cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Lyman's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835–1920), American mining engineer and amateur linguist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguistic rule stating that rendaku does not occur if the second element of the compound contains a voiced obstruent in any position, e.g. yama + kaji produces yamakaji (mountain fire), not *yamagaji.
wikipedia: Benjamin Smith Lyman
Shitlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former township in Yorkshire, England, later renamed Sitlington.
lobscows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lobscouse.
multitap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multitaps
Etymology: From multi- + tap.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A peripheral for video game consoles that increases the number of controller ports, allowing more players to participate.
glosses: A text-entry system for mobile phones where each button has several characters, accessed in turn by repeatedly tapping the button.
multitaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitap
skimboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skimboard
hoverboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverboarders
Etymology: From hoverboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rides a hoverboard.
hoverboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoverboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The fictional sport of riding a hoverboard.
hoverboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverboarder
book-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bookwise.
booleans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boolean
bookwormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bookwormy
form: most bookwormy
Etymology: From bookworm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing.
ref: 1912, Alice Hegan Rice, A Romance of Billy Goat Hill, page 39:
glosses: Like a bookworm; studious.
Synonyms: bookwormish
unabstemious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unabstemious
form: most unabstemious
Etymology: From un- + abstemious.
Senses: glosses: Not abstemious; tending to indulge.
lithosere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithoseres
Etymology: From litho- + sere.
Senses: glosses: A sere originating on rock; a plant succession that begins life on a newly exposed rock surface, such as one left bare as a result of glacial retreat, tectonic uplift, or volcanic eruptions.
lithoseres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithosere
seral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sere + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a sere.
psammosere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæməsɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: psammoseres
Etymology: From psammo- + sere.
Senses: glosses: A sere originating on coastal sand.
psammoseres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psammosere
xeroseral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xerosere + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a xerosere.
cyberterritory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberterritories
Etymology: From cyber- + territory.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the new cyberterritory staked out and contested mainly by global corporate players, the authors make a strong case for the urgent need of Canadians to identify and safeguard their own long-term interests...
ref: 1997, Robert Chodos, Eric Hamovitch, Rae Murphy, Lost in cyberspace?:
glosses: A territory in cyberspace.
cyberterritories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberterritory
cybertopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cybertopian
form: most cybertopian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyberutopian.
cybertopian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybertopians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cyberutopian.
cybertopians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybertopian
cybertechnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cybertechnological
form: most cybertechnological
Etymology: From cyber- + technological.
Senses: examples: text: The cybertechnological explosions of the preceding decades seem to have propelled us into a new cultural age requiring new rules that make the past appear all the more obsolete. So again I ask, why study ancient cultures?
ref: 2007, Cynthia White, The emergence of Christianity, page vii:
glosses: Of or pertaining to cybertechnology.
cyberghetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberghettos
Etymology: From cyber- + ghetto, coined by Bosah Ebo in the paper Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (1998).
Senses: examples: text: But critics argue that the potential for a cyberghetto is real because the Internet will retain vestiges of traditional communities with similar hierarchical social linkages and class-structural relationships.
ref: 1998, Bosah L. Ebo, Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet:
text: Neither an isolated “cyberghetto” where all interests are monolithically shared, nor a democratic “cybercommunity” based on an ethic of reciprocity, virtual Raider Nation is an anarchic free-for-all where the lack of physical proximity changes the rules.
ref: 2011, Jim Miller, Kelly Mayhew, Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire, page 96:
glosses: The equivalent of a ghetto in cyberspace; a place on the Internet etc. where a social group is marginalized.
cyberghettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberghetto
cyberenvironment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberenvironments
Etymology: From cyber- + environment.
Senses: examples: text: Our new cyberenvironments have begun to compress space and time so radically that we cannot help wondering if, or how, they are also altering consciousness itself. Are we on the cusp of some kind of profound transformation of the human condition?
ref: 2009, David Loy, Awareness bound and unbound: Buddhist essays, page 77:
glosses: A cyberspace environment, one in which perception is mediated by computer.
cyberenvironments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberenvironment
preclear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: preclears
form: preclearing
form: precleared
form: precleared
Etymology: From pre- + clear.
