cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gets through one's thick skull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get through one's thick skull
getting through one's thick skull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get through one's thick skull
got through one's thick skull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get through one's thick skull
gotten through one's thick skull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get through one's thick skull
sees the glass half-full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see the glass half-full
seeing the glass half-full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see the glass half-full
saw the glass half-full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the glass half-full
seen the glass half-full
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see the glass half-full
sees the glass half-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see the glass half-empty
seeing the glass half-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of see the glass half-empty
saw the glass half-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of see the glass half-empty
seen the glass half-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of see the glass half-empty
cranks it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crank it
cranking it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crank it
cranked it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crank it
gets the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get the wall
getting the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get the wall
got the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get the wall
gotten the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of get the wall
short-staffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of short-staff
nukes it from orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nuke it from orbit
nuking it from orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nuke it from orbit
nuked it from orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nuke it from orbit
Monkland and Stretford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Herefordshire, England, that includes the named places.
wakes up dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wake up dead
waking up dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wake up dead
woke up dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of wake up dead
woken up dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of wake up dead
laughs to scorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh to scorn
laughing to scorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laugh to scorn
laughed to scorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh to scorn
dies in a fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of die in a fire
dying in a fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die in a fire
died in a fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die in a fire
mankeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From man + keeping.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term).
ref: 2024 October 23, Kim Elsesser, “Mankeeping: How Shrinking Male Social Networks May Burden Women”, in Forbes:
text: Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep.
ref: 2025 June 16, “Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating”, in The Guardian:
text: The Guardian calls mankeeping a modern extension of emotional labor, one that turns a partner into a life coach.
ref: 2025 June 20, Ashley Fike, “Mankeeping Is Why Women Are Done With Dating”, in VICE:
glosses: The invisible social and emotional labor that women do for men in heterosexual relationships.
Derived terms: mankeep
mankeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mankeeps
form: mankeeping
form: mankept
form: mankept
Etymology: Back-formation from mankeeping, equivalent to man + keep.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep.
ref: 2025 June 16, “Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To engage in mankeeping.
long-presses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of long-press
long-pressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of long-press
long-pressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of long-press
digs one's grave with a fork and spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
digging one's grave with a fork and spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
dug one's grave with a fork and spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
digs one's grave with a fork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig one's grave with a fork
digging one's grave with a fork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dig one's grave with a fork
dug one's grave with a fork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dig one's grave with a fork
sets the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set the ball rolling
setting the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of set the ball rolling
puts one's hand to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's hand to
putting one's hand to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put one's hand to
socially distances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of socially distance
socially distancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of socially distance
socially distanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of socially distance
Monkland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Monkland and Stretford parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4557).
glosses: A hamlet in North Stormont township, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A suburb of Gympie, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Monkland and Stretford
Old Monkland
unmechanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmechanizes
form: unmechanizing
form: unmechanized
form: unmechanized
Etymology: From un- + mechanize.
Senses: examples: text: What one misfortune or disaster in the book of embryotic evils, that could unmechanize thy frame, or entangle thy filaments, which has not fallen upon thy head, or ever thou camest into the world!
ref: 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 227:
glosses: To undo the mechanism of something.
Tanjong Katong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Tanjong Katong (“Turtle Point”, literally “Cape of Leatherback Turtle”). Katong referred to a now-extinct species of sea turtle once found in the area, and may also describe the rippling effect seen along a shoreline caused by a sea mirage.
Senses: glosses: A residential neighbourhood and a subzone of Marine Parade in the Central Region of Singapore.
melodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodiums
Etymology: Alternative form of melodeon.
Both this word and its variant melodeon are ultimately borrowings from French French mélodium and German German Melodium. Attested from 1846.
Senses: glosses: A type of reed organ, similar to a harmonium.
glosses: A music hall.
Derived terms: cat melodium
North Stormont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
Related terms: South Stormont
JDPON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JDPONs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations; A theoretical global political order proposed in Maoist Third-Worldism advocating a collective dictatorship of the proletariat of historically oppressed nations, as an alternative to First‑World-led socialism.
methylphosphonofluoridate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + phosphon(ic) + -o- + fluoridate.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of highly toxic organophosphorus compounds characterized by the methylphosphonofluoridate chemical structure, including sarin and soman. They are potent cholinesterase inhibitors, often used as chemical weapons.
Goldbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Goldback
nonchalantism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonchalant + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This nonchalantism is really a form of liberal rhetoric that's so demeaning to the true nature of your intelligence, Danny. Intrinsically, you don't walk the line depending on the issue. That's a misnomer. There's no such thing as a middle of the road person.
ref: 2001 June 24, Spanglebaby, “OT: Philosophy of 'Choosing Sides'”, in alt.tv.days-of-our-lives (Usenet):
text: But this exhibition of nonchalantism regarding structural matters was also a clever tactic to disguise the real number of activists and the actual impact of the group in the wider population.
ref: 2002, Samuel Peleg, Zealotry and Vengeance, page 80:
glosses: nonchalance, indifference
Forest Green
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place name:
A suburb in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England, the home of Forest Green Rovers F.C. (OS grid ref SO8400).
glosses: A place name:
A small village in Abinger parish, Mole Valley district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ1241).
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community (Forest Green Estates) in Perry Township, Shiawassee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Chariton County, Missouri, United States.
lymantria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymantrias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Lymantria.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any erebid moth of the genus Lymantria.
Hypernyms: tussock moth
lymantriine
Hyponyms: word: black-arched moth
taxonomic: Lymantria monacha
word: nun moth
taxonomic: Lymantria serva
word: ficus tussock moth
word: gypsy moth
taxonomic: Lymantria dispar
word: spongy moth
Related terms: Lymantria
frontbutt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontbutts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of front butt
frontbutts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontbutt
diphallism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈfæ.lɪ.zəm/
rhymes: -ælɪzəm
Etymology: From di- + phallus + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of diphallia.
synonyms: word: diphallia
Related terms: diphallia
diphallic
scented grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scented grasses
Senses: glosses: A grass of species Chrysopogon gryllus, native to Europe and temperate Asia.
Derived terms: scented grass bulbine (Bulbine capitata
Related terms: word: lemon-scented grass
word: scented turpentine grass
taxonomic: Cymbopogon ambiguus
word: Australian lemon-scented grass
marestail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marestails
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Erigeron canadensis.
coltstail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species Erigeron canadensis.
onball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From on- + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Hawthorn fought hard right to the final siren, but had no answer for the onball skills of Lion Ally Anderson, with a career-high 30 possessions, and Emily Bates, with 22.
ref: 2022 October 22, “Brisbane Lions thrash Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Fremantle and Western Bulldogs all record wins”, in ABC News, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: In the midfield positions.
onball
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From on- + ball.
Senses: examples: text: "We had a little bit of a different look onball, guys that we wanted to give an opportunity to, which is a great position to be and you don't often get that," Nicks said.
ref: 2025 July 27, Sarah Black, “'Gulf' between Power, Crows evident, Nicks lauds 'dream' performance”, in Australian Football League, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: In the midfield positions.
key position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key positions
Senses: examples: text: Of this year's crop of key position players, the premier tall is Sam Darcy, who stands at 204cm and looms as a future star. Darcy, a father-son for the Western Bulldogs and the son of club great Luke is 7cm taller than his father. Given Luke's great career as a ruckman, it may seem surprising on paper that his son is so much taller than his father, yet is a key position player rather than a ruckman.
ref: 2021 November 11, Chris Doerre, “The evolution of key position players in the AFL”, in ESPN, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Any tall forward or defensive position (traditionally, full-back, centre half-back, centre half-forward, or full-forward).
key positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key position
poached egg daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poached egg daisies
Senses: glosses: An Australian plant of species Polycalymma stuartii.
ham-and-eggs daisy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ham-and-eggs daisies
Senses: glosses: An Australian plant of species Polycalymma stuartii.
Hajas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
key forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key forwards
Senses: examples: text: Many of the best key forwards also apply pressure and threaten at ground level and, at his best, Walker does likewise.
ref: 2021 April 1, Cody Atkinson and Sean Lawson, “The changing face of battle between AFL full-forwards and full-backs”, in ABC News, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A tall forward (traditionally, a centre half-forward or full-forward).
key forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key forward
key defender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key defenders
Senses: examples: text: The 198cm key defender was selected at pick No.11 in the 2023 Telstra AFL Draft and will challenge three players taken from that crop – Dan Curtin, Nate Caddy and Archie Roberts – as well as Levi Ashcroft and Harvey Langford for the Ron Evans Medal.
ref: 2025 July 24, Josh Gabelich, “Gun young defender signs new deal with Cats”, in Australian Football League, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A tall defender (traditionally, a full-back or centre half-back).
key defenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key defender
key back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: key backs
Senses: examples: text: Where McGovern sits among the greatest defenders to have played the game will be mulled over by sentimental, soppy supporters for days to come. But Champion Data's Daniel Hoyne said last year that McGovern was ranked over Richmond's dour defender Alex Rance as his generation's best key back.
ref: 2025 June 21, Brendan Foster, “Gov's ability to read the play ranks him among the best defenders of the modern era”, in WAToday, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A key defender.
key backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key back
KPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KPFs
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of key position forward.
KPFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KPF
KPDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KPD
Generation Z stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Generation Z stares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gen Z stare.
Gen Z stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gen Z stares
form: Generation Z stare
Senses: examples: text: When Valerie Jefferson, 23, posted a video about the “Gen Z stare” on TikTok, she did not expect it to start a fight. Her video, which documented one interpretation of the meaning of the stare — the blank look of someone in a service job who is handling frustrating requests from a customer — unleashed a torrent of intergenerational debates.
ref: 2025 July 14, Nicole Stock, “Yes, Gen Z Is Staring at You. The Question Is Why.”, in The New York Times (Style section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025:
text: When professor Jessica Maddox asks her University of Alabama students a question in class, she is sometimes met with deadpan looks from the Gen Zers in the room. / The look has become so prevalent that Maddox occasionally resorts to begging her students for a response. It was only recently that she learned this behavior had a name: the “Gen Z stare."
ref: 2025 July 18, Kalhan Rosenblatt, Steven Romo, “Gen Z is staring at you. It may be more than just a quirk.”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025, Culture & Trends:
text: The Gen Z stare is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a term used to describe the vacant look a Gen Zer gives in response to a question or statement. The phrase has caught fire online and sparked conversation about why younger adults do this.
ref: 2025 July 23, Erin Kayata, “What is the ‘Gen Z stare’?”, in Northeastern Global News, Northeastern University, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: A blank stare given in response to a question or statement, claimed to be a common behavior of members of Generation Z.
noncoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coloring.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, it takes a lot of effort to detach these noncoloring substances from the fabric after completing the dyeing process.
ref: 2023, Shahid Ul Islam, Renewable Dyes and Pigments (page 19)
glosses: That does not impart a color.
octethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of octaethyl.
nonethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Nine ethyl groups in a molecule.
subpolity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpolities
Etymology: From sub- + polity.
Senses: examples: text: It is quite conceivable that human history should have begun with a single all-embracing polity, and that as this grew in magnitude and complexity it should have been decentralized and divided into subpolities, each united within by its local peculiarities.
ref: 1945, Ralph Barton Perry, “Political Frame of World Order”, in One World in the Making, New York, N.Y.: Current Books, Inc., A[aron] A. Wyn, →OCLC, page 77:
text: The United States is certainly no tight little city-state, but a continent with wide variation in social and economic conditions. Local heresies from the central conception of the good life are inevitable. And yet, looking at the formal “ordering of the offices,” the legal structure of the subpolities of the American polity, there is an apparent monotonous uniformity that makes most texts in state and local government arid in the extreme.
ref: 1957 autumn, Norton E[nneking] Long, “Aristotle and the Study of Local Government”, in Alvin Johnson, editor, Social Research […], volume 24, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research, →ISSN, →OCLC, section II, page 295:
text: Buganda’s position at the centre of the country and of the national administrative machinery forced upon the region a degree of openness and national accountability never demanded of the Northern emirates of Nigeria. On the whole Buganda as a subpolity remained, it must be admitted, relatively illiberal. But her centrality saved her from being a closed society.
ref: 1967 August, G. F. Engholm, Ali A[l’amin] Mazrui, “Violent Constitutionalism in Uganda”, in Ali A. Mazrui, Violence and Thought: Essays on Social Tensions in Africa, London; Harlow, Essex: Longmans, published 1969, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: A subdivision of a polity.
subpolities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpolity
Zdrój
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Zdrój.
Senses: glosses: A village in Gmina Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Grodzisk County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Gmina Lelkowo, Braniewo County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland.
nonluster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + luster.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonlustrous.
synonyms: word: nonlustrous
suffragents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffragent
Tarplin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
man of culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of culture
Etymology: Originating in 2015 from a viral reaction image screenshot featuring the character Last Samurai from the anime Arakawa Under the Bridge with the caption "Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well", seen in episode 9 of season 2. Popularized in 2017 on social media.
Senses: glosses: One (a man or sometimes regardless of gender) whose tastes are admired by others, especially if these are unorthodox.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see man, of, culture.
agmatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agmatans
Senses: glosses: Any of the small animals of the extinct phylum Agmata.
agmatan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agmatan
form: most agmatan
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of these animals.
train ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train tickets
Senses: topics: lifestyle
rail-transport
railways
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A ticket issued by a train operator, which allows the purchaser to travel by train, usually between the stations marked on the ticket.
train tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plural of train ticket.
Atenean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ateneans
Etymology: From Ateneo + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Joaquin shared that most Ateneans would hang out at MVP Building, which houses the majority of the organizations in the Ateneo. Here, org members plan org events or simply make friends with other students or seek tips from the upperclassmen.
ref: 2024 August 7, “Tips and hacks to survive your first week of college as an Atenean freshie”, in PhilSTAR L!fe, retrieved 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: A student and alumnus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines.
la Belle Époque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French la Belle Époque.
Senses: examples: text: It was not the city of la Belle Époque, though, that featured in the communiqué justifying the attacks on the French capital.
ref: 2015 November 17, Tom Holland, “Isil terrorists know next to nothing about Islamic history”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2016:
text: Let’s end this on a classy note, by returning to Paris during la Belle Époque, when everyone knew how to dress.
ref: 2017 June 1, Marilyn Stasio, “Paris Poisoners and a Pioneering Female Detective: Your True Crime Books for the Beach”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2017:
text: The property was reopened in summer 2016 after an extensive restoration bringing it back to the gilded glory of la Belle Époque.
ref: 2018 February 6, Reed Alexander, “Travelers rated this luxury hotel the best in the US”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2018:
text: Hopper traveled to Paris in 1906 during the waning la Belle Époque, “the Beautiful Era,” leading to World War I. It was the Paris of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s tangled lunchers and Gustave Caillebotte’s sauntering flâneur.
ref: 2021 January 9, Kelsey Ables, “In [Edward] Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of Belle Époque.
la belle époque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French la belle époque.
Senses: examples: text: [Yves] Mirande promised me that he would be up and about soon, and would show me how men revelled in the heroic days of la belle époque, but I had a feeling that the bell was cracked.
ref: 1959 April 3, A[bbott] J[oseph] Liebling, “A Good Appetite”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021:
text: But is [Marcel] Proust being read, for all this? Has our fascination with his life and with a glamorized version of la belle époque taken the place of reading his formidable work?
ref: 2000 June 11, Peter Brooks, “The 'Search' Continues”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2009:
text: Miss [Lydia] Thompson was a smart businesswoman, and surely helped break down America's prudish morals. However, my personal brand of burlesque owes more to the fabulous showgirls of la belle époque in Paris.
ref: 2006 March 25, Dita Von Teese [pseudonym; Heather Renée Sweet], “A brief history of burlesque”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2008:
text: This claustrophobic picture (aka L'Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close) is a frank, unexploitative account of life in a smart Parisian brothel in 1899 and 1900. It demonstrates that la belle époque was less belle for the girls than for their wealthy clients, though better than walking the streets or working in a sweatshop.
ref: 2012 January 29, Philip French, “House of Tolerance – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2014:
text: “This isn’t how France should be,” he [Pascal Lamy] says. “During la belle époque [the late 19th and early 20th century], France achieved huge economic success and the state was barely involved, so allowing French creativity to bloom.” The end of la belle époque was marked by the start of the First World War.
ref: 2014 October 12, Liam Halligan, “How did France get it so wrong?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2015:
text: And as good a place as any are the private houses of the Habsburgs, which now are open to the public. They embody what Henry James called “the palpable, imaginable, visitable past” — in this case, la belle époque as if frozen in amber.
ref: 2018 February 2, Walter Nicklin, “In the Czech Republic, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of Belle Époque.
saligot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saligots
Etymology: French saligot.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of water caltrop (“Trapa species”).
synonyms: word: water caltrop
extra: Trapa species
saligots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saligot
safronal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of safranal.
sixaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixaines
form: sixain
Etymology: French sixaine.
Senses: examples: text: The lady seems to have made the first advances and Bin Abú Hájilah quotes a sixaine in which she amorously addresses her spouse.
ref: 1888, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: Synonym of sextain.
synonyms: word: sextain
sixains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixain
sixaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixaine
scazontics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scazontic
scolioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Patient was treated by Dr. Good some years ago for visual failure with central scolioma, supposed to be due to the excessive use of tobacco.
ref: 1889, Canadian Practitioner, volume 14, page 213:
glosses: Synonym of scoliosis.
synonyms: word: scoliosis
seamset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamsets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seam set.
seamsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamset
seabottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seabottles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sea-bottle (“type of green alga”).
seabottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seabottle
semicolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicolonies
Etymology: From semi- + colony.
Senses: glosses: A partly colonial settlement.
Related terms: semicolonial
semicolonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicolony
semimatte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + matte.
Senses: glosses: Partly matte.
semimatt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semimatte.
little raven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little ravens
Senses: glosses: A species of raven, Corvus mellori, endemic to Australia.
little ravens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little raven
shelfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shelf
skilliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of skilly: most skilly
fingerboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerboarders
Etymology: fingerboard + -er
Senses: glosses: One who uses a fingerboard (miniature finger-propelled skateboard or snowboard).
fingerboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingerboarder
broguings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broguing
ashy-headed laughingthrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashy-headed laughingthrushes
Senses: examples: text: There are nine birds, each one smaller than her hand, with long tails and grey heads, bodies a rufous brown. They are a noisy bunch, cackling to themselves. Ashy-headed laughingthrushes, the satellites whisper to her.
ref: 2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 176:
glosses: Argya cinereifrons, a species of laughingthrush perching bird.
brogueings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brogueing
ashy-headed laughingthrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ashy-headed laughingthrush
NHSBT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Health Service Blood and Transplant
UKRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Achnacarry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet, private estate and castle north of Gairlochy, and north-west of Spean Bridge, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN1788).
Caminus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmɪnəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin camīnus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos), or from the Latinized form of Cantonese 嘉明 (gaa¹ ming⁴, “Gaming”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, Greek, or Cantonese.
autoenrolment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + enrolment.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of autoenrollment.
Ateneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atenean
Hainford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG2218).
Sanseito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 参政党 (sansei tō, literally “Political Participation Party”).
Senses: examples: text: Major parties have long relied on large-scale campaign contributions, and the LDP was only recently mired in an illegal fundraising scandal. Sanseito drew its support from smaller, individual donations.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A Japanese ultraconservative, right-wing populist political party.
ay, ay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: A few days ago a Sailor begging with a paſs through a certain county weſtward, was directed to the Mayor of a certain town; his Worſhip, who could not read, took the paſs in his hand, at the ſame time crying, with a ſtern countenance, “Ay, ay, I ſee this is factious,[”] (meaning fictitious)—“Sir, your Worſhip has got the paper upſide down.”
ref: 1768 November 17, The Bath and Bristol Chronicle, Bath, Somerset, →OCLC, page [3], column 2:
text: Phœbe was about to enter the barn, when she was suddenly interrupted by the voice of a woman, who, in a cracked and termagant voice, cried out,—“Ay, ay—who’s that, I should like to know?—what next?” The poor girl turned round, and saw a thin, wiry-looking woman, who stood at the door of the barn in an attitude of surprise at Phœbe’s assurance.
ref: 1842, [James Malcolm Rymer], chapter XXIV, in Phœbe; or, The Miller’s Maid. A Romance of Deep Interest., London: […] E[dward] Lloyd, […], →OCLC, page 135:
text: “Ay, ay, Ruary!” He cried the high-pitched Banffshire greeting across the water. “Ay, ay, man!” hailed back Ruary.
ref: 1940, Maurice Walsh, chapter V, in The Hill Is Mine, London; Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, Ltd., published 1954, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye.
HISA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: New HISA regulations, implemented last month, include strict rules about withdrawal times and allowable medication levels on race day.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
let me tell you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛtˌmiˈtɛlˌju/
ipa: /ˌlɛmiˈtɛljə/
Senses: examples: text: Brother, let me tell you, you don't wanna mess with that guy.
text: Honey, let me tell you, you're gonna want to try this sauce.
glosses: Synonym of I can tell you.
synonyms: word: I can tell you
primacist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primacists
Etymology: primacy + -ist
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One who supports the political primacy or hegemony of a certain power on the world stage.
Cambusnethan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban village east of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS8155).
friend price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friend prices
Senses: examples: text: AFTER flying into Nairobi the next day, I dickered with the driver of a clapped-out rogue taxi, a cheerful youth with dreadlocks under a red, black, and gold woven Rasta cap, for the fare to the UN headquarters that I was told Kenyans would pay. "Okay, okay, bwana, I give you friend price, Rafiki price."
ref: 2009, John Burnett, Where Soldiers Fear To Tread: At Work in the Fields of Anarchy, Random House, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Come friend, come!!! I give you friend price! I give you discount price! I give you global price!!! The medina talks to you everywhere you go, Every corner you turn.
ref: 2011, Florian Schaetz, editor, Fès Reborn: Project on an Ancient City, Singapore: Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture, National University of Singapore, →ISBN, page 81:
text: "This one here, the green it matches your eyes...or this one is very nice....or this one, you like this one? yes or no?" the middle aged Moroccan man asked her, pushing Vivian to make a choice.
"Um...I think so?" Vivian didn't want to offend the man.
"How much? 100 dirham? I give you friend price. You tell me, good price right? Good price, best price my friend. They look beautiful on you, 100 dirham." he pushed.
ref: 2021, C.S. Frances, Madness in Morocco, C.S. Frances Claire McHugh Limited, page 92:
glosses: A discounted price; a discount.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see friend, price (a discount given to one's (actual) friend).
friend prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friend price
Chern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Chern class
Chern-Simons theory
scarf up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scarfs up
form: scarfing up
form: scarfed up
form: scarfed up
Senses: examples: text: Where before flocks of house sparrows were just that, now they are unwelcome visitors, scarfing up the expensive songbird feed intended for cardinals and thrushes and other less-ordinary birds.
ref: 2009 January 23, Perdita Buchan, “Feathered Friends, Heavy Lifting Required”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2021:
text: I sipped Chardonnay and Lou had draft beer while we scarfed up yummy, free cheese biscuits.
ref: 2009 July 12, Irene Lechowitzky, “At Bayfront, the view rules”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2022:
text: A good recapper scarfs up the contents of a screen and spits it back out for public inspection. Look at what you just consumed.
ref: 2012 June 21, Monica Hesse, “Who needs TV? Just read the recap.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: Synonym of scarf down.
synonyms: word: scarf down
scarfs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scarf up
scarfing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scarf up
scarfed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scarf up
Ingledew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
look Ma, no hands
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From a young child's growing ability to ride a bicycle without the handlebars. Popularized and perhaps coined in a 1937 cartoon.
Senses: glosses: Expresses victory in accomplishing something that can never be undone.
superjurassicfantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superjurassicfantastic
form: most superjurassicfantastic
Etymology: In reference to the movies Superman, Jurassic World Rebirth, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, all released in July 2025.
Senses: glosses: Amazing, fantastic, especially in relation to July 2025's cinema releases.
wikipedia: Jurassic World Rebirth
Superman (2025 film)
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
TMRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TMRAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trans men's rights activist.
Related terms: MRA
TMRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TMRA
cheddarella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of cheddar + mozzarella.
Senses: glosses: A blend or combination of cheddar and mozzarella cheeses.
KPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of Lao ຂ່າວສານປະເທດລາວ (khāo sān pa thēt lāo).
Senses: examples: text: “The suspected cause of the death is believed to be the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages,” KPL said. “Officials are in the process of collecting detailed information, evidence, and witness testimonies and are expected to release an official statement soon.”
ref: 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN:
text: A statement from the official Lao News Agency (KPL) Friday reported that “the consumption of tainted alcoholic beverages” was the suspected cause of the deaths.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: The Lao News Agency.
corn planthopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn planthoppers
Senses: synonyms: shoot bug
glosses: A delphacid of species Peregrinus maidis, a pest of maize and its relatives.
shoot bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoot bugs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of corn planthopper.
synonyms: word: corn planthopper
shoot bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoot bug
corn planthoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn planthopper
smeech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: smeeches
Senses: examples: text: […] gases escape in puffs from the furnace doors, which the men designate "smeeches," and these contain arsenic in a vaporised form, which has an extremely irritating effect on the bronchial tubes.
ref: 1906, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall:
glosses: Acrid smoke or other stench.
smeech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: smeeches
form: smeeching
form: smeeched
form: smeeched
Senses: examples: text: The story was so vivid that it was possible in the mind's eye of those in the audience to see the saucepan on the stove smeeching' away as she heated and stirred the mixture.
ref: 2011, John Neale, Following the River Camel:
text: "The fire's smeeching." Jessalyn pulled the old mullioned window shut with a protest of its rusty hinges, then stooped to poke at a fire of furze and bits of driftwood, coaxing out a reluctant flame.
ref: 1993, Penelope Williamson, Once in a Blue Moon, page 23:
glosses: To produce smoke or stench.
smeeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smeech
smeeches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smeech
smeeched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smeech
smeeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smeech
quasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasites
Etymology: Blend of quasi- + statite. Analyzable as quasi- + -ite.
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: A theoretical type of artificial satellite, which has large solar sails for maneuvering, allowing a stable solar orbit at speeds lower that Kepler velocity; though not enough solar sail area to allow holding station.
Coordinate terms: lagite
statite
FFTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of feto-fetal transfusion syndrome
quasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasite
Van Den Berghe Dequeker syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Discovered in 1978 by H van den Berghe et al.
Senses: glosses: A very rare congenital limb malformation syndrome characterized by severe ulnar hypoplasia, ectrodactyly, and split foot.
Sutherland-Haan syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Renpenning's syndrome
synonyms: word: Renpenning's syndrome
Golabi-Ito-Hall syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Renpenning's syndrome
synonyms: word: Renpenning's syndrome
De Barsy syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: De Barsy-Moens-Diercks syndrome
progeroid syndrome of De Barsy
glosses: A rare autosomal-recessive genetic disorder with symptoms including cutis laxa and ocular, musculoskeletal, and neurological abnormalities.
De Barsy-Moens-Diercks syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of De Barsy syndrome
synonyms: word: De Barsy syndrome
progeroid syndrome of De Barsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of De Barsy syndrome
synonyms: word: De Barsy syndrome
genitopatellar syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare disorder consisting of congenital flexion contractures of the lower extremities, abnormal or missing patellae, and urogenital anomalies.
Momoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈmoʊə/
Forms: form: Momoas
Etymology: From Polynesian:
* From Hawaiian
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Polynesian languages
glosses: A surname from the Polynesian languages
A surname from Hawaiian
asymmetric crying facies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ACF
Cayler syndrome
Cayler cardiofacial syndrome
glosses: A minor congenital anomaly caused by agenesis or hypoplasia of the depressor anguli oris muscle, causing weakness on one side of the face and in the corresponding corner of the mouth.
Cayler cardiofacial syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asymmetric crying facies.
synonyms: word: asymmetric crying facies
Cayler syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of asymmetric crying facies.
synonyms: word: asymmetric crying facies