cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shining, shimmering, splendid
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A lyric from "A Whole New World", the signature song from Disney's Aladdin (1992).
Senses: examples: text: Shining, shimmering, splendid! she thought. The memory of watching that on VHS brought on the chuckles and she couldn't hold them back.
ref: 2012 June 1, M. J. Haider, Put Him Out for Good, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Soos: What is this new world? Shining, shimmering, splendid!
ref: 2015 November 23, "Weirdmageddon 2: Escape from Reality", season 2, episode 19 of Gravity Falls
text: Curiel's cloud was golden—shining, shimmering, splendid golden.
ref: 2018 April 24, E. L. Hound, The Heart of Time: An Almostbiography, page 14:
glosses: Something that is extraordinary, captivating or spectacular.
wikipedia: A Whole New World
Aladdin (1992 Disney film)
sauerkrauty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sauerkrauty
form: most sauerkrauty
Etymology: From sauerkraut + -y.
Senses: examples: text: With the Pul Koki he serves Kim Chee (“a sauerkrauty type thing”) which can be purchased at the Morino Market, 1806 Sutter.
ref: 1968, San Francisco, volume 10:
text: Curiously, there is a homey, familiar, even comfortable feeling about all this. The smell of chestnuts and pretzels and sauerkrauty steam pouring out of Sabrett’s; the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages; the bells of Salvation Army Santas.
ref: 1982, K. C. Cole, Between the Lines: Searching for the Space Between Feminism and Femininity and Other Tight Spots, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, page 219:
text: In preliminary trials, five food professionals described the spiced sauerkraut being "fresher," "lighter," "less sauerkrauty" and "more like fresh cabbage" then^([sic]) regular sauerkraut.
ref: 1986, Anne Dahlson, Increased Utilization of Sauerkraut and Cabbage Through Technological Developments, University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 102:
text: Sauerkrauty and mousy off-odours often affect the wine.
ref: 1999, V. K. Joshi, Ashok Pandey, editors, Biotechnology: Applied, Educational Publishers & Distributors, →ISBN, page 618:
text: An old man sold me a kind of shish kebab every night for seven days with a weird sauerkrauty sauce which I can taste this moment.
ref: 2000, Bruce Pascoe, Nightjar, Seaglass Books, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Let the kraut continue to ferment at room temperature for 5 days, checking it from time to time, ensuring it stays fully covered by the liquid. Smell and taste. Once it’s sauerkrauty enough for you, it’s ready to eat.
ref: 2017, Abel & Cole, How to Eat Brilliantly Every Day, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sauerkraut.
living-roomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more living-roomy
form: most living-roomy
Etymology: From living room + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There was a gray rug, and the blue was again used in the portières and in a few cushions. It sounds very living-roomy, I acknowledge, but, like all the other rooms I have mentioned, it had all the comfort of a living-room with that indefinable charm and pleasant suggestion which are an absolute part of the modern parlor.
ref: 1913, House & Garden, volume 24:
text: Maybe it’d look nice in the guest room. It’s not really a living-roomy lamp.
ref: 1958, Mary Stolz, And Love Replied, page 12:
text: This is the year of Medallion Styling for Owens—deep, living-roomy space, gear space galore, rich colors with matched upholstery . . . all the standard equipment you need to have a wonderful time on the water.
ref: 1962 April, Popular Boating, volume 11, number 4, page 18:
text: The Dotsons opened up the living-roomy coffee shop – with wireless Internet to boot – in mid-October at 2829 E. 29th Ave., in Lincoln Heights.
ref: 2007 November 2, Tom Bowers, “Living on a caffeinated retirement plan”, in 7 (The Spokesman-Review), page 19, columns 1–2:
text: The Bru (sounds like an insurance company) restaurant and bar, and a living-roomy lounge full of board games and newspapers, look out onto a paved, Riviera-style terrace and miles of shingle-shore swimming in the hazy dusk.
ref: 2009 June 10, Nick Curtis, “A classical, coastal delight”, in Evening Standard, page 47, column 1:
text: His partner, artist Brooke Young, decorated the basic dining room with both masculine and feminine details. That includes some handpainted walls using oxidized metal paint, unusual lighting and artwork, warm woods and polished concrete floor. “It’s a 1970s rock star’s Parisian apartment,” she said. “It has a livingroom-y feel.”
ref: 2018 April 1, Maureen Wallenfang, “Open: Wildflower Pizzeria gets cooking”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 72, page 1D, columns 3–4:
text: How intimate and living-roomy is the space? There’s even a fireplace on the wall. Yup. Not your average concert experience.
ref: 2018 September 30, Peter D. Kramer, “50 seats only: Tiny concerts, big names”, in The Journal News, volume 130, number 148, page 6C, column 4:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a living room.
