cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
operculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of operculum
Synonyms: opercula
non-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-names
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonname.
anti-Halloween
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Halloween
form: most anti-Halloween
Etymology: From anti- + Halloween.
Senses: glosses: Against Halloween.
Mid West
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the nine regions in Western Australia.
nonname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnames
form: non-name
Etymology: From non- + name.
Senses: examples: text: There are at least two separate categories of unnameables: first, there are big unnameables, with various deictic nonnames such as I am that I am, Yahweh, the Other, the Real, an outside always to come, and so on; […]
ref: 2012, Jonathan Abel, Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan, page 226:
glosses: Something, such as a word, that is not a name.
nonnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonname
non-names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-name
white appliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white appliances
Etymology: From the traditional surface paint on the appliances being white.
Senses: glosses: An appliance that is one of the white goods. A large household appliance.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, appliance.
rainbow capitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But it's not like that anymore, she tried to reassure me, because she sees the pride flags and the Supreme Court rulings and the rainbow capitalism that sells us on billboards one month out of twelve, […]
ref: 2022, J. D. Waggy, The Night I Came Out to God:
synonyms: pink capitalism
homocapitalism
glosses: The involvement of capitalism and consumerism in the LGBT movement.
Related terms: rainbow washing
shinbeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinbeens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shinbin.
shinbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinbeams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shinbin.
shinbeens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinbeen
shinbeams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinbeam
shinbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinbins
form: shinbeam
form: shinbeen
Etymology: From Burmese [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An irregular portion of a log split lengthwise, used in constructing the side of a ship.
shinbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinbin
Bhils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bhil
Bheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bheels
form: Bheel
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Bhil.
Bheel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Bhil.
Bheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bheel
Bocca Tigris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bocca Tigris
Etymology: A Latin form of Portuguese Boca do Tigre.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bogue (“Chinese strait”).
synonyms: word: Bogue
extra: Chinese strait
STSs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of STS
Chitaldurg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
Chittledroog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
Chitaldrug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
Chitradurg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
Chittaldrug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
Chittaldurg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chitradurga.
abuite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abu, a town in Japan, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless mineral bearing calcium, aluminium, and phosphate.
off-set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-sets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offset.
off-set
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: off-sets
form: off-setting
form: off-set
form: off-set
form: off-setted
form: off-setted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offset.
off-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more off-set
form: most off-set
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offset.
off-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-set
form: most off-set
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offset.
off-setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of off-set
off-sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of off-set
off-sets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of off-set
choabdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choabdars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chobdar.
chobadar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chobadars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chobdar.
chobedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chobedars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chobdar.
chubdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubdars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chobdar.
choabdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choabdar
chobadars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chobadar
chobedars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chobedar
chubdars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chubdar
curlytail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curlytails
Senses: glosses: A Caribbean lizard of the family Leiocephalidae.
Derived terms: Cuban striped curlytail
shoulderband snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulderband snails
Senses: glosses: A land snail of the genus Helminthoglypta.
*NSYNCers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of *NSYNCer
green handshake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green handshakes
Etymology: Because U.S. dollar bills are green; the term reflects euphemistic irony, as it implies that a handshake that hands them off is more than a mere handshake.
Senses: examples: text: ended the long local tradition of green handshakes for building inspectors
coordinate_terms: kickback
glosses: A bribe, or a transfer of money that the interested parties represent as a tip but that disinterested third parties are likely to view as a bribe.
Related terms: golden handshake
green handshakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green handshake
aseptic meningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aseptic meningitides
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Meningitis with a negative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Gram stain and culture, typically caused by viruses.
Gulfization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gulfization
form: Gulfisation
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of workforce nationalization policies in states around the Persian Gulf, intended to increase the representation of local citizens in a country's workforce.
Hyponyms: Bahrainization
Emiratisation
Kuwaitisation
Omanization
Saudization
Qatarization
Bouvette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bouvettes
Etymology: From French Bouvette.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
Related terms: Bouvet
Bouvett
Bovet
Bovett
Bovette
Buvet
Buvett
Buvette
Sih
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sihs
Etymology: From Chinese.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese
plastivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plastivorous
form: most plastivorous
Etymology: From plasti(c) + -vorous.
Senses: examples: text: This is the first known life form of many known to be entirely plastivorous, able to safely decompose an entire plastic bottle in about the same amount of time a hot compost heap degrades plant matter, with obvious potential in the world of recycling.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 295:
glosses: Consuming plastic.
SIH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIHs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
hit the shower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the shower
form: hitting the shower
form: hit the shower
form: hit the shower
form: hit the showers
Senses: glosses: To take a shower.
glosses: To exit play in a sports competition, often with the implication of poor performance.
Related terms: send someone to the showers
hit the showers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the showers
form: hitting the showers
form: hit the showers
form: hit the showers
Senses: examples: text: You've been SLOBBED! Hit the showers and try again.
ref: 1994, Deep River Publishing, H.U.R.L., MS-DOS, scene: game over screen:
glosses: Alternative form of hit the shower.
country-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: country-houses
Senses: examples: text: In Italy, though they bide in Cities in Winter, which is more Gentle-man-like, all the Summer they come abroad to their country-houſes, to recreate themſelves.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre rectified. With a digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 260:
text: Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions, though they arose principally from doubts of her sister’s style of living and tone of society; and it was not till after she had tried in vain to persuade her brother to settle with her at his own country-house, that she could resolve to hazard herself among her other relations.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 82:
text: In every direction along the côteaux which skirt this beautiful drive, we find country-houses, whose situations are judiciously chosen in reference to the views and freedom from atmospheric inconveniences.
ref: 1842, A[lexander] Taylor, On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees, on Disease. […], London: John W. Parker, […], page 334:
text: The city of Gotham is an island, as we have said; and once it was a beautiful island, affording to the gaze of him who sailed along its shores, an agreeable mixture of rock and grove, topping hill and marshy low ground, sparkling here and there with the villas or country-houses of the wealthy Gothamites, mostly built of wood painted white, and adorned with long verandahs quite encircling them; or showing at some turn a humbler, but substantial abode, nooked under a mighty horse-chestnut, the head-quarters of a milk-farm, with cattle (whose tinkling bells you could hear in the still evening) grazing on its wild up-hilly pasture-land.
ref: 1860, Jedediah Vincent Huntington, A Tale of Real Life, Or, Blonde and Brunette, page 8:
text: Spite of the dark cloud which in those Puritan days overhung all diversions and every cheerful pastime, the little book won its way to many a sunny window-sill in English country-houses, and accompanied many anglers to the water side; for in two years' time another edition was required.
ref: 1876 May 24, Rev. M[organ] G[eorge] Watkins, “Izaak Walton”, in Fraser's Magazine, page 633:
text: Our eyes turned to the great bow-window and we looked out at the summer beauty of the country-side, the long slopes of heather, the great country-houses, the cozy farms, the pleasure-seekers upon the links.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of country house.
country-houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of country-house
Grande Terre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: The largest island of New Caledonia.
kampong chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kampong chicken
morimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morimals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mormal.
EBUS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EBUSs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of endobronchial ultrasound.
heptanonitrile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A nitrile derived from heptane.
Wriothesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈraɪəθsli/
/ˈrɒtsli/
/ˈrɛzli/
/ˈraɪzli/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
unipectinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unipectinated.
Bridstow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish west of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5824).
Kapicic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kapicics
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Kapičić.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian
bombinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombinators
Etymology: From bombinate + -or. Frog sense, New Latin (genus name), agent noun form of Medieval Latin bombināre, from Late Latin bombitare (“to buzz or hum”).
Senses: examples: text: None of this multitude of thinkers and their satellites brought his thoughts into really conclusive contact with the others. To do it would have been to discover much practical identity and so lose distinction. After their fashion, each bombinated abundantly with only the slightest regard to other bombinators.
ref: 1941, H.G. Wells, You Can't be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951, London: Secker & Warburg, page 284:
text: Therefore our apology to such bombinators, radicals, Utopians and Schoengeisten who might read this work expecting intellectual mayhem.
ref: 1941, Bennett Cerf, Van H. Cartmell, editors, Sixteen Famous American Plays, Random House, page 140:
text: Alice Duer Miller, erect and fastidious, crowded her manor with clowns and bombinators.
