cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sleep camel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep camels
Etymology: Perhaps an analogy of a person's storing sleep to a camel's storing water.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that 'sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.
ref: 2001, Charles B. Handy, The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist, Harvard Business School Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Silicon Valley has bred 'sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.
ref: 2001, Richard Reeves, Happy Mondays: Putting the Pleasure Back Into Work, Pearson Education Limited, →ISBN:
text: Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to.
ref: 2014, Rocky F. Catman, Meet Me at the Riverside, Lulu, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A person who habitually does with little to no sleep during the week and then makes up by sleeping a lot during the weekend.
desk potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk potatoes
Etymology: desk + potato, by analogy with couch potato.
Senses: examples: text: My receptionist job had turned me into a desk potato, so I began walking Pete every night in the fall of 1979 to provide the exercise my body was craving.
ref: 2007, Marlene L. Woelm, The Ghosts on 87th Lane, Llewellyn, →ISBN, page 84:
text: I knew the job of writing the book would turn me into a desk potato.
ref: 2010, Phil Trupp, Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments and Beat Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Compare that to a desk potato whose gaze is focused on the screen, inputting data into QuickBooks or Excel.
ref: 2015, Sifu Slim, Sedentary Nation: The Answers Are Found in 1910, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk.
desk potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desk potato
orthocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being orthocephalic
Synonyms: normocephaly
orthocephalism
campaignspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From campaign + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: "That's why I need you so badly, Zoë. You know how to translate the harsh realities of foreign policy into relatively intelligible campaignspeak."
Zoë laughed. "Intelligible campaignspeak is an oxymoron."
ref: 1998, Doris Mortman, The Lucky Ones, Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 50:
text: The media and the public do in fact relish catching politicians' lies, but these are the small lies — lies about money, sex, drug use and other peccadillos, and the ritual doubletalk of campaignspeak.
ref: 2000, William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Common Courage Press, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Unfortunately, The Political Brain doesn't follow up on the implications of this research. Rather, Westen, who describes himself as ardently "pro-Democratic," transposes his clinical findings into one-sided campaignspeak.
ref: 2007 July 15, Chris Lehmann, “Psyched”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: The jargon used by politicians, lobbyists, and commentators, especially during a political campaign.
Synonyms: electionspeak
electionspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From election + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Bolstered claims of mustering a simple majority are an integral part of electionspeak.
ref: 1999, India Today International, volume 24, page 276:
text: Such mindless, meaningless electionspeak brought to mind the words of Orwell: […]
ref: 2013, David Marsh, For Who the Bell Tolls: One Man's Quest for Grammatical Perfection, Faber and Faber Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Accustomed as they are to electionspeak, the mainstream media can’t seem to fathom that the selection of a pope is an altogether different sort of thing.
ref: 2013 February 13, Marybeth Hicks, “Media waste no time to display ignorance”, in The Washington Times:
glosses: The jargon or rhetoric of politicians, lobbyists, and commentators during an election campaign.
Synonyms: campaignspeak
militaryspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From military + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: The military had been reticent over casualty figures (defined in militaryspeak as 'collateral damage') during the slaughters of new militarist adventures in Grenada and Panama.
ref: 1997, Richard Keeble, Secret State, Silent Press: New Militarism, the Gulf and the Modern Image of Warfare, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
text: They were terrorists, for sure—Tangos in militaryspeak.
ref: 2011, Lucianne Rivers, Entice Me, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:
text: Harsh ratcheting sounds came from outside the SUV, penetrating the constant feed from the military band radio. The soldiers spoke in cryptic responses. Schofield was picking up the militaryspeak, but a lot of it remained Greek to him.
ref: 2013, Mel Odom, Renegade, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: The jargon of the military.
tocandira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocandiras
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tocandira.
Senses: glosses: bullet ant
diffability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffabilities
Etymology: Blend of different + ability, as a play on disability intended to remove the term's negative connotations.
Senses: examples: text: However, accepting my diffability as part of the package I come in, makes my life much easier to deal with. I'm not suggesting that we use Asperger's Syndrome as an excuse for not doing things, just that we aim at being 'inclusive' towards ourselves, as well as towards others.
ref: 2003, Wendy Lawson, Build Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide For Individuals with Asperger Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:
text: It is not so much a disability as a diff'''ability. People with AS are often brilliant in some respects, but they may display different social and emotional responses than what is considered the norm.
ref: 2009, Rudy Simone, 22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Nick Pentzell is a college student and “diffability” advocate for people on the autism spectrum.
ref: 2013, “Contributors”, in Jami L. Anderson, Simon Cushing, editors, The Philosophy of Autism, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: A psychological condition, such as Asperger's syndrome, viewed as a natural neurological variation rather than a disability or disorder.
Related terms: neurodiversity
cell yell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many people raise their voices when using their cell phones because the small devices offer little aural feedback. “Cell yell” results, much to the annoyance of anyone nearby.
ref: 2010, Mary Ellen Guffey, Essentials of Business Communication, South-Western Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 316:
text: And I'll have a headache in a few minutes because Mickey, who has a big mouth to begin with, always breaks out in a bad case of cell yell when he's on a phone.
ref: 2011, Daniel Marion Culpepper, Straight Man Gay, Sherrie Yvonne Johnson, →ISBN:
text: To be heard and understood when using a cell phone, please speak clearly and slowly, and no “cell yell.”
ref: 2014, Lyn Pont, Hospitality Management: People Skills and Manners On and Off the Job, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: The act of speaking loudly or yelling into a cell phone or mobile.
get one's ass into gear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's ass into gear
form: getting one's ass into gear
form: got one's ass into gear
form: gotten one's ass into gear
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get one's ass in gear.
dot-coma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot-comas
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + coma.
Senses: examples: text: The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.
ref: 1999 July 31, Helen Jung, “Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run”, in The Seattle Times:
text: Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.
ref: 2001, Business Week, numbers 3744-3750, page 360:
text: And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.
ref: 2002 May 12, “Out Of The Dot-Coma”, in Newsweek:
glosses: The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.
dot-commiserate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dot-commiserates
form: dot-commiserating
form: dot-commiserated
form: dot-commiserated
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + commiserate.
Senses: examples: text: An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."
ref: 2000 August 20, Abby Ellin, “If at First You Don't Succeed, Celebrate!”, in The New York Times:
text: Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".
ref: 2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph:
text: (The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)
ref: 2009 April 1, Gendy Alimurung, “Pink Slip Parties in L.A.: Laid Off but Not Out”, in LA Weekly:
glosses: To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.
hoffice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoffices
Etymology: Blend of home + office.
Senses: examples: text: The spread of hoffices is really representative of a deeper change which the work-at-home movement is producing.
ref: 1991, Jeffrey P. Davidson, Marketing to Home-Based Businesses, Business One Irwin, →ISBN, page 274:
text: In designing her hoffices, Vassa makes sure there is adequate lighting, always on dimmers.
ref: 1991 October 6, Elaine Markoutsas, “Updated Furnishings Helping To Bring The Office Home”, in The Seattle Times:
text: Related to this is the response by business to the reality of worker commutes to far-flung suburbs and the rise of telecommuting and "hoffices," home offices.
ref: 1997, F. Byron Nahser, Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business, Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: A home office.
hoffices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoffice
dot-carnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + carnage.
Senses: examples: text: The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.
ref: 2002 December 29, John Moran, “Hot sales, sour stocks and other technology highlights of 2002”, in The Spokesman-Review:
text: Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.
ref: 2003 September 1, Yuval Rosenberg, “E-Stocks Rise Again After a stomach-turning descent, Internet stocks have come racing back--this time with profits. We've found three that can go higher.”, in Fortune:
text: Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband
ref: 2006, Business Week, numbers 3974-3981, page 115:
glosses: The results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others.
permayouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perma- + youth.
