cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
old enough to vote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, enough, vote.
examples: text: I'm going to have to get a new car. Mine is old enough to vote.
text: It looks, acts and pays property tax like a new airplane, but it's old enough to vote.
ref: August 1969, Peter Garrison, Flying Magazine Volume 85, No 2
glosses: Old; decrepit (said especially of an inanimate object).
infant massage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infant massages
Senses: glosses: A type of massage given to an infant; an instance of using massage therapy for human infants.
Synonyms: baby massage
runner's knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: runner's + knee, from the classic/archetypal source of such injury, running (especially a long history thereof).
Senses: glosses: Any of various overuse injuries involving pain around the kneecap.
Coordinate terms: tennis elbow
text neck
baby massage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby massages
Senses: glosses: Synonym of infant massage.
synonyms: word: infant massage
New Zild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of New Zealand.
neohesperidin dihydrochalcone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An artificial sweetener derived from citrus.
dihydrochalcones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dihydrochalcone
baby powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby powder
talcum powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talcum powder
chippie sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chippy sauce
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Edinburgh
glosses: A mixture of vinegar and brown sauce, used as a condiment for chips.
sfiha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sfihas
form: sfeeha
Etymology: Borrowed from North Levantine Arabic صفيحة (ṣfīḥa), from Arabic صَفِيحَة (ṣafīḥa).
Senses: glosses: An Arab pizza-like dish, traditionally an open-faced meat pie made with ground mutton.
sfihas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sfiha
axon hillock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axon hillocks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized part of the soma of a neuron that connects to the axon. It is the last site in the soma where membrane potentials propagated from synaptic inputs are summated before being transmitted to the axon.
neuralgically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neuralgically
form: most neuralgically
Etymology: From neuralgic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a neuralgic manner.
baby sitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby sitter
self-suck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-sucks
form: self-sucking
form: self-sucked
form: self-sucked
form: self suck
form: selfsuck
Etymology: From self- + suck.
Senses: glosses: To drink one's own milk.
raw_tags: of a farm animal
examples: text: After being bitten by the adder, the man self-sucked his wound in order to remove some of the venom.
glosses: To suck (on) oneself.
glosses: To suck (on) oneself.
To suck on one's own penis; to perform autofellatio.
Derived terms: self-sucker
self-sucking
baby-sittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby-sitting
baby sittings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby sitting
don't shit in your own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of don't shit where you eat.
synonyms: word: don't shit where you eat
Related terms: it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest
thermogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thermogeology.
haggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haggish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being haggish.
pressor beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressor beams
form: presser beam
Etymology: From press + -or and beam. Analogous to "presser beam", a beam that presses, as the inverse of tractor beam. Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1931 in his novel Spacehounds of IPC, first serialized in Amazing Stories.
Senses: examples: text: Onward and upward flashed the gigantic duplex cone, its entire whirling mass laced and latticed together—into one mammoth unit by green tractor beams and red pressors.
ref: 1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 560:
text: By the way they're braced, there are tractor beams and pressor beams and—there are vacuum tubes that have grids but apparently work with cold cathodes.
ref: 1945 June, Murray Leinster, “The Ethical Equations”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 35, number 4, page 122:
text: A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor.
ref: 1956 September, Poul Anderson, “Margin of Profit”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 58, number 1, page 58:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device that generates a beam that repels other objects; or the beam itself.
wikipedia: Spacehounds of IPC
Synonyms: repulsor beam
repulsor beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repulsor beams
Etymology: From repulse + -or and beam, a beam that repulses.
Senses: examples: text: Installed at the center of mass and set to repulsor-beam, this one would be able to move the entire planetoid from its orbit.
ref: 1958 November, Poul Anderson, “A Bicycle Built for Brew”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 62, number 3:
text: Hooked my model tractor beam into ship's power. Now it's a repulsor beam too. Want in?
ref: 1987, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “The Naked Now”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton):
text: I always wondered how cloud city in ESB stay afloat and does not fall? Is it some kind of repulsor beam, or what?
ref: 1995 July 15, Umut Nurkan, “How does cloud city float?”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars (Usenet), message-ID <1995Jul14.190422.22468@hobbes.kzoo.edu>:
text: No, that indicates a cloaked Romulan vessel with a repulsor beam.
ref: 2008 February 20, Iarnrod, “Re: WTC Towers: The case for controlled demolition”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A device that emits an energy beam capable of pushing away other objects.
Synonyms: pressor beam
presser beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presser beams
Senses: examples: text: We'll have them in three days, and it ought to be fairly simple to dope out the opposite of a tractor, too—a pusher or presser beam.
ref: 1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 544:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative form of pressor beam.
repulsor beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repulsor beam
pressor beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pressor beam
presser beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presser beam
casus bellis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casus belli
uchikake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uchikake
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 打(う)ち掛(か)け (uchikake).
Senses: glosses: A formal kimono worn by brides.
haori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haori
Etymology: From Japanese 羽織.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese hip- or thigh-length jacket worn over a kimono.
cottery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒtəɹi/
Forms: form: more cottery
form: most cottery
Senses: examples: text: Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.
ref: 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 456:
glosses: Tangled (of hair).
Bedouin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛd.(ə.)wɪn/
Forms: form: Bedouins
head_nr: 2
form: Bedu
form: Beduin
Etymology: From Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from Arabic بَدَوِيِّين (badawiyyīn), plural of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy), from collective noun بَدْو (badw, “nomads”).
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.
Derived terms: bedouinism
bedouinization
bedouinize
stfdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛfdəm/
Etymology: From stf (“scientifiction”) + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: A monumental job by the VAMPIRE man, a 76-page ship of the line, featuring intelligent reviews of all phases of fandom and professional stfdom which features perhaps the best of the annual polls on just about everything.
ref: 1947 July, Startling Stories, volume 15, number 3, page 110:
text: Brotherly love is an old line, but stfdom is a living example that it will work.
ref: 1951 December, Wilkie Conner, “Konner's Korner”, in Quandry, number 16, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2011, pages 11–12:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The subculture of science fiction fans, the community of science fiction writers and fans.
Related terms: stfandom
package managers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of package manager
stfandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛfændəm/
Forms: form: stfandoms
Etymology: Blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fandom
Senses: examples: text: And of course Sam Moskowitz, like Old Man Time Stream, rolls on forever with his monumental THE IMMORTAL STORM, a history of stfandom.
ref: 1947 May, Sam Merwin, Jr., “Review of Science Fiction Fan Publications”, in Startling Stories, volume 15, number 2, page 110:
text: But don't let it throw you. We have another hunch that stfandom will still be around after the rocket has returned to Earth—either on some high plateau or the slimy swampbottoms—complete with fads and feuds and foolish if quasi-endearing fripperies.
ref: 1950 September, “Wither Stf?”, in Startling Stories, volume 22, number 1, pages 143–144:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The subculture of science fiction fans
Related terms: stfdom
stfantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɛˈfæntəsi/
/ˈstɛˈfæntəzi/
Forms: form: stfantasies
Etymology: Either abbreviation of scientifantasy, or blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + fantasy.
Senses: examples: text: The average stefnist eats up good stfantasy, has an exaggerated idea of its literary merit, and will leap to defend it against detractors.
ref: 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, page 69:
text: First, many thanks for giving us a de Camp tale. He is, to me, the most literate writer ever produced by stfantasy.
ref: 1947 April, C. Oliver, Thrilling Wonder Stories, page 98:
text: The usual melange of serious articles on stfantasy and its personalities, copiously interspersed with advertising. If you collect, sell, trade, or read fantasy or stf you cannot do without this one.
ref: 1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Fanzine Scope”, in Spacewarp, number 42, page 63:
text: After all, it was these same "parasites" who did much to keep science-fiction going in the dark days when stfantasy was the skeleton in the closet of literature — they supported it, they introduced it to their friends, they risked ridicule because they were intelligent enough to believe in what they liked.
ref: 1951 July, Chad Oliver, “QX Fella! We Got the Jets for the Job! [letter]”, in Planet Stories, volume 5, number 1, page 65:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The overall field of literature containing the genres of science fiction and fantasy fiction; imaginative fiction; speculative fiction.
stfilm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stfilms
Etymology: Either abbreviation of scientifilm, or blend of stf (“scientifiction”) + film.
Senses: examples: text: A Stfilm Committee of five were appointed to meet on Fridays, and plan the whole film project.
ref: 1940 May, Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 16, number 2, page 128:
text: The report was that Earl had been attending the screening of chapter six of a new stfilm, The Underseas Kingdom with Crash Corrigan or something like that.
ref: 1951 November, Lee Hoffman, “The Lives and Deaths of Earl Tuckleton”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 1, page 5:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A film in the science fiction genre.
stfilms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfilm
stfantasies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfantasy
stfandoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stfandom
bad word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad words
Senses: glosses: A vulgar word.
Synonyms: coarse
curse
curse word
cuss
dirty word
expletive
four-letter word
oath
swear word
strong word
coarse word
dinghead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingheads
Senses: glosses: A stupid or foolish person.
Romanisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanisation
Romanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romanization
moring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of more
mored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of more
wawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waw
wawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waw
glitchfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitchfests
form: glitch-fest
form: glitch fest
Etymology: From glitch + -fest.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation involving numerous glitches or bugs.
Related terms: superplay
freerun
glitchfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glitchfest
glitch-fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitch-fests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glitchfest.
glitch fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitch fests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glitchfest.
glitch-fests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glitch-fest
glitch fests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glitch fest
minivac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minivacs
Etymology: From mini- (“small, very small”) + vac, an abbreviation of vacuum cleaner.
Senses: synonyms: dust buster#Noun
coordinate_terms: shopvac#Noun
glosses: A hand-held or miniature vacuum cleaner.
minivacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minivac
dustbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustbusters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dust buster.
dustbusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustbuster
dust buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dust busters
form: dustbuster
Etymology: A genericization of the 1979 Black & Decker Dustbuster hand-held vacuum cleaner, from dust + buster (“vanquisher, overpowerer”).
Senses: synonyms: minivac#Noun
coordinate_terms: shopvac#Noun
glosses: A hand-held vacuum cleaner.
wikipedia: Black & Decker
Dustbuster
Related terms: dirt devil
dust devil
dust busters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dust buster
globocop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globocops
Etymology: Blend of global + Robocop, a 1987 film about a cyborg police officer.
Senses: glosses: A political system or government with a foreign policy that engages in interventionism, intrusiveness or imperialism
wikipedia: Robocop
Synonyms: world policeman
Mandatory Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: British Mandate
glosses: A geopolitical entity under British administration, originally consisting of contemporary Israel, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank),, and the Gaza Strip which existed from 1920 to 1948.
on the order of
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: [T]he rough number of mobile phones is on the order of 3 billion.
ref: 2009 August 6, Maria Bartiromo, “Eric Schmidt on Where Google Is Headed”, in Businessweek, retrieved 16 Jun 2014:
text: Still another former NSA whistleblower, the mathematician William Binney, has said that the NSA has "assembled on the order of 20 trillion transactions about US citizens with other US citizens".
ref: 2013 July 15, Glenn Greenwald, “The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Jun 2014:
glosses: Approximately.
raw_tags: followed by a number
on the order of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: [H]is philanthropy was more on the order of that of Jack Cade than it was Christian.
ref: 1919, Elbert Hubbard, “John Wesley”, in Little Journeys: Vol. 9-Great Reformers:
text: The earth's interior is somewhat on the order of an elaborate amusement-park tunnel of love.
ref: 1959 Dec. 17, Bosley Crowther, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (film review), New York Times (retrieved 16 June 2014)
text: Calling Ford's muscle car an iconic, era-defining product on the order of Sony's Walkman or Apple's iPhone isn't a stretch.
ref: 2013 December 16, Bill Saporito, “Ford Is Back in the Saddle with New Mustang”, in Time, retrieved 16 Jun 2014:
glosses: In the manner of; along the lines of; like; of a similar kind to; more-or-less equivalent to.
Synonyms: word: OTOO
Related terms: on the lines of
Toba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Qom
glosses: An indigenous ethnic group of Argentina who historically inhabited the region now known as the Pampas of the Central Chaco.
Toba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
glosses: A volcano in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Toba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
ang mohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angmohs
form: ang mos
Senses: glosses: plural of ang moh.
BPMN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BPMNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Business Process Model and Notation.
SEFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SEFFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of service effect specification.
attourney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attourneys
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of attorney.
porn star name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porn star names
form: porn-star name
Senses: glosses: A comical name for a person, typically derived from the name of their first pet and the name of the first street on which they resided.
uchronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkɹɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more uchronic
form: most uchronic
Etymology: From uchronia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Uchronic visions were part of Icelandic collective representations of the world, and as such they deeply influenced the response of the society to its own history.
ref: 1992, Kirsten Hastrup, Other Histories, page 113:
text: Then there was the context: the British countryside may have largely been reduced to a monocultural desert of agribusiness, but our uchronic vision of it persists: we expect to find Rosie with some sharp cider under the haystack, not a roseate energy drink.
ref: 2014 June 15, Will Self, The Guardian:
synonyms: uchronian
glosses: Pertaining to uchronia; painting an idealised or semi-fictional view of the past.
cargo cult science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1974 in his commencement address at Caltech, in reference to cargo cults.
Senses: hypernyms: pseudoscience#Noun
coordinate_terms: science#Noun
glosses: Practices which have the appearance of being scientific, but do not actually follow the scientific method.
wikipedia: Caltech
Related terms: technomagic
uchronia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French uchronie, formed (after utopia) from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Mercier's resort to uchronia, on the other hand, initiates a new paradigm for utopian literature not only by setting action in a specific future chronologically connected to our past and present but even more crucially by characterizing that future as one belonging to progress and thus linked causally if not immediately to the reader's time.
ref: 1987, Paul K. Alkon, Origins of Futuristic Fiction, page 127:
text: For Portelli, uchronia comprises 'that amazing scene in which the author imagines what would have happened if a certain historical event had not taken place'.
ref: 2007, Andy Wood, The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England, page 211:
text: This uchronia actually exerted some influence in its time, converting many readers to socialism because they wanted to live in the world of Bellamy's vision.
ref: 2011, Lealand B Yeager, Is the Market a Test of Truth and Beauty?, page 389:
glosses: An idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past.
Derived terms: uchronian
uchronic
June bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: June bugs
form: Junebug
form: junebug
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of beetles:
Phyllophaga, a genus of beetles in the subfamily Melolonthinae of the family Scarabaeidae, also known as June beetles.
glosses: Any of several species of beetles:
green June beetle (Cotinis nitida), of the southeastern United States
glosses: Any of several species of beetles:
ten-lined June beetle (Polyphylla decemlineata), of the western United States and Canada
glosses: Any of several species of beetles:
fig-eater or figeater beetle (Cotinis mutabilis), of the western and southwestern United States
glosses: Any of several species of beetles:
European chafer (Rhizotrogus majalis/Amphimallon majalis), a beetle native to continental Europe, but now also in North America
Derived terms: crazier than a June bug
warning shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warning shots
Senses: examples: text: […] As it happened, she did. The complete absence of heavenly bodies in the Nevermeant had given her no end of time to spend on other esoteric subjects. The Black Lord recited what it saw, and when it was done, the astronomer recited the message back.
"CHANGE YOUR WAYS. THIS IS A WARNING SHOT."
A beam of intense energy arced from the aperture, which vanished in the instant before a glowing red hole was punched through the Black Lord's forehead. It fell to the observatory tiles, bleeding black blood and melted porcelain, gurgling softly.
ref: 2021 July 1, Placeholder McD, HarryBlank, “SCP-6500 [offset 13]”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023, The Shrouded Mirador:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A shot fired as a warning.
examples: text: I believe that most members of Congress interpreted these ads as a warning shot rather than an effective grass roots mobilization tool.
ref: 2005, J. H. Snider, Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power, →ISBN, page 487:
synonyms: shot across the bow
shot across the bows
glosses: An action intended to act as a warning.
warning shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warning shot
energy weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy weapons
Senses: examples: text: The window display was made up of an assortment of rather curiously shaped guns, rifles as well as small arms; and a glowing sign in the window stated: THE FINEST ENERGY WEAPONS IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
ref: 1941 July, Alfred Elton van Vogt, “The Seesaw”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 27, number 5, page 60:
hypernyms: weapon#Noun
glosses: A weapon that fires a beam or pulse of energy instead of a projectile.
energy weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of energy weapon
ray guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ray gun
Alleyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.li.mən/
ipa: /ˈa.li.man/
Forms: form: Alleymans
form: Alleymen
Etymology: From French Allemand (“a German”), with alteration after alley, man.
Senses: examples: text: Take me over the sea, where the Alleyman can't get at me. Oh my, I don't want to die, I want to go home.
ref: a.1918, ‘I Want to Go Home’ (song)
text: In the trenches the men of both races shared their cigarettes and rum rations, and exchanged the most impossible yarns of what they had done, or would do, to the 'Alleyman!'
ref: 1941, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 250, page 220:
text: "Why don't the naval guns fire back?"
"They only fire when the Alleyman attacks, mate."
ref: 1954, Henry Williamson, How Dear is Life, page 239:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A German, especially during the First World War.
monosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to monosomes
Related terms: submonosomal
manticora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manticoras
Etymology: Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mantichōras, from Ancient Greek μαρτιχόρας (martikhóras).
Senses: examples: text: Scar. In plainer Enargy, what are they? speake; But. Mantichoras, monstrous beastes, enemies to mankinde, that ha double rowes of teeth in their mouthes.
ref: 1607, George Wilkins, The Miseries of Enforced Marriage:
text: An inscribed example of the manticora occurs on the remarkable sculptured twelfth century bestiary at Souvigny in France, illustrated by De Caumont in his Abécdaire d' Archéologie, p. 273. Here the manticora wears a Phrygian cap, like the Magi and Three Children in the Fiery Furnace, in all cases to show their Eastern origin.
ref: 1887, John Romilly Allen, Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland, pages 391–392:
text: On the south transept there are some manticoras - creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of men. Some of these are even more grotesque than the manticoras of the bestiaries.
ref: 1974, Katharine Mary Briggs, The folklore of the Cotswolds, page 159:
text: The implication that the gargoyles are the same beast means that they are not intended to be manticoras, since the triple rows of teeth and scorpion's tail are not present in the androcephalous lion.
ref: 1998, Conleth Manning, Patrick Healy, Dublin and beyond the Pale: studies in honour of Patrick Healy:
text: There was surely another creature standing guard inside, in lieu of the manticora Bink had known: the one at the Anniversary party.
ref: 2002, Piers Anthony, Source of Magic, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of manticore.
manticora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manticoras
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Manticora, from the same source as Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: “A tuberous manticora!” he exclaimed. The insect began to move again, and as it crawled down to the entrance of the nostrils the tickling sensation became too much for endurance, and Benedict sneezed.
ref: 1878, Jules Verne, Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen:
text: There still are many questions concerning manticoras' behaviour and biology, nevertheless the facts already observed permit to form a basic picture.
ref: 2002, Jaroslav Mareš, Manticora: a monograph of the genus:
text: These rare and eclectic curiosities were just part of an expansive collection of exotic rarities that ranged from a dried Manticora beetle to a comet fragment bought at a rest stop in the Mojave Desert, all from his father's side of the family, who for generations had produced sailors, explorers, and scientists, that traveled to remote corners of the world, seemingly driven by an unquenched thirst for adventure.
ref: 2011, Micah Linton, The Amazing Adventures of Leopold, A Steam Punk Novella, Part One: Quantum Maelstrom:
glosses: Any of various tiger beetles of genus Manticora.
monosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosomes
Etymology: From mono- + -some.
Senses: glosses: The chromosome whose homologous counterpart is missing in monosomy
Derived terms: monosomic
Related terms: monosomal
razory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more razory
form: most razory
Etymology: From razor + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind,
ref: 1856, Walt Whitman, “Night Poem”, in Leaves of Grass, page 293:
text: They swore as they parted with the skin of their finger-tips on the keen-edged razory shale.
ref: 1905, S. R. Crockett, chapter 44, in The Cherry Ribband,, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 338:
text: This is what I want: I want to lie on the razory brain-shaped rocks of Baja.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 173:
text: Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.
ref: 1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62:
text: Shortly after her arrival Amie ventured away from the sandy, palm-lined coast to explore the inland territory. The beach front surrendered suddenly to a razory cluster of peaks.
ref: 2009, David A. Ross, Calico Pennants:
synonyms: sharp
cutting
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a razor.
autogolpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autogolpes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish autogolpe.
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. rightly treats this “autogolpe” like an open military coup, suspending all but humanitarian assistance.
ref: 1992 April 7, “Into the Fire in Peru”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Marx was mocking Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who had just seized power in a coup (or, in the interest of technical precision, an autogolpe), declaring himself emperor.
ref: 2020 December 7, Zeynep Tufekci, “‘This Must Be Your First’”, in The Atlantic:
text: Unfortunately for Trump, and fortunately for the country, he has not been able to bend reality to his desires. Key election officials and federal judges have refused his call to throw out votes, create chaos and clear a path for the autogolpe he hopes to accomplish.
ref: 2020 December 11, Jamelle Bouie, “The ‘Trump Won’ Farce Isn’t Funny Anymore”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An autocoup, especially one in a Spanish-speaking country.
hothouse effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hothouse effects
Senses: glosses: The greenhouse effect.
autogolpes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autogolpe
Richmal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The English writer Richmal Crompton was born in 1890.
glosses: A female given name.
baboon spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baboon spiders
Senses: examples: text: There was a spider in our hut one night […]. One of those horrible hairy baboon-spiders.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 386:
glosses: Any of the tarantula subfamily Harpactirinae.
autotomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autotomizes
form: autotomizing
form: autotomized
form: autotomized
Etymology: From autotomy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To shed (a body part) by autotomy.
Derived terms: autotomizer
autotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The remaining small sting apparatus, unnoticed by the target animal, continues to pump venom from the reservoir via muscular action coordinated by a ganglion in the autotomized stinger.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: simple past and past participle of autotomize
autotomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autotomize
autotomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autotomize
thwapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thwap
thwapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thwap
thwaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thwap
minibrewery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minibreweries
Etymology: From mini- + brewery.
Senses: glosses: A small-scale brewery.
minibreweries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minibrewery
metadyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadynes
Etymology: From meta- + -dyne.
Senses: glosses: A direct current electrical machine with two pairs of brushes, able to be used as an amplifier or rotary transformer.
Related terms: amplidyne
metadynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadyne
moko jumbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moko jumbies
Etymology: Possibly from Kongo moko (“curer, diviner”) or from Moko, the name of a person or group of people, with English jumbie, itself from Kongo zumbi (“fetish, spirit”).
Senses: glosses: A carnival performer in the Caribbean who walks or dances on stilts.
omasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the omasum.
roti prata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒti ˈpɹɑːtə/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ-/
ipa: /ˈɹoːti ˈpɹɑːtɑː/
Forms: form: roti paratha
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay roti or Tamil ரொட்டி (roṭṭi) + பரோட்டா (parōṭṭā).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of roti canai.
synonyms: word: roti canai
resurrectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From resurrect + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being resurrected.
resurrectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From resurrect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being resurrected.
parauntha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraunthas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paratha.
parantha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranthas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paratha.
paraunthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parauntha
paranthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parantha
technocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more technocentric
form: most technocentric
Etymology: From techno- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Focusing on technology.
heelflips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelflip
a-hold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ahold.
fening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛnɪŋ/
Forms: form: fenings
form: feninga
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian fening, from German Pfennig. Doublet of penny and pfennig.
Senses: glosses: A currency unit worth one hundredth of a Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark.
fenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fening
sharing economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharing economies
Senses: examples: text: The sharing economy reveals a return to behaviors such as bartering and to legal forms like co-operatives.
ref: 2011, Lucy Bernholz, Philanthropy and Social Investing Blueprint 2012, →ISBN, pages 33–34:
text: Tight economic times and a growing openness to strangers thanks to the Internet have given rise to the "sharing economy." People are logging on to sites and apps to rent out their cars, houses and even their clothes directly to one another.
ref: 2013 September 16, Eliana Dockterman, “The Rise of 'Sharecations'”, in Time, retrieved 17 Jun 2014:
text: In the sharing economy, safety issues, taxes and regulation have tended to be an afterthought.
ref: 2014 April 21, David Streitfeld, “Companies Built on Sharing Balk When It Comes to Regulators”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jun 2014:
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: collaborative economy
peer-to-peer economy
share economy
qualifier: public policy
glosses: A system of economic exchange in which participants interact in a direct and cooperative manner, often with the aid of social media, to produce, market, and consume goods, services, and resources.
Related terms: barter
crowdfunding
gift economy
peer-to-peer lending
platform capitalism
collaborative economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaborative economies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sharing economy.
synonyms: word: sharing economy
peer-to-peer economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peer-to-peer economies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sharing economy.
synonyms: word: sharing economy
actifen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actifan
passifen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passifan
spooktacularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spooktacularly
form: most spooktacularly
Etymology: From spooktacular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spooktacular manner.
prostie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prosty.
my Lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of my Lord
peers of the realm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All Peers of the Realm being look'd on as the King's Hereditary constant Counsellors.
ref: 1707, John Chamberlayne, Angliæ Notitia, 22nd edition, iii. iii. 276:
glosses: plural of peer of the realm
my Lord Duke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: my Lord Dukes
Senses: glosses: Used in direct address to dukes, now chiefly in correspondence.
Synonyms: word: your Grace
sense: now improper
word: my Lord
my Lord Dukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of my Lord Duke
your Grace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: your Graces
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Used in direct address to archbishops.
qualifier: especially Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity
glosses: Used in direct address to bishops, although in British English sometimes only granted to the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in Ireland.
glosses: Used in direct address to dukes and to Lord High Commissioners.
Synonyms: sense: to dukes, now only common in correspondence
word: my Lord Duke
sense: to bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual
word: my Lord Bishop
sense: to other bishops
word: my Lord
sense: to dukes, historical, now improper
word: my Lord
your Graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of your Grace
your graces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of your grace
governers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governer
Lord High Commissioner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lord High Commissioners
Senses: glosses: The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the representative of the Scottish (later British) monarch to the established church of Scotland appointed annually since 1690.
glosses: The Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, the representative of the Scottish (later British) monarch to the separate government of Scotland appointed intermittently between 1603 and 1707.
glosses: The Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, the representative of the British monarch appointed intermittently between 1815 and 1864.
Synonyms: sense: Scottish Parliament
word: The fifth estate
Related terms: word: your Grace
High Commissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of High Commission
Lord High Commissioners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lord High Commissioner
my Lord Bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: my Lord Bishops
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Used in direct address to 24 bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual, apart from the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
Related terms: sense: to archbishops; to bishops outside British English
word: your Grace
sense: to other bishops
word: my Lord
my Lord Bishops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of my Lord Bishop
fish fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish forks
Senses: glosses: A fork intended for eating fish and other seafood, as at formal dining where different forks are provided for different courses.
Synonyms: seafood fork
Lords Spiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The 26 bishops of the Church of England who serve in the House of Lords.
Synonyms: The Spiritual Peers
Coordinate terms: Lords Temporal
my Lord Bishops and your Grace
Spiritual Peers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Lords Spiritual.
synonyms: word: Lords Spiritual
corner man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cornerman.
QT 3.14
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qt 3.14
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Ron "Asbestos" Dippold, Re: Terry Prachett (Comic Books), rec.arts.comics.misc, alt.fan.pratchett, Usenet
B4 I4Q, RU/18 QT 3.14?
text: CUL8R! QT 3.14 ;-D
ref: 1996, Ben Kington, “Re: It's My 1st Anniversary On RSFC;-)”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: She is such a QT 3.14. I heart you, bb!
ref: 2007, anastasia dolorosa, “QT 3.14”, in hr.soc.grad.rijeka (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of cutie pie.
qt 3.14
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: its cuz your such a qt 3.14 / n lines r all soooo tangental / 2 where what how n even why / your being soooo transcendental
ref: 2009, Slogoin, “Re: Mr. Clinger, and the rest of the shoot from the hip Gang.”, in rec.music.classical.guitar (Usenet):
text: Because he has no /fa/ qt 3.14 azn gf
ref: 2015 April 6, anonymous author, 4chan, /fa/, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2024:
text: Omg who is this qt 3.14
ref: 2024 June 25, beelinguapp, Threads, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2024:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cutie pie.
Hongapore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Hong Kong + Singapore
Senses: examples: text: After two days in Hongapore (the two places run together in my mind, like one vast airport duty-free shopping centre), we rolled up to Kowloon station, with our winter clothes on, our rucksacks and shoulder bags full of goodies unobtainable in Wuhan ...
ref: 1986, Charles Hadfield, Jill Hadfield, Watching the Dragon: Letters from China, 1983-1985, Impact Publishing, page 131
glosses: Either Hong Kong or Singapore (suggesting that the two are indistinguishable).
examples: text: "When he asked me where I thought we should shoot, I said 'Hongapore'— that being a play on words to indicate that both Hong Kong and Singapore offered a lot, with Hong Kong having the edge by about 51 to 49 in terms of workability."
ref: 1978, American Cinematographer, volume 59, page 675
text: The Jeju Provincial Office plans to push ahead with the so-called Hongapore Project (named after Hong Kong and Singapore) to develop the island as a free international city on a long-term basis, where no visa is required for entry, everything is duty-free, virtually no regulations exist and English is adopted as an official language.
ref: 2005, Kim Jae-hong, Yonhap News Agency, 20 May 2005
glosses: A place sharing the best characteristics of both Hong Kong and Singapore.
'way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "They have detector zones, 'way out in space[.]"
ref: 1949, E.E 'Doc' Smith, chapter I, in Skylark of Valeron, London: Panther, published 1974, page 7:
text: That night I tried to figure out how such things could be kept from happening. Of course, they hardly ever do nowadays—but even once is ’way too many.
ref: 1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, New York: Putnam, page 88:
glosses: Dated spelling of way (“much; far”).
'way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of away.
'way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of away.
mocudrama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ.kjuˌdɹɑ.mə/
Forms: form: mocudramas
Etymology: Blend of mock, documentary, and drama; or mock and docudrama.
Senses: examples: text: The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore criticism of its decision to air a right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama that dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims in order to serve a cheap, callous political agenda two months before the election.
ref: 2006, Bruce R. Lindsey, Douglas J. Band, Comments About ABC Entertainment's 9/11 Film, ABC News, page 1:
glosses: A television program, movie, or play presented as if it were a docudrama, but that is not factual either because of error or parody.
Related terms: docudrama
mockumentary
schwitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schwitzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shvitz.
schwitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schwitzes
form: schwitzing
form: schwitzed
form: schwitzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shvitz.
schwitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schwitz
schwitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schwitz
schwitzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schwitz
schwitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schwitz
Handa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
Beekes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Beekes; see beek (“brook, stream”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
selsyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selsyns
Etymology: Short for self-synchronizing.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A synchro whose currents are used directly to drive a receiver synchro that rotates in unison with the synchro transmitter.
selsyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selsyn
triphased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + phased.
Senses: glosses: Having three phases; triphase.
transolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transolvers
Senses: glosses: A kind of resolver that combines a two-phase winding with a three-phase one.
transolvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transolver
clownophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clown + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: A facile, pop-psych explanation would unearth the roots of clownophobia in childhood traumas.
ref: 1997, Ashley Crawford, Ray Edgar, editors, Transit Lounge: An Interface Book from 21.C, North Ryde, →ISBN, page 174:
text: While most of us see Ronald McDonald as a nice corporate symbol, the 8% of the population that suffers from clownophobia (more properly called coulrophobia) view him as evil incarnate.
ref: 2003, Richard Crouse, The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: Seriously, my girlfriend said the exact same thing when I told her she was far from alone in her clownophobia.
ref: 2003 December 20, Brian Christgau, “Re: OT -- Clowns... creepy?”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet):
glosses: The fear of clowns.
Synonyms: word: bozophobia
word: coulrophobia
ligamentomuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From ligament + -o- + muscular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ligaments and muscles.
common as pig tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very common or frequently encountered; not at all rare.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very common or vulgar; not sophisticated.