cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on keel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From on + keel.
Senses: examples: text: It does take some experience with balance and acceleration to keep a snowmobile on keel in the deep woods.
ref: 1971 January 10, Seth S. King, “What Has Two Skis, Tank Treads”, in The New York Times:
text: 1980, “Signalman’s Odyssey: part IV,” INSCOM Journal, Arlington, VA: Army Intelligence and Security Command, June, 1980, p. 10,
A sudden gust of wind twice caught us unawares, lifted one outrigger balance-pole off the water and nearly had us turned turtle. Immediately, four of us dove along the catwalk, threw our hanging weights onto the poles and, just in time, brought the boat on keel.
text: As the boys went through drills, Sullivan called orders, criticism and encouragement through an electronic megaphone. “Keep your boat on keel. You’re dropping down on port with every catch,” he observed to the varsity eight as it sped upstream rowing at full pressure.
ref: 1988 April 21, Alice Digilio, “Crew making a splash in area high schools”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Moving straight ahead without wobbling or tilting. (of a watercraft, etc.)
examples: text: He walked-ran day after day although it was a living bore, the sameness, the ritual. This extraordinary world—is this how life wants me to live it? But he ran to keep himself on keel, to wind himself into work the next morning.
ref: 1979, Bernard Malamud, chapter 8, in Dubin’s Lives:
text: […] special teams of medical workers are as much frustrated as dedicated. For they know what should be done for their sick infants, but lack all manner of medical equipment to diagnose, to incubate, to sterilize, to medicate, to nudge small lives back on keel.
ref: 1990 July 5, Francis X. Clines, “Evolution in Europe; In Fabled Samarkand, Newborns Fight for Life”, in The New York Times:
text: 2006, George W. Bush, speech given at Kansas State University, quoted in The Washington Post, 23 January, 2006,
We don’t always agree with China, of course. It’s a complex relationship, but it’s one in which, in my judgment, it’s best to be in a position where we can dialogue and discuss things in order to keep relations on keel and keep peace in that part of the world.
glosses: Under control, proceeding or running smoothly.
Barnstable
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑɹnstəbəl/
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Barnstaple in England.
Derived terms: Barnstable County
West Barnstable
metooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of metoo
metooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of metoo
Newark-on-Trent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: .
synonyms: Newark
glosses: A market town in Newark parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK7953).
off keel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From off + keel.
Senses: examples: text: 1896, William Sharp, Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Col, Chapter 4, p. 78,
The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear.
text: […] at the finish the boat is moving faster, and the blade must be taken out more sharply if it is to avoid pulling the boat off keel.
ref: 1906, Arthur Wesselhoeft Stevens, chapter 1, in Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 10:
text: At any rate, Gull had done a hurried repair job on the ship, for it was traveling with the labored toil of an old man walking uphill. It was off-keel. The body of the ship leaned at an angle to the line of flight.
ref: 1946 June, Ross Rocklynne, “The Bottled Men”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 37, number 4, page 89:
glosses: Out of balance, tilting to one side. (of a watercraft, etc.)
examples: text: The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since.
ref: 1960, Brian Moore, chapter 1, in The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 4:
text: I’ve learned the lesson that the worst thing that can happen to a gambler is to let his recent losses or wins knock him off keel emotionally.
ref: 1998 November 8, Linda Greenhouse, “Horse Sense”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Attorney General John D. Ashcroft provided an update to the group on his efforts to develop a legislative package to expand the powers of law enforcement to fight terrorism. He outlined a two-phase strategy, aimed first at “immediate disruption and prevention of terrorism” and followed by longer-term efforts to put terrorists “off keel.”
ref: 2002 January 31, Bob Woodward, Dan Balz, “At Camp David, Advise and Dissent”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Out of control, not proceeding or running smoothly.
