cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
schismogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I tried to establish rapport by throwing out everything I could think of associated with the topic: for example, listing the names of Goffman’s books. In typical complementary schismogenetic fashion, this had the effect of overwhelming Chad and intimidating him even more.
ref: 1984, Deborah Tannen, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, pages 61–62:
text: Today an increasing number of Muslims feel that Islam, as religion and identity, is under attack. In certain circumstances, this ‘rumour’ traps some Muslims who react to the schismogenetic process with the rhetoric of jihad as a form of an act of identity.
ref: 2006, Gabriele Marranci, Jihad Beyond Islam, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Berg, →ISBN, page 51:
text: In this present-absence of cultural origin and ‘primal’ reference, interculturalism can certainly be regarded as a schismogenetic third space of neither nothing nor being; […]
ref: 2012, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 210–211:
glosses: Of or relating to schismogenesis.
laryngeal nerves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngeal nerve
Third Positionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Third Position + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Such a mix of positions is meant to resolve the contradictions between competing interest groups that Third Positionism attempts to appeal to: blue-collar workers, racists, ‘environmental patriots’ and disaffected leftists.
ref: 2022, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, “Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements”, in The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, page 76:
glosses: Support for the Third Position as a political stance.
laryngeal arteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laryngeal artery
double rainbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double rainbow
scientifictionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scientifictionally
form: most scientifictionally
Etymology: From scientifictional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Silver Egg-Heads, originally a novelet, was expanded to novel length for a Ballantine Books paperback. It was done in the broad, blatant tones of a Robert Bloch broadside, intending to scientifictionally spoof writers, agents, publishers, and their associates.
ref: 1963 December, Sam Moskowitz, “Fritz Leiber: Destiny x 3”, in Amazing Stories, volume 37, number 12, page 88, column 2:
glosses: In a scientifictional manner.
LGBTQXYZ
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From LGBTQ + XYZ, the last three letters of the alphabet, mocking the practice of expanding the initialism with different letters denoting related communities.
Senses: examples: text: Bob Eschliman, editor of the Newton Daily News, accuses "the LGBTQXYZ crowd and the Gaystapo" of trying "to make their sinful nature right with God" in a Monday post on his personal blog first reported by national media critic Jim Romenesko.
ref: 2014 April 29, Daniel P. Finney, “Iowa newspaper editor criticizes 'Gaystapo'”, in The Des Moines Register:
text: The National Abortion Federation considers peaceful pro-life rhetoric and actions to be “hate speech.” Mainstream LGBTQXYZ activist groups have succeeded in New York City and in DC to cast “wrong” pronouns as finable hate speech.
ref: 2017 August 9, Ryan Bomberger, “The Evangelists of Tolerance Have a Zero-Tolerance Policy”, in Townhall:
text: I hope they had enough diversity in the crew that did the blowing up, at least one person better have been a high IQ LGBTQXYZ Muslim womyn from the Netherlands. Anything less would be racist.
ref: 2019 April 30, Janithor, “Re: They Just Blowed Up”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
text: The Flemish lion, symbol of virility, complained that: “Abnormal is the new normal and people are sick and tired of ignorant crazy transgender people, gays, LGBTQXYZ people with peanut-nut intelligence making life unbearable because they believe in fairytales.[”]
ref: 2022, Katrien Jacobs, Tit-for-Tat Media: The Contentious Bodies and Sex Imagery of Political Activism, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: “Just say no! The LGBTQXYZ agenda is aggressively trying to repurpose classic stories and films. How can a godmother be genderless? Satan is a liar!” Trussell posted in 2020 about actor Billy Porter playing a genderless fairy godmother.
ref: 2022 August 15, Tahman Bradley, “‘Klanned Parenthood’: Bailey’s running mate’s old social media posts surface”, in WGN-TV, archived from the original on 06 May 2023:
synonyms: word: LGBTQWERTY
word: LGBT+
word: LGBTQ+
glosses: Synonym of LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.
slipstreamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slipstreamy
form: most slipstreamy
Etymology: From slipstream + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Right after Mom left us, she asked me to write her letters. Her voice crackling over the phone, she asked me to write down "all the slipstreamy thoughts from the pocket of my soul" and send them to her.
ref: 2012, Melanie Schnell, While the Sun Is Above Us, Calgary, A.B.: Freehand Books, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: Resembling a slipstream.
examples: text: The other zine, run by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, radiates a determinedly "postmodern," slipstreamy vibe. Two poles of the fantasy spectrum, right?
ref: 2007 July, Paul Di Filippo, “On Books”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 31, number 27, Norwalk, C.T.: Dell Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137:
glosses: Resembling slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").
Synonyms: slipstreamish
Manjurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manjurists
Etymology: From Manchu + -ist, influenced by Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju).
Senses: glosses: One who studies the Manchu language.
Related terms: Manjuristics
Manjurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manjurist
🧵
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 🧵s
Etymology: Depicting a spool of thread.
Senses: examples: text: tl;dw; (really? It's 5mins!!) here's a 🧵 with the main take aways 👉
ref: 2018 December 10, @crafty, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2023:
text: One of the best and most needed 🧵s I've seen regarding autism, dx, and gender
ref: 2022 September 8, @JinnChild, Twitter, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022:
text: On March 9, 1936, Charlie Chaplin passed through #Shanghai on his world tour after ‘Modern Times.’ He spent less than 20 hours in the city and one of his big secrets was scooped out. What’s that? A 🧵 to guide you through Chaplin’s ONLY visit to Shanghai.👇
ref: 2023 April 27, @VintageShanghai, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2023:
glosses: A thread (series of messages, generally grouped by subject).
spindizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindizzies
Etymology: From spin + dizzy. The science fiction sense was coined by American author James Blish in 1950 for the Cities in Flight series of books (published 1950–1962).
Senses: examples: text: Spindizzies, or tether cars, come in three categories of descending value: original as raced, restored and reproduced. […] The best indicator of a spindizzy’s authenticity is its size, said Eric Zausner of Berkeley, Calif., who has an extensive collection. “Repros are always smaller because they come from second-generation molds.”
ref: 2010 September 24, Robert C. Yeager, “For Tether Car Collectors, Originality Counts Most”, in The New York Times:
topics: games
hypernyms: tether car
glosses: An engine-powered miniature racing car running on a circular track, tethered by cables to a central pole, popular in the 1940s.
examples: text: Spindizzies, model auto racing fans to you, are going to have a field day at Safford Junio[r] High School grounds, facing South Fourth avenue, this afternoon.
ref: 1941 January 1, “Spindizzies Hold Model Auto Race This Afternoon”, in The Arizona Daily Star, volume 100, number 1, Tucson, Ariz.:
topics: games
hypernyms: tether car
glosses: An engine-powered miniature racing car running on a circular track, tethered by cables to a central pole, popular in the 1940s.
A collector or enthusiast of such miniature cars.
examples: text: So the twin scientific themes of the first book are the development of antigravity technology called spindizzies that enable whole cities to lift into space, and the production of "anti-agathic" drugs that can extend life indefinitely, necessary for the immense journey times in interstellar space.
ref: [2014, Brian Clegg, Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An anti-gravity propulsion system capable of faster-than-light travel, powered by the hypothetical Blackett effect.
spindizzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spindizzy
Blackett effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British physicist Patrick Blackett, although it was originally proposed by Arthur Schuster in the 1910s.
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A now-disproven hypothesis that a magnetic field is generated by an uncharged rotating body.
wikipedia: Arthur Schuster
Patrick Blackett
Related terms: spindizzy
Saint-Cergue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Nyon district, Vaud canton, Switzerland.
PHEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PHE
kaizuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaizuka
Senses: glosses: A shellmound in Japan.
marvel grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marvel grasses
Senses: glosses: Dichanthium annulatum, a grass used as forage.
sheda grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheda grasses
Senses: glosses: Dichanthium annulatum, marvel grass
Cape Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
Related terms: Cape of Good Hope
Cape Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountainous peninsula in Western Cape, South Africa.
Burqueño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈkiːn.jəʊ/
ipa: /bɚˈkin.joʊ/
Forms: form: Burqueños
Etymology: Clipping of Spanish Albuquerqueño, from Albuquerque + -eño
Senses: examples: text: ‘I’m a Burqueño,’ he says with pride. ‘I want to represent the city the best that I can. I want to show that there’s more to this city than just Breaking Bad. The poetry community here is so strong, and we have tons of talent.’
ref: 2016 May 29, Adrian Gomez, “New poet laureate wants fellow Burqueños to ‘appreciate what is in front of our face’”, in Albuquerque Journal, retrieved 27 Apr 2023:
synonyms: Albuquerquean
glosses: A resident or native of Albuquerque.
