cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crush barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush barriers
Senses: glosses: A fence or barrier that divides the space occupied by a large crowd in order to prevent people from being crushed.
Related terms: crowd control barrier
police barrier
security barrier
abart
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑːt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of about.
abart
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɑːt/
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of about.
Synonyms: abaht
'bout
Osgodby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0792).
glosses: A locality in Lenton, Keisby and Osgodby parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref TF0228).
glosses: A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA0584).
glosses: A locality in Thirkleby High and Low with Osgodby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE4980).
glosses: A village in Barlby with Osgodby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6433).
Barlby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Barlby with Osgodby parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE6334).
clannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clanny
Dwyryd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A river in Gwynedd, Wales, which flows into Tremadog Bay.
iron-clad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ironclad.
gender-nonconforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gender-nonconforming
form: most gender-nonconforming
form: gender non-conforming
form: gender-non-conforming
form: gender nonconforming
Senses: examples: text: Jamestown Township isn’t the first library to have its operations disrupted in this way. Libraries across the country have recently become a culture war battleground, facing an unprecedented number of book challenges and bans from conservative and far-right extremist groups opposed to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ authors, staff, and events. Last month, a public library in Iowa was forced to close temporarily after all full-time employees quit. The exodus came after months of complaints from conservative residents, who criticized the display of LGBTQ+ books and complained of gender non-conforming library workers "cross-dressing."
ref: 2022 August 5, Claire Woodcock, “This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books”, in Vice.com, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: GNC
antonyms: gender-conforming
glosses: Having a gender expression not in accordance with traditional masculine or feminine gender norms.
Related terms: gender nonconformist
gender nonconformity
gender-atypical
gender-diverse
gender-variant
gender expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender expressions
Senses: glosses: A person's selection of behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance that are associated with gender in a particular cultural context.
Synonyms: gender presentation
shake in one's boots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes in one's boots
form: shaking in one's boots
form: shook in one's boots
form: shaken in one's boots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quake in one's boots.
inflammatory bowel disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A gastrointestinal inflammatory disorder, a type of colitis not resulting from an infection.
catànies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catànies
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan catànies.
Senses: examples: text: Crema Catalana is used in stuffed fruits, such as Peres de Lleida, pears from Lleida, one of the oldest towns in Catalonia; Catànies, Catalan marcona sweetened almonds; Mató de Pedralbes, a Catalan cream treat from Barcelona; Manjar blanco, a Spanish blancmange eaten throughout the Spanish-speaking world; and Xuixos, a deep-fried custard-filled cylindrical pastry.
ref: 2014, Timothy G. Roufs Ph.D., Kathleen Smyth Roufs, Sweet Treats Around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture:
text: Other sweet treats include catànies, chocolate-covered Catalan almonds, nutty galetas (biscuits), melindros (ladyfingers) and many varieties of torró (nougat).
ref: 2017, Insight Guides, Experience Barcelona:
text: The rest of the dinner went on with a tense normality and, as soon as we had our catànies and coffee, we said goodbye to the family, alluding to the fact that we had to get up early in the morning.
ref: 2020, Miquel Àngel Lopezosa Criado, p53: The Molecule of Life:
glosses: A Catalan sweet made from almonds coated in caramel and powdered chocolate.
sixty-four dollar question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixty-four dollar questions
Etymology: From the American radio quiz show The $64 Question (1950-52), based on cultural and linguistic antecedents as discussed at million-dollar question.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of million-dollar question.
synonyms: word: million-dollar question
wikipedia: The $64,000 Question#Broadcast history
Shaoguan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃaʊˈɡwɑn/
Forms: form: Shaokuan
form: Shao-kuan
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 韶關 /韶关 (Sháoguān).
Senses: examples: text: The transfers began in the early 2000s, and by the first half of 2009, nearly 100,000 Uyghur workers had been sent east under this programme. Several hundred of them were working from May 2009 in the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong, a facility that made toys for Hasboro, Mattel and other international companies.
ref: 2007, James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, London: Hurst & Company, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 368:
text: The region has been simmering since a factory brawl in the southern Chinese city Shaoguan last month that killed two Uighurs.
ref: 2009 July 7, Disha Uppal, “Tension Remains High in Xinjiang”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2024:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Guangdong, China.
wikipedia: Frederick A. Praeger
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese, Postal Romanization
word: Shiukwan
pattener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpatənə/
ipa: /ˈpatnə/
ipa: /ˈpætənɚ/
Forms: form: patteners
Etymology: From Middle English patyner; equivalent to patten + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The pattenmakers, it seems, used the same material: the king, therefore, steps in between the patteners and the fletchers[…]
ref: 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: Supplement. Comprising the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, page 531:
text: The pattenmakers or patteners still find occupation in Yorkshire.
ref: 1882, John Hewitt, Old Yorkshire, volume 3, page 22:
text: But even though numbers of very small crafts, such as bookbinders, clockmakers, or patteners were not associated with pageants in the 1415 listing[…]
ref: 1997, Sarah Rees Jones, The Government of Medieval York: Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: pattenmaker
patteners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pattener
paint a rosy picture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints a rosy picture
form: painting a rosy picture
form: painted a rosy picture
form: painted a rosy picture
Senses: examples: text: Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncensored reports told a different story […] [with] Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual.
ref: 1948 January 12, “Russia: Tombstones & Wolf Traps”, in Time, retrieved 23 Aug 2020:
text: The company did paint a rosy picture of its investment banking division, booking record revenues of $1.7bn and saying its backlog of work stood at record levels.
ref: 2007 June 15, David Litterick, “Goldman is hit by sub-prime problems”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 23 Aug 2020:
text: Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan. […] He said needs included not only ground forces but also an array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, military police officers, special operations, cargo and attack helicopters and more.
ref: 2009 February 9, Nicholas Kulish, Helene Cooper, “Holbrooke Says Afghan War 'Tougher Than Iraq'”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2020:
glosses: To describe a situation or prospective set of events in an upbeat, optimistic manner.
Related terms: rose-colored glasses
maiden-auntishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From maiden-auntish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I am afraid I have no use for the nice, tepid people, or that milk and water maiden-auntishness which primly reproves colour and passion.
ref: 1940, Warwick Deeping, chapter 30, in The Man Who Went Back, London: Cassell, page 326:
glosses: The quality of being maiden-auntish.
I'm telling you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of I can tell you.
synonyms: word: I can tell you
sheconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheconomies
Etymology: Blend of she + economy, popularized by a 2019 Morgan Stanley report titled “The Rise of the SHEconomy”.
Senses: examples: text: In terms of Sheconomy, debt falls into three categories – the good, the bad and the just plain ugly.
ref: 2013, Karen J. Pine, Simonne Gnessen, Sheconomics, Headline, →ISBN:
text: This seems to be primarily in response to my simply citing the proven facts that many of the key changes in modern society, and modern marriages, have come as an outgrowth of the fast-breaking "liberation" of America's women and the attendant rise of the "Sheconomy."
ref: 2017, Bradley A. Coates, Divorce with Decency, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 150:
text: A "sheconomy" is booming in China, driven by a seismic shift in younger women's spending habits.
ref: 2019 May 3, Dawn Liu, “China's $670 billion 'sheconomy' is growing like crazy”, in CNBC:
text: I also find it a little bizarre that, in 2019, we are still seeing reports with names like “Rise of the SHEconomy” which point out that investing in female-focussed brands is probably a good idea. No SHEeet Sherlock!
ref: [2019 August 31, Arwa Mahdawi, “All the single ladies have been an economic force for a long time – marketers are just noticing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The trend whereby women are gaining economic power, and living increasingly consumerist lifestyles, particularly when it comes to spending on fashion, food, cars, and apartments.
Bournbrook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːnbɹʊk/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0482).
bukkumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bukkumi
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 부꾸미 (bukkumi).
