cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
penholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penholders
Etymology: From pen + holder.
Senses: examples: text: He was amazing, and had a penholder behind his ear.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 207:
text: The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.
ref: 2009 April 3, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
glosses: A handle into which a nib or other penpoint is fitted to form a pen.
glosses: A device for storing pens while they are not being used.
glosses: Alternative form of penhold.
examples: text: Widespread reports of ethnically targeted killings in recent days prompted the UK, as the UN penholder on Sudan, to call an emergency session of the security council in New York on Thursday.
ref: 2025 October 30, Patrick Wintour, “UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan”, in The Guardian:
topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: a member of the United Nations Security Council with responsibility for
penholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penholder
persuaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persuader
philatelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philatelist
physicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicalities
Etymology: From physical + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had. Pretty soon, all of the test subjects had melted together into … Those.
ref: 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
text: At the heart of that was McTominay, using his physicality to break down Spanish momentum, and his reading of the game to stymie their attacks.
ref: 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald:
glosses: Physical attributes.
glosses: Obsession with physical urges.
Synonyms: physicalness
Derived terms: nonphysicality
pianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pianist
picnicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪknɪkɪŋ/
Etymology: From picnic + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of picnic
picnicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪknɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: picnickings
Etymology: From picnic + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This sentiment was particularly approved by Lady Jane, who had a childish liking for expeditions and picnickings, and who had set her heart upon carrying out her drive that afternoon.
ref: 1868, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 12? volume 18? page 750
glosses: An expedition for the purpose of having a picnic.
picnicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪknɪkt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of picnic
picnic basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnic baskets
Senses: glosses: A basket or hamper used to carry food and utensils to a picnic.
glosses: The food in a basket taken to a picnic.
picnic baskets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picnic basket
pillboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillbox
pilotless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pilot + -less.
Senses: synonyms: unmanned
unpiloted
glosses: Not having a pilot.
Derived terms: pilotlessness
injunct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: injuncts
form: injuncting
form: injuncted
form: injuncted
Etymology: Back-formation from injunction by analogy with adjunct, conjunct.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To put an injunction against. (Used both of the party who applies for the injunction and of the judge who grants it.)
Synonyms: enjoin
bevor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbivɚ/
ipa: /ˈbiːvə/
homophone: beaver
homophone: Belvoir
homophone: bever
Forms: form: bevors
form: beaver
form: bever
Etymology: From Middle English baviere, from Old French baviere (“child's bib”), from baver (“to slaver”).
Senses: examples: text: He who lookes you in the face, ſaith he ſees you, though the reſt of your bodie be within your cloathes, and if you, being an ὁωλομάχος a cataphract in your proteſtantiſh πανοπλία [panoplía, suit of armour] should for fear pull downe your beuer before you come into the liſt, your Aduerſarie for all that might light vpon your (  ) vnleſſe you bring with you Giges his ring, ſo to make your ſelf inuiſible; [...]
ref: 1635, L. I. [pseudonym; John Lechmere], “The Third Argument was about the Killing Letter; out of Origen, […]”, in The Relection of a Conference Tovching the Reall Presence. Or A Bachelovrs Censvre of a Masters Apologie for Doctour Featlie, Douai: Lavrence Kellam, →OCLC, page 333:
text: Since gorgets completely encircled the neck, they were usually more articulated than the bevors to allow for some movement of the neck and head. Bevors typically were open in back but extended up above the wearer′s jaw on the sides and front. Use of a bevor or a gorget depended upon the type of helmet the knight wore[…].
ref: 2001, Paul B. Newman, Daily life in the Middle Ages, page 210:
text: For heavy field use a reinforcing breastplate was sometimes added, together with a wrapper over the upper bevor.
ref: 2008, Christopher Gravett, Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600, page 233:
text: Many helmets had an upper part joined with hinges to a bevor, which protected the knight′s lower face and jaw.
ref: 2011, Kerrie Logan Hollihan, Elizabeth I, the People's Queen: Her Life and Times, 21 Activities, page 61:
coordinate_terms: word: gorget
english: neck protector
translation: neck protector
word: buffe
english: (lower) face protector
translation: (lower) face protector
word: visor
english: face protector
translation: face protector
glosses: A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.
povo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more povo
form: most povo
form: povvo
Etymology: Probably a blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), owing to the term's Australian origins. Alternatively, borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”).
Senses: examples: text: She went to some povo school down the street.
text: This is where, 30 years ago, the docking industry was destroyed, leading to one of the lengthiest industrial disputes in British history, causing a 20 per cent unemployment rate and casting Liverpool as a "povo city" (the jobless rate now stands at a respectable 4 per cent.)
ref: 2003 October 8, Carol Midgley, “It’s Grim Up North”, in The Times, number 67888, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: And he's really adorbs. I've been spending time with him and his community in this really povo area in the Western suburbs [sc. of Sydney]. I've been like reading to him and just chilling and stuff. It's legit a seriously tragic environment.
ref: 2013, Chris Lilley, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Ja'mie King, HBO:
text: The school wasn’t exclusively populated by the children of haughty elitists who wanted their baby geniuses shielded from povo “flat rats” either, (although I suspect there was a bit of that). Many wonderful, open minded people sent their children there, including middle class families who struggled financially to secure that promised leg up in life.
ref: 2017 June 17, Tara Kenny, “I was a poor kid at a wealthy private school. It gave me social mobility, but also a sense of shame”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: It feels “weirdly liberating” for him to now have thousands of people commenting under his videos about how they’re proud to be povvo.
ref: 2024 April 7, Eleanor Morgan, “Are you rich and ridiculous? TikTok comedian Shabaz Ali has you in his sights”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Poor, penniless.
povo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: povos
form: povvo
Etymology: Probably a blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), owing to the term's Australian origins. Alternatively, borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”).
Senses: examples: text: This area is full of povos.
glosses: One who is poor, a pauper.
Synonyms: pov
dealmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deal + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of commercial, financial or political deals
Related terms: dealmaker
private equity
venture capital
M&A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M+A
Senses: examples: text: This thesis deals in general with mergers & acquisitions in the CRO industry, and more specifically with reasons for M&A, success factors during the M&A process, and why M&A can fail in the Contract Research Organization industry.
ref: 2013, Jakob Miera, Mergers & Acquisitions in the Contract Research Organization Industry, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of mergers and acquisitions.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of marketing and advertising.
topics: management
glosses: Initialism of management and analysis.
isomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomeres
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Archaic form of isomer.
Anatolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /anəˈtəʊlɪən/
ipa: /ænəˈtoʊliən/
Etymology: From Anatolia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Anatolia or its people, culture, etc.
Derived terms: Anatolian Shepherd
Anatolian Turkic
Anatolian Turkish
Old Anatolian Turkic
Old Anatolian Turkish
Anatolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /anəˈtəʊlɪən/
ipa: /ænəˈtoʊliən/
Forms: form: Anatolians
Etymology: From Anatolia + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Anatolia.
Anatolian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /anəˈtəʊlɪən/
ipa: /ænəˈtoʊliən/
Etymology: From Anatolia + -n.
Senses: glosses: An extinct group of Indo-European languages once spoken in Anatolia, including Hittite and Luwian.
Derived terms: Proto-Indo-Anatolian
childbearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childbearing
Svetoslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A romanization of the Bulgarian male given name from the Slavic languages Светослав. Romanized diminutive/nickname: Svetlio.
mandamento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandamentos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mandamento. Doublet of mandement.
Senses: glosses: mandamento (former type of Italian administrative district; territory ruled by a praetor)
glosses: mandamento (territory ruled by a Sicilian Mafia clan, under a capomandamento (“family boss”))
cook off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cooks off
form: cooking off
form: cooked off
form: cooked off
Senses: examples: text: You have to cook off the excess liquid.
glosses: To eliminate by cooking.
qualifier: liquor
glosses: To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
raw_tags: of explosives
examples: text: Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.
Luso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin Lūsitānia (“Ancient Roman province comprising most of modern Portugal and part of Spain”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to Portugal or the Portuguese people, language, or culture.
sloops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sloop
sidefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sidefoots
form: sidefooting
form: sidefooted
form: sidefooted
Etymology: From side + foot.
Senses: examples: text: Anthony Pilkington sidefooted the Canaries ahead before Grant Holt was denied a penalty for Norwich.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To kick something with the instep of the foot.
side-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side-foots
form: side-footing
form: side-footed
form: side-footed
Senses: examples: text: That was the hard work largely done as the Ivorian waited for Malouda to steam into the box before releasing a simple crossed pass which the Frenchman side-footed home with aplomb.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
text: He was one-on-one with Ederson after a burst from the impressive Scott McTominay but side-footed weakly at the goalkeeper.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sidefoot.
forel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: forels
Etymology: From Middle English forel (“case, sheath”), from Old French forrel, fourrel.
Senses: glosses: A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
forel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒɹəl
Forms: form: forels
form: foreling
form: forelling
form: foreled
form: foreled
form: forelled
form: forelled
Etymology: From Middle English forel (“case, sheath”), from Old French forrel, fourrel.
Senses: examples: text: As for Josephus's conceit , that the second edition of the temple by Zerubbabel , as it was new forelled and filleted with gold by Herod , was a statelier volume than the first of Solomon
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bind with a forel.
love song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love songs
Etymology: From Middle English love song (“a song about love”).
Senses: glosses: A song about love; a song that expresses amorous feelings.
look to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks to
form: looking to
form: looked to
form: looked to
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, to.
examples: text: Whenever I'm upset, I look to Mary to cheer me up.
text: But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ "He's there, I tell you," he persisted. "And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!"
ref: 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
glosses: To seek inspiration or advice or reward from someone.
examples: text: He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back;[…].
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take care of.
examples: text: I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!
text: A storm looks to be on the way.
glosses: To intend to; to prepare to; to seem likely to.
traditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditors
form: traditores
Etymology: From Latin trāditor (“betrayer”), from trādō (“I hand over”). Doublet of traitor.
Senses: examples: text: A number of bishops cooperated with him , piqued that they had not been called to the ordination of Cæcilian . Seventy bishops , a number of whom had been traditors , met thus together at Carthage , to depose Cæcilian.
ref: 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:
glosses: A deliverer; a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives.
tritone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtəʊ̯n/
enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtoʊn/
ipa: [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
ipa: [ˈt̠͡ʃɹ̠̊˔ʷäɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
Forms: form: tritones
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tritonus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίτονος (trítonos). By surface analysis, tri- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: augmented fourth, diminished fifth
text: The tritone has a pitch ratio close to 17:12.
text: The mini-epic “Seasons in the Abyss,” with its ringing tritone interval at the beginning, its extended solos, its medium tempo, was as close as Slayer got to a groove.
ref: 2007 February 17, Ben Ratliff, “For Some Unmellowed Metalheads, Middle Age Is Nothing to Fear”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: devil's interval
devil in music
diabolus in musica
diabolus
glosses: An interval of three whole tones.
Derived terms: semitritone
tritone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtəʊ̯n/
enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtoʊn/
ipa: [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
ipa: [ˈt̠͡ʃɹ̠̊˔ʷäɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
Forms: form: tritones
form: tri-tone
Etymology: From tri- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: In Photoshop’s Duotone mode you can create monotones, duotones, tritones, and quadtones—grayscale images to which you add one, two, three, or four colors.
ref: 1995, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, “Converting from One Mode to Another”, in Fundamental Photoshop, 2nd edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 380:
text: When using tritones or quadtones (in which three colours are blended together) all the secondary colours are mixed together.
ref: 2003, Duncan Evans, “Duotones and Tritones”, in A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Portrait Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The two colours need not be black and grey; computer duotones can be created from a greyscale original in any two colours; tritones use three inks and quadtones four.
ref: 2010, David Präkel, “Duotone”, in The Visual Dictionary of Photography, AVA Publishing SA, →ISBN, page 97:
coordinate_terms: duotone
quadtone
glosses: A picture printed in three shades.
tritone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtəʊ̯n/
enpr: trī'tōn
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪˌtoʊn/
ipa: [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷaɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
ipa: [ˈt̠͡ʃɹ̠̊˔ʷäɪˌtʰoʊ̯n]
Forms: form: tri-tone
Etymology: From tri- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: The first cotume^([sic]) in which Mrs. Earle appeared was a tritone dress of crepe, with a brown velour cloche and brown calf sling pumps.
ref: 1950 October 15, “Local Matrons Smartly Model Clothes Here At Event By Junior League”, in The Greenville News, volume LXXVI, number 288, Greenville, S.C., page two:
text: Fortrel-and-rayon-linen tritone dress, with drawstring waist.
ref: 1963 May, “Thirty summer fashions”, in McCall’s, page 186:
text: Tritone jacket has contrast nylon inserts. 80(Blue/Red/Wht.), 38(Beige/Navy/Red).
ref: 1979, “Killy Triple Gold Jackets”, in Christmas Wish Book, page 360:
text: It is hard to believe that today’s signs may be tomorrow’s beloved ghosts, but sure as my 1970’s polyester tritone shirt and my plebeian 1964 Volvo are now “classics,” it will likely be so.
ref: 2013, Alexandra Horowitz, “Minding Our Qs”, in On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, Scribner, →ISBN, pages 69–70:
synonyms: tritoned
glosses: Having three tones.
raincoat brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mackintosh brigade
glosses: A generic group of men interested in sleaze or pornography; dirty old men.
roadsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadster
rigors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigor
revolutionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revolutionize
revolutionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revolutionize
reworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rework
reworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reworkings
Senses: examples: text: What is ancient for us was in its own time a reworking of what was ancient for the ancients.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 210:
text: It was the exhilaration of moments like this that made the audience somewhat restless during the band's long warm-up sets later in the evening, sets primarily made up of craftsmanly but unimaginative reworkings of contemporary pop-funk.
ref: 1988 September 9, David Whiteis, “Stuff enough: Raful Neal and the bluesman's dilemma”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An act in which something is reworked.
reworks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rework
electric piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈlɛk.tɹɪk piˈæn.oʊ/
Forms: form: electric pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of lightweight piano with electronic pickups to amplify the sound. The strings, or string substitutes, are struck mechanically such that the action is similar to that of a normal piano.
Related terms: digital piano
title policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title policies
Senses: glosses: An insurance policy on a piece of real estate for which the title deeds may be incomplete or not properly searched.
sell-by date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sell-by dates
Senses: glosses: The final date on which a perishable product should be sold to the public.
examples: text: Tony Blair insists on remaining in office well past his sell-by date - yet he can afford to go.
ref: 2007 March, William Keegan, “As Blair contemplates the hereafter, Britain must endure a life in limbo”, in The Guardian Online:
text: September 9, 2017 - Schlock Mercenary
Manifold: This is not a team, Petey. This is just another mass grave.
Ewin: Eeew. What's the sell-by date on that manifold? I think it's gone bad.
text: "They have gone past their sell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 8:
glosses: An indication that something, or someone, is old and out of date.
Coordinate terms: best before date
best-by date
expiration date
expiry date
issue date
use-by date
Related terms: expiration date
expiry date
shelf life
use-by date
due date
best-before date
concertante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertantes
Etymology: From Italian concertante, originally present participle of concertare (“to form or perform a concert”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A concert for two or more solo instrumentalists, with orchestral accompaniment.
Related terms: sinfonia concertante
concertato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertatos
form: concertati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian concertato, past participle of concertare.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of stile concertato
examples: text: Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting: a boisterous pub, perhaps, as the program note suggested.
ref: 2008 June 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant”, in New York Times:
qualifier: opera
glosses: Ellipsis of finale concertato
playing around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play around
touchline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchlines
form: touch line
Etymology: From touch + line.
Senses: examples: text: French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
text: Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
synonyms: word: sideline
english: in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball
translation: in Canadian football, field lacrosse and basketball
glosses: One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.
clonewheel organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clonewheel organs
Etymology: Blend of clone + tonewheel organ
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any kind of electronic musical instrument which can emulate the sound of any of the tonewheel-based Hammond organs.
Synonyms: clonewheel
tonewheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonewheels
Etymology: From tone + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A mechanical apparatus, used principally in Hammond organs, that converts the spinning movement of an electric motor into electronic musical notes.
play around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays around
form: playing around
form: played around
form: played around
Senses: examples: text: Stop playing around, and get on with your homework.
glosses: To behave in a silly, childish, or irresponsible way.
examples: text: He was interested in electronics and began playing around with amplifiers.
glosses: To work with something in a non-serious manner; to tweak or tinker.
glosses: To engage in sexual practices outside of marriage.
Synonyms: fool around
junk science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk sciences
Senses: examples: text: His testimony was worse than science fiction: it was junk science.
text: Our field falls neither in the category of immediately acceptable DNA experts at one end of the spectrum nor in the category of the immediately unacceptable so-called junk sciences at the other end.
ref: 2006, Roger W. Shuy, Linguistics in the Courtroom: A Practical Guide, page 99:
text: Tom Hockaday was an APCO employee, and March 1993 found him working closely with Philip Morris vice president Ellen Merlo to develop scientific articles to defend secondhand smoke and promote the idea that the EPA work was “junk science.”