Burqueños
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burqueño
rings one's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ring one's bell
ringing one's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring one's bell
rang one's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ring one's bell
rung one's bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ring one's bell
bioglycoconjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioglycoconjugate
hobnobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hobnob + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The protesting sects have pulled Him out of the shrine, smashing it in violent bitterness of hatred: they have overflushed Him with lusty blood, made Him hail-fellow walking amongst men, and they have brought Him into intimate hobnobbery with the multitude;
ref: 1915, Katrina Trask, The Mighty and the Lowly, page 8:
text: Everyone besides the two dedicated champagne-pourers in the corner is swirling around in varying states of hobnobbery: library undersecretaries, branch curators, and nearly all the living members of the Oulipo, about half of whom I am meeting for the first time.
ref: 2012, Daniel Levin Becker, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, page 236:
text: Why all this social climbing hobnobbery?
ref: 2021, Rosemary Myatt, Genuine Fakes, page 147:
glosses: The activity of hobnobbing.
isshar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isshars
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali ঈশ্বর (iśśor, “God”). Doublet of Ishwar.
Senses: glosses: A symbol in the Bengali script, used before the name of a deceased person.
Related terms: ৺
game of chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: games of chicken
Senses: glosses: A game or dare in which the loser is the person who yields first.
meju
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mejus
head_nr: 1
Etymology: # From Korean 메주 (meju)
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A brick of dried fermented soybeans.
games of chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game of chicken
Euratlantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Euro-Atlantic.
Morez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Hauts de Bienne commune, Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
La Cure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village on the border between Switzerland and France, with the greater part in the municipality of Saint-Cergue, Vaud canton, Switzerland and the remainder in Les Rousses commune, Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
Ascot tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ascot ties
Senses: examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ascot tie.
Ascot ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ascot tie
Marcyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marcyites
Etymology: From Marcy + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: His attempt to maintain a revolutionary proletarian orientation without the struggle for the Fourth International ended in a fiasco, as the present political role of the Marcyites as semi-official advisers of the trade union bureaucracy proves.
ref: 1988, David North, “The SWP in Retreat”, in The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International, Detroit, MI: Labor Publications, →ISBN, page 281:
glosses: A supporter or follower of Sam Marcy (1911–1998), American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist who co-founded the Workers World Party (WWP).
Marcyites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marcyite
🧵s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 🧵
Shuangchengzi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 雙城子 /双城子 (Shuāngchéngzi).
Senses: examples: text: Reporting a typhoon in the Soviet Far East on 18th August the NCNA said (in English 0825 gmt 21 Aug 79) that “the stricken areas included Spassk, Ussuriysk (Shuangchengzi) and Vladivostok[…]
ref: 1979, “Chinese report of typhoon in USSR”, in Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-30:
text: To the east of the Lefu the important town of Ussuriysk (originally Nikolsk, then in 1935-1957 Voroshilov, but known to the Chinese as Shuangchengzi 'double wall town') stands on a tributary of the largest river flowing into the sea near Vladivostok, the Suifun.
ref: 1986, Roy E. H. Mellor, Essays for Professor R.E.H. Mellor, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:
text: The main line begins at Manzhouli (exits China and connects with Aotepuer奥特普耳 station in the Baikal section of the TSR), then passes through Harbin to Suifenhe from west to east (exits China and connects with Shuangchengzi双城子 station in the Ussuri section of the TSR) [38], the length of which is 1514.3 kilometers.
ref: 2023, Qi Li, Daping Liu, Jusheng Song, “The Chinese Eastern Railway: Geostrategic Heritage from the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Northeast China”, in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2023:
glosses: Synonym of Ussuriysk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Ussuriysk
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Nibuchu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尼布楚 (Níbùchǔ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nerchinsk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Nerchinsk
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
nashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nash
nashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nash
nashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nash
Nashes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nash
Nashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nash
Miaojie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廟街 /庙街 (Miàojiē).
Senses: examples: text: In 1848, Russian Senior Naval Captain Nevelskoiy and his military transport ship set sail to invade China's Heilongjiang [Amur-river] River estuary and the Sakhalin island. In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed Nikolayevsk after the czar. In April 1853, Czar Nicholas I brazenly ordered the invasion and occupation of China's Sakhalin island.
ref: 1981 August 18 [1981 August 11], Nengxiong [3769 5174 7160] Wang, “How Did Czarist Russia Carry Out Its Aggression Against China?”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 159, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C 1:
text: In 1850 Muraviev-Amursky hoisted Russian flags in Miaojie (known today as Nikolayevsk-na-Amure), at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River where he stationed troops to defend what he had just stolen.
ref: 1991, Sheng Hu, From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement, volume 1, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211:
text: By deception, manoeuvring and intimidation, he scored a crucial point for Russia in forcing Prince Gong to approve the terms in the supplementary Treaty of Beijing in November 1860. The treaty affirmed the Russian gains under the Treaty of Aigun. Moreover, China ceded to Russia the hitherto commonly held territory from east of the Ussuri River to the Sea of Japan, consisting of the Ussuri krai (the Maritime Territory) and southern parts of Primorye, an additional 4000,000 km². The ports of Miaojie/Nikolayevsk, Hailanpao/Blagoveshchensk close to the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin) now all belonged to Russia.
ref: 2022, Wenguang Shao, China’s Foreign Policy and Practice: A Survey, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=i9iYEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&pg=PT104:
glosses: Synonym of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Outer Khingan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Treaty of Aigun incorporated the region between the Amur River (Heilongjiang) and the Outer Khingan (or Stanovoy) Range (Wai Xing'an ling) into Russian Siberia.
ref: 2017, Julia C. Schneider, “The New Setting: Political Thinking after 1912”, in Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History,, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277:
text: The Asia Times noted on Feb. 25 that it is ironic that while releasing a peace plan this week “which conspicuously fails to say clearly whether Moscow should with draw its troops” from Ukraine’s Donbas region and Crimea,” China “this very month, made a politically sensitive change in its official word view – a change that affects Russia.”
It elaborates that “Under Beijing’s new directive, Vladivostok once again is called Haishenwai (meaning Sea Cucumber Bay) while Sakhalin Island is called Kuyedao. The Stanovoy Range is back to being called the Outer Xing’an Range in Chinese.”
ref: [2023 February 26, Bohdan Nahaylo, “OPINION: China Challenges Russia by Restoring Chinese Names of Cities on Their Border”, in Kyiv Post, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023, World:
text: In China, “patriotic” columnists are welcome to criticize western powers for acquiring Qing lands by force during the 19th century. Some said following the successful handovers of Hong Kong and Macau from Britain and Portugal, respectively, that Beijing should consider recovering Haishenwai and the Stanovoy Range from Russia.
ref: [2023 May 17, Jeff Pao, “China’s Jilin to ship goods via Vladivostok”, in Asia Times, archived from the original on 16 May 2023, China:
glosses: Synonym of Stanovoy.
synonyms: word: Stanovoy
Related terms: Greater Khingan
mootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mooties
Etymology: From moot + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: As a former Mootie in the 8th moot and an avid supporter, coach and arbitrator since, I am honoured to contribute to this celebration of Professor Bergsten and hope that the entirety of this Liber Amicorum underscores the utmost admiration and tremendous respect […]
ref: 2011, Mariel Dimsey, “Consequences of Avoidance under the CISG”, in S. Kröll, L.A. Mistelis, P. Perales Viscasillas, V. Rogers, editors, International Arbitration and International Commercial Law: Synergy, Convergence and Evolution [Liber Amicorum Eric Bergsten], Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 525:
topics: law
synonyms: mooter
glosses: A participant in a moot court competition.
takes a dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a dookie
taking a dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a dookie
took a dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a dookie
taken a dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a dookie
oomfies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oomfie
causes a stir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cause a stir
causing a stir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cause a stir
caused a stir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cause a stir
camsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camsites
form: cam site
Etymology: From cam + site.
Senses: examples: text: […] controlling the technology themselves, but to the variety of (potential) ways in which Internet users in general are able to access and interact with camsite constructions. […] Other camsite hosts blur the lines between the domestic and the pornographic by including Webcams in their bedroom and bathroom, or by exposing more than their thoughts online.
ref: 2001, Media International Australia, pages 86–87:
text: I envisioned logging into the camsite every morning to empty my bladder and line my pockets. […] A week later I found out it wasn’t so simple; yellow shows were (and still are) against most camsites’ rules and many camgirls’ accounts had been closed for disobeying by spraying.
ref: 2005, Trixie Fontaine, “Menstruation: Porn’s last taboo”, in $pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution, The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, published 2015, →ISBN, page 69:
text: In the film, as in real camsites, users are shown paying money which is exchanged for tokens. The more tokens a camgirl receives, the higher up the camsite’s public ranking she is listed.
ref: 2020, Bonni Rambatan, Jacob Johanssen, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism, Zero Books, John Hunt Publishing, published 2021, →ISBN:
glosses: A website for webcam livestreaming, often for adult entertainment.
camsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camsite
walks a mile in someone's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk a mile in someone's shoes
walking a mile in someone's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk a mile in someone's shoes
walks and chews gum at the same time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of walk and chew gum at the same time
walking and chewing gum at the same time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of walk and chew gum at the same time
walked and chewed gum at the same time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk and chew gum at the same time
understands the assignment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of understand the assignment
tararabit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Contraction of tara a bit (literally “goodbye [for] a bit”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Tararabit, bab,’ Mr P said.
‘See you tomorrow.’ Em already had her coat and scarf on as it was freezing standing in the shop all day.
ref: 2010, Annie Murray, Soldier Girl (Hopscotch Summer; 2), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 379:
glosses: Goodbye for now.
heteropessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + pessimism, coined by sexuality scholar Asa Seresin, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: What I now see is that Nelson’s caveat is typical of heteropessimism, a mode of feeling with a long history, and which is particularly palpable in the present. Heteropessimism consists of performative disaffiliations with heterosexuality, usually expressed in the form of regret, embarrassment, or hopelessness about straight experience. […] “Heterosexuality is a prison!” a chorus declared, vocalizing one of heteropessimism’s central maxims.
ref: 2019 October 9, Asa Seresin, “On Heteropessimism”, in The New Inquiry, New York, N.Y.: The New Inquiry, Inc.:
text: Furthermore, this often leads to instances where monogamy itself is looked down upon as being too conservative, a sign of pathological jealousy, and so—clear signs that polyamory is often just another manifestation of heteropessimism.
ref: 2020, Bonni Rambatan, Jacob Johanssen, “Heteropessimism and Digital Anesthesia”, in Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism, Alresford, Hampshire: Zero Books, published 2021, →ISBN:
text: Through a queer lens, heteroresignation or heteropessimism appears to be a rite of passage for straight women.
ref: 2020, Jane Ward, “Deep Heterosexuality: […]”, in The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: I just don't find resigned heteropessimism soothing anymore. Isn't so much of our frustration rooted in the feeling that things don't have to be this way? I don't want to recite the same story about preordained gender relations just so I can be pissed off about them. I want them to change.
ref: 2023, Gina Rushton, The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty, page 113:
synonyms: heterofatalism
glosses: Disillusionment with heterosexuality, typically expressed in an ironic, performative manner and grounded in an essentialist or deterministic view of gender relations.
Related terms: heteropessimist
heteropessimistic
understanding the assignment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of understand the assignment
understood the assignment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of understand the assignment
cottonmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottonmouthed
form: most cottonmouthed
Senses: examples: text: It was the telephone jerking him out of it in a cold dry trembling cottonmouthed panic, gray light just beginning to show in the window across the hall outside his bedroom as he reached the instrument from its hook and put it against his ear as much to shut off the terrible head-cracking sound as to perform the proper reflex and say thickly, “Yes?”
ref: 1968, Richard Stiller, The Felix Factor, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →LCCN, page 234:
text: It was Billy Mitchell whose deep, wildly slurring cottonmouthed voice brought off the song, cut in April 1954, that stands as the Clovers’ masterpiece, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ but Trash,” written by the great Jesse Stone (doing business as Charles Calhoun).
ref: 1984, Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 98:
text: He was doing a lot of coke and getting cottonmouthed and very slobby.
ref: 1989, Victor Bockris, quoting Daniela Morera, Warhol, Penguin Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 519:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Suffering from cottonmouth; characterized by cottonmouth.
Banlam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Banlamese
form: Banlamgu
form: Banlamoe
form: Banlamgunese
form: Banlamoenese
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 閩南 /闽南 (Bân-lâm, “Hokkien”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Taiwanese (“variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan”).
synonyms: word: Taiwanese
extra: variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan
Synonyms: Hoklo
Fukien
Fukienese
Hypernyms: Southern Min
Min Nan
Minnan
Quanzhou–Zhangzhou
Chinchew–Changchew
Hyponyms: Taiwanese
Quanzhou dialect
Chinchew
Xiamen dialect
Amoy
Xiamenese
Changchew
Wikimanias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikimania
parmaceti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parmacetis
Senses: examples: text: […] God save the mark!—
And telling me the sovereign’st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of parmacety.
parmacetis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parmaceti
Proto-Tagalic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Tagalic.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor of Tagalog and its dialects.
Tagalic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tagalog + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The language family consisting of Tagalog and its dialects.
glosses: Synonym of Proto-Tagalic.
synonyms: word: Proto-Tagalic
glosses: The Tagalog language.
Derived terms: Proto-Tagalic
Bangemann wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bangemann waves
Etymology: Suggested by Martin Bangemann (1934–2022), German politician and Commissioner for the Internal Market and Industrial Affairs in the European Commission (1989–1995), in 1992.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks to one of the European Union's more risible compromises, all we need do when crossing into most Continental countries is to effect the Bangemann Wave, which consists of placing one hand in a pocket, pulling out a passport and wiggling it momentarily before striding on towards the next airport exit. The Bangemann Wave was named after Martin Bangemann, […]
ref: 1997 December 28, Quentin Letts, “Bring back border controls!”, in The Sunday Telegraph, page 19:
text: The idea, widely reported in the press as the ‘Bangemann wave’, entailed that EC nationals entering the UK would not be subject to thorough checks, but walk-through passport control holding up their passports or national identity cards and showing it to the British authorities.
ref: 2007 April, Ruben Zaiotti, “Revisiting Schengen: Europe and the Emergence of a New Culture of Border Control”, in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, volume 8, number 1, →DOI, pages 47–48:
topics: law
glosses: A former method of simplified border control for citizens of the European Communities (and the European Union) at the external frontiers of the Schengen Area (i.e. the borders of the United Kingdom and Ireland), implemented in 1993, which consists of passengers presenting, or waving, their unopened passports or national identity cards to authorities.
wikipedia: Martin Bangemann
chrysalisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysalis
chrysalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chrysalis
mesher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meshers
Senses: examples: text: The mesher creates a two-dimensional mesh, which can then be regenerated in the third dimension to create, for example, a cylindrical or conical three-dimensional system.
ref: 1963, Richard F. Thomas, The Rath Mesher: A 7090 Program for Preparing Input Data for Heat Conduction Codes, page 6:
text: Mesh generators fall into two basic categories : mapped meshers and fully automatic meshers (see Figure 8.1 for sample meshes created from each type). Mapped meshers have been available in various forms for many years.
ref: 1993 May 5, John Brauer, What Every Engineer Should Know about Finite Element Analysis, Second Edition,, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 277:
text: ASSISTANCE IN PILOTING 3D MESHERS To automate the building of the three-dimensional mesh with respect to the size map, two piloting procedures have been developed: • The first and simpler method consists of generating a mesh whose[…]
ref: 1998 June 23, P. Ladeveze, J.T. Oden, Advances in Adaptive Computational Methods in Mechanics, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 449:
text: Skin Meshers. Several types of skin meshers are available, each designed to produce multiple uniform slits in a skin graft, approximately 0.05 inch apart. These multiple apertures in the graft can then expand, permitting the skin graft[…]
ref: 2014 March 25, Jane C. Rothrock, Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery - E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 828:
text: Since it is the extreme case in our dataset and there are FEM-analysis results previously reported using other meshers, in the following sections we focus on the capsid. We explain some generalities of the viral capsid and the[…]
ref: 2019 December 21, Moisés Torres, Jaime Klapp, Supercomputing: 10th International Conference on Supercomputing in Mexico, ISUM 2019, Monterrey, Mexico, March 25–29, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 327:
glosses: That which creates a mesh.
meshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesher
Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Other places named Neuhausen are in Germany. The affix am Rheinfall (Rhine Falls) was added in 1938.
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland.
wikipedia: Neuhausen
Rhine Falls
Shakira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Shakir.
Bridgit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Bridget.
Colbie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Colby.
glosses: A female given name, masculine equivalent Colby.
Pharrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fəˈɹɛl/
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage.
Destinee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Destiny.
Wyclef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Haitian Creole.
Ratagnons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ratagnon
Datagnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Datagnons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ratagnon.
Datagnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ratagnon.
Datagnons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Datagnon
Latagnon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latagnons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ratagnon.
Latagnon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ratagnon.
Latagnons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latagnon
Adamantia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Greek.
Adamandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Greek, variant of Adamantia.
takes one up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take one up
taking one up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take one up
took one up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take one up
taken one up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take one up
Lyss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Seeland district, Bern canton, Switzerland.
capital values
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capital value
Mandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Assam, India.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Adamandia, from Greek.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
arithmetike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetikes
Senses: glosses: spelling of Arithmetic.
cossike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: spelling of cossic.
coßike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As in nombers Abſtracte, euery nomber is not a rooted nomber, but ſome certaine only emongeſt theim, ſo in nombers Coßike, all nombers haue not rootes: but ſoche onely emongeſt ſimple Coßike nombers are rooted, whoſe nomber hath a roote, agreable to the figure of his denomination.
ref: 1557, Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte […], London: […] Jhon Kyngſtone, unnumbered page:
glosses: Obsolete form of cossic.
pseudoenlightenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoenlightenments
Etymology: From pseudo- + enlightenment.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he social construct of the good life is manifest in these works—an urban American vision framed by the achievements of commerce and of the new pluralist pseudoenlightenment of equal opportunity.
ref: 1984, Hal Himmelstein, Television Myth and the American Mind, New York, N.Y. […]: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 114:
text: His culminating vision is a pseudoenlightenment, contaminated by his unaltered egoism: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity" (35; emphasis mine).
ref: 1991, Thomas Jackson Rice, “The Geometry of Meaning in Dubliners: A Euclidian Approach”, in Style, volume 25, number 1, DeKalb, I.L.: Northern Illinois University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 397:
text: One such audience member, catching a ray of pseudoenlightenment, realizes that watching a woman bash people to death for three years has turned him into "a feminist."
ref: 2023 April 28, Giri Nathan, “Book Review: 'Chain-Gang All-Stars,' by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:
glosses: False enlightenment.
pseudoenlightenments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoenlightenment
Nantsios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Greek.
pumpkin-pie spice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Pumpkin Ale is brewed with pumpkin and a pumpkin-pie spice blend of cinnamon, allspice, ginger and nutmeg to give it that familiar taste.
ref: 2018 September 13, Rebecca King, “pumpkin-flavored treats”, in The Record, page 3BL:
text: Pair them with the pumpkin spiced coffee ($5.25) — hot or cold — that’s kicked up with a shot of bourbon and accented with pumpkin-pie spice and whipped cream.
ref: 2018 October 19, Georgann Yara, “Restaurants roll out pumpkin dishes”, in The Arizona Republic, page 9:
text: […] the Christmas Carol Barrel starts with rum and adds aquavit, amaro, demerara syrup, lime, vanilla, Angostura bitters, and a shake of pumpkin-pie spice.
ref: 2018 December 20, Michael Klein, “In the Valley”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, page D3:
text: More flavor profiles may include a dusting of mocha or vanilla powder, nutmeg or pumpkin-pie spice.
ref: 2020 October 14, Erin Thorburn, “National Cappuccino Day, the homemade way”, in Ledger-Enquirer, page 6C:
glosses: Alternative form of pumpkin pie spice.
Mendler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mendlers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mendler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Grimmie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grimmies
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Witherley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England, east of Atherstone in Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP3297).
Rouch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rouch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, variant of Rouge.
pumpkin-spice latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkin-spice lattes
Senses: examples: text: At a Tri-State Tollway oasis, Rares Ungureanu, 24, was ordering about 8 ounces more coffee than he normally drinks. “I’m tired,” said Ungureanu, clad in a Sox jersey. “I’m definitely tired, but it was worth it.” He had been up until 2 a.m. watching the postgame coverage, then had to get up less than four hours later. Doug Cayce, 35, was right there with him, hoping a pumpkin-spice latte might provide the jolt he needed.
ref: 2005 October 27, Virginia Groark, Kayce Ataiyero, “Sox fans a mixed bag of giddy, groggy”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 9:
text: The bagelry just introduced its pumpkin-spice latte and capuccino^([sic]) freeze, and it will have these seasonal favorites through Christmas.