ref: 1954, Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2020, page 395:
text: [T]hese and a score of barroom bombinators and local-room moonshooters were around MacArthur like a Sorbonne faculty.
ref: 1957, Ben Hecht, Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur, Harper, page 62:
glosses: A person who speaks or makes noise to no effect, as a flattering toady or empty orator.
examples: text: Schiff adduces experiments on bombinators and toads[.]
ref: 1898, Wilhelm Biedermann, Electro-physiology, volume 2, Macmillan, page 85:
text: Tadpoles of the B. bombina are devoid of anicotto glanduare. Neither is it found in other bombinators (B. pachypus).
ref: 1981, Acta Biologica Cracoviensia: Series: Zoologia, volumes 23-26, page 36:
glosses: Ellipsis of bombinator toad.
bombinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombinator
Baccarin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baccarins
Etymology: From Italian Baccarin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian
Related terms: Baccarini
Soum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soums
Etymology: Borrowed from French Soum, itself from Occitan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French [in turn from Occitan].
Michaelchurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Tretire with Michaelchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5225).
marginalize out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marginalizes out
form: marginalizing out
form: marginalized out
form: marginalized out
Senses: examples: text: One way to eﬃciently deﬁne such a large set of functions is to learn a probability distribution over all the relevant variables, then solve the classiﬁcation task by marginalizing out the missing variables.
ref: 2016, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 5, in Deep Learning, page 98:
text: To do this, we need to marginalize out the model parameters #92;mu, W, and #92;sigma² with respect to appropriate prior distributions.
ref: 2006, Cristopher M. Bishop, chapter 12, in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, page 581:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act of discarding a subset of random variables from a probability distribution to find the marginal distribution.
Dezaly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dezalys
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dezaly.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
snowsquall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowsqualls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snow squall.
Tretire with Michaelchurch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish (served by Llanwarne and District Group Parish Council) in southern Herefordshire, England, which includes these two places.
Tretire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Tretire with Michaelchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5224).
impotentia generandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: impotentia coeundi
hypernyms: sexual impotence
glosses: The inability of males to fertilise.
barmaidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barmaiden
Hula painted frogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hula painted frog
saratoga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saratogas
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps a mispronunciation of New Latin Ceratodus (“an extinct genus of lungfish”), which is from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).
Senses: examples: text: They tell us that the fresh waters at Hainin must have been substantial, for they included the remains of a large predatorial fish known as a bonytongue, or saratoga.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 49:
glosses: Either of two species of osteoglossid fish of the genus Scleropages, native to northeastern Australia.
saratogas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saratoga
St Owen's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: "St Owen" may be Saint Ouen or Audoin. "Cross" may refer to the crossroads there.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Hentland parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5324).
wikipedia: Hentland
Saint Ouen
Banaban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Banaba + -an.
Senses: examples: text: But Banaban elders say relying on support from faraway places is not sustainable, especially as the climate crisis worsens.
ref: 2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the island of Banaba, Kiribati.
Banaban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Banabans
Etymology: From Banaba + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps most damaging is the impact the mining had on te bangabanga. Banabans have historically been able to survive droughts due to the natural ability of the caves to capture and store water.
ref: 2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Banaba, Kiribati.
Banabans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Banaban
Banaba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bəˈnɑːbə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Gilbertese [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: The last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago. […] Alofa says elders would like to see Australia and New Zealand fund a team of researchers to travel to Banaba to assess the damage and repair the caves.
ref: 2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: Ocean Island
glosses: An island of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, a former site of phosphate mining.
Derived terms: Banaban
BIPGM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: 2021, Jasmine Singer, Antiracism in Animal Advocacy: Igniting Cultural Transformation, Lantern Publishing
So in order to develop sophisticated racial literacy, white folks must accept and respect BIPGM's point of view.
glosses: Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority. See also BIPOC.
Hunderton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A southern suburb of Hereford, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4983).
bandung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːndɒŋ/
ipa: /-oŋ/
Senses: glosses: A sweet and cold Malaysian and Singaporean drink made with rose syrup and evaporated milk or condensed milk.
Llandinabo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Inabwy, the church of St Junabius.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet and civil parish (served by Llanwarne and District Group Parish Council) in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5128).
wikipedia: Inabwy
Zeeshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zeeshans
Etymology: From Arabic زِشَان (zišān).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Haqq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haqqs
Etymology: Variant of Haq.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wormelow Tump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Wormelow was a hundred in south Herefordshire.
Senses: glosses: A village in Much Birch parish and Much Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4930).
wikipedia: Wormelow Tump
musqueto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musquetoes
form: musquetos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mosquito.
musquetoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musqueto
musquetos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musqueto
Lorente
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lorentes
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Much Birch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Birches 1252, from Old English birce. The affixes for Little and Much Birch were presumably added later.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5030).
Related terms: Little Birch
beastkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beastkeeper
Youlgreave
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ‘Robert, Robert, the doctor has decided that you must go to Youlgreave at once to visit with your family.’
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 343:
glosses: A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK209642).
Dewsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A rural locality and civil parish (served by Callow and Haywood Group Parish Council) in south Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4833).
AI whisperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AI whisperers
Senses: examples: text: Krizhevsky left Google several years later, […] and he has since taken on a bit of a mythical status. (Ferguson called him an “AI whisperer.”)
ref: 2018 May 9, Andrew J. Hawkins, “Inside Waymo's Strategy to Grow the Best Brains for Self-Driving Cars”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 09 May 2018:
text: Prompt Engineer. Also called an “AI whisperer,” a prompt engineer is someone who creates effective prompts for getting the desired results from a language model. This is essentially what you’re learning from this book
ref: [2023, Guy Hart-Davis, Killer ChatGPT Prompts: Harness the Power of AI for Success and Profit, John Wiley & Sons, page 41:
text: “It’s like an AI whisperer,” says Albert Phelps, a prompt engineer at Mudano, part of consultancy firm Accenture in Leytonstone, England. “You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You're trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.”
ref: 2023 March 29, Conrad Quilty-Harper, “$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market”, in Bloomberg:
glosses: A person with a knack for persuading an artificial intelligence program to produce a desired kind of output.
examples: text: The Nassir name bought her more trust in pirate circles than Karpe would’ve[…] Adda kept hers as a reminder for anyone who met Pel that the weird AI whisperer was his big sister, and they’d have a lot more than a couple of pirates to tangle with if they messed with him.
ref: 2018, R. E. Stearns, Mutiny at Vesta, Simon and Schuster, page 116:
text: “But you're the AI whisperer. I mean, the entropy sweeper thinks you're its best friend. And now Brana has a name I didn't even know about, but you do. Why do all the AIs I program love you so much?”
ref: 2020 May 5, Carlos Hernandez, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:
text: “What do you think it was trying to tell us?” Troy asked.
“You’re the AI whisperer,” Enda said.
ref: 2020, Corey J. White, Repo Virtual, Macmillan + ORM, page 220:
glosses: One who is skilled with artificial intelligence programs.
Govilon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanfoist Fawr community, west of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2613).
Llanfoist Fawr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A community (civil parish) west and south of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.
device file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: device files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An interface to a device driver that appears in a file system, allowing an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via standard input/output system calls.
Llanfoist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh llan + Ffwyst, apparently an early Welsh saint; the village's name in Welsh is Llanffwyst.
Senses: glosses: A village in Llanfoist Fawr community, west of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO2813).
battlemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlemaster
Right
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Right
form: right
Senses: examples: text: Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.
ref: 2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The political right wing seen as a whole, as distinguished from an individual right-wing political party.
Synonyms: sense: political right
word: right wing
sense: political right
word: rightists
bootleggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡəɹi/
Forms: form: bootleggeries
Etymology: From bootleg + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Bootleggery was common where he was from.
text: And you knew also that he had been instrumental in securing a concession from one Rex Sheldon, who was connected with the Republican National Committee, didn't you, with reference to his activities in the bootleggery in New York?
ref: 1924, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Investigation of the Attorney General, Investigation of the Attorney General, page 2610:
text: It questioned, "Is Havre getting the reputation of having bootleggery as its principal business?" It was, but the Plaindealer soon lost its county contract and ceased operation. The Havre Bunch probably didn't appreciate the publicity[…]
ref: 2006 June 1, Gary A. Wilson, Honky-Tonk Town: Havre, Montana's Lawless Era, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
glosses: The crime of bootlegging.
examples: text: He closed up his bootleggery and moved it to the middle of the block. A literal, simple soul that obeyed to the letter the slogan of the Anti-Saloon League. The passing of the corner saloon in New York has changed the whole face of[…]
ref: 1925, Benjamin De Casseres, Mirrors of New York, page 79:
text: The fellow across the road gives up farming and turns his place into a pastoral bootleggery. Picnickers appropriate the lawn and declare for the proletariat. The sheriff comes, argues with them and they depart, leaving the Sunday[…]
ref: 1927, Plain Talk, page 94:
glosses: A place or area where bootlegging is done.
bootleggery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡəɹi/
Etymology: From bootlegger + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “Dave Segal was quite good looking, in a bootleggery kind of way. To me he looked like a bootlegger.” Golden agreed with that description. “Dave Segal was just like you imagine, like George Raft in the movies. He looked like a gangster, the way he dressed, conducted himself.”
ref: 2013, Mark Cohen, Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman, UPNE, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bootlegger.
transgenderhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transgender + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The trend among San Francisco lesbians is to stake out a position on the border between butchdom and transgenderhood, where pronoun choices are fraught and unpredictable. (Cynthia has explained this to me with the earnest pedantry of someone displaying recently acquired knowledge.)
ref: 2013 July, Gabriel Roth, The Unknowns, New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: The state of being transgender; transgenderness.
transgenderdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transgenderdoms
Etymology: From transgender + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: It is absolutely possible that this is all made up, that Bruce Jenner is as much on his way to transgenderdom as I am. Or, he is. Or he isn't really, but why not? That is, maybe the idea floated out there seemed so good that he just had to go with it.
ref: 2015 May, Michael Wolff, “An All-American Identity Crisis”, in British GQ, page 110:
glosses: The state of being transgender; transgenderness.
glosses: The world or sphere of transgender individuals, often collectively.
Related terms: transgenderhood
Pacific Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Pac Heights
glosses: A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.
Pac Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While the Pac Heights was full of Old Money (the Gettys had a mansion down the block from the Phelans) there were also scads of freshly minted Internet billionaires grenading the engines of their Ferraris on the steep hills of the city.
ref: 2013, Tony Perez-Giese, Pac Heights, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: Clipping of Pacific Heights.
finger-counting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of counting using one's fingers
Mardy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A suburban village north of Abergavenny in Llantilio Pertholey community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO3015).
Janampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Janampas
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Jayo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jayos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
bewhine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewhines
form: bewhining
form: bewhined
form: bewhined
Etymology: From be- + whine.
Senses: examples: text: He bemoaned and bewhined it to all who would listen, and men began, half-jokingly, to call the scene of the tragedy Tallow Lake.
ref: 1921, Alfred Lee Donaldson, A History of the Adirondacks, volume 2, page 101:
text: He is savagely delineated by Euripides as a ruthless craven, bewhining and bewailing the loss of the woman he had driven to her grave, hurling abuse at his father for remaining alive and trying to saddle him with the moral guilt of Alkestis' death.
ref: 1937, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, volume 1, page 47:
text: And Jamala is bewhining and bescreeching this event to remind all Europe and particularly Russia of this injustice.
ref: 2016, Ukraine: Jamala will sing "1944" at Eurovision 2016:
glosses: To whine about.
bewhines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewhine
bewhining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewhine
bewhined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewhine
Llantilio Pertholey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Llantilio is from Welsh llan + Saint Teilo; the origin of Pertholey is unknown.
Senses: glosses: A community and small village near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO3116).
wikipedia: Saint Teilo
Related terms: Llantilio Crossenny
clubshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubshells
Etymology: From club + shell.
Senses: glosses: Any of certain mussels of the genus Pleurobema, endemic to the United States.
pigtoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigtoes
Senses: glosses: Any of certain mussels of the US in the genus Pleurobema
happy Kwanzaa
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A greeting or good wish used during the seven-day celebration of Kwanzaa to wish someone a happy time.
on-premises
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: off-premises
glosses: On the premises; on the same piece of property as something else.
Pavlov dog
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Pavlov dogs
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Pavlov dog.
glosses: Alternative form of Pavlov's dog.
cleaner-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleaner-upper
assisted living
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of the various residential arrangements under which people with special needs reside in a facility, such as a group home or supportive apartment building, where trained staff specialize in aiding residents with at least some of the activities of daily living.
Shanice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ʃəˈniːs/
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
butt-ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt-tons
form: butt ton
Etymology: From butt + ton.
Senses: examples: text: I have a butt-ton of work to do today.
glosses: A large amount.
Synonyms: sense: an unspecified but large amount
word: lot
Derived terms: metric butt-ton
Related terms: fuckton
shitton
Kolhufushi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dhivehi ކޮޅުފުށި (koḷufuṣi), from ކޮޅު (koḷu, “end”) + ފުށި (fuṣi, “islet”).
Senses: glosses: An inhabited island of Mulaku Atoll, Maldives.
Haiblum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haiblums
Senses: examples: Isidore Haiblum, b. 1935
glosses: A surname.
teen-naps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teen-nap
teen-napping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teen-nap
teen-napped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teen-nap
storylessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From storyless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the stringing of barbed - wires or the angular piling up of rails, however, the proximity and conditions for familiar talk are not to be had so easily, and the work goes storylessly and more speedily on.
ref: 1899, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper:
text: Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.
ref: 1989, Ben Agger, Fast Capitalism: A Critical Theory of Significance:
text: Now things would have gone peacefully and storylessly along but for one big question neither creature could get out of his head.
ref: 2000, Tales from West Africa, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Any text disciplining imagination by appearing not to be writing at all — the essence of fast capitalism — requires narration; it narrates itself storylessly.
ref: 2013 October 31, Ben Agger, A Critical Theory Of Public Life: Knowledge, Discourse And Politics In An Age Of Decline, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Still, when there is no reason to doubt the facts, if the biological etiology is known and an effective therapy is available, the path from sign to diagnosis and treatment is wonderfully, almost storylessly direct.
ref: 2020 June 30, Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: In a storyless manner.
hom mali rices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hom mali rice
predatorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more predatorious
form: most predatorious
Etymology: From Latin praedatorius, equivalent to predatory + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: ...the hills of the robbers, predatorious oppreſſors of true Religion, pillagers and ſpoilers of the Church of Chriſt, of which too many ſad inſtances have been in ancient and later daies both at home and abroad.
ref: 1659, John Gauden, Ἰερα Δακρυα. Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Suspiria. The tears, sighs, complaints, and prayers of the Church of England, London: R. Royston, page 495:
text: Larvae that live a predatorious way of life, building neither living spaces nor nets, have smaller salivary glands, and their tiny nuclei are of exceptional significance.
ref: 1968 July 5, Pesticides Documentation Bulletin, volume 4, number 1, page 16:
glosses: predatory
mal-parries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mal-parry
mal mariées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mal mariée
lanceolated warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanceolated warbler
Blyth's reed warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blyth's reed warbler
booted warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booted warbler
eastern Orphean warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eastern Orphean warbler
green warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green warbler
Hume's leaf warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hume's leaf warbler
Moltoni's warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moltoni's warbler
Pallas's grasshopper warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas's grasshopper warbler
Pallas's leaf warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pallas's leaf warbler
plain leaf warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plain leaf warbler
Radde's warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Radde's warbler
subalpine warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subalpine warbler
rufous warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rufous warbler
river warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of river warbler
Sykes's warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sykes's warbler
western Orphean warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western Orphean warbler
western subalpine warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of western subalpine warbler
three-banded warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of three-banded warbler
shotas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shota
big whoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big whoop
big-headed turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big-headed turtle
allostratigraphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allostratigraphy
altaltissimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altaltissimo
bigluconates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigluconate
bigmouth shiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigmouth shiner
big-shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big-shot
make a fool out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a fool out of
form: making a fool out of
form: made a fool out of
form: made a fool out of
Senses: examples: text: Cos since I've come home, well my body's been a mess
And I've missed your ginger hair and the way you dress
Won't you come on over stop making a fool out of me?
