cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hybrid perpetual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid perpetuals
Senses: examples: text: For the average florist a dozen selected varieties of the hybrid perpetuals and half as many climbers are really necessary.
ref: 1899 May 27, C. B. W., “Helpful Reminders”, in The American Florist, volume XIV, number 573, Chicago, Ill.: American Florist Company, →OCLC, page 1300, column 1:
text: Hill, Montgomery and others here in America, and Verschuren, Kordes, Tantau and others in Europe were at the time seeking a fine repeat-blooming red greenhouse variety to take the place of the hybrid perpetuals American Beauty and General Jacqueminot, which were then being brought into bloom for the Christmas trade.
ref: 1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Important Mother Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, page 27:
text: Some of these roses and other exotic spp. are the parents of our cultivated roses—tea roses, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers etc.—over 5000 vars. having been named.
ref: 1956, Arthur Harmount Graves, “Ròsa—Rose”, in Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs : A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, revised edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1992, page 146:
hypernyms: old rose
glosses: A cross between a damask rose and a hybrid China rose.
Related terms: hybrid tea
hybrid perpetuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid perpetual
hybrid tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid teas
Senses: examples: text: Of all white hybrid teas, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is the best known.
ref: 1950, James Alexander Gamble, “Two Remarkable White Roses”, in Roses Unlimited, [Harrisburg, Pa.]: […] [T]he author, page 18:
text: During the last few years he has introduced such hybrid teas as the apricot-coloured Fairy Dancers, Gay Gordons, red and yellow, and Northern Lights, creamy yellow with tinges of pink.
ref: 1974, Amateur Gardening - Volume 91, page 45:
text: Many countries still refuse to recognize “grandiflora” as a legitimate name, largely on the ground that it seems to imply that the individual blooms are unusually large, whereas most grandifloras have somewhat smaller blooms than the larger hybrid teas.
ref: 1974, Roland A. Browne, The Rose-lover’s Guide: A Practical Handbook on Rose Growing, Atheneum Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: ✓ Climbing sports: These climbers — generally named after their original variety, such as ‘Climbing Queen Elizabeth’ from the famous, pink grandiflora — result from unusually vigorous canes that grow from popular hybrid teas, grandifloras, shrubs, and floribundas.
ref: 2003, “Book III: Roses. Chapter 3: A Rose by Any Other Name.”, in the editors at the National Gardening Association and Bob Beckstrom, Karan Davis Cutler, Kathleen Fisher, Phillip Giroux, Judy Glattstein, Mike MacCaskey, Bill Marken, Charlie Nardozzi, Sally Roth, Marcia Tatroe, Lance Walheim, and Anna Whitman, editors, Gardening All-in-One for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, Collecting Climbing Roses. So many climbers, so little time, page 242:
text: There has been a hug swing away from the sort of roses my grandparents loved, fancy Hybrid Teas and Florinbundas^([sic]) with names like 'Tallyho' and 'Gay Gordons'.
ref: 2005, Jem Cook, Anna Marsden, Create your dream garden: Tips and techniques to make your garden bloom, →ISBN, page 96:
coordinate_terms: old rose
glosses: A cross between a hybrid perpetual and a tea rose.
hybrid teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hybrid tea
Kaiserins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaiserin
kaiserin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiserins
Senses: examples: text: Herr [Friedrich] Ebert said to the first German National Assembly, “We will be an empire of Justice and Truth.” They will have to change the decorations in the schoolroom first—take the kaisers and the kaiserins, the battle-ships and the submarines and the von Hindenburgs off the walls, […]
ref: 1919 May, Peter Clark Macfarlane, “In the Enemy’s Country”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXVI, number 6, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 132:
text: In 1898, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gave the Dome of the Rock a hurried renovation and erected a great Turkish crescent atop it to mark the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his kaiserin, Augusta Victoria.
ref: 1972, Jerry M. Landay, “Zion Regained”, in Dome of the Rock (Wonders of Man), New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, →ISBN, “A History of Jerusalem” section, page 127, column 2:
text: Next came a parade, before the seated spectators, of two thousand firemen and a hundred engines, marching past the kaiser and his kaiserin to the music of a military band.
ref: 1983, William Manchester, “Headwaters, 1874–1895”, in The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, volume [1] (Visions of Glory, 1874–1932), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 169:
text: The evening after the child presented her gift to the kaiserin—who gave her a diamond pin in the shape of the imperial eagle—her dress caught on fire from a lit candle.
ref: 2008, Jane Fletcher Geniesse, “Notes”, in American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem, New York, N.Y.: Nan A. Talese, →ISBN, note 25, page 337:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Kaiserin.
kaiserins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaiserin
Shuangsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 雙溪 (Shuāngxī) Tongyong Pinyin romanization: Shuangsi.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shuangxi.
B virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after young physician Dr. William Bartlet Brebner, whose death from the virus following a macaque bite in 1932 led to the discovery of the virus.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A virus of the genus Simplexvirus that infects macaques and can very rarely cause zoonotic infection in humans that is highly fatal if untreated.
Synonyms: herpes B virus
brine pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brine pools
Senses: glosses: A highly salty body of water on the seafloor that is separate from the surrounding ocean due to its higher density.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brine, pool.
Synonyms: sense: dense volume of saltwater
word: underwater lake
sense: dense volume of saltwater
word: brine lake
brine pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brine pool
underwater lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwater lakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brine pool.
synonyms: word: brine pool
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see underwater, lake.
brine lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brine lakes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of brine pool.
synonyms: word: brine pool
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brine, lake.
octopusine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusine
form: most octopusine
Etymology: From octopus + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on.
ref: 1983, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, page 335:
text: Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion).
ref: 1995, Colin Larkin, editors, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, page 312:
text: Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles. His legs went over his head, and round his neck. His arms went under his legs and up his back.
ref: 1996, Rohit Manchanda, editors, In the Light of the Black Sun, page 148:
synonyms: octopusical
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
octopusical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more octopusical
form: most octopusical
Etymology: From octopus + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Soon, we were in the bedroom, arms and legs and privates entangled in an octopusical display of sexual dexterity.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, page 80:
text: If these “Octopusical” projects are not closed, they continue to consume time and resources while detracting from valuable accomplishments.
ref: 2009, Deji Badiru, Getting Things Done Through Project Management, page 30:
text: It is absolutely true that twins have a special relatioship. This truth even exits when one twin slightly resembles a handsome owl and the other is a bitch octopus. It is a mysterious telepathic connection that renders keeping secrets impossible. Were it not so.
 I’m sure Violet (the octopusical one) enjoyed this very much.
ref: 2010, Max Yoho, With the Wisdom of Owls, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of octopusine.
synonyms: word: octopusine
Oxwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal village in Penrice community, on the Gower peninsula in the City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS4986).
Related terms: Oxwick
Grenell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sizership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizerships
Etymology: From sizer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sizarship.
sizerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sizership
coteful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotefuls
Etymology: From cote + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Seven honest good fellows were respectfully afraid of one rogue ; and the rogue was perfectly aware of the fact, and treated them accordingly ; much as a hawk would treat a coteful of pigeons, if he found it convenient to pass the night among them.
ref: 1895, Henry Kingsley, The Hillyars and the Burtons: A Story of Two Families, pages 59-60:
text: […] there were old gaunt trees, and some five-barred gates, and crooked chimneys, and a coteful of doves, that gave the place a certain rural charm, even in mid-winter.
ref: 1959, Dudley Barker, Private Company, page 84:
text: So, when she asked me to bring over that lad Jamie an’ his coteful of pigeons, I thought nowt of it but took him aboard.
ref: 2000, Wilder Perkins, Hoare and the Headless Captains, page 74:
glosses: A number sufficient to fill a cote.
cougarship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cougarships
Etymology: From cougar + -ship, likely after the pattern of lordship.
