cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonstriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + striate.
Senses: glosses: Not striate.
retrocausalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrocausality
retrocausally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From retrocausal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of, or in terms of, retrocausality.
typeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typeballs
Etymology: From type + ball.
Senses: glosses: A ball in a typewriter or early printer that bears the physical characters on its surface and is moved mechanically in order to print them onto the page.
Synonyms: golf ball
typeballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typeball
-max
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of maximum.
Senses: examples: Panama Canal → Panamax
Suez Canal → Suezmax
glosses: Denotes maximum dimensions of a vessel that can travel through the given canal.
-max
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of maximize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -maxx.
alas and alack
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alack and alas.
hayey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪ(j)i/
Forms: form: hayier
form: hayiest
Etymology: From hay + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: That inevitable pork fat that flavors everything after one gets west of Buffalo, and a little off the line of travel that leads you through the great hotels in the great cities in America, — that saleratus bread, hayey tea, clammy pie-crust, […]
ref: 1871, Curtis Guild, Over the ocean: or, Sights and scenes in foreign lands, page 31:
text: "I am sure it is a year since I ate one before," Lollie wrote, "but in spite of a hayey flavor I liked it"
ref: 1995, William Michael Murphy, Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives, page 72:
text: It looked all dim and hayey inside. My stomach tingled. Please let there be kids at the farm, someone my age. I just had to play in that barn. I'd read about kids swinging in haylofts, but I'd never done fun stuff like that.
ref: 1995, Rachna Gilmore, A Friend Like Zilla, page 10:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of hay.
Synonyms: haylike
Reef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reefs
Etymology: Borrowed from North German Reef, possibly related to Reep (“rope”), or otherwise from obsolete rif (“body”) (from Proto-West Germanic *hrif).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
is a thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be a thing
being a thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of be a thing
was a thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be a thing
been a thing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be a thing
chiura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nepali चिउरा (ciurā).
Senses: examples: text: I came back to find my fantasy come true — the tents up and a fire going. A wonderful meal of chura (rice flakes) and chapatis and hot milk. Enough clothes to not be cold. An end to another fine day.
ref: 1982 February 13, Lee Swislow, “Amazon Trekking”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 8:
glosses: A kind of beaten rice commonly eaten in Nepal.
Synonyms: baji
baji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Newar बजि (baji).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chiura (“beaten rice”).
synonyms: word: chiura
extra: beaten rice
baji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajis
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu باجی (bājī), from Classical Persian باجی (bāji), from Ottoman Turkish باجی (bacı), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bāča.
Senses: glosses: older sister
glosses: a female person
Palestinianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palestinianists
Etymology: From Palestinian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Palestinianism, Palestinian nationalism.
glosses: A scholar specializing in Palestinian studies and anthropology.
quagga mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quagga mussels
Senses: glosses: A mussel, Dreissena rostriformis, originally from Ukraine but present as an invasive species in the United States.
Related terms: zebra mussel
quagga mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quagga mussel
data lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data lakes
Etymology: Coined by Pentaho CEO James Dixon in 2010.
Senses: examples: text: Data Lake? Cute! RT @mattcasters: Great intro to Pentaho Hadoop int. by Will @wpgorman "Battlebricks" Gorman : http://vimeo.com/14641559
ref: 2010 September 21, Jos van Dongen, Twitter:
text: Based on the requirements above and the problems of the traditional solutions we have created a concept called the Data Lake to describe an optimal solution. If you think of a datamart as a store of bottled water – cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption – the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The contents of the data lake stream in from a source to fill the lake, and various users of the lake can come to examine, dive in, or take samples.
ref: 2010 October 14, James Dixon, “Pentaho, Hadoop, and Data Lakes”, in James Dixon’s Blog:
text: Perhaps the most transformative aspect of an analytics architecture that incorporates a data lake is that users do not need to have the possible answers in mind when they ask the questions.