Moree Plains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area bordering onto Queensland in the North West Slopes region, New South Wales, Australia; in full, Moree Plains Shire.
kthnxbye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “’Kthnxbye!” Angel said brightly, opening the door for them.
ref: 2010, James Patterson, Fang, Young Arrow, →ISBN, page 204:
text: Dear will.I.am I can NEVER nail that first “dirty bit” timing. Please help. Kthnxbye.
ref: 2011 January 26, Katy Perry, quotee, “Celebrity tweets”, in Metro Calgary, page 16:
text: CHORUS NEAR: We’d love to. CHORUS FAR: CBA. CHORUS NEAR: But you know… CHORUS FAR: So kthnxbye! CHORUS NEAR: Laters?
ref: 2014, Sarah Jane Dickenson, CBA, Barbican Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Ground? Hello, my names are Lola and Charlotte. Pleased to meet you. Can you open up right about now and swallow me? Kthnxbye.
ref: 2015, Stacey Solomon, Walk on By, Totally Bound Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
text: Fuck it, rebrand the Welfare State as the Welfare Trampoline if you like, but Jesus we will not win if we do not offer something that looks like a smile wrapped around the weapons we’ll need to fight the fear we know is coming. Right, done. Kthnxbye.
ref: 2016, Rishi Dastidar, “What’s the matter with”, in W.N. Herbert, Andy Jackson, editors, New Boots and Pantisocracies, Smokestack Books, →ISBN, page 146:
text: “Guys, bad news: My mom and sisters are all dead. Hot Hands and Gravitas killed them and the director and all the other actors on this movie! Man, it’s so bad, villains are evil, guys, don’t let them fool you! Kthnxbye.”
ref: 2018, Liam Llewellyn, Stuporheroes, L.L. Press, →ISBN, page 117:
text: Oh, and by the way, could they not insult me in front of the congregation, kthnxbye.
ref: 2020, Mia Siegert, Somebody Told Me, Carolrhoda Lab, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of kthxbye.
Qué.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Que.
Senses: examples: text: Born in Montréal, Qué., Aug. 29, 1941.
ref: 1986, Who’s Who of Canadian Women, Trans-Canada Press, →ISBN, page 354:
text: This paper was presented at the CFBS Symposium on Frontiers in Cocaine Research, held in Québec, Qué., June 15, 1988, and has undergone the Journal’s usual peer review.
ref: 1989, Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, volume 67, page 1124:
text: He bought his own company Plastall, of Granby, Qué., in 1967.
ref: 1998, Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: RCAF & Others, Royal Canadian Military Institute Heritage Society, →ISBN, page 3287:
glosses: Abbreviation of Québec.
kopeyki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian копе́йки (kopéjki).
Senses: glosses: plural of kopeyka
dual offence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual offences
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hybrid offence.
synonyms: word: hybrid offence
dual offences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dual offence
thankuverymuch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: This colyumnist and his sweet tooth will stick with honey thankuverymuch …
ref: 1999 October 10, Adam Goodman, “The Y1K bug, with apologies to Jerold the Burgher”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 121, number 283, page M2:
text: Some will do it with a helping hand from Elvis, thankuverymuch, others live on television.
ref: 1999 December 31, J. Freedom du Lac, “In Vegas, couples are lining up for biggest gamble of all”, in The Sacramento Bee, page A1:
text: She did the movie, “because Elijah is 7½, and Grace is 6, and you don’t get many chances to look cool to your kids. So this is my Grammy, thankuverymuch!”
ref: 2002 June 11, Roger Moore, “Wynonna drops into Disney on a king-sized mission”, in Orlando Sentinel, page E2:
text: But a part of me would like a little bit of appreciation, thankuverymuch.
ref: 2011, Zoe Evans, Confessions of a Wannabe Cheerleader, Simon Spotlight, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Alternative form of thank you very much.
Paoay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Atok, Benguet, Philippines.
Poupon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Poupons
Etymology: From French Poupon.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Daquioag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
turnip-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turnip-headed
form: most turnip-headed
Senses: examples: text: This consequential pigmy is in fact a perfect curiosity of the human species, and was doubtless intended by nature to occupy a niche in the gallery of the Australian Pickwick. Risen from the bench of the mechanic this turnip-headed moon-calf has the overweening presumption to aspire to the bench of magistracy!
ref: 1840 January 18, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 5:
text: [H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130:
glosses: Stupid; foolish.
Phoenix Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A corruption of Irish fhionn uisce (“fair water”).
Senses: glosses: A large urban park in Dublin, Ireland.
pumpkin-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pumpkin-headed
form: most pumpkin-headed
Senses: examples: text: The parties made no reply, but were going forward, when the prisoner again called out, at the same time rushing from his house with a gun in his hand, exclaiming “you pumpkin headed b----, if you do not stop and tell me who you are, I'll blow your brains out,” at the same moment pulling the trigger, when the priming flashed in the pan.
ref: 1827 May 11, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3, column 1:
text: “Take that, for being a pumpkin-headed old shellback.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 161:
glosses: Stupid; foolish; fatheaded.
sim racers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sim racer
yarlyg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarlygs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yarligh.
jarliq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarliqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yarligh.
yarlygs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yarlyg
jarliqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jarliq
Lashonda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lashawnda
form: LaShonda
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
imparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From im- + parous.
Senses: glosses: Having never given birth.
Synonyms: nulliparous
Lisondra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Surigao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
ditransitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ditransitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ditransitive manner.
thistle button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thistle buttons
Senses: examples: text: “It's almost as bad as swallowing thistle buttons.”
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 118:
glosses: A decorative button with the motif of a thistle.
thistle buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thistle button
Yenchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 延吉 (Yánjí), Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-chi².
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless in this agreement the Japanese secured China’s consent that the Changchun-Kirin Railway should eventually be extended to the southern boundary of the Yenchi or Chientao district, connecting at Hoi-yang with a Korean railway.
ref: 1915 September, “The Changchun-Kirin Railway and its Strategic Meaning”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XII, number 4, →OCLC, page 158, column 1:
text: According to a top-secret document of Japanese imperialism entitled “A Study of Communist Bandits in Manchuria,” peasants of the east district of Santaowan in Yenchi county, were given an average of 4,800 pyung(one pyung equals 3.305 square metres) per household.
ref: 1969, Baik Bong, “Cradle of the Revolution—Liberated Areas”, in Kim Il Sung Biography: From Birth to Triumphant Return to Homeland, volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 185:
text: Between February 28 and March 1, 1930, some of the Korean Communists in Yenchi organized hundreds of farmers in different localities and carried out mass demonstrations, in which banners saying "Destroy Japanese Imperialism or Long Live Korean Independence" were displayed and hundreds of thousands of leaflets were distributed.
ref: 1983, Chong-Sik Lee, “Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1929”, in Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922–1945, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: Alternative form of Yanji.
Ulster Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The ‘Ulster Day’ march will take place this Saturday to mark both the centenary of the UVF and 101st anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant.
ref: 2013 September 24, “18,000 loyalists expected for ‘Ulster Day’ march to commemorate UVF formation”, in Belfast Telegraph, →ISSN:
glosses: The anniversary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant, September 28 1912, celebrated by Loyalists in Northern Ireland.
ABNF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of augmented Backus-Naur form.
Provisional IRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Provisional IRA
Senses: synonyms: Provos
glosses: An Irish republican paramilitary force split from the Irish Republican Army in 1969.
netname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netnames
Etymology: From net + name.
Senses: examples: text: A UNC (universal naming convention) name consists of a server name and a netname, which together identify a resource in the domain.
ref: 1994, Barry Nance, Client/server LAN Programming, page 43:
text: If a sharepoint is accessed by using the UNC \\server1\WordFiles, for example, the netname is WordFiles.
ref: 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 58:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: The part of a UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) path that identifies a particular resource on a given server.
netnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netname
do one's homework
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does one's homework
form: doing one's homework
form: did one's homework
form: done one's homework
Senses: examples: text: As the hearing went on, Harradence impressed me. When the judge asked for his comment on an issue, Harradence had clearly done his homework and was never taken by surprise.
ref: 2009, Colin Thatcher, Final Appeal: Anatomy of a Frame:
glosses: To prepare oneself with the relevant knowledge; to carry out the necessary research in advance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, homework.