Senses: examples: text: When steamed rice cakes were served for feasts or rituals, they were shaped into small, pretty forms, such as hwajeon, pan-fried rice cakes with flower petals, juak, made with jujube and honey, and bukkumi, made with red bean.
ref: 2007, Jae-Sik Suh, Korean Patterns:
text: One sweet Tteok is called Bukkumi, which is made with a glutinous rice or susu (millet) flour dough stuffed with honey, nuts, cinnamon and sweetened red bean.
ref: 2013, Mark McWilliams, Wrapped & Stuffed Foods: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2012:
text: Bukkumi (Filled Crescent tteok)
ref: 2020, Jiu Chung, Korean Cookbook: 100+ Authentic Korean Dishes to Cook at Home:
glosses: A pan-fried tteok made from glutinous rice flour or sorghum flour and stuffed with various fillings.
ragetweet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ragetweets
form: ragetweeting
form: ragetweeted
form: ragetweeted
form: rage-tweet
form: rage tweet
Etymology: From rage + tweet. Compare ragequit.
Senses: examples: text: While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.
ref: 2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74:
text: Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants.
ref: 2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones.
ref: 2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To post an update to Twitter in anger.
ragetweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragetweets
form: rage-tweet
form: rage tweet
Etymology: From rage + tweet. Compare ragequit.
Senses: examples: text: “Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron.
ref: 2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times:
text: The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem.
ref: 2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.
ref: 2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: An update posted to Twitter in anger.
ragetweets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ragetweet
ragetweets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragetweet
ragetweeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ragetweet
ragetweeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ragetweet
Garswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Garswoods
Etymology: Perhaps from Old English gyr (“fir tree”) + -s- + wudu (“wood”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Seneley Green parish, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5599).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Nants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nantz
Etymology: From the town of Nantes.
Senses: examples: text: And if your honour should want a small parcel of fine tea, or a few anchors of right Nantz, I'll be bound you shall be furnished to your heart's content.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A type of brandy produced in the Nantes area of France; brandy, spirit.
letters patents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The letters patents of king Henry the ſeuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and his three ſonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discouerie of new and vnknowen lands.
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, “Iohn Cabots Patent”, in The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC, page 509:
text: If you do wrongfully ſeize Herford's right, / call in his Letters Patents that he hath / By his Atturneyes generall, to ſue[…]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 29, column 2:
text: (which I have kept as carefully as I would Letters Patents, ſince they intitle me to what I value more than titles of honour.)
ref: 1753, Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope Eſq., volume VII, London: J. and P. Knapton, page 176:
glosses: Archaic form of letters patent.
take the red eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the red eye
form: taking the red eye
form: took the red eye
form: taken the red eye
Etymology: From red-eye (“overnight airplane flight”).
Senses: glosses: To travel on an airplane all night.
take it on the lam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it on the lam
form: taking it on the lam
form: took it on the lam
form: taken it on the lam
Etymology: From on the lam.
Senses: examples: text: They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
glosses: To escape.
you hear me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: you hear
form: do you hear
form: do you hear me
form: did you hear
form: did you hear me
Senses: examples: text: And do me a favor: forget all this happened. You hear me? It never happened. For your sake. We never spoke!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Y ear Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
synonyms: get it
glosses: Used to emphasize a command or an opinionated statement.
Related terms: you heard me
syllab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabs
Etymology: From Old French sillabe (“syllable”).
Senses: examples: text: “God forgive you, Mr. Hatchway,” said the landlord, interrupting him; “as I'm an honest man, and a housekeeper, I never heard a syllab of the matter.”
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A syllable.
Llanbedr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5826).
glosses: A hamlet in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO1446)
glosses: A village in Vale of Grwyney community, near Crickhowell, Powys (OS grid ref SO2320).
take it from the top
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it from the top
form: taking it from the top
form: took it from the top
form: taken it from the top
Senses: glosses: To take it from scratch, to take it from the beginning.
Related terms: da capo
from the top
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: From the beginning.
examples: text: These orders come from the top.
glosses: From the highest-ranking individual in an organization.
Derived terms: take it from the top
Talerddig
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A small village in Llanbrynmair community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SH9300).
go-go girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-go girls
Senses: glosses: A female go-go dancer.
piss-kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [T]he commodore […] did not scruple to damn her for a squinting, block-faced, chattering piss-kitchen […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A kitchenmaid.
go-go dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: go-go dancers
Etymology: See go-go.
Senses: glosses: A dancer who entertains patrons at a nightclub, especially a young and scantily dressed woman.
Hyponyms: go-go girl
go-go dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-go dancer
go-go girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of go-go girl
chilogrammes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilogramme
mascne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I spoke to Leighanne McGill, a board certified physicians assistant, about what she calls “mascne”, or mask acne.
ref: 2020 May 8, What is Mascne? How to prevent and treat face breakouts from wearing a mask, spoken by Maddie Gardner, WFMY News 2:
text: "Mascne is from wearing the mask all day and then you can get breakouts in the area especially around the nose, cheeks, chin or just any places that’s included with the mask," said Dr. Allison Stocker […]
ref: 2020 July 5, Lexi Hazlett, “How to avoid 'mascne'”, in KENS 5 News:
text: Designed to retain the droplets through which the coronavirus spreads, the mask is the cause of several skin problems, including the “mascne”.
ref: 2021 June 9, Dolores, “Everything you need to know about the “mascne” and other skin problems associated with wearing a mask”, in News in 24 English, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2021:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of maskne.
New Haw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in Runnymede borough, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0462).
Rancho Cucamonga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Victorville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Victor + -ville. Originally known as Lane's Crossing; became Victor in 1885, after Jacob Nash Victor, and Victorville for postal reasons in 1901, due to confusion with Victor, Colorado.
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
wikipedia: Jacob Nash Victor
Chino Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Upland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jefferson township, Grant County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Franklin County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Upton County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
glosses: A former rural locality in Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia, merged into Aramac in 2019.
Apple Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Redlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
glosses: A ghost town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A northern suburb of Weymouth, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY6682).
glosses: A hamlet in Crondall parish and Ewshot parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8049).
glosses: A hamlet in Highworth parish, Swindon borough, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1991).
Related terms: Redland
Yucaipa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkaɪpə/
rhymes: -aɪpə
Etymology: From Serrano yucaipat (“green valley”).
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Montclair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: A city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
examples: text: That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 137:
glosses: A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
Adelanto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Twentynine Palms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Loma Linda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Yucca Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Lake Arrowhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Big Bear City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Related terms: Big Bear Lake
Big Bear Valley
Grand Terrace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Crestline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Crawford County and Richland County, Ohio, United States.
Muscoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Oak Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Fort Irwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Spring Valley Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Joshua Tree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Piñon Hills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Lucerne Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Silver Lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Helendale
glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Big Bear Lake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Related terms: Big Bear City
Big Bear Valley
Running Springs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Wrightwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /raɪt.wʊd/
ipa: [ˈɹai̯t̚.wʊd̚]
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Morongo Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Lenwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
San Antonio Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Mountain View Acres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Homestead Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Searles Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Big River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
glosses: A short river in Rhode Island, United States.
Lytle Creek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Oak Glen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Bluewater
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico.
glosses: A place in the United States:
Synonym of Bluewater Village, New Mexico; the Bluewater post office is located there.
synonyms: word: Bluewater Village
extra: the Bluewater post office is located there
word: New Mexico
extra: the Bluewater post office is located there
glosses: A municipality in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A large shopping centre in Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ5773).
glosses: A town and suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Bluewater Village
Heacham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF6737).
Toop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
picket-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picket-houses
form: picket house
form: pickethouse
Etymology: From picket + house.
Senses: examples: text: Ever since the month of February 1810 (exactly one year), we had been constantly so near the enemy at the advanced posts, sleeping in our clothes, in bivouac, or in some hovel of a picket-house, rolled up in our cloaks on the ground, that I felt quite like a fish out of water, and was not reconciled to a bed.
ref: 2010, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Leach C.B., Rough Sketches Of Life Of An Old Soldier:
text: The Metcalf picket-house and the flag-staff tower became the objects of incessant attack.
ref: 2014, David Hume, T. Smollett, Edward Farr, E. H. Nolan, The History of England:
text: From the nearest French sentry, they learned that Grindley was lying drunk in their picket-house.
ref: 2016, Gareth Glover, The American Sharpe: The Adventures of an American Officer of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular & Waterloo Campaigns:
glosses: A wooden building made by fitting boards across a framework of upright poles, often constructed as part of an outpost or as the first shelter in a new homestead.
picket-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picket-house
picket house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picket houses
Senses: examples: text: The others from the church across the street from Baca poured volley after volley into the door and window of the picket house where Baca was hiding.
ref: 2012, Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico, page 105:
text: East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.
ref: 2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill:
text: My husband and his brother, Charles, made a dugout for us to live in and built a picket house of one room a short distance away.
ref: 2014, Terri M. Baker, Connie Oliver Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives:
glosses: Alternative form of picket-house.
picket houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picket house
pickethouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickethouses
Senses: examples: text: His greatest hope was that this was not a full-scale attack, merely a skirmish at the pickethouse, like the one the night before.
ref: 1988, Cynthia Van Hazinga, These United Colonies, page 338:
text: In the afternoon they passed through the ruins of an old ranch on that stony mesa where there were crippled fenceposts propped among the rocks that carried remnants of a wire not seen in that country for years. An ancient pickethouse. The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of picket-house.
pickethouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickethouse
meatcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatcases
Etymology: From meat + case.
Senses: examples: text: Ham, turkey ( often smoked ), chicken breast, and roast beef are whole muscle products that are often sliced and sold along side luncheon meats in the meatcase.
ref: 2001, John R. Romans, The Meat We Eat, page 783:
text: Finally he fetched up in front of the meatcase. Mr Fox rose and donned a white apron, old bloodstains bleached light pink, tied it in the back and approached the meatcase and switched on a light that illuminated rolls of baloney and rounds of cheese and a tray of thin sliced pork chops among the sausages abd sousemeat.
ref: 2007, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God:
text: A chicken was ascending slowly past the chrome rim of the meatcase.
ref: 2011, William Gay, The Long Home:
glosses: A refrigerated or chilled display case for selling meat and (sometimes) cheese.
meatcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatcase
sousemeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sousemeats
Etymology: From souse + meat.
Senses: examples: text: Meats eaten included many pork entrees such as salt pork, chitterlings and sousemeat.
ref: 1983 -, Vivian Brake, Development of a Methodology for Menu Planning Through the Analysis of Food Preferences, Consumption and Waste, page 16:
text: One of his favorites was what we called sousemeat, a conglomeration of feet, ears, faces, and other parts that were cleaned thoroughly, boiled into a homogeneous glutinous consistency, seasoned heavily, and then formed into a large loaf.
ref: 2001, Jimmy Carter, Christmas in Plains: Memories, page 54:
text: Mr Fox rose and donned a white apron, old bloodstains bleached light pink, tied it in the back and approached the meatcase and switched on a light that illuminated rolls of baloney and rounds of cheese and a tray of thin sliced pork chops among the sausages and sousemeat.
ref: 2007, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God:
text: But it was over to Jimmy's father, James Earl, for the really big gestures in cooking; he would conjure up waffles or battercakes for breakfast and a remarkable “special occasion” conglomeration called sousemeat of pigs' faces, ears, feet, and "other parts," which was boiled into a gloop, richly seasoned, and then shaped into a loaf.
ref: 2016, Fiona Ross, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 24:
glosses: A foodstuff made by boiling souse (pickled feet, ears, etc of a pig) into a glutinous mass, seasoning it heavily, and shaping it into loaves.
Related terms: headcheese
sousemeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sousemeat
Selanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Selannes
Senses: glosses: An alternative English spelling of the Finnish surname Selänne.
gunbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gun-broke
Etymology: From gun + broke.
Senses: examples: text: Well hold his horse. He might not be gunbroke.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Most o' the horses are gunbroke an' they're less likely to spook than the cattle.
ref: 2009, Will Armstrong, Jordan Land, page 122:
text: They'll stand to be saddled and, long as nobody does anything ignorant, they're not likely to throw. Aren't any of them gunbroke, but we can get them that way.
ref: 2014, Aaron Gwyn, Wynne's War: A Novel, page 114:
glosses: Trained not to spook when a gun is fired nearby.
raw_tags: of a horse
gun-broke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But unless a horse is gun-broke, you better get off to shoot.
ref: 2012, Bill Graves, On the Back Roads: Discovering Small Towns of America, page 253:
text: He had had no time to wonder whether the horses were gun-broke, and it would probably have made very little difference if he had.
ref: 2013, Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes West:
text: "Now ain't that a fool kid thing to do?" he cried. "Shooting a gun without asking you if your hosses was gun-broke? […]"
ref: 2014, Max Brand, Long, Long Trail:
glosses: Alternative form of gunbroke.
Kurri Kurri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Awabakal term meaning the beginning, the first.
Senses: glosses: A town in the City of Cessnock, Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia.
deadcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Off the deadcenter position, the spring retains the flap and the locking pawl in their locking positions.
ref: 1970, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
deadcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: And with the hook placed deadcenter in the back, rather than in the mouth or tail, the fish can carry the load without swimming suspiciously off-kilter.
ref: 1988, Field & Stream- Volume 93:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
deadcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadcenters
Senses: examples: text: Turn the engine so that one of the cranks is about ten degrees beyond the top deadcenter.
ref: 1911, Oil Field Engineering: (1911) - Volume 13, page 519:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of dead center.
deadcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadcenters
form: deadcentering
form: deadcentered
form: deadcentered
Senses: examples: text: He about deadcentered your pocketbook didn't he?
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-center.
deadcenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadcenter
deadcenters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deadcenter
deadcentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deadcenter
deadcentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deadcenter
deadcentered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Yet, as long as the issue is anything like: "Stand back!" "Do not interfere or influence!" "Let the kids do what they want!" on the one side, and "By God, I want to teach them something!" on the other, this deadcentered immobility can be the only outcome.
ref: 1977, Frithjof Bergmann, On Being Free, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of dead-centered.
dead-center
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dead center
form: deadcenter
Senses: examples: text: These curves represent approximate insertion conditions for lunar impact trajectories designed to intersect the center of the moon (dead-center hit).
ref: 1961, NASA Technical Report, page 7:
glosses: In the exact center
dead-center
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: dead center
form: deadcenter
Senses: examples: text: With a Dragunov, I can hit any target dead-center at a distanceof two hundred meters.
ref: 2014, Martin DuPont, Beyond Fear: If You Must Think It; You Will Die, page 219:
text: Think of it this way: There's no musical listening experience quite like sitting dead-center in an acoustically perfect concert hall.
ref: 2015, Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design:
text: The snack bar itself had beautiful light-grained Formica counters, and there was a giant popcorn machine placed dead-center as a focal point, like a “Holy Grail” of snacks for all to see.
ref: 2016, Dennis Hinton, A Skate Odyssey: The Rise and Fall of an American Family:
glosses: In the exact center.
dead-center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-centers
form: dead center
form: deadcenter
Senses: glosses: The exact center
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of dead center.
dead-center
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dead-centers
form: dead-centering
form: dead-centered
form: dead-centered
form: dead center
form: deadcenter
Senses: examples: text: All four of you are assuming that I've dead-centered the target . I thought probably I was right, but since I couldn't find any Eich traces, I expected a lot of argument.
ref: 1953, Edward Elmer Smith, Second Stage Lensmen, page 161:
text: At over a hundred knots, Archie slid the Hawk forward and dead-centered the basket with the probe on his first try.
ref: 2012, M. L. Buchman, I Own the Dawn:
text: He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.
ref: 2016, Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives:
text: Sometimes I'd like to half-brain the old buzzard, but everything he has said so far has dead-centered the beam.
ref: 2017, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Children of the Lens:
glosses: To hit or place in the exact center.
dead-centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead-center
dead-centers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dead-center
dead-centering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dead-center
dead-centered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dead-center
dead-centered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Christ is shown full-face and full-figured, dead-centered in the picture and half-arisen from the coffin, crowned, robed, still bleeding from the wound in his chest and holding a banner emblazoned with a cross as if it were a battle flag.
ref: 1961, Robert Myron Coates, Beyond the Alps: A Summer in the Italian Hill Towns, page 55:
text: His skill was such that, though the coldheart wasn't dead-centered in the viewfield, he was just a twitch away.
ref: 2014, James Axler, Playfair's Axiom:
glosses: In the exact center
dogbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dog + bit.
Senses: examples: text: Louis say, “I ain't studyin' to git dogbit.”
ref: 1937, Harriet Gift Castlen, That was a Time, page 56:
text: "I got dogbit on Easter Sunday and I took me a club to beat off the dogs, and they (the FBI) took the clubs,” Davis complained. “The FBI has been aggravating people and worrying them to death.”
ref: 1986, Howard Smead, Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker, page 146:
text: I was settin pins in a bowlin alley in Ardmore Oklahoma and I got dogbit by a bulldog took a chunk out of my leg the size of a Sunday roast.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Bitten by a dog.
dogbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogbits
Etymology: From dog + bit.
Senses: examples: text: To operate the upper dog, the dogbit is dropped on the log, and is forced downward into the timber by drawing downward upon the long lever.
ref: 1892, Park Benjamin, Modern Mechanism, page 772:
glosses: A bit used on a dog.
atotter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atotter
form: most atotter
Etymology: From a- + totter.
Senses: examples: text: The following day on the track south they began to encounter small ragged caravans of migrant traders headed toward the northern border. Brown and weathered men with burros three or four in tandem atotter with loads of candelilla or furs or goathides or coils of handmade rope fashioned out of lechugilla or the fermented drink called sotol decanted into drums and cans and strapped onto packframes made of treelimbs.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The nest breast wobbles in the westerly wind, the day is a grave, its eight black legs atotter under the pall.
ref: 1999, Robert Wrigley, Reign of Snakes:
text: We find it hard to comprehend that while America's major airlines are tottering on bankruptcy's edge-- with United already bankrupt (and welching on pensions) and Delta and American atotter-- Europe's big airlines remain financially healthy.
ref: 2004, Alan Goldfein, Europe's Macadam, America's Tar, page 63:
glosses: In the act of tottering.
upon the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of on the carpet.
last time I checked
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: last I checked
Senses: glosses: As I last remember; last I recall.
examples: text: "Are you a woman?" "Last time I checked."
glosses: Yes; affirmative; obviously.
last I checked
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of last time I checked.
tie periwig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie periwigs
Senses: examples: text: The loss of his tye-periwig and laced hat, which were curiosities of the kind, did not at all contribute to the improvement of the picture […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tiewig.
Barbados water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had provided vast quantities of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Drank desperately a good deal of wine and, to crown all, half a pint of Barbados waters.
ref: 1789, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 17:
glosses: A cordial flavoured with orange- and lemon-peel.
Welsh harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh harps
Senses: examples: text: [A]ll the fiddles within six miles […] with the addition of a drum, bag-pipe, and Welch-harp, regaled the guests with a most melodious concert.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of harp associated with traditional music of Wales, originally a simple single-string instrument and now more usually referring to a type of triple harp.
Welsh harps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Welsh harp
Floridiots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Floridiot