ref: 2005 November, Shawn Gadberry, “It tastes like fall’s here”, in The Fig Garden Villager, page 9:
text: Prices for a cup of pumpkin-spice latte range from about $3.55 for a small to about $4.55 for a large.
ref: 2012 September 27, Paradise Afshar, “Pumpked for pumpkins”, in The Miami Herald, 110th year, number 13, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8NC:
text: What’s that in the air? The first crisp hints of fall? The sound of crunching, fallen leaves beneath your feet? The smell of pumpkin-spice lattes in seemingly every other person’s hands?
ref: 2022 October 1, Brent Hallenbeck, “Consider these arts and entertainment events happening in October”, in Burlington Free Press, page 6A:
text: Even if the furthest you’d ever consider backpacking is to the nearest Starbucks, in the hope of catching their Black Friday closeout sale on pumpkin-spice lattes, an honest description of your vacation plans can be positioned as a positive.
ref: 2022 November 25, Bob Goldman, “Out-of-Office or Out-of-Your-Head? You Decide.”, in Star-Herald, page A4:
glosses: Alternative form of pumpkin spice latte.
pumpkin-spice lattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpkin-spice latte
pumpkin spice lattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpkin spice latte
voreing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vore
Discord kitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Discord kittens
Etymology: From Discord (“freeware chat application”) + kitten (“girlfriend”).
Senses: glosses: A user, typically female, of Discord who receives a subscription to the premium service Discord Nitro from another user, typically male.
Discord kittens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Discord kitten
Inveruglas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, on the west shore of Loch Lomond (OS grid ref NN3109).
bagelries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagelry
urinary-tract infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urinary-tract infections
Senses: examples: text: Or take the six-months-old baby with a persistent urinary-tract infection, against which sulfapyridine failed to work.
ref: 1943 May 16, J. D. Ratcliff, “Here’s Medical Magic!”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 68, number 362, page twelve:
text: Along with the rashes and urinary-tract infections that kids in used diapers suffer, there are other consequences, she said.
ref: 2020 November 1, Alfred Lubrano, “Demand for Diapers on Rise”, in The Baltimore Sun, 183rd year, number 306, section “Life & Travel”, page 3:
text: Urinary-tract infections and retention can be serious problems during space missions.
ref: 2022 September 19, “Sending Research to Space”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 193, page A10:
glosses: Alternative form of urinary tract infection.
urinary-tract infections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urinary-tract infection
tompouce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tompouces
Etymology: From Dutch tompoes, from French Tom Pouce, the French translation of English Tom Thumb.
Senses: glosses: A pastry from the Netherlands resembling mille-feuille.
wikipedia: fr:Tom Pouce
Fersit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet north of Loch Treig in Highland council area, Scotland, historically in Inverness-shire (OS grid ref NN3578).
Auric
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aurics
Etymology: Borrowed from French Auric.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname from French.
pull out of one's arse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls out of one's arse
form: pulling out of one's arse
form: pulled out of one's arse
form: pulled out of one's arse
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull out of one's ass.
dōjōs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dōjō
qingsongite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋsɒŋaɪt/
Etymology: From Mandarin 青松 (qīngsōng) via Hanyu Pinyin, the first name of Chinese geologist Qingsong Fang (1939–2010) who discovered the mineral. Equivalent to Qingsong + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A rare mineral first discovered in Tibet in 2009.
hang by a hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs by a hair
form: hanging by a hair
form: hung by a hair
form: hung by a hair
Senses: examples: text: This was the moment in the whole process of their mutual vigilance in which it decidedly most hung by a hair that their thin wall might be pierced by the lightest wrong touch.
ref: 1904 November 10, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of hang by a thread.
synonyms: word: hang by a thread
bulb-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulb-outs
form: bulbout
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
traffic
transport
glosses: A traffic calming measure that widens the sidewalk for a short distance.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
traffic
transport
glosses: A round area of pavement that protrudes from one side of a road to accommodate turning vehicles with a wide turning circle.
Synonyms: sense: traffic calming measure
word: curb extension
sense: traffic calming measure
word: bump-out
sense: traffic calming measure
word: elephant ear
sense: traffic calming measure
word: curb bulge
sense: traffic calming measure
word: curb bulb
sense: round area of pavement
word: loon
Related terms: neckdown