double period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double periods
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Two consecutive periods in the timetable, capable of accommodating a double lesson.
double periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double period
double lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double lessons
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An extended lesson occupying a double period.
double lessons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double lesson
meatfluencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatfluencers
Etymology: Blend of meat + influencer
Senses: examples: text: And, as it turns out, the organ meat lifestyle—consuming liver, kidneys, intestines, hearts, testicles, and other edible animal organs—is a passion that’s now uniting the anti-vaccine world, Joe Rogan’s audience, the so-called alt-right, conservative outlets like Evie, and, overall, a new and presumably somewhat constipated brand of meatfluencer.
ref: 2022 June 23, Anna Merlan, “Why Are the Weirdest People Online Obsessed With Organ Meats?”, in Vice:
text: She’s joined in the business by Bella – known by the online persona Steak And Butter Gal, who has a whopping 120K YouTube subscribers and over two million likes on TikTok – and also names women ‘meatfluencers’ Kelly Hogan and Mikhaila Peterson as a ‘huge resource of information’.
ref: 2023 February 6, Sian Bradley, “‘Meatfluencers’ are taking over social media, with women leading the charge”, in Metro:
text: Likewise, meatfluencers say the livestock industry has no significant impact on the climate crisis despite abundant evidence suggesting otherwise.
ref: 2024 January 19, Dean Russell, Ben Brock Johnson, Emily Jankowski, “How social media sells the all-meat diet”, in WBUR:
glosses: An influencer on social media who promotes a carnivorous diet.
meatfluencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meatfluencer
light bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light bills
Etymology: So called because electricity was once used mainly for lighting; see 1940 citation below.
Senses: examples: text: People who have been connected to utility electric lines have used them almost entirely for lights, because of the expense. […] But now with plenty of power, calling their monthly statement a light bill is, I believe, wrong psychology. Too many come in and remark about the amount of their light bill even though they may use 50 to 100 kilowatt-hours.
ref: 1940, C. A. Winder (Director, Division of Engineering and Operations), quoted in: United States. Rural Electrification Administration, Rural Electrification News: A Summary of Rural Electrification Activities (page 26)
glosses: An electricity bill.
South Island giant moas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of South Island giant moa
toilety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toilety
form: most toilety
form: toiletty
Etymology: From toilet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Here he was concealed at least, although the thick, toilety smell ruined the flavour of the thing he ate.
ref: 1992, Paul S[ingh] Sunga, The Lions, Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, chapter one, section I, page 1:
text: When Kate lifted the latch and creaked open the door, it was not the buzzing of bluebottles they noticed, but the smell — a toilety smell overlaid with Jeyes Fluid.
ref: 2000, Patricia O’Reilly, Once Upon a Summer, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, pages 134–135:
text: Grandma’s room was getting really stinky now. It had always been a bit stinky but this was more toilety now – and it hadn’t been irksome before, but it was now.
ref: 2000, Colin Firth, “The Department of Nothing”, in Nick Hornby, editor, Speaking with the Angel, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Difficulty with bottom wiping – teenagers often go through a ‘dirty’ stage and are more sweaty and smelly but they usually do not to have a ‘toilety’ smell.
ref: 2003, Amanda Kirby, Sharon Drew, Guide to Dyspraxia and Developmental Coordination Disorders, London: David Fulton Publishers, →ISBN, page 93:
text: There was an echoey thud, a splash that sounded very toilety in nature, and then, “I’m in!”
ref: 2017, Jennifer Brown, Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 177:
text: There’s a toilety smell about the place, mingling with the stench of something even fouler.
ref: 2020, Sam Lloyd, The Memory Wood, Bantam Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a toilet.
temanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temanites
Etymology: From the Wikipedia article for Teman (Edom):
Teman (Hebrew: תימן), was the name of an Edomite clan and of its eponym, according to the Bible, and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym of the direction South and was applied to being used as the Hebrew name of Yemen (whose Arabic name is "Yaman") due to its location in the Southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, thus making Yemenite Jews being called "Temanim" in Hebrew.
Senses: examples: Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.
glosses: An archaic word for a Yemenite Jew in the Book of Job (2:11) from the Jewish Bible.
glosses: An inhabitant of Teman.
WBY
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of William Butler Yeats.
combatative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combatative
form: most combatative
Etymology: From combat + -ative. First attested in 1835.
Senses: examples: text: He frequented mostly the society of women; because he thought them more richly endowed by nature with pity and modesty, two pacific qualities which, he said, alone temper the combatative propensities of human beings.
ref: 1835, [Mary Shelley], “Ugo Foscolo”, in Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, volume 2, page 374:
text: Some are loquacious; some are argumentative and religious; some are lascivious; some are excessively foolish; some are brutal, beastly, ugly, quarrelsome, wicked, combatative, murderous. Others are simply stupid.
ref: 1860, Solon Robinson, How to Live: Saving and Wasting, or, Domestic Economy Illustrated, page 215:
text: As this caterpillar is very readily dislodged, jarring the tree and killing the insect on the ground is a convenient combatative measure.
ref: 1910, Edith M. Patch, O. A. Johannsen, Apple Tree Insects of Maine, page 25:
text: Angus Cameron, he knew, was one of those unfortunates who are born with a sure knowledge of their constituted rights and the combatative zeal to defend them at any cost.
ref: 1926, John Mersereau, The Whispering Canyon, page 41:
text: When Tyr appears in a reading a competitive, not combatative character is suggested.
ref: 1997, Anders Andersson, Runes: The Secrets of the Stones, →ISBN, page 31:
text: A combatative midfielder, his no-nonsense facial hair gives him the appearance of a gladiator looking for his next kill.
ref: 2010, James Chambers, Footballers’ Haircuts: A New History, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 55:
glosses: Uncommon form of combative.
attributative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It has, however, been generally considered as of a peculiar kind, and has received an attributative designation, as if the action had a character of its own, distinct from that of all other inflammations, and at the same time quite independent of the structure which it affected.
ref: 1831, The principles of surgery, page 191:
text: […]a definite distinction is made between the predicative construction and the attributative by means of the devices of the definite article and the weak adjective.
ref: 1956, Poetic, scientific, and other forms of discourse; a new approach to Greek and Latin literature, page 67:
text: If the attributative body of performative actions, behaviours and utterances has no place in cyberspace, it is hazardous to suggest that this means there are no bodies in cyberspace.
ref: 2004, More dirty looks : gender, pornography and power, page 97:
glosses: Misconstruction of attributive.
negatative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The question as to the existence of volcanic formations in Central Asia, may now be considered as decided in the negatative.
ref: 1867, The American naturalist, page 84:
text: Negatative correlations were found between internality and length of residency in the nursing home and age
ref: 1992, Coping with chronic illness : overcoming powerlessness, page 145:
glosses: Misspelling of negative.
additative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The additative or substitutive doctrine of electrical action is equally inadmissible, that element being a simple product evolved by changes in the condition of matter.
ref: 1894, The Astrologer's Magazine, page 53:
text: […]the results show an increase in tension of 53.3% thereby establishing the additative tendency of the two factors.
ref: 1926, The Collecting net, page 168:
text: The present article considers the unsteady-state problem of optimum linear filtration and prediction for a class of additative noise with finite variance.
ref: 1966, Automation and Remote Control, page 645:
glosses: Misconstruction of additive.
ladywear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lady + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: In ladywear, with full lady persona, she was a woman.
ref: 2011, Cherie Priest, chapter 8, in Bloodshot, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 182:
text: ‘Afraid I don’t have much in the way of ladywear, and your dress is probably a bit . . . unnecessary here.’
ref: 2015, Lucy Inglis, Crow Mountain, Chicken House, →ISBN:
text: “I’m really sorry about this, Charlotte. I do wish we were meeting under different circumstances,” Max apologized, carefully avoiding the ladywear as he restacked what I’d just shoved into the back to make it easier for me to remove everything later.
ref: 2019, Nina Bocci, Meet Me on Love Lane, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of ladieswear.
Stieg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stiegs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stieg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stiegs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stieg
Staraces
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Starace
Singla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Singlas
Etymology: Variant of Singhal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Singlas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Singla
Someros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Somero
Tates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tateses
Etymology: Variant of Tate, with excrescent -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tammen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tammens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tammen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Tammens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tammen
Tateses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tates
Wadhwani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wadhwanis
Etymology: Borrowed from Sindhi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Sindhi.
Todhunters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Todhunter
Tourangeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tourangeau
Wadhwanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wadhwani
Wamble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wambles
Etymology: Variant of Womble.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Winquist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winquists
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Winqvist, an ornamental surname composed of the elements vin (“vine; wine”) + kvist (“twig”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Shortalls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shortall
kopejkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kopejka
Wambles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wamble
Winquists
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Winquist
CMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of common mode failure.
Wigen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wigens
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Wigen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Wieseler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wieselers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wieseler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
disastress
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disastress
form: most disastress
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of disastrous.
Wigens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wigen
Wieselers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wieseler
Huxham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huxhams
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Hoc + -s- + hām (“homestead”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish of East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9497).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
conducest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of conduce
conduceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conduce
Stenlake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stenlakes
Etymology: Habitational surname from the village of Standlake, in Oxfordshire.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Popplestone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Popplestones
Etymology: From Old English papolstān (“pebble”), perhaps a nickname used for a person hard to deal with.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname [in turn from Old English].
Popplestones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Popplestone
Huxhams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Huxham
Stenlakes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stenlake
slow wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow wheels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tournette.
synonyms: word: tournette
kopeika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kopeikas
form: kopeiki
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian копейка (kopejka). Doublet of kopek, kopiyka, and kapeek.
Senses: examples: text: They gave him but twenty-five kopeikas per day.
ref: 1845, “Notes of my Captivity in Russia, in the years 1794, 1795, and 1795. By J. U. Niemcewicx. Translated from the Original, by Alexander Laski. Edinburgh, Tait.”, in The Monthly Review, volume I, London: G. Henderson, […], page 94:
text: The twilight approached, and he had not yet one kopeika for food or shelter for the night.
ref: 1895, Jaakoff Prelooker, “A Russian Story”, in The Sunday Magazine, page 39:
text: I walked the streets, tired and hungry, here and there making a few kopeikas by helping Cousin Motel or my cousin Moishe sell canes on the Bazaar.
ref: 1969, Martin D. Kushner, From Russia to America: A Modern Odyssey, Dorrance & Company, page 55:
text: Even public schools in Russian Turkestan did not enjoy full financial support from the government. For example, in 1893, Fergana oblast’ received 198,277 rubles for education, or 0.02 kopeiki per inhabitant of the region. Samarkand received 141,890 rubles, or 0.4 kopeiki per capita. In 1915, the Imperial government assigned 1,084,800 rubles for educational needs in Turkestan, which was 2.4 per cent of its total budget, or 0.22 kopeiki per capita.
ref: 1970, Wasyl Shimoniak, “[Administration and Control] Educational Expenditures”, in Communist Education: Its History, Philosophy and Politics, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.; San Francisco, Calif.: Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN, part I (School and Society in the U.S.S.R.), page 138:
text: The loaf of bread that cost 30 kopeikas for years was now selling for 3 rubles!
ref: 2009, Nadia Karalnik, quoting Roza Beydman, “The Hyperinflation in Russia: The Words of Roza Beydman”, in Farrokh K. Langdana, Macroeconomic Policy: Demystifying Monetary and Fiscal Policy, 2nd edition, Springer, →ISBN, page 118:
text: The Algebra of Conflict was published in a run of sixty thousand copies, which sold well being priced at twelve kopeiki by the All-Union Association for Popularization of Science (in Russian, Znanie).
ref: 2023, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, “Reflexive Control”, in The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN:
text: Tatiana passed by the cart filled with pirogues. The tags read: Pirogue with meat: 45 kopeiki; pirogue with cabbage: 35; vatrushka: 25.
ref: 2023, Victoria Von Berg, chapter 22, in Ukrainian Rhapsody, New York, N.Y.: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of kopek.
kopeikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kopeika
Cyrillize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹəɫ.aɪz/
Forms: form: Cyrillizes
form: Cyrillizing
form: Cyrillized
form: Cyrillized
form: Cyrillise
Etymology: From Cyrill + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The Latin letter L can be Cyrillized as Л.
synonyms: Cyrillicize
glosses: To transliterate something into the characters of the Cyrillic script.
Related terms: Cyrillization
Cyrillisation
almightier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog
Almightier than God
Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog
Ængus is the leader
Ængus is the brother
Ængus is the father
Ængus is the Savior
ref: 2022, “Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog”, performed by The Toxhards:
glosses: comparative form of almighty: more almighty
how see
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Calque of Cantonese 點睇 /点睇 (“what does sb. think”, literally “how does sb. view something”).
Senses: examples: text: How see this post?
translation: What do you think of this post?
english: What do you think of this post?
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glosses: what do you think?, what say you?
Standlake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English stān (“stone”) + lacu (“lake”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3903).
Related terms: Stenlake
tire swings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tire swing
Coriolan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus
Canköy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jänköyʹ
enpr: jănköyʹ
ipa: /d͡ʒɑːnˈkøj/
ipa: /d͡ʒanˈkøj/
Etymology: Borrowed directly from Crimean Tatar Canköy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jankoy.
transexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transexualities
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of transsexuality.
transexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transexuality
rustproofings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rustproofing
semeiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semeiotically
form: most semeiotically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of semiotically.
demotivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demotivation
gentlemanlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gentlemanly: more gentlemanly
gentlemanliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gentlemanly: most gentlemanly
conquerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ability to be conquered.
Derived terms: unconquerability
colorabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colorability
understratums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understratum
whoseso
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: Women and land are hand-maidens of the sword, whoseso sword conquereth them, to him do they belong. In whoseso house the sword is pulled from the fist of the wielder, there is there no virile power, no moustache nor beard.
ref: 1893, Malika Mohammada Jāyasī, Sir George Abraham Grierson, A Specimen of the Padumawati with an Analysis of the Entire Poem, page 202:
glosses: Whosever; whatever person's.
Related terms: whoso
amokuras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amokura
astangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astanga
subtractings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtracting
addings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adding
vogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vog
tuckbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuckboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuck box.
tuckboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuckbox
sosh meed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊʃ mid/
ipa: /səʊʃ mid/
Forms: form: sosh meeds
form: sosh med
form: sosh meds
Etymology: Clipping of social media.
Senses: examples: text: Also, I can report that inflight Wi-Fi is a revolution! You can sosh med and email galore.
ref: [2018 August 20, Mike Lane, “Flying from Auckland to Bangalore aboard Singapore Airlines”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: NZME, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2023:
text: Then there are some folks whom I recently discovered exist and their hotness has made me sign up for a lifetime subscription to Fap Magazine: peeps like The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun (never seen the show, but saw pics of him on sosh meeds) and country singer Luke Bryan (never listened to his music, but I watched the American Idol reboot because I'm a grandma at heart).
ref: 2018 October 17, Phoebe Robinson, “Phoebe Robinson's 9 Tips on How to Be Single That Don't Actually Suck”, in Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
text: Well, with Miley posting all of these throwback pics on sosh meeds (social media,) I have to wonder...
ref: 2019 March 26, Syd Robinson, “I Found Mandy From "The Miley And Mandy Show" And This Is What She's Up To”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023:
text: Oh, can you toast again for the camera? I want to post it to our sosh meed.
ref: 2020 May 29, “Bachelorette”, in Harley Quinn, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Eris (Jameela Jamil):
text: She'd had a swank job as an event planner at a talent agency 'til the girls were born; now she was starting a company whose mission was impossible to parse but had something to do with disseminating a precise and costly bohemian-chic home décor aesthetic on sosh meed.
ref: 2022, Elisa Albert, Human Blues: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Avid Reader Press, →ISBN, page 148:
text: AND OH GOD! We haven't even talked about the sosh med yet! The rise and ubiquity of social media has made it increasingly difficult to set boundaries between our work selves and our personal selves.
ref: 2023, Tara Schuster, Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
text: If you're a fan of Spotify Wrapped, the annual recap of music-listening habits that dominates everyone's sosh meds for a week, then you're in for a treat.
ref: 2023 April 12, Sophie van Soest, “What Is 'Spotify Pie' And How Do I Get A Slice? My Guilty Pleasure Songs Are Quaking”, in The Edge, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2023:
glosses: Social media.
sosh meeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sosh meed.
sosh med
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sosh meed.
sosh meds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sosh meed.
umptiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.
Senses: examples: text: These days, Senator Henry Jackson, notorious for his ties with the Pentagon, has "distinguished" himself in this unseemly field for the umptiest time.
ref: 1971, The Daily Review, volume 17:
text: This is in reality the umptiest variant of the Hobbes-Rousseau controversy […]
ref: 2006, Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.), The Mankind Quarterly (volume 47, page 62)
glosses: Misconstruction of umpteenth.
shoopilties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoopiltie
subphenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subphenomena
Etymology: From sub- + phenomenon.
