cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spinning-wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinning-wheels
Senses: examples: text: […] while the noonday light, softened perhaps by a screen of leaves, falls on her mob-cap, and just touches the rim of her spinning-wheel, and her stone jug, and all those cheap common things which are the precious necessaries of life to her;—[…]
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “In Which the Story Pauses a Little”, in Adam Bede […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book second, page 5:
text: In the days of spinning-wheels and home-woven cloth, &c., it was customary to affix Swatches to the various rolls of cloth sent to the dyer's, which in this part of Cleveland were marked with the initials of the sender.
ref: 1868, J. C. Atkinson, A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 512:
text: Among much that was curious, there were tables with raised edges of delicate workmanship, holding some fine old china; there was a small oak spinning-wheel, on which my grandmother spun; and standing alone, too modern for its surroundings, was a piano-forté, on which Miss Green played.
ref: 1870, Sketches from the Border Land; or, A Daughter of England, London: F. Bowyer Kitto, […], page 9:
text: Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251:
text: Her modest dwelling was sparsely furnished: an old bed with spiral bedposts and curtains of yellowed serge; a hutch where she kneaded and kept bread; a chest of walnut, clean and shiny but riddled with wormholes plugged with wax, testimony to long years of service; a chair with faded upholstery worn out at the top by her grandmother’s trembling head; a spinning-wheel sleek and smooth from use.
ref: 2018 fall, Théophile Gautier, translated by J. E. Rivers, “The Child Whose Shoes Were Made of Bread”, in Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, volume 33, number 2:
glosses: Dated form of spinning wheel.
spinning-wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinning-wheel
cluster set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluster sets
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A set of repetitions of an exercise with measured interrepetition / intraset rest periods.
cluster sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster set
Heystek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heysteks
Etymology: From Afrikaans Heystek.
Senses: glosses: An Afrikaans surname.
Albertyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Albertyns
Etymology: From Afrikaans Albertyn.
Senses: glosses: An Afrikaans surname.
giant set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant sets
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A superset of at least three different exercises.
giant sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant set
Heysteks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Heystek
Albertyns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Albertyn
click-baity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: click-baitier
form: click-baitiest
Senses: examples: text: Mike Hudack works at Facebook. He's apparently pretty important there. His title is "director of product management." And he has had it with the news media, especially online outlets with their salacious gossip and click-baity listicles. So he vented his frustrations today on his Facebook page.
ref: 2014 May 22, Jordan Weissmann, “Area Facebook Employee Wishes Somebody Would Do Something About All These Shallow Viral News Stories”, in Slate, archived from the original on 27 May 2023:
text: The state of emergency was eventually called off, threat levels downgraded from “red” to “orange,” and even the click-baitiest of headlines became more subdued.
ref: 2014 August 29, Tómas Gabríel Benjamin, “Schrödinger’s Volcano”, in The Reykjavík Grapevine, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2014:
text: Much hay has been made about elements of bondage and other sexual fetishes in the early days of the book, but if you read the actual comics and not just a poorly researched listicle on a click-baitier website than this, you'll see that the sexual elements are pretty much just subtext, and the bondage is, for Marston, less about sex than about a metaphor for men's oppression of women.
ref: 2015 April 15, Benito Cereno, “The Evolution of Wonder Woman: Best Wonder Woman Stories by Decade”, in ComicsAlliance, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2015:
glosses: Alternative form of clickbaity.
race-baity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: race-baitier
form: race-baitiest
Etymology: From race-bait + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Has Drudge Become More Race-Baity? Here Are the Numbers.
ref: 2013 September 5, Mimi Dwyer, Julia Fisher, “(title)”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: It's a fairly paralyzing time to be a guilty white American liberal. With Donald Trump elected on the basis of one of the race-baitiest presidential campaigns in modern American history, Republicans firmly in power, and mounting evidence that progress toward racial equality has been stalled out for years if not decades, it feels like there's little chance of substantive progress anytime soon. What can the conscientious white ally do?
