cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sight sing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪt ˌsɪŋ/
Forms: form: sight sings
form: sight singing
form: sight sang
form: sight sung
form: sight-sing
form: sightsing
Etymology: From sight + sing.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sing a musical piece while reading it for the first time, without rehearsal.
Related terms: sight read
shitbull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 'That's shitbull. You can never tell, believe me. / 'The word's bullshit.'
ref: 1981, Colin Smith, The Cut-Out, page 47:
text: Let us cut all the shitbull.
ref: 2012, Bola Agbaje, Belong, page 32:
text: Elhana's usual shitbull chewing.
ref: 2014 February 3, LeviPetro, “Re: Esperanto TV”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet):
glosses: Spoonerism of bullshit.
shitbull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shitbulls
Etymology: Blend of shit + (pit) bull.
Senses: examples: text: I went upstairs and got some hamburger and lured pitbull shitbull into my garage.
ref: 1999 April 23, TICKYUL, “"PITBULL WAS MY BITCH" a true story”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):
text: Better than to have bred and kept shitbulls.
ref: 1999 June 8, The Speedbyrd®, “Re: My Pit Bull”, in alt.pets.dogs.pitbull (Usenet):
text: Forth,^([sic]) I know for a fact that the shitbull that twice attacked my dog (and subsequently tried to eat my hands) was not raised by scummy people, was not trained to attack, didn't hang from a tire in some ghetto front yard, and seems quite friendly.
ref: 2001 February 7, boobp...@my-deja.com, “Re: Good ambassador for pitbulldom”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):
synonyms: word: pibble
word: pit
word: pittle
word: pit bull
word: shitbull
word: velvet hippo
glosses: A pit bull terrier.
shitbulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shitbull.
velvet hippo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet hippos
Etymology: Presumably an allusion to the large size and short coat of pit bull-type dogs or their reputation for aggression and unpredictability.
Senses: examples: text: My real life angel is my very own velvet hippo named Angel, and she is magical.
ref: 2014, Rebecca Corry, "Dog Moms Making A Difference: Rebecca Corry", American Dog, Winter 2014, page 22
text: Velvet Hippo, Silver Shark—those are only a couple of the names that June's fans call her.
ref: 2017 August 4, “Pet of the week: June”, in Signal Tribune, page 13:
text: “This Velcro dog sounds just about perfect to us and we know there’s a family out there waiting to spend their nights binge-watching Netflix and snuggling with this sweet velvet hippo,” the shelter wrote on Facebook.
ref: 2018 March 7, Savannah Brock, “Lovable ‘Velcro dog’ returned to Georgia animal shelter for 'being too nice’”, in KSDK:
glosses: A pit bull terrier.
Synonyms: word: pibble
word: pit
word: pit bull
word: pittie
word: shitbull
beat a hasty retreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats a hasty retreat
form: beating a hasty retreat
form: beat a hasty retreat
form: beaten a hasty retreat
Etymology: Originally a military term, referring to the pace set by drummers in the British army.
Senses: examples: text: A few nights ago, a fair trader had commenced unloading her cargo, consisting of light goods, in the Pent, but in the midst of the operation was discovered by the Philistines, and obliged to beat a hasty retreat across the rope-walk to the sea...
ref: 1827, The Times:
text: I found not a sole around and beat a hasty retreat, but before leaving I took a look around and was impressed by the location and proximity of the lagoon.
ref: 2003, Mike Hollywood, Papa Mike's Cook Islands Handbook, page 100:
text: After apologizing profusely, I beat a hasty retreat.
ref: 2012, H.H. Kothe, Grandpa Was a Sailor, page 56:
text: I caught a glimpse of him beating a hasty retreat through a smaller doorway that I hadn't seen before.
ref: 2012, Allison Pang, A Sliver of Shadow:
text: Then I suddenly woke up with a start and discovered that I was in an empty room. The mysterious stranger had evidently beat a hasty retreat!
ref: 2013, John O'Loughlin, Fixed Limits:
glosses: To leave as quickly as possible.
beats a hasty retreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beat a hasty retreat
beating a hasty retreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beat a hasty retreat
beaten a hasty retreat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of beat a hasty retreat
born tired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: God creates the human family, but the mother is the instrument of creation and the child of the tired mother will always be born tired, and there is nothing so pitiful as the child born tired.
ref: 1909, Michigan State Farmers' Institutes, page 203:
text: To the latter reference has been made so repeatedly that it will suffice here to say that the asthenic child is “born tired".
ref: 1926, Max Seham, The Tired Child, page 169:
text: Are you one of that vast army which contends that they are "born tired"? If so, you are not a normal, healthy individual.
ref: 1996, Hereward Carrington, The Hygienic Way of Life:
glosses: Chronically tired; asthenic.
examples: text: But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything – too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired!
ref: 2009, Jeffery Farnol, The Definite Object: A Romance of New York, page 7:
text: New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.
ref: 1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World:
text: "...This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children that you should break this habit.” When Johnston, who was “born tired,” proposed to leave Illinois for Missouri, Lincoln scolded him in language that could well have applied to his peripatetic father: "such a notion is utterly foolish. What can you do in Missouri, better than here [in Illinois]?...
ref: 2013, Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, page 9:
glosses: Lazy; shiftless.
Related terms: born sleeping
divaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divaned
form: most divaned
Etymology: From divan + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He had prepared a house for our accommodation; and a clean room, carpeted and divaned, some excellent coffee, and a plentiful supply of fresh water, were "impayable" luxuries after the discomforts of the wilderness.
ref: 1837, Charles Rochfort Scott, Rambles in Egypt and Candia:
text: Some, taking off their turbans and loosening their girdles, ensconced themselves under the arcades, lying on their carpets and covered with their pelisses and cloaks; some strolled into the divaned chambers, which were open to all, and more comfortably stowed themselves upon the well-stuffed cushions; others, overcome with fatigue and their revel, were lying in deep sleep, outstretched in the open court, and picturesque in the blazing moonlight.
ref: 1847, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Tancred: Or, The New Crusade, page 119:
text: She was too keenly conscious of him back there in the darkness of the divaned corner beyond the doorway.
ref: 2016, Lacey Amy, The White Camel, page 100:
glosses: Furnished with one or more divans.
auntying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of auntie
auntied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of auntie
Pakula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pakulas
Etymology: From Polish Pakuła.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Rypien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rypiens
Etymology: From Polish Rypień.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
neocolonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neocolonizes
form: neocolonizing
form: neocolonized
form: neocolonized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neo-colonize.
neo-colonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neo-colonises
form: neo-colonising
form: neo-colonised
form: neo-colonised
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of neo-colonize.
galaxy-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galaxy-brain
form: most galaxy-brain
form: galaxy brain
Etymology: From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend.
Senses: examples: text: On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.
ref: 2018 September 20, Barry Thompson, “Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party”, in DigBoston, page 12:
text: Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.
ref: 2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10
text: Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?
ref: 2019 October 28, Laura Bradley, “Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That”, in Vanity Fair:
synonyms: galaxy-brained
glosses: Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical.
Related terms: big brain
4D chess
5head
neocolonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neocolonises
form: neocolonising
form: neocolonised
form: neocolonised
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of neo-colonize.
spruing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprue
lovesickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lovesickly
form: most lovesickly
Etymology: From lovesick + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...and, most of all, a romantic figure like Errol Flynn to captain the Sea Hawks, to be loyal to the Queen, to gaze lovesickly into the big, beautiful, cowy, Spanish eyes of Brenda Marshall, to lead his stalwart men (Alan Hale, J. M. Kerrigan, William Lundigan and all the others including an interesting newcomer, David Bruce) into Panama to rob the Spanish, to stand by them and help them escape when they are captured, and finally to slash his way in duel after duel through guard and intriguing lords to his Queen with the plans of the ARMADA.
ref: 1940, Michael Williams, Commonweal - Volume 32, page 371:
text: Not to phone or meet her or hang around lovesickly.
ref: 1968, Glendon Fred Swarthout, Loveland, page 160:
text: Not because Costello wasn't technically qualified to serve as Deputy Mayor, but because the designation of Costello under the embarrassing circumstances of his enthusiastic rejection by the voters on Election Day clearly suggested that here was a duty-appointment—done in brazen defiance of the democratic canons about which, during the campaign, Lindsay had spoken so lovesickly.
ref: 2015, William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor, page 390:
glosses: In a lovesick manner.
lovesickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lovesickly
form: most lovesickly
Etymology: From lovesick + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This wretched victim whose once-victorious arms are now rendered impotent by the misunderstanding of a message from his Sin-Par cannot be the real Amadís, the Doncel del Mar, the Caballero de la Espada Ardiente, only his lovesickly shadow.
ref: 1987, Gene H. Bell-Villada, Antonio Giménez, George Pistorius, From Dante to García Márquez:
text: On the lovesickly, languorous "Flowerz," garage vocalist Roland Clark swoons amid a heat-haze of sound, again spun from a spangly, filtered disco loop.
ref: 1999 October, “Reviews”, in SPIN, volume 15, number 10:
text: We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.
ref: 2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114:
text: People speak of a “sickly” child; I was a lovesickly child.
ref: 2015, William Humphrey, Farther Off from Heaven: A Memoir:
glosses: Characterized by or suffering from lovesickness to an uhealthy degree.
person unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persons unknown
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: An individual yet to identified.
persons unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of person unknown
emmetropized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emmetropize
endogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being endogenic
enzymolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enzymolyze
ephaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ephaptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ephaptic manner.
epiplastral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an epiplastron
erythronolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The butanolide 3,4-dihydroxydihydro-2(3H)-furanone
ethiopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of etiopathological.
ethnoflora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnofloras
Etymology: From ethno- + flora.
Senses: glosses: The flora of a region that is used by that region's native inhabitants
euchromosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euchromosome
eumuroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumuroids
Etymology: From eu- + muroid.
Senses: glosses: Any rodent of the clade Eumuroida of muroid rodents, including families Calomyscidae, Nesomyidae, Cricetidae, Muridae and their closest ancestors.
eumuroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eumuroid
externomedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From externo- + median.
Senses: glosses: external to a median
Synonyms: extramedian
extramedian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + median.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of externomedian.
synonyms: word: externomedian
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Beyond the middle.
extradiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of estradiol.
extraoesophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of extraesophageal.
stately homes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stately home
bottle blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle blondes
form: bottle blond
Etymology: Probably from the dye or bleach being supplied in a bottle.
Senses: glosses: A person (usually a woman) who dyes or bleaches their hair a shade of blonde.
Related terms: peroxide blonde
bottle blondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle blonde
fasciological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to fasciology
fervenulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The heterocyclic ketone 6,8-dimethylpyrimido[5,4-e][1,2,4]triazine-5,7-dione
fesselin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, present in smooth muscle, that stimulates actin
fibrotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Conversion to a fibrotic state; fibrosis
model shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model shops
Senses: examples: text: You can't just walk into a model shop and buy little Tube trains, although you could for a brief period in the Fifties, when Eveready made a model Underground train, to advertise the battery that powered it. So Underground modellers work from 'scratch' - that is, they make their own stuff, or adapt.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 269:
glosses: A retail outlet that sells models (miniatures), or kits to make them.
model shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of model shop
howdy doody
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /haʊdi ˈdudi/
Etymology: An extended form of the expression howdy to more completely mirror the original expression "how do you do".
Senses: glosses: An informal greeting.
co-linguist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-linguists
form: colinguist
Etymology: From co- + linguist.
Senses: examples: text: Muslim Bengal asserted its Muslim personality in 1947 against its co-linguist Hindu neighbours. Twenty-four years later, it asserted its regional personality also, through a revolt against its co-religionist West Pakistanis.
ref: 1982, D. Devahuti, Historical and political perspectives, page 237:
text: The former is capable — when speaking to a co-linguist — of conveying almost a photographic image of an area of bush so extensive is his knowledge of the names of vegetation and descriptions of terrain.
ref: 1999, Malcolm Milne, No Telephone to Heaven, page 157:
text: The city of Boston also employs some co-ethnic and co-linguist liaison officers in the city's Office of Neighborhood Services, including people who can speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish and Cape Verdean Creole.
ref: 2003, Charles C. Euchner, editor, Governing Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of the Region's People, page 85:
text: However, in the context of both Afghanistan and the civil war, the fact that most identifiable Afghan groups have co-linguists, co-ethnics, or co-religionists across national boundaries became a catalyst for the nation's collapse
ref: 2007, Barry M. Rubin, Political Islam: Case studies: Africa, Iran, Europe, Asia, page 123:
text: If citizens cannot understand one another, or if they seek to deliberate with co-linguists only, then democratic politics is likely to be compromised.
ref: 2013, Claudine Brohy, Joseph T-Guri, Theodorus du Plessis, Law, Language and the Multilingual State:
glosses: One who shares a language with someone.
co-linguists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-linguist
rowan berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowan berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rowanberry.
rowan berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowan berry
rowan-berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rowan-berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rowanberry.
rowan-berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rowan-berry
timekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: timekeeps
form: timekeeping
form: timekept
form: timekept
form: time-keep
form: time keep
Etymology: From time + keep, or possibly back-formation from timekeeping.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the difficulty retarded persons experience with focusing and/or maintaining their attention toward a relevant stimulus dimension (Fisher & Zeaman, 1973) may well hinder their ability to timekeep and predict temporal intervals.
ref: 1979, American Journal of Mental Deficiency - Volume 84, page 294:
text: This exercise takes about forty-five minutes. Arrange for someone to timekeep.
ref: 1981, Sheila Ernst, Lucy Goodison, In our own hands: a woman's guide to self-help therapy, page 42:
text: Timekeeping is very important, so it is advisable to appoint a responsible and reliable person whose only job is to timekeep.
ref: 2000, Eric Brymer, Tom Hughes, Loel Collins, The Art of Freestyle, page 215:
text: I broke my watch on the first day and so was obliged to timekeep according to the sun;
ref: 2007, Guy Arnold, In the Footsteps of George Borrow, page 63:
glosses: To keep track of and/or enforce any restrictions on the time; keep time.
timekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timekeeps
form: time-keep
form: time keep
Etymology: From time + keep, or possibly back-formation from timekeeping.
Senses: examples: text: A timekeep gave us our cards and our badges and told us where to punch in and then let out a yell for Johnson, our straw boss.
ref: 1938, Wessel Smitter, F. O. B. Detroit, page 15:
text: Round little timekeeps set with crystal eye.
ref: 1947, The Hopkins Review - Volumes 1-3:
text: Now to my point, I just arranged my clocks and other timekeeps in my display casement when the explosion struck.
ref: 2003, Kenneth Sanford, Legion's Riddle: The Hero's Journey, page 16:
glosses: A timekeeper; someone or something that timekeeps.
timekeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of timekeep
timekeeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timekeep
timekept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of timekeep
time-keep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time-keeps
form: time-keeping
form: time-kept
form: time-kept
Senses: examples: text: A small unit, such as a platoon, can time-keep and synchronize very well by itself, particularly if the parade path is not too noisy.
ref: 1997, Edwin R. Coover, ATM Switches, page 63:
text: Ideas on how to improve the process and ideas for other meetings are exchanged at this time and the allocation of roles for the next meeting is made – who will arrange the venue, who will send out the action points typed up, who will time-keep, etc.
ref: 2001, Ian McGill, Liz Beaty, Action Learning: A Guide for Professional, Management & Educational Development, page 43:
text: Every so often, though, he found a deep need to time-keep, and this worried him. He knew he should not count the days and yet sometimes he did.
ref: 2013, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe:
glosses: Alternative form of timekeep.
time-keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time-keep
time-kept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time-keep
time keep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time keeps
form: time keeping
form: time kept
form: time kept
Etymology: From time + keep.
Senses: examples: text: Who time keeps? Who evaluates the results?
ref: 2000, J.K. Gilbert, C. Boulter, Developing Models in Science Education, page 294:
text: Since it was not uncommon to be able to time keep, it should not have been that bad of a problem.
ref: 2014, Sean McKeithen, Redux, page 42:
text: We mentioned already that if you have a big enough team then it becomes one person's role to time keep and document.
ref: 2014, Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng, Human Factors in Healthcare: Level One:
glosses: Alternative form of timekeep.
time keeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of time keep
time keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of timekeeping.
time keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time keep
time kept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time keep
walk-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: walkthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from walk through.
Senses: glosses: That can be walked through.
examples: text: The new trains will also be fully 'walk-through', with no carriage end-doors. Travelling on them is like riding on a sinuous, moving corridor. It's less claustrophobic than the old arrangement, but now you can no longer choose the carriage not occupied by the declaiming loony.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
text: Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
ref: 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Of passenger carriages in a train, having no doors in gangway connections between the carriages, often in combination with longitudinal seating, creating a "see-through" effect through the train.