East Retford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: alternative and official name for the town of Retford.
die and go to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dies and goes to heaven
form: dying and going to heaven
form: died and went to heaven
form: died and gone to heaven
Senses: examples: text: It's like I died and went to heaven!
text: I must've died and gone to heaven / Cos it was quarter past eleven / On a Saturday in 1999
ref: 1996 November 25, Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, “Cosmic Girl”, performed by Jamiroquai:
text: Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.
ref: 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57:
text: His gaze dropped to her slender ankles then to her shoes. Yowzah! She wore white-strapped sandals with at least four-inch heels. Now he knew he was dreaming—or he'd died and gone to heaven.
ref: 2005, Micqui Miller, Sweet Caroline:
glosses: To have an extremely pleasant experience.
raw_tags: in metaphor and simile
not used alone
Southwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊθwɛl/
note: in Notts also
ipa: /ˈsʌðəl/
Senses: glosses: A town (with a racecourse) and civil parish with a town council in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6953).
glosses: A village in Portland parish, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY6870).
glosses: A settlement in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
glosses: A surname.
Isle of Portland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tied island or peninsula in Dorset, England.
cheese sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese stick
string cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string cheese
Alfreton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK4155).
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town in Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4959).
Ashfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæʃˌfiːld/
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A local government district in Nottinghamshire.
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Romsey Extra parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3619).
glosses: A place in England:
A suburb of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO5923).
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Oswestry Rural parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ3025).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Ashfield cum Thorpe parish, Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, now also known by the parish name (OS grid ref TM2162).
glosses: A hamlet by Loch Sween in Knapdale, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NR7685).
glosses: A hamlet in Stirling council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NN7803).
glosses: A small settlement in Llansadwrn community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN6928).
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Sydney in Inner West council area, New South Wales.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb and rural locality in Bundaberg Region, Queensland.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Perth in the Town of Bassendean, Western Australia.
glosses: A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in East Penn Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
Ashfield cum Thorpe
Great Ashfield
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Romsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒmzi/
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3521).
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Romsey Extra
Test Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Centred on the valley of the River Test.
Senses: glosses: A local government district with borough status of Hampshire, England.
Chandler's Ford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the old surname Chaundler, was spelt Chandlersford at one time.
Senses: glosses: A large residential area and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4320).
Alresford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒlsfəɹd/
ipa: /ˈeɪlsfəɹd/
note: Hampshire
ipa: /ˈɒlzfəɹd/
note: Hampshire
ipa: /ˈɔːlzfəɹd/
Etymology: * (Essex) From a personal name, Ægel, or Old English ǣl + ford, recorded as Ælesford c.1000, Eilesforda 1086 (DB).
* (Hampshire) From Old English alor (genitive alres) + ford, recorded as Alresforda 701, Alresforde 1086 (DB).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0621).
glosses: Ellipsis of New Alresford, Hampshire, England.
Related terms: Alre
New Alresford
Old Alresford
New Alresford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:
synonyms: Alresford
glosses: A small town and civil parish with a town council in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5832).
Related terms: Alre
Old Alresford
milk moustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk moustaches
Senses: glosses: White residue on one’s upper lip after taking a deep sip of milk, a milkshake, foamy coffee, etc.
Synonyms: milkstache
milktache
Old Alresford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5834).
Related terms: New Alresford
Old Basing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Basingas, an Anglo-Saxon tribe. Renamed from Basing by 1986.
Senses: glosses: A village in Old Basing and Lychpit parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England, to the east of Basingstoke (OS grid ref SU6652).
Eleusinian Mysteries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια (Eleusínia Mustḗria).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone, based at Eleusis in ancient Greece, now named Elefsina.
Related terms: anaktoron
hierophant
cocksmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocksmiths
Etymology: From cock + smith.
Senses: examples: text: I was absurdly pleased, like a very apprentice cocksmith praised for the length of his stream, and to cover my embarrassment I turned the talk back to her problems.
ref: 1992 -, Ivan Gold, Sick Friends, →ISBN, page 43:
text: His grin faded, and he looked earnest. “I'll try, Lucy. I really will.” He was suddenly not the confident cocksmith, but a little boy promising to make his mother proud of him.
ref: 2009, Tony Garnett, The Seductions of Lucy Foster, →ISBN, page 75:
text: “Well, let's just say you're a cocksmith and you know it puts my husband to shame.”, She whispered touching his chest.
ref: 2013, Anthony Cancelliere, The Wastelands, →ISBN, page 76:
text: When he reminds her during an argument that he has “produced” the sexual pleasure she desired, she responds, “An' don't that make your ass proud. Makes you the best cocksmith on South Street.
ref: 2014, Cathy Moses, Dissenting Fictions, →ISBN:
glosses: A man who has expert sexual technique.
examples: text: Fantasia, the guy who ran the circuit, was the biggest cocksmith in the world. He finally got arrested for molesting some chorus girl in her dressing room.
ref: 1973, Groucho Marx, Richard J. Anobile, The Marx Bros. Scrapbook, page 13:
text: That was not my reason—I just was not a cocksmith—but I did start sleeping with Susie again on a regular basis.
ref: 1987, Jose Yglesias, Home Again, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Jack wasn't a private but a public man, not a country squire but a city slicker, not a home but a hotel room man, not a husband but a cocksmith, not an American saint but an insatiable extortionist.
ref: 2011, William Kennedy, Legs, →ISBN:
text: Just a few names that might help you. Current and/or recent girlfriends. Turns out old Wayne was quite the cocksmith.
ref: 2014, William G. Tapply, Client Privilege, →ISBN:
glosses: A man who has sex with many women.
supernationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernationalisms
Etymology: From supernational + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for a sociopolitical collective of many nations.
Synonyms: supranationalism
supernationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernationalisms
Etymology: From super- + nationalism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hypernationalism (“extreme nationalism”).
synonyms: word: hypernationalism
extra: extreme nationalism
bureaucratitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bureaucrat + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.
ref: 2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: Excessive bureaucracy; red tape.
stiff as a board
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The rigidity of the corpse was excessive; after about two hours and a half it was stiff as a board.
ref: 1858, The London Lancet, page 408:
text: His stiff-as-a-board tranditionally ^([sic]) masculine good looks and constrained, stiff-upper lipped portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous ^([sic]), physically mobile Arnold.
ref: 1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very stiff.
stiff as a poker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very stiff.
tailgunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailgunners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tail gunner.
tailgunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailgunner
wholemeal breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wholemeal bread
mysogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of misogynist.
mysogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of misogynist.
datuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of datum
datumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of datum
gastrospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrospasms
Etymology: From gastro- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Spasmodic contraction of the gastric walls.
Ripley County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Both are named after Eleazer Wheelock Ripley.
Senses: glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Versailles.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Doniphan.
Amber Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the River Amber.
Senses: glosses: A local government district with borough status of Derbyshire, England.
Ambergate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: (In England) From Amber (“river”) + gate; it was originally named Toadmoor, and renamed after a turnpike tollgate (Amber Gate) after the railway station with this name opened in 1840. The etymology of the Australian place name is unclear.
Senses: glosses: A village in Ripley parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, England, at the confluence of the Amber and Derwent rivers (OS grid ref SK3451).
glosses: A suburb of the City of Busselton, Western Australia.
lock gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock gates
Senses: examples: text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
qualifier: Usually
glosses: one of a pair of gates at each end of a lock chamber on a canal, or river with a weir.
lock gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock gate
hit the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the mark
form: hitting the mark
form: hit the mark
form: hit the mark
Senses: examples: text: You know the syndrome: Saturday night when everyone is supposed to do something exciting and have a great time. […] We ticked off our options: dancing, the bars, a movie, the theatre, the baths, a concert, dinner at a good restaurant. None of them hit the mark. We both realized that what we most wanted was to spend a quiet evening at home, socializing with some of our gay male friends.
ref: 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: To succeed or work very well; to do the trick.
