cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fractional volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractional volumes
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
science
sciences
sports
glosses: The training volume amassed for a muscle group by performing a compound exercise in place of attempts to isolate it, expressed in datasets as fractions of whole sets worked for that muscle group.
fractional volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractional volume
randezvous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randezvous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of rendezvous.
deviled hams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deviled ham
put on the spot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on the spot
form: putting on the spot
form: put on the spot
form: put on the spot
Senses: glosses: To challenge or embarrass (someone).
Related terms: put someone in their place
numb-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numb-brained
form: most numb-brained
Senses: examples: text: It's a wonder to me that women have had so much restraint over the years of being treated as "babies," "girls," "coffee runners," "sis," "sweetheart," numb-brained nothings by their bosses, husbands, lovers, brothers, co-workers ad infinitum male overseers.
ref: 1974 February 9, Lois H. Johnson, “Try and Understand This, Gay Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 4:
glosses: stupid, mindless
black-backed gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-backed gulls
Senses: glosses: The greater black-backed gull or lesser black-backed gull.
ultrabuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + buff.
Senses: examples: text: When will they introduce a scantily clad, ultrabuff, humpa-hunka burn'n all-man studflesh to give us feigellas a reason to watch?
ref: 1999 September 24, cor...@frogger.telerama.com, “Our Commodification”, in soc.motss (Usenet):
text: So long's I have this here machine, my bod'll be rough, tough, an' ultrabuff!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
glosses: Extremely buff (fit, muscular).
pneumatosaccus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The subumbrellar surface of siphonophorous pneumatophores.
Related terms: nectophore
zooid
Sangat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Bagontapay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Bialong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Calunasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Dagong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
greater sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater sacs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An abdominal cavity located inside the peritoneum but outside the lesser sac, which is connected to it via the omental foramen.
Dungo-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
greater sacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greater sac
Gaunan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Langkong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Lepaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Liboo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Luz Village
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
New Barbaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
New Janiuay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
New Kalibo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
New Lawa-an
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Nueva Vida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Palma-Perez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Pulang-lupa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Tawantawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Tibao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
Ugpay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
time is short
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: almost always preceded by the and often followed by for
glosses: Synonym of clock is ticking.
synonyms: word: clock is ticking
feather boa kelp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather boa kelps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of feather boa.
synonyms: word: feather boa
feather boa kelps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather boa kelp
Guiana dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guiana dolphin
big hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big hand
little hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little hand
pak choy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bok choy.
make pretend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes pretend
form: making pretend
form: made pretend
form: made pretend
Senses: glosses: Synonym of make believe.
synonyms: word: make believe
look it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks it
form: looking it
form: looked it
form: looked it
Senses: examples: text: She is six months pregnant and looking it.
text: At 71 (he really does not look it), he still has the fire in his belly for such a challenge.
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39:
glosses: To resemble in appearance; to look like.
functus officio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin functus officio (“having performed one's duty”).
Senses: examples: text: A court loses jurisdiction, and is thus said to be functus officio, once the formal judgment has been entered […] After this point, the court is understood only to have the power to amend the judgment in very limited circumstances, such as where there is a statutory basis to do so, where necessary to correct an error in expressing its manifest intention, or where the matter has not been heard on its merits.
ref: 2021 September 24, Nicolas Kasirer, “Canadian Broadcasting Corp. v. Manitoba, 2021 SCC 33”, in CanLII, retrieved 25 Feb 2025:
topics: law
glosses: (of a judge etc.) Having completed one's involvement in a matter (e.g. at the end of a court case), so that one no longer has jurisdiction to revisit it.
Synonyms: functus
Chinese mallow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: cluster mallow
glosses: A plant of the mallow genus Malva in the family of Malvaceae (Malva verticillata) found in East Asia from Pakistan to China.
Elonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Elon + Melania, referring to Melania Trump. By surface analysis, Elon + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: You would think this wasteful outrage would have Elonia on TV and on line everywhere, putting his power and influence into full gear to stop this blatant government waste and abuse!
ref: 2025 January 29, Mike Rofone, “Why aren't more people screaming about the cost of this insanity?”, in Daily Kos:
glosses: Elon Musk, regarded as being exceptionally close to Donald Trump.
wikipedia: Melania Trump
looks it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look it
looking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look it
looked it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of look it
conisterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conisterions
form: conisterium
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κονιστήριον (konistḗrion).
Senses: examples: text: Prodigious ruins of walls, which formerly were all coated with marble, still point out the two temples, the two ephebea, the places where youths exercised themselves in the gymnastic games, the place for the wrestlers, the piscina, or the pool for the swimmers, different divisions for the houses of the superintendants, the apodyterion, or place where the wrestlers undressed, the conisterion, or place where the wrestlers, after being anointed with oil, were sprinkled with dust, the heliafterion, or place where they sunned themselves, the vestibulum, which was a rotunda, the baths, which consisted of cold, lukewarm, warm, and sweating baths, the theatre, two libraries, one Greek and one Latin, the course for racing, the place for playing at ball, a place which formerly was planted with the plane tree, and exedræ, for poets, philofophers, and rhetoricians.
ref: 1796, FREDERIC LEOPOLD COUNT STOLBERG, translated by THOMAS HOLCROFT, TRAVELS through GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, ITALY, and SICILY., translation of original in German, page 421:
text: The Conisterion, from sand, it being the place in which the bodies of the wrestlers were sanded.
ref: 1862, EDWARD FALKENER, EPHESUS and THE TEMPLE OF DIANA., page 62:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A room in ancient Greek and Roman gymnasiums where athletes, particularly wrestlers, applied sand or dust to their bodies after being anointed with oil. This practice enhanced grip during matches by counteracting the slipperiness caused by oil and sweat.
conisterions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conisterion
tertiariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tertiary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being tertiary.
aura farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A combination of the slang terms aura (“person's unique charismatic aesthetic”) + farming (“repetitive behavior to procure a desired outcome”).
Senses: examples: text: For example, one TikTok creator made a video of the “Greatest Aura Farming Cinematic Moments,” comprising movie moments where they believed a specific character was deliberately trying to look cool, such as Thanos in “Avengers: Endgame” waiting to fight the Avengers.
ref: 2025 February 19, Dan Aulbach, “What does 'aura' mean? Explaining the viral slang term”, in Today, Yahoo! Life, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2025:
topics: ACG
lifestyle
video-games
glosses: The behavior of a (fictional) character exaggerating certain desirable character traits (i.e. overall “aura”), such as their own charm, via characteristic tropes, perceived as intentional on their part but unintentionally comical or hard to take seriously.
examples: text: So, “Aura Farming” refers to intentionally doing something, or planting the seeds, that can convince people that you are impressive or cool, without drawing attention to the thing that is impressive.
ref: 2025 July 19, Julianne MacNeill, “What Is ‘Aura Farming’?”, in Woman's World, Yahoo! Life:
topics: ACG
lifestyle
video-games
glosses: The behavior of a (fictional) character exaggerating certain desirable character traits (i.e. overall “aura”), such as their own charm, via characteristic tropes, perceived as intentional on their part but unintentionally comical or hard to take seriously.
The deliberate projection of such traits in a way that appears natural, effective, or convincing, and is therefore received by the audience as serious and admirable rather than exaggerated or comical.
examples: text: Duke Dennis then slammed his followers for suggesting that he was "aura farming" with his actions.
"You all nerd a** n***as talking about aura farming. Nobody says that s**t in real life! No bulls**t! Like, the s**t y'all be saying, nobody says that in real life. How do you all think?"
ref: 2024 September 14, Aarnesh Shrivastava, quoting Duke Dennis, “"Nobody says that s**t in real life" - AMP Duke Dennis slams fans for saying that he was "aura farming" by making gestures while eating fruit”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2025:
qualifier: social media
glosses: Developing or putting on a persona in such a manner.
Derived terms: english: back-formed
translation: back-formed
word: aura farm
aura farming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: A combination of the slang terms aura (“person's unique charismatic aesthetic”) + farming (“repetitive behavior to procure a desired outcome”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aura farm
Related terms: archetype
attention-seeking
catchphrase
flex
like farm
signature
trope
cliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of clit(oris) + literature.
Senses: examples: text: Reading can be great, although it depends on the book's content. Consider swapping suspense stories for easy reading or cliterature if you are in the mood!
ref: 2011, Mahayana Isabelle Dugast, “7: The Gift of Sleep”, in Anti-Aging Secrets, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: pornographic literature, chiefly for heterosexual women; erotica.
Xiangshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: shyängʹshänʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 香山 (Xiāngshān).
Senses: glosses: A district of Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Asian unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian unicorns
Senses: glosses: The saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
Synonyms: sense: Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
word: saola
sense: Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
word: spindlehorn
sense: Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
word: Vu Quang ox
sense: Pseudoryx nghetinhensis
word: Vu Quang bovid
Plessy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
PHAK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge.
eagle shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle sharks
Etymology: From eagle + shark, referencing this animal's winglike fins.
Senses: glosses: Aquilolamna milarcae, an extinct shark or sharklike animal that inhabited the Late Cretaceous (Turonian)-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico; it has a torpedo-shaped body, a broad head, and long, winglike pectoral fins.
eagle sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eagle shark
NLEAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “User agencies can no longer query or add data to the NLEAD,” the statement read. “The US Department of Justice is decommissioning the NLEAD in accordance with federal standards.”
ref: 2025 February 22, Gloria Oladipo, “Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of National Law Enforcement Accountability Database.
tinfoily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tinfoilier
form: tinfoiliest
Etymology: From tinfoil + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It tinkles. As it skitters along the ground, it makes a tinny, tinfoily little noise as its edges scrape along the concrete.
ref: 2006, Michael Chorost, Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World, page 54:
text: The walls were festooned with silver and white tinfoily stuff, and on every table stood a tall slim vase, spilling over with sprayed silver flowers.
ref: 2011, Molly Hopkins, It Happened in Paris, page 379:
text: “There’s a tinfoily blanket thing, a prescription bottle full of something. Pain pills?”
ref: 2015, Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick, Last Hope, page 138:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of tinfoil.
examples: text: By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess.
ref: 2019, Clive Thompson, quoting Blake Ross, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, page 75:
glosses: Characteristic of or prone to paranoia or conspiracy theories.
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
Related terms: Ferdinand
Marcos
Abanilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Cabalquinto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Cabradilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Caneja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Cantonghao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Caroyocan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Casiongan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Dalumpines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Don Luis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Garganera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Gutosan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Inalad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Kawayan Bogtong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Kawayanan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Juson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Jubay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Kokoy Romualdez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Labtic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Laray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Enage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Mahait
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Matagok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Padoga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Pates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Petrolio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Railes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Tabla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Tagharigue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calubian, Leyte, Philippines.
Imelmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
AMBER Alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AMBER Alerts
Senses: examples: text: We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.
ref: 2023 February 13, Chad Marlow & Jay Stanley, “How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers”, in ACLU:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of amber alert.
Imelman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
AMBER Alerts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AMBER Alert
tinhatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tinhat + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: However, when RPF tips into tinhatting, it rightly raises concerns about the blurred line between fiction and reality.
ref: 2019 August 12, Stacey M. Lantagne, “Tinhatting the Constitution: Originalism as a Fandom”, in Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review, volume 2, number 1, page 38:
text: What the fans do not realize is that tinhatting happens to hurt and harm the very same people that they so adore.
ref: 2022 August 24, Shweta Basu, “The Xiao Zhan Controversy and the Case of Misplaced Fan Activism”, in The Phoenix Papers, volume 5, number 1, page 60:
text: The casual ableism in the label is rampant across fandoms; tinhatting is not exclusive or original to TJLC.
ref: 2025, Katherine Anderson Howell, Disability and Fandom, page 86:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The act or practice of promoting a conspiracy theory within a fandom space, especially with regard to shipping or a speculated celebrity relationship.
Related terms: tinhat
tinhatter
tinhattery
real person fiction
tinhat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinhats
Etymology: From tin + hat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tin hat (“a tinfoil hat”).
examples: text: It is the conspiracy theory aspect of this caricature that is most important here: the LOTRPS tinhats believe in a complex conspiracy in which the stars of the trilogy were being forced by PR to hide their relationships, but the stars in question would find ways to communicate the "truth" to their fans.
ref: 2014, Anna Martin, "Writing the Star: Stardom, Fandom and Real Person Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Lancaster University, page 94
text: Two people do reply, and the second is noteworthy: "I seriously doubt very many people here legitimately believe any of the boys – okay, with the possible exception of Brendon *facepalm* – is actually gay. Those that do are teenies and tinhats."
ref: 2020, Judith May Fathallah, Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, page 59:
text: A year later, some "Domlijah" shippers became convinced that the dream relationship between Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood wasn't fiction after all, but an elaborately covered-up tragedy. They became the very first "tinhats."
ref: 2022, Kaitlyn Tiffany, Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It, unnumbered page:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: tinhatter
glosses: One who promotes a conspiracy theory within a fandom space, especially with regard to shipping or a speculated celebrity relationship.
Derived terms: tinhatter
tinhattery
tinhatting
Related terms: real person fiction
tinhatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinhatters
Etymology: From tinhat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tinhatters are the minority in RPF fandom.
ref: 2019 August 12, Stacey M. Lantagne, “Tinhatting the Constitution: Originalism as a Fandom”, in Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review, volume 2, number 1, page 18:
text: But it can be fun to be obnoxious online, in zines, and with friends, so more power to the tinhatters –as long as they aren't promoting harm.
ref: 2020, Maria Sherman, Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS, unnumbered page:
text: Sports RPF fandoms are not immune to this either, even though it is much less likely to be so-called “tinhatters” breaking the fourth wall deliberately by bringing the ship to popular attention in mainstream sports fan spaces.
ref: 2023, Judith Louise Tuffentsammer, "How Real Are People?: Sports-centric Real Person Fiction Between Mainstream and Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of British Columbia, page 16
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of tinhat.
synonyms: word: tinhat
tinhats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinhat
tinhatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinhatter
Yulia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iuliia
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Ю́лия (Júlija).
Senses: examples: text: A hospital consultant who treated Sergei and Yulia Skripal after they were poisoned with the nerve agent novichok was “gobsmacked” when Yulia woke and began trying to get out of bed four days after the attack.
ref: 2024 October 31, Steven Morris, “Consultant who treated Yulia Skripal ‘gobsmacked’ when she woke up, inquiry hears”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A female given name from Russian, equivalent to English Julia.
tinhattery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tinhat + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: In the weeks and months following the airing of the finale, the tinhattery culminated with the assertion that the producers of Sherlock had created an Alternate Reality Game (which they had bafflingly failed to promote) and had sprinkled clues throughout the Season 4 episodes, in their interviews and social media posts, and all over the internet.
ref: 2017, Nicholas Meyer, “The Adventure of the Singular Friend”, in Christopher Redmond, editor, About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community, page 171:
text: There are unanswered questions about Epstein’s death, and they demand answers. Equally, however, there are simpler possibilities here than Trump- and/or Clinton-adjacent tinhattery.
ref: 2019 August 12, Jon Allsop, “After Jeffrey Epstein’s death, conspiracies—and journalism—flourish”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
text: It sure does feel like a lot of people engaging in this tinhattery and self-congratulatory ‘well, I never lived Diddy’ crap care less about the victims than they do their own egos.
ref: 2024 October 9, Kayleigh Donaldson, “Piers Morgan Finds Out After F***ing Around With Jay-Z and Beyoncé's Reputations”, in Pajiba:
synonyms: tinfoilhattery
glosses: The belief in, or propagation of, conspiracy theories.
Peterik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Peteřík.
Senses: examples: text: The use of “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has Survivor’s Jim Peterik “risin’ up to the challenge” – and threatening action.
ref: 2015 September 9, Todd Leopold, “Band unhappy with use of ‘Eye of the Tiger’ for Kim Davis”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
FIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”
ref: 2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of field interrogation and observation.
glosses: Initialism of fraction of inspired oxygen.
Kabbalah bracelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kabbalah bracelets
Senses: glosses: A type of talisman made from a thin scarlet or crimson wool thread, traditionally worn on the left wrist.
eye service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyeservice.
galactopyranosidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactopyranosidases
Derived terms: thiogalactopyranosidase
galactosamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galactosamides
Derived terms: acetylgalactosamide
WooHoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: wo͞o-ho͞o
Forms: form: WooHoos
form: WooHooing
form: WooHooed
form: WooHooed
form: woohoo
form: Woohoo
Etymology: From the interjection woohoo.
Senses: examples: text: At some point I discovered real romance novels, the ones with all the euphemisms and graphic bits rather than WooHooing and ambiguously ruffling sheets, and moved on from the lurid stories of my sim families. My love for the series lives on though my interest in making my sims get it on has waned. Later installments have introduced public WooHooing, time travel sex, and the ability to seduce the Grim Reaper, […]
ref: 2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics:
text: Ok, I have two female sims who are roommates and I made them WooHoo because why not. […] So then I assumed since my sim was already pregnant WooHoo'ing again would be fine, but then after this my second sim has started throwing up.
ref: 2017 April 25, “TWO PREGNANT LESBIAN”, in The Sims 4 General Discussion:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse, especially as referenced in The Sims video game series.
WooHoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: wo͞o-ho͞o
Forms: form: WooHoos
form: woohoo
form: Woohoo
Etymology: From the interjection woohoo.
Senses: examples: text: […] while I may no longer be interested, The Sims is still likely introducing legions of curious teens and pre-teens safely to the strangeness of the ambiguous WooHoo.
ref: 2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics:
text: The Sims 4 has had 1.8 Billion Woohoos
ref: 2023 April 28, “Some stats from the Sims 4 - How many times have your sims woohooed?”, in Reddit: Sims4:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: The game mechanic above, often accompanied by suggestive animations but without explicit depiction.
Related terms: make whoopee
giftsub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giftsubs
form: gift sub
form: gift-sub
Etymology: Clipping of gift subscription, or from gift + sub.
Senses: synonyms: gifted sub
gift subscription
glosses: A subscription purchased by one user and given to another as a gift, especially to a Twitch channel or similar platform.
giftsub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: giftsubs
form: giftsubbing
form: giftsubbed
form: giftsubbed
form: gift sub
form: gift-sub
Etymology: Clipping of gift subscription, or from gift + sub.
Senses: synonyms: gift a sub
gift a subscription
glosses: To purchase a subscription and gift it to another user, especially to a Twitch channel or similar platform.
Related terms: subathon
Sinpu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 新埔 (Xīnpǔ) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Sinpǔ.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Xinpu.
encarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encarriages
form: encarriaging
form: encarriaged
form: encarriaged
Etymology: From en- + carriage. Compare entrain.
Senses: examples: text: They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward.
ref: 1916 September, Effie Graham, “Too ‘Smaht’ to Live”, in Aunt Liza’s “Praisin’ Gate”, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 83–84:
text: Mid-morning, and the town council greeted incoming dignitaries at the railway station. Noon, and Mrs Hodgson arrived and encarriaged. The foot-goers fell in behind the Cornet (in full Common Riding costume) for the procession through the town: a flute band, a saxhorn band, a masonic lodge, the police, common Hawickians, officials from Carlisle and Edinburgh, the press, the clergy, Members of Parliament, the band of the 16th Lancers.
ref: 1983, Dick Sullivan, “The Making of Hawick”, in Navvyman, London: Coracle Books, →ISBN, page 106:
text: G> These guys are incorrigible.
G> Please. Don't incorrige them!
G> :-)
AHEM! As a member of the Temple of Set I resemble that remark!
Personally, I'd rather be encarriaged.
ref: 1995 January 30, Balanone, “Temple Of Set”, in alt.pagan (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025:
text: They then encarriaged, and drove ‘through the very poor long village of Newton More’ towards Cluny Castle, passing ‘miserable little cottages and farmhouses’, to arrive where she had been back in 1847 and nearly bought some property, Loch Laggan.
ref: 2000, Ian R[obert] Mitchell, “The Jacobite Tour”, in On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands (On the Trail of), Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, chapter 5 (The Long Goodbye: Mrs Brown’s Travels), page 111:
text: Abbey provided an ancient carriage to carry me from the pierhead, a contractual obligation he fulfilled to encarriage me in the style to which I was accustomed.
ref: 2008, Milo Yelesiyevich, “Epilogue”, in Wilde About Holmes, New York, N.Y.: Comic Masque, →ISBN, page 326:
text: But wait! My woman encarriaged returneth, / Her body now supple'd delighted from eastern magic.
ref: 2013 July 5, Nat Lipstadt, “For she will be my heroine for all time”, in Hello Poetry, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
glosses: To board or put aboard a carriage.
express officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: express officers
Senses: glosses: A worker in an express office
Beipu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: bāʹpo͞oʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 北埔 (Běipǔ).
Senses: glosses: A rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan.
Anle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹlǔʹ
Etymology: From Mandarin 安樂 /安乐 (Ānlè).
Senses: glosses: A district of Keelung, Taiwan.
Pinglin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 坪林 (Pínglín).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Sanxia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sanhsia
form: Sansia
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三峽 (Sānxiá).
Senses: examples: text: The festival is organized on four levels. The highest of these includes all the inhabitants of the southern Taibei Basin who are of Anxi origin: everyone in Sanxia township; people living in those parts of Shulin township that are closest to, and formally part of, the economic as well as the ritual hinterland of Sanxia, including all of Shitouxi, Shanzijiao, and Pengcuo; all of Yingge township; and that area known as Zhongzhuang, which is actually located in Taoyuan County, but was settled by residents of the Sanxia and Yingge areas. The ritual center for this level of organization is the Tiong-hok Giam, an imposing temple in the heart of Sanxia town that houses fifty or sixty carved wooden images of the black-faced deity Co-su Kong.
ref: 1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 184, 217:
english: 犁舌尾
translation: 犁舌尾
glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Tucheng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 土城 (Tǔchéng).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Shulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 樹林 (Shùlín).
Senses: glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Yingge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: yǐngʹgǔʹ
Forms: form: Yingko
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鶯歌 (Yīnggē).
Senses: examples: text: There is also another model for the organization of conflict in Chinese society, the factional model. Gallin, in one of the first analytical studies of such factionalism, shows how the breakdown of the traditional lineage-based social order of a rural township in central Taiwan led to the formation of township-wide political factions, based on personal loyalties to patron-leaders (Gallin 1966b). These factions contested elections to political office and engaged in other disputes, reaching into and dividing individual villages. Similar factions permeate the political life of Yingge township, close to Sanxia. Indeed one cannot talk to a man from Yingge for more than a few minutes without hearing stories of the factions, their disputes, and their relative success in the latest elections.
ref: 1982, Stevan Harrell, Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan [犁舌尾], Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 140, 218:
english: 犁舌尾
translation: 犁舌尾
text: I LIVED IN TAIWAN for two years, one of which was spent in the town of Yingge. Yingge is small, but has a large number of factories — over 600, or about one for every ten families.
ref: 1984 March 21, Richard Stites, “Huis and Means in Taiwan”, in CoEvolution Quarterly, number 41, Sausalito, Cali.: POINT, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:
text: Huang imports specialized clay and hires painters to do patterns on the white bowls.
His shop in Yingge, a Taipei suburb known for ceramics production, aims to exhibit at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai in May. After that he will set a price for the larger bowls and offer it for sale in China.
ref: 2010 March 8, Christine Lu, Ben Tai, Ralph Jennings, “Fragile: Taiwan potter produces razor-thin bowls”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2025, Lifestyle:
text: C is for Ceramics. C is for - Yingge? Well, not quite, but ‘Yingge is for ceramics’ is something almost any Taiwanese can chant. This little town in the very southern part of Taipei County lives by and for the production of high- and low-quality ceramic and pottery objects: everything from cupboard handles to Song-dynasty vases.
ref: 2011 March, Robert Kelly, Joshua Samuel Brown, “Northern Taiwan”, in Taiwan (Lonely Planet), 8th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 120, column 1:
text: Among the six winning NT$10 million receipts, one was issued for a drink purchase worth NT$54 sold by a Simple Mart supermarket on Yingtao Road in New Taipei's Yingge District.
ref: 2025 January 23, Chang Ai, Ko Lin, “Receipt lottery winners urged to claim cash by March 5”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025, Society:
glosses: A district of New Taipei City, Taiwan.
MVI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: MVC
MVP
glosses: Initialism of Model–View–Intent.
Related terms: MVC
MVVM
MVP
Taipi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tai-pi.
ginger-pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginger-pops
Senses: examples: text: 'Ginger-pop to finish up with please,' said Dick.
ref: 2009, Enid Blyton, Five Run Away Together, page 108:
glosses: ginger beer
Toaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /toʊ.ɔːŋ/
[tʰo.aŋ]
Senses: glosses: A name of a tonal logical constructed language that is moderately popular in the constructed language community.
m'learned friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈlɜːnɪd fɹɛn(d)z/
Forms: form: my learned friends
Etymology: Humorous interpretation of my learned friend (“term of address for an opposing barrister”).
Senses: examples: text: The negotiations to achieve this were bitterly contested and were characterised by regular recourse to m'learned friends and by brinkmanship on both sides.
ref: 2002 October 1, Brian Elliot, Aspects of Barnsley 7: Discovering Local History, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
text: Because divorce is such a drastic step and rarely one that ends in happiness for both parties, before you reach for m'learned friends, ask yourself these six questions.
ref: 2013 January 17, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Men's Health (2nd edition), Rough Guides UK, →ISBN, page 260:
text: My review of the so-called Great British Music Festival contained the assurance that one of its stars, Frankie Miller, had been the worse for drink when he wandered onstage at Wembley Arena, and M'Learned Friends were soon in touch.
ref: 2014 May 8, Mark Ellen, Rock Stars Stole my Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Lawyers.
service wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service walls
Senses: glosses: A non-structural wall whose purpose is to provide conduits and outlets for services such as plumbing or electrical wiring.
graphic abbreviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphic abbreviations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A written abbreviation intended to be read aloud in full as the word from which it is abbreviated, as opposed to reading it in its abbreviated form.
Llandybie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in east Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6115).
by the dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Eggs are often sold by the dozen.
glosses: Twelve at a time.
examples: text: She's had boyfriends by the dozen.
glosses: In large numbers.
East Down
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS6041).
Related terms: word: West Down
Novosil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /nəvəˈsiːl/
Etymology: From Russian Новоси́ль (Novosílʹ).
Senses: glosses: A town of district significance, the administrative centre of Novosilsky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1155.
cap and bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of fool's cap with attached bells, worn by a court fool or jester.
Bolkhov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bôlʹᴋʜəf
ipa: /ˈbɔːlxəf/
Etymology: From Russian Бо́лхов (Bólxov).
Senses: glosses: A town of district significance, the administrative centre of Bolkhovsky Raion, Oryol Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1196.
USRAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.
ref: 2018 November 5, Mark Hetfield, “HIAS chief: If you’re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of United States Refugee Admissions Program.
ECLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: UNECLAC
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
UNECLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
JSONs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JSON
mendicament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mendicaments
Senses: glosses: Variant of medicament.
blueball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blueballs
form: blueballing
form: blueballed
form: blueballed
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, you may recall, I had been blueballed to the supermax. By a lesbian, no less.
ref: 2013 April 22, John Andrew Fredrick, The King of Good Intentions, Verse Chorus Press, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of blue-ball.
screwn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From screw + -n.