Related terms: pass-through
passthrough
run-through
runthrough
walk-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walk-throughs
form: walkthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from walk through.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of walkthrough.
walk-throughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk-through
cardhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardhouses
form: card house
form: card-house
Etymology: From card + house.
Senses: examples: text: "Twas first to the cardhouse and then down to Maisie's," intoned that mournful ballad "The Cowboy's Lament." But most real-life trail riders went first to the bathtub and then to the haberdasher, if only because neither Maisie nor the cardhouse would truly welcome a man so long as he had the look and smell of a summer in the saddle.
ref: 1973, William H. Forbis, The cowboys, page 183:
text: He spends six nights a week at the cardhouse.
ref: 2003, Andy Bellin, Poker Nation, page 8:
text: Caro's Law of Tells One of the first experts to describe Stage 3—poker players as actors—was Mike Caro, a specialist in draw poker as played in the cardhouses of Gardena, California.
ref: 2006, Randy Burgess, Carl Baldassarre, Ultimate Guide to Poker Tells, page 20:
glosses: A business establishment that hosts card-playing, especially one where patrons play poker.
examples: text: He also expressed the opinion that certain sensitive clays derived their properties from the fact that the flaky minerals were arranged in an unstable “cardhouse” fabric.
ref: 1966, Clay Minerals Society, Clays and Clay Minerals:
text: The microstructures do not appear to conform entirely to either cardhouse or honeycomb structures.
ref: 1967, Contributions in Oceanography - Issues 319-361, page 375:
text: The Champlain clays are believed to have a somewhat special arrangement of the individual soil particles such that the plate-like particles are oriented to each other in an edge to face arrangement in the undisturbed condition, i.e. "cardhouse" structure.
ref: 1976, Geoffrey Reid McBoyle, Edward Sommerville, Canada's Natural Environment: Essays in Applied Geography:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure of plate-like mineral deposits that rest on each other's edges.
examples: text: The photographer glanced up at them over a four-storeyed cardhouse, which he had built out of crispbread.
ref: 1977, Tord Hubert, The Trap, page 30:
text: On the other hand (and perhaps incompatibly) he was thought to be dangerously addicted to speculation: 'an inveterate theorist, an intellectual cardhouse builder'.
ref: 2007, H. S. Jones, Intellect and Character in Victorian England, page 43:
text: Many of my earliest memories are mysteries I probably will never solve now that those who might have explained them to me are gone. I fall back on experience and intuition, build my fragile cardhouse of speculation, and hope my solutions are not ridiculously far from the mark.
ref: 2011, Faye Moskowitz, And the Bridge Is Love:
glosses: Synonym of house of cards (any sense).
synonyms: word: house of cards
extra: any sense
cardhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardhouse
card house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card houses
Senses: examples: text: So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.
ref: 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby:
text: And if you look carefully at the card house, you will see that top two cards are aces of clubs.
ref: 2006, D. B. Smithee, The Dog Poker Code, page 26:
text: Place two of them together on top of the card case as shown in Figure 30 to form the walls of the card house.
ref: 2009, Karl Fulves, Foolproof Card Tricks for the Amateur Magician, page 71:
text: Where did that come from, he thinks. Ah, We're the card house now. There's never a situation where one card is threatened, the others left in peace; they're all threatened together and at once.
ref: 2013, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Gold Coast: Three Californias, page 306:
glosses: Alternative form of cardhouse.
House of cards
examples: text: He owned a goulash or card house, on upper Broadway, where I got many laughs.
ref: 1956, Across the Board, page 121:
text: Feeling surer of his bearings, once he'd strode down to the creek and back again, Longarm quietly entered the noisy card house, drifted to the bar, and ordered a schooner of suds to nurse as he lounged there with one boot on the brass rail and the brim of his Stetson shading his tanned face from the coal-oil lamp right above him.
ref: 2003, Tabor Evans, Longarm and Town-Taming Tess:
text: So when you walk into a casino or card house, you can expect to find more people playing more varieties of poker more frequently than ever.
ref: 2004, Scott Tharler, Winning Casino Gambling, page 132:
glosses: Alternative form of cardhouse.
Business where patrons play cards
card houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of card house
card-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card-houses
Senses: examples: text: Unimportant as this confirmation is to the proof of a design and intention to depose the King, let us see whether in any part Adams's evidence "is supported, and I think you will find it falls to the ground like the card-house of a baby, directly the finger of a human being is applied to it — there is not a thing that can stand on this testimony, and there is this, curious circumstance attending it, which would alone destroy that which is much better combined that this with is, that no two of the witnesses ever saw one another.
ref: 1820, William Brodie Gurney, The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson, and others, For High Treason:
text: ...thus the assumption has sometimes been made that the corresponding dried extruded test pieces contain very porous microstrutures resembling card-house or relaced flocs.
ref: 1974, Minerals Science and Engineering - Volume 6, page 8:
text: First down to Rose's and then to the card-house, Shot in the breast and I'm dying today.
ref: 1980, San Diego Magazine - Volume 33, page 208:
text: Consequently, any assemblage of kaolinite (or similar) particles will exhibit what has been referred to as a "card-house" structure.
ref: 2013, A.S. Mujumdar, R.A. Mashelkar, Advances in Transport Processes, page 103:
text: The words I frame to hold your charm Collapse like card-house by sheer weight;
ref: 2018, Praveen Kumar, Shobha Priya, page 85:
glosses: Alternative form of cardhouse.
card-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of card-house
washing mitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washing mitts
Senses: glosses: A mitt-shaped piece of terrycloth used for personal hygiene.
Related terms: terrycloth
washcloth
face cloth
flimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈflɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flimmers
Etymology: From blend of flicker + glimmer.
Senses: glosses: A flickering glimmer.
glosses: One of the delicate lateral filaments typical of some flagella. (mastigoneme)
flimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈflɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flimmers
form: flimmering
form: flimmered
form: flimmered
Etymology: From blend of flicker + glimmer.
Senses: synonyms: twinkle
flicker
glimmer
glosses: To glimmer, flicker.
ice fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ice fish
ice fished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ice fish
garlion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ɡärʹlyən
Forms: form: garlions
Etymology: From blend of garlic + onion.
Senses: examples: text: The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber
ref: 1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99:
text: Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.
ref: 1937, Consumers' Guide, volume 4, page 12:
text: Garlion isn't what the growers were looking for, but it has made a hit with customers at Dean & DeLuca, a New York specialty food store that sells the bulbs for $2.25 to $2.95 a pound.
ref: 1983, Attenzione, volume 5:
glosses: A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.
fishhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishhouse
fish house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish houses
Senses: examples: text: In the center of the fish house, a metal conveyor belt dropped stiff, gaping trout onto a second belt to be sorted into bins according to size.
ref: 1998, David Stick, An Outer Banks Reader, page 175:
text: On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets. As late as 1977, a Publick Observer article boasted, "If you are served turtle soup in Atlanta or catfish in Ft. Wayne, Ind., chances are good that the main ingredients came from the waters of the James or the Chickahominy."
ref: 2009, Sara E. Lewis, James City County, page 77:
text: There was a pier, a marina, a fish house, and a large anchorage by the fish house for both commercial shrimpers and charter fishing boats.
ref: 2012, John Farris, Dragonfly:
glosses: Alternative form of fishhouse.
Business that supports and buys from fishermen.
examples: text: Except as provided in paragraph (d), a shelter, including a fish house or dark house, may not be on the ice between 12:00 a.m. and one hour before sunrise after the following dates:
ref: 2006, Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Minnesota:
text: When holes are drilled and a fish house put up, it's time to get busy.
ref: 2008, Mark Martin, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Walleye:
text: Later that winter Melvin had an old fish house that he set up for me to use when Dad and I came to visit.
ref: 2012, Dennis Esler -, Tales of a Teenager, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of fishhouse.
Temporary structure for ice fishing
examples: text: Along U.S. Route 1, you'll find the area's best family fish house, the Captain's Tavern, with an ideal mix of both simple fried fish and designer seafood.
ref: 2012, Caroline Stuart, Food of Miami:
text: When he was living in Portugal, he would cook them at the beach over a driftwood fire, skewered on a stick. This recipe is a mash-up of Joseph's method and a recipe from a fish house on the Amalfi Coast
ref: 2014, Fred Thompson, The Kamado Grill Cookbook:
glosses: Alternative form of fishhouse.
Fish restaurant
fish houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish house
fish-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish-houses
Senses: examples: text: From this place they proceeded across the great marsh to Sir William Johnson's fish-house, on the Sacondaga, capturing a man named Martin, and another named Harris, on the way, and at the fish-house taking a brave fellow named Solomon Woodworth and four others.
ref: 1838, William Leete Stone, Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea:
text: Early the next moming I walked into a fish-house near our hotel, where three or four men were engaged in trundling out the pickled fish on barrows, and spreading them to dry.
ref: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, page 150:
text: I worked there for two summers, during which I confirmed that this career path was for me, and expanded my notebook with some vintage fish-house recipes, such as for crab cakes.
ref: 2014, Harold Dieterle, Andrew Friedman, Harold Dieterle's Kitchen Notebook:
glosses: Alternative form of fishhouse.
fish-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fish-house
unhistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhistory
Johannesburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Johannesburgers
Etymology: From Johannesburg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: By using a midget, skin-tight car of the kind made in Italy the Johannesburger might save himself much tribulation, but he likes large and glittering things, and would rather toil round his city in vain search of a place to put his supercharged, supergrinning Mammalac than use a baby car.
ref: 1949, Douglas Reed, Somewhere South of Suez: A Further Survey of the Grand Design of the Twentieth Century, page 48:
text: A Johannesburger will seldom ask a visitor what he thinks of the city.
ref: 1978, Johannesburg: The Cosmopolitan City, page 7:
text: All Refilwe knew was that Lerato was a Johannesburger.
ref: 2001, Phaswane Mpe, Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa, Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: an inhabitant of Johannesburg.
shark bite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shark-bite
form: sharkbite
Etymology: From the resemblance of the hemline to an object which has had a large chunk bitten off by a shark.
Senses: examples: text: She'd changed her long-sleeved shirt three times before settling on a paisley print one with a shark bite hem.
ref: 2018, Sonya Weiss, The Firefighter's Perfect Plan, unnumbered page:
text: She didn't look like the other nurses, with her red shark-bite top, impractical heels, and frosted Bardot bun.
ref: 2018, Lina Chern, "Filigree", Black Fox Literary Magazine, Winter 2018, pages 96-97
text: Patti was tall and slender with a halo of shiny curls, and today she was wearing red glasses, little round ones that reminded me of John Lennon and matched her shark-bite tunic.
ref: 2019, G. P. Gardener, Murder at Royale Court, unnumbered page:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.
sharkbite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sharkbite
form: most sharkbite
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shark bite.
shark-bite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shark-bite
form: most shark-bite
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shark bite.
light-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lītʹwĭt'(ĭ)d
Forms: form: lighter-witted
form: more light-witted
form: lightest-witted
form: most light-witted
form: lightwitted
Etymology: From Middle English light-witted, from light (adjective) + witted (“having intelligence or understanding”, adjective), from the noun wit. See more at light, wit, -ed.
Senses: examples: text: When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by the ringing of Bow bell, thought to aſſemble together a great multitude of their minde and opinion, and ſo by force and might to take from the kepers all ſuch priſoners, as were before apprehended, for the late committed robbery and riot, as they were goyng to their triall or arreignment.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Sixt”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 630:
glosses: Having a feeble or weak intellect.
sprued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sprue
contemplate one's navel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contemplates one's navel
form: contemplating one's navel
form: contemplated one's navel
form: contemplated one's navel
Senses: examples: text: People keep coming to me for advice that they go on to ignore, so I've decided to stop wasting effort on ingrates and instead dedicate more time to contemplating my navel and my many other attractive features and admirable qualities.
text: But mainly he wanted to dwell on his resentments, contemplate his navel and work himself into a mean, sullen mood, because that’s the way he plays best.
ref: 1969 September, Marshall Smith, “This old pro is just too mean to quit”, in Life, page 77:
text: If you sit and contemplate your navel long enough, the answers to all of the problems in the world will pass before your eyes.
ref: 1978, Don Darling, “The inadvertent adversary to nuclear security—ourselves”, in Joel Kramer, editor, The Role of Behavioral Science in Physical Security, page 1:
glosses: To spend time thinking about oneself or one's own interests, especially to the exclusion of others.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see contemplate, navel.
