cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
functional food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional foods
Senses: examples: text: These “functional foods”, which included protein powders and shakes, were branded as sports nutrition and primarily targeted at men.
ref: 2021 September 15, Sirin Kale, “Muscles and methane: how protein became the food industry’s biggest craze”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: nutraceutical
glosses: Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.
Related terms: functional music
want ad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: want ads
Senses: examples: text: Don't like: Cruising, bars, pickles, strobe lights, chrome & glass furniture, using a want-ad to meet someone.
ref: 1979 April 14, Bob Williams, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: An advertisement (in a newspaper, magazine, etc.) for something wanted; a classified advertisement.
want ads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of want ad
en banc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: in banc
Etymology: Borrowed from French en banc (literally “on a bench”).
Senses: examples: text: While dissentals are more common, judges on both this and other courts have, on occasion, penned dissents from the grant of en banc review. ... These disgrantles are understandably rare.... […] But because the Ninth Circuit’s peculiar en banc procedures do not guarantee participation in the en banc panel to all active judges, a disgrantle is the only guaranteed way a judge on this court can publicly explain why it was inappropriate for our court to take a particular case en banc.
ref: 2024, Lawrence VanDyke, United States v. Duarte, page 2:
topics: law
glosses: As a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.
Derived terms: court in banc
en banc
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: in banc
Etymology: Borrowed from French en banc (literally “on a bench”).
Senses: examples: text: While dissentals are more common, judges on both this and other courts have, on occasion, penned dissents from the grant of en banc review. ... These disgrantles are understandably rare.... […] But because the Ninth Circuit’s peculiar en banc procedures do not guarantee participation in the en banc panel to all active judges, a disgrantle is the only guaranteed way a judge on this court can publicly explain why it was inappropriate for our court to take a particular case en banc.
ref: 2024, Lawrence VanDyke, United States v. Duarte, page 2:
topics: law
glosses: As a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.
American beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American beavers
Senses: glosses: The beaver Castor canadensis, native of North America.
European beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European beavers
Senses: glosses: A species of beaver, Castor fiber, native to Eurasia.
Synonyms: sense: Castor fiber
word: Eurasian beaver
signatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.nə.tɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of signatory
premature birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premature births
Senses: glosses: The birth of an infant prior to the completion of its prenatal development.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Childbirth occurring earlier than 37 completed weeks of gestation, but later than 20th week, which is regarded a miscarriage.
Related terms: preemie
preterm birth
premature births
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premature birth
nimbleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪm.bəl.nɪs/
Forms: form: nimblenesses
Etymology: From Middle English nymmylnes; equivalent to nimble + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Therfoꝛe thus ſaieth the holy one of Iſrael: In as moch as ye haue caſt of youre bewtie, and confoꝛted youre ſelues with power and nymbleneſſe, and put youre confidence therin: therfoꝛe ſhal ye haue this myſchefe agayne foꝛ youre deſtruction and fall, like as an hie wall, that falleth becauſe of ſome rift (oꝛ blaſt,) whoſe bꝛeakinge cometh ſodenly.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Esay [Isaiah] xxx:[12–13], folio xi, recto, column 1:
text: 'Tis better that the Enemie ſeeke vs,
So ſhall he waſte his meanes, weary his Souldiers,
Doing himſelfe offence, whil'ſt we lying ſtill,
Are full of reſt, defence, and nimbleneſſe.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126, column 1:
glosses: The quality of being nimble.
musquash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: musquashes
form: muscascus
form: mussascus
Etymology: From Abenaki moskwas (or its Massachusett equivalent). Compare musquaw.
Senses: examples: text: […] Muſquaſhes, vvhich be much like a Beaver for ſhape, but nothing neare ſo bigge; the male hath tvvo ſtones vvhich ſmell as ſvveete as Muske, […]
ref: 1634, William Wood, “Beasts Living in the Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 25:
synonyms: word: squash
glosses: The muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus.
Derived terms: Russia musquash
Jezebel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛzəˌbɛl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).
Senses: examples: text: “I know if anyone called me a carrot-topped Jezebel, umbrage is the first thing I'd take. Who was Jezebel, by the way? The name seems familiar, but I can't place her.” “A character in the Old Testament, sir. A queen of Israel.” “Of course, yes. Be forgetting my own name next. Eaten by dogs, wasn't she?” “Yes, sir.” “Can't have been pleasant for her.” “No, sir.” “Still, that's the way the ball rolls.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings), and who incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.
Jezebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛzəˌbɛl/
Forms: form: Jezebels
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אִיזֶבֶל ('izével).
Senses: examples: text: She’s an absolute Jezebel!
text: I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man. I called her a carrot-topped Jezebel whom I was thankful to have got out of my hair. […] “The core of the matter is,” I said, twiddling the wheel to avoid a passing hen, “that in Roberta Wickham we are dealing with a girl of high and haughty spirit. […] And girls of high and haughty spirit need kidding along. This cannot be done by calling them carrot-topped Jezebels.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, “X&XI”, in Jeeves in the Offing:
text: Red lips, hair, and fingernails
I hear you're a mean old Jezebel
ref: 1971, Rod Stewart with Faces, Stay with Me:
glosses: A woman who is evil, scheming, shameless, or immoral.
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Delias.
Derived terms: Jezebel sauce
playable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From play + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Not all compact discs are playable in car stereos.
text: That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
ref: 2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Able to be played.
examples: text: Is MAGICS a playable word in Scrabble?
topics: games
glosses: Of a move, giving a reasonable result; able to be played without losing.
examples: text: Some of the most playable games tend to be those that've been around the longest: the Breakout/Arkanoid/Batty imitators for instance, or, as here, the Asteroids clones.
ref: 1989, Matt Bielby, Blasteroids (game review in Your Sinclair issue 40, April 1989)
topics: games
glosses: Of a game, able to be played and enjoyed.
Derived terms: nonplayable
unplayable
Related terms: playability
playable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playables
Etymology: From play + -able.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A character in a game who may be chosen as the player character.
flaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flay
flaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: flayings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is flayed.
Norway lemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norway lemmings
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A lemming of species Lemmus lemmus, endemic of northern Scandinavia and northern Russia.
worky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːki/
ipa: /ˈwɜɹki/
homophone: workie
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: workies
Etymology: From work (noun) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of workie.
wood lemming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood lemmings
Etymology: wood + lemming; from the animal's native habitat in forests
Senses: glosses: Any of species Myopus schisticolor of lemmings.
soppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: soppier
form: soppiest
Etymology: From sop + y.
Senses: examples: text: Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: 'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'
ref: 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I:
glosses: Very wet; sodden, soaked.
examples: text: "[…] It's unfortunate, if I happen to look like what pleased some soppy old Greek sculptor, but I assure you that if it weren't for my face I'd be a quiet nun in the convent without"—then she broke into a run and her raised voice floated back to him as he followed—"my precious babies, which I must go back and see."
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 4, in This Side of Paradise, volume 1:
synonyms: sappy
glosses: Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
Derived terms: soppily
soppiness
concurrently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From concurrent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For the next four years Mr. Johnson continued building 2-4-0 express passenger engines, thus continuing the Kirtley practice, but from 1882 onwards he built all his express engines with the 4-4-0 or the 4-2-2 wheel arrangement, the two types being put in service concurrently between the years of 1887 and 1900.
ref: 1934 February, H. C. Casserley, “A Veteran Midland Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 86:
text: Concurrently with the St. Pancras-Bedford service, diesel trains have now taken over that between Kentish Town and Barking, on an even-interval basis at half-hourly intervals.
ref: 1960 February, “The dieselised St. Pancras suburban service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
text: In many instances, the military was quite unable to distinguish right away between the Red Guard and Revolutionary organizations led by Maoist activists and those organized by Party officials whom Mao wished to topple, since both sides claimed to be dedicated to Mao’s policy. Furthermore, many military commanders were concurrently local administrators such as those in Tibet and Hsinchiang.
ref: 1986, Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai, published 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: In a concurrent manner; at the same time.
metaphoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphoricities
Etymology: From metaphoric + -ity.
Senses: examples: 1999, Preface to Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Just as metaphors lose their metaphoricity as they congeal through time into concepts, so subversive performances always run the risk of becoming deadening cliches through their repetition and, most importantly, through their repetition within commodity culture where subversion carries market value.
synonyms: metaphoricality
metaphoricalness
metaphoricness
glosses: The quality of being metaphorical.
Derived terms: nonmetaphoricity
Related terms: metaphor
oxygen-16
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of oxygen, ¹⁶₈O, having eight protons and eight neutrons; it amounts to over 99% of the element in nature
Related terms: oxygen-17
oxygen-18
oxygen-17
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rare stable isotope of oxygen, ¹⁷₈O, having eight protons and nine neutrons; it amounts to 0.037% of the element in nature
Related terms: oxygen-16
oxygen-18
oxygen-18
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A stable isotope of oxygen, ¹⁸₈O, with 8 protons and 10 neutrons; it amounts to about 0.2% of the element in nature
Related terms: oxygen-16
oxygen-17
point of sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɪnt əv ˈseɪl/
homophone: point of sail
Forms: form: points of sale
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: point of purchase
text: His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
ref: 2011, Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940:
text: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
topics: business
commerce
retail
synonyms: POS
point of service
glosses: The location at which payment for goods is made in an establishment that sells goods or services.
Related terms: salespoint
cash on the barrelhead
cash register
cash wrap
checkout
checkout counter
checkstand
POS
fluorine-18
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An artificial radioisotope of fluorine, ¹⁸₉F, having 9 protons and 9 neutrons, that is an important industrial source of positrons
Related terms: fluorine-19
fluorine-19
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The only stable isotope of fluorine, ¹⁹₉F; it has nine protons and ten neutrons
Related terms: fluorine-18
race card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race cards
Senses: examples: text: to play the race card
text: “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill?” he wrote. “We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to C.Q. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter.”
ref: 2025 February 22, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Jonathan Swan, quoting Pete Hegseth, “Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The invocation of a person's race in order to gain sympathy or an advantage.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
related: word: racecard
glosses: A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.
Related terms: sense: invocation of race to gain sympathy in a discussion
word: play the race card
race card
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: race cards
form: race carding
form: race carded
form: race carded
Senses: glosses: To invoke race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.
Related terms: gender card
play the race card
pussy pass
rape card
points of sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of point of sale
race cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of race card
neon-20
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of neon, ²⁰₁₀Ne, having ten protons and ten neutrons; it amounts to over 90% of the element in nature
Related terms: neon-21
neon-22
neon-21
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rare stable isotope of neon, ²¹₁₀Ne, having ten protons and eleven neutrons; it amounts to less than 0.3% of the element in nature
Related terms: neon-20
neon-22
neon-22
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of neon, ²²₁₀Ne, having ten protons and twelve neutrons; it amounts to about 9% of the element in nature
Related terms: neon-20
neon-21
still-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stillborn.
blithely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪðli/
Forms: form: more blithely
form: most blithely
form: blythely
Etymology: From Middle English blythely, blyþely, bliþeliche, from Old English blīþelīċe (“gladly, blithely”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]; compare Dutch blijdelijk. By surface analysis, blithe + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores.
text: […] and now was hardly the time, as Stephen pointed out, to be worried about cleaning up his act, and eliminating the chemical additives and other pollutants that we’re all blithely or not so blithely feasting on, blithely since we’re healthy, healthy as we can be; so far, Ira said.
ref: 1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:
text: The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: So I carried on, blithely ignorant. And by the time I saw the stats, there was a 100% chance I’d got it.
ref: 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: carelessly
indifferently
glosses: Without care, concern, or consideration.
synonyms: gladly
joyfully
merrily
glosses: In a joyful, carefree manner.
glosses: In a kind manner.
Related terms: blithe
blitheful
blithefully
blithefulness
blithen
blitheness
blithesome
abhorrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhɔːɹɚz/
ipa: /æbˈhɔɹ.ɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of abhorrer
voluntarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voluntarists
Etymology: From voluntary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who endorses voluntarism.
Derived terms: voluntaristic
voluntarism
voluntaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒləntəˈɹɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more voluntaristic
form: most voluntaristic
Etymology: From voluntarist + -ic or voluntary + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Open space, the incursions of commercialism and the growing prestige of polite society produced an urban environment increasingly consonant with the voluntaristic collective culture of the philosophes.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 183:
glosses: Pertaining to voluntary activity; supporting or promoting voluntarism.
Related terms: voluntarist
voluntarism
zhang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhangs
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 丈 (zhàng).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Chinese unit of length, 10 Chinese feet or ¹/₁₅₀ Chinese mile.
Related terms: jō
the equivalent unit in Japanese contexts
dipoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipole
redoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redo
McIntosh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmækɪntɒʃ/
Forms: form: McIntoshes
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marion County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Corson County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Thurston County, Washington.
glosses: A community in the Kenora District, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Clan McIntosh
McIntosh County
McIntosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmækɪntɒʃ/
Forms: form: McIntoshes
Etymology: Named after John McIntosh of Ontario, Canada, who discovered the original single tree in 1796.
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of apple whose fruit has red and green skin, tart flavor and white flesh that ripens in late September.
The fruit of this cultivar.
glosses: A cultivar of apple whose fruit has red and green skin, tart flavor and white flesh that ripens in late September.
The tree of this cultivar, which bears this fruit.
Synonyms: McIntosh Red
Mac
McIntosh apple
McIntosh apple tree
McIntosh tree
rooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of room
Derived terms: rooming house
mang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋ/
homophone: MAANG
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: Dialectal rendering of man, as used in American Spanish.
Senses: examples: text: "Chit, mang, you putos are a bunch of racists." Omar's classic Spanglish comeback made everyone break out in raucous laughter.
ref: 2014 April 11, Gary Smith, Hero Road, Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of man (suggesting a Spanish accent)
mang
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋ/
homophone: MAANG
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: From Middle English mang, mangis, imang, emang, variants of Middle English on mang, in mange, from Old English on ġemang. More at among.
Senses: glosses: Amid, amongst, among.
mang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋ/
homophone: MAANG
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: mangs
form: manging
form: manged
form: manged
Etymology: From Middle English mangen, mængen, from Old English mængan, variant of mengan, menċġan (“to mix; mingle”). More at meng, ming.
Senses: examples: text: It's all manged up together.
text: Hagegy Bess; wi' zich, I reckon,
Ha now delight'h vor mang.
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell, page 25:
glosses: To mix.
mang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋ/
homophone: MAANG
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: mangs
form: manging
form: manged
form: manged
Etymology: Borrowed from Angloromani mong (“to beg”), from European Romani mang- (“to want, beg”). Compare Sanskrit mārg-, मार्ग् (“to seek, ask for”).
Senses: glosses: To beg; to beg for money.
-ally
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /li/
note: unusual
ipa: /ə.li/
homophone: -ly
Forms: form: ⠠⠽
Etymology: From Middle English -ally, -alliche, a combination equivalent to -al (adjectival suffix) + -ly (adverbial suffix). The Middle English suffix was originally non-productive, and was from -ly adverbs based on nouns ending an -al. In modern usage the suffix has been reanalyzed and is now treated as a separate, productive suffix.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -ly (adverbial suffix), used with adjectives ending in -ic.
spearman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearmen
Etymology: From spear + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The second Adigar is only entitled to twenty-four spearmen and fifteen whipcrackers.
ref: 1844, James Selkirk, Recollections of Ceylon, page 65:
text: He spoke : the brawny spearman let his cheek Bulge with the unswallow'd piece, and turning stared;
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 79:
text: Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 65:
glosses: A soldier or warrior who fights with a spear.
qual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quals
form: Qual
Etymology: Clipping of qualified
Senses: examples: text: He'd refused to say anything more, because he didn't want to distract her with his problems on the eve of the Quals.
ref: 2000, Stephen Cannell, The Devil's Workshop: A Novel, HarperCollins, page 12:
text: To be a theorist, you also had to pass a special theory section on the quals.
ref: 2004, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, John Wiley & Sons, page 30:
glosses: Qualifying exam. An exam taken by someone (usually a grad student or prospective grad student) to measure their mastery in something, usually an academic field.
examples: text: We believe there is a role for both qual and quant in professional services.
ref: 2015, Nigel Clark, Professional Services Marketing Handbook: How to Build Relationships, Grow Your Firm and Become a Client Champion, London: Kogan Page Publishers, page 70:
glosses: Qualitative analysis or research.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of quali.
qual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Qual
Etymology: Clipping of qualified
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in the school of education, I found coursework that included qual and quant methodology.
ref: 2012, Judith M. Meloy, Twenty-first Century Learning by Doing, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, page 24:
glosses: Short for qualitative
grad student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grad students
Senses: glosses: graduate student
graduate student
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduate students
Senses: glosses: A university student, usually already possessing a four-year degree, who is working on a master's degree or Ph.D.
Synonyms: word: postgraduate
word: postgraduate student
pugilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈpjuːdʒɪlɪzəm/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpjuːdʒəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: pugilisms
Etymology: From Latin pugil (“fist”) + -ism, related to pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European roots. Compare contemporary pugilist (“boxer”), 1790.
Senses: synonyms: boxing
glosses: Fighting with fists.
URA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: URAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of undergraduate research assistant.
URA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Universal Remote Access.
glosses: Initialism of Uganda Revenue Authority.
elemeno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellemeno
Etymology: Phonetic misinterpretation of the four sequential letters L, M, N, O which are usually spoken quickly while reciting the alphabet.
Senses: glosses: A nonexistent letter of the alphabet which some children think comes between k and p.
pot boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of potboy.
Related terms: potman
pot boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot boy
potboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potboys
form: pot boy
form: pot-boy
Etymology: From pot + boy.
Senses: examples: GC&HTJ 1985 volume 198 page 17
glosses: A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.
examples: text: I put on my kitchen potboy disguise and rode down to B-1 in an elevator that smelled like chicken soup, barbecue sauce, and Jack Daniel's.
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 782:
glosses: A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.
examples: text: (“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)
ref: 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:
glosses: A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.
Related terms: pot-girl
potman
busboy
potboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potboy
potman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potmen
form: pot man
Etymology: From pot + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses; a waiter in a similar establishment.
Related terms: potboy
pot-girl
Muslimphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muslimophobia
form: Muslimaphobia
Etymology: From Muslim + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Islamophobia.
synonyms: word: Islamophobia
Synonyms: anti-Muslimism
anti-Muslimness
anti-Muslim mania
Islamophobism
Related terms: Muslimphobe
Muslimphobic
pot men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot man
jihadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jihadists
Etymology: From jihad + -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".http://books.google.ch/books?id=LZ1VAAAAYAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=CHXKTaC3NMnJsgaKj72pAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s.http://books.google.ch/books?id=eN4_AQAAIAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=XHXKTauaHobBswaNz_SMAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=K-VxAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=G3bKTaGTNtHLswaOndSUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgKhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=pQJyAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=7HXKTefaDsbDswar9-WmAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA.
Senses: glosses: One who participates in a jihad, an Islamic holy war or conflict; a mujahid.
glosses: An adherent of jihadism.
examples: text: […] only a matter of time before Christian jihadists start strapping bombs to their bodies and going off on suicide missions in the name of Jesus Christ.
ref: 2006, Anthony Livingston Hall, The Ipinions Journal: 2005: the Year in Review, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 226:
text: Like Muslim jihadists, Christian jihadists such as these two are willing to sacrifice as they seek to impose their religious tyranny on others.
ref: 2009, Robert S. McElvaine, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 178:
text: […] with Christian jihadists wearing bandoliers, waving real weapons, and waging a literal flesh-and-blood incursion against teachers of false religions.
ref: 2010, John F. MacArthur, The Jesus You Can't Ignore: What You Must Learn from the Bold Confrontations of Christ, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:
text: By the end of the semester, only one radical Jewish jihadist in my study group kept being a racist pig and attacking me personally in section discussions.
ref: 2012, Florian Homm, Rogue Financier: The Adventures of an Estranged Capitalist, FinanzBuch Verlag, →ISBN:
text: I was prepared to meet a radical atheist jihadist. Would we brawl right there in my hotel room? I half expected just that.
ref: 2016, Larry Alex Taunton, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 94:
text: […] and even later evolved into the Jewish jihadist who wrote the Book of Revelation.
ref: 2017, Emmanuel Carrère, The Kingdom, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: One who is militant for their religion (or irreligion).
Synonyms: mujahid
jihadi
takfiri
Derived terms: antijihadist
cyberjihadist
jihobbyist
teahadist
jihadist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jihadist
form: most jihadist
Etymology: From jihad + -ist. Attested from the 1910s in the sense of "a mujahid".http://books.google.ch/books?id=LZ1VAAAAYAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=CHXKTaC3NMnJsgaKj72pAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
The adjectival sense of "pertaining to the jihadist movement" is from the 1960s.http://books.google.ch/books?id=eN4_AQAAIAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=XHXKTauaHobBswaNz_SMAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=K-VxAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=G3bKTaGTNtHLswaOndSUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwADgKhttp://books.google.ch/books?id=pQJyAAAAMAAJ&q=jihadist&dq=jihadist&hl=de&ei=7HXKTefaDsbDswar9-WmAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Islamic fundamentalist doctrine of jihadism, which advocates armed jihad.
pot man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot men
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of potman.
Related terms: potboy
Mid East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mid East
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mideast.
pot still
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot stills
Senses: glosses: A still used for distillation in the production of whisky, or for crude separations in a chemical plant.
MSM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSM
form: MSMs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of methylsulfonylmethane.
examples: text: Who can doubt there ought to be a law when the MSM shills for environmentalist scaremongers?
ref: 2005 July 25, David Hogberg, “Soaking in Chemical Stews”, in The American Spectator, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: Interesting that initial reports from MSM failed to mention that Lombard is gay and this his adopted son is Black.
ref: 2022 February 27, Hillary and the Russian payroll, “Frank Lombard is Duke Professor Gay Adoptive Rapist Dad: MSM Doesn't Care”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):
topics: media
glosses: Initialism of mainstream media.
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of men who have sex with men.
glosses: Initialism of mechanically separated meat.
glosses: Initialism of Mechanist Sergeant-Major (British Army).
MSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Meritorious Service Medal.
glosses: Initialism of Modern Standard Mandarin.
Related terms: word: MSC
MSM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: driving
glosses: Initialism of mirror, signal, maneuver.
examples: Near-synonym: M4M
coordinate_terms: MSF
FSF
FSM
glosses: Initialism of male seeking male, man seeking man, or masc seeking masc.
raw_tags: in personal ads or Internet slang
pot stills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot still
non-binding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonbinding
Etymology: From non- + binding.
Senses: examples: text: A non-binding vote on the Government's decision to scale back plans for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail [...] took place in the House of Commons on December 8.
ref: 2021 December 29, “Labour demands NPR action after "rail betrayal"”, in RAIL, number 947, page 7:
topics: law
glosses: That does not bind the participants
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Not involved in the formation of bonds
potamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potamic
form: most potamic
Etymology: From potam- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to rivers
Related terms: hippopotamus
potamal
potash alum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From potash + alum.
Senses: glosses: alum, hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate, formula K₂SO₄.Al₂(SO₄)₃.24H₂O
potato blight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: A devastating disease of potatoes caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans.
Synonyms: late blight
potato chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato chips
Senses: glosses: One of a batch of pieces of potato cut into elongated cubes and fried; a chip or chipped potato, usually larger than American french fries.
examples: text: I'll take a potato chip, and eat it!
ref: 2007 December 8, “目線 [Glare]”, in デスノート [Death Note], spoken by Light Yagami (Brad Swaile), Ocean Productions, via Adult Swim:
english: Death Note
translation: Death Note
glosses: A potato crisp, a thin slice of potato that has been fried.
Synonyms: Saratoga chip
Derived terms: potato chip of the sea
Related terms: fish and chips
French fries
fries
potato chips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato chip
chipped potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipped potatoes
Senses: glosses: A potato chip.
chipped potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipped potato
potato crisp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato crisps
Senses: examples: text: Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.
ref: 1949 August 22 (first performance), T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, The Cocktail Party: A Comedy, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French […], published 1950, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11:
synonyms: crisp
chip
potato chip
glosses: A thin slice of potato that has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and which is eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.
potato crisps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato crisp
potato beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato beetles
Senses: glosses: A Colorado beetle, Leptinotarsa decimlineata
Synonyms: sense: Leptinotarsa decimlineata
word: Colorado beetle
sense: Leptinotarsa decimlineata
word: ten-striped spearman
potato beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato beetle
Colorado beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colorado beetle
punditocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punditocracies
Etymology: From pundit + -ocracy.
Senses: glosses: A group of political pundits who are thought to have too much influence.
dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dookies
Etymology: In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker (terms related to the British English duck, equivalent to the American English dunk) have all been used to refer to Baptists. Hence a dookie in Scots is, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.
Senses: glosses: swimming costume, bathing suit
dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dookies
Etymology: Probably clipping of doo-doo + -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.
Senses: examples: text: "He stepped in some cow waste; it serves him right. Look at him dancing to get that dookie off those ruined sneakers! Ha-ha-ha! Get down homie!"
ref: 2002, – Ashaki Boelter, Hate Begets Hate, page 69:
text: "That stuff won't be worth a lump of dookie in court. It wouldn't be at all hard for Geale to pull a few strings and get documented permission for having each one of those items."
ref: 2002, – Jarrett Oliver, Private Eyes, page 125:
text: So Alley found a job
Scooping up dookie on the streets
ref: 2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 http://books.google.com/books?q=%22So+Alley+found+a+job+Scooping+up+dookie+on+the+streets%22&btnG=Search+Books (Reckless Review)
text: 2000 – The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom"
Bart: Can I go to the bathroom?
Otto: Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard lingo.
Bart: Uh... I've gotta blast a dookie?
Otto: Dook on!
synonyms: excrement
poop
shit
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Feces.
Derived terms: dookie braid
dookie hole
take a dookie
dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably clipping of doo-doo + -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.
Senses: examples: 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
Synonyms: feces
dookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dookies
Senses: examples: text: There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]
ref: 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, page 321:
glosses: Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”).
covariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + variant.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: contravariant
glosses: Which preserves the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(X)→F(Y).
raw_tags: of a functor
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Using or relating to covariance.
Derived terms: bicovariant
covariantisation
covariantization
covariantize
covariantly
Frobenius covariant
noncovariant
semicovariant
supercovariant
covariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covariants
Etymology: From co- + variant.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bihomogeneous polynomial in x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The variety defined by a covariant.
contravariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: covariant
glosses: Which reverses the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(Y)→F(X).
raw_tags: of a functor
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Using or relating to contravariance.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Scaling inversely with a change of basis.
raw_tags: of a vector
Derived terms: contravariantly
contravector
contravariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contravariants
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bihomogeneous polynomial in dual variables of x, y, ... and the coefficients of some homogeneous form in x, y, ... that is invariant under some group of linear transformations.
bowel movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowel movements
Senses: examples: text: Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day.
ref: 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
glosses: The feces thus produced.
Synonyms: BM
defecation
Related terms: move one's bowels
spinor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪnɔɹ/
Forms: form: spinors
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of the fundamental representation of a Clifford algebra that transforms to its negative when the space is rotated through a complete turn from 0° to 360°.
Derived terms: bispinor
eigenspinor
isospinor
multispinor
pseudospinor
spinorial
superspinor
chocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊt͡ʃə/
Forms: form: chochas
Etymology: From Spanish chocha.
Senses: examples: text: Mienda, with cash flowing like Sosa / And a Latin chick transporting in her chocha
ref: 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:
text: Call before you come, I need to shave my chocha
ref: 2002, Missy Elliott & Timbaland, “Work It”, in Under Construction, performed by Missy Elliott:
synonyms: word: axe wound
word: badly packed kebab
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: burger
word: chocha
word: clam
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: coochy
word: cookie
word: coot
word: cooter
word: crack
word: cunny
word: cunt
word: fanny
word: foo-foo
word: front bottom
word: fur burger
word: fur pie
word: gash
word: gee
word: girl penis
word: hair pie
word: ham sandwich
word: honey hole
word: it
word: kebab
word: kitty
word: ladybits
word: minge
word: minnie
word: moocha
word: mooshoo
word: mott
word: muff
word: muffin
word: na-na
word: nonny
word: nooky
word: noonie
word: old hat
word: pee flap
word: pee-pee
word: pink
word: poontang
word: prat
word: pudendum muliebre
word: punani
word: pussy
word: quaint
word: quiff
word: quim
word: roast beef
word: scut
word: slit
word: slot
word: snatch
word: treasures
word: tuppence
word: twat
word: twinkle
word: vadge
word: vagina
word: vajay
word: va-jay-jay
word: vulva
word: wee-wee
glosses: pussy; vulva
DotA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Acronym of Defence of the Ancients.
serried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serry