Senses: glosses: To clear in advance.
preclear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: preclears
Etymology: From pre- + clear.
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who has not yet reached a "clear" state (in which they are free from engrams).
preclears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preclear
ibides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ibis
bunless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bun + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly, at Burger King you can make some fairly good selections and enjoy a reasonable meal. You can even have the occasional burger — Burger King now offers bunless burgers on a plate — and order a side salad instead of fries.
ref: 2006, Arthur Agatston, The South Beach Diet Dining Guide, page 47:
glosses: Without a bun.
Cobb salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cobb salad
cyanocobalamins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanocobalamin
bryologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bryologists
Etymology: From bryo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist specialising in bryology.
bryologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryologist
bryological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bryology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bryology.
antisuicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + suicidal.
Senses: examples: text: It would be wrong to claim that an antisuicidal effect of lithium has been definitively proved.
ref: 2004, Mogens Schou, Lithium treatment of mood disorders: a practical guide, page 33:
glosses: Opposing or countering suicide.
flatleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flat + leaf.
Senses: examples: flatleaf parsley
flatleaf willow
glosses: Having flat leaves (used in the names of plants).
unmarbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + marbled.
Senses: examples: text: An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]
ref: 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:
glosses: Not marbled.
butchershop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butchershops
form: butcher shop
form: butcher-shop
Etymology: From butcher + shop.
Senses: synonyms: butcher's shop
butcher's
glosses: A store that sells meat.
glosses: A military hospital or its division where surgeries upon the wounded are performed.
butchershops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butchershop
noncancellation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cancellation.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to cancellation.
noncancellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + cancellation.
Senses: examples: text: The noncancellation agreement meant that we had to stay with the same insurer for six months.
glosses: Absence of cancellation; failure to cancel.
canalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canalizable
form: most canalizable
Etymology: From canalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for being canalized.
nonadvanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + advanced.
Senses: glosses: Not advanced.
nonzoonotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + zoonotic.
Senses: glosses: Not zoonotic.
unnobly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unnobly
form: most unnobly
Etymology: From unnoble + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unnoble manner.
Synonyms: ignobly
hoverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverers
Etymology: From hover + -er.
Senses: examples: text: They're wonderful hoverers, though, and they'll remain stationary in the air, wing-tips vibrating, till they've marked their prey[.]
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 13:
glosses: One who, or that which, hovers.
hoverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoverer
hovereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hover + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hover
climbing frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climbing frames
Senses: glosses: A piece of playground equipment consisting of a set of interlinked bars on which children can climb.
Synonyms: word: jungle gym
word: monkey bars
climbing frames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of climbing frame
longlived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longlived
form: most longlived
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of long-lived.
longnose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longnosed
Etymology: From long + nose.
Senses: examples: text: longnose gar
text: longnose shiner
glosses: Having a long nose (used in the names of fish and other animals).
Derived terms: longnose gar
longnose lancetfish
longnose seahorse
longnose stonebasher
enclosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enclose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being enclosed.
muleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mule + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The stealthy Apaches waited until their pale-face friends were well asleep, and then with a piece of cow-hide, hard and thin, sawed out a section of the adobe wall, at the other end of the corral, and in the morning Los Americanos found themselves horseless and muleless.
ref: 1877, James F. Rusling, The Great West and Pacific Coast..., p. 402
glosses: Without a mule.
mainest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Feeling, however, that it was of the mainest importance to the cause, and to his client, not only to prove that he was a liberal but an orthodox politician, he shut himself up more than a month in his study, refusing all other business […]
ref: 1844, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volumes 32-33, page 196:
text: I ran back again, then set out in the opposite direction — it must be somewhere, the cobbled road, the mainest road in all the world.
ref: 1970, Margarete Orga, The house on the Fontanka: Modern Soviet short stories, page 62:
text: Yes, we dig him deeply,
He's the mainest, mainest, mainest man.
ref: 2014, Emily Barton, The Testament Of Yves Gundron:
glosses: superlative form of main: most main
audienceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From audience + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an audience.
