cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
honklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honklets
Etymology: From honk(y) + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Didn't a white school teacher get pregnant by a 12 year old honklet?
ref: 1997 November 20, KARL RHAHEEM, “Re: "Folklore Wisdom"”, in alt.politics.nationalism.black (Usenet):
text: It's no joke, whether it's a little honklet, niglet, chinklet, spiclet, or woplet. There'll come a day in the future when many of us, then as senior citizens, will come to depend on the young adults of tomorrow, children now, but we'll be utterly disappointed with what we get ...
ref: 2000 March 26, Quaker State, “MOTHERS ARE OVERRATED! (was: What the shit is going on with you white people?”, in rec.gardens (Usenet):
text: Unfortunately, this honklet molester will get out of jail early because of it's^([sic]) vomitskin. Nextime,^([sic]) don't molest children, pervert.
ref: 2001 December 4, Master Garfield, Black God, “Re: Another boatload of shit comes to Miami”, in miami.general (Usenet):
glosses: A young honky (white person).
cracklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracklets
Etymology: From crack + -let.
Senses: glosses: A little crack.
cracklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracklets
Etymology: From cracker + -let.
Senses: glosses: A young cracker (white person).
Casoria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A comune in the city of Naples, Campania, Italy.
Bitonto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy.
allosauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One other current movie, “The Lost World,” has an idea, i,e., what would happen if explorers should find a secluded nook of the earth where still dwell dinosauri, allosauri, pterodactyls and other monsters of the dim past.
ref: 1925 February 21, “Moving Pictures”, in The New Yorker, volume 1, number 1, New York City, New York, United States: F-R Pub. Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: plural of allosaurus
Dave Spart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dave Sparts
Etymology: Coined by Private Eye, playing on the word Spartacist (“a member of the International Communist League”).
Senses: examples: text: Now every Dave Spart up the commune knows that basically, to his mind, the only, like, real theatre, man, is made by the people, you know, in the street, man, in the street.
ref: 1981, Reyner Banham, Design by Choice, London: Academy Editions:
text: But of course there is no shortage of people with ingenious ideas about how public money should be spent, and Ken is quite right when he warns us about a whole new generation of Dave Sparts currently working up from the grass roots
ref: 1984, The Spectator:
text: We don't get many Dave Sparts these days chopping hands, invoking the working class and using the word "total" twice in every sentence.
ref: 1992, New Statesman Society:
text: Like McGuinness, Wark's Left is populated by a cast of grotesques; of Dave Sparts who sleep with copies of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution tucked under their pillows.
ref: 2000, Overland:
synonyms: Spart
glosses: A far left radical.
Derived terms: Spartist
Related terms: Bufton Tufton
Sayoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Taeko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Lizabeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “I'm a little out of practice,” Grant said. Lizabeth frowned as Grant bent down to pick up the fallen clubs. What was going on? He was an excellent juggler. She'd seen it with her own besotted eyes.
ref: 2015, Darlene Gardner, Three's Comedy: A Boxed Set of Romantic Comedies:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
'Lizabeth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of Elizabeth.
bitchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitchettes
Etymology: From bitch + -ette.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of bitch.
Suecophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Suecophiles
Etymology: From Sueco- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: During the 19th century there were some, and during the 30's, when Fennophiles and Suecophiles quarreled whether education in the University in Helsinki should be in Finnish or Swedish, which ended in a winning draw for both.
ref: 1992, Tuomas Ilmari Viljanen, “Swedes in Finland”, in soc.culture.nordic (Usenet):
text: An enthusiastic Suecophile ever since he had served as United States consul in Gothenburg during the Civil War, he had in 1870 founded a Swedish settlement in his native Maine, had a Swedish wife, and was fluent in Swedish.
ref: 1994, Hildor Arnold Barton, A Folk Divided:
text: One half of my family is more or less Finnish and the other half is more or less Swedish. I know damn well the both sides of the coin, and I know both the Fennophile and the Suecophile truth. The objective truth - as usually - lies somewhere in-between.
ref: 1996, fleur-de-lis, “Sources for Finnish Names....”, in sfnet.keskustelu.kieli (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of Swedophile.
synonyms: word: Swedophile
lowrises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowrise
Sueco-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin Suecia.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to Sweden or Swedish
Derived terms: Svecoman
Wace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old French Wace.