Senses: examples: text: I expected I had been dressing meat for his cougarship, but as I had no horse to back the deer into camp, was obliged to "trust to luck," and started for camp by a short cut, and found I was continually "cut off" by beaver dams, and after a circuit of three miles reached camp and found my companions were a little uneasy because I had not put in an appearance earlier.
ref: 1874 April 25, J. H. Batty, “The Felis Concolor, Or Panther”, in The Sportsman, volume 4, number 4, page 51:
text: The footprints were only a few inches apart, and his cougarship had carried himself so low that his body had dragged in the snow and left a deep furrow behind.
ref: 1902, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals, pages 114-115:
text: His cougarship was not pleased with the light, and immediately started for the open doorway, keeping his glaring eyes the while upon the lighted lamp.
ref: 1903, A. Atwood, Glimpses in Pioneer Life on Puget Sound, page 222:
glosses: A male cougar viewed as the ruler of its habitat.
raw_tags: with "his"
katepimeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the katepimeron.
subterraneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subterranean
boomersplain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boomersplains
form: boomersplaining
form: boomersplained
form: boomersplained
Etymology: From boomer (“a baby boomer”) + -splain.
Senses: examples: text: For years, we've been reading think piece after think piece, boomersplaining millennial culture through a kids-these-days lens.
ref: 2016 April 29, Maggie Gordon, “Talkin' 'bout my generation: It's millennials' turn”, in Houston Chronicle:
text: Young voters who feel the current system doesn’t properly reflect voter preferences, a sentiment many believe contributes to their election day apathy, will be boomersplained to death about why they don’t know what they’re talking about.
ref: 2018 June 1, Gary Mason, “Long odds facing electoral reform advocates in B.C.”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: But there hasn’t been much of a collective critique of Generation X since the early 1990s, when the media decided that we were inveterate slackers, and Time magazine boomersplained that Xers “have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but their attention span is as short as one zap of a TV dial.”
ref: 2022 October 17, Megan McArdle, “Gen X is used to flying under the radar. That’ll end if it goes full GOP.”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To condescendingly explain (something) to a younger person as a baby boomer.
dependency theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependency theories
Senses: examples: text: Dependency theory is a body of ideas about the role of developing countries within the global economic system, about the nature of development, and about patterns of unequal power. It dominated much Latin American social science (including the analysis of the region's international role) in the 1960s and 1970s.
ref: 2010, Mark Bevir, editor, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, A–E, SAGE, →ISBN, page 370:
topics: economics
political-science
sciences
social-sciences
glosses: A set of ideas to explain the inequalities between developed countries and developing countries, originally conceived in the context of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, stressing the interdependence of those countries in a capitalist global economy.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.
Derived terms: dependency theorist
Related terms: modernization theory
detouristify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detouristifies
form: detouristifying
form: detouristified
form: detouristified
Etymology: From de- + touristify.
Senses: examples: text: If the spectacle of the junior Edimburgeoisie going native in Spain was intended to detouristify Carmen, it hardly succeeded.
ref: 1991, Owen Dudley Edwards, City of a Thousand Worlds: Edinburgh in Festival, page 53:
text: Nero enjoyed taking long walks in old cities, without a map. He used the following method to detouristify his traveling: he tried to inject some randomness into his schedule by never deciding on the next destination until he had spent some time in the first one, driving his travel agent crazy—when he was in Zagreb, his next destination would be determined by his state of mind while in Zagreb.
ref: 2014, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, page 144:
text: […]Barcelona's oldest neighbourhoods that include the famous La Rambla boulevard, which is getting ambitious makeovers to “detouristify” it and create more pavement space for pedestrians.
ref: 2023 August 19, Alexandra Gross, “Barcelona bar none”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 4:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
antonyms: touristify
glosses: To stop conforming to the expectations or patterns of tourists.
Colkirk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9126).
Chernobylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chernobylites
Etymology: From Chernobyl + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The man who interrogated the driver commented that vigilance was needed to ensure that people did not get rich off the misfortune of the “Chernobylites.”
ref: 1988, David R. Marples, The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster, page 156:
text: I got home, I’d go dancing. I’d meet a girl I liked and say, “Let’s get to know one another.”
“What for? You’re a Chernobylite now. I’d be scared to have your kids.”
ref: 2005, Svetlana Aleksievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, page 79:
text: “You’re too young to have been a Chernobylite,” says Lyudmilla.
ref: 2008, Michael Beres, Chernobyl Murders, page 488:
glosses: A survivor of the Chernobyl disaster.
fulltext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulltexts
Etymology: From full + text.