ref: 2017 January 3, Jesse Singal, “Guilty White Liberals Are Purchasing Racial Indulgences”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023:
text: The GOP's main counterargument has been to stir up race panic. Fox News and NBC today decided a Trump-funded ad was so race-baity they had to pull it from the air (though not before showing it to millions of viewers first).
ref: 2018 November 5, Mark Gongloff, “Let Trump Be Trump? America's About to Decide”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2023:
text: 'Can we make it race-baitier?' Dre's co-worker wondered.
ref: 2020 October 5, “Black-ish: Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross star in special one-hour election special on ABC”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022:
glosses: Involving race baiting.
race-baitier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of race-baity: more race-baity
race-baitiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of race-baity: most race-baity
puts the kibosh on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put the kibosh on
putting the kibosh on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of put the kibosh on
Oscar-baity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oscar-baity
form: most Oscar-baity
Etymology: From Oscar bait + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The eclectic list of the 10 most Oscar-baity movies ever made, according to Rossman and Schilke's equation, includes highly acclaimed Best Picture winners, beloved auteurist fare, and at least a couple of duds: […]
ref: 2014 January 15, Joshua Keating, “The Most (and Least) Oscar-Bait-y Movies Ever, According to Science”, in Slate, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2023:
text: Apple and Netflix are among the deep-pocketed steaming services willing to shell out big money to land an Oscar-baity film.
ref: 2021 August 9, Brent Lang, “Netflix, Apple Circling Jennifer Lawrence, Paolo Sorrentino Film About Sue Mengers”, in Variety, Los Angeles, C.A.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2023:
text: Martin McDonagh's tale of two friends falling out in civil war-era Ireland has hung around in the best picture conversation all winter, at the expense of more obviously Oscar-baity nominees.
ref: 2023 January 27, Gwilym Mumford, “The Guide #71: From Top Gun to Tár, the best picture Oscar nominees ranked”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2023:
glosses: Being Oscar bait.
take the place of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the place of
form: taking the place of
form: took the place of
form: taken the place of
Senses: glosses: To be used instead of someone or something
Merkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Merkins
Senses: examples: text: How he envied the Merkin people who could live in such bungalows! Yet for most of the year the bungalows were empty, with doors padlocked and windows shuttered. It was only during the "hill season," the two or three months between the northeast and the southwest monsoons, that the Merkin people left their homes and schools and missions on the plains and came to the hills to escape the heat.
ref: 1960, Shirley L[ease] Arora, What Then, Raman?, Chicago, I.L.: Follett Publishing Company, page 16:
text: The big river sang and glittered in the sunlight. It toppled from the mysterious jungle heights of Irukandji territory down huge granite bluffs to hurtle life into the parched inland, tracking westward through the lands of the fierce Merkin tribe.
ref: 1992, Patricia Shaw, River of the Sun, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: A tribe known as the Merkins had a word, "talgoro" meaning "human-meat-waiting-to-be-taken"; what we would call a "marked man".
ref: 2008, Carole A. Travis-Henikoff, Dinner With a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo, Santa Monica, C.A.: Santa Monica Press, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: A cannibalistic tribe native to the Cape York Peninsula.
Merkins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Merkin
heiroglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heiroglyphs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of hieroglyph.
heiroglyphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heiroglyph
inn yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inn yards
Senses: examples: text: I returned to the inn yard, and, impressed by my remembrance of the face, looked awfully around for it.