Senses: examples: text: With people living longer and treatments improving, anti-ageing medicine is now a lucrative business. But as the quest for 'permayouth' spreads beyond Hollywood, doctors warn that it could become an unhealthy obsession
ref: 2002 April 7, Anthony Browne, “The obsession with eternal youth”, in The Guardian:
text: I knew there was a downside to having the injections; the permanently surprised eyebrows, the scarily impassive face, but I thought that was the result of too many top-ups; Hollywood's addiction to permayouth.
ref: 2009 June 25, Sally Brampton, “Elixir of youth? No, Botox left me looking like a Neanderthal”, in Daily Mail:
ref: 2013 September 29, Eileen Bradbury, “Permayouth: exploring the never-ending human quest for eternal youth”, in Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, volume 1, number 3:
glosses: The state of having a perpetually youthful appearance.
Related terms: agerasia
puer aeternus
fume date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fume dates
Etymology: fume + date, from the phrase run on fumes.
Senses: examples: text: Acknowledging that risk and discussing the window of foresight that will be available before problems become serious and even honestly discussing the "fume date" is often all the reassurance a prospective employee needs.
ref: 1999, Howard H. Stevenson, New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur, Irwin/McGraw/Hill, published 1999, →ISBN, page 168:
text: Was it a success? The WebTaggers guys say they will not know until the wire transfer date, Aug. 15, when WebTaggers anticipates that funds from investors will have traded hands.
After that? Jan. 1, 2001, the "fume date," which no one really wants to think about -- the point at which, if no venture capital is coming in, the partners must admit defeat.
ref: 2000 June 7, Courtney Barry, “10 Months, 10 Minutes, $10 Million”, in The New York Times:
text: Without either the bridge loan or the next round of financing, Xedia would reach its fume date by the end of March 1998.
ref: 2002, Paul A. Gompers, William Sahlman, Entrepreneurial Finance: A Casebook, Wiley, published 2002, →ISBN, page 447:
glosses: The date on which a company (especially a startup) runs out of money or is expected to run out of money.
Hypernyms: date
Related terms: burn rate
hiss-and-tell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of hiss + kiss and tell.
Senses: examples: text: But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.
ref: 1989 April 23, Laura Green, “The Washington years: A positive view from inside”, in Chicago Sun-Times:
text: What is clear from this hiss-and-tell diary is that Hoddle feels immune to any downward glances, any disapproving charge from his bosses at the FA.
ref: 1998 August 12, Rob Hughes, “Spoiled Soccer Fraternity Sets Poor Example: Hoddle Hiss-and-Tell Tells a Tale of Greed”, in The New York Times:
text: Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.
ref: 2002 June 27, Stan Hochman, “John McEnroe's book provokes strong response from Tatum O'Neal”, in Philadelphia Daily News:
glosses: Disclosing private information in a hostile manner.
cowardry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coward + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Cowardice.
pit boss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit bosses
form: pit-boss
Senses: examples: text: It is, among other things, sufficiently stated in the declaration that appellant is owner and operator of a coal mine, and has in its employ a pit boss, to whom it has given authority to direct and control the labors of those employed in its mine.
ref: 1890, "Consolidated Coal Co. v. Wombacher" (Supreme Court of Illinois) in The Northeastern Reporter, vol. 24, p. 628 (Google preview)
text: How long could a man expect to stand on the steps of a company building, with a super and a pit-boss at his back, and organise a union of mine-workers?