Senses: examples: text: The paper's abstract looked promising but accessing the fulltext would have cost me $60 so I didn't end up reading it.
text: Library users see online fulltext retrieval as innovative and an exciting use of technology.
ref: 1990, Cynthia Stewart Kaag & Vicki F. Croft, “Online Fulltext Article Retrieval”, in Technical Services Quarterly, volume 7, number 2, →DOI, page 36:
text: The fulltexts of potentially relevant papers and ambiguous abstracts were independently reviewed by the same authors (F.D.S. and A.I.), who solved disagreements through discussion and consensus, by involving a third author (S.M.) if necessary.
ref: 2022, Federica Di Spirito, Alfredo Iandolo, Alessandra Amato, Mario Caggiano, Annunziata Raimondo, Serena Lembo, & Stefano Martina, “Prevalence, Features and Degree of Association of Oral Lesions in COVID-19: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews”, in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 19, number 12, →DOI, page 7486:
glosses: The complete version of a written work, especially of an academic article.
fulltexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fulltext
gapey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gapier
form: gapiest
form: gapy
Etymology: From gape + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This is the important bit: you now have clear pores, but they’re irritated and all big and gapey.
ref: 2009, India Knight, The Thrift Book: Live Well and Spend Less, page 198:
text: Jenny stared at her, wide-eyed and with her mouth a bit gapey.
ref: 2015, Judy Astley, A Merry Mistletoe Wedding, page 71:
text: I’m struggling to pinpoint the problem with these boxers. Too small? They are a bit gapey. They don’t look like they’re his own, which is a bad start.
ref: 2016 June 25, Shane Watson, “Shane Watson: "Tom Hiddleston's pants leave a lot to be desired"”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Extremely loose or open; gaping.
trustmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trustman
mini splints
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of mini splits (“type of HVAC system”)
Caesar cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesar cuts
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle with short, horizontally straight cut bangs.
crotchbulge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crotchbulges
Etymology: crotch + bulge
Senses: examples: text: He commenced to do a little dance, jarring himself down hard on his bare heels while the crotchbulge of his bikini jiggled alarmingly, without ever taking his anxious eyes off the other man standing in front of him.
ref: 1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow Maker, page 9:
text: Tall and muscular, he wore a very tight, very brief swimsuit. Her eyes went to the crotchbulge.
ref: 1985, Burt Hirschfeld, The Goddess Game, page 104:
text: It's the last dying vestige of hope that there has been some kind of colossal mistake and Captain Crotchbulge is in fact here to meet some other poor unfortunate girl called Laura, who’s just running a bit late.
ref: 2013, Nick Spalding, Love...From Both Sides, page 43:
synonyms: word: basket
word: bulge
word: crotchbulge
word: crotch tent
word: cockbulge
word: dick print
word: girlbulge
word: junk
word: lunchbox
word: manbulge
word: mooseknuckle
word: package
word: packet
word: pocket rocket
word: tent
word: trouser tent
glosses: The visible outline of the penis through clothing.
Caesar cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caesar cut
Godsway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From God's way.
Senses: glosses: A male given name used in West Africa, especially Ghana.
sub-marine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the Sea, vpon the South-Weſt of Sicilie, much Corall is found. It is a Sub-Marine Plant. It hath no Leaues: It brancheth only when it is vnder Water; […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VIII. Century. [Experiment Solitary, Touching the Growth of Corall.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 780, page 202:
text: [A]ll adversaries venturing into position for projecting sub-marine gun torpedoes, would I think be speedily diverted from their purpose, by reckless onslaughts of ram squadrons at all points.
ref: 1872 January 14, Duncan Campbell, Steam Rams: Their Primary Elements and Proper Functions. Organisation of Our Reformed Fleet. […], Edinburgh: Colston & Son, […], →OCLC, page 54:
text: [O]ur breakwater of Boreas, the ice-pack, kept the sea remarkably quiet for such a storm, our greatest danger being from the “ice-tongues” or long, projecting, sub-marine ice-rams with which each loose cake of ice seemed armed, while we were beating to and fro between Button Islands and Resolution in the night.
ref: 1881 March–April, Frederick Schwatka, “In the Land of the Midnight Sun”, in Good Company, volume VII, number XIX, XX, Springfield, Mass., →OCLC, part III (The Franklin Search of 1878–79–80), page 19, column 1:
text: He switched the royal mummy for his winnings. The doubloons from Monte Carlo await us, sarcophagussed in all their sub-marine splendour!
ref: 1994, Geoffrey McSkimming, “A Beast in the East”, in Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret (The Cairo Jim Chronicles; 3), Walker Books, published 2006, →ISBN, part 1 (Felonious Submergence), page 31:
glosses: Rare form of submarine.
estimated date of delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estimated dates of delivery
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of due date (“the date on which a pregnant female is expected to give birth”).
synonyms: word: due date
extra: the date on which a pregnant female is expected to give birth
MeFite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MeFites
Etymology: From MeFi (shortened form of MetaFilter) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A member of the community discussion site MetaFilter.
MeFites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MeFite
Little Bealings
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS TM2347).
Related terms: Great Bealings
Eme-sal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Emesal.
antimemetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of antimemes and their social and cultural effects.
antimemetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an antimemetic way or manner.
c.p.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ceteris paribus.
boomerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boomerese
Etymology: From boomer + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: This is our first First Family from the baby-boomer generation. And, naturally, they speak boomer. In so doing, they legitimize boomerese. No more fines for “goes” for “said.” The language has changed and that’s just the way it goes.
ref: 1994 March 7, Dick Feagler, “Language, there it goes again”, in The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Oh., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2-A, column 1:
text: actually there is no common boomerese.
ref: 1999 October 13, noel_k...@my-deja.com, “MORE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEW FAQ.”, in alt.fan.bgcrisis (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025:
text: “So, in this lifetime, will we live to see anything resembling an integral culture? Will a substantial portion of the population evolve from green meme to second tier, so that truly integral endeavors—from integral spirituality to integral medicine to integral education to integral business to integral politics—might begin to flourish, altering the shape of every institution on the planet? / “To lapse into boomerese, will we make it from the ‘green paradigm’ to an ‘integral paradigm’? […]
ref: 2002, Ken Wilber, “The_Integral_Vision@IC.org”, in Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free, Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, →ISBN, page 392:
synonyms: boomerspeak
glosses: The (style of) language characteristic of baby boomers.
examples: text: Near as I can tell, Gen X is boomerese for "Don't trust anyone under 30."
ref: 1995 November 21, AJF...@aol.com, “Gen X”, in bit.listserv.techwr-l (Usenet), archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025:
text: “Our roots are very American,” notes [Emilio] Castillo. And their attitude is classic boomerese. “If you listen to Tower of Power,” Castillo says, “you’ll notice we don’t fit so well with what’s going on in the industry, and you know what? We don’t want to fit.” / “It’s tough to label them, and it’s been tough to market them, and maybe that’s why they appeal to people like us,” says Jack Silva, a fortysomething officer at a New Bedford bank. Towerheads are acutely aware of the generational connection.
ref: 1997 June 5, Jon Keller, “A boomer band keeps the faith”, in The Boston Globe, volume 251, number 156, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A25, column 5:
text: How does a company get snookered into buying into such claptrap? The answer is that it all starts with flawed research, the results of which are almost certainly memorialized by whip smart under-40 creatives (or immature over-40 creatives) who have total certainty about their ability to speak “boomerese.”
ref: 2007, Chuck Nyren, quoting Ageless Marketing blog, “Afterword to the Second Edition”, in Advertising to Baby Boomers, 2nd edition, Ithaca, N.Y.: Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Behavior or attitude characteristic of baby boomers.
Boomerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “I never expected you to be a whole glory of women,” Darcy said. “Don’t blame me for the shifts in the attitudes of men. Get stuck into Helena Rubenstein . . . swab that cosmetic mob who bribe women to be frail to delude men.” / “Your Boomerese is already showing,” Goldie said.
ref: 1981, Paul John Radley, chapter 18, in Jack Rivers and Me, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor & Fields, published 1986, →ISBN, page 189:
text: The Busters have a right to be angry, but what can they do about it? The Boomers, born when families had three or four kids, outnumber them. Because of their numbers and money (“disposable income” in Boomerese) they are demographically desirable to advertisers, and television and movies continue to cater to them and probably always will.
ref: 1991 November 17, Bill Everhart, “From baby boom to bust”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 99, number 190, Pittsfield, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E2, column 3:
text: I myself was born in 1962, and I often say that I am an Xer who speaks fluent Boomerese. People like myself (a sub-group that some sociologists call Generation Jones) can help translate for later Xers what drives Boomers, and likewise can give guidance to Boomers on “just what is the Xers’ problem, anyway?”
ref: 2013, John R. Mabry, “Xers Ministering to Boomers”, in Faithful Generations: Effective Ministry Across Generational Lines, New York, N.Y.: Morehouse Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (The “Transformative” Generation—The Baby Boomers), page 109:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of boomerese.
municipal seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal seats
Senses: glosses: An administrative center and seat of government of a parish or municipality in Latin America.
municipal seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of municipal seat
Karabulak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A town in Ingushetia, Russia.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A settlement in Astrakhan, Russia.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A settlement in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A settlement in Saratov, Russia.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
Two settlements in south Kazakhstan.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A township in Xinjiang, China.
glosses: A number of places in Asia:
A neighborhood in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
structure-activity relationship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The relationship between a molecule's chemical structure and its biological activity.
flexiworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexiworkers
Senses: synonyms: flexitimer
glosses: One who works on a flexitime basis.
flexiwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: flexiworking
glosses: A flexitime working arrangement.
flexiworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flexiwork.
synonyms: word: flexiwork
flexiworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexiworker
sodium adsorption ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A water quality parameter used for managing sodium-affected soil.
Campsea Ashe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally two settlements; recorded as Campeseia and Esce in 1086 (DB), from Old English camp + ēg, and æsc (“ash”). This later became Campsey Ash, as noted below.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3255).
hoopoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoopoops
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hoopoe.
I kill you laters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of I kill you later
wwoofed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wwoof
wwoofs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wwoof
Ngulungbara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Aboriginal clan in Fraser Island in eastern Queensland.
Acieral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A strong alloy of aluminium with small amounts of copper, nickel, and iron.
achree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achrees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of machree.
acouometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acouometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acoumeter.
acouometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acouometer
adiaphoretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adiaphoretic
form: most adiaphoretic
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to adiaphoresis.
adoulie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoulies
Senses: glosses: A unit of mass or volume, equivalent to four sihrs.
adoulies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adoulie
Almerians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Almerian
Alulim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule.
Alur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Western Nilotic language of these people.
Aethusa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ancient Greek Αἵθουσα (Haíthousa)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas. She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther and Linus.
glosses: Former name of Linosa (“Mediterranean island”).
aethered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aether + -ed.
Senses: examples: 1974, Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky, Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences
[…] but certainly aether is not a structure made of matter. This introduction of a suprasensual aethered medium, which is not the same as matter, may of course be described as leaving reality behind us: […]
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Containing luminiferous aether.
Shocklach Oviatt and District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
Marbel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Kidapawan, Cotabato, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Matalam, Cotabato, Philippines.
afteract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afteracts
Senses: glosses: An act performed afterwards.
afteracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afteract
afterclause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterclauses
Senses: glosses: A clause that occurs after another clause in a document.
afterclauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterclause
afterwisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Wisdom that comes too late, after something has already happened.
Agag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Agags
Etymology: Hebrew [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king, possibly a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek.
Agags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Agag
Agau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Agaw.
Agau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Agaw.
Agena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hadar (“the star Beta Centauri”).
synonyms: word: Hadar
extra: the star Beta Centauri
anthropophagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anthropophagy.
synonyms: word: anthropophagy
anthropophagize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anthropophagizes
form: anthropophagizing
form: anthropophagized
form: anthropophagized
Etymology: From anthropophagy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To commit anthropophagy or cannibalism.
anthropophagizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anthropophagize
anthropophagized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anthropophagize
anthropophagizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anthropophagize
anthropomantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anthropomancy.
anthropolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropoliths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropolite.
anthropoliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropolith
anthropopathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthropopathy.
anthroponomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthroponomists
Etymology: anthroponomy + -ist
Senses: glosses: One who studies anthroponomy.
anthroponomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthroponomist
shlubb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shlubbs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schlub.
shlubbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shlubb
apachism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apacheism.
apacheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apachism
Etymology: Apache + -ism
Senses: glosses: A warlike attitude.
glosses: The violent tactics of the Apaches (Parisian gangsters).
aphanesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of clinoclase.
synonyms: word: clinoclase
apathism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of apathy.
synonyms: word: apathy
Aphrodisias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Aphrodite.
Senses: glosses: A Hellenistic Greek city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey.
aphototropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of not being phototropic.
aphototactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not exhibiting phototaxis.
Aphrodistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aphrodistic
form: most Aphrodistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aphroditic.
synonyms: word: aphroditic
NSLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Maroney said she’s also interested in learning about the complete nutritional makeup of the two Lunchable products to determine if they fully meet the current and proposed NSLP nutritional guidelines.
ref: 2023 March 13, Parija Kavilanz, “Lunchables are going to be rolled out directly to students. Here’s what’s in them”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National School Lunch Program.
Apinayé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apinagé
form: Apinajé
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group of Brazil.
Apinayé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Apinagé
form: Apinajé
Senses: glosses: The Northern Jê language of these people.
Apinajé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Apinayé.
Apinajé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Apinayé.
Apinagé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Apinayé.
Apinagé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Apinayé.
apolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antipyretic related to phenacetin.
Apollonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Apollonistic
form: most Apollonistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Apollonian (“relating to the god Apollo”).
synonyms: word: Apollonian
extra: relating to the god Apollo
Ngarabana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arabana (“an Aboriginal Australian people”).
synonyms: word: Arabana
extra: an Aboriginal Australian people
Yoxford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Suffolk Coastal district (OS grid ref TM3968).
trainwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trainwoman
Power Four
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪv
Forms: form: the Power Four
Etymology: From power + four.
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The four college football conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC) that currently contain the strongest programs, and whose champions are guaranteed berths in the College Football Playoff.
sea-grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seagrass.
sea-grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea-grass
avrianismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek αυριανισμός (avrianismós), from Αυριανή (Avrianí) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”).
Senses: glosses: Describes a fraction of the press in Greece in the era of 1980-1990 that employed yellow press/tabloid tactics, i.e., salacious revelations concerning the private life of politicians for sociopolitical relevance.
body dysmorphic disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body dysmorphic disorders
form: body-dysmorphic disorder
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dysmorphia.
synonyms: word: dysmorphia
body dysmorphic disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body dysmorphic disorder
nulligest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nulligests
form: nulligestes
Etymology: Borrowed from terms in Romance languages such as French nulligeste, from Latin nūllus (“none”) + gestus (“borne, carried”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: primigest
multigest
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: A nulligravid person.
kit-bash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kit-bashes
form: kit-bashing
form: kit-bashed
form: kit-bashed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitbash.
kit-bashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kit-bash
kit-bashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kit-bash
kit-bashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kit-bash
domestic guinea pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic guinea pigs
Senses: synonyms: word: cavy
word: domestic cavy
word: guinea pig
glosses: A domesticated guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, often kept as a pet.
wikipedia: domestic guinea pig
fanilect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanilects
Etymology: Blend of fan + familect coined by linguist Cynthia Gordon.
Senses: examples: text: The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them. […] If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.
ref: 2023 February 3, Pia Ceres, “Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
text: Taylor’s use of language is so precise that Swifties speak in their own “fanilect”.
ref: 2024 November 22, Matthew Jordon, Victoria Morton, “Move aside Shakespeare. Taylor Swift is the one we should all be studying”, in Toronto Star:
text: We already gave an example for this, namely, the Korean word oppa (오빠; 'older brother' [used by female speakers]), which underwent semantic shift in the K-pop fanilect (which as mentioned previously found its way into the OED).
ref: 2025, Sofia Rüdiger, Alex Baratta, Transnational Korean Englishes, Cambridge University Press:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The lect of a fandom, including in-group slang, phrases, and expressions.
sea sapphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea sapphires
Senses: glosses: Any parasitic copepod in the genus Sapphirina; they are usually translucent, but the males of several species have the ability to shine in different hues, from bright gold to deep blue.
blind person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind people
form: blind persons
sea sapphires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea sapphire
domestic guinea pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domestic guinea pig
1984esque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 1984esque
form: most 1984esque
Senses: examples: text: I have borne the brunt of many many Ted vendettas, I even used to keep copies of all the nasty e-mail he sent me, all the vitriolic 1984esque editing he did of my posts until I got tired of the whole exercise.
ref: 1994 May 26, turn...@ucbeh.san.uc.edu, “Life with Ted”, in alt.college.fraternities (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
text: Silence is something that is missing, and we should try to restore it. Beyond 1984esque litigation imposing restricted air space and noise ordinances, the quest for silence is deeply personal.
ref: 1994 September 26, Andrea Nolan, “Earth Notes”, in Rachael S. Fink, editor, The Washington College Elm, volume 66, number 4, Chestertown, Md.: Washington College, →OCLC, page 6, column 4:
text: IMHO, try: […] ON ZANZIBAR (and others) - John Brunner (1984esque subversion)
ref: 1995 March 6, Ja...@int001.ati-unicam.co.uk, “OK - Newbie [Q] From non-newbie”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
text: These would not be advanced humans but instead robots. I suppose that the elite class _would_ have emotions and would live from the labor of these emotionless therefore thoughtless robots....very 1984esque, no?
ref: 1996 January 14, Phillip A. Erwin, “Review of movies BLEU BLANC ROUGE (Blue White Red) *CLONING*”, in alt.sci.physics.plutonium (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
text: A series of spots painted the shoe, and the brand, as something that stands out in a conformist, me-too world, rendered in stark, haunting 1984'''esque imagery, with sterilizing scientists locking the sneaker away.
ref: 1999 February 8, Terry Lefton, “Bok in the saddle again”, in Brandweek, volume 40, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Adweek L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:
text: ‘Didcot Parkway. This is Didcot Parkway.’ Well, I never! Is that where I am? The power station was a clue but now reinforced by the 1984esque voice of reason.
ref: 2011 December 30, Michael Merritt, “L’excursion”, in Close Your Eyes, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 54:
text: The people watching the videos don’t require an image of 1984esque control of a paranoid dystopia as they only require that there is no crime to report.
ref: 2019, Indana Simonde, I Am (Endnote), →ISBN, pages 35–36:
text: One of the most 1984esque suggestions from our editorial team was that the various tracking apps that will spring into existence following the NHS app, will eventually synchronise with the likes of Facebook and with booking applications for public functions like sports.
ref: 2020 July, “What are some of the changes to sport we may see?”, in Sportsider, number 3, pages 26–27:
glosses: Alternative form of 1984-esque.
Towerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Towerheads
Etymology: From tower + -head.
Senses: examples: text: “Our roots are very American,” notes [Emilio] Castillo. And their attitude is classic boomerese. “If you listen to Tower of Power,” Castillo says, “you’ll notice we don’t fit so well with what’s going on in the industry, and you know what? We don’t want to fit.” / “It’s tough to label them, and it’s been tough to market them, and maybe that’s why they appeal to people like us,” says Jack Silva, a fortysomething officer at a New Bedford bank. Towerheads are acutely aware of the generational connection.
ref: 1997 June 5, Jon Keller, “A boomer band keeps the faith”, in The Boston Globe, volume 251, number 156, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A25, column 5:
text: Towerheads don’t just come to stroll memory lane. They sing along with the band’s […]
ref: 2000 June, Charles Levin, “Thirty years of throw-down soul”, in DownBeat, volume 67, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Maher Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 50–51:
text: Lopez-Takhar, 60, and 29 of her Vikette friends have been extraordinarily devoted Towerheads. She said they've seen "10,000" Tower of Power shows since their high-school days.
ref: 2012 April 30, Tony Sauro, “Farewell, festival”, in The Record, Stockton, Calif.: Stockton Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
text: I didn’t really understand the scope of my Towerhead status until a few years later, when (ironically) I read a book on 1980s American alt-rock.
ref: 2015 September 11, Jared Keller, “Our Fandom Could Be Your Life: How Fandom Became the Modern Cult”, in Pacific Standard, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2017:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan of the American R&B and funk band Tower of Power.
Towerheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Towerhead
Moussorgski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Му́соргский (Músorgskij).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mussorgsky.
fanilects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanilect