cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hinglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Hindi + English.
Senses: examples: text: English still has a place, though usually in the form of Hinglish, a blend of Hindi and "the sort of language used by Rex Harrison and David Niven".
ref: 1997 August 16, Sue Gaisford, “Radio: The soul of a nation finds utterance at last”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
text: "Today, young Indians in the new middle class think of English as a skill." . . . Many mix Hindi and English—Hinglish, it is called—often switching in midsentence.
ref: 2003 December 14, Amy Waldman, “In India, a New Heyday for English (the Language)”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
text: However, a small band of writers is creating a niche for prose in everyday spoken Hindi and Hinglish, with contemporary themes and characters who are ambitious, bold and tech-savvy.
ref: 2014 January 19, Shobita Dhar, “Hindi fiction writes a new story”, in Times of India, retrieved 18 Jan 2018:
glosses: A variety of English spoken by native Hindi speakers, using many Hindi words or constructions.
glosses: Hindustani written in the Latin alphabet, often also mixed with English words or phrases
Synonyms: Hindish
Related terms: english: mixture of English and Chinese
translation: mixture of English and Chinese
word: Chinglish
english: mixture of English and German
translation: mixture of English and German
word: Denglisch
english: mixture of English and French
translation: mixture of English and French
word: Franglais
word: Globish
english: mixture of English and Polish
translation: mixture of English and Polish
word: Ponglish
english: mixture of English and Spanish
translation: mixture of English and Spanish
word: Spanglish
Labradoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæb.ɹəˌduː.dl̩/
Forms: form: Labradoodles
Etymology: Blend of Labrador + poodle.
Senses: examples: text: Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.
ref: 2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:
text: Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping. This year, two labradoodles, a pomsky and a corgi are among members the Central Florida contingent.
ref: 2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:
glosses: A dog that is a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.
molecular gastronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined in 1988 by Oxford physicist Nicholas Kurti and INRA chemist Hervé This. Publicly disseminated by Elizabeth Cawdry Thomas and Nicholas Kurti in 1992.
Senses: glosses: The use of scientific principles and practices in cooking and food preparation.
wikipedia: en:Hervé This
en:Nicholas Kurti
Related terms: modernist cuisine
modernist cooking
modernist
offshoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offshorings
Senses: glosses: The location of a business in another country for tax purposes or lowering production costs, as the labor.
Derived terms: bestshoring
friendshoring
homeshoring
Related terms: inshoring
outsourcing
reshoring
offshoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offshore
balti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːl.ti/
rhymes: -ɒlti
Forms: form: baltis
Etymology: From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, “pail”), originally coined by Birmingham restaurateur Afzal Butt because English people had difficulty pronouncing karahi, the name of the dish used for cooking this food.
Senses: examples: text: For in time, balti became an enduring British cultural entity all of its own—even as Jim Davidson and his fellow bullies lapsed into obscurity.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 136:
glosses: A style of Pakistani cooking in which the food is cooked in an iron pan having two handles.
glosses: A dish cooked in this style.
Derived terms: balti house
balti house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balti houses
Senses: glosses: A curry house in which balti food is served.
curry house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry houses
Senses: examples: text: Part surf shack and part Thai curry house — small, yet full of energy and life — order anything from the menu and watch it being cooked right in front of you, often in large woks.
ref: 2017, Gareth Kelly, 100 Things to Do in San Luis Obispo County Before You Die (page 10)
text: The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.
ref: 2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52:
glosses: A restaurant serving curries, especially (British) an Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi restaurant of this kind.
Balti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baltis
form: Balti
Senses: glosses: A people who live in Baltistan, Gilgit and Kargil.
Balti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
sweet basil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet basils
Senses: glosses: An herb used for seasoning (Ocimum basilicum)
Related terms: basil
saltimbocca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltimboccas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian saltimbocca, univerbation of saltare (“to leap”) + in (“into”) + bocca (“mouth”).
Senses: glosses: An Italian dish of veal, thinly sliced and rolled in prosciutto ham and sage leaves.
burnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɜːnət/
ipa: /ˈbɚnɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɚnət/
Forms: form: burnets
Etymology: From Middle English burnet, from Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”). Doublet of brunette.
