cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quangoland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quango + land.
Senses: examples: text: On quango reform, little could be expected from Hunt, who had spent much of his Welsh time in quangoland and who had exploited the system for all it was worth, since Wales returned only six Conservative MPs.
ref: 1998, Hywel Williams, Guilty men: conservative decline and fall, 1992-1997, page 64:
text: The netherworld of "quangoland" is not very transparent, but thanks to the efforts of the Netherlands Court of Audit, the situation has improved a great deal[…]
ref: 2006, Marko Köthenbürger, Hans-Werner Sinn, John Whalley, Privatization Experiences in the European Union, page 295:
glosses: The world of quangos (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations); quangos generally.
HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: HIV and AIDS, considered as a whole.
baseball Annie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball Annies
Senses: glosses: A female groupie who seeks sexual relations with baseball players.
baseball Annies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseball Annie
groupetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupetto
groupettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupetto
Talavera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Talaveras
Senses: glosses: A city in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, known for its pottery; in full, Talavera de la Reina.
examples: text: [He] had been a conspicuous figure at Talavera, and had contributed not a little to the peculiar terror with which his regiment of infantry was regarded by the enemy.
ref: 1860, George Eliot, chapter IV, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:
glosses: An 1809 battle during the Peninsula War fought outside the city.
examples: text: Many pieces of stanniferous faience have been found in Mexico which have come to be known as Talavera ware.
ref: 1906, Edmund H. Osthaus, “Interesting Facts about Mexican Pottery”, in Brush and Pencil, volume 18, number 3, page 91:
glosses: A kind of Spanish and Mexican majolica pottery with a milky-white glaze.
afterwhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From after + while.
Senses: examples: text: […] as soon as the man called the track they hurried fast, so they got two seats and turned them to face each other, and afterwhile the train pulled out […]
ref: 1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: McDowell, Obolensky, Part 2, p. 242:
glosses: Afterwards.
monoclonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monoclonal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monoclonal.
monoethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ethnic.
Senses: examples: a monoethnic society
synonyms: homoethnic
glosses: Of a single ethnicity.
Related terms: monoethnicity
monogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monogenic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monogenic.
monospecificity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + specificity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monospecific.
monotonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + tonality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being monotonal.
morabitino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morabitinos
Senses: glosses: An old Portuguese gold coin worth 15 soldos.
morabitinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morabitino
moribana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 盛花.
Senses: glosses: A basic structure in ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), where the flowers are arranged in a shallow container.
moronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moron + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: One reason for the assumption that the germ damage takes place from the effect of alcohol is that the incidence of moronism is higher among children of alcoholic parents than among children of nonalcoholic parents.
ref: 1959, Alwyn J. Atkins, John Minor Gwynn, Teaching Alcohol Education in the Schools, page 100:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being a moron (person of borderline intelligence).
motherkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motherkins
Etymology: From mother + -kins.
Senses: glosses: Fond term of address for one's mother.
motocrosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motocrossers
Etymology: From motocross + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in the sport of motocross.
motocrossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motocrosser
extreme skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Skiing performed on long, steep slopes in mountainous terrain.
sleazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sleaze
sleazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sleaze
Dall sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dall sheep
form: Dall's sheep
Etymology: Named after William Healey Dall (1845–1927), an American naturalist.
Senses: glosses: A species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, Ovis dalli.
wikipedia: William Healey Dall
Dall's sheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dall's sheep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dall sheep.
scale insects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scale insect
bugaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 舞楽 (bugaku).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese traditional courtly dance, with slow, regal movements.
Pyatigorsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pjætɪˈɡɔː(ɹ)sk/
Senses: glosses: spa city in south-Stavropol krai, administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia
Kislovodsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Stavropol krai, Russia
Wakana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
kidney belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney belts
Senses: examples: text: Around his midsection the driver wears a "kidney belt" — a wide, heavy elastic belt — to protect his internal organs and back from the jarring he will encounter.
ref: 1977, Michael K. Orbach, Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs, →ISBN, page 91:
text: As a safety precaution, Mr. Markellon and his wife, Dawn, have purchased protective gear for Marissa that includes not only a helmet, but chest protector, kidney belt and kneepads as well.
ref: 1999 December 1, “A Girl, 7, Leads the Pack on Dirt Bikes”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Jan 2014:
text: I was also wearing a very tight “kidney belt” that helped protect my organs from “feeling like they have been punched by a boxer”.
ref: 2013 December 12, Andrew Trotman, “How it feels to hurtle down an Olympic bobsleigh run”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 05 Jan 2014:
glosses: A wide belt sometimes worn by weight lifters, motorcyclists, manual laborers, and others who are liable to experience stress in the lower back region, for the purpose of providing lumbar support.
Koichi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese こういち (Kōichi), a male given name with many variant kanji spellings.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
decay chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decay chains
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A series of nuclides, such that one nuclide radioactively decays into another, which decays into another, and so on, until a stable nuclide is reached. For example, uranium-238 must undergo eight alpha decays and six beta decays in order to become stable lead-206; intermediate nuclides include uranium-234, radium-226, and radon-222.
Synonyms: decay series
Ziegler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziːɡlə/
ipa: /ˈziɡlɚ/
ipa: /ˈzɪɡlɚ/
Forms: form: Zieglers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ziegler.
Senses: examples: text: "This use was sporadic, sometimes 'bingeful,' but never at an addictive level," Ziegler said.
ref: 1990 September 28, “Fuhr Suspended One Year by NHL for Using Drugs”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A surname from German
Derived terms: Wohl-Ziegler reaction
Ziegler catalyst
Ziegler-Natta catalyst
Ziegler's water rat
Arielle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A French variant of Ariel.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: word: Elle
Mueller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmjuːlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmʌlə/
ipa: /ˈmjuːlə/
Forms: form: Muller
form: Müller
Etymology: From German Müller (“miller”). Doublet of Miller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: A township in Schoolcraft County, Michigan, United States.
Muller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mullers
form: Mueller
form: Müller
Etymology: Borrowed from German Müller (“miller”). Doublet of Miller.
Senses: examples: text: “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
ref: 2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
yellow-tailed black cockatoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-tailed black cockatoos
Senses: examples: text: Charles, to his everlasting pride and eternal shame, sold his yellow-tailed black cockatoo to the man in the pet shop outside whose establishment fortune decreed we should come to rest.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 304:
text: [T]he shrieks of yellow-tailed black cockatoos are said to be the lament of dead Aboriginal children.
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 9
glosses: A large cockatoo, Zanda funerea syn. Calyptorhynchus funereus, native to southeastern Australia.
yellow-tailed black cockatoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow-tailed black cockatoo
gyming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gym
gymed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gym
durum wheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durum wheats
Senses: synonyms: durum
hard wheat
macaroni wheat
pasta wheat
antonyms: soft wheat
glosses: Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.
dunny man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunny men
form: dunnyman
Senses: examples: text: Luckily the dunny man was a model of probity. Never putting a foot wrong, he carried out his Sisyphean task in loyal silence.
ref: 1980, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs:
text: He played cards with me and listened to me talk about Leah Goldstein until the passing dunnyman announced the coming dawn.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 337:
glosses: Someone employed to empty the cesspit from a basic toilet which is not attached to a plumbing system.
dunny men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunny man
dunnyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunnymen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dunny man.
dunnymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunnyman
phylloxeran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylloxerans
Senses: examples: text: Phylloxerans are similar to aphids but are without cornicles and hold their wings horizontally at rest.
ref: 1980, Jerry A. Powell, Charles L. Hogue, California Insects, page 123:
text: The final confirmation of the foregoing conclusions is given by the important discoveries of Morgan (1909), von Baehr (1909) and Stevens (1909b) in the phylloxerans and aphids, where all the fertilized eggs produce females.
ref: 2004, Edward B. Wilson, “The Sex Chromosomes”, in Peter S. Harper, editor, Landmarks in Medical Genetics: Classic Papers with Commentaries, page 57:
text: Phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae) are uncommon pests of shade trees, limited to certain leaf and petiole gall-forming species that attack Carya spp. (pecan). However, other phylloxerans can be seriously damaging to other woody plants, notably the grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Fitch), that produces, alternately, leaf galls and root galls on grape vines.
ref: 2008, “Shade Tree Arthropods and Their Management”, in John L. Capinera, editor, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, page 3363:
glosses: Any of the plant-feeding insects of the family Phylloxeridae, closely related to aphids.
Related terms: phylloxera
phylloxerans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phylloxeran
Cramer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cramers
Etymology: From German Cramer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lake County, Minnesota, United States.
Derived terms: Cramer's rule
cangues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cangue
Getter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Getters
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of German Götter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
unneatened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + neatened.
Senses: glosses: Not neatened.
untidied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tidied.
Senses: glosses: Not tidied.
untidied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untidy
librarying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From library + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Librarying is when I watch it and then I saw it and then that tape is probably used again at some other time in the future. It could be months later.
ref: 1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, Home Recording of Copyrighted Works:
text: […] some people record material from television for 'librarying' purposes, that is, they build up a collection of material such as films […]
ref: 1989, Gerald Dworkin, Richard D. Taylor, Blackstone's Guide to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act:
glosses: The accumulation of a library of material.
Uehara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ueharas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上原 (Uehara).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
redfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redfaced
form: most redfaced
Senses: examples: text: I had scarcely fallen into my most promising attitude, and dipped my pen in the ink, when I found the clock upon the pier—a redfaced clock with a white rim—importuning me in a highly vexatious manner to consult my watch, and see how I was off for Greenwich time.
ref: 1856, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 13, page 553:
glosses: Alternative spelling of red-faced.
destresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destressers
Etymology: From destress + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which relieves stress.
distresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distressers
Etymology: From distress + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which distresses.
destressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destresser
distressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distresser
machine-guns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of machine-gun
machine-gunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of machine-gun
machine-gunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of machine-gun
mizzen-mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mizzen-masts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mizzenmast.
mizzen-masts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mizzen-mast; alternative form of mizzenmasts
mitre joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitre joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miter joint.
mitre joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitre joint; alternative form of miter joints
miter-joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miter-joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miter joint.
miter-joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miter-joint; alternative form of miter joints
mitre-joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitre-joints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miter joint.
mitre-joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitre-joint; alternative form of miter joints
minimalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimalizations
form: minimalisation
Etymology: From minimal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Minimization.
glosses: The act of pursuing minimalism.
Related terms: maximization
minimalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimalization
minimalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimalisations
Etymology: From minimal + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of minimalization.
minimalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimalisation; alternative form of minimalizations
Kirchhoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Derived terms: Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's current law
Kirchhoff's voltage law
pentaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaborates
Etymology: From penta- + borate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The oxyanion of boron B₅O₈⁻; any salt containing this anion
Schaefer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schaefers
form: Schafer
Etymology: From German Schaefer (“shepherd”), an occupational surname; from Middle High German schæfære, from late Old High German scāphare.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation], equivalent to English Shepherd.
shattered the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shatter the ice
shattering the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shatter the ice
shatters the ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shatter the ice
tetramethylammonium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The quaternary ammonium base (CH₃)₄N⁺ OH⁻
transcompilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transcompiler
Getters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Getter
photostream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photostreams
Etymology: From photo + stream.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gallery or slideshow displaying a series of images from the Internet.
save by the bell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saves by the bell
form: saving by the bell
form: saved by the bell
form: saved by the bell
Senses: examples: text: With 35 seconds left in the fight, the Siberian Rocky landed a lethal right hook that staggered Bradley and forced him to take a knee following a few more hard blows, thus saving Bradley by the bell.
ref: 2013 December 30, “Behind The Gloves 2013 Picks!”, in behindthegloves.com, retrieved 22 Jan 2014:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, to ring the bell which concludes the round and thereby to prevent a competitor who has been knocked down from being counted out by the referee.
examples: text: The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were.
ref: 1951 April, Charles Bell, "Sea Rescue," Motor Boating, p. 36 (Google preview)
text: Fortunately the appearance of the rash marks the beginning of a sudden end to the disease, establishes a diagnosis, saves you by the bell, satisfies the child's parents, and baby has had just one more kind of measles.
ref: 1954, General Practitioner, volume 10, page 46:
text: Remember that God gives the strength to go on when you would rather collapse. He can save you by the bell!
ref: 1983, Jim Smoke, Every Single Day, →ISBN, page 207:
text: She felt as though his departure for Europe was saving her by the bell.
ref: 1991, Elizabeth Gage, Pandora's Box, →ISBN, page 376:
text: Today's entry got to me just in the nick of time. Saving me by the bell is Reilly Campbell.
ref: 2011 Oct. 13, nekobun, "Nekobun's Cblog: There Would've Been Brawl: Let's Keep It Clean," destructoid.com (retrieved 22 Jan 2014)
text: [W]hen the Lord delivers me, He saves me, rescues me, comes to my rescue, throws me a life-line; snatches me from the jaws of death, saves me at the last second or minute, rescues me at the eleventh hour, saves me by the bell.
ref: 2011 December 1, Gary J. Borgstede, “The Lord Delivers”, in The Make It Happen Moment, retrieved 22 Jan 2014:
glosses: To rescue or favorably assist (someone) by means of a timely interruption or the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.
Related terms: down for the count
saved by the bell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Forrest floored Mosley again at the end of the round and almost finished him, but Mosley was saved by the bell.
ref: 2002 July 19, Damon Hack, “Boxing: Despite Not Having the Title, Mosley Garners Attention”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: In a boxing or wrestling match or similar competition, spared from being counted out by the referee by the ringing of the bell which concludes the round.
raw_tags: of a competitor
examples: text: So Asad's probing created a problem. . . . In a real sense Kissinger was saved by the bell: the American party had that afternoon to catch a plane to Israel.
ref: 1988, Patrick Seale, Maureen McConville, Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East, →ISBN, page 248:
text: The Montgomery bus boycott was "saved by the bell" of a federal Supreme Court decision that came just before the last minute.
ref: 1997, John Howard Yoder, For the Nations: Essays Evangelical and Public, →ISBN, page 130:
text: But in 1998, Mr. DiFrancesco never answered the allegations against him to the satisfaction of town officials. Instead, he was saved by the bell, in a way: In a rare electoral upset, Democrats took control of the Township Council in November 1998. They immediately fired Mr. DiFrancesco and replaced him with a Democrat, giving his termination the appearance of simple partisan politics.
ref: 2001 April 17, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey's Acting Governor Was Faulted on Ethics in 1998”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
glosses: Rescued or favorably assisted by a timely interruption or by the sudden termination of difficult circumstances.
Folketing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Folkething
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The Danish parliament.
Keres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κῆρες (Kêres, literally “Death Spirits, Doom, Heart”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.
Keres
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
Forms: form: more Keres
form: most Keres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Keresan.
Keres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
Forms: form: Kereses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Keresan.
Keres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.ɹeɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɪ.riːz/
ipa: /ˈkɪɹ.iz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Keresan.
hard war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly coined by American general William Tecumseh Sherman.
Senses: glosses: A style of warfare that involves inflicting harm on civilians and destroying foodstuffs.
wikipedia: William Tecumseh Sherman
Synonyms: total war
luggage cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luggage carts
Senses: synonyms: baggage cart
luggage barrow
luggage trolley
glosses: A small vehicle pushed by travellers to carry individual luggage, usually suitcases.
baggage cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggage carts
Senses: glosses: A luggage cart.
baggage carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggage cart
luggage carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luggage cart
safety catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety catch
extension cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extension cord
slushbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slushbreakers
Etymology: Blend of slush + icebreaker.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: An icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions.
slushbreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slushbreaker
beg yours
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Short for I beg your pardon.
Senses: glosses: pardon; could you repeat that?
mushroom anchor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mushroom anchors
Senses: glosses: An anchor with a shape resembling a mushroom, used in mud or silt.
hard signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard sign
Mpemba effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the Mpemba effect
Etymology: Named after Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba, who published on the topic in the 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists as yet have been unable to fully explain the mechanism behind the Mpemba effect. It is a combination of a variety of heat transfer methods, and those combinations change under different conditions of water and[…]
ref: 2012, Elizabeth H. Oakes, Heat and Thermodynamics, Infobase Learning, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: The supposed tendency of warmer water to freeze more quickly than colder water.
wine rack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine racks
Senses: examples: text: Jim and Myron LaFleur, with the entire beer cooler and wine rack at their disposal, were abysmally shitfaced.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: A set of shelves for the organised storage of wine.
kidney punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney punches
form: kidney-punch
Senses: examples: text: Following the bout, Schmeling said he was fouled. He said that he was hit a kidney punch, a devastating right, which so shocked his nervous system that he was dazed and his vision was blurred
ref: 1938 June 22, James P. Dawson, “Fight, Might and Whata Right!”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
text: These fees have ballooned. . . . That has hit advertising like a kidney punch.
ref: 1991 September 22, “What Happened To Advertising”, in Businessweek, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
text: When the champion landed a vicious left-handed kidney punch early in the fourth, Azzaoui crumpled to the canvas.
ref: 2007 November 4, “Awesome Calzaghe sets sights on Hopkins superfight”, in London Evening Standard, UK, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
glosses: A blow struck with the fist to the lower back region, capable of causing serious internal injury and not permitted under the rules of boxing.
Related terms: body blow
kidney punch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kidney punches
form: kidney punching
form: kidney punched
form: kidney punched
form: kidney-punch
Senses: glosses: To deliver such a blow.
kidney-punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney-punches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kidney punch.
adhesive capsulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder in which the shoulder capsule, the connective tissue surrounding the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder, becomes inflamed and stiff, greatly restricting motion and causing chronic pain.
Synonyms: frozen shoulder
flywire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌɪwʌɪə/
Forms: form: flywires
form: fly-wire
Etymology: From fly + wire.
Senses: examples: text: He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 126:
text: For a moment, she feared he would, like a new puppy, burst through the flywire.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 367:
text: He stood in the deep shadow of the open doorway, holding the flywire back with one hand and watching them get out and stretch their limbs in the sun.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 64:
glosses: A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
deener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnə/
Forms: form: deeners
Senses: examples: text: ‘You're very fortunate.’ ‘I worked for it, every zac and deener.’
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 370:
glosses: A shilling.
deeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deener
flooded gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flooded gums
Senses: examples: text: There were no locks on the door and you could get an education or work in the bush planting flooded gum.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 384:
glosses: Any of several eucalypts that flourish in damp soil, especially Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus rudis.
Synonyms: floodgum
Universal Unitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1996, Jacque Weddle, Universal Unitarian Church, in soc.religion.christian, Usenet, link
glosses: Pertaining to Unitarian Universalism.
Universal Unitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Universal Unitarians
Senses: glosses: Unitarian Universalist.
Egyptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈd͡ʒɪp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪptɪk
Forms: form: Ægyptic
Etymology: From Egypt + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Egyptian.
Middle-Earth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Middle Earth.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Middle-earth.
Boehm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boehms
Etymology: From German Böhm.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Boehm collector
Related terms: Bohm
golden-shouldered parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden-shouldered parrots
Senses: examples: text: Charles contemplated a rare golden-shouldered parrot, a being so beautiful that its dreamer's face showed a beatific smile […].
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 390:
glosses: A rare bird, Psephotus chrysopterygius, found mainly in Queensland, Australia.
golden-shouldered parrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden-shouldered parrot
professional fouls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of professional foul
cancionero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancioneros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cancionero.
Senses: glosses: A collection of songs.
decorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dikɔɹpəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /diːkɔːpəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From de- + corporation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic removal of radioactive material that has been absorbed by the body
topics: business
glosses: The legal revocation of a registration/charter of a corporation (or Limited Liability Company) operating to the detriment of the state, nation, and/or world.
examples: text: (meditative humming) “As I grow closer to decorporation, words start to lose meaning.” (meditative humming)
ref: 2020 August 27, Ann Kim, “Moist Vessel” (5:14 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 4, spoken by O'Connor (Haley Joel Osment):
glosses: The act of becoming no long corporeal.
malleefowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malleefowls
form: malleefowl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mallee fowl.
bluebonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluebonnets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue bonnet.
blue bonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue bonnet
bolios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolio
bolias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bolia
formula unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formula units
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An empirical formula of an ionic compound (that does not possess individual molecules) for use in stoichiometric calculations.
pedantisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedantism
pedanticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedanticism
rockin'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑkɪn/
rhymes: -ɒkɪn
Forms: form: more rockin'
form: most rockin'
form: rockin
Senses: glosses: colloquial form of rocking
children's homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of children's home
Buccos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From buccaneer (“pirate”), + -o.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: nickname of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
G-men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G-man
G-men
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A nickname of the New York Giants football team.
guilt-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guilt-trips
form: guilt-tripping
form: guilt-tripped
form: guilt-tripped
form: guilt trip
Etymology: Denominal verb of guilt trip. First use appears c. 1977 in the defunct periodical Spare Rib.
Senses: examples: text: to guilt-trip someone into [doing] something
text: I have been fully expecting my father to guilt-trip me, to lay it on really thick about what a terrible son I am, to basically, talk down to me like I was some kind of idiot.
ref: 1999, David A. Shapiro, Choosing the Right Thing to Do, page 136:
text: First, he tries to guilt-trip her into taking them.
ref: 2007, Ronald Potter-Efron, Rage: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Explosive Anger, page 106:
text: In this book, I don't want to guilt-trip you into action.
ref: 2011, Brian Goins, Playing Hurt: A Guy's Strategy for a Winning Marriage, page 18:
text: Given that Biden said it would take the Lord Almighty to make him drop out, I have no doubt that Pelosi has been using their shared Catholic faith to guilt-trip the president into understanding the stakes, and what she thinks the Lord Almighty would want.
ref: 2024 July 20, Maureen Dowd, “Lord Almighty, Joe, Let It Go!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: New Zealand’s minister for resources, Shane Jones, said he will not be guilt-tripped by “apocalyptic images” of mining and its effects on the environment put forward by his critics, as he embarks on a major mining push.
ref: 2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To attempt to induce a guilt trip; to cause another to feel guilt, in order to influence the behavior of that individual.
wikipedia: Spare Rib
guilt-trips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guilt-trip
guilt-tripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guilt-trip
guilt-tripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guilt-trip
guildmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guildmembers
Etymology: From guild + member.
Senses: glosses: A member of a guild.
guildmembers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guildmember
animal husbandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animal husbandries
Senses: glosses: The management and care of farm animals by humans for profit, in which genetic qualities and behaviour, considered to be advantageous to humans, are further developed.
fac-simile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fac-similes
Senses: examples: text: That James D. McBride be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to have engraved, on stone or wood, true and fac-simile copies of the seal of the Supreme Court of the United States, the seal of the United States, the seal of the Senate of the United States, the seal of the House of Representatives, and the seal of the Department of State, which have been authoritatively annexed to the following documents originating with him, and to print the same on true and fac-simlle copies thereof
ref: 1894, United States Senate, Congressional Record (Senate), July 31, 1894, Vol. 26, Part 8, p. 8037, published 1894:
glosses: Alternative spelling of facsimile.
fac-similes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fac-simile
New York fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New York ferns
Senses: glosses: A fern of the species Parathelypteris noveboracensis (syn. Thelypteris noveboracensis), native to eastern North America.
New York ironweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Vernonia noveboracensis, a plant in the aster family, native to much of the eastern United States.
Synonyms: sense: Vernonia noveboracensis
word: vein-leaf hawkweed
school sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of school + sores.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of impetigo.
synonyms: word: impetigo
quagma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quagmas
Etymology: Blend of quark + magma
Senses: glosses: A theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks.
Synonyms: QCD matter
quark matter
QGP
quark-gluon plasma
horse soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse soldiers
form: horse-soldier
form: horsesoldier
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An army member who fights horseback; a cavalry or cavalier.
sleeping mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping mats
Senses: examples: text: The natives followed him to where a great tree overhung the palisade, and as Tarzan leaped for a lower branch and disappeared into the foliage above, precisely after the manner of Manu, the monkey, there were loud exclamations of surprise and astonishment. For half an hour they called to him to return, but as he did not answer them they at last desisted, and sought the sleeping-mats within their huts.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 127:
glosses: A thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors.
Related terms: lilo
yoga mat
little corella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little corellas
Senses: examples: text: There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 434:
text: The little corella has historically been confined to the northeast corner of South Australia but spread with the development of agriculture and irrigation, which provided new water and food sources.
ref: 2018 April 6, Royce Kurmelovs, The Guardian:
glosses: A white cockatoo, Cacatua sanguinea, native to Australia and southern New Guinea.
little corellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little corella
casuarina cockatoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casuarina cockatoos
Senses: examples: text: There were red-tailed cockatoos, casuarina cockatoos, a little corella and a galah.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 434:
glosses: The glossy black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus lathami.
casuarina cockatoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casuarina cockatoo
shickered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪkəd/
Forms: form: shikkered
Etymology: From Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכּור.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shicker
shickered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪkəd/
Forms: form: more shickered
form: most shickered
form: shikkered
Etymology: From Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכּור.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I'm shikkered. I've never been so shikkered before. Do you know how I know? Because,’ he started giggling, ‘because I don't normally fucking swear.’
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 458:
text: 'You're shickered, dear.' She is coolly diagnostic. 'You know what you're like when you're shickered.'
ref: 1994, Annamarie Jagose, In Translation, page 13:
glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
lavador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lavadors
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese lavador (“washer”).
Senses: glosses: A machine used in mining placer deposits, which washes paydirt slurries pumped into the top of machine, extracting pebbled ores though its sluice runs into its riffles, grates and miner's moss, a type of washplant.
Hypernyms: washplant
shikkered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shikkered
form: most shikkered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shickered.
washplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washplants
Etymology: From wash + plant.
Senses: glosses: A type of machine used to extract ores from paydirt when mining placer deposits, using water and sedimentation processing.
Hyponyms: lavador
sluicebox
trommel
shaker
washplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of washplant
lavadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavador
rankes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranke
starrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starrers
Etymology: From star + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has refused to certify Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer 'Haraamkhor' objecting to its theme which deals with a student-teacher romance.
ref: 2016 June 19, “Another Anurag Kashyap film faces trouble”, in The Times of India:
text: Although the selection appears noticeably short of major Hollywood names – with studios clearly preferring to hedge their bets and keep product back till the post-pandemic situation is clearer – Cannes has the Kate Winslet/Saoirse Ronan starrer Ammonite, directed by British film-maker Francis Lee.
ref: 2020 June 3, Andrew Pulver, “Cannes selects lineup for 2020 edition after 'physical' festival shelved”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A film featuring a particular movie star.
examples: text: Serve this platter with herbed pizza squares for a sumptuous starter. The interesting combination of lemon, honey and herbs in the dressing is what makes this starter and^([sic]) real five-starrer!
ref: 2008, Tarla Dalal, Exotic, page 12:
glosses: Something meriting a rating of the specified number of stars.
Related terms: multistarrer
starres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starre
crêpey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crêpier
form: crêpiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crêpy.
hetero-fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterofascism
Etymology: From hetero- + fascism.
Senses: examples: text: Attempting (and failing) to Expose Homosexuality In The Nazi Party and in the process, exposing Heterofascism in America.
ref: 1996 January 12, DAnder9829 [username], “Re: The Pink Friend of the German Jews: Ernst Roehm the Homosexual”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):
text: The two eventually fall out, violently and publicly, over Aids, which Willie comes to see as "a moral argument that's trying to police our sexuality", just as Doumé and Leibo fall out over the latter's alleged "heterofascism".
ref: 2011 February 17, Leo Robson, “Hate: a Romance by Tristan Garcia”, in New Statesman:
text: Glenn Beck: Do you know what happened last week in Russia? One of their biggest stars on television said that homosexuals should be put into the ovens alive. I didn't think you could make the Holocaust worse, but he's like, "Why the gas chamber? That seems a little too humane. Let's put them alive in the ovens." I said on the air this week, I will stand with GLAAD. I will stand with anybody who will stand up and say that's crazy. That's dangerous. That's hetero-fascism. That's what that is.
ref: 2013 December 20 (airdate), Pierce Morgan Live, CNN
glosses: Authoritarian or aggressive support for heteronormativity.
Related terms: heterofascist
homofascism
alpargatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpargata
heterofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterofascist
form: most heterofascist
Etymology: From hetero- + fascist.
Senses: examples: text: […] and support for each other in fighting the oppression forced on us by the larger heterofascist society and against those gay men who identify with it.
ref: 1976, Faggots and Class Struggle: A Conference Report, page 66:
text: Also, some time ago, when I first discovered soc.motss, I found out that I was WRONG to advocate monogamy (I was merely part of some crypto-Christian heterofascist breeding ideal).
ref: 1991 February 27, John Passaniti, “WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: After Louie describes with horror the father's forcing Virgil (arguably Louie's long unrequited love) to shoot some puppies to make a man out of him, we begin to see how Louie further denaturalizes heterosexualized spaces, here demonstrating the heterofascist fear of dissolution into a female subject constructed as the dark abyss […]
ref: 2000, Frederick Luis Aldama, “Ethnoqueer Rearchitexturing of Metropolitan Space”, in Nepantla: Views from South, volume 1, number 3:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to hetero-fascism.