Senses: examples: text: And Bronwyn’s bed broke down. (Like in the funny part of a pantomime!) Perhaps its component parts had never really been screwn together.
ref: 1917, G[ladys] B[ronwyn] Stern, Grand Chain, London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd. […], →OCLC, page 194:
text: An inspection of the ruins disclosed that as in other recent fires of a suspicious origin the top of a disused gas main had been screwn free, alowing^([sic]) gas to escape
ref: 1923 August 27, “Another Church Destroyed by Fire Maniac: Historic Mission Building in Ballarat”, in Evening News, number 4719, Rockhampton, Qld., →OCLC, page 3, column 5:
text: Then the lining tubes are taken out through the lower end of the coring tube, being pushed from the top end by means of iron tubes successively screwn together.
ref: 1947, B[örje] Kullenberg, The Piston Core Sampler (Svenska hydrografisk-biologiska kommissionens skrifter; 3rd series, volume 1, number 2), Gothenburg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, →OCLC, page 37:
text: “You had screwn, huh? You didn’t get hurt too much, did you?” / “You make it sound like a traffic accident.” / “First time sonofabitch hurts like a bastard.” / “Yes.” / “Now you’re scared you’re gonna have a kid?”
ref: 1977 January, Joyce MacIver [pseudonym; Georgette Scott], “Part Three: 1929”, in Mercy, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 298:
text: The American had screwn up his nose for so many years and kept everyone at a distance; now his son thinks he can smart us too!
ref: 1989, Cristian Teodorescu, “The Heritage”, in Romanian Review, 43rd year, numbers 1–6, Bucharest: Europolis Publishing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Arabella also testified that Charleston claimed that since ‘[another man] had screwn me … [and] I might as well do it with him as to do it with another fellow [and] said if I would he would give me a dollar bill.’
ref: 2010, Barrington Walker, “Rape, Sex, and the Power of Dominant Rape Narratives”, in Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts, 1858–1958 (Canadian Social History), Toronto, Ont.: […] [F]or The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: past participle of screw
snake oil salesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snake oil salesmen
Senses: examples: text: She was dubbed a "modern day snake oil salesman" after she managed to swindle over thousands of internet customers.
synonyms: word: bristler
word: bunco artist
word: bunco-steerer
word: chiseler
word: con artist
word: confidence artist
word: confidence trickster
word: conman
word: flimflammer
word: grifter
word: lugger
word: magsman
word: mountebank
word: saltimbanco
word: sharpster
word: sharker
word: shark-gull
word: slicker
word: smooth operator
word: spiv
word: charlatan
word: con artist
word: conman
word: duper
word: fraud
word: fraudster
word: grifter
word: hustler
word: scammer
word: shyster
word: snake oil salesman
word: snake
word: swindler
word: trickster
qualifier: term
glosses: A swindler or grifter who sells worthless or fraudulent remedies, cures, or solutions such as snake oil, often an aggressive or showy manner.
glosses: One who deceives people in order to obtain money from others: fraud, scammer, charlatan, huckster, conman.
Related terms: english: obtaining money and valuables through deception
translation: obtaining money and valuables through deception
word: con artist
word: grifter
word: huckster
english: swindling money from others
translation: swindling money from others
word: mountebank
snake oil salesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snake oil salesman
of no avail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Their assistance was of no avail.
glosses: Ineffective; having no beneficial result.
Related terms: to no avail
MIGA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Modeled after MAGA.
Senses: examples: text: For Israel, I’m afraid, MIGA will have worse consequences than MAGA had in the U.S.
ref: 2024 February 6, Amy Neustein, “The ‘Make Israel Great Again’ movement will likely do the opposite”, in The Hill:
glosses: Acronym of Make Israel Great Again, used to suggest that Donald Trump and his allies prioritize Israeli interests over American ones.
Related terms: Israel-firster
Maksim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
blueballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blueball
blueballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blueball
blueballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blueball
Carpathian Rusyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carpathian Rusyns
Senses: synonyms: Carpatho-Rusnak
glosses: An ethnic Rusyn of Carpathian Ruthenia. (Contrasted with Pannonian Rusyn.)