ref: 2013, Juergen Klenk, Yugal Sharma, Jeni Fan, “Saving Lives with Big Data: Unlocking the Hidden Potential in Electronic Health Records”, in Jay Liebowitz, editor, Big Data and Business Analytics, CRC Press, page 122:
text: The difference between a data lake and a data warehouse is that in a data warehouse, the data is pre-categorized at the point of entry, which can dictate how it’s going to be analyzed.
ref: 2013, Soumendra Mohanty, Madhu Jagadeesh, Harsha Srivatsa, Big Data Imperatives […] , Apress, page 43:
text: The data lake, in turn, supports a two-step process to analyze the data.
ref: 2014, Pethuru Raj, Ganesh Chandra Deka, editors, Handbook of Research on Cloud Infrastructures for Big Data Analytics, IGI Global, page 105:
text: One phrase in particular has become popular for describing the massing of data into Hadoop, the “Data Lake”, and indeed, this term has been adopted by Pivotal for their enterprise big data strategy.
ref: 2014 January 14, Edd Dumbill, “The Data Lake Dream”, in Forbes:
hyponyms: data swamp
coordinate_terms: data mart
data warehouse
glosses: A massive, easily accessible data repository built on inexpensive computer hardware for storing big data.
Derived terms: data lakehouse
curricula vitarum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curriculum vitae
lahmajoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lahmajoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lahmajoun.
lahmajun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lahmajuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lahmajoun.
lahmajoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmajoon
lahmajuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lahmajun
lamajoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamajouns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lahmajoun.
lamajoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamajoons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lahmajoun.
lamajun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamajuns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lahmacun.
aminostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amino- + stratigraphic or aminostratigraphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or using aminostratigraphy
lamajouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamajoun
lamajoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamajoon
lamajuns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamajun
aminostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amino- + stratigraphy.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the extent of amino acid racemization in biological deposits in order to estimate their age
Derived terms: aminostratigraphic
atrogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrogenes
Etymology: Blend of atrophy + gene
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any gene that has an influence on atrophy of muscle tissue.
Related terms: atrogin
atrogin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atrogins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of F-box proteins expressed during muscle atrophy
Related terms: atrogene
caudofemoralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A muscle present in the pelvic limb of most animals that possess a tail
choristoderan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choristoderans
Etymology: From Choristodera + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The choristoderans were crocodile-like reptiles with long, narrow jaws used for catching fish.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 109:
glosses: A diapsid reptile of the order Choristodera.
cineradiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cine- + radiographic or cineradiography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or using cineradiography
craniad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cranio- + -ad.
Senses: glosses: toward the head
craniad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cranio- + -ad.
Senses: glosses: towards the head
Synonyms: cephalad
eolianites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eolianite
gastralium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastralia
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of dermal bones found in the ventral body wall of crocodilian and sphenodon animals
Related terms: gastralial
gastralia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastralium
heterodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heterodont
pithovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pithoviruses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Evolutionary biologists Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, the husband-and-wife team at Aix-Marseille University in France who led the work, named it Pithovirus sibericum, inspired by the Greek word 'pithos' for the large container used by the ancient Greeks to store wine and food.
ref: 2014 March 3, Ed Yong, “Giant virus resurrected from 30,000-year-old ice”, in Nature News:
text: In this context, Pithovirus was initially spotted using light microscopy as ovoid particles (Fig. S1) multiplying in a culture of Acanthamoeba castellanii inoculated with a sample of Siberian permafrost from the Kolyma lowland region.
ref: 2014 March 8, M Legendre et al., “Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
text: The discovery of “giant” viruses such as mimiviruses (La Scola et al., 2003), megaviruses (Arslan et al., 2011), pandoraviruses (Philippe et al., 2013), and pithoviruses (Legendre et al., 2014) now creates a continuum in genome size and functional complexity between the virosphere and cells.
ref: 2015, Anton G. Kutikhin, Recent Discoveries in Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:
text: But the Pithovirus is largest of all, reaching an enormous 1.5 μ, larger than many bacteria.
ref: 2016, Mark A.S. McMenamin, Dynamic Paleontology:
glosses: Any of the genus Pithovirus of giant viruses known from one species, Pithovirus sibericum, which infects amoebas.
Derived terms: pitho
ichthyopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyopterygians
Etymology: Ichthyopterygia + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of the superorder †Ichthyopterygia of extinct marine reptiles, superficially resembling dolphins.
ichthyopterygians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ichthyopterygian
isodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having teeth of equal length.
examples: text: The isodont arrangement is typical of the oysters and scallops.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having hinge teeth with lateral tubercles and sockets on either side of a thick ligament (the resilium).
Derived terms: anisodont
isodonty
isodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodonts
Etymology: From iso- + -odont.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any organism with teeth of equal length.
isodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being isodont
mesosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesosaurs
Etymology: From meso- + -saur.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of small aquatic reptiles, from the early Permian period, of the order †Mesosauria.
mesosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesosaur
nothosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nothosaur
placentotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From placento- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of matrotrophy.
synonyms: word: matrotrophy
Related terms: placentotrophic
Noble Sanctuary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Noble Sanctuary
Etymology: Calque of Arabic الْحَرَم الشَرِيف (al-ḥaram aš-šarīf)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Temple Mount, when viewed as an Islamic holy site (specifically, the third holiest site).
Synonyms: Haram al-Sharif
Haram al-Sharif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic الْحَرَم الشَّرِيف (al-ḥaram aš-šarīf, “the noble sanctuary”), a sobriquet also used for the other two holiest sites in Islam in Mecca and Medina.
Senses: examples: text: This marked the first time since 2017 that an Israeli Minister has visited the site, known by Jews as Temple Mount and by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, and which is administered by Jordan.
ref: 2023 January 5, “UN working to reduce tensions following Israel minister’s holy site visit”, in UN News, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2023:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Temple Mount; the Noble Sanctuary.
batucadas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batucada
spindoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindoctors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spin doctor.
two-party system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-party systems
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The presence or dominance of only two political parties in a government, a political duopoly.
Related terms: two-partyism
bipartisan
Duverger's law
three-party system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-party systems
Senses: glosses: The availability or dominance of three political parties in a government.
courtsiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From courtside + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The transmission of information from a sports event (especially a tennis match) for the purpose of obtaining a betting advantage
nextgen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of next-gen.
by halves
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Thou fool, I ne'er do things by halves,
Farthings are made for Irish slaves;
No brass for me, it must be gold,
Or fifty pounds in silver told.
ref: c. 1724, Punch's Petition to the Ladies, Jonathan Swift:
text: I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
ref: 1817, Jane Austen, chapter 6, in Northanger Abbey:
text: Johnson, who, as we have before remarked, rarely praised or dispraised things by halves, broke forth in a warm eulogy.
ref: 1849, Washington Irving, chapter 26, in Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography:
text: She was too thoroughgoing to do things by halves.
ref: 1901, Ralph Connor, chapter 6, in The Man From Glengarry:
text: "When things happen to us in Latin America, it is never by halves. There is no equilibrium, so when it rains, towns get inundated and disappear, and when we have a revolution, half the population dies."
ref: 1989 July 30, Larry Rohter, “Theater: In Latin America, Headlines Inspire The Drama”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Mar 2014:
text: They don't do things by halves in the States. Whether it is cars, burgers or waistlines, Americans like to think bigger.
ref: 2006 Sept. 24, Gareth Chadwick, "Far-flung business: Making all the right moves, The Independent (UK) (retrieved 5 March 2014)
glosses: Partially, incompletely; inadequately, halfheartedly, shoddily.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: do by halves
Related terms: by half
do by halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does by halves
form: doing by halves
form: did by halves
form: done by halves
form: do by half-measures
Senses: examples: text: [A] pedestrian tour of Europe could not be complete without them. Of course that decided me at once to see them, for I never allow myself to do things by halves, or in a slurring, slipshod way.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 30, in A Tramp Abroad:
text: Rin-Tin-Tin does nothing by halves, for he tracks the murderer himself and kills him.
ref: 1925 Sept. 21, Mordaunt Hall, "The Screen" (film review of The Freshman), New York Times (retrieved 5 March 2014)
text: Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog!
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Mathilda:
text: If there was one word to describe her, it was "intense" - so well chosen in her brother Michael's moving eulogy. Nothing, absolutely nothing was done by halves. . . . Her commitment was total.
ref: 2005 April 8, Claus Moser, “Obituary: Jane Attenborough”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 05 Mar 2014:
glosses: To perform (a task, etc) partially or incompletely; to do (something) inadequately, halfheartedly, or shoddily.
raw_tags: in the negative
done by halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of do by halves
half a loaf is better than none
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: half a loaf is better than no bread
form: half a loaf is better than no loaf
Senses: examples: text: "I have the beginnings of genius," he finally decided, "that is, I can see for myself, but I cannot pass the vision on to others by production."
"Half a loaf is better than none," said Miss Enistor soothingly.
ref: 1912, Fergus Hume, chapter 1, in A Son of Perdition:
text: "I'm a business man, and I tell you before you're half through with this fight, you'll come to the conclusion that half a loaf is better than none at all—particularly in the matter of extra large loaves. You'll come to me and compromise."
ref: 1914, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 16, in The Long Chance:
text: "There are some people," he said, "who would have you so stand on principle that if you don't get all that you've asked for from the legislature, why you jump off the cliff with the flag flying." Mr. Reagan said that "a half a loaf is better than none" and that unyielding critics had "misread" his tactics.
ref: 1983 February 10, Francis X. Clines, “Reagan's wish is no minimum wage for youths”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Mar 2014:
text: Audience: Green groups
Obama's Pitch: Sometimes half a loaf is better than no loaf at all.
ref: 2010 June 17, Michael Scherer, “The President's Spill Speech: The Target Audiences”, in Time, retrieved 06 Mar 2014:
glosses: Something is better than nothing: some reward, achievement, result, etc. is preferable to none at all.
Synonyms: something is better than nothing
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
beggars can't be choosers
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
satisfactory
Related terms: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
perfect is the enemy of good
any port in a storm
half a loaf is better than no bread
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half a loaf is better than none.
half a loaf is better than no loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half a loaf is better than none.
y'all've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of y'all have.
y'all'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of y'all will.
y'all'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔld/
ipa: /jɑld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
Senses: glosses: Contraction of y'all would.
glosses: Contraction of y'all had
selective fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The ability to choose whether a weapon fires automatically or semi-automatically.
cavaedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈviː.di.əm/
Forms: form: cavaedia
Etymology: From Latin cavaedium.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The central hall or court within an Ancient Roman house.
Synonyms: atrium
indicator variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicator variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A binary variable whose value of 0 or 1 indicates which category an individual falls into.
Synonyms: dummy variable
indicator variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indicator variable
work the angles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: works the angles
form: working the angles
form: worked the angles
form: worked the angles
Senses: glosses: Synonym of play the angles.
synonyms: word: play the angles
dizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dizards
Senses: glosses: A talkative fool.
ale-conner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale-conners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aleconner.
ale-taster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ale-tasters
Etymology: From ale + taster.
Senses: glosses: An officer appointed to test the ale and bread in a parish or town.
Synonyms: ale-conner
have the black ox tread on one's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has the black ox tread on one's foot
form: having the black ox tread on one's foot
form: had the black ox tread on one's foot
form: had the black ox tread on one's foot
Senses: glosses: To have trouble come upon one; to experience sorrow or misfortune.
commacerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commacerates
form: commacerating
form: commacerated
form: commacerated
Senses: examples: text: ... to get perfect intelligence of his life and conversation, one true point whereof, well set downe, wil more excruciate and commacerate him, than knocking him about the eares with his owne stile in a hundred sheetes of paper.
ref: 1596, Thomas Nash, Have with you to Saffron Walden, page 29:
glosses: To harass, torment.
contrivition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrivitions
Senses: examples: 1600, author unknown, A contract for building the Fortune Theatre at the cost of £440, quoted in Wilson
And the said house, and other things before-mentioned, to be made and done, to be in all other contrivitions, conveyances, fashions, thing and things effected, finished and done, according to the manner and fashion of the said house called the Globe […]
glosses: contrivance
cup-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cup-shot
form: most cup-shot
Etymology: England, late 15th century–early 19th century. From cup (“drinking vessel”) + shot (“discharged, cleared”).
Senses: examples: text: At this time the ſpring-tide of their mirth ſo drowned their ſouls; that the Turks coming in upon them, cut every one of their throats, to the number of twentie^([sic]) thouſand: and quickly they were ſtabbed with the ſword that were cup-ſhot before. A day which the Dutch may well write in their Kalendars^([sic]) in red letters died with their own bloud;^([sic]) when their camp was their ſhambles, the Turks their butchers, and themſelves the Martinmaſſe-beeves: from which the beaſtly drunkards differ but a little.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, 4th edition, book 3, chapter 16, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck, published 1651, page 135:
text: A young Enchantresse close by him did stand / Tapping his plump thighes with a mirtle wand: / She smil'd; he kist; and kissing, cull'd her too; / And being cup-shot, more he co'd not doe.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Vision”, in Hesperides:
text: Dominic braced a hand on the mantel and stared down at the fire, trying to ignore the generous brandy Cates had poured out for him. As much as he'd like to get royally drunk, he wouldn't give in to temptation. Not until the threat to Chloe and Jane had passed, at any rate. Besides, getting cup-shot would hardly fix his problems with the lovely Mrs. Piper.
ref: 2014, Vanessa Kelly, chapter 4, in Tall, Dark and Royal (The Renegade Royals), Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Intoxicated; drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
Related terms: cup-shotten
dawcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawcocks
Senses: glosses: A jackdaw.
glosses: A silly fellow.
Wallachs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wallach
falling-sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of falling sickness.
gellif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gellifs
Senses: glosses: jelly
green-sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of green sickness.
horse-lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-locks
Senses: glosses: A padlock.
glosses: A shackle for a horse's feet.
Jew's trump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jew's trumps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jew's-trump.
laystow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laystows
Senses: glosses: laystall
Myrrha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Myrrha, from Ancient Greek Μύρρα (Múrrha).
Senses: examples: text: Byblis lies motionless in mute desperation and her transformation is told only briefly, whereas Myrrha herself asks for her metamorphosis, gives a speech (10.483-7), and Ovid leads us step by step through her transformation (10.489-502).
ref: 1975, Karl Galinsky, Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects, page 89:
text: The resemblance between this Myrrhina and the Myrrha who seduces her father is all the greater in that in one of the versions of the myth of Adonis, his mother is transformed by metamorphosis into not a myrrh tree but a sprig of myrtle.
ref: 1977, Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology, page 63:
text: In the succeeding book, Ovid depicts another woman tortured by abnormal but not impossible passion: Myrrha, in love with her father, Cinyras.
ref: 2006, David M. Robinson, Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century, page 175:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis.
Synonyms: sense: daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis
word: Smyrna
midden-hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midden-hills
Etymology: From midden + hill.
Senses: glosses: dunghill
dung-hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dung-hills
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunghill.
morrow-mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morrow-masses
Senses: glosses: morning mass
paker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pakers
Senses: glosses: A vagrant, stroller
pakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paker
penniless-bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penniless-benches
Senses: glosses: roadside bench
pentaphyllon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See penta- (“five”) and phyllo- (“leaf”).
Senses: glosses: cinquefoil
Poor John
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poor Johns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poor-john.
pullin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullins
Senses: glosses: poultry
jarkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarkmen
Etymology: From jark + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Allusion has been made to forged certificates. These were manufactured by a class of mendicants who had something in them of clerkly skill. They were called Jarkmen, Jark being the cant term for a seal.
ref: 1849, “The Beggars of London”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 85:
glosses: A forger of counterfeit seals, licenses or other documents.
examples: text: And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.
ref: Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1
glosses: A writer of begging letters.