Derived terms: audiencelessness
radioless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a radio.
fingerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fingerless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of fingers.
advertisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more advertisable
form: most advertisable
Etymology: From advertise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You veterans know that while there may be many detailed advantages there is often not one which is advertisable.
ref: 1925, Howard Allan Barton, How to write advertising:
glosses: Suitable for being advertised.
Derived terms: unadvertisable
privacy policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privacy policies
Etymology: * privacy + policy
Senses: examples: text: Of those apps without privacy policies, 76 percent shared sensitive information with third parties, and of those with privacy policies, 79 percent shared data while only about half admitted doing so in their published disclosures. In other words, privacy policies are more aptly referred to as surveillance policies, and that is what I suggest we call them.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
text: In January, viral posts – ironically, widely spread on WhatsApp – claimed the privacy policy gave the service the right to read users’ messages and hand the information over to its parent company, Facebook.
ref: 2021 February 22, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp to try again to change privacy policy in mid-May”, in The Guardian:
topics: law
hypernyms: policy#Noun
glosses: A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.
Related terms: english: chief privacy officer
translation: chief privacy officer
word: CPO
word: privacy seal
word: data protection
english: General Data Protection Regulation
translation: General Data Protection Regulation
word: GDPR
word: public policy
privacy policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privacy policy
Freier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freiers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Freier.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
gonorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gonorrhœa + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He showed that there had been 33 per cent. of male gonorrhœic infections previous to marriage, 26 in all, and, taking all cases of abortion, sterility, uterine and pelvic inflammations, and living births that had occurred in these 81 families, he showed conclusively that there had been the merest fractional difference in their proportion between the previously healthy and not previously infected classes. As regards inflammatory pelvic affections, the balance was fractional in favor of the free‐gonorrhœic cases, in other respects equally fractional in favor of the non‐gonorrhœic.
ref: 1895, Robert William Taylor, The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases, Lea Brothers & Co., Chapter XXX, page 288:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gonorrheic.
Derived terms: antigonorrhœic
gonorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gonorrheic
form: gonorrhœic
form: gonorrhoic
Etymology: From gonorrhoea + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Related to gonorrhoea; pertaining to gonorrhea.
Derived terms: antigonorrhoeic
gonorrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gonorrhea + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gonorrhoeic.
Derived terms: postgonorrheic
zoöparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoö- + parasitic.
Senses: examples: text: Phthiriasis is the name given to a zoöparasitic disease caused by an invasion of the skin by lice, of which there are three kinds […]
ref: 1881, Henry Granger Piffard, A Treatise on the Materia Medica and Therapeutics of the Skin, William Wood & Company, page 237:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zooparasitic.
liverwursts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liverwurst
würst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: würsts
Etymology: From a perception of the umlaut as indicating Germanness; the native German word has plain u, not ü, in the singular.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wurst.
würsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of würst
time line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timeline.
time lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time line
time-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timework.
time work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timework.
time stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time streams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timestream.
Odisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oː.ɖɪˈʃaː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi ओड़िशा (oṛiśā), from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଶା (oṛiśā).
Senses: synonyms: word: Orissa
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A state in eastern India. Capital: Bhubaneswar.
Derived terms: Ollywood
Related terms: Oriya
Odia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈdijə/
ipa: /əʊˈdiə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā).
Senses: glosses: The official language of the state of Odisha, India.
Synonyms: Oriya
Oorya
Odia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈdijə/
ipa: /əʊˈdiə/
Forms: form: Odias
Etymology: Borrowed from Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Odisha.
Baleswar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बालेश्वर (bāleśvar).