Senses: glosses: A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.
anti-Gaullist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + Gaullist.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to Gaullism.
anti-Gaullist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-Gaullists
Etymology: From anti- + Gaullist.
Senses: glosses: A person who is opposed to Gaullism.
cheffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ʃɛfə]
ipa: [ʃɛfɐ]
rhymes: -ɛfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cheffers
Etymology: From chef (“to stab or cut up”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Grab the mic and I drop my cheffer
ref: 2020 October 13, Vlone975 where Vlone, “Ben n’ Jerry’s”:
text: .38 in my pouch, man do it with skills
Man do it with tekkers, swing my cheffer
ref: 2021 December 9, Bully B X Stewie X LR (Sin Squad), there Bully B, “Hello”, 0:40–0:45:
synonyms: jook
jooker
ching
ying
bassy
rambo
pokey
chete
shank
nank
splash
splasher
glosses: Knife.
dragonborn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdræɡᵊnbˈɔːn/
ipa: /ˈdræɡənˈbɔɹn/
Etymology: From dragon + born.
Senses: examples: text: A single dragonborn guard held the door.
ref: 2014, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: Book of Blood:
topics: fantasy
glosses: Born with some physical or spiritual connection to dragons.
dragonborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdræɡᵊnbˈɔːn/
ipa: /ˈdræɡənˈbɔɹn/
Forms: form: dragonborn
Etymology: From dragon + born.
Senses: examples: text: “Powerful magic and tangled, dragonborn,” the Shepherd woman said.
ref: 2006, Murray J. D. Leeder, Son of Thunder, page 220:
text: A big man, he stood at least as tall as Shara and maybe as tall as Roghar, with shoulders almost as wide as the dragonborn’s.
ref: 2011, Erik Scott De Bie, Shadowbane:
text: Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”
ref: 2011, Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, page 81:
topics: fantasy
coordinate_terms: dragonkin
dragonoid
dragonewt
lizardfolk
lizardman
glosses: A person born with some physical or spiritual connection to dragons.
mergerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From merger + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a merger.
Giscardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Giscard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
bitchettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitchette
cracklets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracklet
dinuguan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tagalog dinuguan.
Senses: examples: text: There, after graduating from Baruch College in Manhattan, their son learned to cook, filling plastic bins with traditional Filipino dishes like ginataang laing, taro leaves relaxed in coconut milk; and dinuguan, pig’s blood stew.
ref: 2016 June 30, Ligaya Mishan, “Phil-Am Kusina, a Ray of Philippine Sun on Staten Island”, in New York Times:
glosses: A savoury Filipino stew of meat and/or offal simmered in a gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili and vinegar.
nomadisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nomadization.
sophron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sophron
form: most sophron
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σώφρων (sṓphrōn, “sane, moderate, prudent”) (from σῶς (sôs, “safe, sound, whole”) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”)).
Senses: examples: text: As a young gentleman, Charmides was expected to be sophron, self- restrained in his moral behavior, and we learn in the prologue that he so well fulfills this expectation that he is regarded as the most moderate [sophronestatos, 157d6) of the young men of his generation.
ref: 1998, Walter T. Schmid, Plato's Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality, page 11:
text: Even if, the argument notwithstanding, quiet deeds should somehow emerge as more beautiful and not fewer in number “in walking and speaking or anywhere else,” even given this, the quiet life would be no more sophron than the non-quiet.
ref: 2015, David Lawrence Levine, Profound Ignorance: Plato's Charmides and the Saving of Wisdom:
glosses: Of a sound and well-balanced mind; moderate, prudent, sensible, reasonable.
raw_tags: in Ancient Greek philosophy
Related terms: sophrosyne
Sophrosyne
gridler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gridlers
Etymology: From gridle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Professional singers are paid according to the richness, sweetness, and compass of their voices, but the gridler's profit increases as his vocal powers decline.
ref: 1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp:
text: The consequence was that the gridler proposed they should work together. Davies consented, although he did not yet know what the work might be.
ref: 1934, Thomas Moult, W. H. Davies, page 61:
text: Others who relied on their ability to tell a heartrending tale were the 'gridlers' and 'chanters', whose misfortunes would even engage the sympathies of a pawnbroker.
ref: 2014, Joseph O'Neill, The Secret World of the Victorian Lodging House:
glosses: One who gridles (sings as a form of begging).
gridle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gridles
form: gridling
form: gridled
form: gridled
Senses: examples: text: He also gridled sacred hymns in the streets, and sung sporting songs in the alehouses.
ref: 1908, W. H. Davies, chapter 31, in The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp:
glosses: To sing as a form of begging, especially to sing hymns badly with the aim of soliciting donations out of sympathy.
