cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
half-dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-dollars
Etymology: From half- + dollar.
Senses: examples: text: The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it. [This may be inspired by the number 42626 where 26 occurs twice; the half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence - 2s 6d or 2/6.]
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 55:
glosses: A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents.
half-dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-dollar
half-track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-tracks
form: halftrack
Senses: glosses: A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks).
half-track
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: halftrack
Senses: glosses: Describing such a vehicle; half-tracked.
half-tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-track
upchucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upchuck
upchucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upchuck
upchucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upchuck
bumblebees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumblebee
supplicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplicators
Etymology: From supplicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: someone who supplicates
clamant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmənt/
ipa: /ˈkleɪmənt/
Forms: form: more clamant
form: most clamant
Etymology: Latin clāmāns, present participle of clāmō (“yell”). Doublet of claimant.
Senses: examples: text: The concoctions contrived by Italians were particularly in clamant demand, while the occult sciences of astrology and alchemy lent their support[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 190:
glosses: Urgent.
examples: text: clamant children
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Crying earnestly; beseeching clamorously.
Derived terms: clamantly
get fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪt fʌkt/
ipa: /ɡɛt fʌkt/
Senses: examples: text: Get fucked—I'm disgusted with the way you acted today.
glosses: A term used to express contempt. Usually used after the individual in question is retaliated upon and the user has no sympathy.
examples: text: Get fucked—I don't need your help.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Go away, get lost.
examples: text: How dare you do that to Elizabeth? Get fucked!
glosses: A curse meaning "go to hell".
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, fucked.
Synonyms: fuck you
go fuck yourself
fuck off
go away
get lost
take a flying fuck
get to fuck
screw you
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screw-you
Senses: examples: text: I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.
ref: 2020, David Gomadza, EVELINA: The Alpha:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see screw, you.
screw you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: screw-you
Senses: examples: text: You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.
text: Screw you—go annoy someone else!
text: Screw you! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?
text: Entrant: 'Denied? For what reason?' / Inspector: 'It is clearly stamped there.' / Entrant: 'Oh. Screw you anyways.'
ref: 2013, Lucas Pope, Papers, Please, level/area: Day 18:
text: During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
text: Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.
ref: 2000, Todd Strasser, Give a boy a Gun:
glosses: less offensive version of fuck you.
Synonyms: fuck you
get stuffed
up yours
screw you
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw yous
form: screw-you
Senses: examples: text: You know what it is about that game, the thing that id Software says isn't worth their time (which I personally believe is a big screw you to us gamers),
ref: 1997, Computer Gaming World - Volumes 150-153:
text: Partly as a 'screw you' to all the people who treated me so badly, to be honest. Show them the ugly duckling has morphed into a swan, that kind of thing.
ref: 2011, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner, Ghost Trackers, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Well, how about we talk about the way you disrespected me for the last fourteen years by ignoring me? That kinda felt like a big screw you from you to me.”
ref: 2017, Nina Levine, Hyde's Absolution:
glosses: An act of defiance and contempt.
block dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block dumps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An image that contains the sectors read from an original floppy disk or optical disc.
brachylaimiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Brachylaima + -iasis.
Senses: examples: text: Zoonotic trematode (brachylaimiasis) and cestode (rodentoleposis) infections have been reported from semi-arid environments.
ref: 2004 December 23, David M. Spratt, “Australian ecosystems, capricious food chains and parasitic consequences for people”, in International Journal for Parasitology, volume 35, issue 7 (June 2005), Elsevier (2005), page 717
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Infection by trematode worms of genus Brachylaima.
flight mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight modes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of airplane mode.
synonyms: word: airplane mode
take a joke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a joke
form: taking a joke
form: took a joke
form: taken a joke
Senses: examples: text: The school authorities, unable to take a joke, demanded the immediate removal of the satirical poster.
glosses: To accept a joke at one's expense.
Sino-Vietnamese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sino- + Vietnamese.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
Sino-Vietnamese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sino-Vietnameses
Etymology: From Sino- + Vietnamese.