Senses: glosses: A city in Odisha, India, on the Bay of Bengal.
inæqual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inæqual
form: most inæqual
Etymology: From in- + æqual.
Senses: examples: text: ... by which means he procured 10000 merks by year casten upon the shire, and the Toune freed of that inæqual burden under which they ware formerly groaning?
ref: 1848, Lord John Lauder Fountainhall, David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs: 1661-1683.- v. 2. 1683-1688:
glosses: Archaic spelling of inequal.
boldhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English boldhede, equivalent to bold + -head.
Senses: glosses: Boldness; courage.
Sacred War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸς πόλεμος (hieròs pólemos)
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of three wars fought (in 595-585 BCE, 449 BC-448 BCE and 357-346 BCE) by the Amphictyonic Council.
pædo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From pæd- + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of paedo-.
Montmartre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Montmartre.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Paris, Île-de-France, France.
Related terms: Montmartrois
Pythian Apollo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Translates Ancient Greek Ἀπόλλων Πύθιος (Apóllōn Púthios).
Senses: glosses: Name of Apollo at Delphi
Pythian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Pythius, from Ancient Greek πύθιος (púthios, “belonging to Pytho, the older name of Delphi and its environs”): compare French pythien.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Delphi or to its priestess, Pythia.
Synonyms: Pythic
Derived terms: Pythian games
Pythian Apollo
Pythian verse
Pythian metre
Pythian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pythians
Etymology: From Latin Pythius, from Ancient Greek πύθιος (púthios, “belonging to Pytho, the older name of Delphi and its environs”): compare French pythien.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Delphi.
Pythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪθiə/
Forms: form: Pythias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πυθία (Puthía), from Πυθώ (Puthṓ) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A priestess of Pythian Apollo, the Oracle of Delphi
temperate rainforest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temperate rainforests
Senses: glosses: A rainforest in a temperate climate.
Germanophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Germanophone
genuine fakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genuine fake
najas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of naja
Kohelet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koheleth
form: Qohelet
form: Qoheleth
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew קהלת (kohélet).
Senses: glosses: The person to whom most of the book Ecclesiastes in the Bible is attributed, introduced as a son of David, king in Jerusalem.
en femme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒn ˈfɑm/
note: reproducing the French pronunciation
ipa: /ɑ̃-/
ipa: /ɑn ˈfɑm/
ipa: /-ˈfɛm/
rhymes: -ɑm
rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -ɛm
Forms: form: enfemme
Etymology: Borrowed from French en femme (“as a woman”) as in s’habille en femme (“dresses as a woman”), from en (“as”) + femme (“woman”).
Senses: examples: text: I am convinced that the tendency or at least the desire to cross dress, is many times more common than the most, liberal statistics I have read. While enfemme, I have had far too many straight men whisper to me they have thought about it and wish they had the opportunity and courage to act on it as I have for about 36 years.
ref: 1995 fall, Samantha Cole, “Mailbag: A Fortunate, Married Crossdresser”, in TV/TS Tapestry Journal: For All Persons Interested in Crossdressing & Transsexualism, number 73, Waltham, Mass.: International Foundation for Gender Education, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
text: If the female discovers her partner's transgendered persona herself or is told by a person other than her partner, the situation is usually quite different. She may overhear a conversation, see a photograph of him en femme, watch a television talk show on which her partner appears cross-dressed, or see her partner referenced in a newspaper or magazine article. […] This manner of discovery commonly increases her experience of betrayal and generates tremendous feelings of humiliation, prejudice, and revulsion.
ref: 1998, Sandra S. Cole, “The Female Experience of the Femme: A Transgender Challenge”, in Dallas Denny, editor, Current Concepts in Transgender Identity (Garland Gay and Lesbian Studies; 11; Garland Reference Library of Social Science; 976), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Research and Treatment Issues), page 376:
text: But it is at least possible that repeated exposure to attractive men en femme may have conditioned some—many?—sailors to tolerate (or even enjoy) the idea of sex with another man and tempted certain of the cross-dressers themselves to think about crossing sex roles as well.