Senses: examples: text: ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
ref: 1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] , page 326:
glosses: Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
examples: text: There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
ref: 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
glosses: Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sanguisorba minor
word: burnet bloodwort
word: burnet companion moth
word: burnet moth
taxonomic: Rosa pimpinellifolia
word: burnet rose
taxonomic: Pimpinella saxifraga
word: burnet saxifrage
taxonomic: Sanguisorba canadensis
word: Canadian burnet
taxonomic: Sanguisorba officinalis
word: great burnet
taxonomic: Sanguisorba minor
word: lesser burnet
taxonomic: Sanguisorba minor
word: salad burnet
word: six-spot burnet
taxonomic: Sanguisorba spinosum
word: thorny burnet
word: transparent burnet
taxonomic: Sanguisorba canadensis
word: wild burnet
bog-standard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɒɡˈstændəd/
Forms: form: bog standard
form: bogstandard
Etymology: Unknown, but probably derived from a corruption of box-standard under influence from bog (“toilet”), possibly via bog-wheel (“Cambridge slang for bicycle”), or from bog (“unsettled swampland”) in reference to a lack of sophistication or polish. Sometimes folk etymologized as separately deriving from bog (“toilet”) + standard after a supposed similarity among chamberpots or toilets (despite box-standard predating it by a century and bog's original use only in reference to latrines and outhouses) or from the unattested acronym BOG, allegedly short for British or German, referring to the supposed dominance of British and German engineering during Victorian times.
Senses: examples: text: Bog standard Sprite, 1959, two owners.
ref: 1962 April, Motor Sport, page 283:
text: She was ‘bog standard’—meaning straight from the production line without modifications.
ref: 1972 May 15, Daily Mirror, page 21:
text: Don't misunderstand me: there's nothing wrong with a low-cost bog-standard service, it's just that many people want something more and are happy to pay for it.
ref: 2019 December 18, Barry Doe, “Little prospect of a return to the great days of InterCity”, in Rail, page 73:
synonyms: word: bogey
word: boggo#Adjective
word: average
word: banal
word: basic
word: bog standard
word: common
word: common as bums
word: common as muck
word: commonplace
word: common-or-garden
word: common or garden variety
word: conventional
word: dime a dozen
word: everyday
word: familiar
word: garden variety
word: general
word: nonrare
word: normal
word: par for the course
word: pedestrian
word: plain
word: plain Jane
word: plain vanilla
word: quotidian
word: regular
word: routinary
word: routine
word: standard
word: standard issue
word: ten a penny
word: two a penny
word: typical
word: usual
word: run-of-the-mill
word: workaday
word: average
word: banal
word: basic
word: bog-standard
word: common
word: commonplace
word: common-or-garden
word: congruent
word: consistent
word: conventional
word: customary
word: everyday
word: expected
word: garden variety
word: mundane
word: natural
word: normal
word: ordinary
word: plain
word: regular
word: routine
word: run-of-the-mill
word: standard
word: true
word: typical
word: uniform
word: unexceptional
word: unremarkable
word: unstrange
word: usual
word: vulgar
glosses: Utterly basic, ordinary, or standard; unremarkable, unexceptional, etc.
wikipedia: BBC World Service
David Crystal
Michael Quinion
Derived terms: bogey
boggo
bomber jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomber jackets
Etymology: Similar to jackets worn by bomber crews in WWII.
Senses: examples: text: Richard Kastleman[…] said in a recent interview that “the men's bomber jacket has become like the buttondown shirt. It's become a basic item for men.”
ref: 1990 June 5, Jeff Black, quoting Richard Kastleman, “Men's Outerwear True To Red, White, Blue”, in DNR, volume 20, number 9, →ISSN, page 5:
synonyms: bomber
flight jacket
glosses: A short leather jacket, with an elasticated waist and cuffs, a fleece collar and a zip front.
wikipedia: B-17
Derived terms: bomber-jacketed
bouncy castle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaʊnsi ˈkɑːsəl/
ipa: /ˌbaʊnsɪ ˈkɑːsəl/
ipa: /ˌbaʊnsi ˈkæsəl/
Forms: form: bouncy castles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bouncing castle.
synonyms: word: bouncing castle
chattering classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chattering class
Senses: examples: text: Those advocating permanent WFH [working from home] most vocally tend to be salaried, with 'nice houses', gardens, partners and families, and probably a home office. They are the same chattering class which will crucially decide, how others (who maybe live in small flats, laptop on a kitchen table, 23 floors from the ground) will work.
ref: 2021 April 7, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Challenge traditional beliefs”, in RAIL, number 928, page 3:
glosses: Educated people with liberal opinions and attitudes.
riposte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpəʊst/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoʊst/
homophone: repost (some pronunciations)
Forms: form: ripostes
form: ripost
Etymology: From French riposte, taken from Italian risposta, a derivative of the verb rispondere (“to respond”).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A thrust given in return after parrying an attack.
examples: text: Some context is required. Moldova were weak at the back and blunt up front, and have failed to score in six matches stretching back to last October, with only hints at English complacency offering them glimpses of summoning a riposte.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A counter-attack in any combat or any sport.
examples: text: This face-saving reminds us of some American ripostes a few months back when their space rockets seemed disinclined to leave the earth very far behind; after all, they said, the Russians are only chucking heavy machinery at the moon, whereas we're trying to be more sophisticated and get a sewing-machine up there.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 129–130:
text: Watson’s letter was a riposte to the accusation made on Tuesday by Corbyn’s campaign that he was “peddling conspiracy theories” after he said in a Guardian interview that Labour was at risk from “Trotskyist entryists”.
ref: 2016 August 10, Heather Stewart, “Tom Watson sends Corbyn 'proof of Trotskyist Labour infiltration'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: retort
glosses: A quick and usually witty response to a taunt.
glosses: An answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
riposte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpəʊst/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoʊst/
homophone: repost (some pronunciations)
Forms: form: ripostes
form: riposting
form: riposted
form: riposted
form: ripost
Etymology: From French riposte, taken from Italian risposta, a derivative of the verb rispondere (“to respond”).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To attempt to hit an opponent after parrying an attack.
examples: text: I left him and went to a tavern by the quays where the college bucks were drinking and singing hymns. There was Giles who invited old men back to his college apartments for games. Members of the rowing club riposted, for God's sake, man, clean up your life.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 204:
glosses: To respond quickly; particularly if the response is humorous.
ripost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riposts
form: riposte
Etymology: From French riposte, taken from Italian risposta, a derivative of the verb rispondere (“to respond”).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A thrust given in return after parrying a lunge.
glosses: A quick and usually witty response to a taunt.
examples: text: The French government was always apprehensive to the German Government’s ripost to an air offensive.
ref: 1952, Thomas Allnut Brassey, Brasseys Annual: The Armed Forces Year-book, page 306:
text: Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story Le Mari sentimental, in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.
ref: 2005, Suellen Diaconoff, Through The Reading Glass, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: An answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
Crimble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Crimbles
form: Chrimble
Senses: glosses: Christmas.
Synonyms: Chrimbo
plotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plotters
Etymology: From plot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who plots.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.
glosses: An author who usually relies on a plan or outline to organize their story.
Derived terms: chart plotter
coplotter
counterplotter
nanoplotter
photoplotter
stereoplotter
plotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plotters
form: plottering
form: plottered
form: plottered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plouter.
gas mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas marks
Senses: examples: text: Roast potatoes need 25 minutes at gas mark 7.
synonyms: word: Regulo mark
glosses: Any of the measurements on a scale of temperatures in domestic gas cookers.
handbags at dawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1980s UK. Jocular derivation from pistols at dawn, replacing pistols with handbags, referring to women hitting each other with handbags during a catfight. The phrase originated in football. It may have been influenced by the phrase "handbagging" meaning "a verbal dressing-down", in reference to the then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and by the Monty Python sketch “The Batley Townswomen's Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor” (season 1, episode 11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom, December 1969), in which the actors flail at each other with handbags in a muddy field.
Senses: glosses: A catty squabble.
glosses: Competitors on a sporting field (often in a rugby game) getting into a fight; looking threatening but not really doing any damage.
Derived terms: handbags
Related terms: the handbags come out
her indoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One's wife, especially a domineering one.
made-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more made-up
form: most made-up
form: made up
Senses: examples: text: He told me a made-up version of the events, but I demanded the truth.
glosses: Invented or fabricated.
examples: text: a freshly made-up clown
text: A man at the complex said he had seen the often heavily made-up girls coming and going in luxury vehicles.
ref: 2021 February 6, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, page 4, column 1:
glosses: Changed by the application of cosmetics; wearing make-up.
examples: text: The newly made-up front page had to be changed as the last-minute news arrived.
glosses: Arranged or put together.
examples: text: I was made-up when the local team won.
glosses: Delighted, pleased, thrilled.
examples: text: All three structures were sited on made-up ground, to depths up to about 20 ft., which had been deposited to form the railway embankments.
ref: 1952 December, “Brighton Line Resignalling, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 830:
glosses: Built up (to a higher level).
Derived terms: made-upness
Related terms: make up
made up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more made up
form: most made up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of made-up.
made up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make up
minted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mint
minted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minted
form: most minted
Senses: glosses: made into coinage; coined
examples: text: minted peas
glosses: flavoured with mint
examples: text: Marcus: We're very sorry.
Stylax: No, we're not. For all this guy knows, we could be mega-minted poshos in disguise.
Shopkeeper: It will be a superb disguise.
Stylax: Cheers.
ref: 2016 May 2, Sam Leifer et al., “Jugball”, in Plebs:
glosses: wealthy
Derived terms: unminted
sidebar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidebars
Etymology: From side + bar.
Senses: glosses: A short news story printed alongside a larger one.
examples: text: The tables in the sidebar can be used to determine “average” height and weight, and to provide a slight random variation if desired.
ref: 2004 "Height and Weight", GURPS Basic Set 3rd Edition 6th printing page 15
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A block of information placed at the side of a printed page.
glosses: A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.
topics: law
glosses: A short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing of the jury and the spectators at the court.
topics: law
glosses: The place in the courtroom where such a conference happens.
examples: text: Well, when Charlotte had her mini-death, she went to Hell. Forest haunted her Hell loop and now is haunting her nightmares -- which, sidebar, Dan is also a part of, so things are heating up.
ref: 2018, Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar, "Quintessential Deckerstar", Lucifer
glosses: An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of the audience.
examples: text: May we have a moment to discuss your proposition? Sidebar!
Let's pick a topic. Sidebar!
ref: 2017 Ben Giroux as Mike Munroe in "Braces for Disaster" Bunsen is a Beast
glosses: A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the rest of the group.
Synonyms: sense: block of information
word: sidebox
sense: block of information
word: text box
Derived terms: sidebar comment
sidebar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sidebars
form: sidebarring
form: sidebarred
form: sidebarred
Etymology: From side + bar.
Senses: examples: text: Morgan "One of them was called Alexandria and then there was a place called the Kingdom. It actually had a king."
Althea "A king?"
Morgan "Even had a pet tiger."
Althea "All right, we're gonna have to sidebar that one. These settlements, were they good places to live?"
ref: 15 April 2018 "What's Your Story?" Fear the Walking Dead season 4 episode 1 (50m)
glosses: To place (information) into a sidebar, or as if into a sidebar.
nutshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/
Forms: form: nutshells
Etymology: From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).
Senses: examples: text: For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?
And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
ref: c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
glosses: The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
glosses: A short book summarizing an area of law.
examples: text: [A]t last the fishing-line stood straight out behind, and the stone weights jumped along the tops of the billows, while the seas - notwithstanding the guiding hand of the pilot sought to avoid them - broke over our little nutshell, and sent the spray high above mast and sail.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.
Derived terms: cashew nutshell liquid
in a nutshell
nutshell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/
Forms: form: nutshells
form: nutshelling
form: nutshelled
form: nutshelled
Etymology: From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).
Senses: glosses: To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).
moony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonies
form: mooney
Etymology: From moon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was doing a moony.
glosses: The act of mooning, flashing the buttocks.
glosses: A silly person.
mooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonings
Etymology: The usage of "mooning" to refer to the act reflected the use of "moon" as a metaphor for "the buttocks" since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: The act of showing one's buttocks.
mooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: The usage of "mooning" to refer to the act reflected the use of "moon" as a metaphor for "the buttocks" since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moon
Related terms: anasyrma
nip and tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nip and tuck
form: most nip and tuck
form: nip-and-tuck
Etymology: Of unknown origin. First use appears c. 1845, in the publication American Whig Review.
Senses: examples: text: It was nip and tuck with me between holding on to my stock and being sold out; but by great industry and prudence I managed to keep a little ahead and my mouth above water.
ref: 1867 September, C. H. Webb, “My Mexican Mines”, in Harper's Magazine, volume XXXV, number CCVIII, page 461:
text: Bang! One saddle empty. Bang! another one. Bang—bang, and I bagged two. Well, it was nip and tuck with us, and I knew it.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC:
text: We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.
ref: 1906–1907, Jack London, chapter XII, in Before Adam:
text: 1951, Howdy Doody's Christmas
Well, it was nip and tuck, but everything worked out fine. Santa Claus got there in time to bring toys to all the boys and girls.
glosses: So evenly matched that the advantage shifts from one to the other, and the outcome is uncertain.
Related terms: neck and neck
nip and tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nip and tuck
form: most nip and tuck
form: nip-and-tuck
Etymology: Of unknown origin. First use appears c. 1845, in the publication American Whig Review.
Senses: examples: text: A man told me that they was both admitted to practice in the S'preme Court in '39, on the same day, sir. Then you know they was nip an' tuck after the same young lady.
ref: 1901 May, Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Crisis, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: "I am glad I happened to reach him," he said, in an effort to relieve her embarrassment. "We had it nip and tuck," he added, lightly. "My lungs are lined with dust."
ref: 1913, Will N. Harben, The Desired Woman:
text: Obama's road to the White House was far from assured during the 2008 primary season when he ran nip and tuck with McCain in early Gallup Poll trial heats for the general election.
ref: 2009, Alec M. Gallup, Frank Newport, Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2008, page 379:
glosses: With the advantage of changing hands, or shifting back and forth among the available alternatives.
nip and tuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nip and tucks
form: nips and tucks
form: nip-and-tuck
Etymology: Of unknown origin. First use appears c. 1845, in the publication American Whig Review.
Senses: examples: text: I watch the show where Paris Hilton and Nikki Ritchie^([sic]) live the simple life. […] It's makeovers, nip and tucks, and shopping sprees.
ref: 2007, Joseph Natoli, This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 252:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: rhytidectomy
facelift
glosses: Minor cosmetic surgery that tightens loose skin.
Coordinate terms: tummy tuck
govvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌvi/
Etymology: Diminutive in -y from government.
Senses: glosses: Of or run by the government.
govvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌvi/
Forms: form: govvies
Etymology: Diminutive in -y from government.
Senses: examples: ref: 1986, Coffield, F., Borrill, C. and Marshall, S., Shit jobs, govvy schemes or on the dole: occupational choice for young adults in the North East of England:
ref: 1998, R. Hollands, Crap jobs, “govvy” schemes and trainspotting: reassessing the youth, employment and idleness debate:
text: In these regions new occupations are either state-created ‘govvies’ or in areas such as tourism, leisure and personal care.
ref: 2003, Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society:
glosses: A government job.
examples: text: [...] this was one of the few places in the CIA tech world where I recall seeing a sizeable number of women. Some of them had the blue badges that identified them as government employees, or as contractors called them, "govvies".
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A government employee.
glosses: A government bond.
nit nurse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nit nurses
Etymology: Earliest written mention appears c. 1942 in The Lancet.
Senses: glosses: A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.
wikipedia: The Lancet
on the pull
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They're at that new nightclub, on the pull.
text: Rebecca was on the pull. An air of desperation hung over her like Dior's Poison.
ref: 2004, Julia Llewellyn, The Love Trainer:
text: Everyone was on the pull, determined to have a bit of a holiday fling.
ref: 2016, Louie O'Brien, Hasta La Flip Flops!:
glosses: Out seeking a sexual partner.
liner notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Does it have the lyrics in the liner notes?
synonyms: sleeve notes
glosses: Commentary or supplemental information, usually printed on the back of the cover or in an insert, of recorded media; such as record albums, CDs, videos, or DVDs.
pick 'n' mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick 'n' mixes
Senses: glosses: A selection of different articles (such as sweets arranged in trays) that can be chosen in any combination and paid for by weight or number.
Related terms: pick and choose
pop one's clogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pops one's clogs
form: popping one's clogs
form: popped one's clogs
form: popped one's clogs
Senses: examples: text: The old man has finally popped his clogs.
glosses: To die.
Synonyms: die
kick the bucket
bavin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.vɪn/
Forms: form: bavins
Etymology: Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
Senses: examples: text: […]that hot love is soon cold: that the bavin, though it burn bright, is but a blaze: that scalding water, it if stand awhile, turneth almost to ice[…]
ref: 1578, John Lyly, Euphues:
glosses: A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
glosses: A bundle of wood or twigs, which may be used in broom-making.
A faggot bound with only one band.
examples: text: The concretions […] are called 'bavin,' the shale associated with them being termed 'rotch.'
ref: 1839, Roderick Murchison, The Silurian System, i. xxxvi. 484:
glosses: Impure limestone.
bavin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.vɪn/
Forms: form: bavins
form: bavining
form: bavined
form: bavined
Etymology: Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
Senses: glosses: To bundle and bind wood into bavins.
bavin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.vɪn/
Etymology: Perhaps Old French baffe (“a faggot”).
Senses: examples: text: The skipping King, he ambled up and down, / With shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, / Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state, / Mingled his royalty with capering fools,
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 2, lines 60–63:
glosses: Made of firewood or kindling.
Anglomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglomanias
Etymology: From Anglo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Exaggerated enthusiasm for anything English.
Related terms: Anglophilia
Anglophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglophiles
form: anglophile
form: Anglophil
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phile, probably partly after French anglophile.
Senses: glosses: A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of England.
glosses: A person who loves or admires the country, culture or people of the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: english: Twitter slang
translation: Twitter slang
word: teaboo
Related terms: Anglophilia
Anglophilic
Anglophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anglophile
form: Anglophil
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phile, probably partly after French anglophile.
Senses: examples: text: Sultan Mansor became Anglophile, wore tweeds even in his own palace, was graciously received by Queen Victoria, adopted as his state anthem a Mendelssohnian salon piece composed by the late Prince Consort[.]
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 34:
glosses: English loving; admiring English culture.
glosses: British-loving; admiring British culture.
Related terms: shoneen
xenophile
Curie temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Curie temperatures
Etymology: Named after scientist Pierre Curie, who discovered the phenomenon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The temperature at which the magnetism of a substance changes, specifically when a ferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.
wikipedia: Pierre Curie
Synonyms: Curie point
minesweeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnˌswipɚ/
Forms: form: minesweepers
Etymology: From mine + sweeper.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.
Derived terms: destroyer minesweeper
Related terms: minehunter
naval mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naval mines
Senses: examples: text: The ship hit a naval mine and sank with all hands.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An explosive device placed in the water and intended to destroy or deter vessels.
Related terms: limpet mine
torpedo
depth charge
approximately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
ipa: /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li/
Forms: form: approx.
Etymology: From approximate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: approximately 60 beats per minute
text: In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.
text: Per 100 g of chocolate there is approximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.
text: Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.
ref: 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
synonyms: around
about
near
nearly
antonyms: accurately
definitely
exactly
precisely
glosses: Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
Synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
Related terms: approximate
circa
biblioklept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biblioklepts
Etymology: From biblio- (“book”) + Ancient Greek κλέπτης (kléptēs, “thief”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus Libri, who was the greatest of Biblioklepts, rescued many of the books he stole from dirt and misuse, and had them bound royally in purple and scarlet.
ref: 1880 October 23, “The Book-Stealer”, in Saturday Review, volume 50, number 1304, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 510:
text: He loved to walk through his library, stopping before this or that special item; and, because there were biblioklepts even among the humanists in the papal employ, he kept the most precious manuscripts for greater safety in his own bedroom.
ref: 1944, Douglas Rigby, Elizabeth Rigby, Lock, Stock and Barrel: The Story of Collecting, Philadelphia, P.A. [and others]: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 177:
text: If the book's authentic, it's a national treasure! A historic find! I shouldn't wonder you'd feel a bit uncomfortable having it in your library at home in the Orchard. It's worth an absolute fortune. Every biblioklept in Britain will be bashing in the panes of your French doors.
ref: 1999, Julie Wallin Kaewert, Untitled: A Booklover's Mystery:, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 28:
text: That thief was Samuel Raynor Dupree, a novice accompanied by more experienced biblioklepts he knew only as Paul and Swede.
ref: 2013 June 28, Carolyn Kellogg, “Throwing the book at 'Thieves of Book Row'”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2022:
glosses: A person who steals books.
Related terms: bibliokleptomaniac
cordillera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɔː(ɹ)dɪˈljɛəɹə/
/ˌkɔː(ɹ)diˈɛəɹə/
Forms: form: cordilleras
Etymology: From Spanish cordillera, from Old Spanish cordilla, cordiella, diminutive of cuerda (“a rope, string”). See cord.
Senses: examples: Meronym: sierra
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An extensive, continent-wide chain of mountains, especially one in the Americas.
Derived terms: American Cordillera
Arctic Cordillera
Pacific Cordillera
Western Cordillera
Related terms: cordilleran
pull one's finger out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's finger out
form: pulling one's finger out
form: pulled one's finger out
form: pulled one's finger out
Etymology: Clipping of pull one's finger out of one's arse, probably from the notion that one should not sit on one's hands.
Senses: examples: text: You've been sitting there all week. It's time you sorted yourself out and pulled your finger out!
text: Speaking at Mayor's Question Time on February 24, Sheikh said: "It's time for the Government to pull its finger out and give TfL the funding package it needs in the wake of the pandemic.
ref: 2022 March 23, “Network News: Warning of risk to new-builds unless funding settlement agreed”, in RAIL, number 953, page 18:
glosses: To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task.
pull one's socks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls one's socks up
form: pulling one's socks up
form: pulled one's socks up
form: pulled one's socks up
Senses: examples: text: They're all going to pull their socks up and play a bit better.
ref: 2000 October 20, Jeff Zillgitt, “U.S. dominates first day of Presidents Cup”, in USA Today, retrieved 30 Sep 2008:
related: word: pull up one's socks
glosses: To start making an effort; to renew or redouble one's efforts.
Synonyms: belly up to the bar
get one's act together
knuckle down
roll up one's sleeves
shape up
woodwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌwɝk/
Forms: form: woodworks
Etymology: From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work.
Senses: examples: text: Some woodwork and the plaster ceiling medallions have been duplicated to match the originals.
ref: 2008 September 14, Bill Cunniff, “A stroll through OLD IRVING PARK”, in The Chicago Sun-Times:
glosses: Something made from wood, especially cabinets and trim (e.g., baseboards, doorframes) made from millwork.
examples: text: He does woodwork as a hobby.
text: The unthinking man assumes that if woodwork is to be taught, the best person to do it must be a carpenter
ref: 1906, Tasmania. Education Dept, The educational record, volumes 1-6, page 14:
synonyms: woodworking
glosses: Working with wood.
examples: text: out of the woodwork
text: Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.
text: So when he wants to, he can just kind of blend into the woodwork.
glosses: A place of concealment or obscurity.
examples: text: That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork.
text: Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
glosses: The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
Derived terms: come out of the woodwork
woodwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌwɝk/
Forms: form: woodworks
form: woodworking
form: woodworked
form: woodworked
Etymology: From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work.
Senses: examples: text: "Instead of 'woodworking,' or disappearing into the mainstream — as we are capable of and qualified to do — we have chosen not to do so." Outside of the transsexual community, other changes were taking place that made it possible for[…]
ref: 1997, Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism:
text: Maybe — and this was essential for political activism — you didn't have to "woodwork" but could be transgendered for all to see. By the mid '90s the Internet had arrived — and spread these new ideas like wildfire.[…]
ref: 2001 November, Out, page 80:
glosses: To go completely stealth as a transgender person. (From the idea of fading or blending into the woodwork.)
Related terms: word: closeted
word: out
word: out
word: woodworks
rhinorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinorrheas
form: rhinorrhoea
form: rhinorrhœa
Etymology: From rhino- + -rrhea, from Ancient Greek: ῥίς (rhís, “nose”) (stem ῥινο (rhino)) with ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: runny nose
glosses: A persistent discharge of watery mucus from the nose; typical of the common cold.
Related terms: rhinitis
rhinosinusitis
post-nasal drip
crossbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹ̠ɑs.bɑɹ/
Forms: form: crossbars
Etymology: From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.
Senses: glosses: Any transverse bar or piece, such as a bar across a door, or the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor.
examples: text: The effervescent Suarez then went close again as he worked space for a shot after a mazy run but could not keep his close-range shot below the crossbar.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The top of the goal structure.
glosses: The top tube of a bicycle frame.
Synonyms: sense: bar through the shank of an anchor
word: stock
sense: top of goal structure
word: bar
Derived terms: crossbar hotel
crossbar shot
crossbar switch
crossbar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹ̠ɑs.bɑɹ/
Forms: form: crossbars
form: crossbarring
form: crossbarred
form: crossbarred
Etymology: From Middle English crose bar, equivalent to cross- + bar.
Senses: glosses: To mark with a pattern of transverse bars.
white maggot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white maggots
Etymology: From the uniform of white shirt and shorts worn by the Victorian Football League (which became the Australian Football League) field umpires. The umpires' uniforms changed to day-glow orange in 2004.
Senses: examples: text: Come on you white maggot, that was a throw.
ref: 2004, Brooke Neindorf, “Country footy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 20 Apr 2006:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A field umpire.
goalside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From goal + -side.
Senses: examples: text: When marking an attacker, always try to stay goalside to him.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: On the side nearest to the goal.
goalside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goal + -side.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The side nearest to the goal.
university of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universities of life
Senses: examples: text: I learned all I need to know from the university of life, not from books.
text: [BEAUFOY:] We are considerably out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a university.
BLOOM: (Indistinctly) University of life.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The real world as a source of instruction, as opposed to a formal education.
Synonyms: school of hard knocks
university of the streets
Related terms: street smarts
stone the crows
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originally Australian English of 1910s, "referring to the former occupation of watching over cornfields and stoning crows that attempt to plunder the crop."
Senses: examples: text: “Why, stone the crows! I′ll look yous up,” sez ′e. / “I need some friends: I ain′t got wife nor chick.”
ref: 1924, C. J. Dennis, “Rose Of Spadgers”, in Sentimental Bloke and Other Verses, published 1988, page 86:
text: The he pinched himself to make sure he was really awake, "Stone the crows!" he said softly. "Stone the crows!"
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 141:
text: So I says to meself: stone the crows, I′m a doomed man, might as well shoot through. It was cyclone time, see, and there′s been flash floods and this rock as big as a house has gone.
ref: 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 63:
text: ‘Stone the crows,’ I whispered in sheer relief.
ref: 2008, Norman Jorgensen, Jack′s Island, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, page 170:
glosses: Generalized expression of surprise or amazement, or just for emphasis.
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: holy cow
sense: expression of surprise
word: stone me
porcelain bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porcelain buses
Etymology: From it being imagined that when gripping the sides of the bowl while vomiting into it that it's like a bus driver gripping the steering wheel of a bus (a bus steering wheel being roughly horizontal, as opposed to a car which has it up at an angle).
Senses: examples: text: With a gut-wrenching heave, I grasped the steering wheel of the porcelain bus and shouted at the top of my voice for 'Hughie' to come and sort me out.
ref: 2011, Fred Itfru, The Beer and I, page 10:
glosses: A toilet bowl.
throw-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from throw in.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
glosses: A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A throw of the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The umpire faces away from the players and throws it in over his or her shoulder (so as to clearly not favour either side by where exactly it's thrown).
glosses: the start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.
examples: text: Salesman: Uh, hey, how about a Skinny Scan 27,000 with a Computer Virus Eradicator as a throw-in?
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Nefarious Computer Virus" (season 1, episode 2b)
glosses: An extra item added free of charge; a product that is thrown in with another.
reverse configure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reverse configures
form: reverse configuring
form: reverse configured
form: reverse configured
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To determine an item's characteristics solely based on an identifier such as material number, catalog code, or part number.