Derived terms: gridler
rubarb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubarbs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rhubarb.
Flickertail State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Flickertail State
Etymology: After flickertail, another name for (Citellus richardsoni) a ground squirrel.
Senses: glosses: Nickname for North Dakota: a state of the United States.
Related terms: Peace Garden State
Sioux State
open-sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open-side
science centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of science center
smails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smail
tripple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triple.
tripple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triple.
tripple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of triple.
nudgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nudgy
form: most nudgy
Etymology: From nudge + -y.
Senses: glosses: of, or related to a nudge
examples: text: "Don't get nudgy." "Who's nudgy?" Koski did not answer.
ref: 1951, Winston Brebner, The second circle:
text: I know that I would never say anything that would make any one of my sisters uncomfortable — a bit nudgy perhaps. We might not always agree on something, but in terms of what my comedy is, it's something that will make my sisters feel good.
ref: 1980 April 19, Cindy Rizzo, Maxine Feldman, “Give Me That Ol' Lesbianism!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: nervous; edgy
emetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emetizes
form: emetizing
form: emetized
form: emetized
form: emetise
Etymology: From emetic + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To add an emetic into.
joculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joculous
form: most joculous
Senses: examples: text: The readers should not imagine that the explanation of the growth of the Romanian population due to protein-rich food is some joculous fabrication. lt is written in an ethnographic publication […]
ref: 1976, Romania: Pages of History, volume 1, numbers 3-4, page 294:
text: And when the above account is framed in a joculous way, there is still a great deal of serious thought behind it.
ref: 1978, Max K. Adler, Naming and Addressing: A Sociolinguistic Study:
glosses: Synonym of jocular.
synonyms: word: jocular
calamosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamosaur
Giffee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Giffees
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Giffees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Giffee
Afrofuturistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afrofuturistic
form: most Afrofuturistic
Etymology: From Afro- + futuristic.
Senses: examples: text: Dery and Sinker were not the first to explore the deplorable need of some to dehumanize others in the quest for power. Yet their framework led to Afrofuturistic writings that for the first time linked the transatlantic slave trade to a metaphor of alien abduction.
ref: 2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 32:
synonyms: Afrofuturist
glosses: Of or relating to Afrofuturism.
Related terms: Afrofuturism
Afrofuturist
Afrodiasporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afrodiasporic
form: most Afrodiasporic
Etymology: From Afro- + diasporic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the African diaspora.
Related terms: Afrodiaspora
Afrofuturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afrofuturists
form: afrofuturist
Etymology: From Afro- + futurist.
Senses: examples: text: Afrofuturists sought to unearth the missing history of people of African descent and their roles in science, technology, and science fiction.
ref: 2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: A person who works in the genre of Afrofuturism.
Afrofuturist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afrofuturist
form: most Afrofuturist
form: afrofuturist
Etymology: From Afro- + futurist.
Senses: examples: text: Drawing on tropes of alienation and abduction, Afrofuturist musicians have used this idea to satirize media representations of a race-free future, commenting on the fact that the few black characters in mainstream sci-fi almost always portrayed stereotypical white characteristics or “acted white”.
ref: 2010, Tammy Kernodle, Horace Maxille, Emmett G. Price III, Encyclopedia of African American Music, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 9:
synonyms: Afrofuturistic
glosses: Relating to Afrofuturism.
Related terms: Afrofuturism
Afrofuturistic
Afrofuturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afrofuturist
givee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: givees
Etymology: From give + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the divine gift, the gift of blood can be corrupted by the giver as well as by the givee.
ref: 2009, Paul J. Griffiths, Intellectual Appetite: A Theological Grammar:
glosses: One to whom something is given; the receiver.
givees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of givee
vicissitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vicissitous
form: most vicissitous
Senses: examples: text: The Prudential, which had a vicissitous youth, has arrived at a fortune that has established its name in every part of the world and carried its President into the United States Senate.
ref: 1902, The Insurance Economist, volume 26, page xxvi:
text: 1967, A. Roman and Company, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
The weakness of Governor Foote's vicissitous career in connection with public affairs may be properly ascribed to an apparent vacillation or eccentricity, which he at times displayed […]
glosses: Of a life or career: involving changes of fortune.
Related terms: vicissitude
chil'ren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of children, representing African-American Vernacular English.
glaciofluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glacifluvial
Etymology: From glacio- + fluvial.
Senses: examples: text: Trends in dominance of glaciofluvial deposits or of till and lacustrine deposits can be recognized.
ref: 1902, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper - Volume 1418, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Another unusual ice-contact feature is an esker, a long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of glaciofluvial sand and gravel inhabiting a glaciated area.
ref: 1988, Robert Phillip Sharp, Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation, page 149:
text: During the last decade, there has been a growing interest in understanding the nature of groundwater resources of Finnish glaciofluvial deposits and in the production of artificial groundwater in order to protect future water supplies.
ref: 2003, Joni Mäkinen, The Development of Depositional Environments Within the Interlobate Säkylänharju-Virttaankangas Glaciofluvial Complex in SW Finland, page 7:
glosses: Pertaining to water flowing on, in, or against glaciers or ice sheets.
glacifluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Besides meltwater, sediment flux is very important for determining glacifluvial landform type.
ref: 2006, Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, →ISBN:
text: Glacifluvial sediment may be found in ice-contact environments (supraglacial, englacial, subglacial and ice-marginal) or proglacial environments beyond an apron of stagnant ice.
ref: 2013, Andrew Goudie, Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, →ISBN, page 462:
text: Rather than being carried downglacier by ice flow, debris is more or less randomly reworked on the glacier surface, or scavenged by supraglacial and englacial streams and transported by the glacifluvial system.
ref: 2014, Douglas Benn, David J A Evans, Glaciers and Glaciation, →ISBN, page 353:
glosses: Alternative form of glaciofluvial.
basser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Knowing that a taller pipe must produce a basser sound, the Semites identified the two.
ref: 1955, Athene, volumes 16-17, page 4:
glosses: comparative form of bass: more bass
basser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassers
Senses: examples: text: As the beater increased the pace, the bassers would embellish the rhythm with hand claps and singing, while the seekers would follow the increasing tempo of the stickers ^([sic]) beat, by picking up or intensifying the pace of the movement.
ref: 2012, Lenard C. Bowie, African American Musical Heritage, page 244:
hyponyms: bassist
glosses: One who performs the bass part in music.
examples: text: "Mickey" I hissed. "Lift the fish basket."
The bassers nodded approvingly, one giving the thumbs up signal. Then they gunned it.
ref: 1994, Louisiana Conservationist, volumes 46-47, page 29:
glosses: One who fishes for bass.
glacio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: glaci-
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to glaciers.
glaci-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of glacio-.
glacioisostasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glacio- + isostasy.
Senses: examples: text: It is assumed that glacioisostasy is the principal and virtually the only cause of oscillating movements of the earth's crust in regions with thick glaciers.
ref: 1964, Soviet-bloc Research in Geophysics, Astronomy, and Space:
text: It is now widely accepted that phenomena like glacioisostasy and hydroisostasy have produced a vertical deformation of the earth's crust in virtually all coastal areas over the last 20 ka.
ref: 1997, R. W. G. Carter, C. D. Woodroffe, Coastal Evolution: Late Quaternary Shoreline Morphodynamics, →ISBN:
text: Thus it appears that relative sea-level changes that are both rapid and large scale can only be brought about by glacioisostasy and glacioeustasy, and, so far as we know, major build-ups of continental ice sheets that produced significant volumes of ice are confined to several relatively short periods of the Earth's history in the latest Precambrian, the Ordovician-Silurian, Carboniferous-Permian, and the mid-Cenozoic to the present day.
ref: 2009, Harold G. Reading, Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, →ISBN:
glosses: The adjustment of the lithosphere due to the formation or melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
law of love
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A generalized spiritual doctrine that claims love of a deity or love within the context of other spiritual virtues as moral duty.
silk elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silk elevators
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A parachute.
silk elevators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silk elevator
nonpigmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pigmented.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unpigmented.
synonyms: word: unpigmented
Related terms: nonpigmentary
uncompetitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncompetitively
form: most uncompetitively
Etymology: From uncompetitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not competitive.
uninserted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + insert + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Not inserted.
Related terms: deinsertion
insertable
insertion
reinserted
reinsertion
uninsertable
antipolaron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipolarons
Etymology: From anti- + polaron.
Senses: examples: text: An unexpected overweighted antipolaron is revealed in the quadpolaron state, and a hidden scaling behavior relevant to symmetry breaking is found in the bipolaron state.
ref: 2015, Zu-Jian Ying, Maoxin Liu, Hong-Gang Luo, Hai-Qing Lin, J. Q. You, “Ground-state phase diagram of the quantum Rabi model”, in arXiv:
glosses: the antimatter counterpart of the polaron
Empire State of the South
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Empire State of the South
Etymology: After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War.
Senses: examples: ref: 1950, Georgia Department of Commerce, Georgia: The Empire State of the South:
text: For, as can be clearly seen in the case of Georgia, the “Empire State of the South, ” the Knights fought the South's entrenched “Bourbon Democracy” in near isolation between the mid-1880s and early 1890s. While the Knights' efforts not ...
ref: 2012, James M. Beeby, Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:
glosses: Nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.
Related terms: Peach State
uninfused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + infused.
Senses: glosses: Not infused.
nonbipartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bipartite.
Senses: glosses: Not bipartite.
Suecophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Suecophile
lampoonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampooning
antipolarons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipolaron
Rajya Sabha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi राज्य सभा (rājya sabhā, literally “State House”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: Lok Sabha
glosses: The upper house of the Parliament of Republic of India.
wikipedia: Rajya Sabha
aikidō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are solo exercises in aikidō and some weapons kata (forms), but these do not constitute the bulk of training for aikidōka as they do for practitioners of other martial systems.
ref: 2003, Michael L. Raposa, “The Way of Spiritual Harmony”, in Meditation & the Martial Arts (Studies in Religion and Culture), Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 21:
text: It is the principle of nonresistance that distinguishes aikidō from other forms of budō.
ref: 2013, Wolfgang Dietrich, translated by Wolfgang Sützl and Victoria Hindley, “Budō-aikidō”, in Elicitive Conflict Transformation and the Transrational Shift in Peace Politics (Many Peaces), Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, chapter 5 (Movement-oriented Approaches to Elicitive Conflict Transformation):
text: Their martial arts were each seamless, expressing profound moral aims congruent with the highest aims of aikidō.
ref: 2015, Ellis Amdur, “Atemi: Striking to the Heart of the Matter”, in Dueling with O-sensei: Grappling with the Myth of the Warrior Sage, revised and expanded edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press:
glosses: Alternative form of aikido.
jūjutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Whether a result of deadlock or sought voluntarily, the transition from kenjutsu to jūjutsu begins when the opponents close to jūjutsu fighting range (maai), usually with their weapons meeting hand guard (tsuba) to hand guard, in what bugei jargon terms the gasshō (“praying hands”) or tsubazeri (“vying tsuba to tsuba”) position.
ref: 1997, Karl F. Friday with Seki Humitake, “Applied Constructs”, in Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryū and Samurai Martial Culture, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, chapter 3 (The Philosophy and Science of Combat), page 97:
text: The art of fighting with truncheon-like weapons was based on jūjutsu, but admittedly it could also make certain jūjutsu-like techniques more feasible, especially in peacetime, when killing an opponent was forbidden.
ref: 2003, Serge Mol, “Common characteristics of fighting systems using truncheon-like weapons”, in Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts, Tokyo; New York, N.Y.; London: Kodansha International, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Hidemi is seen in the famous photo of the jūjutsu conclave at the Nihon Butokukai, in which various jūjutsu instructors gathered together for several purposes: 1) to include themselves as participants in the new competitive form of grappling, judō 2) to add input to judō’s curriculum 3) to attempt to ensure their own survival as members of the Butokukai.
ref: 2013, Ellis Amdur, “Yoshin-ryū: A Maze of Willows”, in Old School: Essays on Japanese Martial Traditions, 2nd edition, Wheaton, Ill.: Freelance Academy Press, →ISBN, part 4 (Nothing Stays the Same: Martial Traditions from the Edo Period), page 307:
glosses: Alternative form of jujitsu.
l8ly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more l8ly
form: most l8ly
Senses: glosses: Informal form of lately.
intangible assets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intangible asset
simple groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple group
quasithin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + thin.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a group: being a finite simple group that resembles a group of Lie type of rank at most 2 over a field of characteristic 2.
chocolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chocolate
chocolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The chocolated laxative tastes the best.
glosses: simple past and past participle of chocolate (“to coat or mix with chocolate”)
trap house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trap houses
form: trap-house
form: traphouse
Etymology: From trap (“vehicle or location used for drug exchange or manufacture”) + house.