Senses: examples: text: Net child labor comprises subphenomena with different, sometimes contradictory, evolutions. The increasing role of formal economy may artificially inflate the numbers of children considered working. Informal and family work may lead to underreported work, especially in historical contexts.
ref: 2009, Hugh D. Hindman, editor, The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey, Armonk, N.Y.; London: M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 648:
glosses: A phenomenon which forms part of a larger phenomenon.
subphenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subphenomenon
misgeneralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misgeneralizations
form: misgeneralisation
Etymology: From mis- + generalization.
Senses: examples: text: The problem was that this concept was a misgeneralization from the Gulf War and did not fit conflicts like that in Bosnia, where the nature of the warfare was less conventional and where the strategy had to be more of a political-military one linked more closely to diplomacy and negotiations.
ref: 2002, Robert J. Lieber, editor, Eagle Rules?: Foreign Policy and American Primacy in the Twenty-First Century, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 272:
glosses: An incorrect generalization.
misgeneralizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgeneralization
misgeneralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misgeneralisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of misgeneralization.
misgeneralisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misgeneralisation
Sodus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In New York, from a native word, Assorodus, for the bay there (Sodus Bay). Both townships were named after the New York town.
Senses: glosses: A town and village therein, in Wayne County, New York, United States.
glosses: A township in Berrien County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A township in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States.
airboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airboards
Etymology: From air + board.
Senses: glosses: An inflatable bodyboard for use on snow.
airboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airboard
SUGRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SUGRAs
Senses: examples: text: There are various forms of SUGRA, depending upon the number N of supersymmetric charges.
ref: 1983 January/February, Bruno Zumino, “Supersymmetry and supergravity”, in CERN Courier, volume 23, number 1, Geneva: IOP Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1:
glosses: Abbreviation of supergravity.
SUGRAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SUGRA
unmuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmuggy
form: most unmuggy
Etymology: From un- + muggy.
Senses: examples: text: He seeks to entice me with unmuggy, azure-skied days, with dove-gray rain days, with his twilight-walk-on-the-beach idea of romance.
ref: 2015, Tara Ison, Ball: Stories:
glosses: Not muggy.
ecogift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecogifts
Etymology: From eco- + gift.
Senses: examples: text: At present, an individual making an ecogift receives both a charitable donations credit and a reduced inclusion rate on capital gains associated with the donation.
ref: 2006, Canada. Department of Finance, Focusing on Priorities: The budget plan 2006 (page 123)
glosses: A donation of land to a conservation charity in perpetuity, conferring certain tax benefits.
ecogifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecogift
backpedallings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backpedalling
gothiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of gothy: most gothy
gothier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of gothy: more gothy
YKINMKBYKIOK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: You remember, YKINMKBYKIOK, don't you? Well, it's her kink, and it's okay.
ref: 1998 April 14, TyMeDwn1st, “::grumbles:: Stupid checker....”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):
text: You must be younger and/or in better shape than me. Good for you, I guess.:-) YKINMKBYKIOK and all that.;-)
ref: 2002 December 11, Rosy B. Goode, “Video Licensing Act”, in soc.sexuality.spanking (Usenet):
text: I can see where you are coming from. I have to admit that I am personally not too concerned with the severity change. Given it is not release critical, it is not going to throw packages out of testing or anything like that. But as Enrico taught us: YKINMKBYKIOK :)
ref: 2015 August 24, Niels Thykier, “Raising the severity of reproduciblity^([sic]) issues to "important"”, in linux.debian.devel (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of your kink is not my kink, but your kink is OK: an acknowledgement that people have different sexual preferences.
Related terms: YKINMK
kinkshame
glueish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glueish
form: most glueish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gluish.
Everett branch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Everett branches
Etymology: Named after American physicist Hugh Everett III, who proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: This discussion is fascinating because I used to be acquainted with some philosophers who were trying to use Everett's theory as a way to give a `rigorous' meaning to `possible'. In other words, a world is possible if there exists a causal chain of Everett branches connecting it with our world.
ref: 1993 August 6, Justin Smith, “Possible worlds and Everett's worlds”, in sci.physics (Usenet):
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A particular sequence of wavefunction collapses, which, according to the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, corresponds to a particular universe.
wikipedia: Hugh Everett III
Everett branches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Everett branch
hamatsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamatsas
Senses: glosses: A member of a Kwakwaka'wakw secret society that performs dances.
hamatsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamatsa