cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
minimum-wager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimum-wagers
Etymology: From minimum wage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But Stephen Bland Dolley, Jr., 31-year-old Gastonia lawyer, was a hot minimum-wager in 1959—and he is back. He wants a $1.
ref: 1961 February 17, Eula N. Greenwood, “Capital Clipboard”, in The Coastland Times […], volume XXVI, number 34, Manteo, N.C., page six:
text: It’s quite possible us ole’ revenue producers may be very willing indeed to drop this ‘GAP” generation of trapped minimum-wagers and unskilled kids right onto the welfare rolls.
ref: 1971 March 12, Betty Greer, “Drop GAP Generation?”, in The State Journal, page A-8:
text: Yesterday’s lowly charwomen mopped floors, as do today’s cleaning ladies, janitors and minimum-wagers at McDonald’s.
ref: 2021 December 7, Michael Arndt, “Celebrating the transcendental joy of household chores — yes, even mopping”, in Naples Daily News, volume 98th, number 135, page 5B:
glosses: One who earns minimum wage.
minimum-wagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimum-wager
shotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotters
Etymology: From shot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] shotter who had a jezzy sister. […] The mandem all used to go round there and get head off her, the sister blowing the man line by line while her brother shotted downstairs in the stairwell.
ref: 2011, “Chyna”, in How I Escaped a Girl Gang: Rolling in a London Girl Gang:
glosses: A drug dealer.
shotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotter
jarmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You've had too much to drink, get your jarmas on and get to bed!
ref: 2018, Kirsty-Louise Card, The Price of Fabulous, page 162:
glosses: pajamas
scrinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrinchy
form: most scrinchy
Senses: examples: text: The bright-browed man chuckled, then did his scrinchy eyeball thing again.
ref: 2001, Robert Dunn, Pink Cadillac, page 147:
text: She is making that scrinchy face again […]
ref: 2005, Rowing News, volume 11, number 12, page 94:
glosses: scrunchy; creased or wrinkled
examples: text: And to me alone he said, "Just meeting the taxes ain't easy."
"Don't be scrinchy, Father," Lisa said. "Momma needs for that stone to be there."
ref: 2000, Merle Drown, The Suburbs of Heaven, page 19:
glosses: stingy, miserly
examples: text: Jonathan's dad, Tom, lives in this scrinchy, little farmhouse in the country, lives here with his two monster hounds, who lie now sleeping at Ruby's feet.
ref: 2017, Linda McCullough Moore, An Episode of Grace:
glosses: poky, small, cramped
duss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dusses
form: dussing
form: dussed
form: dussed
Etymology: From dust, having the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: There was an empty table and chair being prepared. But them Muhaji olders were telling me to duss so I dussed, ennet. I walked away watching that empty table, chair and microphone at the entrance.
ref: 2018, Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City:
glosses: To leave; to scram.
in the frame
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Colin just told me about some lad he played football with last night who beat Gerald up a month or so ago, but I don't think he's in the frame.
ref: 2021, Chris McDonald, Mistletoe and Crime:
glosses: Suspected by the police of having committed a crime.
aled up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aled up
form: most aled up
Etymology: From ale.
Senses: examples: text: Not that John would have been the only one 'aled up' here – it was a Liverpool party after all, […]
ref: 2013, Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles - All These Years:
glosses: Drunk.
hot-dogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot-dog
hot-dogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hot-dog
Three Crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6025).
glosses: A village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS5694).
hosts with the most
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of host with the most
YTPMV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YTPMVs
form: YTPMV's
Senses: glosses: Initialism of YouTube Poop music video, a song, usually a cover, created out of sampled clips from other pieces of media.
YTPMVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YTPMV
keiyodoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keiyodoshi
form: keiyo-doshi
form: keiyoudoushi
form: keiyou-doushi
Etymology: From Japanese 形容動詞(けいようどうし) (keiyōdōshi), itself a compound of 形容(けいよう) (keiyō, “description; form”) + 動詞(どうし) (dōshi, “verb”).
Senses: glosses: An adjectival noun.
raw_tags: in Japanese grammar
wikipedia: Kōjien
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shinmura Izuru
YTPMV's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YTPMV
ass-kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass-kickers
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that kicks ass.
variation of the field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variations of the field
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Any of the ways (such as barry or chequy) in which a field or charge may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division.
variations of the field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variation of the field
Aztec two-step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aztec two-steps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Montezuma's revenge (“diarrhea experienced by tourists in Mexico”).
synonyms: word: Montezuma's revenge
extra: diarrhea experienced by tourists in Mexico
Aztec two-steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aztec two-step
multiresidential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + residential.
Senses: examples: text: It took me several months before I decided on multiresidential (also called multiunit or multiplex) income-generating rental investment properties versus all other types of real estate.
ref: 2017, Chris Seepe, Landlording in Ontario, page 7:
glosses: Used as a residence for multiple families, generally referring to an apartment building or condominium.
Related terms: multifamily
multiplex
multiunit
Olom Haba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] the Rav's views on President Richard Nixon (despite Watergate, he has a share in Olom Haba for saving Medinat Yisrael during the Yom Kippur War) […]
ref: 2006, Mendi Gopin, קונטרוס למחזור של ראש השנה: My Rabbi and My Rebbe, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of Olam Haba.
ma-gent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ma-gents
Senses: examples: text: What with the ma-gents and their micro-mini clad bunju bunjus enjoying so much of the hard-won freedom that they can afford to spurn carefully cherished African customs and traditions […]
ref: 1995, Pace, page 192:
glosses: Alternative form of amagent.
ma-gents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ma-gent
amagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amagents
form: ma-gent
Senses: examples: text: In the amagents' telling, police regularly accept bribes to overlook the crimes or drop the charges against the amagents.
ref: 1998, Crime and Conflict (issues 13-22, page 26)
text: Young black men who are engaged in crime — or amagents as they are popularly known in townships — told interviewers that violent and broken homes and poverty were the two key factors that had influenced their decision to become involved […]
ref: 2002, Mark Shaw, Crime and Policing in Post-apartheid South Africa, page 60:
text: Amagents may be defined as young men who tend to regard themselves as streetwise and may be involved in petty or serious criminal activity.
ref: 2011, Chris Blazina, David S. Shen-Miller, An International Psychology of Men, page 29:
glosses: A young male criminal gang member.
amagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amagent
alleycatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alleycat
alleycatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alleycat
alley catting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alley cat
alley catted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alley cat
Texas two-steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Texas two-step
all over the lot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: All over the place
all over the ballpark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: All over the place
all over the show
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: All over the place
troublesom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more troublesom
form: most troublesom
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of troublesome.
piss and wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Bluster; windbaggery.
Related terms: piss and vinegar
piss in the wind
weak as piss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This home-made wine is weak as piss.
text: He's weak as piss. He has no chance in a fight.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very weak (in various senses).
avoyd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avoyds
form: avoyding
form: avoyded
form: avoyded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of avoid.
Andy McNab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Andy McNabs
Etymology: From the name of Andy McNab (Steven Billy Mitchell), novelist and former soldier, as a rhyme for cab.
Senses: examples: text: I look in the rear-view. There's an Andy McNab parked behind me, with the meter running.
ref: 2012, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, The Shelbourne Ultimatum:
glosses: A taxi.
wikipedia: Andy McNab
rear-view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear-views
Senses: examples: text: I look in the rear-view. There's an Andy McNab parked behind me, with the meter running.
ref: 2012, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, The Shelbourne Ultimatum:
glosses: Alternative form of rearview.
Related terms: rear-view mirror
rear-views
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rear-view
Andy McNabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andy McNab
ghosthouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghosthouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ghost house.
ghosthouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghosthouse
ghost house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost houses
form: ghosthouse
Senses: glosses: A haunted house.
ghost houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghost house
blackout poem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackout poems
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
synonyms: erasure poem
glosses: A poem created from another text by selectively covering up words.
Related terms: blackout poetry
wordmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordmaster
zero-cool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zero-cool
form: most zero-cool
Senses: examples: text: SINGER DIONNE WARWICK believes her younger sister, Dee Dee, has the makings of a zero-cool singer.
ref: 1965, Corpsman (volume 1, issue 2, page 9)
text: Investigative journalist Jim Hougan accurately described Bellino as a "zero-cool, behind-the-scenes figure in the Kennedy organization."
ref: 1998, Gus Russo, Live by the Sword, page 242:
text: She blazed a trail for new wave and became a zero-cool gay rights activist in an industry still jittery about open declarations of sexuality.
ref: 2023, Stuart Cosgrove, The Complete Soul Trilogy: eBook Bundle:
glosses: Very cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)
Related terms: zero chill
yentl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yentls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yenta.
yentls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yentl
undisgustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisgustable
form: most undisgustable
Etymology: From un- + disgustable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being disgusted.
hog-whimpering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hog-whimpering
form: most hog-whimpering
Senses: glosses: Extremely drunk, to the point of incoherence.
paying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pay up
flash the cash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flashes the cash
form: flashing the cash
form: flashed the cash
form: flashed the cash
Senses: glosses: To spend money, especially in an ostentatious manner; to pay up.
Related terms: flash for cash
flash the ash
pays up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pay up
jimmy-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jimmyproof
Etymology: From jimmy + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being jimmied, or circumvented from the outside.
flash the ash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flashes the ash
form: flashing the ash
form: flashed the ash
form: flashed the ash
Senses: examples: text: The lads were sprawled along the upholstered bench behind the pool table, smoking, drinking and larking around as usual.
'Flash the ash,' said Glenn on joining them.
ref: 2015, Trevor Coote, Lemon Socks, page 65:
text: Everyone smoked so if the auditorium was full, the whole room would be filled with smoke in next to no time. It was like the legendary London smog of the 1950s in there sometimes. You took it in turn to “flash the ash” as it was called.
ref: 2015, Richard Blackshire, Newtown Naughty Boy, page 145:
glosses: To give somebody a cigarette.
Related terms: flash for cash
flash the cash
jimmyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jimmy-proof.
indijaggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At all events, the point is that if you go on taking solid arsenic for a good long time — say a year or so — you establish a what-not, an immunity, and can take six or seven grains at a time without so much as a touch of indijaggers.
ref: 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:
text: “It's veal, Mrs. Spurgeon,” Cary hastily assured her, “which, as I'm sure you must know, allows one to enjoy the taste and appearance of mutton, without risking the old indijaggers.”
ref: 2013, Tamara Lejeune, Surrender to Sin:
glosses: Indigestion.
omniloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Early 19th century; earliest use found in The New Monthly Magazine. From omni- + -loquent.
Senses: glosses: Speaking of all things or on all subjects.
outergarment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outergarments
Senses: examples: text: […] the prevailing minimum wages in the Men’s Raincoat Industry should not be amended to exclude from the Cotton Garment and Allied Industries determination oiled waterproof cotton outergarments and to include that commodity and all other types of rainwear in the Men’s Raincoat Industry. The proposed amendments are based on evidence received that the wages paid in the manufacture of oiled waterproof cotton outergarments and in other types of rainwear generally are similar to those paid in the raincoat industry.
ref: 1940 December 20, Federal Register, volume 5, number 247, Washington, D.C., page 5209:
text: Beneath the chic outergarments the doll wears a factory-made shift of starched muslin threaded with cerise ribbon. […] Within the light-protected folds and creases of outergarments, lies the true color tone which can often be otherwise faded beyond recognition.
ref: 1977 April, Magda Byfield, “For Whom Were You Made, Rowena-Rose?”, in Spinning Wheel: Antiques & Early Crafts, volume 33, number 3, American Antiques & Crafts Society, pages 26 and 28:
text: Outergarments for travel and night outings continued to be the hooded circular cape, and the heraldic court mantle was still worn on formal ceremonial occasions. […] The major elements in the silhouette were distortion and a padding of the body; the major decorative accent that created a sense of tension was the slashing—outergarments literally attacked with a knife so that lining fabric could be forced through the slits. […] Creates through distorted body lines, excess ornamentation, and linings tightly pushed through slits in the outergarments, an artificial, immobile, almost grotesque authority figure that is both fascinating and repellent.
ref: 1983, Douglas A. Russell, Costume History and Style, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, pages 190, 200, and 202:
text: Underwear protects the body from cold and provides some degree of modesty for the wearer. In centuries past, it also protected outergarments. […] Another interesting phenomenon is the way in which outergarments have become undergarments and vice versa.
ref: 1996, Jennifer Ruby, Underwear (Costume in Context), London: B T Batsford Ltd, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of outer garment.
outergarments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outergarment
in the shit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: in deep shit
up shit creek
in the soup
glosses: In trouble.
icky-poo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more icky-poo
form: most icky-poo
Etymology: From icky + -poo.
Senses: glosses: Icky; yucky; disgusting.
icky-poo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From icky + -poo.
Senses: examples: text: I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo.
ref: 2007 October 7, S.S. Fair, “Vacuum Packed”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something yucky; an unpleasant mess.
Heimies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heimie
eidut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edut
form: 'edut
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עֵדוּת.
Senses: examples: text: The reasons for women's exclusion from eidut have expired now that women occupy secular positions of great responsibility and are no longer influenced by their husbands in public matters in the way they once were.
ref: 1999 October 22, j e rosenbaum, “Orthodox Institute Holds Graduation Ceremony for Female Rabbis”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
text: A person may not give eidut against themselves in a beit din.
ref: 2000 October 3, Lisa Beth, “Lieberman and Chillul Hashem”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
topics: law
glosses: testimony attesting to having witnessed the commission of the offense.
ice colds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice cold
ice-colds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-cold
gadol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gedolim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גָּדוֹל (“big, great”).
Senses: examples: text: There were many gedolim who said that it is infinitely preferable that the mosque be there than not, when there is no Beis Hamikdash.
ref: 2001 January 11, David Goldman, “JEWS FORBIDDEN ON TEMPLE MOUNT”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
glosses: An eminent, highly respected rabbi, esp. of the past.
dairy-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dairyfree
Etymology: From dairy + -free.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: milkless
text: If you object to even the tiniest bit of dairy, try some of the dairy-free suggestions below.
ref: 2001, Brenda Davis, Bryanna Clark Grogan, Joanne Stepaniak, Dairy-Free & Delicious, Summertown, Tenn.: Book Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Replacing milk in cereal or puddings is easy because of the dairy-free milks available today.
ref: 2014, Ashley Adams, The Dairy-Free Kitchen, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 15:
text: This delicious (though not dairy-free) dessert provides the rich flavor of chèvre, the coolness of ice cream, the tanginess of fresh blueberries and the crunch of crust.
ref: 2015, Lea Hendry Valle, Sweet Paleo: Gluten-Free, Grain-Free Delights, The Countryman Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: dairyless
nondairy
coordinate_terms: lactose-free
glosses: Without dairy ingredients.
dairyfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For readers with food intolerances or particular dietary needs, a chapter has been included with low fat, reduced sugar, eggless, and dairyfree recipes. […] There’s also a Healthy and Special Diets chapter for frozen dessert lovers who are looking for dairyfree, eggless, low sugar, or low fat recipes.
ref: 2009, Caroline Barty, Ice Cream Galore, Spruce, →ISBN:
text: Dairyfree spreads or coconut oil can be used to replace butter when making cakes or pastry, although the flavour will not be as good. […] There are two main types: firm, which can be sliced or cut into cubes and added to soups and stir-fries, deep-fried or used for kebabs; and silken, which is much softer and smoother and is good for mashing or puréeing in sauces, dips and dairyfree ice creams.
ref: 2011, Barbara Dixon, The Bumper Vegetarian Cookbook: 250 Tried, Tested, Trusted Recipes, Collins & Brown, →ISBN, pages 274 and 280:
text: […] I listen to recipes and your dairyfree, glutenfree modifications, about the trip you’re planning to the Santa Fe Aunts, the intermediate pottery class you’re taking […]
ref: 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages, Graywolf Press, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of dairy-free.
Beit Hamikdash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beit HaMikdash
form: Beis Hamikdash
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ (“holy house”).
Senses: glosses: The Temple in Jerusalem
hoofs it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoof it
hoofing it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoof it
hoofed it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoof it
seichel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛxɛl/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈseɪxəl/
Forms: form: sechel
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שׂכל (seykhl, “wit, sense”), from Hebrew שֵׂכֶל (sekhel, “intelligence”).
Senses: examples: text: WHICH IS PRECISELY WHAT I SAID, IF YOU HAD HAD THE SECHEL TO UNDERSTAND.
ref: 2001 January 11, David Goldman, “JEWS FORBIDDEN ON TEMPLE MOUNT”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):
glosses: wit, sense, gumption
chillul Hashem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /xiːˈluːl hɑˈʃɛm/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxɪlʊl hɑˈʃɛm/
Forms: form: hillul Hashem
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חילול השם.
Senses: examples: text: Undoubtedly, the non-enlistment of Ḥaredi yeshivah students beginning in 1948, and its significant expansion from 1977 until today when there are 63,000 Ḥaredi yeshivah students not serving in the IDF, constitutes a massive Ḥillul Hashem. This has caused a high percentage of Jews in the State of Israel to be angry at the Ḥaredim and many secular Jews have distanced themselves from Judaism as a direct result of the exemption of Ḥaredim from military service.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Does Jewish Law Require Yeshivah Students To Be Drafted At Age 18?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 70:
glosses: A disgrace before God; especially, shameful behavior by a Jew seen as 'giving God a bad name'.
boot and rally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boots and rallies
form: booting and rallying
form: booted and rallied
form: booted and rallied
Senses: glosses: To vomit as a result of drinking alcohol, and then continue drinking afterwards.
letter-carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter-carriers
Senses: examples: text: Laſt Night Mr. Over, his Majeſty’s Letter-Carrier, was aſſaulted on his Return from the Poſt-Office on Horſeback near Cheapſide, […]
ref: 1737 October 15, The Newcastle Courant:
text: A number of the country letter-carriers were mounted on the wheel-horse, and whilst the roads continued dry and hard M. Dreuze could congratulate himself on the success of his invention; […]
ref: 1869, Velox [pseudonym], “The Velocipede of the Past; and The Art of Velocipede Management”, in Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycles: How to Make and How to Use Them. With a Sketch of their History, Invention, and Progress, London: George Routledge and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: It’s a long way from the postcard’s heyday in the Edwardian era when the humble picture greeting was the WhatsApp of its day, with billions written and delivered annually and letter-carriers making up to 12 drops a day.
ref: 2022 July 30, Andre Ramshaw, “Hotel chain revives ‘classic’ postcard pastime”, in Vancouver Sun, page E6:
glosses: Alternative form of letter carrier.
letter-carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letter-carrier
hops and pops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hop and pop
hopping and popping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hop and pop
hopped and popped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hop and pop
Schwanheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in Germany:
A village in Schönbrunn municipality, Rhein-Neckar district, Baden-Württemberg.
glosses: A number of places in Germany:
A neighbourhood of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse.
glosses: A number of places in Germany:
A community in Bensheim, Bergstraße district, Hesse.
glosses: A number of places in Germany:
A municipality in Südwestpfalz district, Rhineland-Palatinate.
Tai Long Wan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantonese 大浪灣 /大浪湾 (daai⁶ long⁶ waan¹). Doublet of Big Wave Bay.
Senses: glosses: A bay of Lantau Island in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A bay of Lantau Island in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A village of Tai O Rural Committee in Shek Pik, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
glosses: A bay in Sai Kung, Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Related terms: Tai Long
billiard-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billiard-rooms
Senses: examples: text: The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 197:
text: […] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […]
ref: 1857, Punch:
text: The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.
ref: 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
text: Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Dated form of billiard room.
billiard-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billiard-room
hoochy-coochy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoochy-coochies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.
hoochy-koochy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoochy-koochies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.
hootchie-cootchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hootchie-cootchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.
hoochy-coochies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoochy-coochy
hoochy-koochies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoochy-koochy
hootchie-cootchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hootchie-cootchie
mic'd up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mic up
mic'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mic
Horspool's algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm.
synonyms: word: Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Etymology: It was published by Nigel Horspool in 1980, and based on an earlier (1977) algorithm developed by Robert S. Boyer and J. Strother Moore.
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Horspool's algorithm
glosses: An algorithm for finding substrings that trades space for time in order to obtain an average-case time complexity of O(n) on random text.
Horspool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Horspools
Etymology: Variant of Horsepool.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Horspool's algorithm
NYSPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New York State Psychiatric Institute.
jim hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jim hats
Senses: examples: text: “Come on, Jamal. […] I'm not lettin' you stick it in without a jim hat,” Simone said, annoyed. They debated about this with every one-night-stand they enjoyed.
ref: 2010, Jamila D. Smith, Runaways, page 24:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom.
jim hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jim hat
Büchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German, first mentioned in 1230 as Middle High German Boken, a name corresponding to modern Buche (“beech”).
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
iterativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iterative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being iterative.
semelfactiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semelfactive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being semelfactive.
iterativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being iterative.
re-entrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-entrances
Senses: examples: text: She was privy, one evening, to the hopes of her aunt Norris on this subject, as well as to her feelings, and the feelings of Mrs. Rushworth, on a point of some similarity, and could not help wondering as she listened; and glad would she have been not to be obliged to listen, for it was while all the other young people were dancing, and she sitting, most unwillingly, among the chaperons at the fire, longing for the re-entrance of her elder cousin, on whom all her own hopes of a partner then depended.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: So far he has shown unprecedented grasp of arm gestures when conducting applause, and his timing of exits and re-entrances for encores is unparalleled in the animal kingdom.
ref: 1976 August 4–10, Punch, page 192:
text: Re-entrance to the outside world came suddenly. For the last couple of years, the former resident of Watts’ Jordan Downs projects had retained a parole lawyer to petition for his early release. But until his mother broke the news to him during a mid-January phone call, he had no clue about his impending freedom.
ref: 2023 April 3, Jeff Weiss, “‘I don’t believe in anything but art’”, in Los Angeles Times, page E6:
glosses: Alternative form of reentrance.
re-entrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-entrance
Andoain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Andoain.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
Elgoibar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Basque Elgoibar.
Senses: glosses: An industrial town and municipality of the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain.
outwellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outwelling
outswellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outswelling
inwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inwellings
Senses: examples: text: The last stages of deformation were accompanied by, or followed by, the inwelling or injection of magmas along the Keweenaw thrust plane.
ref: 1929, Wisconsin Geological, Natural History Survey, Bulletin, page 116:
text: A similar bottom inwelling occurs in the Northern Baltic (Hobro and Nyquist 1971).
ref: 1973, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Kenneth Orris Emery, Structural Framework of the Sunda Shelf, page 164:
text: Thus, there are three primary sources of nutrients and materials for the coastal marine ecosystem (Fig. 2-4): 1) inwelling of materials from oceanic waters bu current, wind, and wave action; 2) upwelling from deep ocean waters; and 3) outwelling from estuariene and terrestrial environments.
ref: 1980, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Characterization of the Sea Island Coastal Region of South Carolina and Georgia, page 32:
text: Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.
ref: 1984, W. O'Reilly, Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System, page 368:
text: If you examine some of the planets and Sun in the Solar System you will see that 'energy inwelling's' seem to occur at either 19.5 degrees south or north of the equator.
ref: 2020, David Klooz, The Eye of Ra: Robbers of the Sacred Stone, page 174:
glosses: The process of flowing inward and pooling.
examples: text: Like the prodigal son, "when he came to himself" when her long slumbering conscience awoke , and she felt the soft, gentle inwelling of a now thoroughly aroused soul, which made her realize a great-hearted, universal charity for erring humanity, there rose also a great pity in her heart for the lover of her youth, her long deserted, neglected husband.
ref: 1890, Emma E. H. Specht, Alfrieda: A Novel, page 196:
glosses: A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
inwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This dark, passionate religiousness and inward sense of an inwelling magnificence, direct flow from the unknowable God, this filled Richard's heart first, and human love seemed such a fighting for candle-light, when the dark is so much better.
ref: 1923, David Herbert Lawrence, Kangaroo, page 385:
text: This inwelling energy vibrates at the frequency of the Fourth Heaven, and it is not a pipeline that linearly transports fuel from one location to another, but a holographic well.
ref: 2009, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, page 454:
glosses: That flows inward and pools, or gives a sense of emotional fullness.
inwellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inwelling
antisiphoning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + siphoning.
Senses: examples: text: [W]ould it be your view that the antisiphoning regulation enunciated by the Commission 2 years ago, should be strengthened to prevent any sliding over into pay cable?
ref: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page 83)
glosses: Preventing pay TV broadcasters from buying monopoly rights to televise important and culturally significant events before free-to-air television has a chance to bid on them.
grand-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand-children
Senses: examples: text: The King hauing conſulted vpon this point, and finding it nothing inconuenient to bee allied to the Mexicans, who were valiant men, made them anſwere, That they ſhould take his grand-child in good time, adding thereunto, that if he had beene a woman, hee would not haue giuen her, noting the foule fact before ſpoken of, ending his diſcourſe with theſe wordes, Let my grand-child goe to ſerue your god, and be his Lieutenant, to rule and gouerne his Creatures, by whom we liue, who is the Lord of Night, Day, and Windes: […]
ref: 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “Mexican Antiquities gathered out of the Writings of Iosephis Acosta a learned Iesuite”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 3rd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 5th book, § I (Of the ancient Inhabitants of New Spaine, and of the sixe Linages of the Nauatlacas. Of the Mexican Exodus, and Aduentures by the way: the foundation of Mexico, their first King and Tribute.), page 1005, lines 53–58:
text: The Savage’s Wife, as well as himſelf, would be highly pleas’d to ſee their Daughters impregnated, and bring forth; and they would both take great Delight in their Grand-Children.
ref: 1729, [Bernard Mandeville], The Fable of the Bees, part II, London: […] J. Roberts […], page 228:
text: They are not at all nice children, in my opinion; but Mrs. Musgrove seems to like them quite as well, if not better, than her grand-children.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: Obsolete form of grandchild.
grand-children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand-child
dragonlength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragonlengths
Etymology: From dragon + length.
Senses: examples: text: Further investigation proved that the plateau was isolated and ample to pasture a huge herd of food[-]beasts for the dragons. It ended in a sheer drop of several dragonlengths into denser jungle on one side, the sea-side escarpment on the other.
ref: 1968, Anne McCaffrey, “The Cold Between”, in Dragonflight, Ballantine Books, published 1974, →ISBN, page 262:
text: An elv’in scoutship was not a large ship, less than two dragonlengths.
ref: 2002, James Clemens (pseudonym; James Paul Czajkowski), Wit’ch Star, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The Copper stood before the massive Black Rock in the center of the Lavadome; it was dozens of dragonlengths high, heavy and black and forbidding.
ref: 2007, E. E. Knight (pseudonym; Eric Frisch), chapter 22, in Dragon Outcast (The Age of Fire; 3), Roc Books, →ISBN, page 257:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A distance equal to the length of a dragon.
dragonlengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragonlength
IBNS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Intelligent banknote neutralisation system.
orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If a person uses a self-defense spray device during the commission of a crime to eject, release, or emit orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile or oleoresin capsicum or threatens to use a self-defense spray device […]
ref: 1967, Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated, page 200:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The active ingredient in most tear gas, C₁₀H₅ClN₂, also called CS gas
MAAQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of 1-(methylamino)anthraquinone (“a red dye derived from anthraquinone”).
star note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star notes
Senses: glosses: A banknote that is printed to replace a faulty one, and used as a control mechanism for governments or monetary authorities to know the exact number of banknotes being printed.
safety-valving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: safety valving
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of safety-valve
star notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star note
safety-valved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: safety valved
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of safety-valve
safety valving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safety-valving (present participle and gerund of safety valve)
C-suiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-suiters
Senses: topics: management
glosses: One who works in the C-suite.
C-suiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-suiter
safety valved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safety-valved (simple past and past participle of safety valve)
egoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ego + -ed.
Senses: examples: a large-egoed narcissist
glosses: Having an ego of the specified kind.
yassified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yassify
yassifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yassify
yassifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yassify
Plebbit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛbɪt/
rhymes: -ɛbɪt
Etymology: Blend of pleb + Reddit
Senses: examples: quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.
glosses: Reddit.
Weingarten map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weingarten maps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of shape operator.
synonyms: word: shape operator
Weingarten maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weingarten map
bath mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bath mitzvahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bat mitzvah.
bath mitzvahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bath mitzvah
Yaremenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yaremenkos
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Яременко (Jaremenko).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Яременко (Jaremenko)
Banbury mixer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Banbury mixers
Etymology: Brand name, after the inventor Fernley H. Banbury.
Senses: glosses: A kind of internal batch mixer.
wikipedia: Fernley H. Banbury
Banbury mixers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Banbury mixer
basso-rilievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: sculpture
glosses: Synonym of bas-relief.
synonyms: word: bas-relief
basso-relievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When they were outside of the church, Corinna pointed out to Nelville, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which were represented on the gates in basso-relievo.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book IV. Rome.] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 187:
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: Synonym of bas-relief.
synonyms: word: bas-relief
basso ostinato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian basso ostinato.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of ground bass.
synonyms: word: ground bass
basket willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basket willows
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Salix purpurea (purple willow) or Salix viminalis (common osier).
glosses: Wood or the flexible twigs of such trees.
basket willows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basket willow
bar tack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar tacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bartack.
bar tacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar tack
baron court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baron courts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of court baron.
synonyms: word: court baron
baron courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baron court
bare trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare trusts
Senses: glosses: A trust whose beneficiary has a right to both income and capital and may call for both to be remitted into his/her own name.
bare trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bare trust
bare-root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare-roots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bareroot.
bare-roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bare-root
Uncle Thomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uncle Thomases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Uncle Tom.
synonyms: word: Uncle Tom
Uncle Thomases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Uncle Thomas
Table Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A bay at Cape Town, South Africa, overlooked by Table Mountain.
glosses: A bay and former settlement on the coast of Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
itikaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of i'tikaf.
both-sidesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This does not mean “both-sidesism” or a sterile neutrality that treats a human rights crisis like a football game, with evenly matched teams on a level playing field.
ref: 2023, Richard Falk, John Dugard, Michael Lynk, Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine:
glosses: Alternative form of bothsidesism.
Rushton turbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rushton turbines
Etymology: Invented by John Henry Rushton.
Senses: glosses: A radial flow impeller used for gas dispersion and other mixing applications in process engineering.
Rushton turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rushton turbine
Table Mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name of a number of mountains in various places, including
glosses: The name of a number of mountains in various places, including:
A flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town, South Africa.
oozey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oozey
form: most oozey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oozy.
lezzes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lez up
lezzing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lez up
lezzed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lez up
Wheatbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From wheat + belt.
Senses: examples: text: The 26-year-old has not been seen or heard from since she visited a general store in the small town of Beacon, in WA’s north-east Wheatbelt region, on 29 June.
ref: 2025 July 10, Tory Shepherd, “Abandoned van found in search for missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga in remote WA”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One of the nine regions in Western Australia.
unepoxied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + epoxied.
Senses: glosses: Not epoxied.
Related terms: unglued