Related terms: jark
jarkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarkman
shoeing-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeing-horns
Senses: glosses: A shoehorn.
glosses: Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
examples: text: ...some of "the general rules and inventions for drinking, as good as printed precepts or statutes by act of parliament, that go from drunkard to drunkard; as... to have some shoeing-horn to pull on your wine, as a rasher on the coals or a red herring..."
Shoeing-horns, sometimes called gloves, are also described by Bishop Hall in his "Mundus alter et idem." "Then sir, comes me up a service of shoeing-horns of all sorts; salt cakes, red herrings, anchovies, and gammon of bacon, and abundance of such pullers on." ... And yet a drawer-on too; i.e.an incitement to appetite: the phrase is yet in use. This drawer-on was also technically termed a puller-on, and a shoeing-horn in drink.
ref: 1838, Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature:
qualifier: Elizabethan English
glosses: Anything that induces or "draws on" thirst.
examples: text: Now you cannot but observe, that most of our fine young Ladies readily fall in with the Direction of the Graver sort, to retain in their Service, by some small Encouragement, as great a Number as they can of supernumerary and insignificant Fellows, which they use like whifflers, and commonly call Shoeing-Horns. These are never designed to know the length of the Foot, but only when a good Offer comes to whet and spur him up to the Point. Nay 'tis the Opinion of that grave Lady, Madam Matchwell, that it's absolutely convenient for every prudent Family to have several of these Implements about the House, to clap on as occasion serves, and that every Spark ought to produce a Certificate of his being a Shoeing-Horn, before he be admitted as a Shoe. A certain Lady, whom I could name, if it was necessary, has at present more Shoeing-Horns of all Sizes, Countries, and Colours, in her Service, than ever she had new Shoes in her Life.
ref: 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator 14th November 1712:
glosses: A young man encouraged by a woman as a hanger-on to encourage the advances of more desirable suitors.
stauling-ken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stauling-kens
Senses: qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A house that will receive stolen goods
basibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From basi- + branchial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the bony base of gills, or to the corresponding parts of abranchiate vertebrates
basibranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basibranchials
Etymology: From basi- + branchial.
Senses: glosses: Any fish that has such gills
benthivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benthivores
Senses: glosses: Any animal that feeds of benthic prey
Related terms: benthivorous
benthivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benthivore
benthivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That feeds on benthic prey
Derived terms: zoobenthivorous
Related terms: benthivore
coffee cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee cups
form: coffee-cup
form: coffeecup
Senses: examples: text: “It’s nothing much, but—well, if you are going, will you tell him——” he dropped his voice to a whisper—“I think I’ve found the extra coffee-cup!”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144:
text: Got a picture of you beside me / Got your lipstick mark still on your coffee cup
ref: 1995, Gary Barlow, “Back for Good”, in Nobody Else, performed by Take That:
glosses: A cup, typically a small one, in which coffee can be served.
wikipedia: Singapore
chagasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Chagas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, Chagas' disease.
Derived terms: antichagasic
comimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + mimetic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: mutually mimetic
echodopplercardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: echo doppler cardiography
Senses: glosses: doppler echocardiography
esophagopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esophagopathies
Etymology: From esophago- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The failure of the lower oesophageal sphincter to relax
geophagine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophagines
Senses: glosses: Any cichlid of the subfamily Geophaginae
geophagines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geophagine
orobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oro- + branchial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the mouth and the gills
lunulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunula
posthoc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of post hoc.
seroconverters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seroconverter
Knaanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Canaanic
Etymology: From Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'na'án, “Slavic lands”, literally “Canaan”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An extinct West Slavic Jewish language.
Canaanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Canaan + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Knaanic.
pocket cartoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket cartoons
Senses: glosses: An editorial cartoon consisting of a topical single-panel single-column drawing.