Related terms: hit the spot
choplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choplets
Etymology: From chop + -let.
Senses: examples: text: Similar items offered by most packers include lamb chopettes or choplets, prepared by molding into a shape resembling a lamb chop before freezing.
ref: 1970, School Foodservice Journal, volume 24, page 15:
glosses: A food product consisting of meat moulded into the form of a chop.
choplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choplet
chopette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chopettes
Etymology: From chop + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Similar items offered by most packers include lamb chopettes or choplets, prepared by molding into a shape resembling a lamb chop before freezing.
ref: 1970, School Foodservice Journal, volume 24, page 15:
glosses: Synonym of choplet.
synonyms: word: choplet
chopettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopette
preternaturalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preternaturalism
cock a deaf 'un
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒk ə ˈdɛf ən/
Forms: form: cocks a deaf 'un
form: cocking a deaf 'un
form: cocked a deaf 'un
form: cocked a deaf 'un
Senses: glosses: To turn a deaf ear; to refuse to listen, or pretend not to have heard.
Related terms: cloth-eared
metallogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metallogenesis
noxious trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noxious trade
Riverside County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of 58 counties in California, United States. County seat: Riverside. It is named after the city.
indecences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indecence
impulse-bought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impulse-buy
Brown County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All are derived from the surname.
Senses: glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Mount Sterling.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Nashville.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Hiawatha.
glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: New Ulm.
glosses: One of 93 counties in Nebraska, United States. County seat: Ainsworth.
glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Georgetown.
glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Aberdeen.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Brownwood.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Green Bay.
strawberryades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strawberryade
destructive distillations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destructive distillation
marshalates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshalate
marshallates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshallate
Pulaski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pulaskis
Etymology: Americanised or Anglicised form of Polish Pułaski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Giles County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Pulaski County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Pulaski County
Pulaski County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All counties appear to be named after Casimir Pulaski.
Senses: glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Little Rock.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Hawkinsville.
glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Mound City.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Winamac.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: Somerset.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seat: Waynesville.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Virginia, United States. County seat: Pulaski.
nutritional yeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutritional yeast
Sagnac effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sagnac effect
hadood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hudud.
banana breads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana bread
vitreo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: vitreous humour
virtual memories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtual memory
Bessemer process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bessemer processes
Etymology: Named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.
Derived terms: bessemerize
bessemerization
Bessemer processes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bessemer process
fiscal law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The area of law pertaining to public finances.
block systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of block system
Indiana Jones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊnz
Forms: form: Indiana Joneses
Etymology: After the fictional archaeologist Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., protagonist of a series of action films since 1981, named after its creator George Lucas’s dog Indiana.
Senses: examples: text: There are many Indiana Joneses in the fields of science, history, and art who are willing to find ancient artifacts and remains.
text: Their sights firmly set on unlocking their mysteries, these Indiana Joneses, it seems, summarily failed to solve the riddle – returning empty-handed to the shores of Western academe […]
ref: 2016, Renate Dohmen, Encounters Beyond the Gallery:
text: Ambitious and hard-charging—an Indiana Jones of the Hawaiian bird world— Storrs would go on to become the world's greatest expert on Hawaiian fossil birds, discovering numerous species new to science […]
ref: 2018, Daniel Lewis, Belonging on an Island, page 22:
glosses: An expert in some scholarly subject who makes daring explorations.
wikipedia: George Lucas
Indiana Jones (character)
Derived terms: Indiana Jonesesque
Indiana Jonesian
Indiana Jonesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indiana Jonesian
form: most Indiana Jonesian
Etymology: From Indiana Jones + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But self-absorption is quite another story — as my new flame, Karyn, reminded me when we hit drugstore number five in an Indiana-Jonesian quest for my favorite hair gel.
ref: 2000, Glamour, volume 98, numbers 1-4, page 76:
glosses: Synonym of Indiana Jonesesque.
synonyms: word: Indiana Jonesesque
reinitialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + initialisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reinitialization.
dogged it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dog it
dogs it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dog it
dogging it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dog it
monkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monking
term logics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of term logic
imperfecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imperfect
imperfected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imperfect
imperfected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: unperfected
glosses: Not perfected.
sulphur butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphur butterfly
long hair don't care
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme, and in reference to the habit of many male hippies of growing their hair long.
Senses: examples: text: This time she left the ponytail down. She had really long pretty black hair that fell on her dark brown shoulders. She had been growing it since seventh grade when her sister told her “Long Hair Don't Care.”
ref: 2011, Sarai Juelz, The Triple B Girl's Club, page 28:
text: Or was she the type that may have been insecure about her dark complexion in the age of redbone skin tones, yellow models, 'long hair don't care'.
ref: 2012, Richard Warren Crosson, Souljastory@itrilla.com: Too Hot for Urban Lit, volume 1:
text: He used to joke that their team name should be long hair don't care, because not only do both of them have hair that hangs down to their buttocks, but they are both lazy as all get out when it came to half ass doing their job.
ref: 2015, Eric Franklin, From The Heart: From The Case Files of Andrew Mason, page 217:
glosses: A slogan of the hippy movement, dismissing perceived prudish and conservative attitudes of previous generations.
alternative energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternative energy
occasioneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: occasion + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of occasion
Somerset County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌm.ɚ.sɛt ˈkaʊn.ti/
rhymes: -aʊnti
Etymology: Named after the county of Somerset in England, except in Maryland.
Senses: glosses: One of 16 counties in Maine, United States. County seat: Skowhegan.
glosses: One of 23 counties in Maryland, United States. County seat: Princess Anne. Named after Lady Somerset.
glosses: One of 21 counties in New Jersey, United States. County seat: Somerville.
glosses: One of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, United States. County seat: Somerset.
zowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zowls
Senses: examples: text: Nothin like patience, as owld Rachael Cark used to zay ; — a body med do anything wi' patience, but 'a never could persuade her owld man zo, 'specially when 'a baked his breeches, poor owld zowl an bin!
ref: 1850, John Yonge Akerman, Spring-tide: Or, The Angler and His Friends, page 108:
text: Her interest in him, he being a young Londoner and stranger, who had a real goold watch, and a real goold pin in his tie, was merely of that kind which would have led Fred, in his turn, to gaze upon a giraffe, or a phoenix, or anything of that kind; but it was, nevertheless, somewhat embarrassing at first; especially as this attendant jerked the baby up and down, on any symptoms of restlessness displaying themselves, and told the " pratty zowl" to look at the London gentleman.
ref: 1859, Ebb and flow, page 48:
text: The waggoner scratched his head, and quoth he, “ Eh, missus, what'll the measter say'l I be despert feared she've ' fainted, poor zowl ! ”
ref: 1865, S. Lucas, Once a Week:
text: There be backsword play, and climming the powl, And a race for a peg and a cheese, And us thenks as hisn 's a dummell zowl As dwont care for zich spwoorts as theze." — Berkshire ballad, sung at the scouring of the White Horse, and possibly very ancient.
ref: 1901, Dugald Macfadyen, Alfred the West Saxon: King of English, page 17:
qualifier: Berkshire dialect
glosses: Soul.
zowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zowl
unenchant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unenchants
form: unenchanting
form: unenchanted
form: unenchanted
Etymology: From un- + enchant.
Senses: examples: text: She whispered the spell that would unenchant the small patch of moss and rose, never bothering to look back to see if the ground recovered its formerly unbroken surface.
ref: 2016, Linnea Sinclair, Wintertide:
glosses: To release from enchantment.
unenchants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unenchant
zowerswopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaʊəswɒpt/
ipa: /ˈzaʊɚˌswɑpt/
Forms: form: more zowerswopped
form: most zowerswopped
form: zowerzapped
form: zower-zapped
Etymology: A dialectal form of sour-sapped (literally “being sour or foul-tempered to the core or marrow”).
Senses: examples: text: "Did he understand you?" said Campbell. "O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough.[…]"
ref: 1834, John Brent, chapter XIX, in Leitch Ritchie, editor, The Sea-Wolf. A Romance of “The Free Traders.” (The Library of Romance; XI), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 185:
text: I'm even more zowerswopped because I don't know for sure yet if I'm heavy-footed.
ref: 1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, New York, N.Y.: C. Potter, →ISBN, page 50:
text: Who hasn't felt zowerswopped to find one's mailbox pragged with junk mail?
ref: 1993 April 27, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.: Gannett Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1:
qualifier: Exmoor
glosses: Synonym of bad-tempered.
synonyms: word: bad-tempered
wikipedia: John Russell Smith
Synonyms: ill-natured
angry
zock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: zocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sock: a blow, a strike.
synonyms: word: sock
extra: a blow, a strike
zocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zock
zive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zives
Senses: examples: text: Thoo whun the Club-men wor zo thick, Esput my zive upon a Stick, And about eswent among 'um ; And by my Troth esdid suppose That they were honester than those That now do zwear they'll hang 'um.
ref: 1731, A Collection of Loyal Songs Written Against the Rump Parliament, Between the Years 1639 and 1661, page 187:
text: I knaw'd tud be zo vour or vive months ago / when I handled the rip-hook and zive.
ref: 1872, Agrikler, A Mouse's Zupper, in Poems humorous and philosophical, by Outis, with which are included Rhymes in the West of England Dialect by Agrikler (published in 1875)
text: Or in the dae, a-vleeren droo The leafy trees, the huosse gookoo Da zing to mowers that da zet Their zives on end, an' stan' to whet.
ref: 1928, The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs: for the Open Air, page 169:
qualifier: Somerset
glosses: Alternative form of scythe.
zives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zive
Charles County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Charles Calvert.
Senses: glosses: One of 23 counties in Maryland, United States. County seat: La Plata.
ticcy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ticcy
form: most ticcy
Etymology: From tic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow this form.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: Exhibiting tics.
trips out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trip out
tripping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trip out
tripped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trip out
waxed papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waxed paper
Houghton County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Douglass Houghton.
Senses: glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Houghton. It is located on the Upper Peninsula.
wikipedia: Douglass Houghton
doggy paddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doggy paddle
Tippah County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Tippah Creek (or River).
Senses: glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Ripley.
nycto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nyct-.
hot wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot wings
Etymology: hot + wing
Senses: glosses: A piece of chicken coated in a spicy sauce.
hot wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot wing
mouldery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouldery
form: most mouldery
Etymology: From moulder + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moldery.
Chautauqua County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from the Erie language.
Senses: glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Sedan. Named after the county in New York.
glosses: One of 62 counties in New York, United States. County seat: Mayville.
teed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tee up
Payne County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after David L. Payne.
Senses: glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Stillwater.
wikipedia: David L. Payne
artificializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificialization
Lauderdale County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All are named after James Lauderdale.
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Florence.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Meridian.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Ripley.
gullability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gullibility.
Lauderdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A valley in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
glosses: A town and suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
glosses: A residential neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A locality in Allen Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A locality in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A small city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of La Grange, Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A Scottish earldom.
Derived terms: Ettrick and Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale
Lauderdale County
Lauderdale Lakes
North Lauderdale
Related terms: english: in Scotland
translation: in Scotland
word: Lauder
life zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life zone
intergenic regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intergenic region
de profundis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin de profundis (“from the depths”).
Senses: examples: text: Carts go along the streets; full of stript human corpses, thrown pell-mell; limbs sticking up: --seest thou that cold Hand sticking up, through the heaped embrace of brother corpses, in its yellow paleness, in its cold rigor; the palm opened towards Heaven, as if in dumb prayer, in expostulation de profundis, Take pity on the Sons of Men !
ref: 1838, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: a History - Volume 2, page 198:
text: God can only be known de profundis.
ref: 1934, Emil Brunner, The Mediator: A Study of the Central Doctrine of the Christian Faith, →ISBN:
text: They are acclamations de profundis, pilgrim odes of those who once again "lift their eyes unto the mountains" (Psalm 120 [121] : 1), trusting that "they who sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 125 [126] : 5),
ref: 1988, Ron Jeffers, Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire: Sacred Latin texts, →ISBN:
text: Anti-Climacus culminates a little polemic against fatalism by speaking of prayer, particularly prayer in extremis, when all seems lost, or prayer de profundis, out of the depths of desperation, and just here he comes the closest to identifying God outright with possibility.
ref: 2002, Daniel W. Conway, K. E. Gover, Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, →ISBN:
text: ... “turned back to the Indians, it is the saving gesture—but a gesture of despair. ... the ground to confront de profundis the inevitability and the reality of one's own despair (“All have to come from under and through a dead layer” [Williams 213]) .
ref: 2011, John T. Irwin, Hart Crane's Poetry, →ISBN:
glosses: From deep feelings of misery or despair.
de profundis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin de profundis (“from the depths”).
Senses: examples: text: This is the de profundis, one of the great penitential hymns of the Christian Church
ref: 1922, John Punnett Peters, The Psalms as Liturgies: Being the Paddock Lectures for 1920:
text: He had sung the de profundis of the psalmist in the hope of the vita nuova of Dante.
ref: 2000, Joseph Pearce, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, →ISBN, page 360:
text: The de profundis attracted the ire of protestant polemicists including James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, not merely because the speaking of the de profundis (usually by some boy) was a traditional feature of Roman Catholic funerals, but more specifically because of its association with Catholic belief in purgatory.
ref: 2016, Gary Watt, Shakespeare's Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of De Profundis (psalm)
cilio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cilium
De Profundis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: De profundis
form: de profundis
Etymology: From Middle English De Profundis, De profundis, deprofundis, deprovundis, from Latin dē profundīs (“out of the depths”), the first two words of the Latin version of the 130th Psalm.
Senses: examples: text: The De Profundis is therefore a cry of hope, a prayer of love coming forth from the Sacred Heart to be re-echoed by our own; and whilst hoping for ourselves, we must hope also for our suffering brethren in purgatory, and we have confidence that if we pray with our whole hearts, our merciful Lord will soon deliver these souls, still dearer to Him than ourselves, and will admit them perfectly purified into peace and eternal rest.
ref: 1881, Louis Gaston A. de Ségur, Familiar instructions and evening lectures on all the truths of religion, page 102:
text: But the De profundis has only eight verses and so it is not surprising that all of it should have been adapted.
ref: 1968, Patrick Gallagher, The Life and Works of Garci Sánchez de Badajoz, →ISBN, page 180:
text: At 7:30 PM, back in my seminary days, the bell of St. Francis Chapel at Graymoor would toll, summoning us to recite the De Profundis on behalf of the dead.
ref: 2005, Geoff Wood, Living the Lectionary, Year B: Links to Life and Literature, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: The 130th psalm, one of the seven penitential psalms of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.
examples: text: Some years later, in his Autobiography, Douglas gave a significantly different version of events: My own evidence on this point is obscured by the fact that, as I did not know of the existence of the De Profundis MS.
ref: 2000, Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, →ISBN:
text: Max Beerbohm, in a remarkably insightful review in Vanity Fair, specifically took on the "De Profundis is radically different" reading of Wilde: "Some of the critics, wishing to reconcile present enthusiasm with past indifference. . . have been suggesting that De Profundis is quite unlike any previous work of Oscar Wilde - a quite sudden and unrelated phenomenon.
ref: 2004, F. Roden, Palgrave Advances in Oscar Wilde Studies, →ISBN, page 176:
text: One of the most lyrical and powerful passages of the De Profundis can be heard towards its very conclusion.
ref: 2017, Annette M. Magid, Quintessential Wilde, →ISBN:
glosses: A letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written by Oscar Wilde while he was imprisoned for gross indecency (homosexual acts). The title is a reference to the 130th psalm.
glosses: The name of various other works of art inspired by the feelings expressed in the 130th psalm. (see De Profundis)
De profundis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Latin introit of the psalm.
Senses: examples: text: They further engage, that the charity-boys of the priory, shall, every night forever, sing at the said chapel in the honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, the anthem Salve Regina, or Ave Regina, and after it say the psalm De profundis, with the prayer Fidelium, or Inclina, for the souls of the father and mother of the bishop, and for his soul after his decease, and for the souls of all the faithful deceased...
ref: 1780, The Winchester Guide, page 50:
text: Of particular interest is the fact that after Vespers the De profundis devotion was to follow immediately the performance of three polyphonic votive antiphons.
ref: 1992, Alan Brown, Richard Turbet, Byrd Studies, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The great Psalm, the De profundis, speaks to the human condition whether or not one is a believer but the non-believer who reads it must radically reinterpret the One who is addressed.
ref: 2013, Babette Babich, Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Gogh’s Eyes, and God, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of De Profundis.
unspined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + spined.
Senses: synonyms: spineless
nonspiny
unspiny
antonyms: spined
spiny
glosses: Without spines.
Jackson County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Andrew Jackson, except where noted.
Senses: glosses: One of 67 counties in Alabama, United States. County seat: Scottsboro.
glosses: One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Newport.
glosses: One of 64 counties in Colorado, United States. County seat: Walden.
glosses: One of 67 counties in Florida, United States. County seat: Marianna.
glosses: One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Jefferson.
glosses: One of 102 counties in Illinois, United States. County seat: Murphysboro.
glosses: One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Brownstown.
glosses: One of 99 counties in Iowa, United States. County seat: Maquoketa.
glosses: One of 105 counties in Kansas, United States. County seat: Holton.
glosses: One of 120 counties in Kentucky, United States. County seat: McKee.
glosses: One of 83 counties in Michigan, United States. County seat: Jackson.
glosses: One of 87 counties in Minnesota, United States. County seat: Jackson. Named after Henry Jackson.
glosses: One of 82 counties in Mississippi, United States. County seat: Pascagoula.
glosses: One of 114 counties in Missouri, United States. County seats: Independence and Kansas City.
glosses: One of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Sylva.
glosses: One of 88 counties in Ohio, United States. County seat: Jackson.
glosses: One of 77 counties in Oklahoma, United States. County seat: Altus. Named after Andrew Jackson and Stonewall Jackson.
glosses: One of 36 counties in Oregon, United States. County seat: Medford.
glosses: One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Kadoka. Named after J. R. Jackson.
glosses: One of 95 counties in Tennessee, United States. County seat: Gainesboro.
glosses: One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Edna.
glosses: One of 55 counties in West Virginia, United States. County seat: Ripley.
glosses: One of 72 counties in Wisconsin, United States. County seat: Black River Falls.
Related terms: word: Jackson Parish
tribool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribools
Etymology: From tri- + bool.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable that behaves similar to a Boolean, but allows three values instead of two.
Jackson Parish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Andrew Jackson.
Senses: glosses: One of 64 parishes in Louisiana, United States, the equivalent of a county in other US states.. Parish seat: Jonesboro.
wikipedia: Andrew Jackson
Related terms: Jackson County
knob job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob jobs
Senses: glosses: An act of fellatio.
knob jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knob job
tone scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone scale
oinochoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oinochoe
chous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chou