Senses: glosses: The Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
proconsul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈkɒn.səl/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈkɑn.səl/
rhymes: -ɒnsəl
Forms: form: proconsuls
Etymology: From Latin prōcōnsul.
Senses: glosses: A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.
raw_tags: in ancient Rome
Related terms: proconsular
proconsulship
proconsulate
pro-choicer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-choicers
form: prochoicer
Etymology: From pro-choice + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.
Synonyms: word: antilifer
word: pro-abort
word: proabortionist
word: pro-deather
Related terms: pro-lifer
processional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From procession + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The publick Processional-way to the Chapter-house at Windesor, used time out of mind, led from the Presence-Chamber, down through the Cloister, and the great Gate of the Kings Lodging, into the upper Ward of the Castle, thence through the middle Ward, and part of the lower, to and through the passage, between the East-end of the Chappel, and Tomb-house, and thence into the Chapter-house, situate at the North-East Corner of St. George’s Chappel.
ref: 1672, Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, London: Nathanael Brooke, Chapter 20, Section 3, p. 517:
text: 1799, Isaac D’Israeli, Mejnoun and Leila, the Arabian Petrarch and Laura, Book 4, in Romances, London: Cadell and Davies et al., pp. 170-171,
The nuptial day arrives. The virgin, preceded by a splendid retinue, and followed by her mother, her female relatives, and the damsels of her tribe, issues from the tent of her father. […] The women then followed with solemn and processional steps.
text: The mediæval hierarchical services did not rise to their full majesty and impressiveness till celebrated under a Gothic cathedral. […] The enormous height more than compensated for the contracted breadth. Nothing could be more finely arranged for the processional services; and the processional services became more frequent, more imposing.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity, London: John Murray, Volume 6, Book 14, Chapter 8, pp. 591-592:
text: The oxen took up again their quiet processional gait and the old man walked ahead of them, his eyes on the ground.
ref: 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: Modern Library, published 1932, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 70:
text: All the urchins of the marketplace formed a processional tail behind him.
ref: 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown, Part Fourteen, 14.4, p. 965:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or used during a procession, particularly at the start of a religious ceremony or wedding.
Derived terms: processionally
vali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑːˈlɪː/
Forms: form: valis
Etymology: From Turkish vali, from Arabic وَالٍ (wālin). Compare English vilayet.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wali.
piece work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecework
form: piece-work
Senses: examples: text: Turning manure and many other things we've hitherto done by day work, we'll do by piece work.
ref: 1872, Baldwyn Leighton, The farm labourer in 1872:
text: We have seen details of the types of work for which volunteers are sought, and these range from the manufacture of camouflage nets, on piece work in the Central London area, enabling approximately 6s. a shift of 4 hours to be earned, [...].
ref: 1943 March and April, “Spare Time War Work Scheme”, in Railway Magazine, page 65:
glosses: Work that a worker is paid for according to the number of units produced, rather than the number of hours worked; work done and paid for by the piece or by the job.
Synonyms: taskwork
task work
Derived terms: differential piece work
Related terms: homeworker
piecemeal
piece rate
timework
timeworker
job production
mass-produce
mass-produced
men-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-at-arms
equivale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equivales
form: equivaling
form: equivaled
form: equivaled
Senses: examples: text: We read b#92;equivc as "b equivales c".
ref: 1993, David Gries, Fred B. Schneider, A logical approach to discrete math:
glosses: to be equivalent to.
raw_tags: of a proposition
lesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of less.
beasts of burden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beast of burden
mungo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungos
form: mungoes
Senses: examples: text: Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
ref: 1918, Henry J. Spooner, Wealth from Waste: Elimination of Waste A World Problem, George Routledge & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 200:
glosses: A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
Related terms: mungo bean
shoddy
noil
locum tenens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌləʊkəm ˈtɛnɛns/
Forms: form: locum tenentes
form: locos tenentes
Etymology: Existing in English since the seventeenth century: from Medieval Latin locum tenēns (literally “one holding a place”). Doublet of lieutenant.
Senses: examples: text: […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.
ref: 1820, The Steeliad, a Poem, in Three Cantos, page 35:
text: "I expected better things of you, Professor Summerlee." "You must remember," said Summerlee, sourly, "that I have a large class in London who are at present at the mercy of an extremely inefficient locum tenens."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A professional person (such as a doctor or clergyman) who temporarily fulfills the duties of another.
Synonyms: word: locum
word: proxy
word: stand-in
Related terms: locum
locus
tenant
emunge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emunges
form: emunging
form: emunged
form: emunged
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēmungō.
Senses: examples: text: The moment of inspiration commences — the speaker emunges his nose with all his might - a doleful voice, scarcely audible, something like the melancholy moan of the midnight breeze, which so few have heard, informs you might have supposed destitute of the organs of speech, possesses in some respect the faculties of speaking.
ref: 1949, J. D. H. Widdess, An Account of the Schools of Surgery:
glosses: To wipe or cleanse, especially one's nose.
Related terms: emunction
emunctory
locum tenentes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌləʊkəm tɛˈnɛntɛs/
/ˌləʊkəm tɪˈnɛntiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of locum tenens
genome transplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genome transplants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A procedure in which DNA from one species is transplanted into a cell of another species, and after repeated division of hybrid cells the original cells are destroyed; only achieved in bacteria so far
organocatalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From organo- + catalysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The use of small organic compounds as catalysts
Related terms: organocatalyst
organocatalytic
organocatalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organocatalysts
Etymology: From organo- + catalyst.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any small organic compound that functions as a catalyst
Related terms: organocatalysis
organocatalytic
pancreata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæŋ.kɹiˌɑːt.ə/
/ˈpæn-/
Senses: glosses: plural of pancreas
fiascos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈæskəʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fiasco
fiasci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈæski/
ipa: /fiˈæʃi/
Senses: glosses: plural of fiasco
fiaschi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈæski/
Senses: qualifier: often pedantic
glosses: plural of fiasco
locums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locum
chloroplatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroplatinates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of chloroplatinic acid
malice prepense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪs pɹɪˈpɛns/
Senses: examples: text: Quoth I, "This I did by accident not of malice prepense;" and quoth he, "If thou didst it by accident, I will do the like by thee with intention."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 11”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: Mrs. Dallow complied, placing herself opposite to him in the boat; but as he took up the paddles she declared that she preferred to remain on the water—there was too much malice prepense in the temple. He asked her what she meant by that, and she said it was ridiculous to withdraw to an island a few feet square on purpose to meditate. She had nothing to meditate about which required so much attitude.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: Malice aforethought.
malice aforethought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Anglo-Norman malice prepensé (literally “forethought malice”).
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: premeditation
malice prepense
glosses: The criminal intent which precedes a crime, especially murder.
disbursal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪsˈbɜːsəɫ]
homophone: dispersal
Forms: form: disbursals
Etymology: See disburse.
Senses: glosses: The act of disbursing money.
glosses: The amount of money paid for something, especially the amount that may be tax-deductible.
Synonyms: disbursement
dogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊɡi/
ipa: /ˈdəʊɡi/
rhymes: -əʊɡi
Forms: form: dogies
form: dogey
form: dogy
Etymology: Unknown.
Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.
Senses: examples: text: When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 49:
glosses: A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
Synonyms: word: bum calf
word: bummer
english: primarily in Spanish-speaking areas
translation: primarily in Spanish-speaking areas
word: leppy
Related terms: doggie
dogmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogmatists
Senses: glosses: A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
examples: text: Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience.
Synonyms: dogmatician
Related terms: dogmatic
dogmatism
drumbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drumbeats
Etymology: From drum + beat.
Senses: glosses: The beating of a drum.
examples: text: This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
ref: 2015, Tom Liam Lynch, The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research, page 54:
glosses: The sound of a beating drum.
examples: text: This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
text: The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
ref: 2010, Dale Andrade, Surging South of Baghdad, page 108:
text: Rycant stood close enough to catch his words despite the drumbeat of rain on the thick leaves above their heads, but only Rectoria picked up the note of relief.
ref: 2015, Alison Gardiner, The Serpent of Eridor, page 113:
text: What does the drumbeat of your heart say?
ref: 2020, Mark David Gerson, The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write:
glosses: A repetitive beating sound.
examples: text: Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
ref: 1996, Paulette D. Kilmer, The Fear of Sinking, page 48:
text: On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
ref: 2004, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything:
text: We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.
ref: 2005, R. C. Leonard, Silence of the Drums, page 66:
text: While the partisan wrangling annoyed Clinton, it was the drumbeat of attacks on his character and the constant investigations of his administration that bothered him most of all.
ref: 2008, Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation:
text: It takes courage to be against the drumbeat of war and especially to become a “shield” against violence.
ref: 2012, J. Frederick Arment, The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works, page 151:
glosses: A driving force.
hewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hewers
Etymology: From hew + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 2:10:
text: The Larrakiahs at Port Darwin seem to have identified themselves with the white population, and became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlement.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 225:
text: By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal […]
ref: 1904, Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners, page 62:
text: But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
text: All three groups were paid less per shift than coal miners. In 1905, for instance, hewers in coal mines received an average 3.79 marks per shift; in zinc and lead, 3.10 marks; in iron, 2.36 marks.
ref: 1975, Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914:
glosses: One who hews.
Derived terms: hewers of wood and drawers of water
rough-hewer
woodhewer
wood hewer
wood-hewer
highlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From high + lands.
Senses: examples: text: One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.
ref: 2018 February 20, Adesola Akinleye, Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: A high area of land, lands higher than surrounding areas.
Derived terms: word: highland
word: highlander
word: Highlands
word: Highlander
Related terms: alt: n
word: highland
holdout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holdouts
Etymology: Deverbal from hold out.
Senses: examples: text: If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.
ref: 2007 November 4, Randall Stross, “Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2019:
text: One of Otto’s first moves after Viserys’ death is to make the lords and ladies of the Red Keep bend the knee to Aegon. The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2024:
glosses: One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
examples: text: He is probably working a vest or sleeve hold-out. Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.
ref: 1897, Robert Frederick Foster, Foster's Complete Hoyle, page 195:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
Related terms: holdover
nail house
homiletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homiletic
form: most homiletic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a homily, or to homiletics.
glosses: Preachy.
Derived terms: homiletically
homiletics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ).
Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, “crowd, throng”), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, “to be with, to talk”), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, “to talk”).
Senses: glosses: The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
Related terms: homily
horologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin horologicus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to horo- + logic or horology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia or horology.
synonyms: word: chronometric
word: of or related to horologia or horology
Derived terms: horological
horologically
horological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.
ref: 1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203:
glosses: Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
synonyms: word: chronometric
word: of or related to horologia and horology
Derived terms: horologically
bloodwite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdwaɪt/
Forms: form: bloodwites
form: bloodwit
form: blood-wite
form: blood-wit
Etymology: From Old English blōdwīte.
Senses: glosses: A penalty for committing bloodshed, specifically under Anglo-Saxon law a penalty to be paid to the king or aldorman as distinct from the wergeld.
blood-wite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblʌdwaɪt/
Forms: form: blood-wites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bloodwite.
bloodwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodwits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bloodwite.
blood-wit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood-wits
Senses: examples: text: I told him all my past from first to last; and he was concerned on my account and said, "O youth, disclose not thy secret to any: the King of this city is the greatest enemy thy father hath, and there is blood-wit between them and thou hast cause to fear for thy life."
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 12”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of blood-wite.
advowtry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ədˈvaʊtɹi/
Forms: form: advowtries
form: advoutry
form: avowtry
Etymology: From Middle English avoutrie, from Old French avouterie, variant (perhaps influenced by vout, vut (“vow”)) of aouterie, aolterie, from Late Latin adulterium. Doublet of adultery, which replaced it in modern English.
Senses: examples: text: Then he turned to me and said, "O mortal, we have it in our law that, when the wife committeth advowtry it is lawful for us to slay her."
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 13:
glosses: adultery
Related terms: advoutrer
avouterer
avoutrer
advoutress
cut a wide swath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a wide swath
form: cutting a wide swath
form: cut a wide swath
form: cut a wide swath
form: cut a wide swathe
Senses: examples: text: Sherman started from Atlanta in the middle of November. He cut a wide swath of desolation through the South.
ref: 1876, William Swinton, A Condensed School History of the United States, Ivison, Blakeman, and Taylor (New York), p. 277
text: Swinging his bloody horns from side to side the beast cut a wide swath before him.