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, King Coal, book 4, ch. 6:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A direct overseer of laborers in a mining operation.
examples: text: Las Vegas: The pit boss sees all on the casino floor as a trained trouble spotter amid this high-roller’s paradise.
ref: 2007 July 22, Selena Roberts, “Stewards of Sport Need a Lesson From the Pit Bosses”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Jun 2015:
text: One woman at a baccarat table […] shouted and mumbled something about wanting her money back, or at least the opportunity to win it back. A pit boss standing behind the dealer joked: “I don’t have any money! I’m unemployed!” and a few moments later, a security guard escorted the woman off the floor.
ref: 2014 January 16, Victoria Bekiempis, “Atlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts”, in Newsweek, retrieved 10 Jun 2015:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A supervisor who oversees the dealers and activity at the gaming tables in a casino, and who typically has the authority to expel unruly gamblers from the premises.
examples: text: In that same race, the first use of two-way radio-to-pits communication was logged. Al Stevens, who operated a radio dispatch service in Maryland, kept in contact with his pit boss, Cotton Bennett, throughout the race.
ref: 2009, Gerry Souter, The Earnhardts: A Biography, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: The supervisor of the maintenance pit crew of a driver.
pit-boss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit-bosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pit boss.
warspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: In an interesting passage the author discusses what he considers the kind of "Warspeak that glorified and sanitized the actions of the U.S.-led allied forces (the use of words like eliminate, neutralize, loyal, brave, cautious, etc.) […]
ref: 1993, Political Science Quarterly, volume 108, page 184:
text: My personal favorite that emerged from the fog of warspeak was gorilla snot (2001), a gluelike substance that is spread over sand to prevent a dust cloud from forming whenever a helicopter takes off or lands.
ref: 2004, Paul McFedries, Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture, Broadway Books, →ISBN:
text: Whatever your views about the rights and wrongs of these military campaigns, you would probably agree that it is psychologically easier to kill 'gooks' and 'turkeys' than human beings. Here are some more examples of 'warspeak', which is often used to cover up the reality on the ground.
ref: 2015, Richard van de Lagemaat, Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: The jargon of war and military operations.
mushroom millionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushroom millionaires
Etymology: Referring to the rapid growth of mushrooms.
Senses: glosses: A person who has suddenly become rich.
jalaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jalap
douchelord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchelords
Etymology: From douche + -lord.
Senses: examples: text: “Okay,” I say. “I get it. I'm king douchelord and you trust me but you don't. You don't know me well enough to know how deep the douchery goes.”
ref: 2016, Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: An objectionable person.
Coordinate terms: edgelord
shitlord
fucklord
Related terms: douchecanoe
douchery
doucheboat
superobese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + obese.
Senses: glosses: Very obese, sometimes defined as having BMI ≥ 50kg/m2.
Earth return vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Earth return vehicles
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: a spacecraft designed to survive reentry and landing, returning from space back to planet Earth
Synonyms: word: ERV
Derived terms: word: ERV
Earth return vehicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Earth return vehicle
well-upholstered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-upholstered
form: most well-upholstered
Senses: glosses: Fat.
weather bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather bombs
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large storm that evolves with little warning, usually as a result of a sudden drop in barometric pressure.
Synonyms: meteorological bomb
Hyponyms: bombogenesis
explosive cyclogenesis
Coordinate terms: bomb cyclone
Eye of Sauron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the eponymous entity from The Lord of the Rings, which had the ability to see every spot of the world and wanted to prevent the protagonists from fulfilling their quest.
Senses: glosses: A powerful source of unwanted scrutiny.
raw_tags: normally used with definite article
wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings
explosive cyclogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explosive cyclogeneses
Etymology: From explosive + cyclogenesis. From being the explosive (-ly rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm.
Senses: examples: 1985, SJ Colucci. Journal of the atmospheric sciences, Volume 42, number 24, page 2701, Explosive cyclogenesis and large-scale circulation changes: Implications for atmospheric blocking
1986, Frederick Sanders, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 114, page 1781, Explosive Cyclogenesis in the West-Central North Atlantic Ocean, 1981–84. Part I: Composite Structure and Mean Behavior.
2000, John R. Gyakum and Richard E. Danielson, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, page 851, Analysis of Meteorological Precursors to Ordinary and Explosive Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
Synonyms: topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: bombogenesis
topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: meteorological bomb
topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: weather bomb
weather bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weather bomb
explosive cyclogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explosive cyclogenesis
LDSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (a reentry vehicle designed to test techniques for atmospheric entry on Mars).
osmophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osmophore + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Imparting a characteristic odour to any compound
raw_tags: of a group of atoms
Related terms: osmophore
HSPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of High Speed Packet Access, amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G networks by using the WCDMA protocols.
Hypernyms: topics: communication
communications
sense: mobile
word: 3G
Hyponyms: HSDPA
HSUPA
osmotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osmotrophy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to osmotrophy.
Coordinate terms: phototrophic
phagotrophic
LTEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LTE
WCDMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks.
Synonyms: W-CDMA
Hypernyms: topics: communication
communications
sense: mobile
word: UMTS
Hyponyms: W-CDMA
Related terms: HSPA
IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread
UMTS-FDD
UTRA-FDD
pentest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pen test.
pentest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pentests
form: pentesting
form: pentested
form: pentested
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pen test.
pentester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentesters
Etymology: Short for penetration tester.
Senses: examples: text: This book is suitable for the following readers: ... Web security pentesters who need to communicate secure coding techniques to developers they are working with
ref: 2014, Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications, →ISBN, page xvii:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone who performs a pentest (a penetration test)
somon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somons
Etymology: From Russian сомон (somon), from Buryat сомон (somon), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Next day we drove through hilly pasture, in which we observed two large flocks of cranes, to Kharkorin, once the imperial city of Ogodei Khan, now a somon centre and state farm lying in a great plain encircled by mountains.
ref: 1993, John Colvin, Twice Around the World: Some Memoirs of Diplomatic Life in North Vietnam and Outer Mongolia:
glosses: Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), particularly in relation to Buryatia, Russia.
hospodarate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospodarates
form: hospodariat
form: hospodariate
Etymology: From hospodar + -ate (rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The title of a hospodar.
glosses: The region controlled by a hospodar.
oxalemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxalaemia
Etymology: From oxalic + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of oxalate in the blood
Related terms: hyperoxalemia
oxaluria
Ossianesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ossianesque
form: most Ossianesque
Etymology: From Ossian + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Ossian
oxidimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxidimetry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to oxidimetry
oxytonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oxytonizes
form: oxytonizing
form: oxytonized
form: oxytonized
Etymology: From oxytone + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make a word oxytone by dropping the main stress on the final syllable
ostealgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pain coming from one's bone(s).
Synonyms: ostalgia
osteodynia
Derived terms: acrostealgia
otohematoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otohematomas
Etymology: From oto- + hematoma.
Senses: glosses: A hematoma of the external ear
promenade concert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promenade concerts
form: promenade-concert
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A concert at which the audience remains standing (originally promenading)
transperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transpersons
form: transpeople
Senses: examples: text: As a group of men, the "Sisters" trivialize a group of women (nuns). Likewise, by the particular form of their "drag" they trivialize those transpersons (transsexuals and transvestites) who cross-dress out of a genuine need of their self-identity.
ref: 1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of trans person.
trans people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans person
trans persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans person
de son tort
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French de + son + tort, literally "of his [own] wrong".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Without authority or right (to do something).
Derived terms: executor de son tort
trustee de son tort
executor de son tort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executors de son tort
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who, without legal authority, assumes control of a deceased person's property as if they were executor.
trustee de son tort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trustees de son tort
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who is not a regularly appointed trustee but interferes with the trust as if they were.
drossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dross
drossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dross
petit bourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌti bʊəɹˈʒwa/
ipa: /ˌpɛti ˈbʊəɹʒwɑ/
Forms: form: more petit bourgeois
form: most petit bourgeois
form: petit-bourgeois
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the petite bourgeoisie class.
petit bourgeois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌti bʊəɹˈʒwa/
ipa: /ˌpɛti ˈbʊəɹʒwɑ/
Forms: form: petit bourgeois
form: petit-bourgeois
Senses: glosses: A member of the petite bourgeoisie class.
Songhai Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Songhai state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Synonyms: the Songhai
whiggas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whigga.
wiggaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wigga
whiggaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whigga
usun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌsən/
rhymes: -ʌsən
Forms: form: usuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).
optotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From optotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an optotype
pimple dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimple dicks
form: pimple-dick
form: pimpledick
Senses: glosses: A term of abuse.
pimpledick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimpledicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pimple dick.
pimple-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pimple-dicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pimple dick.
Portugoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portugeese
Etymology: Misrepresentation of Portuguese as following the same pattern as goose → geese.
Senses: glosses: A Portuguese person (occasionally considered offensive).
protoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: proto-liberal
Etymology: From proto- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: Similar to liberalism, but before its establishment.
protoliberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoliberals
form: proto-liberal
Etymology: From proto- + liberal.
Senses: glosses: A person who had liberal beliefs before there was a liberal establishment.
argol-bargol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of argle-bargle.
argol-bargol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: argol-bargols
form: argol-bargoling
form: argol-bargolling
form: argol-bargoled
form: argol-bargoled
form: argol-bargolled
form: argol-bargolled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of argle-bargle.
some1
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of someone.
Related terms: any1
every1
peebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of peabrain.
built like a shit brickhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By humorous spoonerism of built like a brick shithouse.
Senses: examples: text: Paul was only a little fella, though game as a hungry lion, and knew he wouldn't have much chance against his rival, who he had heard was an ex-boxer and built like a shit brickhouse.
ref: 2012, Razor Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal:
text: Hamish looked up as the door opened and Tank Milligan walked in, looking like a shit brickhouse wearing a suit. 'Dom said this guy was a big palooka, didn't he?
ref: 2017, Douglas Skelton, Tag - You're Dead:
text: Not to mention that even at seventy-one years old, he's still built like a shit brickhouse and his diet is probably planned out down to the minute.
ref: 2017, Chris Jericho, No Is a Four-Letter Word: How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life:
text: I finally reach the bar counter and come face-to-face with Anne, a ferociously alcoholic sub I used to work with who's built like a shit brickhouse.
ref: 2020, Dan Kaufman, Drowning in the Shallows:
glosses: Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
synonyms: word: built like a brick shithouse
demokkkracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demoKKKracy
Etymology: Blend of democracy + KKK
Senses: glosses: A false democracy controlled by racist white people.
clichély
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cliché + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Mona Lisa is a visual wonder —and even though we can recognize the techniques of its creation, what makes the work so captivating are the questions it causes us to ask ourselves, and for that it remains as clichély enigmatic as the shape of her mouth.
ref: 2017, Chris Knight, The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow:
glosses: In a cliché fashion or manner.
clichédly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clichéd + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a clichéd fashion or manner.
estacode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estacodes
Etymology: From establishment code, referring to legal regulations.
Senses: glosses: travel allowance; money paid to an official to cover travel expenses
raw_tags: in former British colonies
estacodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estacode
tetrapodean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Structurally L. rohita exhibited both tetrapodean and teleostean type of hypothalamo-hypophysial vasculature.
ref: 1977, T.M. Jose, A.G. Sathyanesan, “Hypothalamo-hypophysial neurosecretory and vascular system of the teleost Labeo rohita (Ham.)”, in Anatomischer Anzeiger, volume CXLII, № 4, pages 424-434, Abstract:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the tetrapods (Tetrapoda).
take across
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes across
form: taking across
form: took across
form: taken across
Senses: examples: text: Having checked the enemy's advance on my retreating column, I then took across the field to join the head of my command, when a squad of the enemy's cavalry concealed in the woods fired, wounding me through the leg.
ref: 1864, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events:
glosses: To go, to proceed.
examples: text: She took her furniture across to her new apartment.
text: All of our old records will be taken across when we move to the new database system.
glosses: To take (something) with oneself to a new place or situation; to transfer.
manzanillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manzanillos
Senses: examples: text: The Manzanillo, or "little apple," olive had larger fruit and ripened earlier than the Mission, and produced both excellent oil and good table fruits.
ref: 2009, Susan Dolan, “Orchard Specialization and Industrialization, 1881-1945”, in Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A variety of Spanish olive.
manzanillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manzanillo
show who's boss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows who's boss
form: showing who's boss
form: showed who's boss
form: shown who's boss
form: show who's the boss
Senses: examples: text: When children are young, spanking is a familiar device to show who's boss.
ref: 1975, Dorothy Corkille Briggs, Your Child's Self-esteem: The Key to Life, →ISBN, page 234:
text: Israeli soldiers . . . impose the curfews as collective punishment or as a means to head off violent protest, or simply to show who's boss.
ref: 1989 June 24, Alan Cowell, “Coping With Curfew in Gaza”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2015:
text: So tomorrow a patriotic Russian hacker might just start breaking into private email servers of American companies and releasing their contents, just to show who’s boss.
ref: 2015 February 12, Anna Lysyanskaya, “Want better data privacy? Demand it”, in Providence Journal, retrieved 11 Jun 2015:
glosses: To demonstrate oneself to be dominant; to show that one has the upper hand.
examples: text: "Bimeby I show yoh who's boss. I make yoh cry for Ramon be good to yoh!"
ref: 1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 21, in The Heritage of the Sioux:
text: A typewriter once put me in such evil temper that I threw it out a second-floor window. . . . Replacing it cost $100 or so—a small price to pay for the pleasure of showing a machine who's boss.
ref: 1995 March 14, Russell Baker, “Fat Is Easier”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2015:
text: [H]e decided to show Gates who's boss the only way he knew how—by whipping out his handcuffs and abusing his power to arrest.
ref: 2009 July 25, Lawrence O'Donnell Jr, “The Stupidity of the Gates Arrest”, in Time, retrieved 11 Jun 2015:
glosses: To demonstrate that one is dominant over or superior to someone; to establish that one has control of some device or intractable object.
Related terms: teach someone a lesson
like one owns the place
show who's the boss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows who's the boss
form: showing who's the boss
form: showed who's the boss
form: shown who's the boss
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show who's boss.
teach someone who's the boss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches someone who's the boss
form: teaching someone who's the boss
form: taught someone who was the boss
form: taught someone who was the boss
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show who's boss.
teach who's boss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches who's boss
form: teaching who's boss
form: taught who's boss
form: taught who's boss
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show who's boss.
teach who's the boss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches who's the boss
form: teaching who's the boss
form: taught who was the boss
form: taught who was the boss
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show who's boss.
octroy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: octroys
form: octroying
form: octroyed
form: octroyed
Etymology: From Middle English octroy, from Middle French octroyer, from Old French otroiier, from Latin auctōrizō. Doublet of authorize.
Senses: examples: text: This is only, as usual, making an individual the scapegoat of an epoch! It is given to no man to octroy the liberty of peoples.
ref: 1848, Frances Wright, England, the Civilizer: Her History Developed in Its Principles:
text: Meanwhile, however, preparations were already being made by the imperial court to impose the octroyed constitution (composed by the Interior Minister, Count Franz Stadion) on March 4, 1849, and to dissolve the Parliament on March 7.
ref: 2008, Oto Luthar, The Land Between: A History of Slovenia, page 288:
glosses: To grant (a privilege etc, by a government etc).