ref: 2002, Christopher McKee, “A Sailor’s Paradise”, in Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900–1945, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 203:
coordinate_terms: en homme
glosses: Chiefly of a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person: dressed in feminine clothing.
examples: text: These Holidays En Femme are for members of Tri-Ess and we welcome prospective members, heterosexual crossdressers, to join with us in our educational and social programs.
ref: 1984, Carol Beecroft, “Editors Choice”, in Carol Beecroft, editor, Transvestia: For the Heterosexual Crossdresser, Tulare, Calif.: Chevalier Publications, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
glosses: Of a situation: suitable for a cross-dressing, non-binary, or trans person to dress in feminine clothing.
Related terms: femme
2+1 road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2+1 roads
Etymology: Named after the fact that it has two lanes one way and one lane in the opposite.
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A three-lane road with two lanes in one direction and one lane in the other.
Related terms: 2-1 road
2+1 roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2+1 road
volumise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: volumises
form: volumising
form: volumised
form: volumised
Etymology: From volume + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of volumize.
volumises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volumise
volumising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of volumise
volumised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volumise
açaís
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of açaí
submittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submittals
Etymology: From submit + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of submitting; submission
glosses: Something submitted or to be submitted; a submission.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Data about a product, such as shop drawings, material data, or samples.
Synonyms: submission
submittance
Coordinate terms: topics: construction
manufacturing
business
word: transmittal
Related terms: transmittal
crowdfunding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdfundings
Etymology: From crowd + funding.
Senses: examples: text: It was discovered in September 2020 that Cosgrove was raising money on the “Christian crowdfunding site” GiveSendGo to fund his retirement.
ref: 2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Funding by many individuals pooling their money together for a common goal, usually via the Internet.
Related terms: crowdsourcing
sharing economy
bouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊk/
ipa: /bəʊk/
ipa: /buːk/
Forms: form: bouks
form: bouke
Etymology: From Middle English bouk, from Old English būc (“belly, stomach, pitcher”), from Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of bucket.
Cognate with Scots bouk, bowk, buik (“body, carcass”), Dutch buik (“belly”), German Bauch (“belly”), Swedish buk (“belly, abdomen”), Norwegian Bokmål buk (“belly”), Icelandic búkur (“torso”).
For the phonetic development, compare puck, suck.
Senses: glosses: The belly.
glosses: The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
glosses: The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
bouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouk.
masdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masdars
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَصْدَر (maṣdar, “source”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Arabic verbal noun, also used in Georgian grammar (მასდარი)
Synonyms: nomen verbi
goblinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goblinoid
form: most goblinoid
Etymology: From goblin + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance or characteristics of a goblin.
goblinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblinoids
Etymology: From goblin + -oid.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A being having the appearance or characteristics of a goblin.
goblinoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goblinoid
white list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whitelist.
white-livered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white-livered
form: most white-livered
Senses: examples: text: Some evil fellows said behind his back that Beowulf was white-livered and a slacker.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 39:
glosses: Lily-livered; cowardly.
glosses: Malicious.
glosses: Having a pale look, once thought to be caused by a white liver.
whys and wherefores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: why and wherefore
form: whies and wherefores
Senses: examples: text: I can no more tell you the whys and wherefores of myself than I can lift myself up by the waistband and carry myself into the next county.
ref: 1887, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 5, in An Unsocial Socialist:
text: [I]f she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 1, in Anne of Green Gables:
text: Of the hundreds of thousands who served in Vietnam, most still do not understand the whys and wherefores of our involvement.
ref: September 5 2004, Albert M. Forget, “Question integrity of vets attacking Kerry”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: The reasons or motivations for a fact, action, or decision, especially the complete set of such reasons or motivations.
Synonyms: explanation
Ghats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ghauts
Etymology: From Hindi घाट (ghāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀖𑀝𑁆𑀝 (ghaṭṭa), from Sanskrit घट्ट (ghaṭṭa).
Senses: glosses: A pair of mountain ranges along the southern Indian coasts.
Hyponyms: Eastern Ghats
Western Ghats
registered bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registered bond
no homo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnoʊ ˈhoʊ.moʊ/
Senses: examples: text: You look like you have been working out — no homo.
text: I love you bro, you're awesome; no homo.
text: Squeeze your lats. Does that make sense? Take your hands, I want you to grab here on me. Grab my lats. Grab em, grab em, grab em. No homo.
ref: 2011 July 7, Train with Kai Greene II, spoken by Kai Greene, via YouTube:
synonyms: pause
no Diddy
glosses: Used immediately before or after a statement to indicate that there was no homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.
Derived terms: no Diddy
yes homo
systems analysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of systems analyst
sump pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sump pit
tldr
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tl;dr.
statute miles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statute mile
have-a-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: daring, courageous, particularly in the face of unexpected adversity.
quietish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quiet + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat quiet
loudish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From loud + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat loud
straight arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight arrows
form: straight-arrow
Etymology: From archery, in which an arrow that has a straight shaft flies where you shoot it, while a crooked arrow will veer off.
Senses: examples: text: He was put down at first as a "straight arrow" — a do-gooder — and the description was sometimes accompanied by the cry, "ugh." as in old Westerns when the settler is shot by the wily redskin.
ref: 1965 April 2, Paul O'Neil, “Bradley: good man and true”, in LIFE, volume 58, number 13, page 93:
text: But he might not be a straight arrow. I'm going to get the dirt on him from someone.
ref: 1988, Diana McRae, All the Muscle You Need, page 36:
text: My great-grandpa had a reputation as a straight arrow, because he was so honest in all his dealings.
ref: 2011, Ruth Jean Dale, Kids, Critters and Cupid:
text: If there is any man in our family who was and is a straight arrow, it is Kearn.
ref: 2012, Allen J. Roy, Lemme Tell You a Story: Memoirs of REV. Msgr. Allen J. Roy, page 32:
text: I folded my arms across my chest. "I'm about to open a weed café! How is that being a straight arrow?"
ref: 2023, Emily George, A Half-Baked Murder, page 231:
glosses: Someone who behaves according to conventional standards; one noted for honesty and integrity.
examples: text: The goal can not be attained by a straight arrow flight.
ref: 1908, Charles Francis Horne, The Technique of the Novel, page 28:
text: "It's a straight arrow approach," he said.
ref: 1970, United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee, The Dismissal of A. Ernest Fitzgerald by the Department of Defense, page 197:
text: It will be reassuring to many who read this book to learn that success can be achieved by both a straight arrow path and a spiral path.
ref: 1995, Gerhard Sonnert, Gerald James Holton, Who Succeeds in Science?: The Gender Dimension, page viii:
text: It's best to have both, a balanced bow and a straight arrow.
ref: 2005, Larry Lichtenwalter, David--Dancing Like a King, page 140:
text: A straight arrow on the pavement means the lane is only for traffic moving straight ahead and that a vehicle in the lane should not turn either right or left.
ref: 2014, Chun Liu, Principle and Application Progress in Location-Based Services, page 283:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straight, arrow.
Related terms: straight as an arrow
straight shooter
salt away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salts away
form: salting away
form: salted away
form: salted away
Etymology: An allusion to the preservation of food in salt.
Senses: glosses: To salt (something) for preservation and then store it away for winter.
examples: text: "You have more than two thousand salted away, I know, Moses, between prize-money, wages, adventures, and other matters."
ref: 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 2, in Miles Wallingford:
text: Some of the stockholders . . . wanted to leave the money invested. "Salt away that chicken feed in your duds, and skip along," says Buck. "What business have you got investing in bonds?"
ref: 1908, O. Henry, “Tempered Wind”, in The Gentle Grafter:
glosses: To save or preserve (especially money) for future use.
nongeophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + geophysical.
Senses: glosses: Not geophysical.
laissez-passers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laissez-passer
onomatopœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of onomatopoeic.
Derived terms: onomatopœical
market-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market-houses
Senses: examples: text: A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: A building in which a market takes place.
scale off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scales off
form: scaling off
form: scaled off
form: scaled off
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: To peel off
rugby tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹʌɡ.bi.tæ.kəl/
Forms: form: rugby tackles
Senses: glosses: An instance of knocking someone or something over using one's arms and upper body.
rugby tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹʌɡ.bi.tæ.kəl/
Forms: form: rugby tackles
form: rugby tackling
form: rugby tackled
form: rugby tackled
Senses: glosses: To knock someone over using one's arms and upper body.
rugby tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rugby tackle
rugby tackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rugby tackle
rugby tackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rugby tackle
rugby tackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rugby tackle
peal out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peals out
form: pealing out
form: pealed out
form: pealed out
Senses: glosses: To ring loudly.
raw_tags: of a bell
examples: text: and lending their clear and joyous voices to the wild chorus of the vintage-song that their elders were pealing out;
ref: 1838, Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 3, page 310:
text: Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause a bell to ring loudly.
templatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of templatization
onreg'lar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onreg'lar
form: most onreg'lar
Etymology: From unregular.
Senses: examples: text: "De ole jedge has be'n a little onreg'lar sence de wah, suh; but he gin'ally gits roun' 'bout ten o'clock er so...
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of irregular.
roun'
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "De ole jedge has be'n a little onreg'lar sence de wah, suh; but he gin'ally gits roun' 'bout ten o'clock er so..."
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of round.
head-kerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-kerchiefs
form: head-kerchieves
Senses: examples: text: The girl, as she passed, seized one end of the basket and helped the old woman to raise it to her head, where it rested solidly on the cushion of her head-kerchief.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: Alternative form of headkerchief.
headkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headkerchiefs
form: headkerchieves
form: head kerchief
form: head-kerchief
Etymology: From head + kerchief.
Senses: glosses: A kerchief worn on the head
Derived terms: headkerchiefed
blossom out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blossoms out
form: blossoming out
form: blossomed out
form: blossomed out
Senses: examples: text: "It must be Rena," he murmured. "Who could have dreamed that she would blossom out like that? It must surely be Rena!"
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: To blossom, to show beauty.
sellthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sell-through.
unregular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + regular.
Senses: glosses: Not regular; irregular, uncommon
nonregularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + regularized.
Senses: glosses: Not regularized.
third parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third party
metaplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaplots
Etymology: From meta- + plot.
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The overarching storyline that binds together events in a role-playing game.
metaplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapelet
metaplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaplot
with one's head held high
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hold one's head high.
Senses: examples: text: England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck.
ref: 2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Proudly, with pride.
treatymaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treatymakers
Etymology: From treaty + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a treaty.
treatymakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treatymaker
chairmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairmakers
Etymology: From Middle English chaire maker; equivalent to chair + maker.
Senses: hypernyms: furnituremaker
coordinate_terms: tablemaker
glosses: A manufacturer of chairs.
Derived terms: chairmaker's bulrush
chairmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairmaker
chairmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chair + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of chairs.
interbranch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + branch.
Senses: examples: text: During 1912, the central reserve collection was used as a depository for a special set of 114 Yiddish books, for the purpose of meeting through the interbranch loan system the spasmodic demands for books in this language...
ref: 1962, Bulletin of the New York Public Library: Volume 18, Part 1:
glosses: Between branches of an institution.
NOBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOBOs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of nonobjecting beneficial owner.
nonobjecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + objecting.
Senses: glosses: Not making an objection; in agreement or compliance.
negationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negationisms
Etymology: From negation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Across the world ruling elites have become ever more prone to historical negationism
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 311:
glosses: The revision of history in order to omit something that actually happened.
Synonyms: denialism
Related terms: negationist
negationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negationists
Etymology: From negation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who revises history in order to omit something that actually happened.