Derived terms: pocket cartoonist
pocket cartoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket cartoon
matrotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to matrotrophy.
prophesyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophesying
nonfactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + factive.
Senses: glosses: Not factive.
peripherovascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peripheral, -o-, and vascular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the peripheral blood vessels.
no-tell motel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-tell motels
Etymology: Suggesting that the encounters will be kept private. Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.
ref: 2013, Robin Wasserman, Seven Deadly Sins, volume 1: Lust; Envy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 120:
synonyms: word: hot-sheet motel
word: no-tell hotel
word: autohotel
word: fast sheet
word: hot-sheet motel
word: love hotel
word: maison de passe
word: no-tell hotel
word: no-tell motel
word: motel
glosses: A love hotel; a motel where brief sexual encounters are sanctioned.
no-tell motels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of no-tell motel
noma pudendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of the disease noma that causes tissue damage to the genitals of humans.
limit ordinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limit ordinals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: An ordinal number which is neither zero nor a successor of an ordinal.
Related terms: limit cardinal
multiliteracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiliteracy
multiliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiliterate
form: most multiliterate
Etymology: From multi- + literate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiliteracy; literate in various different media.
siddurim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siddur
siddurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siddur
foramen of Monro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foramina of Monro
Etymology: Named after the Scottish physician Alexander Monro.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the interventricular foramina, channels that connect the paired lateral ventricles with the third ventricle at the midline of the brain.
foramina of Monro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foramen of Monro
Monro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Monroe.
Derived terms: foramen of Monro
Monro-Kellie hypothesis
byte order mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byte order marks
form: byte-order mark
Etymology: From byte order + mark.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
Synonyms: BOM
Hypernyms: mark
Vogtlandkreis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Vogtlandkreis.
Senses: glosses: A district of Saxony, Germany.
Caliphist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caliphists
Etymology: From caliph + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of a caliphate, a unified Islamic government of the Muslim world.
Related terms: Caliphism
Horn African
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horn Africans
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Horn of Africa
majlis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːd͡ʒlɪs/
/ˈmæd͡ʒlɪs/
Forms: form: majlises
form: majalis
form: majlis
form: Majlis
form: majles
form: Majles
form: mejlis
form: Mejlis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَجْلِس (majlis).
Senses: glosses: A council, assembly, or public meeting, in some Muslim countries or territories.
glosses: The parliament of Iran.
majlises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of majlis
mejlis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mejlises
form: mejlis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of majlis.
Mejlis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mejlises
form: Mejlis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of majlis.
mejlises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mejlis
Mejlises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mejlis
Majlises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Majlis
lone wolfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lone wolfers
Etymology: From lone wolf + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One of the points stressed by him and his followers is that there are too many "lone-wolfers" in the Christian Church — too many pastors and other laborers trying to do the work alone. Team work is needed[…]
ref: 1932, George Washington Sandt, The Lutheran, volume 15, page 2:
text: The creative is independent — a lone wolfer. Independence in itself is not bad if it can be controlled and made to be productive.
ref: 1962, Research Management, page 401:
text: A National Commission will be good only to the extent that producers in all provinces cooperate. We must admit that there is no more place for lone wolfers in our industry.
ref: 1970, Canada Poultryman, volume 57, page 26:
glosses: One who acts alone.
glosses: One who acts alone.
A terrorist who acts on their own, without being part of a larger organized group or cell.
Sunnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunnists
form: sunnist
Etymology: From Sunni + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a proponent of Sunnism
Sunnist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sunnist
form: most Sunnist
form: sunnist
Etymology: From Sunni + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Sunnism
glosses: Motivated by Sunni beliefs, particularly in the political sphere.
Derived terms: Sunnistic
Shi'ist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shi'ists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Shi'ism.
