cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fuck boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck boy
fuck-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuck-boys
Senses: examples: text: The fuck-boy is not really gay. But he's powerless and so has no choice.
ref: 2000, Drew Leder, The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope, page 115:
glosses: Alternative form of fuck boy.
A prisoner who provides sexual favors.
examples: text: Although the loss was only pocket change to Future, his reputation was in jeopardy, and he couldn't overlook that.To do so would be equivalent to him inviting every fuck-boy to his glass front door.
ref: 2014, Rumont Tekay, Venom in My Veinz, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fuck boy.
A contemptible man.
fuck-boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck-boy
fuckboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuckboys
Etymology: From fuck + boy.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ngl, he’s BUFF,’ Ruth offered in the ‘St Augustine’s finest’ WhatsApp group. ‘But he looks like a fuckboy tbh LOOOL.’
ref: 2023, Yomi Adegoke, The List, 4th Estate, page 11:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fuck boy.
fuckboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuckboy
cellular debris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Organic waste left over after a cell dies by undergoing apoptosis or lysis. It is a natural waste product in animals, and in some cases is cleared away by the immune system.
faygelah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faygelahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of feygele.
faygelahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faygelah
jokefic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jokefics
Etymology: From joke + fic.
Senses: examples: text: (Stealth, don't get any ideas, before you launch into another epic because I said the word 'SRB2'. This is a jokefic.)
ref: 1999 April 18, Johnny 'Sonikku' Wallbank, “[AFSH] I don't even feel like it! Bwahahaha! Part 2”, in alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog (Usenet):
text: this was just written as what was *supposed* to be a two chapter April Fool's jokefic and a chance to throw some ideas out i couldn't use elsewhere.
ref: 2000 May 8, Gregg Sharp, “[Ranma/Xover] [FanFic] The Bet: Reluctant Bet seg 24 "The First Emperor Of China?"”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
text: I've been writing Daria fanfics and jokefics (A few are still in the works)ever since I stumbled upon the scene in 1997, […]
ref: 2001 June 21, The Outsider [username], “The future of Daria (For us)”, in alt.tv.daria (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic intended to be humorous or absurd.
Synonyms: crack fic
humorfic
sillyfic
jokefics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jokefic
joint family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint families
Senses: examples: text: Earlier when joint family was the norm, children used to find time to look after their parents.
ref: 2010 October 3, “Breakdown of joint family taking toll on elders”, in New Indian Express, retrieved 17 May 2015:
text: But since we live in a joint family with my in-laws in the adjacent bedrooms, we usually keep the volume of television a little high to restrict the sounds.
ref: 2011 November 5, “Most annoying bedroom habits”, in India Times, retrieved 17 May 2015:
text: Growing up in a household of 10-11 people – parents, aunts, uncles all under the same roof – I loved the concept of a joint family.
ref: 2015 April 15, Payal Dighe Karkhanis, “Living in a joint family makes one rethink the idea of choice and responsibility”, in Hindustan Times, retrieved 17 May 2015:
glosses: A household consisting of two or more closely-related nuclear families, such as two or more brothers along with their wives and children, or multiple generations along with spouses.
Synonyms: joint household
Related terms: extended family
joint household
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint households
Senses: glosses: Synonym of joint family.
synonyms: word: joint family
glosses: A household comprising unrelated persons, such as housemates, or several unrelated families.
Related terms: boarding house
hot bed
sadfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadfics
Etymology: From sad + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Just keep in mind that I don't do darkfics or sadfics.
ref: 1997 February 6, Andrew Huang, “[Ranma] [fanfic] Life and Manhood”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
text: For I had faith that this author would apply craft and finesse to the fic, even if it were yet another "sadfic" with yet another Akane added to the corpses that litter the archive.
ref: 1997 August 3, Talswapr [username], “[Ranma] [Review] Taleswapper's Quarterly Post”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
text: This is probably my first attempt at writing something even close to a darkfic. If anything, it seems to come across as a sadfic. Even if the character does try to take her life, I won't try to classify it as a suicide fic.
ref: 2000 March 31, Rakna, “[Eva] [FanFic] The One I Love Is... - Darkness of a Broken Heart”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fanfic which intentionally deals with a tragic situation or theme.
Synonyms: angst
angstfic
sadfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadfic
only Nixon can go to China
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of only Nixon could go to China.
goodfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From good + fic.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it was intentionally written as 'badfic', as opposed to 'goodfic'.
ref: 1998 August 25, manhattantowers [username], “The Truth About 'Nite Challengee 1/?' [sic]”, in alt.drwho.creative (Usenet):
text: It's good badfic, which is definitely preferable to bad goodfic.
ref: 2000 July 12, Jean Helms, “Re: A Story (1//1) BADFIC by shannono”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
text: Yeah... *looks at count* ...thirded! It's not like people are going to complain about more goodfic. :)
ref: 2008 July 8, Katrine Myra, “Re: Plotbunny drive by - Dancing Spock?”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Well-written fan fiction.
Danaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdæn.eɪ.əs/
Etymology: From Latin Danaus, from Ancient Greek Δᾰνᾰός (Dănăós).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a mythical king who founded Argos
netgamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netgamers
Etymology: From net + gamer.
Senses: glosses: A person who plays video games with others over a network.
sea perch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːpɜːtʃ/
Forms: form: sea perch
form: sea perches
form: seaperch
form: sea-perch
Etymology: From sea + perch.
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of saltwater fish in various families, or a specimen thereof, many species in the genus Sebastes.
Derived terms: bigeye sea perch
black sea perch
deep sea perch
red sea perch
splendid sea perch
white sea perch
Kafka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæfkə/
ipa: /ˈkɑfkɑ/
ipa: /ˈkɑfkə/
Etymology: From German Kafka, from Czech German Kavka (“jackdaw”), from either Upper Sorbian or Lower Sorbian, which are ultimately from the Proto-Slavic *kavъka, imitating the call of a jackdaw.
Compare Polish kawka, Czech kavka, Slovene kávka, all meaning “jackdaw”.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: Franz Kafka (1883–1924), a German-language writer from Prague.
Derived terms: Kafkaesque
Kafkaish
Kafkaism
Kafkan
Kafkatrap
Kafkian
womanhaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of womanhater
neuroanastomosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroanastomoses
Etymology: From neuro- + anastomosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: anastomosis of a pair of nerves
neuroballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + ballistic.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Powered by a spring or a stretched or twisted cord
raw_tags: of a weapon such as a catapult
neurobiologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neurobiology + -ism or neuro- + biologism.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to attribute neurobiological causes to mental and psychological diseases
neurophysiopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurophysiopathologists
Etymology: From neuro- + physiopathologist.
Senses: glosses: A pathologist who specialises in neurophysiopathology
flashfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashfics
Etymology: From flash + fic, from flash fiction.
Senses: examples: text: I will throw down the gauntlet to other flash authors (or anyone else)... Write a piece of flashfic that's a palindrome (reading by paragraphs, that is). I'll see if I can whip out another one as well...
ref: 2002 November 14, Scipio [username], “{ASSD} Something I wrote, along those lines. Was (Re: {ASSM} Lipogram of S-E-X...)”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet):
text: Anti-illusionist metalepsis is acceptable under certain circumstances, however, as we can see in the NCIS and Due South flashfic self-insertion challenges (malnpudl 2007; china_shop 2008).
ref: 2011, Tisha Turk, “Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction”, in Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek, editors, Metalepsis in Popular Culture, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 98:
text: I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a FlasFic^([sic]) but like most good flashfic it relies for its success on the readers^([sic]) existing background knowledge to place it within a larger framework.
ref: 2011 March 16, Kirok of L'Stok [username], “Re: NEW TNG: Carpe Diem, P/C and others (1/1), G-rated”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Flash fiction.
examples: text: (Though, not to nit pick^([sic]) but it isn't a drabble; they're 100 words, excluding title; this is a short fic, flashfic, ficlet...whatever<g>)
ref: 2003 November 16, Jane Davitt, “Re: Drabble: Forever After”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
text: This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.
ref: 2006, L. D. Beghol, Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide, Continuum (2006), page 103
text: According to a fanfiction tale's length, we can find the drabble (text up to 110 words), the flashfic (between 111 and 500 words) and the one piece, or one shot (more than 500 words).
ref: 2011, Max Giovagnoli, Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques, ETC Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: An individual work of flash fiction, especially a fanfic.
Synonyms: sense: genre
word: flash fiction
sense: genre
word: microfiction
sense: genre
word: sudden fiction
sense: individual work
word: drabble
sense: individual work
word: flash fiction
sense: individual work
word: short short story
sense: individual work
word: spamfic
sense: individual work
word: sudden fiction
flashfics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flashfic
heimish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heimish
form: most heimish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haimish.
heymish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heymish
form: most heymish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haimish.
haimisch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haimisch
form: most haimisch
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haimish.
Borsht Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Borsht Belt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Borscht Belt.
Jewish Alps
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Jewish Alps
Senses: glosses: The Borscht Belt (Catskills region).
shicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shickers
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכור / שִׁכּוֹר (shikór).
Senses: glosses: Drunk, drunkard.
Synonyms: alcoholic
souse
suck-pint
shicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more shicker
form: most shicker
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכור / שִׁכּוֹר (shikór).
Senses: glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: boozy
liquored up
tipsy
drunk
Related terms: shickered
shickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shicker
shadchan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadchans
form: shadchanim
form: shadchonim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shadchen.
shadchans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadchan
Bigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪɡz/
Forms: form: the Bigs
Etymology: From a shortening of big leagues.
Senses: glosses: Major League Baseball
sooq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sooqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of souq.
koses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kos
Africanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From African + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Africanism
lolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loliums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: ryegrass
glosses: Any of the genus Lolium of ryegrasses.
gouty-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gouty-handed
form: most gouty-handed
Etymology: From gouty + handed.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from gout in the hands.
examples: text: In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed."
ref: 1919, The American Architect - Volume 116, Part 2, page 791:
glosses: Slow to reward.
bisexualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisexualists
Etymology: From bisexual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Six homosexualists (males?) thus far examined yielded from anatomically perfect testes an ovarian reaction in four instances and in the other two subjects (bisexualists), an ovario-testicular reaction (ovarian by measurement predominating).
ref: 1918, Albert Abrams, Spondylotherapy:
glosses: A bisexual person.
podcatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: podcatches
form: podcatching
form: podcatched
form: podcatched
Etymology: Back-formation from podcatching.
Senses: glosses: To download and listen to a podcast.
Related terms: podcatcher
neutrosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutrospheres
Etymology: From neutro- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The unionized layer of the atmosphere between the surface and the ionosphere
Related terms: neutropause
neutropause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neutropauses
Etymology: From neutro- + -pause.
Senses: glosses: The boundary between the neutrosphere and the ionosphere
hardhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard-handedness
Etymology: From hardhanded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Well-to-do citizens, both Reformed and Catholic, also backed down and withdrew their demands, forming a united front to suppress the revolt in the cities, either through hardhandedness or appeasement.
ref: 2004, Albert Blankert, Selected writings on Dutch painting: Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer, and Others, page 45:
glosses: Harshness, strictness.
examples: text: Coming in among us by hundreds and thousands, as they now are and for years have been, their gentler and fiercer passions, like meadow rivulets and mountain torrents, mixing in with and modifying our own, and their art, science and literature, their hardhandedness and willingheartedness, and their experiences of life generally, giving to and receiving from ours new impulses and new directions, the whole soon flow together in one common stream of Humanity, which will be found irresistible by any barriers that may oppose its course, and inevitably give new and peculiar aspects to the region and the era wherein it holds its way.
ref: 1850, William Davis Gallagher, Facts and Conditions of Progress in the North-west, page 28:
glosses: The embodiment of working-class virtue; hard-working practicality.
Related terms: hardhanded
hardhandedly
hard-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardhandedness.
squig out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squigs out
form: squigging out
form: squigged out
form: squigged out
Etymology: Compare squick and squeamish and wig out.
Senses: glosses: To weird out or disgust; to make (someone) feel uneasy and squeamish.
squig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: squigs
Senses: synonyms: squidger
glosses: A squirrel.
squig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: squigs
form: squigging
form: squigged
form: squigged
Senses: glosses: Only used in squig out
hardhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hardhandedly
form: most hardhandedly
form: hard-handedly
Etymology: From hardhanded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His first stand-in parent is the sister who "brought [him] up by hand," hardhandedly flinging him like "a conjugal missile" and mauling him, physically and spiritually, at every turn.
ref: 1999, Baruch Hochman, Ilja Wachs, Dickens: The Orphan Condition, page 169:
glosses: In a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.
hard-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hard-handedly
form: most hard-handedly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardhandedly.
monostylistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + stylistic.
Senses: examples: text: Were there one dominant, isolated mythology governing the American thought pattern, which the American sculptor interpreted, as did the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman, and others, contemporary sculpture would likewise be monostylistic and thematic.
ref: 1948, C. Ludwig Brummé, Contemporary American Sculpture:
text: Though fairly homogeneous, standard languages are by no means monostylistic, as I said in section 3.4.2.
ref: 2004, Gerhard Leitner, Australian English - The National Language, page 263:
text: These works are monostylistic and prescriptive: they concentrate upon formal Welsh, and they promote this variety of Welsh as a model of correctness.
ref: 2005, Robert D. Borsley, Welsh Negation and Grammatical Theory, page 12:
glosses: Of or relating to a single style (manner of doing or presenting things).
Synonyms: monostylous
Related terms: multistylistic
Sursilvan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Romansch sursilvan, named after the Surselva region in Switzerland.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a group of dialects of the Romansh language spoken in the Surselva, on the western bank of the Rhine.
conversion course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversion courses
Senses: glosses: An academic course by which a student studying a certain subject can change to another subject.
conversion courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversion course
suther
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
homophone: souther
Forms: form: suthers
form: suthering
form: suthered
form: suthered
Senses: glosses: To sigh, or moan.
raw_tags: of the wind
examples: 1820?, John Clare, The Flight of Birds
The pigeon suthers by on rapid wing, / The lark mounts upward at the call of spring.
glosses: To whir.
raw_tags: of bird's wings
suther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
homophone: souther
Forms: form: suthers
Senses: glosses: The sighing of the wind.
shallow brooks are noisy
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: To the contrary, psychiatrists know well the truth of the old proverbs "Shallow brooks are noisy" and "Still waters run deep." We must not assume that someone whose feelings are modulated and controlled is not a passionate person.
ref: 2002, M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Shallow brooks are noisy; deep waters are smooth. Depend upon it, when a man is deeply and strongly impressed with the truth of his own convictions, he is in no way tempted to rail at his neighbour.
ref: 1861, Reginald Neale Shutte, A Memoir of the Late Rev. Henry Newland, M.A, page 149:
text: My mother called me and asked, "Can you tell me the meaning of this, son. The deep river moves with silent majesty, but shallow brooks are noisy?"
ref: 2014, Student vs IAS T20: love is god and mercy divine, →ISBN:
glosses: People who do not consider things deeply often chatter or talk a lot.
Related terms: empty vessels make the most noise
still waters run deep
heartbreak grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A highly toxic herb (Gelsemium elegans), native to China, India, and southeast Asia, that yields poisons.
Hypernyms: sense: Gelsemium elegans
word: gelsemium
side shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side shots
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A reading or measurement from a survey station to locate a point that is off the traverse or that is not intended to be used as a base for the extension of the survey. It is usually made to determine the position of some object that is to be shown on a map.
Burggraf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burggrafs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Burggraf.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
chardonnay socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chardonnay socialists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of champagne socialist.
synonyms: word: champagne socialist
electrical storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrical storm
friends in high places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Herr Freudenberg himself has great friends here, friends in high places. He will see that nothing happens."
ref: 1913, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 10, in The Mischief Maker:
text: In recent years he was protected by friends in high places.
ref: 1987 November 30, “War Crimes: Long Road To Justice”, in Time, retrieved 18 May 2015:
text: Being far from the distant throne, we little people need more important people to plead our cause and obtain spiritual and material blessings. We need friends in high places, so to speak. Because she is the Mother of the Lord, Mary is the most powerful intercessor of all, obtaining gifts that might otherwise be denied.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
text: In Petrograd they were in great danger but had many friends in high places, and with money for bribes they avoided arrest.
ref: 2006 April 1, Phillip Alder, “On a Day Made for Tricks, Lots of Ways to Get Them All”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 May 2015:
text: I walk into the corner of my room / See my friends in high places / I don't know which is which or who is whom / They've stolen each other's faces
ref: 2008, “More News From Nowhere”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
glosses: Friends who have authority or influence and who can ensure that one's interests will be protected or furthered.
Related terms: it's not what you know but who you know
ride the coattails
fucking like rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuck like rabbits
fucked like rabbits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuck like rabbits
graylags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graylag
Edelmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdəlmən/
/ˈeɪdəlmən/
Forms: form: Edelmanns
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Edelmann (“nobleman”). Doublet of Edelman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Edelmanns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edelmann
modernish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪʃ
Forms: form: more modernish
form: most modernish
Etymology: From modern + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat modern.
Nicolaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular Christian heresy (in the early church)
nictemeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nycthemeral
form: nychthemeral
form: nyctohemeral
Senses: examples: text: To cope with daily variation of environmental parameters, talitrids evolved a migratory behaviour, synchronized with tidal and nictemeral cycles, that enable them to locate the suitable patches of habitat on the shore (Pardi and Ercolini 1986).
ref: 2012, F.M. Faranda, Mediterranean Ecosystems: Structures and Processes, page 392:
glosses: Varying regularly with a day/night cycle; diurnal; circadian.
verste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verstes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of verst.
m80
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: m80s
form: m80's
Senses: glosses: Informal form of matey.
Baha'ism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼism.
crapfic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapfics
Etymology: From crap + fic.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: Poorly or badly written fanfiction.
Synonyms: badfic
nyctography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nyctograph + -y.
Senses: glosses: The use of the nyctograph
nyctograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nycto- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A device that allows a person to write in a form of shorthand (nyctography) in the dark.
Related terms: nyctography
crapass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From crap + -ass.
Senses: glosses: Lousy; bad.
nightline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightlines
Etymology: From night + line.
Senses: glosses: An overnight telephone counselling service, typically for students.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing line set out to catch fish overnight.
know what one is doing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows what one is doing
form: knowing what one is doing
form: knew what one was doing
form: known what one was doing
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know what one is about.
synonyms: word: know what one is about
dehydrohalogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehydrohalogenates
form: dehydrohalogenating
form: dehydrohalogenated
form: dehydrohalogenated
Etymology: From de- + hydro- + halogen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove the elements of a hydrogen halide from a substance.
Related terms: dehydrohalogenation
Caliphization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: caliphization
Senses: examples: text: This is the 'Caliphization' of the West; the Bible now read as if it were the Koran; Calvin's asharia looming up on the horizon
ref: 2002, Darren Marks, Shaping a theological mind, page 68
text: However Milbank adds to the usual focus on the rise of nominalism, the argument that the classical-theistic synthesis at this time underwent 'an invasion by ultimately Islamic norms', or what he calls the 'Caliphization of the West' – the regulation of philosophy by the Archbishops ...
ref: 2004, T Rowland, Divine Gifts to the Secular Desert:
text: But even the Caliphization of carbs has not been enough for the likes of that careful driver Lord 'The Jews Did It' Ahmed, who worked himself into a right old froth in 2012 ...
ref: 2014, Julie Burchill, Unchosen:
glosses: Process of becoming a caliphate.
caliphization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... all bear witness to the iconic nature of scripture and direct us away from what John Milbank calls the “caliphization” of Scripture.
ref: 2007, The American Benedictine Review, volume 58, number 1, page 38:
text: So how to interpret the purported re-caliphization of Iraq and Syria?
ref: 2014, William Miles, The Islamic State won’t find it easy to wipe away post-colonial borders:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Caliphization.
dildonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blend of dildo + electronics. Attributed to by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson.
Senses: examples: text: Donna doesn't have to be too explicit, not like it's the real thing. Reeb can shoot a few limb movements tomorrow, some dildonics the next day; the software overdubs stock effects.
ref: 1995, Pamela Sargent, Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s:
text: […] NeuraLove suit is a combination of state-of-the-art wireless technology, nanotechnology, sensors and dildonics”— “Dildonics?” Lauren repeated. She'd bet that wasn't in Webster's.
ref: 2005, Shannon Hollis, On the Loose, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Electronic or robotic sex toys.
Derived terms: cyberdildonics
teledildonics
subking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subkings
Etymology: From sub- + king.
Senses: examples: text: After this, Kapole was told to take the message to two senior subkings, namely Kapemba and Chiti.
ref: 2015, Yizenge Chondoka, A History of the Tumbuka from 1400 to 1900:
glosses: A monarch of a polity that is in turn part of another kingdom.
Related terms: subkingdom
subkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subking
high-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highhandedness
Etymology: From high-handed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I had had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirot’s message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friend’s high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very ancient balls about, with a still more ancient mallet.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 120:
glosses: The state or quality of being high-handed.
horny-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːniˌhændɪd/
ipa: /ˈhoɹniˌhændəd/
Forms: form: more horny-handed
form: most horny-handed
form: hornyhanded
Etymology: From horny (“bony or hard like an animal’s horn, calloused, rough”) + handed.
Senses: examples: text: "My patience must be inexhaustible. I am much tempted to kick you downstairs, Mr. Railing." / "You forget that I'm a working-man and horny-handed, so it's safer not to try."
ref: 1906, W[illiam] S[omerset] Maugham, chapter XVI, in The Bishop’s Apron: A Study in the Origins of a Great Family, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC; republished as The Bishop’s Apron (EBook #47523), United States: Project Gutenberg, 28 June 2020:
text: The pitchfork remains one of the hand tools that no invention can ever wholly replace, and I suppose that unborn generations of men will grow hornyhanded and weary in its use.
ref: 1953, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., “The Farm Implements of the Homespun Age”, in The Golden Age of Homespun, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Fall Creek Books, Cornell University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 237:
text: He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen.
ref: 1983, Emile Guillaumin, chapter XLVII, in Margaret Crosland, transl., edited by Eugen Weber, The Life of a Simple Man, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 160:
text: The dot punch is used to make a more permanent mark than a pencilled or scratched line; […] The mark is made with a tap from a light hammer, although I have known horny[-]handed markers who did it with simple hand pressure.
ref: 1985, Laurie Penman, “Tools and Equipment”, in The Clock Repairer’s Handbook, Newton Abbot, Devon; London: David & Charles; New York, N.Y.: Arco Publishing, →ISBN, page 157, column 2:
glosses: Having hands that are horny (calloused) and tough from manual labour; hardhanded.
Derived terms: horny-handedly
horny-handedness
Pit of Voles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: pit + of + voles, from the site's reputation in fandom as being filled with amateurish and poorly-written stories.
Senses: examples: text: […] I have comparatively little spare time compared to what I'd like, and what fanfiction reading I've been doing has tended to be in the less ugly depths of the Pit of VOles.^([sic])
ref: 2009 January 4, The Wanderer [username], “Re: AFSM Purpose? (was Re: Tokyo Trip Photos)”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):
text: This was my utter last choice as a posting avenue, because it's such an incredible pain in the butt to post here, compared to anywhere else, whether it's LJ, my website, a messageboard or even the Pit of Voles.
ref: 2009 March 3, KKGlinka [username], “Re: Not Quite Off-Topic: ASC and the ASC Awards”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
text: And in the ultimate case of inception-ism, the Pit of Voles is already up to 24 submissions of _Fangirl_ fanfic. Haven't checked Archive of Our Own yet... :-P
ref: 2014 January 21, Chrysti Cat, “Re: FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The online fan fiction archive FanFiction.net.
hornyhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hornyhanded
form: most hornyhanded
Senses: examples: text: The pitchfork remains one of the hand tools that no invention can ever wholly replace, and I suppose that unborn generations of men will grow hornyhanded and weary in its use.
ref: 1953, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., “The Farm Implements of the Homespun Age”, in The Golden Age of Homespun, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Fall Creek Books, Cornell University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 237:
text: He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen.
ref: 1983, Emile Guillaumin, chapter XLVII, in Margaret Crosland, transl., edited by Eugen Weber, The Life of a Simple Man, Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Alternative form of horny-handed.
horny-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornyhandedness
Etymology: From horny-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being horny-handed.
hornyhandedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horny-handedness.
horny-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more horny-handedly
form: most horny-handedly
Etymology: From horny-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One time he worked in a mill horny-handedly, But, as he said to his friends very candidly, Nature had blessed him with quickness of jaw, So he gave up perspiring and took to the law.
ref: 1892, Arthur Gordon Burgoyne, All Sorts of Pittsburgers, page 163:
glosses: Done with hands that are tough and horny from manual labor.
know better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows better
form: knowing better
form: knew better
form: known better
Senses: examples: text: 'Do you think, sir,' said Mr Willet, […] 'do you think, sir, that I'm a born fool?'
'No, no, Johnny,' returned Solomon, looking round upon the little circle of which he formed a part: 'We all know better than that.'
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 54.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: "Kapoor Brothers told us they had no books or records, but we knew better and were able to search and find them."
ref: 1987 April 24, Bruce Lambert, “Operator of Newsstands Guilty in Sales Tax Case”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 May 2015:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: To recognize that a statement or belief is false or doubtful.
examples: text: "All that happened when he was eight; he's older now and knows better."
ref: 1919, H. H. Munro, “Hyacinth”, in The Toys of Peace and Other Papers:
text: [B]oth sides know better than to expect that U.S. special envoy Senator George Mitchell's shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah will be able to bridge the chasm between their demands.
ref: 2010 March 8, Tony Karon, “Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail”, in Time, retrieved 19 May 2015:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: To understand that certain behavior is wrongful, futile, or inappropriate.
Synonyms: know any better
Related terms: think better of
Hundredhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Call the huge organism by a fabled name, Briareus, the Hundredhanded, with all his tenacles swimming in his own sea of Music; thus we may mythologize the Orchestra for our fancy.
ref: 2001, Michael H. DeArmey, James A. Good, The St Louis Hegelians, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of Hundred-handed.
Hundred-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Hundred-Handed
form: Hundredhanded
form: hundred-handed
Senses: examples: text: Uranos imprisoned the Titans in the earth, and threw the Cyclops and Hundred-handed Giants into Tartarus, but was at length overthrown and disabled by his son Cronos the Titan, who thereupon released his brother Titans and established the second dynasty of gods called the Cronids.
ref: 1855, James Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus - Volume 2, page 99:
glosses: Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.
aces and eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dead man's hand.
synonyms: word: dead man's hand
eights and aces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dead man's hand.
synonyms: word: dead man's hand
Hundred-Handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You guys go free the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handed ones," said Zeus.
ref: 2015, Sen Sen L. Lin Quan, Tales of Ancient Greece: A Guide to Greek Mythology, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of Hundred-handed.
Chuuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃuːk/
Forms: form: Truk
Etymology: From Chuukese chuk (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A lagoon and associated atoll in Micronesia.
glosses: One of states that composes the Federated States of Micronesia.
Derived terms: Chuukese
Truk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɹuːk/
Etymology: From Chuukese chuk (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chuuk.
Derived terms: Trukese
Trukic
hundred-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Of course, it's impossible to follow up on every single big of misbehaviour and less-than-perfect conduct that you will come – you're not some hundred-handed Eastern deity – but you must be seen to be doing what you can.
ref: 2010, Tom Bennett, The Behaviour Guru: Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Having 100 hands.
examples: text: In Classical legend Cottys was the hundred-handed brother of the hundred-handed monsters Briareus and Gyes, allies of the God Zeus in his war against the Titans on the borders of Thrace and Thessaly.
ref: 2011, Robert Graves, The White Goddess, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Alternative form of Hundred-handed.
oonuh
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Both of oonuh was so young
ref: 2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:
glosses: You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
wild cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild cat
seismic shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic shifts
Etymology: An allusion to the drastic change to the landscape caused by a massive earthquake.
Senses: examples: text: The seismic shift in Mexico began in 1810 with the movement toward independence from Spain.
ref: 1958, Waldo Frank, "Mexico" in The Romance of North America (Hardwick Moseley, ed.), Houghton Mifflin, p. 127 (Google snippet view)
text: For the republican movement, the acceptance of seats in a "partitionist" Assembly signaled a seismic shift in historical attitudes since the division of Ireland in 1921.
ref: 1999 December 6, Eamon Phoenix, “Peace Is Breaking Out”, in Time, retrieved 19 May 2015:
text: [T]he U.S. could be on the verge of a seismic shift, where it is possible to envision a time when it will no longer be the dominant economic superpower.
ref: 2007 December 10, “Most Important of 2007”, in Businessweek, retrieved 19 May 2015:
text: Baby boomers began turning 65 in January, heralding a seismic shift in demographics worldwide.
ref: 2011 February 5, “The Aging of America”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 May 2015:
glosses: A fundamental reorientation of a state of affairs.
Synonyms: upheaval
fruitification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruitifications
Etymology: From fruit + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Pollen is the essential feature or element in all fruitification of blossoms, essential to fruitbearing.
ref: 1917, The Bee Keepers' Review - Volumes 30-31, page 10:
glosses: Alternative form of fructification.
The act of forming or producing fruit.
examples: text: The fruitification consists of numerous minute grains or seeds, some of which are single, but the greater part crowded, and disposed in separate fasciae, forming parallel segments of circles, of which the base of the plant is the centre, and leaving naked spaces between the fasciae.
ref: 1797, Transactions of the Linnean Society - Volume 3, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of fructification.
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
examples: text: In parasitic species the hyphae spread in the intercellular spaces of the host and produce asexual fruitification, and acervulus, below the epidermis.
ref: 2001, S.M. Reddy, University Botany I : (Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta And Pteridophyta) Volume 1, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of fructification.
The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
examples: text: We must also keep in mind that Gandhi did not live long enough to see through the fruitification of his vision.
ref: 2001, Kuruvila Pandikattu, Gandhi: The Meaning of Mahatma for the Millennium, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of fruition.
examples: text: The owners of Sloppy Joe's in Havana, too, may bear some responsibility for the fruitification of the drink.
ref: 2014, Robert Simonson, The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail, with recipes and lore, →ISBN:
glosses: The addition of fruit (to something)
fruitifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitification
gonner
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gonna.
gonner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonners
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goner.
your'n
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Perhaps due to reanalysis of yourn as a shortening of your one or your own.
Senses: examples: text: Tom, I wouldn’t ever got into all this trouble if it hadn’t ‘a’ been for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 271–272:
glosses: Alternative form of yourn.
our'n
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Perhaps due to reanalysis of ourn as a shortening of our one or our own.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ourn.
his'n
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Perhaps due to reanalysis of hisn as a shortening of his one or his own.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hisn.
her'n
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Perhaps due to reanalysis of hern as a shortening of her one or her own.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hern.
their'n
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Perhaps due to reanalysis of theirn as a shortening of their one or their own.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of theirn.
damnworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more damnworthy
form: most damnworthy
Etymology: From damn + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Both endeavor to praise what is praiseworthy, damn what is damnworthy and point out what is simply mundane in current advertising.
ref: 1989, Adweek's Marketing Week - Volume 30, Issues 1-8 - Page 12
glosses: Worthy of being damned; damnable.
wadn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /wʌdn̩t/
Senses: examples: text: He wadn't about to leave.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wasn't, contraction of was not. Compare wa'n't.
ground elder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ground elders
Senses: glosses: A perennial plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Eurasia; Aegopodium podagraria.
Synonyms: sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: bishop's weed
sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: goutweed
sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: goutwort
sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: herb Gerard
sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: masterwort
sense: Aegopodium podagraria
word: snow-in-the-mountain
other'n
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of other one.
rare as hen's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Since chickens lack teeth, the simile implies that something is rare.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely uncommon.
Synonyms: scarce as hen's teeth
rarer than hen's teeth
scarce as hen's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of rare as hen's teeth.
synonyms: word: rare as hen's teeth
everywhence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From every + whence, on the pattern of everywhere, and similar.
Senses: glosses: from everywhere, all over
everywhither
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Univerbation of every + whither.
Senses: coordinate_terms: anywhither
glosses: To (in the direction of) everywhere; to every place.
solargraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solargraph + -ic.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: pertaining to solargraphy
solargraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solar + -graphy.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: the practice of creating solargraphs; creating photographs of the path of the Sun across the sky using a pinhole camera and exposure periods measured in days or months
solargraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solargraphs
Etymology: From solar + -graph.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A photograph of the paths of the Sun across the sky created with pinhole photography.
Derived terms: solargraphy
solargraphic
Related terms: solograph
solargraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solargraph
Tindi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪndɪ/
Senses: glosses: A North Caucasian language spoken in the Tsumada region of Daghestan.
Tindi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪndɪ/
Forms: form: Tindis
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to this people of Daghestan.
Tindi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪndɪ/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Tindi language or people.
Karata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹæ.tə/
Senses: glosses: A North Caucasian language spoken in south-west Daghestan.
Karata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹæ.tə/
Forms: form: Karatas
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to this people of Daghestan.
Karata
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹæ.tə/
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Karata language or people.
Godoberi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A North Caucasian language spoken in southwestern Daghestan.
Godoberi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Godoberis
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to this people of Daghestan.
Godoberi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Godoberi language or people.