Related terms: octroi
conjunctive mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjunctive modes
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The subjunctive mood.
subjunctive mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjunctive modes
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The subjunctive mood.
subjunctive modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjunctive mode
conjunctive modes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjunctive mode
heavenly bamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavenly bamboos
Senses: synonyms: nandina
sacred bamboo
glosses: An Asian ornamental shrub in the family Berberidaceae, with foliage and unbranched stems that somewhat resembles one of the smaller bamboos, Nandina domestica.
heavenly bamboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavenly bamboo
purchasing agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purchasing agent
Heyde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heydes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heyde.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Heyde's syndrome
Nazorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nazarene.
synonyms: word: Nazarene
Nazorean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nazoreans
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nazarene.
synonyms: word: Nazarene
Nazorean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nazarene.
synonyms: word: Nazarene
ostentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ostentative
form: most ostentative
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ostentatious.
synonyms: word: ostentatious
Berglands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bergland
NPAPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: communication
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface, a cross-platform plugin architecture used by some Web browsers.
Hypernyms: API
Frosts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frost
Hahns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hahn.
Halligen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hallig
Hangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hang
Heyden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heydens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Heyden.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Holme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of various villages in England.
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1987).
glosses: Any of various villages in England.
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD5278).
glosses: Any of various villages in England.
A hamlet in Messingham parish, North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SE9206).
glosses: Any of various villages in England.
A small village in Holme Valley parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1006).
glosses: A river in West Yorkshire, England, which flows into the River Colne at Huddersfield.
Derived terms: Dalton Holme
Denton Holme
Holme Abbey
Holme East Waver
Holme Hale
Holme Low
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
Holme Pierrepont
Holme Slack
Holme St Cuthbert
Holme Valley
Holme Wood
Kreisels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kreisel
Linnens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Linnen
Mohns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mohn
Mulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mull
Bunde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bundes
Etymology: * As a north/Low German surname, from Middle Low German bunde (“peasant, farmer”), see Bond.
* As a German surname, from the archaic Beunte (“enclosed piece of land”), a derivative of biwenden (“to weave, bend”), equivalent to be- + wenden.
* Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place Bünde in Westphalia.
Borrowed from German Bunde or Bünde.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Salmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Salmens
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of Salmon or borrowed from German Salmen.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sangs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sang
Schopfes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Schopf
Stocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Zipfels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Zipfel
isolation play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolation plays
Senses: examples: text: Sure, there is room to be critical. He's holding on to the ball too much. He's settling for isolation plays too often.
ref: 2015 June 10, David Thorpe, “Top 10 Postseason MVPs: LeBron No. 1”, in ESPN:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A goal attempt that does not result from a direct pass.
Synonyms: iso ball
isolation basketball
bufferdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buffer + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Sometime in the late autumn of 1977, I went to a book party that was held in the Rosebery Room of the House of Lords. Why I went I can’t think – the volume was some piece of unreadable bufferdom extruded by Lord Butler […].
ref: 1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:
text: Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported.
ref: 2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New Statesman:
text: It would be tempting to see in Malcolm McLaren's final years the descent into amiable bufferdom of a once free spirit, and to conclude that the ---- Establishment always wins in the end.
ref: 2010 April 11, William Langley, The Telegraph:
glosses: The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.
Butskellism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Butler + Gaitskell + -ism, after Rab Butler, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer 1951–55, and his Labour predecessor Hugh Gaitskell 1950–51.
Senses: examples: text: The next few weeks will show whether the Opposition will seize this chance of golden silence; or whether, in a Brown fury, it is going to throw the opportunity for constructive Butskellism away.
ref: 1954 February 13, The Economist:
text: And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.
ref: 1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:
text: Camerairism reflects a structural change more profound than Butskellism ever did.
ref: 2005 October 20, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A centrist economic policy obtaining in post-war Britain, upheld by both Conservative and Labour Chancellors.
wikipedia: Hugh Gaitskell
Rab Butler
WPB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPBs
form: wpb
form: w.p.b.
Senses: examples: text: And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.
ref: 1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:
glosses: Initialism of wastepaper basket.
WPB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: wpb
form: w.p.b.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of War Production Board.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Workers Party of Britain.