must be on the street line of a lot with its narrow side and the distance between houses should be at least[…]
ref: 2012 May 31, C. Mileto, F. Vegas, V. Cristini, Rammed Earth Conservation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A unit of length formerly widely used in Central Europe, derived from the span of a man's outstretched arms, typically defined as six local feet (equivalent to a fathom) or about 1.8 meters.
douchewagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchewagons
Etymology: Shitgibbon compound of douche + wagon.
Senses: examples: text: Polls don't equate truth. Keep flexing that big muscle in your head, douchewagon.
ref: 2002 January 2, Mike Sorrow, “Re: [RSPW RUMBLE] Day 1”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: Have you ever hit your head (or any other experience that may explain to us why you act like a total douchewagon)?
ref: 2007 February 10, kAPTAIN kAOS [username], “Re: so fucker,”, in alt.dbs.echostar.hack (Usenet):
text: Harper is a douchewagon
ref: 2007 December 9, Choam Nomsky [username], “TESTING”, in mtl.general (Usenet):
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
douchewagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douchewagon
douche boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douche boats
Senses: examples: text: Douche boats destroyed two bunkers and accumulated 30 minutes of water time.
ref: 2005, William B. Fulton, Mobile Riverine Force: America's Mobile Riverine Force Vietnam, Turner Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Other river craft, “dubbed “douche boats,” were equipped with high-pressure water jets that could disintegrate enemy positions, including cement bunkers. The “douche boat” also performed an originally unanticipated support function: its water jets easily gouged out wet docks to expedite on-the-scene repairs for damaged river craft.
ref: 2006, Andrew Wiest, Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN:
text: "Douche boats" had two water cannons that operated at 3,000lb per square inch, and were fed by centrifugal pumps powered by a General Motors 12V-71 diesel engine, pumping 1,000 gallons (3,785 liters) per minute through each cannon - over four tons of water a minute.
ref: 2006, Gordon Rottman, Vietnam Riverine Craft 1962-75, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
qualifier: Vietnam War
glosses: A river craft outfitted with a high-pressure water cannon capable of destroying enemy encampments.
examples: text: No one gives a flying fuck what you douche boats write.
ref: 1997 December 22, crsds, “Re: the yellow brick road...leona and cowardice”, in alt.dreams.castaneda (Usenet):
text: Thank you Hope Deli, little Thai lady at Siam Orchid, the Bluetooth Company, random subway goers and douche-boats, […]
ref: 2010, Casey Rand & Tim Gordon, People Who Deserve It: Socially Responsible Reasons to Punch Someone in the Face, Perigee Books (2010), unnumbered page (acknowledgements)
text: She left England a while back to get away from the douche boat she married.
ref: 2013, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Underwater, Berkley, →ISBN:
glosses: A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
Synonyms: sense: rude or obnoxious person
word: jerk
quantitative metathesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantitative metatheses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
synonyms: transfer of quantity
glosses: A form of metathesis or transposition involving quantity or vowel length, by which two neighboring vowels – one long, one short – switch their lengths, so that the long one becomes short, and the short one becomes long.
ecomuseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecomuseums
Etymology: From eco- + museum.
Senses: glosses: A museum, often consisting of replica buildings in an outdoor setting, that shows the heritage of a particular locality or community
hizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hizzles
Etymology: From house + -izzle.
Senses: examples: text: Jay Pizzle’s in the hizzle!
text: On Tuesdays and Thursdays he rocked the "hizzle" during lunch period.
ref: 2006, Alice Alfonsi, That's So Raven: Superstar, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 63:
text: Don't miss Snoop Dogg at the Blender Theater at Gramercy. The rapper will be performing hits from his album "Ego Trippin" and is sure to rock the hizzle.
ref: 2008 March 10, “Events for Tuesday in New York”, in New York Daily News:
text: "What? Just because I live in the White Hizzle doesn't mean I got no sizzle," said the president.
ref: 2009, Laurie McElroy, Hannah Montana: Wishful Thinking, Disney Press, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: House, residence.
