cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
incongruitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incongruitous
form: most incongruitous
Senses: examples: text: His house is made of synthetic and plastic materials, and furniture consist of incongruitous articles of synthetic materials.
ref: 1980, Institute of American Culture, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Republic of China, Proceedings of the Conference on the Comparative Study of the Chinese Ideal and the American Dream: October 6-8, 1978
glosses: Synonym of incongruous.
synonyms: word: incongruous
casing nails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casing nail
carpet grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpet grass
carrier shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carrier shell
mason shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mason shell
Ural owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ural owl
Valley girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valley girl
unicorn roots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unicorn root
xenophoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophora
xenophorae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenophora
backslided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backslide
world to come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worlds to come
Etymology: A translation of Hebrew הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא (ha'olám habá, literally “the coming world”).
Senses: synonyms: Olam Haba
glosses: The Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds.
examples: text: If their bodies were ill-used, the animals of that species would not allow themselves to be taken, neither in this world nor in the world to come.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 241:
glosses: Any of various other afterlives in different theologies and mythologies.
antiwesternism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + Western + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Tito and Nehru tried to keep fervent antiwesternism from superseding the fundamental anti-bloc position of the movement.
ref: 1984, Defense & Diplomacy, Incorporated, - Diplomacy, Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, Volume 2
glosses: An ideological, cultural, and political trend opposing Western cultural and political influences.
lunatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lunatizes
form: lunatizing
form: lunatized
form: lunatized
Senses: examples: text: The spiritual disease of the ego which consists in continuously sounding its own note produces madness; and indeed the monotony of it almost lunatizes others also.
ref: 1893, “The Ascent of Life”, in The Arena, volume 9, page 486:
text: He will understand — even if he pretends ignorance, as the idea of being lunatized has never been wholly absent from his mind.
ref: 1962, Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's Wife:
glosses: To turn someone into a lunatic.
lunatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lunatize
lunatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lunatize
lunatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lunatize
goomar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goomars
Senses: examples: text: One guy's goomar will know another guy's goomar. Sometimes the girlfriends hang out. Sometimes the girlfriends introduce each other to guys—that's often how the goomba meets his goomar, because she's friends with someone else's goomar.
ref: 2007, Steven R. Schirripa, The Goomba Diet: Living Large and Loving It, →ISBN:
text: All the mob guys I knew, growing up, they had a goomar. They'd keep the girls in an apartment, buy 'em stuff, keep 'em quiet.
ref: 2010, Steven R. Schirripa, Charles Fleming, A Goomba's Guide to Life, →ISBN:
text: He was not in Newark anymore; he was in a glittering, exotic mecca of money, white sandy beaches, and beautiful women; he was an international jet-setter in the company of Hollywood royalty; and he had a goomar, a mistress, in New Jersey and allegedly another in Florida.
ref: 2013, Richard Linnett, In the Godfather Garden, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Until the fraught breakup in season two, Tony's goomar is Russian émigré Irina Peltsin, lightly portrayed in the first episode by blonde actress, Siberia Federico, and then, in line with the writers' swiftly developing sense of both Tony's taste in womaen and Irina's own character, by the more fragile brunette, Oksana Lada.
ref: 2015, Marcus Maloney, The Search for Meaning in Film and Television, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Alternative form of goomah.
goomars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goomar
sodium acetate trihydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sodium acetate that has three molecules of water of crystallization
Synonyms: hot ice
biscayen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biscayens
Etymology: French biscayen
Senses: glosses: A kind of large-calibre musket ball.
bisquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisquers
Etymology: From bisque + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Starting the game as a twelve bisquer in 1908, the progress of Miss W. A. Blood, the eldest of the trio, was nothing beyond the normal […]
ref: 1913, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, volume 79, page 68:
text: Compilation of "hints" to Long-Bisquers who need to amend their tactical shortcomings, told with professional authority.
ref: 1992, Nancy L. Rhoades, Croquet: An Annotated Bibliography, page 21:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person given a certain number or kind of bisques or advantages.
biscayens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biscayen
homoromantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homoromantic
cloudify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cloudifies
form: cloudifying
form: cloudified
form: cloudified
Etymology: From cloud + -ify.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
topics: food
lifestyle
science
sciences
glosses: To make (a drink, etc.) cloudy.
Synonyms: sense: make cloudy
word: becloud
Derived terms: cloudifier
Related terms: cloudification
High Fens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ̯ˈfɛnz/
Etymology: Calque of French Hautes Fagnes.
Senses: glosses: A boggy region in eastern Belgium and western Germany.
anti-index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-indexes
Etymology: From anti- + index.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A listing of records used to prune them during requests.
autocreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + creation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: automatic creation
cloudified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cloudify
cloudifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cloudify
cloudifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cloudify
cloudifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudifiers
Etymology: From cloudify + -er.
Senses: glosses: An agent or substance that makes a drink, etc. cloudy.
cloudifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloudifier
zebra spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebra spider
lyric poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
portemonnaies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portemonnaie
half nephews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half nephew
bissel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪsəl/
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Etymology: From Yiddish ביסל (bisl); cognate with the homologous Germanic-language words Bissel, Bisslein, and Bisschen, as well as English bit.
Senses: examples: text: just a bissel
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount; a bit.
Long Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Long Islanders
Etymology: From Long Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Long Island, a region of the state of New York.
Hypernyms: New Yorker
American
bistres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bistre
Long Islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Long Islander
grocering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grocer
grocered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grocer
string player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string players
Senses: glosses: a musician who plays a string instrument, one where a bow is used, often in an orchestra.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: string instrumentalist
word: string musician
gravedance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravedances
Etymology: From grave + dance.
Senses: examples: text: And to know them, you must know Black Jack Mojo, the gravedance runner.
ref: 2000, Michael Rowe, Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: A celebratory dance performed on a grave.
examples: text: Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure!
ref: 2013 April 8, Vembu, “No 'smoking gun' to prove Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman”, in Firstpost:
text: […] theory's endings are recurrent, multiple, and interminable, and that each proclamation of its passing, every mournful eulogy or triumphant gravedance, yields renewed and often powerful examinations of its powers, goals, histories, meanings, and values.
ref: 2014, D. N. Rodowick, Elegy for Theory, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: The celebration of a person's downfall.
gravedance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gravedances
form: gravedancing
form: gravedanced
form: gravedanced
Etymology: From grave + dance.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dance on someone's grave.
synonyms: word: dance on someone's grave
gravedancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravedancers
Etymology: From grave + dancer.
Senses: examples: text: Grave-dancers, for sure, all of them. But no diggers.
ref: 2014, Peter Watts, Behemoth: B-Max, →ISBN:
glosses: One who rejoices in the death or demise of another; one who dances on someone's grave.
examples: text: But the hangover's set in, And now a Gravedancers lookin'. It's Gravedancer times When there's panic in the land When assets sell at costs that scream, "Bail me out, man!"
ref: 2000, Hilary Rosenberg, The Vulture Investors, →ISBN, page 311:
text: Reducing its pension liabilities to transfer large portions of employee pension money to its books, falsely showing the solidity of the corporation (only if temporarily), pumping and dumping its stock are all schemes created by useless paper-pushing crooks of Wall Street. Wake up GraveDancer!
ref: 2014 May 30, Carla Fried, “Your Company Just Tossed a Pension Hot Potato in Your Lap. What Do you Do”, in Bloomberg:
text: But a Miami gravedancer named Boz Arlen smelled opportunity.
ref: 2014, Tony Doris, Dirt, →ISBN:
glosses: An investor who specializes in buying failing companies or distressed properties.
examples: text: Pissed, the Iceman sends his bodyguard, the Gravedancer, off to learn who is behind them.
ref: 1993, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction - Volume 113, page 163:
text: Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows.
ref: 2010 November 26, D.F. Oliveria, “Nevada 34, Boise State 31 In Overtime”, in The Spokesman Review:
text: the gravedancer comes/ the man inside the truck/ dreams of forgotten tomorrows/ he no longer recalls/ how he got there/ the blood on his clothes/ his matted hair/ his bruised body/ tell no answers
ref: 2010, D W Moody, The Garden, page 46:
glosses: One who literally dances on a grave.
gravedancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravedancer
gape-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gape-mouthed
form: most gape-mouthed
form: gapemouthed
Etymology: From gape + mouthed.
Senses: examples: text: "You may be wise in your study in the morning,” (says brow-beating Johnson, to his gape-mouthed admirer Boswell,) “ and gay in company at a tavern in the evening.”
ref: 1829, The Book of the Boudoir by Lady Morgan. Vol. 1, page 150:
text: This argument also does Sweden, her king, and Chancellor Oxenstierna a regrettable historical injustice, for it trivializes the gape-mouthed surprise with which most European statesmen greeted the initial successes of the Swedish invaders in 1631.
ref: 2004, Paul Douglas Lockhart, Sweden in the Seventeenth Century, →ISBN:
text: The brain, we are to understand, is sufficiently complex to supoprt higher functions because it is composed of some 10,000,000,000 neurons; and, as if this were not sufficient to leave one gape-mouthed with uncritical awe, it is pointed out that each of these components connects with numerous other components, so that the possible number of sub-units or combinations exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
ref: 2013, Raymond Tallis, Why the Mind Is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of .Neuromythology, →ISBN:
text: Finally there were the fugitive images that imprinted themselves on his fizzling, fading brain as his gape-mouthed head spun in the air: a night sky flocked with gentle clouds; the saffron glow of the lamps along the riverbank; the door to the synagogue garret, flapping open in the breeze.
ref: 2014, Crime Files 2014: Volume 2, →ISBN:
glosses: Overwhelmed with awe or astonishment.
examples: text: So in the spring my room and that portion of the veranda set aside for the purpose always had at least half a dozen cages and boxes containing gape-mouthed baby birds or birds that I had managed to rescue from the sportsmen and which were recuperating with makeshift splints on wings or legs.
ref: 2006, Gerald Durrell, The Corfu Trilogy, →ISBN:
text: And on the second OOOOOOO, you picture just a naked glowing green skull that hangs there vibrating gape-mouthed in a prison cell.
ref: 2012, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America, →ISBN, page 153:
text: A corpse swirled past me, gape-mouthed, fish-white, dull eyed.
ref: 2014, Robert Holdstock, Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, →ISBN:
text: At the best of times it had been too tight, and now the gape-mouthed face resembled a blue tomato.
ref: 2015, Felicity Savage, A Trickster in the Ashes: An Epic Fantasy Adventure:
glosses: Having a wide-open mouth.
examples: text: A gape-mouthed wicker trunk served as a hive.
ref: 2008, Solon Timothy Woodward, Cadillac Orpheus: A Novel, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Now the grime-filmed upper-level windows of their facades peered sadly across at each other over gape-mouthed loading bay entrances whose shutters were all jammed somewhere uncommitted between open and closed.
ref: 2008, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, →ISBN:
text: The alien gently manoeuvred the ship out of the gape-mouthed bay.
ref: 2014, KS Augustin, Quinten's Revenge, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a wide opening.
gape-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gape-mouthed
form: most gape-mouthed
form: gapemouthed
Etymology: From gape + mouthed.
Senses: examples: text: As much as we check in, we are checking out of our own lives and becoming voyeuristic, peering gape-mouthed into the sordid details of other people's lives in order to feel connected or entertained.
ref: 2014, Brendon Burchard, The Motivation Manifesto, →ISBN:
text: I paused at the entrance and stared, gape-mouthed.
ref: 2015, Tracy Weber, Karma's a Killer: A Downward Dog Mystery, →ISBN:
text: He tosses two twenties on the table and with a gentle nudge turns me away from Steve, who sits there, impotent, staring gape-mouthed at the cash.
ref: 2015, Julia Kent, Shopping for a Billionaire:
glosses: In a state of awe or astonishment.
string vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛst
Forms: form: string vests
Senses: glosses: an undergarment made from a see-through mesh fabric, usually worn by men.
gapemouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gapemouthed
form: most gapemouthed
Senses: examples: text: While the rock world seemed generally gapemouthed by the tragedy and the country crowd descended to knee-jerk jingoism, blues artists tried to put the whole horrible business in some sort of perspective.
ref: 2003, Blues Revue - Issues 80-85, page 63:
text: One showed a gapemouthed cluster of little folks watching a magician pull a white rabbit from a hat.
ref: 2013, Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel, →ISBN, page 420:
text: Every time I talk to a woman about some things I am left gapemouthed and wishing terribly that I had a large dog with a heavily callused butt.
ref: 2013, Peter Bowen, The Yellowstone Kelly Novels, →ISBN:
text: Standing on the big chair, she stuffed them into that gapemouthed fish.
ref: 1993, Susan Malone, By the Book: A Novel, →ISBN, page 101:
text: There are no more gapemouthed crocuses, or poppies wide with woe to wreath her fingers; the earth is a hunched and sightless woman, holding herself together with her hair.
ref: 1974, James B. Meriwether, A Faulkner Miscellany, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of gape-mouthed.
gapemouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gapemouthed
form: most gapemouthed
Senses: examples: text: Abreast of the first soldier, he too took in the round collar and halted gapemouthed.
ref: 1984, Fred Saberhagen, Machines That Kill, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: Alternative form of gape-mouthed.
string vests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string vest
common or garden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Let's see what's wrong with the common or garden claims to knowledge, and by refusing in those cases to speak of knowledge set our minds on higher things, gain a glimpse of perfect knowledge, though perhaps without hope of reaching it.
ref: 1968, John Wisdom, Other Minds, page 141:
text: The author of the Magna Moralia has a passage which corresponds to Nicomachean Ethics IX 8 quite closely, but refuses to call the virtuous person 'self-loving' (philautos), reserving the word for common or garden selfish regard, and insisting that the virtuous person should be called 'good-loving' (philagathos) instead.
ref: 1993, Julia Annas, The Morality of Happiness, →ISBN, page 262:
text: Like any common or garden racist would seek to do to someone he or she deems as different, or lesser.
ref: 1998, Nigel Kerner, The Song of the Greys, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Where common or garden matters are adequately coped with in the DN8, as for instance in connection with the Pastons, or with such personages as Dr Bentley and Archbishop Thomson, they have been largely left to that work.
ref: 2015, Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: Alternative form of common-or-garden.
shackless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shack + -less.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: hutless, cabinless, houseless, buildingless
glosses: Without a shack or shacks.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: Near-synonyms: hutless, houseless, homeless, unhoused
text: The poorest of the poor are truly destitute, with so few assets they are basically shackless.
ref: 2014, George W. Norton, Hunger and Hope: Escaping Poverty and Achieving Food Security in Developing ...:
glosses: Not housed in a shack.
raw_tags: of a person
shockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shockless
form: most shockless
Etymology: From shock + -less.
Senses: examples: text: For many years there has been a strong demand for a shockless railway crossing from a general public in cities […]
ref: 1915, E.S.Cobb, Los Angeles, Water & Sewage Works, Volume 48, California:
text: [The reason] the equipment is carried in a compartment rather than the baggage car is to give it a more shockless ride.
ref: 1940, Broadcasting, volume 19, page 64:
glosses: Not causing, or not undergoing, a shock or shocks.
Related terms: antishock
unshocking
non-nude
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonnude.
dwagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwagons
Etymology: From dragon pronounced with rhotacism, imitating childlike or endearing speech. Compare wittle (“little”).
Senses: examples: text: You should be a dwagon, an' when I kick on the door you should woar fwightfully.
ref: 1922, Mazo De la Roche, Explorers of the Dawn, Macmillan Company of Canada, published 1931, [c1922], page 173:
text: Whenever a thnap dwagon thnapth at me Or thickth out itth tongue, indethently, I thealthily sweep up behind the thing, Pick one of itth flowerth and then I thing ; "Thnap dwagon, thnap dwagon — naughty plant."
ref: 1923, The Gargoyle:
text: “I—I was going to kill the Iwish Dwagon,” Peter said in answer to the mountebank's question, “but—but I fell off.”
ref: 1927, Dan Totheroh, The Last Dragon:
text: “A WIDDLE DWAGON!”
ref: 2007, Kate McMullan, Little Giant-Big Trouble, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: “They are the warest of dwagon breeds.
ref: 2013, LRW Lee, Blast of the Dragon's Fury (Book One): Andy Smithson Young Adult Fantasy Series, Woodgate Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dragon.
Related terms: dwaggy
pwincess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pwincesses
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of princess.
functional MR imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Replacement of MR for magnetic resonance in context of full phrase.
Senses: examples: 1999 — Hofmann E, Prelbisch C, Knaus C, Müller J, Kremser C, Teissl C (1999). "Noninvasive Direct Stimulation of the Cochlear Nerve for Functional MR Imaging of the Auditory Cortex" (PDF). American Journal of Neuroradiology 20:1972. PMID 10588127. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
Acoustic stimulation of the primary auditory cortex and the associated areas has been reported in the functional MR imaging literature (6). Functional MR imaging used to study the auditory cortex is hampered by the loud noise inherent in echo-planar imaging sequences.
glosses: Functional magnetic resonance imaging.
1st person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: 2nd person
3rd person
glosses: Abbreviation of first person.
graphorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of graphorrhea (British spelling)
drug testing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drug test
drug tested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drug test
upkept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upkeep
zip tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zip ties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cable tie.
synonyms: word: cable tie
zip tie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zip ties
form: zip tying
form: zip tied
form: zip tied
form: zip-tie
form: ziptie
Senses: examples: text: A snakelike movement with her right hand caught the man's as he began to withdraw, and Lex drew it up to the woman's hand that she'd controlled, joining and zip tying the two of them together.
ref: 2017, Palladian, Super: Discipline, →ISBN:
glosses: To fasten with a zip tie.
zip ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip tie
zip ties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zip tie
go-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goon (“a Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type imported into Japan”).
shackleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shackle + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unshackled, fetterless, unfettered, unchained; unmanacled, unhandcuffed
text: Two horses milled shackleless along the street, and a flower seller screamed her abuse as she returned crushed bouquets to her overturned basket.
ref: 1994, Maria Greene, An Inconvenient Marriage:
glosses: That has no shackles, or is not in shackles.
Speke's gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Speke's gazelles
Etymology: Named after English explorer John Hanning Speke.
Senses: glosses: A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa (Gazella spekei).
wikipedia: John Hanning Speke
Related terms: Speke's antelope
Soemmerring's gazelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soemmerring's gazelles
Etymology: Named after German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.
Senses: synonyms: Abyssinian mohr
glosses: A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa, Nanger soemmerringi, formerly Gazella soemmerringi.
wikipedia: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
horror-thriller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horror-thrillers
Senses: glosses: A type of film that blends the horror and thriller genres.
horror-thrillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horror-thriller
guest night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest nights
Senses: glosses: A night or evening when guests may be invited to a club event.
gunpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunpads
form: gun pad
Etymology: From gun + pad.
Senses: examples: text: It was the portrait of a man of thirty-five or thereabouts, not absolutely handsome, but wonderfully attractive, dressed in a brown velveteen shooting-coat with a leather gunpad, and a pale grey-blue handkerchief peeping from the breast-pocket.
ref: 1892, Bertha Jane Grundy [Mrs. Leith Adams, Mrs. R. S. de Courcy Laffan], “On the Other Side of the River”, in All the Year Round, page 56:
glosses: A padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun.
examples: text: Tighten these straps till wheels are in best position, and bear firmly on the cargo-cincha wheel-pads and on the gunpad.
ref: 1886, United States Army Ordnance Department, Report of the Chief of Ordnance, page 485:
glosses: A pad for holding a cannon during transport.
gun deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun decks
form: gundeck
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The deck on an armed ship (man-of-war) on which the guns are placed.
gun lap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gun laps
Senses: glosses: The final lap of a race, in which a gun is fired when the race leader begins the lap
glosses: The final stages of something
Synonyms: sense: final stages
word: home stretch
sense: final stages
word: home straight
gweipor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gweipors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gweipo.
gym shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gym shoes
Senses: synonyms: tennis shoe
sneaker
qualifier: Michigan; Chicago; Michigan; Chicago
glosses: running shoe, trainer.
synonyms: plimsoll
pump
dap
glosses: Canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole, used especially by children.
gynecopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynecopathies
Etymology: From gyneco- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the young men in- penurious circumstances are gonorrheics, and assuming, because the disease is in a quiescent stage, that they are cured, contract marriage, and it often occurs that the disease is transmitted to the wife, and the first pregnancy is followed by serious complications, causing thereafter sterility and illimitable gynecopathies.
ref: 1909 March 24, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 62, page 726:
glosses: Any disease that only affects women
Coordinate terms: andropathy
gyppy tummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyppy tummies
form: gippy tummy
Senses: glosses: A feeling of sickness in the stomach, leading to diarrhea.
Halley's comet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Halley's Comet.
canasteros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canastero
holy crap on a stick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "I shoved thoughts of Hank the Skank out of my head. Aunt Bel stood by while I wrestled the fifty-pound case off the belt. Holy crap on a stick, Aunt Bel, what do you have in here?."
ref: 2015, Elle Casey, Monkey Business: A Paranormal Short Story:
glosses: Emphatic form of holy crap.
witfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more witfully
form: most witfully
Etymology: From witful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a witful or conscious manner; knowingly
Synonyms: wittingly
witfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From witful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being witful; consciousness
NPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of national pipe thread.
glosses: Initialism of national pipe tapered.
glosses: Initialism of nocturnal penile tumescence.
examples: text: “The NPT is not able to protect us, so why a country like Iran, or other countries interested to have a peaceful nuclear energy, should rely on NPT,” the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told a conference in Istanbul on Sunday.
ref: 2025 June 24, Matthew Chance, “Has Iran’s nuclear program been defeated? Key question unanswered as Israel ceasefire takes hold”, in CNN:
text: Iran’s parliament passed a bill halting cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, while the Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, also said that the country could also rethink its membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which prohibits signatories from developing nuclear weapons.
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: Initialism of nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
witsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witsome
form: most witsome
Etymology: From wit + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The simple-minded Yonos seemed never to have learned that there was danger in delays, and therefore, not suspecting his purpose, they listened with patience to one pretext and another brought forward either by, or on behalf of, the witsome Manuelo, for the postponement of his marriage with the timid village maiden.
ref: 1888, California Three Hundred and Fifty Years Ago:
text: […] a devoted doctor Mr Brettoneau, a certain the Honourable Martin Hawke who, it appears, filled his daily hours with sword-fencing and lessons in duelling, and a witsome Irishman called Mr Hume who led the Lieutenant-Colonel in numerous forays through Amboise Forest with loaded muskets in search of boars.
ref: 1978, Michael Hastings, Sir Richard Burton: A Biography, page 22:
glosses: Possessing wit; witty.
bigotness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bigot + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] for you to have gone to your allopathic brothers for the desired information, for they would unhesitatingly have, unless lacking characteristic bigotness, professed an entire ignorance of the knowledge of the existence of such a thing as Apis.
ref: 1893, Homœopathic News: A Monthly Homœopathic Medical Journal
text: […] and that everything and everybody should give way to them, and the wonder to me is that more of them have not been killed than have been, and if they do not quit their bigotness, I am satisfied that this is the end that a good many of them will meet.
ref: 1912, Reports and Resolutions of South Carolina to the General Assembly, Volume 3
text: Give us the inner peace of knowing the wisdom of patience and understanding. Remove the narrowness, the conceit, and the falseness in our lives. We ask Thee to cast from us bigotness and prejudice.
ref: 1956, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress, Volume 102, Part 9
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of a bigot; bigotry.
Cav and Pag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæv ən ˈpæɡ/
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: qualifier: opera
glosses: The two one-act operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci presented as a single event.
Bizet sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bizet sheep
Senses: glosses: A variety of sheep from the Massif Central part of France
Bizet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bizets
Senses: glosses: A Bizet sheep.
cisness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cis- + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What's more, the assumed cisness of children during that century means that alongside Val and the other trans children in this book were countless, unnamed others whose experience is still hidden from view.
ref: 2018, Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, unnumbered page:
text: Cisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.
ref: 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 69:
text: But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.
ref: 2020, LJ, "Who Needs Gender?", in Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (eds. Benjamin Vincent, Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, & Meg-John Barker), page 64
glosses: The quality of being cisgender.
hit the gym
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the gym
form: hitting the gym
form: hit the gym
form: hit the gym
Senses: glosses: To visit a gym in order to exercise.
holy fudge
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʌdʒ
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of holy fuck.
vierling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vierlings
Etymology: From German Vierling (“gun with four barrels; quadruplet”).
Senses: examples: text: The vierling gun that Alan Tuck hunts with is truly a handcrafted work of art.
ref: 2009, Nebraskaland, volume 87, page 32:
text: The Blaser D99 drilling can be custom made with two side-by-side shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel over them. Another variation on the multiple barrel shotgun is the vierling, which is the German word for quadruplet. A vierling has four barrels […]
ref: 2015, Robert A. Sadowski, Gun Trader's Guide to Shotguns: A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Reference for Modern Shotguns with Current Market Values, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: 2018, James Ballou, Arming for the Apocalypse: Assembling Your Survival Arsenal ... While You Still Can, Prepper Press
[…] three-barreled drillings, the two-barreled shotgun/rifle cape guns, and the four-barreled vierlings, which all featured some combination of rifle with shotgun barrels within the same gun.
coordinate_terms: drilling
glosses: A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
Derangement Syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Derangement Syndromes
Etymology: Coined in 2003 by Charles Krauthammer as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) in The Washington Post article "The Delusional Dean".
Senses: glosses: The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal and balanced people triggered by the mention of a specific topic.
wikipedia: Charles Krauthammer
The Washington Post
Related terms: sense: Israel derangement syndrome envelops the far left
urls: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/26/israel-derangement-syndrome-envelops-the-far-left-six-examples
word: Six examples
derangement syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derangement syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: One of three mechanical syndromes in the McKenzie method proposed in 1981 by the New Zealand physical therapist Robin McKenzie.
Related terms: Trump derangement syndrome
derangement syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derangement syndrome
Derangement Syndromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Derangement Syndrome
unacquire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unacquires
form: unacquiring
form: unacquired
form: unacquired
Etymology: From un- + acquire.
Senses: examples: text: If you forget to unacquire the input devices you've been using, when your game ends those devices may still be locked by the system and may be unable to be used.
ref: 2011, Allen Sherrod, Wendy Jones, Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming - Page 197:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To lose or get rid of; reverse the possession or acquisition of; unget
Elmer Fudd syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the speech style of the cartoon character Elmer Fudd.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to replace lateral (/l/) and rhotic (/r/) consonants with labiovelar (/w/) ones.
wikipedia: Elmer Fudd
coarsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coarse + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The outer integument of the seed or testa is coarsy, yellowish in color and more or less ribbed.
ref: 2003, Giovanni Dugo, Angelo Di Giacomo, Citrus: The Genus Citrus:
glosses: somewhat coarse
helm port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helm ports
form: helm-port
Senses: examples: text: The advantage arising from this form of rudder and mode of hanging it is this, that the hole through the counter or stern of the ship which is called the helm port, is wholly closed up by the head of the rudder passing through it, with almost a close joint, as the line of the centre of the pintles or hinges is made to pass through the centre of the rudder head, whereby the round head of the rudder becomes a large pintle before the fore side of the rudder head, and the rudder, necessarily working on the centre of the pintles, required that the hole through the counter of the ship for the reception of the head of the rudder should be made large enough to allow of the rudder working over with a radius equivalent to the diameter of the rudder head; the large helm port which was thence formed was found to be the source of leakage in the ship at all times, and, in the event of the loss of rudder at sea, the large aperture endangered the safety of the vessel.
ref: 1897, The Elementary Principles of Naval Architecture, page 273:
text: The 16th-century fluyts underwent yet another change: the cove, which we can see on Brueghel's engraving, and which had a helm port in it, through which the tiller entered the ship, disappeared.
ref: 1968, Hans Jürgen Hansen, Art and the Seafarer, page 32:
text: Towards the end of the century the size of the helm port on large ships was much reduced by bringing the head of the rudder inside the ship.
ref: 1989, Michael W. Marshall, Ocean traders, page 89:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hole through the counter of a ship, through which the rudderstock passes.
helm ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helm port
helm-port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helm-ports
Senses: examples: text: The hands were now actively employed in endeavouring to keep the sea from breaking into the gun-room, which at every send-aft came in, in alarming quantities; which, however, was materially prevented by slinging gratings covered with tarpawlings, and applying them externally to the helm-port, with laniards somewhat similar to those of a ballast port, to confine them.
ref: 1821, Thomas Lynn, Star tables Number I. For the Year 1822, page 142:
text: ... the helm-port, or opening in the centre, where the rudder-head enters, is so reduced, that the old dangerous rudder-coat of canvass or leather -- a very insufficient barrier to the breaking through of seas and swamping of the ship -- is now dispensed with, and woodwork, called canting, is substituted.
ref: 1833, William Hookey, “NO. X STRENGTHENING THE TOP-SIDES AND DECKS OF SHIPS”, in Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume 50, number 1:
text: There's something else – do you see the wide helm-port that the head of her helm goes through?
ref: 1864, Jules Verne, The English at the North Pole:
glosses: Alternative form of helm port.
helm-ports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helm-port
high context culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high context cultures
Senses: examples: text: Americans (from a low context culture) will complain that Japanese speakers (from a high context culture) never "get to the point." This is due to a failure to recognize that high context cultures must provide a context and setting and let the point evolve.
ref: 2001, James A. Schnell, Qualitative Method Interpretations in Communication Studies, page 15 0739101471:
text: In high context cultures, however, besides the spoken word, body language, gestures, shaking of the head and hand, each convey some meaning.
ref: 2008, Justin Paul, International Marketing, →ISBN, page 111:
text: In high context cultures, most of the information is either in the physical context, or internalized in the person.
ref: 2009, Lena Robinson, Psychology for Social Workers, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of high-context culture.
high context cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high context culture
high-context culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-context cultures
form: high context culture
Etymology: Coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture
Senses: examples: text: These social and environmental cues need not be direct and easily observed; high-context cultures use the nuances of social interaction — its content and symbolism — to understand a given situation.
ref: 2003, P. Christopher Earley, Soon Ang, Cultural Intelligence, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Persons socialized in low-context cultures (Americans, many Europeans) are more open and expressive and may find it difficult to take the perspective of their team members from high-context cultures
ref: 2008, John F. Cragan, David W. Wright, Chris R. Kasch, Communication in Small Groups, →ISBN, page 145:
text: To the observer, an unknown high-context culture can be completely mystifying, because symbols that are not known to the observer play such an important role.
ref: 2010, Marieke de Mooij, Global Marketing and Advertising, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A culture in which communication relies heavily on context, leaving many things implied rather than explicitly put into words.
high-context cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high-context culture
low context culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low context cultures
Senses: examples: text: Americans (from a low context culture) will complain that Japanese speakers (from a high context culture) never "get to the point." This is due to a failure to recognize that high context cultures must provide a context and setting and let the point evolve.
ref: 2001, James A. Schnell, Qualitative Method Interpretations in Communication Studies, page 15 0739101471:
text: In low context cultures, messages are mostly explicit and the words convey most of the meaning in the communication. In low context cultures, the impact of non-verbal cues is far less significant and the status of the speaker is less important in attaching meaning to what is said.
ref: 2004, Richard Fletcher, Jim Bell, Rod B. McNaughton, International E-business Marketing, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Communication may be difficult between a low context culture and a high context culture when the unstated meanings of body language differ between the parties.
ref: 2008, Chris Bates, Ling-Li Bates, Culture Shock! Taiwan, →ISBN, page vi:
glosses: Alternative form of low-context culture.
low context cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low context culture
low-context culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low-context cultures
form: low context culture
Etymology: Coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his 1976 book Beyond Culture
Senses: examples: text: The style in a high-context culture may appear to be indirect or inappropriate to someone from a low-context culture, and vice versa.
ref: 2005, Yunxia Zhu, Written Communication Across Cultures, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Persons socialized in low-context cultures (Americans, many Europeans) are more open and expressive and may find it difficult to take the perspective of their team members from high-context cultures
ref: 2008, John F. Cragan, David W. Wright, Chris R. Kasch, Communication in Small Groups, →ISBN, page 145:
text: In advertising, argumentation and rhetoric are found more in low-context cultures, whereas advertising in high-context cultures is characterized by symbolism or indirect verbal expression.
ref: 2013, Marieke de Mooij, Global Marketing and Advertising, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: A culture in which communication tends to be explicit, with little reliance on context or shared understandings to convey meaning.
low-context cultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of low-context culture
kniving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Etymology: Inflected form of knive.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knive
kniving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
ipa: /k(ə)ˈnaɪvɪŋ/
ipa: /naɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Etymology: Likely a mishearing of the misconstrued word's pronunciation as kniving with a pronounced k, perhaps influenced by its semantic associations with backstabbing and knives.
Senses: examples: text: If I had a^([sic]) Indian in the car and also a sealed bottle of whiskey or a sealed case of beer and a cop stops me on a routine check I would be charged with kniving which has several meanings like the intention of giving him a drink sooner or later.
ref: 2006, Henry Pennier, Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Rose Fagan, Call Me Hank, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Misconstruction of conniving.