Senses: examples: text: 2015, Anthony Abraham Jack, "Crisscrossing Boundaries: Variation in Experiences with Class Marginality Among Lower-Income, Black Undergraduates at an Elite College", in Elizabeth M. Lee & Chaise LaDousa (eds.), College Students’ Experiences of Power and Marginality: Sharing Spaces and Negotiating Differences, Routledge, →ISBN reporting a respondent's statement.
We have a couple of trap houses on our block. Trap houses like drug houses, drug dealers.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A place where illegal drugs are manufactured, packaged for sale, or sold on the street.
examples: text: 2010 October, United States Marine Corps F-35B West Coast Basing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Vol. I, page 141.
It was used to train aerial gunners in proper firing techniques by placing the gunner in a vehicle, which was driven around the track, while the gunner fired at targets launched from trap houses.
qualifier: gun sports; trap shooting; gun sports; trap shooting
glosses: A small building from which targets are launched.
Synonyms: sense: place where drugs are sold
word: dope house
Related terms: trap car
trap music
trap phone
shooting gallery
trap houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trap house
chronologicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chronologic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike historical novels, Rushdie sacrifices historical chronologicity, factual details regarding event, place, action, character, time etc., and then combines fictional narrative with historical narration.
ref: 2015, Lilack Biswas, Studies in Post Colonialism:
glosses: The state of being in a chronological order.
voluntells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of voluntell
voluntelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voluntell
doubtee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doubtees
Etymology: From doubt + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: They do not believe the doubtee is telling the truth and are unwilling to take the claims made about the card laid on faith. The burden of proof is then placed on the doubtee to provide some objective, indubitable piece of evidence […]
ref: 2012, Dixon Kinser, Donald Miller, Exploring Blue Like Jazz:
glosses: One who causes doubt; a person who is doubted.
doubtees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doubtee
Confederate States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Confederate States
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Confederate States of America.
synonyms: word: Confederate States of America
Greyhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greyhound
candy-assed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more candy-assed
form: most candy-assed
Senses: glosses: cowardly; timid; wimpy
Related terms: candy-ass
dirty kitchens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty kitchen
love team
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love teams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loveteam.
love teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love team
glaciotectonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glacio- + tectonics.
Senses: examples: text: Glaciotectonics became a very popular area of research in The Netherlands during the 1950s due to the ice-shoved ridges being the most dominant topographic features in an otherwise flat country.
ref: 2008, A Geophysical Investigation of Large-scale Glaciotectonic Deformation, →ISBN, page 2:
text: The study of glaciotectonics expanded significantly in the middle twentieth century, primarily in Europe and North America, and by the late twentieth century had become an integrated part of glacial theory.
ref: 2011, Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers, →ISBN, page 445:
text: Similar to the Weichselian glacial setting, the glacial deposits in the Saalian successions were also strongly affected by glaciotectonics.
ref: 2012, M. Huuse, J. Redfern, D. P. Le Heron, Glaciogenic Reservoirs and Hydrocarbon Systems, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: The structural deformation of rocks and sediments as a direct consequence of glacial movement or glacial loading.
naturehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nature + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: I turned, and lo! by my side there stood A being of strangest naturehood. Startled, I glanced him o'er and o'er, Wondering I noted him not before.
ref: 2012, Madge Morris Wagner, Debris Selections from Poems:
glosses: Synonym of nature.
synonyms: word: nature
biaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of binaural.
misobservance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misobservances
Etymology: From mis- + observance.
Senses: examples: text: This represents a deliberate misobservance of the rule which permits only one underlying cause to be entered in Part 1.
ref: 2006, Werner U. Spitz, Daniel J. Spitz, Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the ...:
synonyms: malobservance
glosses: An instance or the practice of not complying with a law, custom, command or rule, or doing so wrongly.
glosses: The custom of not celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
misobservances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misobservance
Battipaglia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and comune in Salerno, Campania, Italy.
Injun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Injuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of injun.
Civitavecchia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A comune and port in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region, Italy.
biospeleology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + speleology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The biology of organisms that live in caves
Related terms: biospeleological
biospeleologist
plewds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plewd
wood ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood ear
jaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jake
hryvni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ukrainian гри́вні (hrývni).
Senses: glosses: plural of hryvnia
casting call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casting calls
Senses: hyponyms: look-see
glosses: A series of auditions held in order to find a suitable actor, dancer, etc.
Related terms: callboard
casting couch
cattle call
casting calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casting call
rate of speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rates of speed
Senses: glosses: Speed; rate of travel.
deduplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deduplication
funnel chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel charts
Senses: glosses: A bar chart with a series of decreasing bars showing the changed value at each stage of a process.
funnel charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel chart
funnel box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel boxes
Senses: examples: text: The calcined stuff, as it comes from the furnace, is thrown through a hopper or shaking funnel box between two metal cylinders, through which both the coarſer particles and clods fall
ref: 1790, Ignaz von Born, New Process Of Amalgamation Of Gold And Silver Ores:
topics: business
mining
glosses: An apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water.
funnel boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel box
funnel stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnel stays
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the ropes, wires or rods steadying a ship's funnel.
funnel stays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel stay
multiselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: multiselects
form: multiselecting
form: multiselected
form: multiselected
Etymology: From multi- + select.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To select multiple items as part of a single selection.
multiselect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiselects
Etymology: From multi- + select.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A control or widget that allows multiple items to be selected.
Related terms: multiselectable
multiselection
multiselected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of multiselect
multiselects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multiselect
multiselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multiselect
Atlético
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Atlético Madrid, a football team from Madrid
subsidiarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subsidiarize
subsidiarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subsidiarize
subsidiarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subsidiarize
emetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emetize
emetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emetize
emetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emetize
hot ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the ice-like appearance of crystallized sodium acetate trihydrate, and the highly exothermic crystallization process creating a lot of heat that remains with the crystals for a significant period.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sodium acetate trihydrate.
synonyms: word: sodium acetate trihydrate
hard left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This new hard left includes several interesting social strands. There is the far left, close to the Communist Party, with its naive assumptions about the unity of interest and purpose among working class people
ref: 1961, New Society:
text: Though the Left is stronger in the party than ever before, it is divided into different factions such as "soft left", led by Michael Foot and Kinnock, "hard left" led by Tony Benn and the Tribune Group, and the "far left" consisting of various groups of Trotskyites.
ref: 1983, Janata:
text: The debate around 'popular alliances' has come to the forefront of left debate in Britain and it has been suggested that this is giving rise to a radical re-alignment of the left; on the one side groupings devoted to a British 'historic compromise' of popular forces and movements (Eurocommunists in the Communist Party, the Labour Co-ordinating Committee, sections of the women's movement, etc.); on the other side an alliance of old Trotskyist far left, the Labour Party hard left and sectarians within the Communist Party which is committed to an alliance against monopoly capitalled by the (male) industrial working class
ref: 2015, Les Johnston, Marxism, Class Analysis and Socialist Pluralism (RLE Marxism): A Theoretical and Political Critique of Marxist Conceptions of Politics, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The section of the left wing that supports traditional socialist policies, distinguished from the social democratic centre-left and the communist and anarchist far left.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of far left.
synonyms: word: far left
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hard, left.
hard left
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: harder left
form: hardest left
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Alternative form of hard-left.
motherfucka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherfuckas
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of motherfucker.
Kennedy plea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kennedy pleas
Etymology: From the case of Kennedy v. Frazier, 178 W.Va. 10, 357 S.E.2d 43 (1987), in which the procedure was upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Senses: examples: text: The Charleston man whose conviction for the shooting death of a former Marshall University football player was overturned, has entered a "Kennedy Plea", rather than go through a second trial... In a Kennedy Plea, the person does not accept guilt, but accepts the punishment for the crime.
ref: 2014, WSAZ News Staff, "Jerel Garner Enters "Kennedy Plea" in Donte Newsome's Shooting Death", on WSAZ.com, 9 Sept. 2014
text: To avoid a lengthy trial and possibly a harsher sentence, 34-year-old Don Douglas Dicken entered a Kennedy plea to the voluntary manslaughter of 46-year-old Glenn L. Farrow... When a defendant enters a Kennedy plea, he or she does not admit committing the criminal act, but believes a plea deal is in his or her best interest instead of taking the case to trial.
ref: 2014 December 2, Wendy Holdren, “Don Dicken enters Kennedy plea to voluntary manslaughter”, in The Register Herald:
text: Williams previously entered a Kennedy plea to second-degree robbery. Williams denied he knew anything about the crime and was not a lookout, as accused...
ref: 2016 February 2, Courtney Hessler, “Man sentenced to 30 years in 2014 armed robbery ring”, in The Herald Dispatch:
topics: law
glosses: A plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit guilt, but concedes that the state has sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction.
wikipedia: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Synonyms: Alford plea
Kennedy pleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kennedy plea
bipolarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bipolarizations
Etymology: From bi- + polarization.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: polarization into two opposing factions
emetise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emetises
form: emetising
form: emetised
form: emetised
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of emetize.
innerweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innerwebs
Etymology: From inner + web.
Senses: examples: text: When closed, the tail appears dark brown, as the central pair of tail feathers have no or only avery little white at the base of the innerweb (12–18mm) which is in any case obscured by the uppertail-coverts.
ref: 2010, Ewan Urquhart, Stonechats:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: (of a plumage) an inner web
innerwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of innerweb
outerweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outerwebs
Etymology: From outer + web.
Senses: examples: text: Tail brown (except for central and outermost feathers) tipped broadly with white, outermost feathers white with brown outerweb.
ref: 2010, Peter Clement, Ren Hathway, Thrushes:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: (of a plumage) an outer web
outerwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outerweb
cheapshit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cheap + shit.
Senses: examples: text: That cheapshit makeup you bought at the dollar store gave me a rash.
glosses: Cheap; shoddy; of inferior quality.
Synonyms: janky
cheap
shitty
coo-coo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuku/
Forms: form: coo-coos
form: coocoo
form: cou-cou
Senses: examples: text: The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall.
ref: 2014, Norah Wilson, Heather Doherty, Forever the Night:
glosses: The two-note vocalisation made by the male of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), or imitation of this by a cuckoo clock.
glosses: A Barbadian food made from mashed okra and cornmeal.
examples: text: "Cut it short, sis, cut it short," he would growl at her if she started to murmur sweet "coo-coos" to her affinity stationed on the other end of the wire.
ref: 1916 August 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 248, column 3:
glosses: A loving or affectionate murmuration.
tympanic membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanic membrane
Synonyms: eardrums
myringas
myringes
tympana
coocoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coocoos
Senses: examples: text: Ramdoss's mother leaned forward, broke off a bit of coocoos, and nibbled at it, signifying that the girl had been accepted.
ref: 2002, David Davidar, House Of Blue Mangoes:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coo-coo (“the foodstuff”).
coocoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coocoo
lallapaloosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lallapaloosa
coo-coos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coo-coo
distractionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distractionist
form: most distractionist
Etymology: From distraction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Tending to divert attention from one thing to another.
distractionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distractionists
Etymology: From distraction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who evades an issue by discussing another.
distractionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From distraction + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The tendency to evade an issue by diverting attention to another.
tuna taco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuna tacos
Senses: glosses: The vulva.
semiconsensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + consensual.
Senses: examples: text: Second, semiconsensual nominations are those in which a front-runner emerges early and faces vigorous opposition during the primaries before finally securing the nomination. The semiconsensual nominee is not a unanimous choice but is […]
ref: 2000, Arthur C. Paulson, Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at ...:
glosses: partially consensual
consensualness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From consensual + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rape, consensualness—these were preposterous words.
ref: 2007, Paul Berman, Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and Its Aftermath:
glosses: The quality of being consensual.
Related terms: consent
enjoyee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enjoyees
Etymology: From enjoy + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: At her has the slow unmoving finger of public scorn been pointed as the pet or favorite of somebody and the unblushing and thankless enjoyee of “soft things," innumerable.
ref: 1876, Albert Stetson, Ira S. Baker, Aaron Gove, The Illinois Schoolmaster: A Journal of Educational Literature and ..., Volume 9:
glosses: Synonym of enjoyer.
synonyms: word: enjoyer
enjoyees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enjoyee