Why won't you come on over Valerie?
ref: 2006, Zutons, “Valerie”:
glosses: Alternative form of make a fool of.
Pinghu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pǐngʹhǔʹ
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Mandarin 平湖 (Pínghú).
Senses: examples: text: For a brief self-appraisal of Wang's success in pao-chia work in P’ing-hu county in Chekiang, see his Sung-chou ts’ung-cheng lu (preface 1825, 1826 ed.), p. Ia.
ref: [1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Notes”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308:
text: This March there was a drive in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, for “leftover women to speedily find conjugal happiness.”
ref: 2012 October 11, Leta Hong Fincher, “China's 'Leftover' Women”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2012, Opinion:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.
celebrationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From celebration + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The year David turned six, Rose abandoned the Midas dream and left everything, including David, behind. It wasn't until the lonely and celebrationless Christmas day of that year that David accepted that his mother wasn't coming back.
ref: 1996, Richard Paul Evans, Timepiece, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Without celebration.
have a good mind to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a good mind to
form: having a good mind to
form: had a good mind to
form: had a good mind to
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have half a mind to.
Rosalynn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.
deltoid curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltoid curve
deltates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deltate
degreasants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degreasant
dental surgeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental surgeon
dental crowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental crown
dental clinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dental clinic
departure gates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of departure gate
desert lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert lavender
desert onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert onion
desert wheatears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert wheatear
dermographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermograph
desk dictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desk dictionary
eaten the mic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of eat the mic
design codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of design code
design flaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of design flaw
deskphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskphone
marginalizing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marginalize out
marginalizes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marginalize out
Anampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anampas
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Bettacchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettacchis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bettacchi.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Bettachini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bettachinis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bettacchini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Maegan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Megan.
prang out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prangs out
form: pranging out
form: pranged out
form: pranged out
Etymology: Compare pranged (“paranoid”), prang (“crack cocaine”).
Senses: examples: text: All right, look, don't prang out. They had this paint-party-brunch thing. But I only stayed for 45 minutes, painted a tiny bit of a door, ate half an almond croissant and bounced.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
glosses: To worry, panic; to suffer an anxiety attack.
examples: text: Anyone who has heard Mr. Skinner's recent album, "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living" (Vice), will be surprised (and possibly relieved) that he seems to have stopped "pranging out" on cocaine. With precise but conversationally rendered detail, this British M.C. bemoans the downside of stardom and excess: drug-binge paranoia, unfulfilling shopping sprees, […]
ref: 2006 June 29, Sia Michel, “Mike Skinner Gives His Vocal Cords an Endurance Test”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To have a bad experience on drugs; to have a freakout.
leavy greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “We used to serve 1,400 pounds of spinach a week and the men threw out half of it.” said Lieut. E. J. Anspach, Jr. “Now we have cut out not only spinach but practically all leavy greens.”
ref: 1943 June 3, The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pa., page four, column 4:
text: Equipment used for this purpose includes revolving or vibrating coarse screens to remove sand from spinach and other leavy greens and dirt clods from root vegetables, roller conveyors to separate leaves from tree fruits, and air cleaners to remove loose husks and leaves from corn and vines from green beans and peas.
ref: 1975, Pollution Abatement in the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Basics of Pollution Control, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Technology Transfer, pages IV-68–IV-69:
text: Vegetables are supremely important in Chinese and Japanese cuisine. Those ancient cultures have developed many subtly varying strains of food plants; leavy greens that cook quickly, spicy roots, pungent herbs, multipurpose cabbages.
ref: 1983, Nancy Bubel, The Country Journal Book of Vegetable Gardening, Brattleboro, Vt.: Country Journal Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 104:
text: The house salad is primarily dark leavy greens garnished with yellow cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices and forgettable chopped black California olives; […]
ref: 1993 August 27, John Martellaro, “Macaluso’s delivers good flavor, lives up to expectations”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 113, number 344, page H-26, column 3:
glosses: Rare form of leafy greens.
Bealville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Beale + -ville, being named after rancher Edward Fitzgerald Beale.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
wikipedia: Edward Fitzgerald Beale