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: Climate policy is being dragged into the culture wars with misinformation and junk science being spread across the internet by a relatively small group of individuals and groups, according to a study.
ref: 2022 June 9, Matthew Taylor, “Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Assertions or methods that have the appearance, but not the actuality, of scientific legitimacy.
Related terms: pseudoscience
trucidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trucidates
form: trucidating
form: trucidated
form: trucidated
Etymology: From Latin trucīdāre.
Senses: examples: text: even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.
ref: 1815, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan:
text: Butt. You sit at the table and shovel down course after course of condimented, trucidated trash; and there's your poor tortured stomach, on bended knee at the foot of your œsophagus, lifting up its hands to Heaven and crying, “My God, what next?”
ref: 1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, page 15:
glosses: To slaughter, massacre, kill.
Related terms: trucidation
digital piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪ.d͡ʒə.təl ˈpi.æ.noʊ/
Forms: form: digital pianos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of lightweight piano which reproduces the sound of a standard piano by electronic means. The keys are designed to feel like the keys of a real piano, and often to resemble them also.
Related terms: electric piano
junk sciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk science
pedal keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedal keyboards
Senses: glosses: pedalboard (organ keyboard)
keyboard bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyboard basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An electronic keyboard instrument specifically used to reproduce the bass note range.
teakettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teakettle
tamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tamp
tamping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tamping
form: most tamping
Etymology: From tamp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Very angry; fuming.
tamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tamp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tamp
tamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tampings
Etymology: From tamp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, with earth, sand, or similar material in order to contain and direct explosive force meant to blast the rock or collapse the mine.
glosses: The material used in tamping.
Derived terms: tamping iron
tamping machine
tailfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailfins
form: tail fin
Etymology: From tail + fin.
Senses: glosses: A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin
glosses: A fin on the tail of an aircraft, vertical stabilizer
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A fin-like projection at the rear of a car, common on American cars of the 1950s.
tailfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailfin
tailspins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailspin
tabulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabulation
symmetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symmetry
symphonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphony
swiveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a swivel.
swiveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swivel
lares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lar
Etymology: From the Latin plural lares, from lar, q.v.
Senses: examples: text: The season now invites me to retire
To the dear lares of my household fire
To homely scenes of calm domestic peace,
A poet's leisure, and an old man's ease...
ref: 1773, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ovid to his Wife:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lares.
swivelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swiveled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swivel
swiveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swivelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swivel
swiveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivelings
form: swivelling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swivelling.
swivelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swiveling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swivel
swivelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivellings
form: swiveling
Senses: examples: text: Around us, groups of girls with short summer dresses hoicked up to tan their milky white thighs sat on thin jackets and aerated the grass with coy swivellings of their spiky heels.
ref: 2013, Paul Bennett, False Profits:
glosses: The motion of something that swivels.
switchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃəbəl/
Etymology: From switch + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being switched.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Being a switch; able to take either a dominant or a submissive role.
swallowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swallower
swallower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swallowers
Etymology: From swallow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who swallows.
Someone who swallows semen at the end of an act of fellatio.
coordinate_terms: spitter
glosses: One who swallows.
One who swallows packets of drugs in order to smuggle them.
glosses: Any fish of the family Chiasmodontidae.
Derived terms: black swallower
sword swallower
shits and giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shits-and-giggles
Senses: examples: text: But it will totally happen and if anyone says it's going to happen they might be right so it would be good to live in fear and paranoia and constantly worry that your life is going to end tragically and whenever someone sells a book or magazine about the subject make sure and buy it and then put in on your coffee table and if anyone ever comes over (which they won't but just for shits and giggles lets say they will)
ref: 1969, Nathan Smithe, The Bible 2.0, page 227:
text: "Naw. I took it in Spanish, for shits and giggles."
ref: 1984, Eliot Jay Cohen, Organs of the Media, page 126:
text: Just for shits and giggles we'll ask to hear the audiotape of this phone call that's supposed to be incriminating, but we only want to hear the weird voice on the other end of the line.
ref: 1999, Rob K. Overton, More Letters to Rollins, page 97:
glosses: Synonym of kicks and giggles.
synonyms: word: kicks and giggles
swages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swage
swages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swage
swaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swage
grins and giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grins-and-giggles
Senses: examples: text: When he had dismissed those odious women with their grins and giggles, he stepped into the seat in front, and, leaning over it, held out his hand with a manner from which all the warmth and spontaneity had departed, saying, "Ah, good evening, Mrs. Brand. How is my boy to-day?"
ref: 1913, Hersilia A. Mitchell Keays, Mrs. Brand, A Novel, page 85:
text: Blue pillars supported wide tin roofs over verandas laden with smiling children who met my waves with grins and giggles.
ref: 1990, Andrew W. Mitchell, The Fragile South Pacific, An Ecological Odyssey, page 51:
text: While functional grins and giggles belong to the "intentional" communicative weaponry of a sovereign subject, the comic situation may on occasion produce a characteristic power-reversal whereby laughter assumes mastery over its subject, reducing him or her to a gibbering wretch rolling about on the floor and clutching his or her sides.
ref: 1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter, An Essay on Comedy, page 14:
text: He had thought that the ongoing grins and giggles were simply because he was home.
ref: 1998, Barbara Delinsky, Coast Road, page 207:
glosses: Synonym of kicks and giggles.
synonyms: word: kicks and giggles
kicks and giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kicks-and-giggles
Etymology: First use appears c. 1963. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: They are looking for their own Happy Land, though I do not think they will find it by way of 'kicks' and 'giggles'.
ref: 1963, Statesman and Nation Publishing Company (publisher), New Statesman, volume 65, page 316:
synonyms: grins and giggles
shits and giggles
shits and grins
glosses: Amusement without any serious purpose; fun.
Related terms: word: for kicks
word: have a laugh
swaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swage
swaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swagings
Senses: examples: text: After repeated swagings and heatings […]
ref: 1913, The Mineral Industry, volume 21, page 849:
glosses: The process of shaping metal with a swage.
sloot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsluːt/
/ˈsluːɪt/
Forms: form: sloots
form: sluit
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.
Senses: glosses: A ditch.
examples: text: Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.
ref: 1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 101:
glosses: An irrigation channel.
death stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death sticks
Senses: glosses: A cigarette.
Synonyms: cancer stick
death sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death stick
semi-highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-highways
Etymology: From semi- + highway.
Senses: glosses: An undivided road, usually two lanes, which is built on one roadway of a highway and functions as a temporary replacement until the second roadway is built.
criminal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminal records
Senses: synonyms: police record
glosses: A record of the past crimes of which someone has been convicted.
Derived terms: certificate of clean criminal record
certificate of criminal record
criminal record certificate
enhanced criminal record certificate
extract from the criminal record
Related terms: certificate of conduct
priors
rap sheet
run someone's file
darb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: darbs
Senses: examples: text: Ain't it a darb?
ref: 1915, He Resolves Not to Smoke:
text: “Boss,” he exclaimed, “it's a darb.”
“It's more than that,” I cut in, “it′s a wonder. It′s a masterpiece.[…]”
ref: 1931, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Circus Day, page 263:
text: ‘My new bird is a darb,’ he says, ‘only four months old and he′s got a roll and a chop the size of your arm. Never heard a young bird sing like that.’
ref: 1934, Story, volume 4, page 35:
text: 1941, Amazing Stories, Ziff-Davis, Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 21,
You can figure for yourself what a darb of a setup that was for us seven hundred professional killers!
text: I looked at the snapshot of his sister for a long while, and I suddenly pitied the Hallmark people, and all the other sterile unfortunates who are manufacturing and consuming ready-made greeting cards, because, even among their choicest items, among their most expensive numbers, they had never been able to corner a Christmas angel that deserved to hold a candle to little Tessa Pavlic. She was a darb.
"She's very beautiful," I said, handing him back his picture.
ref: 1958, Alexander King, chapter 21, in Mine Enemy Grows Older, New York: Simon and Schuster:
glosses: Something beautiful, a charm, a peach.
glosses: A cigarette.
Synonyms: sense: cigarette
word: death stick
sense: cigarette
word: durrie
durry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: durries
form: durrie
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from Bull Durham (an American tobacco brand) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “Fire-head lady, you got a smoke?” asks the younger of the two men. “You got a durry. Cigarette.”
ref: 2003, C. C. Saint-Clair, Far from Maddy, page 224:
text: He pulled a tobacco pouch out of his pocket with a plastic bag containing what had to be a mind-altering substance. “You′re welcome to join me in a durry,” he said, rolling himself a cigarette.
ref: 2004, Jay Verney, Percussion, page 118:
text: He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down.
ref: 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 151:
text: This was the first thing Yolanda knew in the dark morning. (That and where's my durries?)
ref: 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 3:
glosses: A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
Synonyms: cigarette
durry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹi/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈdɝ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Etymology: Alternative form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dhurrie.
darbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darb
zupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zupas
Senses: glosses: An administrative unit among various South Slavic peoples.
Related terms: zupan
oblatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblata
Etymology: From Late Latin oblātus (oblatus), from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) + lātus (“broad, wide”), (modelled after and contrasting with prolatus (“extended, lengthened”)).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis.
Related terms: oblongum
oblatum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin oblātum, past participle of offerō (“bring to, offer”), from ob (“in front of”) + ferō (“bring”). Compare oblate.
Senses: glosses: Submitted for publication; especially, of academic articles, submitted for peer review before publication.
chuck away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks away
form: chucking away
form: chucked away
form: chucked away
form: chuck out
Senses: examples: text: This shirt has just about had it. I think I'll chuck it away.
glosses: To discard, or throw away.
uncomfortableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncomfortable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 188:
synonyms: uncomfiness
uncomfortability
glosses: Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
spaghetti western
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti westerns
form: spaghetti Western
form: Spaghetti Western
Etymology: From spaghetti + western, pasta being a famously Italian product.
Senses: examples: text: “A Fistful of Dollars” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” are famous spaghetti westerns.
text: Over the years Django Kill has gained a reputation as the most violent Spaghetti Western and, though the film has tempered with age, it's still one of the oddest genre contributions.
ref: 2010, Howard Hughes, Spaghetti Westerns, Oldcastle Books, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: Italo-western
spaghetti
hypernyms: Eurowestern
western
movie
film
glosses: A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy.
Spaghetti Western
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spaghetti Westerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of spaghetti western.
spaghetti Western
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaghetti Westerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of spaghetti western.
desilvers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desilver
desilvering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desilver
desilvered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desilver
start off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starts off
form: starting off
form: started off
form: started off
Senses: examples: text: She started off with a lullaby.
glosses: To begin.
examples: text: They started off on horseback.
text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To set out on a trip.
examples: text: Don't start him off about that again.
glosses: To instigate someone to laugh or cry or to begin talking about something they often talk about.
Derived terms: start off on the right foot
start off on the wrong foot
to start off with
movlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: movlogs
Senses: glosses: A moblog containing video images.
Related terms: vlog
painstakenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more painstakenly
form: most painstakenly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of painstakingly.
painstaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more painstaken
form: most painstaken
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of painstaking.
moblog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒb.lɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɔbˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑbˌlɑɡ/
Forms: form: moblogs
Etymology: Blend of mobile + blog
Senses: glosses: A weblog posted from a mobile device, such as a cell phone or PDA.
Derived terms: moblogger
moblog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒb.lɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɔbˌlɔɡ/
ipa: /ˈmɑbˌlɑɡ/
Forms: form: moblogs
form: moblogging
form: moblogged
form: moblogged
Etymology: Blend of mobile + blog
Senses: glosses: To post to a weblog by this means.
de-muck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-mucks
form: de-mucking
form: de-mucked
form: de-mucked
Etymology: From de- + muck.
Senses: examples: text: Fill, grading, removing boulders, de-mucking and any other preparation needed on the site can be a nightmare of costs.
ref: 1990, Kay Whitehouse, Site Selection: Finding and Developing Your Best Location, Liberty House, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Our squirrel.
ref: 1994, Abby Frucht, Licorice, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 142:
english: Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it.
translation: Joe would be careful to skin it over the sink, then lay it flat on its pelt to drain it, behead it, de-paw it, de-muck it.
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glosses: To remove muck or dirt from.
polyspaston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyspastons
Senses: glosses: A hoisting-tackle with many pulleys.
sotelte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of subtlety.
fod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒd/
ipa: /fɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: fods
Etymology: From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom".
Senses: glosses: forehead, particularly a large one
Synonyms: forehead
brow
coprah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprahs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of copra.