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Wanderer”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 416:
text: The inn yards of the day afforded convenient enclosures for the performance; moreover, they were real centers of the social life of the village, attracting crowds of tradesmen, farmers, horse dealers, village hangers-on, travellers, gentlemen of quality, and, we can be sure, the inevitable small boy who always manages to attend such affairs without paying for the privilege.
ref: 1916, Daniel Homer Rich, “[Introduction] III.—The Elizabethan Playhouse”, in The Merchant of Venice: As Originally Performed by Shakespeare’s Company (The Globe Theater Shakespeare), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, pages xx–xxi:
text: His heart beat at the sight of her, as though he were a young man and this his first assignation outside a cinema, in a Lyons Corner House . . . or in an inn yard in a country town where dances were held.
ref: 1943, Graham Greene, chapter 7, in The Ministry of Fear, Vintage, published 2004:
glosses: Alternative form of innyard.
inn yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inn yard
inn-yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inn-yards
Senses: examples: text: After ordering refreſhments, he went out to ſpeak with the landlord, but had ſcarcely left the room, when Adeline obſerved a party of horſemen enter the inn-yard, and ſhe had no doubt theſe were the perſons from whom they fled.
ref: 1791, [Ann Radcliffe], chapter XI, in The Romance of the Forest: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Hookham and J. Carpenter, […], →OCLC, page 162:
text: I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.
ref: 1839, Charles Lever, chapter 26, in The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Dublin: W. Curry, page 199:
text: I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter I, page 7:
text: And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza IV, pages 46–47:
text: This time, he is thrust aside by the vigorous young arm of Guglielmo, a young gentleman who has just stepped into the inn-yard, closely followed by a servant carrying his portemanteau.
ref: 1921, H[élène] A[deline] Guerber, Stories of Famous Operas, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 192:
glosses: Archaic form of innyard.
inn-yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inn-yard
young donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young donkeys
play-writing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Only by bearing the audience constantly in mind can the student learn the numerous devices which make play-writing an art quite different from any other form of narration.
ref: 1916, Daniel Homer Rich, “[Introduction] II.—Elementary Laws of Dramatic Construction”, in The Merchant of Venice: As Originally Performed by Shakespeare’s Company (The Globe Theater Shakespeare), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page xix:
text: One does learn a little through the years, of course, but what one learns is the surface tricks of play-writing, never how to avoid the major errors. Perhaps the reason that one can never practice the art of play-writing with any degree of sureness or security is that each play has a peculiar and separate life of its own.
ref: 1959, Moss Hart, Act One: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 167:
text: As a playwright she has won the Nick Darke award for her script Paradise (an environmental play) and the Generation Zed play-writing competition for a script idea for the Pilot Theatre to be developed for young people (11–15 year olds).
ref: 2013, Margaret Rogerson, “Medieval Mystery Plays in the Modern World: A Question of Relevance?”, in The Yearbook of English Studies, volume 43, Modern Humanities Research Association, pages 343–366:
glosses: Alternative form of playwriting.
nbhd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nbhds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of neighborhood.
NBHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NBHDs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of neighborhood.
Generation Zedders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Generation Zedder
Zer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zers
Etymology: From Z + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Boomers and Xers were told to stay silent, but millennials and Zers were encouraged to speak up. The millennials and some of these Zers who have grown up and joined our teaching force were raised in a model that put them at the center of the family circle, which helps explain why millennial and Gen Z teachers would want more interaction with authority figures.
ref: 2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Learning from the past is not the same as living in the past. Learning from the past is the only way one can truly live either progressively or conservatively in the present, whatever one’s preference might be. But don’t expect Millennials and Zers to believe such a tale.
ref: 2022 June 22, Robert Shinkoskey, “Ancient technology for today”, in Wabash Plain Dealer, page A7:
text: The percentage of people who are interested in extreme sports is rising, and most of these people belong to the age groups of Millennials and Zers, who already seek out glamping.
ref: 2023, Alastair M. Morrison, Dimitrios Buhalis, editors, Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism Supply and Demand, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: Generation Z
Generation Zer
Gen Z
Gen-Zer
Z
zoomer
glosses: A member of Generation Z.
Zers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zer
West Huntspill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A settlement and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3044).
Related terms: East Huntspill
Huntspill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in West Huntspill parish, Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3145).
Derived terms: East Huntspill
West Huntspill
plastromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plastron + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: A form of divination through the use of turtleshell plastrons.
turtleshell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: turtle-shell
Etymology: From turtle + shell.
Senses: coordinate_terms: snakeskin
alligator-skin
tiger-striped
carbon-fibre
glosses: Patterned like the shell of a turtle.
glosses: Containing components derived from the shell of a turtle.
turtleshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtleshells
form: turtle-shell
Etymology: From turtle + shell.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turtle, shell.: The shell of a turtle
Related terms: carapace
exoskeleton
osteoderm
plastron
shell
serraglios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serraglio
800-pound gorilla in the room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 800-pound gorillas in the room
Etymology: Blend of 800-pound gorilla + elephant in the room.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gorilla in the room.
synonyms: word: gorilla in the room
grands seigneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand seigneur
grand seigneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand seigneur
panic sellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panic seller
temperatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From temperature + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It is only by the superabundance or preponderation of one of these elements over the other, that the spirit is disturbed, and the body is afflicted with temperatural changes—either cold or heat, agues or fevers.
ref: 1850, Andrew Jackson Davis, The Great Harmonia; Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural, Spiritual, and Celestial Universe, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., […], page 94:
text: By the temperatural variation as described here, another very practical adaptation was achieved: the hard-shelled egg is much better protected against drying up in high temperature.
ref: 1924, Paul Kammerer, translated by A. Paul Maerker-Branden, The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, page 182:
text: But while metabolic differentiation due to temperatural, nutritional and environmental influences explains some immunity reactions it by no means explains all or even the major portion of them.
ref: 1926, Burton Peter Thom, Hygieia or Disease and Evolution, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 46:
text: In the temperature interval from 300 to 100 K the spectral dependences of the surface photo-emf and a temperatural variation of the electron work function have been measured using the Kelvin method. It has been found that a temperature decrease from 300 down to 100 K leads to an increase of the depleting band bending by 0.21±0.05 eV.
ref: 1989, Поверхность, page 45:
glosses: Of or relating to temperature.
panic sellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panic selling
sell orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sell order
Selles-sur-Chers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Selles-sur-Cher
sellieras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selliera
selling platers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selling plater
self names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self name
self-assessments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-assessment
self-reflections
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: plural of self-reflection
Seljucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seljuck
multiplicative numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplicative numeral
ordinal numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinal numeral
interordinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interordination
overcups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overcup
play parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play park
play pretties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play pretty
play therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of play therapy
playceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playception
stage settings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage setting
stage shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage show
stage sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stage set
oceanbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oceanbed
OCPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of OCP
oceanfarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oceanfarer
ocean worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocean world
protoplanetary disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protoplanetary disk
view planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of view plane
phase planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phase plane
phaseplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phaseplane
plane graphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plane graph
proof planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proof plane
control freakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From control freak + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Unless the railway gets its act together, DfT will consolidate its control-freakery and micro-management and we'll be stuck with it.
ref: 2023 September 6, Nigel Harris, “Leaderless and rudderless”, in RAIL, number 991, page 3:
glosses: The qualities of a control freak, an obsessive need or desire to be in control of what is happening.
watch circles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watch circle
wattled jacanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wattled jacana
eschatons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eschaton
eschata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eschaton
Spoonerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spoonerisms
Senses: examples: text: A Spoonerism may sometimes alter the whole tenor of a person’s career. An extremely bashful man was asked to find the elderly daughter of the house, who was in the garden, and ask her to make tea. “Miss Florence,” he said, when he discovered her in the rosery, “I have come to ask if you will take me?” And she did!
ref: 1919, Jessie Pope, “Spoonerisms”, in Pearson’s Magazine, volume XLVIII, page 535, column 1:
text: I am not going to put on any weight until I’m fifty, when I shall allow myself to become matronly, ready to be a follower of ‘soda and gobbly matrons’, as enjoined by the marriage service. (A good Spoonerism that, created quite involuntarily by my mother some years ago.)
ref: 1976 July, Oxford Diocesan Magazine, page 15, column 1; quoted in “spoonerism”, in R[obert] W[illiam] Burchfield, editor, A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, volumes IV (Se–Z), Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, 1986, page 434, column 3:
text: Dr. Ashok suffered from a mild form of metaphasis. He made Spoonerisms.
ref: 1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 30:
text: I tried to concentrate on this very tiny but very fascinating scandal-ette involving a leggy blonde Russian researcher, but Jude Law – and Spoonerisms – kept distracting me […] Now Nick Herbert had just been asked about cuts to front line policing. ‘I don’t accept that those are c****,’ he said, immediately correcting himself.
ref: 2011, Ann Treneman, “MI5 was watching Katia? So were many male MPs”, in Dave and Nick: The Year of the Honeymoon…and Beyond, London: The Robson Press, Biteback Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:
text: An attached cavalry officer was called Captain Lunt. McCord employed his best Spoonerism to rename him ‘Laptain’.
ref: 2013, Chip Chapman, “Nicknames”, in Notes from a Small Military, London: John Blake, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of spoonerism.
Spoonerisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spoonerism
Baillon's crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī′yŏnz krāk′
note: spelling
enpr: bī′lŏnz krāk′
note: after French
enpr: bă′yôɴz krāk′
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.jɒnz ˌkɹeɪk/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.lɒnz ˌkɹeɪk/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈbæ.jɔ̃ːz ˌkɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.jɑnz ˌkɹeɪk/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.lɑnz ˌkɹeɪk/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈbæ.jɒ̃z ˌkɹeɪk/
ipa: /ˈbɑɪ.jɔnz ˌkɹæɪk/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbɑɪ.lɔnz ˌkɹæɪk/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈbæ.jõːz ˌkɹæɪk/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.jɒnz ˌkɹæɪk/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.lɒnz ˌkɹæɪk/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈbɛ.jõːz ˌkɹæɪk/
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.jɔnz ˌkɹek/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbaɪ.lɔnz ˌkɹek/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈba.jɔ̃z ˌkɹek/
ipa: /ˈbaj.jɒnz ˌkɾeːk/
note: spelling
ipa: /ˈbaj.lɒnz ˌkɾeːk/
note: after French
ipa: /ˈbæ.jɒ̃z ˌkɾeːk/
Forms: form: Baillon's crakes
Etymology: Named after French naturalist and collector Louis Antoine François Baillon (1778–1855) /lwi ɑ̃.twan fʁɑ̃.swa ba.jɔ̃/.
Senses: synonyms: marsh crake
glosses: A small rallid, Zapornia pusilla (syn. Porzana pusilla), distributed unevenly throughout Africa, Eurasia, and Australasia.
wikipedia: Louis Antoine François Baillon
Baillon's crakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baillon's crake
wikipedia: Louis Antoine François Baillon
firming up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of firm up.
tailor's muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailor's muscles
Senses: glosses: The sartorius.
tailor-style
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: tailor-fashion
engineer's scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engineer's scale
Tuvanimptewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tuvanimptewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hopi.
Homikniwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Homikniwas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hopi.
Namostewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Namostewas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hopi.
Tuvamainim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tuvamainims
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hopi.
breeding hips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hips, often of a woman, that are much wider than average and are perceived as optimal for childbearing.
Polingaysi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polingaysis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hopi.
Senses: examples: Polingaysi Qöyawayma, b. 1892
glosses: A female given name from Hopi.
Bedlinog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community (served by Bedlinog and Trelewis Community Council) in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0901).
trans communities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans community
subciter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subciters
Etymology: From subcite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Submitted articles are reviewed and critiqued by an editorial team of up to six persons as well as four to 12 subciters.
ref: 1993, Linda Sobel Katz, Sarah Orrick, Robert Honig, “Harvard Environmental Law Review (HELR)”, in Environmental Profiles: A Global Guide to Projects and People, New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 831:
text: David Landau majored in social studies at Harvard College, was editor-in-chief of The Independent, and wrote his thesis on how presidents gather support in the Ecuadorian legislature. He then went straight through to HLS, where in his 1L year he was a subciter for the International Law Journal.
ref: 2002 September 24, Lea Sevcik, “Five win Sears Prize”, in Harvard Law Record, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard Law School Record Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2023:
text: The original practice for, say, the Harvard Law Review, was to require a student subciter to lay eyes on an original paper copy of the cited source, such as a statute or a judicial opinion.
ref: 2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet Is Rotting”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2023:
qualifier: Harvard Law School
glosses: One who subcites.
subciters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subciter
subcites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subcite
subciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subcite
subcited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subcite
phialine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phialine
form: most phialine
Senses: examples: The molecular phylogeny of Cibicides incldues a phialine lip near the aperature.
glosses: Shaped like a bowl or saucer.
Antwerpenaars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Antwerpenaar
dehance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehances
form: dehancing
form: dehanced
form: dehanced
Senses: examples: text: Whether teaching ability is enhanced or dehanced by graduate study in education is a vital question to be answered […]
ref: 1917, The American Schoolmaster, page 136:
text: [page 75:] To compensate the weakness inherent in the defocus method without dehancing the image contrast, various ideas have been put forth such as deep defocusing, defocus variation, and Wiener filters. […] [page 103:] Lowest ky-deleted diffractogram ( c ) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (d). Lowest k-deleted diffractogram (e) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (f).
ref: 2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75, 103:
text: The Beach Bunker Bonanza is the perfect combination of warm weather and a mass consumption of the performance dehancing drug, light beer. Camouflage gear, helmets, and war paint is encouraged.
ref: 2010 July 18, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo, The Party Bible: The Good Book for Great Times, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: No discussion of issue #5 would be complete, however, without mentioning the “dehanced” cover, in the style of a brown paper bag. Ostensibly, the cover was a reaction to the so—called “enhanced” covers of the 1990s — a phenomenon that[…]
ref: 2011, Patrick Meaney, Grant Morrison, Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Sequart, →ISBN, page 42:
text: “He cast an incantation and briefly dehanced their magic. He then cut a rift into Isterr, and—” The griffin's head tilted down. “They were gone, swept into Isterr as swiftly as leaves in a whirlwind.” He looked up at her.
ref: 2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41:
antonyms: enhance
glosses: To worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon.
disaugment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disaugments
form: disaugmenting
form: disaugmented
form: disaugmented
Senses: examples: text: I find that everlasting treasure / Which force deprives not, fortune disaugments not; / […]
ref: 1808, Christopher Harvey, The school of the heart, […] , page 219:
text: Labor is being disaugmented, so wage rates and incomes per capita are falling. Thus the rate of population growth will be falling . Although the effective supply of land is growing at the same rate as the effective supply of labor[…]
ref: 1970, The American Economic Review:
text: First, is the shock labour- or capital- 'disaugmenting'? To the extent that it destroys buildings and structures, the shock is capital-disaugmenting, reducing the rate of return and the incentive to invest.
ref: 2008, Harry Ward Richardson, Peter Gordon, James Elliott Moore, Natural Disaster Analysis After Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications, Edward Elgar Publishing:
text: Another aspect highlighted in the second vignette is that participation even without discrepancies, as seen in the first vignette, involves participants exploiting an alternately 'augmented' or 'disaugmented' view.
ref: 2011 January 4, Stuart Reeves, Designing Interfaces in Public Settings: Understanding the Role of the Spectator in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 54:
antonyms: augment
glosses: To perform the opposite of augmentation upon.
disaugments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disaugment
disaugmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disaugment
disaugmenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disaugment
dehanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehance
dehances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehance
dehancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehance
snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snatches defeat out of the jaws of victory
form: snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory
form: snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory
form: snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory
Etymology: Ironic reversal of a similar idiom, to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat, with the opposite meaning.
Senses: examples: text: "The Germans," he remarked, "have the uncanny ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory."
ref: 1942, United States. Army. Chemical Warfare Service, News Letter, page 3:
text: The quip attributed to prominent New Dealer Paul Porter that "Dewey snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory" sums up that feeling.
ref: 1959, Jules Abels, Out of the Jaws of Victory, New York, Holt:
text: According to them, whatever mistakes took place were made exclusively by Hitler, a leader who not only ran strategy, but also insisted on intervening in operational decisions to the point that time after time, he managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
ref: 1988, Professional Journal of the United States Army, page 66:
text: He would probably not have been guilty of the failures of resolve by which his successors repeatedly snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.
ref: 1990, Steven E. Woodworth, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West, page 101:
text: Whitman nearly managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory by allowing Florio to define her as out of touch and unfit for the governorship. She followed one mistake with another, allowing her own events like the release of her tax-cut plan to be turned against her while turning what should have been minor blips into major gaffes.
ref: 2009 December 11, Thomas M. Carsey, Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 101:
text: It is tempting to suggest that the Luftwaffe's poor intelligence caused it to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
ref: 2013 September 13, Michael Handel, Intelligence and Military Operations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Coaches and managers, every year, assault these two codes of conduct with impunity and by doing so manage to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
ref: 2022 May 13, Nick Lee Thamer, Average Doesn't Take Much Effort, Dare to Be Great, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: To fail to achieve an expected success, especially through counterproductive intervention.
no time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now that the roads are plowed, we'll get home in no time!
synonyms: word: instant
word: jiffy
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A very short period of time.
examples: text: At no time are you allowed off the property while the store is open.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, time.
Related terms: no-time
Miranha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bora (“South American tribe”).
synonyms: word: Bora
extra: South American tribe
Miranha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bora (“South American language”).
synonyms: word: Bora
extra: South American language
Españolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Española
fallen in love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall in love
fell in love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall in love
falls in love
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall in love
Dzerzhinsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
Balakovo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Saratov Oblast, Russia.
Syzran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Samara Oblast, Russia.
Almetyevsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Tatarstan, Russia.
Salavat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Salawat Yulayev, a Bashkir rebel and poet, allied with ataman Pugachev in the rebellion of the XVIIIth century.
Senses: glosses: A city in Bashkortostan, Russia.
Neftekamsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Novocheboksarsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chuvashia, Russia.
Oktyabrsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Bashkortostan, Russia.
Arzamas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Арзама́с (Arzamás).
Senses: glosses: A city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.
fin chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fin chops
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: An injury caused by the fin of a surfboard.
fin chops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fin chop
Fordyce's spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fordyce's spots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fordyce spot.
Fordyce's spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fordyce's spot
non-terminus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terminus.
Senses: examples: text: TransPennine Express has introduced 'zoning' at all its non-terminus stations, in a bid to speed up boarding and reduce passenger stress.
ref: 2023 September 6, “Network News: TPE 'zoning' to aid boarding”, in RAIL, number 991, page 16:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: That has through platforms, and is not a terminus, or used as a terminus.
raw_tags: of a station
Fordyce granule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fordyce granules
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fordyce spot.
synonyms: word: Fordyce spot
Fordyce granules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fordyce granule
fair share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛə ʃɛə/
ipa: /fɛː ʃɛə/
ipa: /fɛɚ ʃɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: First attested in the mid-1600s.
Senses: examples: text: As the company had no dedicated janitor, all employees were expected to do their fair share of cleaning up after lunch.
glosses: An equitable or reasonable portion, especially in regards to contributions towards a particular duty, or the dividends thereof.
examples: text: He endured a fair share of criticism during his lifetime, but his works are now universally considered to be masterpieces.
text: Arsenal have had more than their fair share of injury troubles in recent weeks, but they were given a welcome boost before kick-off as Saka and Takehiro Tomiyasu, who both suffered knocks in Wednesday's 2-0 win over Sevilla, were passed fit to start.
ref: 2023 November 11, Matthew Howarth, “Arsenal 3-1 Burnley”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A significant amount, often implied to be excessive or inordinate; a great deal of something.
Related terms: topics: game-theory
mathematics
computing
engineering
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: fair division
Fordyce's granule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fordyce's granules
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Fordyce spot.
synonyms: word: Fordyce spot
Fordyce's granules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fordyce's granule
redmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red maids.
red-maids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red maids.
gurgitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɜː.dʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡɝ.d͡ʒəˈteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: gurgitations
Etymology: A back-formation from regurgitation, or gurgitate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who gurgitates.
examples: text: […] stand at the sanctum sanctorum of eating, the Mount Sinai of mastication, the Coliseum of competitive eating, the Madison Square Garden of gurgitation!
ref: 2006 April 4, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 20:
text: Once the occasion for manly pride, eating contests now faded into the hidden recesses of personal biography, [...] Into the delicate ecosystem of American gurgitation, the Federation introduced several new elements: first,[…]
ref: 2007 05, Jason Fagone, Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Eating. New York, New York—The world of competitive eating shocked the sports world yesterday when the IFOCE (International Federation of Competitive Eating) announced widespread changes to the sport of professional gurgitation.
ref: 2011 July 28, Allen Smith, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 152:
text: He placed third in the Glutton Bowl's cow brain eating finals, losing to Takeru Kobayashi—the Tiger Woods of “gurgitation,” as it's known in the trade.
ref: 2011 October 1, Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Competitive eating.
gurgitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gurgitates
form: gurgitating
form: gurgitated
form: gurgitated
Etymology: From Latin gurgitātus, past participle of gurgitō. The second sense is partly a back-formation from regurgitate.
Senses: examples: text: From the gorge a faint steam rose like mist, and in the utter stillness I could hear, far down, the sound of gurgitating waters. In a little while - how long I could not tell - the moment of eruption would return and flood the chasm.
ref: 1890, The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 76:
text: In both a cherub smiles at gurgitating, lion-headed fountains, their basins bright with chattering water, repetitious questions; one region consonantal, obdurate, the other vowelled. I pay both allegiance and gratitude, for lights net[…]
ref: 2010 March 16, Derek Walcott, White Egrets: Poems, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 59:
text: ... it input in certain prescribed forms for the desired output; it gurgitates for a while; then it drops out the sought-for representation; plonk, on the tray, fully formed, as Athena from the brain of Zeus' (Cartwright 1999: 247).
ref: 2012 April 5, R. I. G. Hughes, The Theoretical Practices of Physics: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: To surge (rise) and fall ebulliently, like or as water.
examples: text: His attitude to statistics can best be indicated by an expression that seems not to have been used in any of the classics, but which involves the idea that he masticates, and gurgitates them before life is extinct.
ref: 1915, Alcalde, page 484:
text: It's a head-nodder with Badlands' lyrical formula for gurgitating greatness laid over a loop from Thomas Dolby's eighties rock hit "She Blinded Me with Science." No bunson burners, or beakers [...] Just a competitive eater in sneakers[…]
ref: 2006 April 4, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 32:
text: [...] the stinkiest cheese, and the hungry "athlete" who excels at gurgitating plenty without regurgitating any[.]
ref: 2011 October 1, Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: To eat, especially to eat competitively (see competitive eating).
Derived terms: gurgitation
gurgitator
Related terms: gurges
gurgitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gurgitate
gurgitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gurgitate
gurgitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gurgitate
lightning storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning storms
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thunderstorm.
synonyms: word: thunderstorm
ropes course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropes courses
Senses: glosses: An outdoor teambuilding activity for teenagers or adults, involving climbing and often ziplining, and requiring trust and reliance on others to complete each task.
lightning storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightning storm
ropes courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropes course