cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
puttock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puttocks
Etymology: From Middle English puttock, puttok, potok, puttoc, of uncertain origin; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *putta (“hawk”) + -ock; or perhaps from Old English *pūthafoc (literally “pout-hawk”), equivalent to pout (“a kind of fish”) + hawk. Compare also pout (“a young bird”), poult.
Senses: examples: text: Some like to hounds, some like to Apes, dismayd, / Some like to Puttockes, all in plumes arayd: / All shap't according their conditions […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Who finds the partridge In the puttock's nest, But will suspect 'twas he that did the deed? " But then Shakespeare knew the habits of partridges and puttocks as well as Milton knew his Bible or his Tacitus.
ref: 1873, Appletons' Journal - Issues 224-249, page 724:
glosses: Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard and marsh harrier
examples: text: Besides that, as though this pillage and pollage were not rapacious enough, they take in and enclose commons, moors, heaths and other common pastures where out the poor commonalty were want to have all their provisions and feeding for their cattle and (which is more) corn for themselves to live upon; all which are now in most places taken from them by those greedy puttocks to the great impoverishing and utter beggaring of many whole towns
ref: 2014, Susan Doran, Norman Jones, The Elizabethan World, →ISBN, page 440:
glosses: A rapacious person who preys on the defenseless.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The futtock.
Derived terms: puttock plate
puttock ring
putu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊtʊ/
ipa: /ˈpuːtʊ/
ipa: /ˈpuːtuː/
Etymology: From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.
Senses: examples: text: Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 328:
text: Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 242:
glosses: A form of porridge made from maize meal.
Related terms: putu pap
puy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pwiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: puys
Etymology: Borrowed from French puy. Doublet of podium.
Senses: glosses: Any of several cone-shaped hills in the Auvergne, France that are the remains of extinct volcanos.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any similar conical structure of volcanic material.
Brigitte Bardot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: Brigitte Bardots
Etymology: Named after French fashion model and actress Brigitte Bardot (1934–).
Sense 2 inspired by Bardot's popular nickname, BB.
Senses: examples: text: I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.
ref: 1974, The Spectator, volume 232, part 1, page 51:
text: […]performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.”
ref: 1980, Thomas N. Gladwin, Ingo Walter, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, page 268:
text: ...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’
ref: 1994, J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, page 268:
text: Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.
ref: 2009, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, quoting Andrew Braithwaite, Toronto, je t'aime!, quoted in The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork, unnumbered page:
glosses: Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
examples: text: These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.),[…].
ref: 1992 March 3, Michael Rozenes, “Prosecuting Regulatory Offenders”, in parliamentary debates:
text: This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.
ref: 1995, The Bulletin, numbers 5953-5959, page 77:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A back-to-back loan.
refashions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refashion
refashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refashion
refashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refashion
refashioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refashionings
Senses: glosses: A reinvention; an act of fashioning again.
refashionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refashioning
Christmas club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas clubs
Etymology: Christmas + club
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: A type of savings scheme in which a person pays in money through the course of a year and gets back a total at around Christmas time ready to buy gifts or treats for Christmas. Such schemes have been run by banks and retailers and generally only involve fairly small amounts of money.
P.M.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We left Chefoo at 2.30 P.M. on Monday, 15th December, and had a pretty rough bit of road immediately after we started. Going up a steep pass, almost due south of Temple Hill, made the mules blow in a most unsatisfactory manner.
ref: 1896, Alex Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, James Nisbet & Co., →OCLC, page 5:
text: By 7:00 P.M. we had traveled 210 kilometers and reached this place, called Nei-chiang, a small inland city boasting electric lights but without other modern conveniences.
ref: 1938 April 5, J. Marvin Weller, edited by Harriet Weller, Caravan Across China, San Francisco, CA: March Hare Publishing, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:
glosses: Alternative spelling of p.m..
glosses: Alternative spelling of PM.
white Christmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white Christmases
Senses: examples: text: “It′s like frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope it will snow all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw a white Christmas.”
ref: 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation:
text: In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years,[…].
ref: 1945 December 31, “The Big Snow”, in Life, page 23:
text: At Environment Canada, senior climatologist David Phillips′ standard for a white Christmas calls for at least two centimeters of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. . . . “In England, if a weather guy sees a snowflake, they call it a white Christmas.”
ref: 2008 December 18, David Bruser, “Thanks to more storms, Christmas may be white”, in Toronto Star, page A2:
antonyms: black Christmas
glosses: A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
Derived terms: white Christmas slice
Related terms: snow day
white Easter
plushie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌʃi/
homophone: plushy
Forms: form: plushies
Etymology: From plush + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plush toy.
synonyms: word: plush toy
glosses: A plush slipper.
short pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short passes
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to qualify as a short pass. For instance, if the passing player drops the ball and retreats before her teammate takes possession, it is not a short pass. A short pass is against the rules and results in a free pass to the opposition.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass of the ball that is primarily to the side rather than one that gains yardage.
international rules football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport created as a mixture of Australian rules football and Gaelic football, to allow international matches between Australia and Ireland.
lifie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifies
Etymology: From life + -ie.
Senses: examples: 2003, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Four Corners program, The Super Chargers, 18 February
Many of the industry's bad habits seem to have been inherited from the financial planners' predecessors - the 'lifies', as they were known.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: A life insurance salesman or saleswoman.
life insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life insurances
Senses: synonyms: life assurance
glosses: A form of insurance on the life of a person, whereby if the person dies then the insurance policy pays out a sum of money to the beneficiary (such as a person's family).
piss in someone's pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses in someone's pocket
form: pissing in someone's pocket
form: pissed in someone's pocket
form: pissed in someone's pocket
Senses: examples: text: ‘Don′t piss in my pocket, son. How would you know what I used to be?’ But he was flattered.
ref: 1994, Jon Cleary, Autumn Maze, page 249:
text: ‘[…]Son, I′m not the type to piss in your pocket, but we have a shortage of your kind of chap.’
ref: 2007, Bryce Courtenay, The Persimmon Tree, volume 1, 2, page 248:
text: ‘I′m not pissing in your pocket,’ Gemma said quickly. ‘I just mean, what′s not to like? You′re the most inoffensive person I′ve ever met.’
Helen was not sure if that was a compliment.
ref: 2009, Dianne Blacklock, False Advertising, page 146:
glosses: To say flattering or fawning things to a person in the hope of gaining favour with them.
San Marcos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæn ˈmɑɹkəs/
ipa: /sæn ˈmɑɹkoʊs/
Etymology: From Spanish San Marcos (“Saint Mark”), various places usually named in honor of Mark the Evangelist.
Senses: glosses: A village and rural municipality of Salta Province, Argentina.
glosses: A town in Antioquia department, Colombia.
glosses: A town in Sucre department, Colombia.
glosses: The capital city of Tarrazú canton, San José, Costa Rica, also known as San Marcos de Tarrazú.
glosses: An urban parish of Quito, Ecuador.
glosses: A municipality and suburb of San Salvador, El Salvador.
glosses: A city and municipality, the capital of San Marcos department, Guatemala.
glosses: A municipality of Ocotepeque department, Honduras.
glosses: A municipality of Santa Bárbara department, Honduras.
glosses: An island of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
glosses: A town, the seat of the municipality of San Marcos, Guerrero, Mexico.
glosses: A town and municipality of Jalisco, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Carazo department, Nicaragua.
glosses: A town, the capital of the province of San Marcos, Cajamarca department, Peru.
glosses: A city in San Diego County, California, United States: San Marcos, California.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States: San Marcos, Texas.
glosses: A river in Texas, United States.
glosses: Former name of Santiago: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Helatrobus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An "interplanetary nation" which existed trillions of years ago, the reasons for the demise of which are uncertain.
and your little dog too
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a line spoken by the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz to Dorothy and her dog Toto: "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!".
Senses: glosses: A statement that not only will the person being addressed be punished but their conspirators will also.
Related terms: and the horse you rode in on
TL;NR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: TL
form: NR
form: TLDR
Senses: glosses: Too long; not read.
glosses: Too long; nobody read.
inklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkling
Rafael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rafaels
Etymology: Compare Spanish Rafael, Portuguese Rafael.
Senses: examples: text: “As Rafael Grossi said just days ago, the difference between Iran’s nuclear program before and after Operation Midnight Hammer is ‘night and day,’ and a ‘very serious level of damage’ was done,” the official said.
ref: 2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name, variant of Raphael.
Related terms: San Rafael Cedros
San Rafael Obrajuelo
San Rafael Oriente
year in, year out
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: During every year; always.
Related terms: day in, day out
pycnodysostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pycnodysostoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense”) + dys- (“defective”) + ostosis (“condition of the bone”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A genetic disorder characterized by dense, fragile bones and dwarfism.
thirstier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thirsty: more thirsty
thirstiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thirsty: most thirsty
chill pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chill pill
pyelographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyelography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pyelography
Derived terms: pyelographically
pyelography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From pyelo- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: radiography of the kidney, ureter and bladder following injection of a radiopaque substance
Coordinate terms: ureteropyelography
pyelographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyelographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of pyelography
Pynchonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pynchonesque
form: most Pynchonesque
Etymology: From Pynchon + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: From the moment I opened the book I felt I had entered a Pynchonesque world.
ref: 1993 Apr, Cindi Katz, “Reflections While Reading City of Quartz By Mike Davis”, in Antipode, volume 25, number 2, page 159:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Thomas Pynchon
glosses: Densely convoluted, verbose and full of allusion
Synonyms: Pynchonian
pyoderma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyodermas
form: pyodermata
Etymology: From pyo- + -derma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An infection of the skin by pyogenic bacteria.
Derived terms: pyoderma fistulans sinifica
pyoderma gangrenosum
pyodermic
pyodermal
pyranometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyranometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by a pyranometer
pyrheliometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyr- + helio- + -metry.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The study (and measurement) of solar radiation using a pyrheliometer.
pyribole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyriboles
Etymology: Blend of pyroxene + amphibole
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mineral of either the pyroxene or amphibole groups.
Derived terms: biopyribole
pyroelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + electrical.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or produced by pyroelectricity
pyroelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pyroelectric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of pyroelectricity
pyrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrographs
Etymology: Back-formation from pyrography.
Senses: glosses: A hand-held tool, with a heated tip, used in pyrography.
pyrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyrographs
form: pyrographing
form: pyrographed
form: pyrographed
Etymology: Back-formation from pyrography.
Senses: glosses: To make an image on wood (or other materials) by selectively burning the surface.
pyrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophiles
Etymology: From pyro- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An organism that thrives in the presence of fire.
glosses: A person who accepts that the energy of volcanos originates from the heat of the Earth's interior.
glosses: A pyromaniac.
pyrophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌɪɹəˌfʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈpaɪɹəˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: pyrophytes
Etymology: From pyro- (“fire”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that is resistant to fire, or that needs fire to propagate
pyrosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyrosome
pyrosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosomes
form: pyrosoma
Senses: glosses: Any of several pelagic colonial tunicates, of the genus Pyrosoma, found in tropical waters.
Related terms: Pyrostremma spinosum
pyrothere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotheres
Senses: glosses: An extinct South American mammal, of the order †Pyrotheria, that resembled elephants.
pyrotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrotoxins
Etymology: From pyro- + toxin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Any of several pyrogenic bacterial toxins.
glosses: Any toxic agent produced by combustion.
pyrrhuloxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɪɹəˈlɒksiə/
Forms: form: pyrrhuloxias
Etymology: From translingual former genus name, Pyrrhuloxia.
Senses: glosses: Cardinalis sinuatus (desert cardinal), a North American bird with grey and red plumage
Pyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: Tircul
english: former name
translation: former name
glosses: A people who flourished in ancient Burma.
Pyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Tibeto-Burman language of this people.
tenosynovitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenosynovitides
form: tenosynovites
form: tendosynovitis
Etymology: From tenosynovium + -itis or teno- + synovitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (the synovium) that surrounds a tendon.
tendovaginitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendovaginitides
Etymology: From tendo- + vagin(a) + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of tenosynovitis.
synonyms: word: tenosynovitis
vagina tendinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A synovium.