Shi'ist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shi'ist
form: most Shi'ist
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or supporting, Shia Islam.
airpocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airpocalypses
Etymology: From air + -pocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese struggle through 'airpocalypse' smog.
ref: 2013, The Guardian, 16 February, (headline)
glosses: The presence of dense smog in many parts of Asia.
dogecoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/
Forms: form: dogecoins
form: Dogecoin
Etymology: From doge + coin.
Senses: examples: text: The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.
ref: 2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, “Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons”, in Business Mirror:
text: The net worth of Markus and Palmer is unknown due to their tendency to stay off social media and online platforms. However, dogecoin was estimated to be worth almost $17billion as of April 14, 2021.
ref: 2021 April 16, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who are Dogecoin founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?”, in The US Sun, retrieved 28 Apr 2021:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
hypernyms: memecoin
glosses: A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.
examples: text: And there really are a lot of people willing to pay cash (or at least Bitcoins, which are easily converted into cash) for dogecoins.
ref: 2013 December 26, Timothy B. Lee, “Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins oh my: What you need to know about Bitcoin alternatives”, in Washington Post:
text: Litke and Shear say mining that many dogecoins couldn't be accomplished with the hijacked storage devices alone—each has the cryptocurrency mining power of a smartphone, they say.
ref: 2014 June 17, Andy Greenberg, “Hacker Hijacks Storage Devices, Mines $620,000 in Dogecoin”, in Wired:
glosses: A unit of this currency. Symbols: Ð, DOGE.
Related terms: bitcoin
footgolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot-golf
form: foot golf
Etymology: From foot + golf.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variant of golf in which players attempt to kick a football (“soccer ball”) into a depressed cup set into the turf.
Related terms: codeball
unpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpunk
form: most unpunk
Etymology: From un- + punk.
Senses: examples: text: They embrace acoustic guitar and shakers, plus unpunk gadgetry like looping pedals[…]
ref: 2010 October, SPIN, page 80:
text: Punk rock […] exhibits its own peculiar—to use an expensive and totally unpunk term—“historicity.”
ref: 2011, Stephen Duncombe, Maxwell Tremblay, White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race:
glosses: Not punk.
slamball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slam + ball.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variety of basketball in which trampolines are positioned in front of each net.
undeconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + deconstructed.
Senses: glosses: Not deconstructed.
undeconstructable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undeconstructable
form: most undeconstructable
Etymology: From un- + deconstructable.
Senses: glosses: Not deconstructable.
undeconstructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undeconstructible
form: most undeconstructible
Etymology: From un- + deconstructible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undeconstructable.
storecupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storecupboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of store cupboard.
store cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: store cupboards
Senses: glosses: A cupboard in which food ingredients are stored prior to cooking
Synonyms: larder
lone wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lone wolf
RIPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
inadmissibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inadmissibility
knackeredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knackered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being knackered.
technoparanoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + paranoia.
Senses: glosses: The unreasonable fear of modern technology.
Related terms: technoparanoid
Keyser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Dutch surname, from keizer (“emperor”). Compare German Kaiser.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A township in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
fakebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fakebooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fake book.
fakebook
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Fakebook.
fakebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakebook
Gujar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gujars
form: Gujar
form: Goojur
form: Gujer
form: Gurjar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गूजर (gūjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara).
Senses: glosses: A member of a nomadic community of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Gujar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Goojur
form: Gujer
form: Gurjar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गूजर (gūjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara).
Senses: glosses: A surname from India.
glosses: A male given name of Indian usage.
garden patience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From garden and a corruption of Low Vulgar Latin lapathium.
Senses: glosses: Any of several dock plants of the genus Rumex, especially Rumex patientia.
Synonyms: taxonomic: Rumex patientia
word: patience dock
bynaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of byname
bynamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of byname
circumlocutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumlocutionally
form: most circumlocutionally
Etymology: From circumlocutional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of or in terms of circumlocution.
lead sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead sheets
Senses: examples: text: A lead sheet is often the only form of written music used by a small jazz ensemble. One or more musicians will play the melody while the rest of the group improvises an appropriate accompaniment.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of written music that specifies the melody, lyrics, and harmony.