Synonyms: denialist
Related terms: negationism
negationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negationist
overquantify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overquantifies
form: overquantifying
form: overquantified
form: overquantified
Etymology: From over- + quantify.
Senses: examples: text: Problems arise with evaluation systems that are overquantified — when decisions or judgments predominantly rely on satisfying numerical requirements.
ref: 2000, Kenneth D. Peterson, Teacher evaluation:
glosses: To quantify too much; to interpret with too great a focus on numbers, quotas, etc.
overquantified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overquantify
fuckstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucksticks
Etymology: From fuck + stick.
Senses: examples: text: Give me five minutes in that storage closet, and I promise my fuckstick will do things to you that most American housewives only dream about.
ref: 2010, Patrick Moseley, Locked in Closets and Other Fairy Tales, page 174:
text: He leaned back suddenly, burying his fuckstick up to the hilt. He came with a long, loud grunt. I felt the underside of his shaft throb as he bathed the walls of my aching rectum with his dickjuice.
ref: 2008, Johnny Miles, A Stroke at Midnight, page 96:
text: You want to suck on my fuckstick, faggot?
ref: 2007, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Low Red Moon, page 44:
text: “My fuckstick's got no conscience, man.”
ref: 2006, William P. Singley, Bragg, page 174:
text: Maybe I should have said, “I'm going to lick your little jackrabbit till it's hard, I'm going to belt through your ring with my big fuckstick.”
ref: 1998, Luke Davies, Candy:
glosses: Penis.
examples: 2008, Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder
Look, fuckstick, I'm incredibly busy, so why don't you get the hell out of here
glosses: An undesirable person.
Related terms: word: fucksticks
overquantifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overquantify
fucksticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckstick
fucksticks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Fucksticks!" When some other fucker pushes in a queue / "Fucksticks!" When you get caught short and really need a poo / "Fucksticks!" When I came a-tumbling off my BMX / "Fucksticks!" When I split my frenulum while having sex
ref: 2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)
text: Would A Christmas Carol have been as popular if instead of saying 'Bah, Humbug!' Ebenezer Scrooge had said, 'Oh, Fucksticks!'? What's the funniest expletive you can imagine Scrooge exclaiming?
ref: 2018, Richard Herring, Emergency Questions: 1001 conversation-savers for any situation:
text: His eyes rolled back in his head and his slender form crumpled to the floor like someone had just cut his strings.
"Oh, fucksticks!" I breathed, rushing to him and pulling him into my arms.
ref: 2019, Kaye Draper, Gesa's Menagerie Box Set (books 7-9)
glosses: Expressing frustration.
miniaturizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniaturizers
Etymology: From miniaturize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, miniaturizes.
miniaturizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniaturizer
piecen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piecens
form: piecening
form: piecened
form: piecened
Etymology: From piece + -en.
Senses: glosses: To join; piece (together); fay.
examples: text: But when the building, not designed from the first in its entirety, has been piecened and enlarged from time to time, the very nature of its plan is such as to present peculiar difficulties to those on whom the duty devolves.
ref: 1887, The Twentieth century: Volume 22:
text: He'd piecened out himself a bunk on one side, and sot him up a stove in the corner, and hove some burlaps down under foot, with a couple of old wracked chairs, so's he allowed he'da sight lievser stop out there daytimes than not to.
ref: 1904, The Outlook: Volume 76:
glosses: To extend by adding a part or parts.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: To join broken threads or ends in spinning.
Derived terms: piecener
piecening
plothole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plotholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plot hole.
plotholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plothole
nonabsence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + absence.
Senses: examples: text: It was usual that marriage contracts, particularly in larger towns, include conditions safeguarding the wife's interests. These included: the husband's nonabsence from the marital home for a long or specific period of time;...
ref: 1996, Amira El Azhary Sonbol, Women, the family, and divorce laws in Islamic history, page 103:
glosses: Failure to be absent, i.e. presence.