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in At the Earth's Core:
text: The twister cut a wide swath of destruction in Utica, a town of 2,000 people about 90 miles southwest of Chicago.
ref: 2004 April 21, “8 bodies pulled from twister-hit Illinois tavern”, in msnbc:
glosses: To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action.
examples: text: Girls who like to cut a wide swath ought to come out to China, for they will have enough flattery and attention to turn their heads.
ref: 1899, Delight Sweetser Prentiss, One Way Round the World, 2nd edition, Bowen-Merrill, page 124:
text: During the two years that he [the Count] cut a wide swath in the city [Berlin] his name was constantly associated with that of some dancer, actress or other woman whose notoriety drew more attention than her talent.
ref: 1924, "Method in Kindness," Time, 21 Jan., quoting the Daily News (Manhattan)
text: The company certainly cut a wide swath in a conservative industry.
ref: 1998, Jeff Goldsmith, “Columbia/HCA: A Failure of Leadership”, in Health Affairs, volume 17, number 2, page 27:
text: With his signature red beret and class-based rhetoric, president Hugo Chavez has cut a wide swath through this oil-rich but impoverished nation.
ref: 2004 August 15, Gary Marx, “Venezuelans head to polls in president's recall election”, in San Diego Union Tribune:
glosses: To behave in an expansive, flagrantly showy, or pushy manner, especially in public venues; to exert sweeping influence.
Synonyms: sense: clear a broad track
word: blaze a trail
sense: clear a broad track
word: cut a swath
word: show off
word: swagger
word: throw one's weight around
cut a wide swathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a wide swathe
form: cutting a wide swathe
form: cut a wide swathe
form: cut a wide swathe
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cut a wide swath.
cut a swath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a swath
form: cutting a swath
form: cut a swath
form: cut a swath
form: cut a swathe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cut a wide swath.
cut a swathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts a swathe
form: cutting a swathe
form: cut a swathe
form: cut a swathe
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cut a swath.
pertechnetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertechnetates
Etymology: From per- + technetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent technetium anion TcO₄⁻; any salt containing this anion
gallantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallantry
arrhythmias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrhythmia, which can refer to types of arrhythmia, cases of arrhythmia, or episodes of arrhythmia.
Synonyms: dysrhythmias
sleeping at the switch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asleep at the switch.
angelical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkəl/
Forms: form: more angelical
form: most angelical
Etymology: From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: She was all angelical gentleness.
ref: 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:
text: "You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.
ref: 2005 May 21, Joan Dupont, “The Cannes Festival: The faces of Tommy Lee Jones”, in International Herald Tribune, retrieved 02 Nov 2008:
glosses: Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
Derived terms: angelicality
angelically
angelicalness
archangelical
disangelical
unangelical
malnutrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: malnourished
smoke eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke eaters
form: smoke-eater
Senses: glosses: A firefighter.
coordinate_terms: smoke blower
glosses: A device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air.
dopiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dopy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, for all of Morgan’s game dopiness and genius timing, the biggest laugh might come from famed particle physicist Brian Cox, who—after having to listen to yet another misguided and meandering anecdote about Cunk’s mate Paul, an ill-informed fount of knowledge for our title star—finally asks: “So what does Paul do?”
ref: 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club:
glosses: The characteristic of being dopey.
doltishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doltish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being doltish.
crustier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crusty: more crusty
crustiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crusty: most crusty
bank cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank cheques
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: A cheque which is payable by a bank itself, as opposed to an ordinary cheque payable only out of the funds of a particular customer's account. A bank cheque is normally obtained by a bank customer (by paying its face value), the point is that the person receiving the cheque has the security of knowing it's payable by the bank and thus cannot bounce (not so long as the bank is solvent).
lap sash seatbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap sash seatbelts
form: lap/sash seatbelt
form: lap-sash seatbelt
Etymology: From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + sash (“length of cloth worn over the shoulder”) + seatbelt (“restraining belt”).
Senses: examples: text: […]automobile accidents in which a casualty occurred in Victoria (Australia) during 1973 and 1974, Nelson (1974) has stated that from a clinical point of view the current lap-sash seatbelt-head configuration is not reducing the incidence of whiplash injuries to a significant extent.
ref: 1976, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, Medical & Biological Engineering, volume 14, page 263:
text: From 4 years to about 11 years, a booster seat, initially with a harness (until about 6 years) and then with an adult lap/sash seatbelt, offers the safest option for car travel.
ref: 1994, Frank Oberklaid, Leah Kaminsky, Your Child's Health, page 457:
text: Once your child doesn′t fit into a child car restraint at around four years of age, a booster seat can be used with an adult lap/sash seatbelt.
ref: 2004, Carol Fallows, Shayne Collier, Commonsense Guide for Australian Parents, page 23:
text: A precise description of mechanism of injury can guide the examination, eg flexion/extension injury over lap sash seatbelt is associated with small bowel injury and lumbar vertebral fractures.
ref: 2007, Stuart Crisp, Jo Rainbow, Emergencies in Paediatrics and Neonatology, Oxford University Press, page 106:
text: Bruce pushed the ultralight out of the hangar; I climbed in and fastened the lap-sash seatbelt.
ref: 2012, S Bailey, J Bailey, Head Over Heels: A Story Of Tragedy, Triumph and Romance in the Australian Bush, unnumbered page:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: sash belt
glosses: A type of seatbelt which goes across the pelvis and then up and diagonally across the body; the conventional type found in most cars today.
Related terms: lap belt
three-point restraint system
brick veneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick veneers
Senses: examples: text: Many home buyers like the low maintenance and quality look of a brick veneer home. The veneer will never need painting; it will protect the house from wind (Figure 1); and if the work is done right, the veneer will last the lifetime of the house.
ref: 1997, Steven Bliss, Troubleshooting Guide to Residential Construction, page 74:
text: 2003, Ali M. Memari, Mohammad Aliaari, Ahmad A. Hamid, Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Anchored Brick Veneer Walls, Paul G. Johnson, Performance of Exterior Building Walls, page 115,
Brick veneer walls are supported in most cases by shelf angles attached to the floor slab at each story and are supposed to carry only ther own weight and not participate in inplane lateral load resistance […] In this paper, it is discussed how the vertical differential movement between the brick veneer and the frame can close the gap between the underside of the shelf angle and the top course of brick, thus putting the brick veneer under high compressive stresses.
text: 2010, The Complete Guide to Masonry and Stonework, 3rd edition, Black & Decker, page 262,
And because brick veneer does not require mortar, installation is well within the capabilities of interested homeowners.
topics: architecture
glosses: A building construction technique in which an external, non-structural, brick wall conceals a structural wall of another material (such as timber or steel).
Synonyms: masonry veneer
metacentric stability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The tendency of a ship or other water-going vessel to remain upright due to its centre of gravity being below its centre of buoyancy, i.e. basically having most of its weight down low.
Related terms: metacentric height
penalty phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty phases
Senses: glosses: The portion of some criminal trials that occurs after a guilty verdict has been rendered, in which the punishment for the crime is decided.
Related terms: sentencing hearing
rebirthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebirthings
Senses: qualifier: spirituality
glosses: Rebirth.
topics: games
gaming
video-games
glosses: An act of resetting a player character's level to its initial value (i.e., 1) while retaining equipment and/or some skills (a feature that allows a player to try out different classes or builds).
glosses: The practice of simulating the birth process by wrapping a child tightly in blankets from which it must struggle to escape, as an intended treatment for attachment disorder.
examples: text: 2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book Australia, Number 86, page 325,
Other investigations include South-East Asian organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud on the Commonwealth, vehicle rebirthing and identity fraud.
text: They are also involved in cannabis dealing, vehicle theft, car rebirthing, currency counterfeiting and fraud.
ref: 2010, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Australia, page 335:
text: New bosses were running things now – the hydro marijuana houses, the standover and the car rebirthing.
ref: 2010, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne′s Gangland Wars, page 180:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.) onto a stolen car of the same make and model, allowing the stolen car to be sold with the identity of the wreck.
glosses: The role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina.
Related terms: identity theft
unbirthing
food court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food courts
Senses: glosses: A common area for dining, containing or surrounded by contiguous counters of multiple food vendors, often adjoining a shopping area.
Related terms: restaurant
diner
cafeteria
danse macabre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑns məˈkɑb(ɹə)/
ipa: /dɑns məˈkɑb(ɹə)/
Forms: form: danses macabres
Etymology: Borrowed from French danse macabre.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A conventional subject in art, literature and drama, or a particular work in that style, in which death (in the form of a putrid corpse, skeleton, the Grim Reaper, etc) is shown leading people to the grave.
Synonyms: dance of death
Related terms: vanitas
calques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calque
calques
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calque
veridical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹɪdɪkəl/
Forms: form: more veridical
form: most veridical
Etymology: From Latin veridicus (“truly said”), from verus (“true”) and dīcō (“I say”).
Senses: synonyms: veracious
veridicous
antonyms: false
falsidical
glosses: True.
examples: text: Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical.
text: There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.
ref: 1995, Herbert Simon, “Guest Editorial”, in Public Administration Review, volume 55, number 5, page 404:
text: Searle himself notes that one way an experience might fail is for it to be a veridical hallucination: you might hallucinate a cat before you, and by accident there might be a cat before you.
ref: 2014, Berit Brogaard, Does Perception Have Content?, page 112:
antonyms: falsidical
;
delusory
illusory
imaginary
imaginative
unsubstantiated
glosses: Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality.
Derived terms: veridicality
Related terms: truth
shellacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shellacked
form: most shellacked
Etymology: From shellac + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 41:
glosses: Coated in shellac.
examples: text: Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.
ref: 2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the Vineyard:
glosses: Drunk.
Aigio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aegium
form: Egion
form: Aigion
form: Aiyion
form: Aighion
form: Eghion
form: Aeghion
form: Egio
form: Aigio
form: Aiyio
form: Aighio
form: Eghio
form: Aeghio
Etymology: From Greek Αίγιο (Aígio).
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the northeastern Achaea prefecture
Kato Achaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kato Ahaia
form: Kato Akhaia
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the northwestern Achaea prefecture.
hollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holler
hollers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of holler
hollering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of holler
hollering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollerings
Senses: examples: text: They can have no idea who I am or what I've done, but they leap to and give slapstick chase anyway, their cartoon hollerings — "Stop! Thief" — sounding in my ears as I tear up the avenue[…]
ref: 2002, Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, page 100:
glosses: The act of one who hollers.
hollered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of holler
legendaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legendary
teeters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teeter
teetered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teeter
great unwashed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɒʃt/
ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɔːʃt/
ipa: /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɑːʃt/
Etymology: Attributed by many to Edmund Burke, the first published use of the phrase was by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in a dedicatory epistle for 1830, Paul Clifford.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us. … Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed: and in the Temple especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be next to godliness could have been practised at all.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The Liberal campaign was so carefully orchestrated that McLeod was never in a position to be confronted by the great unwashed. Unfortunately, the great unwashed rarely vote for a leader whom they have never met.
ref: 1995, Christina Blizzard, Right Turn: How the Tories Took Ontario:
synonyms: word: hoi polloi
word: unwashed masses
word: great unhosed
word: canaille
word: commonality
word: commonalty
word: crowd
word: demos
word: everyone
word: general public
word: great unhosed
word: great unwashed
word: herd
word: hoi polloi
word: lower class
word: many
word: masses
word: mob
word: multitude
word: odds and sods
word: peasantry
word: plebs
word: populace
word: proletariat
word: rabble
word: rank and file
word: riffraff
word: third estate
word: trash
word: unwashed
word: unwashed masses
word: working class
glosses: The general populace, particularly the working class.
wikipedia: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Paul Clifford
jockeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jockey
spiels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiel
spiels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spiel
spieling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spiel
spieled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spiel