Derived terms: hizzy
hizzie
hizzay
heezy
hizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hell + -izzle.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps no one understands what the hizzle Snoop Dogg is talking about, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers like what they're hearing […]
ref: 2003 July, “Are You Ready for the Summer”, in Spin:
text: At least, that's what our mentors have always told us, but what the hizzle are they talking about?
ref: 2006, Kasey Henricks, "Join me for a pj party at my place", The All State (Austin Peay State University), Volume 77, Number 17. 1 February 2006, page 3
text: Hurricanes, though wickedly devastating, give you about a month to get the hizzle out of the way.
ref: 2008, Doug Giles, If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going, ReadHowYouWant, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Hell.
Related terms: off the hizzle
off the hizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off the hook + -izzle.
Senses: examples: text: Those shoes are off the hizzle!
glosses: Off the hook, fresh, awesome, cool, excellent.
Derived terms: off the hizzy
off the hizzie
off the hizzay
off the heezay
Related terms: hizzle
off the hizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: off the hizzie
form: off the heezy
form: off the hizzay
form: off the hizow
Etymology: Alteration of off the hizzle.
Senses: examples: text: That party was off the hizzy!
glosses: Off the hook, fresh, awesome, cool, excellent.
examples: text: Yeah, seducin' this bitch with my diamonds, shit so easy
I ain't writin' this shit off the heezy
You wouldn't last a mile in my shoes, it ain't easy
ref: 2023 September 18, “Playin With A Demon / Jokes On U” (track 6), in Summrs (lyrics), What We Didn’t Have:
glosses: Off the top of one's head, by improvision rather than preparation.
Related terms: hizzy
hizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hizzies
form: hizzie
form: hizzay
form: heezy
form: heezay
Etymology: Short for hizzouse + -y, later reinforced house + -izzy.
Senses: examples: text: Yo, let’s go back to my hizzy.
text: “Nice doing business with y'all. Hey, you want me to clear out these inflatables? Ah, you know what? They're on the hizzy. Use 'em for pool floats.”
ref: 2021 May 2, Janine Brito & Jeremy Rowley, “The Drincan Temple” (9:17 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 19, spoken by Bud Bullard (Andy Bobrow):
synonyms: crib
gaff
glosses: A house, a residence.
Related terms: off the hizzy
feed one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds one's face
form: feeding one's face
form: fed one's face
form: fed one's face
Senses: examples: text: "Step up and feed your face."
"What?" stammered Samuel, perplexed.
"EAT!" said the other.
ref: 1909, Upton Sinclair, chapter 4, in Samuel the Seeker:
text: "Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly.
ref: 1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Rules of the Game:
text: While the players are out there whacking away at tennis balls, the lower-deck patrons are feeding their faces on $5 shrimps and sipping $10 glasses of wine.
ref: 1997 August 31, George Vecsey, “Sports: Fill Ashe Stadium With Some Real Fans”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Oct 2013:
text: “Though why I should give the boys bacon and eggs when they've already fed their faces wi' fish 'n' chips, I can't imagine.”
ref: 2010, Katie Flynn, The Cuckoo Child, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: To eat.
Synonyms: fill one's face
fill one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills one's face
form: filling one's face
form: filled one's face
form: filled one's face
Senses: examples: text: Today is the last day to fill your faces with fare from Taste of the Town, at Town Center at Boca Raton.
ref: 1994 April 22, A. D. Burch, “Gardens, Boynton Show Students's Art”, in Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, retrieved 13 Oct 2013, page 8:
text: But if you happen to be at a half-decent eaterie come May time, and you see a bloke filling his face, come up and say hello. It might just be me.
ref: 2010 March 16, Darren Lewis, “Why I'm convinced Arsenal can win the title—I've even bet my dinner on it”, in Mirror Football, UK, retrieved 13 Oct 2013:
text: Three or four times a week we'd see Ronnie Kray filling his face at Browns in the pulsatingly plush restaurant.
ref: 2010, David Dinwoodie Irving, African Cookboy, →ISBN, page 148:
text: Last night, after the celeb chefs and food lovers at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival filled their faces at the massive barbecue event BubbleQ and Best of the Best, they headed to the parking garage.
ref: 2011 February 16, “Miami's Hottest Party Was Let Them Eat Cake”, in eater.com, retrieved 13 Oct 2013:
text: “And they're all eating! Peanuts, doughnuts, potato chips, just filling their faces. The fat Americans!”
ref: 2011, Vin Packer, Alone at Night, →ISBN:
glosses: To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Synonyms: feed one's face
gorge oneself
stuff oneself
phonesthemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phonestheme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a phonestheme.
thermal conductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal conductivities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the ability of a material to conduct heat, often denoted k, λ, or κ.
Synonyms: heat conductivity
Related terms: thermal conductance
nontaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nontasters
Etymology: From non- + taster.
Senses: antonyms: taster
glosses: A person who is, by genetic makeup, unable to taste phenylthiocarbamide.
Related terms: flavorless
tastelessness
untasteable
edaphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: edaphology
helicicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliciculture + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to heliciculture
pil pil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pil-pil.
pil-pil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pil pil
Etymology: From Basque pil-pil.
Senses: glosses: A sauce of Basque origin made from olive oil, garlic and chili.
Fiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fivers
Etymology: From five + -er (“supporter”) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The three major branches or sects are the Twelvers, Seveners, and Fivers.
ref: 1998, Emory C. Bogle, Islam: Origin and Belief, University of Texas Press, page 145:
text: Whereas the largest Shi’a branch, the ‘Twelvers’, strictly believe that there were only 12 visible imams, the ’Fivers’ have recognised many more imams throughout their history.
ref: 2007, Daniel McLaughlin, Yemen: The Bradt Travel Guide, Bradt, page 23:
text: (the Zaydis, or Fivers, were the first subset to break away from larger Shi’ism, and traditionally elected an imam from among the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad as their leader).
ref: J. E. Peterson, Yemen on the precipice: Governing the ungovernable in 2013, Abbas Kadhim, Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: A Handbook, Routledge International Handbooks, page 306
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Zaidi Shi'a Muslim.
examples: text: It is more than two weeks that Babylon 5 aired for the last time. We, Portuguese Fivers of conviction, are few.
ref: 1995 June 26, Tiago Joao Silva, “Help fellow Fivers PLEASE!”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 (Usenet):
text: Did all the Fivers who watched it notice that the female scientist (DrWhatshername) was played by Tamlyn Tomita, the actress who played Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5's pilot movie?
ref: 1997 January 30, Alys, “Re: SUNBURN: The Burning Zone”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: I've had hardcore Fivers point to both Jadzia Dax AND Kira as ripoffs of Ivanova (they can't decide which, I suppose) despite the fact that both premiered on DS9 first, and JMS didn't get rid of Ivanova until AFTER The Gathering, which showed when DS9 first came around.
ref: 2001 September 25, Steve Garrett Jr., “Re: The breen: total ripoffs of Star Wars”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the American science-fiction television series Babylon 5.
Related terms: Twelver
Sevener
hemerodrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemerodromes
Etymology: Meaning a "day courier". Slightly more common form is "hemerodromos". From Ancient Greek ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day; date”) (a variant of ἦμαρ (êmar, “day”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃- (“be hot, burn”)) + δρόμος (drómos, “race, running; race course, track”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“to run”).
Senses: glosses: A courier in Ancient Greece who would run for a day
hydrargyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hydrargyre, (Greek) A Name which the Chymiſts give to Mercury.
ref: [1696, Edward Phillips, “Hydrargyre”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 5th edition, London: […] R. Bently […]; J. Phillips, […]; H. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
make heavy going of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes heavy going of
form: making heavy going of
form: made heavy going of
form: made heavy going of
Senses: examples: text: England have made heavy going of Group H but they have handled the pressures of their last two games admirably and playing at their own stadium no longer appears to fill with them with apprehension.
ref: 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: to make heavy weather of
make light work of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes light work of
form: making light work of
form: made light work of
form: made light work of
Senses: examples: text: Rooney's goal certainly came at a good time as the news filtered through that Ukraine were making light work of San Marino.
ref: 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: To manage something without difficulty.
Related terms: make quick work of
many hands make light work
Encratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The doctrine of the Encratites.
endophasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + -phasia.
Senses: glosses: Internal speech that is not vocalized.
endogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endothermic + gas.
Senses: glosses: A gas, rich in carbon monoxide and hydrogen, produced by burning natural gas in a limited supply of air, that is used in the heat treatment of metals
hydrargyron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /haɪˈdɹɑːd͡ʒɪɹɒn/
Senses: examples: text: Vnguentes receyuing into there composition Hydrargyron.
ref: 1563, Thomas Gale, Treatise Gonneshot, page 9b (Stanf. s.v. Guiacan)
roman: Unguents receiving into their composition hydrargyrum.
glosses: Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
hydrarg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He will prescribe taraxacum for you, or pil: hydrarg:.
ref: 1861–2, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World (1887), volume I, chapter ii, page 26
glosses: Abbreviation of hydrargyrum.
episiorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episiorrhaphies
Etymology: From episio- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The suturing of the vulva to repair injury.
epistemophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē, “knowledge”) + φίλια (phília, “love”).
Senses: glosses: An excessive love of, or striving for, knowledge.
qualifier: Psychoanalysis
glosses: As used by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, epistemophilia—or, as she framed it, the "epistemophilic instinct"—is the wish to know, and is rooted in libido. Such instinct results from Oedipal conflicts in the child psyche.
epitoky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epitoke + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of reproduction in some polychaete annelids in which the worms undergo a partial or complete transformation into an epitoke, a pelagic morph capable of sexual reproduction
ereuthophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of erythrophobia.
swipey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swipey
form: most swipey
Etymology: From swipe + -y; see swipe (“inferior beer”).
Senses: examples: text: "I've brought home Mr. Chuzzlewit. He ain't ill. He's only a little swipey, you know." Mr. Bailey reeled in his boots, to express intoxication.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: "Lord, I've an 'eadache on me!" said he. "I believe I was a bit swipey last night."
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in The Ebb-Tide:
glosses: Drunk; tipsy.
Synonyms: drunk
factic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪk
Etymology: From fact + -ic? Doublet of facty.
Senses: glosses: factual
Derived terms: factically
Related terms: facticity
hydrargirie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That they will get greater riches in Hydrargirie, then nature geueth in golde.
That they will get greater riches in hydrargyrum than nature giveth in gold.
ref: 1569, James Sanford (translator), Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (author), Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, page 157b
glosses: Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
evorsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of niches or potholes by erosion due to vortices of water
hydrargire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Steel and Load-stone, Hydrargire and Gold.
ref: 1598, Joshua Sylvester (translator), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (author), His Deuine Weekes and Workes, book II, chapter i, poem iii: “Furies”, line 67
roman: The steel and lodestone, hydrargyrum and gold.
glosses: Obsolete form of hydrargyrum.
disenvowel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsɛnˈvaʊəl/
ipa: /-ɪm-/
ipa: /ˌdɪsənˈvaʊ(ə)l/
rhymes: -aʊəl
rhymes: -aʊl
Forms: form: disenvowels
form: disenvoweling
form: disenvowelling
form: disenvoweled
form: disenvoweled
form: disenvowelled
form: disenvowelled
Etymology: Compare envowel.
Senses: examples: text: Another swearing-curtailing device is to allow the taboo word but disenvowel it, so that fuck and cunt become "f-ck" and "c-nt."
ref: 2005, Ruth Wajnryb, “Bootleggers and Asterisks”, in Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Alternative form of disemvowel.
meadowlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meadowland
mischoice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mischoices
Etymology: From mis- + choice.
Senses: examples: text: She invokes Felix as an excuse for her mischoices and as an emblem of a better future.
ref: 1991, Mary Frances Rogers, Novels, Novelists, and Readers:
glosses: A bad or incorrect choice.
mischoices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mischoice
satiue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sative.
archaeolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archæolatry
form: archeolatry
Etymology: From archae- + -o- + -latry, from Ancient Greek: ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) in combination with λατρεία (latreía, “service", "worship”).
Senses: examples: text: Here Axioti opposes to ethnocentric archaeolatry one's "painful" relation to the present and past, which is based on the search for authentic, not superficial, signals of this continuity .
ref: 1992, Maria Kakavoulia, Interior Monologue and Its Discursive Formation in Melpo Axioti's Dyskoles Nychtes:
text: Later on, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it was the language question that occupied the centre of the political scene. This time, unmitigated archaeolatry ran hand in hand with religious traditionalism.
ref: 2002, Mikael af Malmborg, Bo Stråth, The Meaning of Europe, page 39:
text: That is, it continues a tradition of archaeolatry and the Hellenocentricism that began with Winckelmann and trived with the contribution of Greek scholars.
ref: 2008, Argyro Loukaki, Living Ruins, Value Conflicts, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.
foster mothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foster mother
fostermother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fostermothers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of foster mother.
fostermothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fostermother
advance payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advance payments
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: down payment
synonyms: advance[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]]>
up-front money
front money
glosses: The part of a contractually due sum that is paid or received in advance for a good, service or social security payment.
Related terms: cash advance
thermal camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal cameras
Senses: examples: text: A close-up of the thermal camera (top), with a conventional forward-facing camera beneath it. The thermal cameras are sensitive enough to identify any points of the rail that have temperatures significantly higher than adjacent areas.
ref: 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 59, photo caption:
glosses: A camera that is sensitive to infrared radiation (heat) instead of visible light as ordinary camera.
Synonyms: infrared camera
thermographic camera
thermal imaging camera
advance payments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advance payment
common touch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common touches
Senses: examples: text: If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
. . .
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—:
text: The crowd roared its approval and gave a standing ovation to the new President of Africa's most populous nation. That common touch has served Babangida well.
ref: 1986 February 17, John Moody, “Nigeria Striking a Delicate Balance”, in Time, retrieved 16 Oct 2013:
text: The admiral is the first enlisted man to lead the Navy, and Navy aides are busy cultivating his image as a four-star officer with a common touch.
ref: 1996 May 4, Eric Schmitt, “New Top Admiral to Push Wider Combat Role for Women”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Oct 2013:
text: From the first moments of his papacy it has been evident that Francis is a “people person,” with a gentle common touch and a gift for pastoral outreach.
ref: 2013 September 25, Jeff Jacoby, “Pope’s interview is fodder for the culture war”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 16 Oct 2013:
glosses: The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.
Related terms: man of the people
just folks
unpretentiousness
man of the people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of the people
Senses: examples: text: He could hang about a bar-room, discussing the affairs of the nation, for twelve hours together; and in that time could hold forth with more intolerable dulness, chew more tobacco, smoke more tobacco, drink more rum-toddy, mint-julep, gin-sling, and cocktail, than any private gentleman of his acquaintance. This made him an orator and a man of the people. In a word, the major was a rising character, and a popular character, […]
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter XVI, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, pages 202–203:
text: Colonel, you are the man, you could influence more votes than any one else on such a measure, an old settler, a man of the people, you know the wants of Missouri; [...]
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XIX, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 184:
text: Besides, I am a man of the people. I like the working class, and am willing to be thought one of them.
ref: 1911, Anna Katharine Green, “A Concession”, in Initials Only, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, book II (As Seen by Detective Sweetwater), page 134:
text: It was the story of a man of the people who made good and kept his integrity, who understood the people and could make them laugh and cry.
ref: 1981 July 27, Serge Schmemann, “Adulation Grows after Death of Soviet Folk Hero Vysotsky”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Oct 2013:
text: He is adored by millions as a man of the people because he is of a lower caste — a rarity among politicians.
ref: 2008 February 28, Simon Robinson, “Working on the Railroad: On the Mangala Lakshadweep Express”, in Time, retrieved 16 Oct 2013:
coordinate_terms: woman of the people
glosses: A man, usually a celebrity or political leader, who shows understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people, and who has a rapport with and acceptance by them.
Related terms: average Joe
common touch
people person
regular folk
regular folks
kri-kri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kri-kris
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek κρι-κρι (kri-kri).
Senses: glosses: feral Cretan goat
ITO
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in the office.
ITO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ITOs
Senses: qualifier: semiconductor physics
glosses: Initialism of indium-tin-oxide (tin-doped indium oxide).
glosses: Initialism of information technology outsourcing.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of information to obtain order, a search warrant.
ITO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An organization established in 1905 to advocate for a Jewish homeland.
Derived terms: word: ITOism
word: ITOist
word: ITOland
chow foon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chow fun.
fuligin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːlə.d͡ʒɪn/
Etymology: From Italian fuliggine.
Senses: examples: text: Then the Forestal took the Staff of Law, black as fuligin after her battle - -
ref: 2013, Stephen Donaldson, The Last Dark. The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:
glosses: soot, lampblack.
examples: text: “What is the tinct of your own guild?” “Fuligin,” I told him. “The color that is darker than black.”
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:
text: 2001, “Richard Horton” (username), “REVIEW: Vernor Vinge’s ‘Across Realtime’”
“I'm wearing black only until I find something darker.” — “Fuligin, Mark. Fuligin.”
text: 2003, “Mike Andrews” (username), “hosteurope blackhat?”
