cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Swahililand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swahili + -land.
Senses: glosses: The region along the coast of East Africa where Swahili is spoken.
penwomanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From penwoman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: A woman's skill in handwriting.
Related terms: penmanship
penpersonship
klephtism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From klepht + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Through the traditions and the manners of the inhabitants, who are pre-eminently addicted to piracy and klephtism — through the natural disposition of the terrain, which is filled with narrow valleys and defiles, forming a multitude of natural fortresses — the factious movements and attacks of the insurrectionaries have ever found full scope in the plains of Epirus and Thessaly.
ref: 1854, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 102, page 238:
text: Patriotic commentators emphasized that this sort of contemporary banditry had nothing to do with historic klephtism, and emphatically nothing to do with the essence of the Greek character—if not actually committed by foreign nationals (Albanians, Vlachs), it was at most the sad legacy of four hundred years of Ottoman misrule.
ref: 2003, Norman M. Naimark, Holly Case, editors, Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s:
text: In the following section I explore how the history of klephtism was related to Scottish and Irish myths of social protest, producing a bloodless picture of nationalist outlawry and associating it with particular forms of masculinity.
ref: 2008, R. Tzanelli, Nation-Building and Identity in Europe: The Dialogics of Reciprocity:
glosses: The theft and banditry characteristic of the anti-Ottoman insurgency when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.
shelf bra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf bras
Senses: glosses: Synonym of balcony bra (“bra with half a cup”).
synonyms: word: balcony bra
extra: bra with half a cup
examples: text: The shelf bra has long been a feature of swimsuits for women who either want extra support […]
ref: 2021 August 21 (last accessed), Tricia Christensen, “What is a Shelf Bra?”, in Info Bloom, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2021:
glosses: A strapped, cupless bra made of a tube of fabric with elastic bands, often as part of a camisole or swimsuit.
shelf bras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelf bra
demicup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demicups
Etymology: From demi- + cup.
Senses: glosses: A partial, revealing bra cup, as of a balcony bra.
Related terms: demibra
demicups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demicup
demibra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demibras
Etymology: From demi- + bra.
Senses: glosses: A revealing brassiere with demicups rather than full coverage of the breasts.
Related terms: demicup
demibras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demibra
other-sexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more other-sexual
form: most other-sexual
form: othersexual
Etymology: From other + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: At the center of the social site, patrons, like other Latin American homosexuals, engage in rituals of sexual exchange enmeshed in the matrix of social relations—homosexual, heterosexual, and other-sexual—produced in and by the space.
ref: 1997, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Ramón Grosfoguel, Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism - Page 217:
text: More recently, Rule, Ambady, Adams, and Macrae (2007) have shown an other-sexual orientation effect, such that targets of one's own sexual orientation were better recognized than were targets in the outgroup. Not only were perceivers able ...
ref: 2013, Donal E. Carlston, The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition - Page 182:
glosses: Of or relating to sexual orientation toward a different sex from one's own; heterosexual; allosexual.
otherdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otherdoms
Etymology: From other + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It is clearly shown that right and wrong are conditions of otherdom. That ethics, in short, is a meaningless term to a single, isolated individual.
ref: 1908, Melvin Linwood Severy, Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation:
text: Altogether, I seriously recommend those of my readers who find a pantomime once a year good for them, to go next year to the Britannia, and leave the West End to its boredoms and all the otherdoms that make it so expensively dreary.
ref: 1909, Bernard Shaw, Dramatic opinions and essays, with an apology:
text: I can think of three good reasons why the hospital should move us out to the margins of "otherdom." For one, there are twenty-one letters in our merged Unitarian Universalist name. "Other" is short, with only five. Then there is the fact that in ...
ref: 1997, David S. Blanchard, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The state, condition, or existence of others; the tendency toward preferring, serving, or doing for others; selflessness.
otherdoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otherdom
extripate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extirpate.
butter paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter paddles
Senses: glosses: One of a pair of wooden tools used to shape butter into small blocks
butter paddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butter paddle
re-emphasise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-emphasises
form: re-emphasising
form: re-emphasised
form: re-emphasised
form: reemphasise
Etymology: From re- + emphasise.
Senses: examples: text: Taking the inaugural departure of the "Golden Hind" from Paddington, on June 15, as his opportunity, Mr. G. F. Fiennes, General Manager of the WR, re-emphasised his conviction that higher speeds in his Region are a matter not of "how" but of "when".
ref: 1964 August, “WR drive for higher speeds”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reemphasize.
Haft Seen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haft-Seen
form: Haft Sin
form: Haft-Sin
Etymology: From Classical Persian هَفْت سِین (haft sīn, literally “[The] Seven S's”).
Senses: examples: 19 March 2015, Barack Obama, "Remarks by President Obama on Nowruz"
Last week, my wife Michelle helped mark Nowruz here at the White House. It was a celebration of the vibrant cultures, food, music and friendship of our many diaspora communities who make extraordinary contributions every day here in the United States. We even created our own Haft Seen, representing our hopes for the new year.
glosses: A traditional table setting of Nowruz comprising several symbolic items.
Islamophobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamophobiacs
Senses: examples: text: It appears that the whole issue of the plague of Islamophobia is attributable to the utter ignorance of world affairs by the Islamophobiacs and their cohorts or their refusal to ask the right questions.
ref: 2011, Al-Amine Mohammed Abba Seid, Islamic Terrorism and the Tangential Response of the West, p. 39
text: 2012, celtex, Islamic/Muslim Happiness Group: alt.treasure.hunting
Brought to you by ISLAMOPHOBIAC DAILY Whoever thought this out is nothing less than a genius. The Muslims are not happy.
text: she dauntlessly rescues the image of Islam that is blemished by the radicals or when it is attacked by the Islamophobiac ...
ref: 2014, Sara Niazi, Woman with more than substance:
glosses: An Islamophobe; one who is Islamophobic.
Islamophobiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamophobiac
will-they-won't-they
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: will-they, won't-they
form: will they, won't they
form: will-they/won't-they
form: will they? won't they?
Senses: examples: text: Princess Sonja, the daughter of an Oslo fashion house director, married Crown Prince Harald last summer after a will-they-won't-they romance that had gone on for a decade.
ref: 1968, The Scandinavian Times: Newsmagazine:
text: Duet is a "will-they-won't-they?" sit-com about a young couple best described as in the throes of 'courting'.
ref: 1987, The Listener:
text: Woolworths had already started manufacturing wedding memorabilia, including William and Kate china, ahead of an announcement; the press toyed with the will-they-won't-they question; and the couple kept a chart of newspaper speculations on the royal wedding
ref: 2010, Katie Nicholl, William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls, Weinstein Publishing, →ISBN, page 187:
text: Ôba's three-part What is Your Name? (Kimi no na wa, 1953—1954), a will-they-won't-they romantic drama in which a couple meet on a bridge during a wartime air raid and fall in love, promising that they will meet again although unfortunately neglecting to tell each other their names, was the most commercially successful film of the early 1950s.
ref: 2011, Jasper Sharp, Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 224:
text: Tim and Dawn, being a will-they-won't-they pair, both lose (until they get together at the end).
ref: 2014, Marc Blake, How To Be A Sitcom Writer: Secrets From The Inside, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a potential coupling between two people who share romantic chemistry, but whose relationship is threatened by uncertainty, external obstacles or internal strife.
examples: text: Among the small producers, the West German companies Continental Gummi and Phoenix Gummi are in the middle of a will-they-won't-they merger dance.
ref: 1971, Multinational Business:
text: Not only physically did Greenpeace alter the situation—but perhaps more important, it gave the issue a cup-tie atmosphere which it may not otherwise have had, and there was the constant will-they-won't- they.
ref: 1978, New Scientist, page 379:
text: The reality behind the will-they-won't-they, pre-nuptial dances among aspirant members of Europe's monetary union club is that as long as the present economic slowdown doesn't turn into a full-blown recession the project will probably go ahead.
ref: 1996 January 27, The Guardian, quoted in Katarzyna Jaszczolt, Ken Turner, Meaning Through Language Contrast, John Benjamins Publishing →ISBN, page 133
glosses: Of or pertaining to any situation in which there is an extended period of uncertainty.
extrapate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extirpate.
extrapalate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extrapolate.
Islamophobian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamophobians
Etymology: From Islamophobe + -ian or Islamophobia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Many Islamophobians believe that Islam is incompatible with rationalism
ref: 2013, AI Ali, Paper: RATIONALISM IN INFERRING JURISPRUDENCE:
text: Any one of the three corners could represent one of the three constituents of Iranian tri-polar culture—pan-Islamists, anti-Islam Persian chauvinists and Westernized Islamophobians.
ref: 2014, Sadegh Shajari, Chain Reaction and Chaos: Toward Modern Persia, page 28:
glosses: Islamophobe.
islamophobian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more islamophobian
form: most islamophobian
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Morenko, Islam in mass-media space of Russia and Tatarstan: policy and social analysis
The number of headings with islamophobian character is great enough, making about one fourth of headings of articles which have got in or 85 % from ...
text: First, a distinction has to be made between the acceptance of naming and the justification of racist, antisemitic, islamophobian and xenophobic language.
ref: 2005, J Goldschmidt, Naming without Blaming:
text: Although there has been fairly broad political and popular support for this development, the structural discrimination and anti-immigration protest, often with an islamophobian touch, are also common phenomena is well documented.
ref: 2012, A Walliser, Faith-based organisations, urban governance and welfare state retrenchment:
glosses: Pertaining to Islamophobia
wossname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wossnames
form: wosname
Senses: glosses: whatsitsname
epigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Growing on the surface of a leaf
Derived terms: epigenously
epigamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Attractive to the opposite sex
Derived terms: epigamically
Related terms: epigamy
epifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + focal.
Senses: glosses: epicentral
Derived terms: epigenously
Eolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aeolian.
Aeolians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Aeolian Islands
environment-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more environment-friendly
form: most environment-friendly
Senses: synonyms: word: eco-friendly
word: green
word: environmentally friendly
word: environment-friendly
word: eco-friendly
word: ecological
word: ecologically friendly
word: green
glosses: environmentally friendly
mombie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mombies
Etymology: From Shona mombe (“cow”).
Senses: examples: text: "Mr. Mhene," Chris said, rather cautiously. "On my way here I met a herd of cows wandering down the road. Tourists will come to the Mavuradonha to see elephants and sables, not mombies."
ref: 2008, Dick Pitman, A Wild Life: Adventures of an Accidental Conservationist, →ISBN, page 124:
text: But there are traces, hoof marks of mombies are encrusted in the dried mud.
ref: 2008, Lesley Stern, The Smoking Book, →ISBN, page 8:
text: 'Start looking for mombies.'
ref: 2013, Alexandra Fuller, Don't, Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, →ISBN, page 113:
english: The cattle that have stayed up this high are wild.
translation: The cattle that have stayed up this high are wild.
text: The baccy crop's looking good, ja, and one of the mombies calved this morning.
ref: 2014, Katherine Rundell, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, →ISBN:
glosses: A cow.
mombie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mombies
Etymology: Blend of mom + zombie.
Senses: examples: text: A mombie is a woman who "changes" after having a baby. She's been brainwashed by motherhood, […]. She loves nothing more than joining an army of other mombies, so don't be surprised if your old friend-turned-mombie begins to spend her time primarily with other mombies who are all covered in some kind of murky baby secretion.
ref: 2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents, →ISBN:
text: The woman who used to start the day with a Spin class with Suzanne turned into a mombie—a mom zombie who was a shadow of her former self. Showering was no longer important. Why bother?
ref: 2016, Suzanne Riss, Jill Sockwell, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup:
glosses: A mother who is consumed by raising her children to the point of being sleep-deprived or simply obsessed, and hence zombie-like.
examples: text: There was a blood smear across her mouth, skewed like lipstick applied by a drunken hand. Mom was a fucking zombie. “Mombie,” he said, giggling stupidly, deliriously.
ref: 2012, Randy Chandler, Edward M. Erdelac, David James Keaton, Deadcore: 4 Hardcore Zombie Novellas, →ISBN, page 63:
text: A mombie. I always knew she was undead. It explains everything.
ref: 2016, Devon Hartford, Stealing Chastity, →ISBN:
glosses: A zombie (i.e. undead) mother.
enviro-friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enviro-friendly
form: most enviro-friendly
Etymology: From enviro- + friendly.
Senses: glosses: environmentally friendly
mombies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mombie
Entebbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in central Uganda, on the shore of Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton.
Senses: synonyms: Nalubaale
glosses: The largest lake in Africa, with shoreline in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania; one of the African Great Lakes.
wikipedia: John Hanning Speke
Queen Victoria
Richard Francis Burton
enskin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enskins
form: enskinning
form: enskinned
form: enskinned
Etymology: From en- + skin.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Kpembewura does not elect or enskin the Kafabawura, as claimed by the Jitipe gate, he oversees both the nomination and enskinment or conferment of the title.
ref: 2010, A. K. Awedoba, Edward Salifu Mahama, Sylvanus M. A. Kuuire, Felix Longi, An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace : Key Aspects of Past, Present, and Impending Conflicts in Northern Ghana and the Mechanisms for Their Address, African Books Collective, →ISBN, page 169:
text: On being enskinned, the successful candidate was ceremonially informed that he was henceforth answerable to all the Wala and not only the Nabihi.
ref: 2002, Ivor Wilks, Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171:
qualifier: Ghana
glosses: To install as a leader of a group.
Derived terms: enskinment
Related terms: enthrone
enstool
enskinment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enskinments
Etymology: From enskin + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Kpembewura does not elect or enskin the Kafabawura, as claimed by the Jitipe gate, he oversees both the nomination and enskinment or conferment of the title.
ref: 2010, A. K. Awedoba, Edward Salifu Mahama, Sylvanus M. A. Kuuire, Felix Longi, An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace : Key Aspects of Past, Present, and Impending Conflicts in Northern Ghana and the Mechanisms for Their Address, African Books Collective, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: the act of enskinning a new leader
Related terms: enstoolment
enthronement
enskinments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enskinment
enskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enskin
enskins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enskin
enskinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enskin
empty-nest syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of empty nest syndrome.
emergency vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency vehicles
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that is designated to respond to an emergency, such as a police car, ambulance, fire engine or lifeboat.
Related terms: emergency service
deskin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deskins
form: deskinning
form: deskinned
form: deskinned
Etymology: From de- + skin; compare dethrone.
Senses: glosses: To remove the skin of
glosses: To remove (a ruler) from power.
Synonyms: sense: remove the skin of
word: skin
sense: remove the skin of
word: peel
sense: remove from power
word: destool
Related terms: deskinment
deskinment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deskinments
Etymology: From deskin + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: This committee preferred deskinment charges against the Ya Na, which was sent for him for his response, with a copy to the government.
ref: 2006, Abudulai Yakubu, The Abudu-Andani crisis of Dagbon: a historical and legal perspective of the Yendi skin affairs, page 23:
glosses: The act of deskinning.
Synonyms: destoolment
deskins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deskin
deskinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deskin
deskinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deskin
deskinments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskinment
jury service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury services
Senses: glosses: jury duty
journalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: journalises
form: journalising
form: journalised
form: journalised
Etymology: From journal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of journalize.
Derived terms: journaliser
journalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of journalise
journalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of journalise
journalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of journalise
Twix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Twixes
Etymology: Brand name, a blend of twin + sticks, since there are two biscuits of the product in each package.
Senses: examples: text: Then—oh so casually—she was asked to select either a Twix bar or an apple, as thanks for her participation in the experiment.
ref: 2008, Cordelia Fine, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, page 173:
text: I even ate a Twix before bed each night, not once thinking about how many miles it would take me to run off the calories.
ref: 2015, Branch Kimball, My Eating Disorder: Thoughts During Sickness and Recovery:
text: Seamus scrapes his chair back with an ear-splitting screech and dashes off to make a phone call to get the patient back to the department. I finish his Twix.
ref: 2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A popular chocolate bar produced by the Mars company, consisting of two fingers of biscuit with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate).
Twixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Twix
rate of exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rates of exchange
Senses: glosses: exchange rate
rat hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rathole.
rear-wheel drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Engine layout in motor vehicles where only the rear wheels are driven.
Synonyms: RWD
Related terms: four-wheel drive
recorded delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of postal delivery where the sender receives a receipt of postage, and the receiver must sign upon receiving it
Related terms: registered mail
recreation ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recreation grounds
Senses: glosses: A public park designed for recreation purposes
Synonyms: rec
reccy
recreation room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recreation rooms
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: house, home, residence, dwelling
text: Near-synonyms: den, family room
text: The recreation room. One of the broadcast receivers which are provided at all L.M.S.R. trainmen's hostels is seen in the background.
ref: 1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 92, photo caption:
synonyms: rec room#Noun
games room
playroom
ruckus room
rumpus room
hypernyms: room#Noun
<
place#Noun
space#Noun
coordinate_terms: sunroom#Noun
Florida room#Noun
Arizona room#Noun
;
lounge
living room
living-room
sitting room
parlor
parlour
front room
;
library#Noun
study#Noun
;
dining room
kitchen
dinette
glosses: A room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use.
Fener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood midway up the Golden Horn within Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey.
glosses: Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü, a sports club from Istanbul
sports bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sports bars
Senses: glosses: A bar or pub themed around sports, typically with sporting memorabilia and sport events shown on television.
sports grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sports ground
sports physiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: exercise physiology
sports science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the scientific study of how the human body works during exercise
sports drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: sports drinks
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: electrolyte drink
glosses: A drink whose purpose is to replenish the body's water and energy levels when doing exercise.
Related terms: energy drink
spouge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spuːd͡ʒ/
Senses: glosses: A genre of music that originated in Barbados, a fusion of ska and calypso.
Staffs.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æfs
Senses: glosses: Staffordshire (in postal addresses)
standupper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standuppers
Etymology: From stand up + -er.
Senses: glosses: A television news broadcast where the presenter stands up when speaking into the camera.
standuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standupper
Islamophobians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamophobian
dementia dialytica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A progressive, usually fatal condition that occurs in some hemodialysis patients
skye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sky.
heir-at-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirs-at-law
form: heir at law
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person legally entitled to inherit the property of someone who dies intestate.
Synonyms: legal heir
statutory heir
legal heir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal heirs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of heir-at-law.
synonyms: word: heir-at-law
statutory heir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutory heirs
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of heir-at-law.
synonyms: word: heir-at-law
heir at law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heirs at law
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative spelling of heir-at-law.
lidderon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lidderons
Etymology: From Middle English lidrone, from lidder, lither (“bad, wicked, false”), from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“slack, limp”). More at lither.
Senses: examples: text: I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.
ref: c. 14th–15th century, "The York Realist" (real name unknown), “Trial Before Herod”, in The York Mystery Plays, York; republished as “The Litsters: Christ Before Herod”, in Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, editors, York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, lines 167–168:
text: My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
roman: To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
glosses: One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling.
Synonyms: sense: one who is lazy
word: goldbricker
word: slacker
word: idler
sense: rascal, scoundrel
word: knave
word: rapscallion
word: villain
alt: weakling
word: losel
word: nonce
word: worthless person
housers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houser
alcohol poisonings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcohol poisoning
able-bodyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: able-bodyists
Etymology: From able + body + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: ableist
glosses: A person who exhibits able-bodyism.
able-bodyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of able-bodyist
lingual bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingual bones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: hyoid bone
fieldish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fieldish
form: most fieldish
Etymology: From earlier feldishe, equivalent to field + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne
They ſing a ſonge made of the fieldiſh mowſe [cf. Egerton Manuscript 2711 version: “they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe”]
that for becauſe her lyvelode was but thynne
ref: a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt and unknown editors, “My mothers maydes when they do Sowe and Spinne” in the Arundel Harington Manuscript, no. 142
roman: woulde nedes go ſe her Towniſhe ſiſters howſe
text: But till this hour I did account it an idle tale of poets’ faming, that amid woods, forests, fertile fields, seacoasts, shores of great rivers and fountain brinks, and also upon the tops of huge and high mountains, do still appear unto certain favoured eyes the sundry-sorted nymphs and fieldish demigods.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 314, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the field; belonging to the country; rural.
Synonyms: fieldy
fieldlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field-lore
form: field lore
Etymology: From field + lore.
Senses: examples: text: And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements.
ref: 2002, Mark Storey, John Clare: The Critical Heritage - Page 317:
glosses: Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
snough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɒf/
enpr: snôf
ipa: /snɔf/
enpr: snŏf
ipa: /snɑf/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: snoughs
Etymology: From blend of sneeze + cough.
Senses: examples: text: "Of a sneeze?" Callie asked, her grinning face appearing in the doorway. "You almost died of a sneeze?" "It was a cough too," Gary explained. "A 'snough' Terrible thing," he muttered, shaking his head and attempting a dignified exit […]
ref: 1978, Redbook: The Magazine for Young Adults - Volume 151 - Page 117
text: I inhaled sharply, and got coffee instead of air, which my body expelled with a painful snough (sneeze-cough). Worse, I spilled coffee down the front of my — er, his — snowy-white shirt.
ref: 2004, Stephanie Bond, Cover Me - Page 43:
text: GT Ninety-Nine seemed rather engrossed in his entertainment, and was blissfully unaware of the animal's presence until Fatticus announced himself with a 'snough', his curious combination of a sneeze and a cough.
ref: 2010, Melody Ayres-Griffiths, Fatticus Faces the Wolf: A Slumber-Time Adventure - Page 233:
glosses: A simultaneous sneeze and cough.
zotzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zotzed
form: most zotzed
Senses: glosses: Drunk, smashed
zotzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zotz
fieldling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldlings
Etymology: From field + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]
ref: 1947, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper's Magazine - Volume 194 - Page 500:
text: Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood.
ref: 1995, Drug addiction and environmental pollution - Page 135
glosses: A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
fieldlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldling
zotz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zotzes
form: zotzing
form: zotzed
form: zotzed
Senses: examples: text: Got zotzed by burglars she surprised on their boat...
ref: 1991, Seth Morgan, Homeboy, page 149:
glosses: To murder, knock off.
Related terms: english: drunk
translation: drunk
word: zotzed
field houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field house
fieldhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fieldhouse
filmish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filmish
form: most filmish
Etymology: From film + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of films, movies, or the film industry; cinematic.
sounding stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sounding stones
form: sounding-stone
Senses: glosses: A Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.
sounding stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sounding stone
take a wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a wife
form: taking a wife
form: took a wife
form: taken a wife
Senses: glosses: To marry a woman.
raw_tags: of a man
alterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alterites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare yellow-green mineral with the chemical formula Zn2Fe3+4(SO4)4(C2O4)2(OH)4·17H2O.
split-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from split up.
Senses: examples: text: My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:[…]
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A break-up.
split-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split-up
stay out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays out
form: staying out
form: stayed out
form: stayed out
Senses: examples: text: He stayed out all night in the bar.
text: She found a boyfriend. Not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest.
ref: 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Bonasera (Salvatore Corsitto), Paramount Pictures:
glosses: To spend time out of one's house.
examples: text: He stayed out of the bar all night.
glosses: To avoid going into somewhere.
examples: text: The company had now staid so long, that Mrs Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all designed to stay out each other. She therefore resolved to rid herself of Jones, he being the visitant to whom she thought the least ceremony was due.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Which Consists of Visiting”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, page 29:
glosses: To outstay; to stay longer than.
Derived terms: stay out of
steak tartare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steaks tartare
form: steak tartares
Etymology: Borrowed from French steak tartare.
Senses: examples: text: They specialise in dishes from the Gaziantep region in south-east Turkey synonymous with kebabs. Our favourite is cig kofte, Turkey's answer to steak tartare (lamb kneaded with spice and herbs).
ref: 2005 December 17, Sudi Pigott, “Istanbul on a plate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Two fully fledged French restaurants are planned — but without such classics as steak tartare, blood sausage or choucroute.
ref: 2024 May 29, Roger Cohen, “Hold the French Fries! Paris Olympics Chart a New Gastronomic Course.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
text: There’s a short, unchanging menu of simple dishes like steak tartare, grilled octopus with aioli, hanger steak and a simple, acidic green salad.
ref: 2024 June 13, Becky Hughes, “Where to Eat: At the Bar”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2024:
text: Finally, he requested the menu. I glanced at the offerings: duck confit, moules frites, steak tartare, white veal Bolognese — and then ordered lentil soup. Why be greedy?
ref: 2025 February 28, Laura Esther Wolfson, “Rules for Staying Close to Exes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
glosses: A French dish made of raw minced beef steak, often served with onions, capers and other ingredients.
café liégeois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafés liégeois
Senses: examples: text: Which may explain why we broke the news at the Café de Flore a semester beforehand, over cafés liégeois and éclairs au chocolat, the blackmailing parent's best friends.
ref: 2011, Penelope Rowlands, editor, Paris Was Ours, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: A cold dessert made from lightly sweetened coffee, coffee-flavoured ice cream and Chantilly cream.
steersperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steerspersons
Etymology: From steer + -s- + person.
Senses: glosses: A steersman or steerswoman
step machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step machines
Senses: glosses: An exercise machine consisting of two pedals on a frame. The user steps on each of the pedals in turn, moving the legs in a way similar to climbing.
Synonyms: stepper
steerspersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steersperson
stick at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks at
form: sticking at
form: stuck at
form: stuck at
Senses: examples: text: If you want to dance well, you have to stick at it.
synonyms: keep at
glosses: To continue practising (a skill), even it is difficult
Related terms: stick at nothing
stick boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick boys
Senses: glosses: A simple drawing of a boy with lines to represent limbs and torso.
Related terms: stick girl
stick man
stick woman
stickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sticky.
stick-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a stick-on label
glosses: Fastened by means of sticking.
Related terms: stick someone on
stinkaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stinkaroos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stinkeroo.
stinkaroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinkaroo
stishie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stishies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stushie.
stishies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stishie
stushie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stushies
Senses: glosses: A commotion.
stushies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stushie
stocking filler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocking fillers
form: stocking-filler
Senses: glosses: A small present given at Christmas to go in a stocking
stomach crunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomach crunches
Senses: glosses: A crunch (abdominal exercise)
stomach-churning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomach-churning
form: most stomach-churning
Etymology: From stomach + churning.
Senses: synonyms: gut-churning
glosses: Sickening or disgusting.
Derived terms: stomach-churningly
Related terms: gut-wrenching
heart-rending
nerve-wracking
stomach-turning
stomach-wrenching
stomach-churningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stomach-churningly
form: most stomach-churningly
Etymology: From stomach-churning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stomach-churning manner.
stomach-turning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomach-turning
form: most stomach-turning
Etymology: From stomach + turning.
Senses: glosses: Sickening or disgusting.
Derived terms: stomach-turningly
Related terms: gut-wrenching
heart-rending
nerve-wracking
stomach-churning
stomach-wrenching
stomach-turningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stomach-turningly
form: most stomach-turningly
Etymology: From stomach-turning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stomach-turning manner
stony-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stony-hearted
form: most stony-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stonyhearted.
Sophi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sophis
Senses: examples: text: Others derive Sophi from the Sophi or Sages anciently called Magi.
ref: 1728, Ephraim Chambers, editor, Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1st edition, volume 2, London: printed for J. and J. Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Sufi.
examples: text: The Safavid shahs were commonly termed by Western writers "Sophie", "Sophy", "Sophi" or "Soffi". All these terms were probably corruptions of Ṣafī, the name of the founder of the Safavid Order, rather than of Ṣūfī, as the Safavid supporters called themselves.
ref: 1980, Roger Savory, Iran under the Safavids, Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 259:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Safawi.
stotious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stotious
form: most stotious
form: stocious
form: stoshious
Senses: examples: text: He'd been in the pub earlier so that he was pretty well stotious by the time Willa and Ina arrived. As the hours went by Willa herself became a little tipsy and her mother-in-law warned her she'd better watch she didn't get her bairn drunk.
ref: 2007, Joan Lingard, After You've Gone, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
glosses: drunk
Synonyms: drunk
Strathclyde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹæθˈklaɪd/
Etymology: An adaptation of Scottish Gaelic Srath Chluaidh, from Cumbric *strat (“river-valley”) + *Clud (“Clyde (river)”).
Senses: examples: text: Subsequent to the re-organisation of Scottish local government in 1973, West Central Scotland effectively became the urbanised industrial heartland of Strathclyde Region which focused upon the area previously known as the Clydeside...
ref: 1986, Chiranji Singh Yadav, Urban Planning and Policies, Concept Publishing Company, page 391:
text: It remains a key part of the busy Strathclyde railway system, with its high-level platforms served by trains to Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and England, and its low-level platforms a key artery at the heart of the busiest commuter network outside London.
ref: 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Glasgow Central - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47:
glosses: A former local government region in the west of Scotland, created in 1975, abolished in 1996.
examples: text: The Scots then had to deal with the Britons of Strathclyde, the British kingdom in southwest Scotland that at its height included Cumbria down to the Welsh border. The Britons shared power with the Scots and Picts in the early medieval period...
ref: 2003, Krishan Kumar, The Making of English National Identity, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The Kingdom of Strathclyde, a former kingdom (AD 450–1093) spanning southern Scotland and northern England.
examples: text: Strathclyde University was the first in Britain to offer a full range of degrees—undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral—in the subject of Marketing...
ref: 2015, Alison Baverstock, How to Market Books, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Strathclyde University
Kilmarnock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic, from cill (“churchyard, chapel”) + the Saint name Marnock. The name is from Mo-Ernin-og (“my little Ernan”).
Senses: glosses: A town in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4238).
Derived terms: Kilmarnock cowl
Kilmarnock willow
Kilmarnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kilmarnocks
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic, from cill (“churchyard, chapel”) + the Saint name Marnock. The name is from Mo-Ernin-og (“my little Ernan”).
Senses: glosses: A closely woven broad bonnet, having a peak of the same material at the top, originally made at Kilmarnock.
Stranraer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹænɹɑː/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Sròn Reamhar (literally “fat promontory”).
Senses: glosses: A town in western Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Wick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse vík (“bay, inlet”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.
Senses: glosses: A town in north-eastern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND3650).
glosses: A river in Caithness, Highland council area that flows through the town into Wick Bay on the North Sea; in full, the Wick River.
Wick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wicks
Etymology: From Old English wīc (“dairy farm”).
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Luppitt parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1703).
glosses: A number of places in England:
An eastern suburb of Bournemouth in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1951).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Wick and Abson parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST7072).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Brent Knoll parish, Somerset, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3253)
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Curry Rivel parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4026).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Stogursey parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2144).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A northern suburb of Littlehampton, Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0203).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village in Downton parish, south Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1621).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO9645).
glosses: A village and community in Vale of Glamorgan borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS9272).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Shawswick
Wick and Abson
Wick Hill
Wick St Lawrence
Thurso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːɹsoʊ/
Etymology: From Old Norse Þórsá (“Thor's River”). The Norse is likely an adaptation of the Latin Tarvodubron from a Proto-Brythonic reflex of Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) + *dubros (“water”).
Senses: glosses: A town in northern Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland.
glosses: A river in Highland council area, Scotland.
Stromness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and seaport in Orkney, Scotland
Peterhead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and port in Aberdeenshire council area, on the east coast of Scotland (OS grid ref NK1346).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia.
Motherwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in and the administrative centre of North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7557)
Derived terms: Motherwell rules
street theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street theaters
Senses: glosses: US spelling of street theatre.
stress mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stress marks
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A written mark to show which part of a word should be stressed.
student union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: student unions
form: spelling
Senses: glosses: students' union (UK spelling)