PIL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PILs
Senses: glosses: A leaflet inserted in a package of medicine, providing information about the drug for the patient.
glosses: Initialism of private international law.
Synonyms: package leaflet
patient information leaflet
Qallunaat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᑦ (qallonaat), "outstanding eyebrows"
Senses: glosses: Europeans, people who are not Inuit, considered as a group.
QBD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Queen's Bench Division.
qipao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃiːpaʊ/
Forms: form: qipaos
form: chipao
form: chi pao
form: chi-pao
form: kipao
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 旗袍 (qípáo).
Senses: synonyms: cheongsam
mandarin gown
glosses: A traditional one-piece dress worn by Chinese women.
Related terms: cheongsam
QPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QPMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Queen's Police Medal.
Related terms: sense: Queen's Police Medal
english: King's Police Medal
translation: King's Police Medal
word: KPM
Quadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quadis
form: Quadi
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient Germanic people who lived in Moravia.
quadplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadplexes
Etymology: From quad- + -plex.
Senses: synonyms: fourplex
glosses: A building divided into four separate residences or commercial premises.
Related terms: quadruplex
quadrantally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quadrantal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an arrangement of quadrants
glosses: With reference to quadrants
Derived terms: quadrantally symmetric
quadrigeminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: quadrigeminate
glosses: Having four parts, or two pairs.
Related terms: quadrigeminy
quadrigeminy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of cardiac arrhythmia in which four beats are followed by a pause.
Related terms: trigeminy
quadringenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadringenaries
Senses: glosses: A quatercentenary
quatercentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatercentenaries
Senses: glosses: A four-hundredth anniversary
quadringentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a 400th anniversary.
quadringentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadringentenaries
Senses: glosses: A 400th anniversary.
glosses: A span of 400 years.
Synonyms: quadricentenary
quadricentennial
quadringentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a quadringenary
quadrominium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrominiums
Etymology: Blend of quadro- + condominium
Senses: glosses: A building divided into four residences as condominiums
quadrupedalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadrupedal + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: quadrupedy
glosses: The condition of being a quadruped.
quadruplexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadruplex + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The transmission of four separate messages on a single cable.
Related terms: duplexing
quadruplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadruplicate
quadruplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: replicated four times
canular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canular
form: most canular
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cannular.
quadruply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quadruple + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Four times.
examples: text: What is worse is how the custom-designed treatment programs for our community that are springing up make no provision for those of us doubly, triply or even quadruply oppressed […] This neglect is a symptom of the dysfunctionality afflicting our community: the degree to which we've permitted too many assimilationists to define the standards of identity for us all.
ref: 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:
glosses: In four (often different) ways.
Synonyms: sense: four times
word: fourfold
word: four times
quagmired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quagmired
form: most quagmired
Etymology: From quagmire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a quagmire
raw_tags: of a road etc
glosses: Sunk in a quagmire
raw_tags: of a person or thing
quagmired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From quagmire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quagmire
quahogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quahoggers
Etymology: From quahog + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person who harvests quahogs.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat used to harvest quahogs.
Qualitätswein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Qualitätsweins
Etymology: German
Senses: glosses: An official category of German and Austrian wines above Tafelwein and below Landwein
come by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes by
form: coming by
form: came by
form: come by
Senses: examples: text: A loyal friend is hard to come by.
text: Somehow he came by a substantial fortune.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: For example, during the early days of construction, some landowners and local residents felt they were not being kept up to date with what was happening on a day-to-day basis, or that information wasn't always easy to come by.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:
glosses: To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
examples: text: Your beau came by while you were shopping.
glosses: To come near to; to pass; to visit.
come by
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep
quantifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantifiabilities
Etymology: From quantify + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quantifiable
glosses: The degree to which something is quantifiable
quanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantons
Etymology: From quantum + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any quantum entity that shows the properties of both a particle and a wave
Synonyms: wavicle
pissoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːˈswɑː/
ipa: /ˈpɪswɑː/
Forms: form: pissoirs
Etymology: First attested in 1919. From French pissoir.
Senses: examples: To tackle the problem of street urination, Parisian authorities introduced the pissoir
glosses: A public urinal typically found in European, especially French, streets.
pervaporate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɜːvapəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: pervaporates
form: pervaporating
form: pervaporated
form: pervaporated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To evaporate through a semipermeable membrane, as a method of separating liquids.
Related terms: pervaporation
membrane distillation
TAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity. See Total acid number on Wikipedia.
topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking. See Transaction authentication number on Wikipedia.
Related terms: TAN syndrome
naughtiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of naughty: most naughty
sea trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea trouts
form: sea trout
form: seatrout
Senses: synonyms: sewin
glosses: A fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon and a subspecies of brown trout. It is lighter in colour than the brown trout, and lives in salt water, returning to fresh water only to spawn.
glosses: The weakfish, Cynoscion regalis
privacy seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privacy seals
Senses: hypernyms: seal of approval
glosses: An online branded trust mark or logo used by third-party site verification entities to protect online consumers by identifying trustworthy web sites.
Related terms: privacy policy
sealing wax
signet
signet ring
energymeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energymeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of energy meter.
quarterbacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quarterback + -ing.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of playing as a quarterback
examples: text: Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
glosses: The action of making criticisms after the event
quarterbacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From quarterback + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarterback
energy meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy meters
Senses: glosses: A domestic electricity meter.
electricity meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electricity meters
Senses: synonyms: electric meter
energy meter
glosses: A device that measures the consumption of electricity, normally in terms of watt-hours.
Related terms: smart meter
watt-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watt-hours
Etymology: From watt + hour.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: kilowatt-hour < megawatt-hour < gigawatt-hour < terawatt-hour
Meronym: milliwatt-hour
related: word: mul:W·h
word: mul:W h
word: mul:Wh
word: ;
word: watt hour
word: watthour
glosses: A unit of electrical energy equal to the power of one watt in use for one hour; often used as a unit of electricity consumption. It is equal to 3600 joules.
annal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈænəl/
Forms: form: annals
Etymology: Back formation from annals, borrowed from Middle French, from Latin annales (“annals”), from annus (“year”).
Senses: examples: text: In deathless annal! deathless deeds inspire:
ref: 1805, Edward Young, The Poetical Works of the Reverend Dr. Ed. Young: with the life of the author, volume 3, →ISBN:
glosses: The record of a single event or item.
Derived terms: annalise
annalist
annalistic
annalize
annalled
annal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈænəl/
Forms: form: annall
Etymology: From Latin annālis (“yearly, annual”).
Senses: examples: text: 2. Whether the annal Feſt of Chriſts Birth, being both lawful and laudable, in the right religious uſe weeding out al abuſes (ordained by the Catholic Church) may juſtly be aboliſhed or abandoned by any Church or State […]
ref: 1654, Robert Vilvain, compiler, Theoremata Theological: Theological Treatises, London: […] R. Hodgkinſonne, page 224:
glosses: Annual; yearly.
perpetuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perpetuate
brokered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broker
appeasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appeaser
continuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continuity
alarmism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarmisms
Etymology: From alarm + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Even as the White House highlighted what it considers alarmism in reporting of the surge in cases of the Delta coronavirus variant across the US, reports in the same national media suggested vaccinations are increasing in hotspot areas.
ref: 2021 July 31, Edward Helmore, “US vaccinations rise but White House frustrated with media ‘alarmism’”, in The Guardian:
text: Rees-Mogg has claimed that “climate alarmism” is responsible for high energy prices and that it is unrealistic for scientists to project future changes to the climate because meteorologists struggle to correctly predict the weather.
ref: 2022 September 6, Jacob Rees-Mogg, quotee, “Jacob Rees-Mogg, who decried ‘climate alarmism’, to take on UK energy brief”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The raising of needless alarms.
Related terms: alarmist
scaremonger
alarmists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarmist
flip-flopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip-flop
fundamentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundamentalist
hard-line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hardline.
manifestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifesto
manifestos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manifesto
reestablishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reestablish
reestablishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reestablish
reestablished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reestablish
regimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regime
think-tanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: think-tankers
Etymology: From think tank + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a think tank.
brain trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain trust
brains trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brains trust
undeterrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undeterrable
form: most undeterrable
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *tres-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti
Proto-Italic *trozeō
Latin terreō
Latin dēterreōbor.
English deter
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English deterrable
English undeterrable
From un- + deterrable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be deterred
Derived terms: undeterrably
deters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deter
deterring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deter
self-hating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-hating
form: most self-hating
Etymology: From self- + hating. First use appears c. 1612 in the work Great Brittans Mourning Garment, of anonymous authorship.
Senses: examples: text: When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.
ref: 2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
ref: 2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023:
synonyms: self-hateful
self-loathing
glosses: Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.
Derived terms: self-hating Jew
counterterrorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Still other officials say the mayhem may be partly a result of a vicious rivalry between two Qaeda subcommanders in Mali, Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, a clash that underscores the kind of autonomous jihad cells that counterterrorism officials say are particularly hard to combat.
ref: 2009 October 7, Eric Schmitt, “Qaeda Branch Steps Up Raids in North Africa”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of counter-terrorism.
shapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shapens
form: shapening
form: shapened
form: shapened
Etymology: From shape (“external form”) + -en (“to make like”).
Senses: glosses: To shape, form.
Derived terms: misshapen
unshapen
shapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English schapen, ischepen, from Old English ġesċapen, from Proto-Germanic *skapanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *skapaną, equivalent to shape + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: glosses: past participle of shape
shapen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shapen
form: most shapen
Etymology: From Middle English schapen, ischepen, from Old English ġesċapen, from Proto-Germanic *skapanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *skapaną, equivalent to shape + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: ill-shapen
text: well-shapen
glosses: Shaped; wrought with a definite shape.
Derived terms: misshapen
unshapen
cowardly lion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowardly lions
Etymology: After a character in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
Senses: examples: "This $13 billion mutual fund, which calls itself "classic growth investing, the Janus way," is in reality a cowardly lion." -Forbes
"California is right; we trust Washington state will follow in court. Earlier court decisions against the EPA's Cowardly Lion position on global warming suggest legal action may have good prospects." -Seattle Post Intelligencer
"On the cowardly “lion” derisive nickname: The 49ers PR people are saying that Georgatos/Brown merely overheard a few players joking about that in the locker room, and that Smith was in on it–it was just jocularity among QBs, meaning nothing, and used out of context in the story. That’s what they’re saying." -http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/kawakami/2007/12/12/whos-with-me-on-alex-smiths-side-plus-more-notes-on-the-smith-nolan-feud-and-clumsy-attempted-cover-up/
glosses: A person who acts tough but misses a golden opportunity out of fear or cowardice.
wikipedia: Cowardly Lion
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
quartzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartzines
Etymology: From quartz + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fibrous form of silica similar to chalcedony.
quashable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quash + -able.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Able to be quashed or annulled
yellow brick road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow brick roads
form: yellow-brick road
Etymology: From the classic film The Wizard of Oz and the book series on which it was based. Originally the literal road to the Emerald City, which was paved with yellow bricks possibly to invoke the notion of gold.
Senses: examples: text: But we're coming up on a bend in the yellow brick road, and going 'round it could cause the party lights to go dark quickly.
ref: 2007 December 10, Morgan Housel, “The Impending Destruction of the U.S. Economy: Part 1”, in The Motley Fool:
text: But for Clinton the yellow brick road that led inevitably to the Democratic nomination has suddenly become a little bumpy.
ref: 2007 December 21, “Hillary's mountain gets higher”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: Smash the emergency glass, press the big red button and just STOP. Step off the Yellow Brick Road, get mixed up with some flying monkeys and throw yourself into all manner of trouble. Trust me. IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE.
ref: 2011 August 19, Emma Kennedy, “Relax - a gap year's supposed to be fun”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A proverbial path to a Promised Land of one's hopes and dreams.
quasilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasilinear
form: most quasilinear
form: quasi-linear
Etymology: From quasi- + linear.
Senses: glosses: Very nearly linear.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having some properties of linearity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Linearithmic.
Derived terms: quasilinearly
quasilinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quasilinear + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quasilinear manner; almost linearly.
livingroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livingrooms
Senses: examples: text: The Tuesday after baseball season ended Rud was stretched out on his side on the livingroom carpet, the sports section unfolded and papyrian before him.
ref: 1997, Colin Hester, Diamond Sutra, Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of living room.
cereology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪ.ə.ɹɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/
ipa: /sɪ.ə.ɹɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: cerealogy
Etymology: From Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: […] the array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-author The Crop Circle Enigma, the parents of cereology […]
ref: 1990 October–December, New Scientist, volume 128, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:
text: The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.
ref: 1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1
text: Saucer enthusiasts argued that the cropland patterns marked the landing spots of UFOs bearing visitors from space. Believers in the paranormal claimed the circles radiated mysterious energy forces. The patterns spawned a kind of intellectual cottage industry: no fewer than 35 Britons claim to be experts on the phenomenon. A new scientific discipline, cereology, emerged. It is practiced by members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group headed by Wiltshire-based physicist Terence Meaden.
ref: 1991 September 23, Leon Jaroff, “It happens in the best circles”, in Time, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2016:
text: The world needed to be educated about the mysteries of cereology, and that knowledge base had not been disseminated widely enough for my more "unusual" theories to be accepted, or at least considered, with reason and open-mindedness.
ref: 2003, Colin Andrews, Stephen J. Spignesi, “The Path”, in Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books, →ISBN, page 29, column 1:
glosses: The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.
Related terms: cereologist
cerealogist
quasiperiodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quasiperiodic
form: most quasiperiodic
form: quasi-periodic
Etymology: From quasi- + periodic.
Senses: glosses: Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that an increment of a variable leads to a multiplication by some function.
raw_tags: of a function
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having two unrelated periods.
raw_tags: of an oscillation
Derived terms: quasiperiodically
quasiperiodicity
quasiperiodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quasiperiodic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a quasiperiodic manner
wayfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪfɛə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.
Senses: examples: text: What frightens and disgusts me is those fearful letters from those who have been long dead, to those who linger on their wayfare through this valley of tears.
ref: 1827 May 13, Sir Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:
text: Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Travel, journeying.
wayfare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪfɛə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: wayfares
form: wayfaring
form: wayfore
form: wayfared
form: wayfaren
form: wayfared
Etymology: From Middle English weyfaren, originally in participle form weyfarand, from Old English weġfarende (“wayfaring”), equivalent to way + faring. Cognate with Danish vejfarende (“wayfaring”), Swedish vägfarande, German wegfahren (“to drive away”), Icelandic vegfarandi (“wayfaring”). More at way, fare.
Senses: examples: text: A certain Laconian as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend an hoſt of his, who the firſt day, of purpoſe avoided him, and was out of the way, becauſe he was not minded to lodge him; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Laconicke Apophthegmes, or the Notable Sayings of Lacedæmonians”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 474:
text: But know, these English take to liquid life / Right patly— […] The sea is their dry land, / And, as on cobbles you, they wayfare there.
ref: 1904, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part first, London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, Act VI, scene vii, page 220:
glosses: To make a journey; to travel.
Related terms: wayfarer
wayfaring
redbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbugs
Etymology: From red + bug.
Senses: examples: text: Atticus paused, watching me locate an elusive redbug on my leg.
"Gentle breeding," he continued, when I had found and scratched it,....
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 13, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Any member of the family Pyrrhocoridae of true bugs.
quasiperiodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasiperiodicities
Etymology: From quasi- + periodicity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quasiperiodic
glosses: An example of quasiperiodic behaviour
c'n
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: C'n I 'ave a glass o' water?
text: "They c'n go loose and rape up the countryside for all of 'em who run this county care," was one obscure observation we met....
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 14, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of can, the modal verb.