More like fuligin: darker than an event horizon.
glosses: a hypothetical colour darker than black.
fuligin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːlə.d͡ʒɪn/
Etymology: From Italian fuliggine.
Senses: glosses: fuliginous; sooty or black.
examples: text: The shadow hovers o’er us, old and long,
Its power fuligin and vast.
ref: 1986, Julia Ecklar, Terminus Est:
glosses: of the colour fuligin.
Karman line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kármán line.
exopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopolymers
Etymology: From exo- + polymer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any biopolymer, created by an organism, that has been transferred to its external environment, and thus is now located outside the organism
Derived terms: exopolymeric
Related terms: exopolysaccharide
exopolymeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exopolymer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exopolymer
cortical plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cortical plates
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A layer of compact bone that overlies the spongiosa of the alveolar process on the mandible and maxilla.
bicortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + cortical.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Connected to two cortical plates
Related terms: monocortical
monocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + cortical.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Connected to a single cortical plate
Related terms: bicortical
nanohydroxyapatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanohydroxyapatites
form: nano-hydroxyapatite
Etymology: From nano- + hydroxyapatite.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A very fine hydroxyapatite powder used, mixed with other materials, to help remineralization
osteogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteogenicities
Etymology: From osteogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being osteogenic
glosses: The extent to which something is osteogenic
osteoinductivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoinductivities
Etymology: From osteo- + inductivity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being osteoinductive.
glosses: The extent to which something is osteoinductive.
phosphoglycolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglycolates
Etymology: From phospho- + glycolate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion PO₃-O-CH₂CO₂³⁻ that inhibits photosynthesis.
photorespire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photorespires
form: photorespiring
form: photorespired
form: photorespired
Etymology: From photo- + respire.
Senses: glosses: To undergo photorespiration
photorespiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photorespire
photorespiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: photorespiration
preinfarction
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-infarction
Etymology: From pre- + infarction.
Senses: glosses: That occurs prior to a myocardial infarction
Derived terms: preinfarction angina
unfarcical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfarcical
form: most unfarcical
Etymology: From un- + farcical.
Senses: glosses: Not farcical.
thalassiosiroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thalassiosiroids
Etymology: From Thalassiosira + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any diatom of the family Thallassiosiraceae, or more specifically, of the genus Thalassiosira
photorespired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photorespire
photorespires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photorespire
phosphoglycolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoglycolate
tricornute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + cornute.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having three horn-like processes.
misselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misselections
Etymology: From mis- + selection.
Senses: glosses: Bad or incorrect selection.
verocytotoxigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verocytotoxigenic
form: most verocytotoxigenic
Etymology: From verocytotoxin + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That produce verocytotoxins
misselections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misselection
cumulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cumulate
verocytotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verocytotoxin
verocytotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to verocytotoxins
Related terms: verocytotoxicity
antechinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antechinus
General Secretary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹəl ˈsɛk.ɹəˌtə.ɹi/
Forms: form: General Secretaries
form: general secretary
Senses: glosses: Chief officer or leader of a political party or organization, especially in Communist contexts.
Synonyms: First Secretary
Secretary General
gam gam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Turns out Ruth is actually the "Gam Gam" of one of Manning's most notorious rivals: Tom Brady.
ref: 2017 July 13, Nicole Yang, “Watch Tom Brady's 'grandma' deliver a burn to Peyton Manning”, in Boston.com, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023:
text: "I'm pregnant," Jazmyne says as she cradles her belly. Lizzie quickly, and excitedly, jumps back in. "So I'm gonna be a gam gam!"
ref: 2022 July 7, Asa Hawks, “LOVE AFTER LOCKUP Lizzie Kommes to be a grandma, daughter Jazmyne is pregnant!”, in Starcasm, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022:
text: Imagine you get to the cemetery with some flowers, prepared to spend the day at Grandma's grave, joking and laughing and crying with the family, reflecting on all your memories of Gam Gam.
ref: 2022 October 28, Eric Nathan, “It Would Be An Absolute Honor If This Woman Would Twerk On Grandma's Grave”, in Barstool Sports, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023:
glosses: A grandmother.
-istan
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -stan.
aortalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aort- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain caused by an aneurysm or similar condition of the aorta
implantability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From implant + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being implantable.
sectarianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sectarianists
Etymology: From sectarian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who narrow-mindedly devotes themselves to a particular sect, especially in religion.
autostyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being autostylic