Related terms: navel-gazing
begrieve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begrieves
form: begrieving
form: begrieved
form: begrieved
Etymology: From be- (“around, about, over”) + grieve.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of the second who do begrieve Lucas's shameful condition and would improve it […]
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust:
text: He also marvels at a hoard of holy relics, begrieving the lack of care shown by their new keepers. Near Namur on the Meuse he describes a hermits' lodge carved in stone with the internal movable contrivance representing the Passion.
ref: 1989, Sven-Olof Lindquist, Birgitta Radhe, Economy and Culture in the Baltic, 1650-1700:
text: The logical inconsistency of "begrieving" a shameful condition, while postponing its abolition is the fundamental fault Baldwin finds with Faulkner's racial politics and white southern liberalism generally.
ref: 1989, Cedric Gael Bryant, Race, Gender, and Metaphor in Five Major Novels by William Faulkner:
text: "There lies Jack Spratt; alas, he could eat no more fat. And beside him his fat wife who used to lick the platter clean. Ah, it begrieves me to see them here."
ref: 2000, Lewis Burke Frumkes, Metapunctuation: When a Comma Isn't Enough, page 128:
text: […] a whisper is the spectacle of ache
is apparatus in this all worn libido
stricken fixer : obligate bleeder
begrieving that regal population before nothing CONSTRUCT
inhales reservations we has PLACE […]
ref: 2009, Kathryn L. Pringle, Right New Biology, page 61:
synonyms: word: bewail
word: lament
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To grieve over or about.
examples: text: It was begrieving to see how the intrusion of even a smattering of pride and moral standards could impede on what had always been a carefree, shiftless life.
ref: 1996, Cameron Judd, Passage to Natchez, page 229:
synonyms: word: begloom
word: deject
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To cause grief or grieving.
begrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begrieve
begrieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of begrieve
begrieving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of begrieve
round and round
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: around and around
Senses: examples: text: The whole economy of this dance consists in turning round and round the room in a certain measured step ; and it is truly astonishing that this continued revolution does not set all their heads swimming like a top ; but I have been positively assured that it only occasions a gentle sensation which is marvellously agreeable.
ref: 1807, Washington Irving, William Irving and James Kirke Paulding, “From the Mill of Pindar Cockloft, Esq. (Notes, by William Wizard, Esq.: Waltz)”, in Salmagundi, number VII:
text: Eventually, the railway opened on Monday, December 14, 1896, with a universal fare of 1d. collected at the turnstiles, and conditions were immediately chaotic, as many passengers travelled round and round, and refused to leave the cars.
ref: 1955 January, Charles E. Lee, “The Glasgow Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 24:
glosses: In a repeated circular motion.
examples: text: Instances were known of people who, being asked to dine at Todgers’s, had travelled round and round for a weary time, with its very chimney–pots in view ; and finding it, at last, impossible of attainment, had gone home again with a gentle melancholy on their spirits, tranquil and uncomplaining.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 9 (“Town and Todgers’s”)”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
glosses: Following the same course repeatedly in vain.
Derived terms: argue round and round
forkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fork + weed.
Senses: glosses: The alga Dictyota dichotoma
fractograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractographs
Etymology: From fracto- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: The graphical result of fractography
fractographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractograph
around and around
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of round and round.
Yugoslavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Jugo-Slavic
form: Jugoslavic
form: Yugo-Slavic
Etymology: From Yugoslav + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: Yugoslav
Yugoslavian
glosses: Of or pertaining to Yugoslavia.
stagger breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stagger breathe
stagger breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a technique for choir singers and wind instrument players as part of an ensemble, by which no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
Synonyms: staggered breathing
Related terms: stagger breathe
stagger breathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stagger breathes
form: stagger breathing
form: stagger breathed
form: stagger breathed
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: within a choir or wind instrument ensemble, to breathe independently so that no breath gaps can be heard in favour of a continuous sound effect
Related terms: stagger breathing
pilot scheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot schemes
Senses: examples: text: After a pilot scheme, VT [Virgin Trains] introduced 275 [body] cameras from September 2018. Between April and September 2019, assaults on VT staff fell by 30% compared with the previous year.
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 11:
glosses: An experiment carried out to test a new idea or concept before full-scale introduction; a pilot study.
Related terms: pilot project
pilot schemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilot scheme
poor old
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that one has sympathy for something or someone familiar that does not have an optimal situation.
Related terms: good old
big old
little old