cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pad woon sen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ผัดวุ้นเส้น, a compound of ผัด (pàt, “stir fry”) and วุ้นเส้น (wún-sên, “glass noodles”).
Senses: examples: text: Broccoli with Oyster Sauce and Pad Woon Sen—cellophane noodles with beef—illustrated the intermarriage that exists between Chinese and Thai cuisines; both were delicious and devoid of spiciness.
ref: 1982, Serema Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Expectional Round-the-World Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1st edition, Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 85:
text: Sometimes I imagine there is an entire subpopulation of people who live out their lives in nine hundred square feet of space [in their apartments]. The TV plays, the pad woon sen is delivered and consumed, the sun comes up and goes down.
ref: 2013, Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings, first paperback edition, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A stir-fired Thai dish made with glass noodles, tofu or meat, egg, cabbage, and carrot.
lacecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacecaps
Senses: glosses: A cap shape resembling lace.
glosses: Any lacecap hydrangea
Rainy River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An international river in Ontario, Canada, and Minnesota, United States, flowing between Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods.
glosses: A town in the Rainy River District, Ontario, located on this river.
glosses: A short river at Port Mellon, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A river in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States, a tributary of the Black River (Cheboygan County).
glosses: A short river in Marlborough, New Zealand, a tributary of the Pelorus River.
glosses: A river in Tasman district, New Zealand, a tributary of the Motupiko River.
Derived terms: Rainy River District
Port Mellon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Captain Henry Augustus Mellon.
Senses: glosses: A coastal settlement in the Sunshine Coast Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
Zgharta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zghorta
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic زغرتا.
Senses: glosses: A city in Lebanon
Derived terms: Zghartan
wugim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŭg-ē′m
ipa: /wʌɡˈim/
Etymology: From wug + -im.
Senses: glosses: plural of wug
Vit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Вит (Vit).
Senses: glosses: A river in Bulgaria
Vitosha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian Витоша (Vitoša).
Senses: glosses: a mountain on the outskirts of Sofia, Bulgaria
squash the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squashes the beef
form: squashing the beef
form: squashed the beef
form: squashed the beef
Etymology: Beef here is used in its sense of "grudge", "dispute".
Senses: examples: text: How you gonna explain fuckin' a man?
 Even if we squash the beef, I ain't touchin' your hand
ref: 2003, DMX, “Where the Hood At?”, in Grand Champ:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To resolve a grudge.
squashes the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squash the beef
squashing the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squash the beef
squashed the beef
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squash the beef
Iskar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Bulgarian Искър (Iskǎr).
Senses: glosses: the longest river that runs entirely within Bulgaria
glosses: the largest reservoir in Bulgaria
glosses: a small town in Bulgaria
NPLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NPL
non-performing loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-performing loan
jean jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jean jacket
wiener schnitzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiener schnitzels
Senses: examples: text: An order of wiener schnitzel ($7.50) did not challenge a blissful childhood memory of Vienna's best, but was well‐prepared and copious.
ref: 1976 June 25, John Canaday, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025:
text: I grew up in a German household, eating German food. When I was a youngster, my favorite dish by far was wiener schnitzel: veal scallops coated with crisp bread crumbs, served with a squeeze of lemon and a side of French fries.
ref: 2000 April 26, Danae Campbell, “Schnitzel Bird”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025:
text: “I’m sick of French bistros,” says McNally, improbably. Instead of a croque monsieur, there’s Welsh rarebit, plus rotisserie chicken, fried-oyster po’ boys, and, as a tribute to the neighborhood’s immigrant past, German specials like wiener schnitzel with spaetzle.
ref: 2003 August 25, Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, “Good Mojo...Keith McNally's Latest Gamble...Pot Luck”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2006:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wiener schnitzel.
wiener schnitzels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiener schnitzel
reearnt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reearn
SL4A
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: SL4A brings scripting languages to Android by allowing developers to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device, according to Google Labs.
ref: 2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters:
glosses: Initialism of Scripting Layer for Android.
slave-owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave-owners
Senses: examples: text: Although Duerson was not among the largest slave-owners, he came from an old Virginia planter family that had held slaves for several generations.
ref: 2005 November 27, Jill Watts, “'Hattie McDaniel'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2021:
text: Though not the primary focus of “Underground,” they are nuanced characters with conflicting motives. The same cannot be said of the plantation owners; […] Intentionally or not, Green and Pokaski show little interest in humanizing slave-owners.
ref: 2016 March 9, Mary McNamara, “Review: The slave escape drama 'Underground' is a flawed but important retelling of America's original sin”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2016:
text: This familiar rap was in response to a question about monuments to slave-owners, the very subject that got Kelly’s boss into hot water in August.
ref: 2017 October 31, Ed Kilgore, “John Kelly Is As Deluded About the Confederacy As Donald Trump Is”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of slaveowner.
slave-owners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave-owner
jeans jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeans jackets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jean jacket.
deeldough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deeldoughs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dildo
nail-cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-cutters
Senses: examples: text: C. Sigourney & H. C. Porter, […] offer for sale Twenty-five Cases of Ibbotsons’ and Sandersons’ justly esteemed CAST STEEL, a considerable part of which is of suitable draft, and tempered expressly for axes, and some few cases are of a superior quality, highly Carbonized, and calculated for Turning Tools, Nail-Cutters, Cold Chissels, Granite Hammers, and other purposes requiring great hardness, and tenacity.
ref: 1832 May 26, Springfield Republican, volume VIII, number 404, Springfield, Mass.: S[amuel] Bowles, →OCLC, page 3, column 6:
text: Before repatriation was halted earlier this year, Lao Teng had given up hope for a life free from a threat of persecution in Laos. In an act of desperation, he stabbed himself in the stomach with a four-inch nail-cutter and jammed in a fountain pen. “I would rather die here than go back,” he said.
ref: 2007 May 20, Ambika Ahuja, “Hmong refugees from Laos, with nowhere to go, fear being sent back”, in The Bay City Times, volume 134, number 140, Bay City, Mich., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10D, column 6:
text: He called the former Ontario cabinet minister’s prescription for the city’s problems, “a bit like cutting your lawn with a nail-cutter”—ineffective and inconsequential.
ref: 2010 October 21, Mohammed Adam, “[Clive] Doucet: ‘We may just climb mountain’”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Postmedia Network, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C6, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of nail cutter.
nail-cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail-cutter
nail-trimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-trimmers
Senses: examples: text: EVERY REQUISITE for the TOILET at ROBINSON’S Haircutting, Perfumery, and Ornamental Hair Depot, […] Ivory Toothpick Brushes and Nail-trimmers; […]
ref: 1849 May 14, The Morning Post, number 23,536, London, →OCLC, page 7, column 6:
text: It’s best to start clipping nail tips when your cat’s a kitten, but most adult cats can learn to tolerate the procedure. Use a regular human nail-trimmer, and be patient as your cat learns to tolerate having the very tip nipped.
ref: 2009 October 31, Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, “Scratch-happy: Cat trees, training, trimming offer alternatives to declawing”, in The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, N.B., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E10, column 4:
text: He’s even prohibited from using the word clippers. From now on, the Sterling household will only stock nail-trimmers and beard-scissors in their medicine cabinet.
ref: 2014 May 8, Will Durst, “Ridiculous hues in the spotlight”, in Alan Wooten, editor, The Daily Dispatch, volume C, number 110, Henderson, N.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A8, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of nail trimmer.
nail-trimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail trimmer
Akikuyu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akikuyu
form: Akikuyus
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Kikuyu
RSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSBs
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
coordinate_terms: LSB
glosses: Abbreviation of right side bearing
eyebags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyebag
eye bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye bag
fun bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fun bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funbag.
Durotriges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δουρότριγες (Dourótriges) (from c. 150 CE, Ptolemy, Geography), transliterated from inscriptions on Hadrian's Wall.
Senses: glosses: A Celtic tribe of southern, pre-Roman Britain.
wikipedia: Geography (Ptolemy)
Derived terms: Durotrigan
China plus one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: China Plus One
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The strategy of avoiding investing only in China, instead diversifying business into other countries such as India, Thailand, or Vietnam.
Valea Brusturetului
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Argeș, Romania.
bag under the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags under the eyes
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag around the eye
form: bag around one's eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags under the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag under the eye
bag under one's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags under one's eyes
form: bag under the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag around one's eye
form: bag around the eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags under one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag under one's eye
bag below the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags below the eyes
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag around the eye
form: bag around one's eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags below the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag below the eye
bag beneath the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags beneath the eyes
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag around the eye
form: bag around one's eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags beneath the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag beneath the eye
bag around the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags around the eyes
form: bag around one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags around the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag around the eye
bag below one's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags below one's eyes
form: bag below the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag around one's eye
form: bag around the eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags below one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag below one's eye
bag beneath one's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags beneath one's eyes
form: bag beneath the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag around one's eye
form: bag around the eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags beneath one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag beneath one's eye
bag around one's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags around one's eyes
form: bag around the eye
form: bag under one's eye
form: bag under the eye
form: bag below one's eye
form: bag below the eye
form: bag beneath one's eye
form: bag beneath the eye
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
bags around one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bag around one's eye
under-eye bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: under-eye bags
form: undereye bag
Etymology: From under-eye + bag.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
under-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undereye.
under-eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: under-eyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of undereye.
under-eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of under-eye
undereye bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undereye bags
form: under-eye bag
Etymology: From undereye + bag.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyebag (“mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness”).
synonyms: word: eyebag
extra: mild swelling or puffiness under and around the eye, generally caused by lack of sleep or illness
undereye bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undereye bag
Leongatha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia.
under-eye bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of under-eye bag
Gende
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
ping sweep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ping sweeps
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method for establishing a range of IP addresses that map to live hosts.
slave chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave chains
Senses: examples: text: Then Tarzan turned his attention to the fifty women and youths chained neck to neck on the long slave chain.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 136:
glosses: A long chain to which slaves were fastened, especially when being transported.
glosses: A series of coupled slave units in a master-slave system.
slave chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slave chain
messenger of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messengers of death
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A figure or entity that presages death.
examples: text: Tarzan had placed the finest marksmen of the tribe in the surrounding trees, with directions never to reveal themselves while the enemy was faced in their direction. As a black released his messenger of death he would slink behind the sheltering stem of the tree he had selected, nor would he again aim until a watchful eye told him that none was looking toward his tree.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page messenger of death138:
glosses: An arrow, bomb, bullet, etc., that causes or is intended to cause death when fired.
messengers of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of messenger of death
SlopTube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: sloptube
Etymology: Blend of slop + YouTube.
Senses: glosses: The video sharing site YouTube, viewed as a platform filled with slop (low-quality video content).
Derived terms: SlopTuber
SlopTuber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SlopTubers
form: sloptuber
Etymology: Blend of slop + YouTuber.
Senses: glosses: A YouTuber who produces slop (low-quality video content).
Kebu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Akebu
Senses: glosses: A Ghana–Togo Mountain language spoken by the Akebu people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana.
nail clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail clippers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nail clippers.
nail-clipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-clippers
Senses: examples: text: First of all, to take perfect care of the hands, you must have five minutes to spare each day for six days in the week and fifteen for the seventh, and you must acquire three simple implements—a nail-clipper, an orange-wood stick carefully whittled to a smooth flat “point,” and a velvet file.
ref: 1898 August 26, “Home Manicure”, in Leicester Journal, and Midland Counties General Advertiser, volume CXLV, number 7578, Leicester, →OCLC, page 2, column 6 (The Ladies’ Column):
text: He slipped his fingers into an upper waistcoat-pocket and produced a compact steel nail-clipper. / “Thanks, very much,” replied Poe wincing a bit from the irritation as he worked at his nail.
ref: 1913 September, Robert Carlton Brown, “The Duchess Diamond”, in The Remarkable Adventures of Christopher Poe, Chicago, Ill.: F[rancis] G[ranger] Browne, →OCLC, page 387, column 4:
text: In addition to his hands, his pockets contained: One two-cent stamp. One bunch of keys. One nail-clipper. One match. One cent. This is an odd condition of things. Step up to the first fifty prosperous citiznes passing along Broadway and ask them if they have ever been broke—busted—financially zeroed. You will be surprised—if they answer with truth.
ref: 1916 August 25, Frank Condon, “Our Short Story: A Shorn Lamb”, in The Clydebank & Renfrew Press, number 2103, Clydebank, →OCLC, page 7, column 1:
text: The Disciple Women of Central Christian Church, 405 E. Main St., Murfreesboro, are collecting 100 hygiene kits to replenish the supplies depleted by the earthquake in Haiti. One hand towel, one wash cloth, one wide-tooth comb, one nail-clipper, one bar of soap, one tooth brush, six Band-Aids and $2 processing per kit is requested in each one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure.
ref: 2010 March 5, “Donations accepted”, in The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D1, column 1 (Good ideas):
text: Since I’ve known him, Trevor has always carried an all-in-one pocket knife and nail-clipper around in his trouser pocket, along with tissues or a hanky.
ref: 2023 March 3, Georgina Lawton, quoting Edwina, “You be the judge: should my husband stop cutting his nails everywhere we go?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of nail clippers.
nailclipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailclippers
Senses: examples: text: When the two officers searched Parks, they found $2.18, two keys, a ring and one nailclipper.
ref: 1967 September 1, “Check Prisoner Cashed in Jail for Another Prisoner Was ‘Hot’”, in Jonesboro Evening Sun, 65th year, number 231, Jonesboro, Ark., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 5:
text: When a guard accuses him of being stupid, he merely outsmarts him. While the warden is telling him no one will ever escape the Rock, Morris is stealing his nailclipper.
ref: 1979 July 8, Joyce J. Persico, “Talking pictures: ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ taut, desperate thriller”, in Sunday Times Advertiser, Trenton, N.J., →OCLC, page 20, column 3:
text: Tim Green started realizing something was wrong when he couldn’t use his nailclipper. Soon, he strained trying to open things.
ref: 2018 November 20, Nate Mink, “Green on ALS fight: ‘Life can never be long enough’”, in The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page B1, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of nail clippers.
nail-clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I note these remedies for untidy hands, a little tip which every man does not know: Take a bowl of warm water and some good soap. Wash the hands thoroughly, and then hold them in the hot water for five minutes. Dry them well—to neglect this is a sure way of getting coarse hands—and then cut the nails flush with the finger tips. This is best done with a pair of nail-clippers or a very sharp knife.
ref: 1900 June 23, “For Mere Man”, in The Critic, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 24, column 4:
text: Care should be taken to keep toe nails short, as an ingrowing claw can cause considerable pain as well as give rise to further trouble. The nails should be cut back with a pair of proper nail-clippers or filed down, but the necessity should not often arise in the case of dogs which get a reasonable amount of road exercise.
ref: 1938 July 29, “Canine Cleanliness and Health”, in Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser, and Guardian, and East and Mid-Cheshire Gazette, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
text: Resulting from this, William John Evans, aged 23, a Welsh seaman, of no fixed abode, was charged at Falmouth Police Court, this morning, with breaking and entering 3, Woodlane-terrace, Falmouth, and stealing three keys, a penknife, a pair of nail-clippers, and some nail cosmetics, to the total value of 7s.
ref: 1938 August 29, “Second Edition: ‘West Briton’ Office, 5 p.m.; Arrested Near Truro; Seaman Committed for Trial”, in West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser, bi-weekly edition, Truro, Cornwall, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
text: What kind of person was this,w who had never heard of a junk drawer? I thought of this person a couple of weeks back, when I was in search of the nail-clippers we use for the cat. I went to the junk drawer in the kitchen, because of course that’s where they’re kept, and after rummaging around for a bit came across an old set of nail-clippers that are difficult to use and which the cat hates. […] Some of these things were in my junk drawer; the new nail-clippers, alas, were not among them.
ref: 2024 October 17, Barbara Roden, “The Editor’s Desk: Junk drawer joys”, in Barbara Roden, editor, The Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal, volume 129, number 42, Ashcroft, B.C.: Black Press, →OCLC, page A4, columns 1–2:
glosses: Alternative form of nail clippers.
nail-clippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail-clipper
nailclippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Nailclippers. I got nailclippers,” said Michael Hruba of Southwest Philadelphia. “What am I going to do with nailclippers. What a dumb gift. Can you believe it? Nailclippers. Nailclippers. I need a million things and I get nailclippers.”
ref: 1982 December 28, Barbara Beck, “People: 363 Days Left Until Christmas”, in Philadelphia Daily News, 58th year, number 229, Philadelphia, Pa.: Philadelphia Newspapers, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:
text: LOST keychain w/ pair of nailclippers - sentimental
ref: 2001 November 22, “Lost & Found”, in Lexington Herald-Leader, volume 19, number 323, Lexington, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E2, column 10:
text: Then all my earthly possessions were scattered on a table while an attendant found a pair of nailclippers and broke them before my eyes.
ref: 2001 December 9, Jerry Della Femina, “How to nail air security”, in Daily News, volume 83, number 169, New York, N.Y.: Daily News, L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46, column 3:
text: The adults are either stupid, wicked or saps, like Cody’s mum, who removes a pair of nailclippers from her son because she doesn’t think he should carry a weapon.
ref: 2004 March 12, Susan Walker, “U.S.-Brit culture clash great fun for spy kids”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page F3, column 6:
glosses: Alternative form of nail clippers.
nailclippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nailclipper
mar-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑɹ.ɑl/
Forms: form: mar-alls
Etymology: From mar + all. See mar (“to spoil”).
Senses: examples: text: You mar all with this starting.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, “Act 5 Scene 1”, in Macbeth, etc.:
glosses: A spoilsport, an addle-plot.
Synonyms: sense: something or someone who spoils an enjoyable event
word: dampener
word: killjoy
word: wet blanket
word: party-pooper
word: spoilsport
revenge tragedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenge tragedies
Senses: examples: text: Jacobean revenge tragedy
text: Created as a theatrical form, the cult that had glorified female virtue was particularly useful in the representation of women in revenge tragedy, the darkly nostalgic genre devoted to the exposure of injustice, favoritism, and corruption.
ref: 1999, Eileen Jorge Allman, Jacobean Revenge Tragedy and the Politics of Virtue, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
synonyms: revenge drama
revenge play
glosses: A theatrical genre in which revenge and its fatal consequences are the principal themes.
revenge tragedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revenge tragedy
revenge drama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenge dramas
Senses: examples: text: On one level, Irréversible is a companion piece to "bad girl" road movie Baise-Moi, which also featured a brutal rape sequence and the kind of stomach-churning violence that makes Jacobean Revenge drama seem understated.
ref: 2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of revenge tragedy
synonyms: word: revenge tragedy
Peruvian warts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peruvian wart
Peruvian apple cacti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peruvian apple cactus
greenbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: green + bark
Senses: synonyms: redheart
glosses: A plant of species Ceanothus spinosus, native to southern California.
redheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: red + heart
Senses: glosses: Synonym of greenbark (“Californian plant”)
synonyms: word: greenbark
extra: Californian plant
graysby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graysbies
Senses: glosses: A marine ray-finned fish of species Cephalopholis cruentata.
graysbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graysby
greenuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenuks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gerenuk
greenuks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenuk
grieges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of griege
autogratuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autogratuities
Etymology: auto- + gratuity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of autograt
synonyms: word: autograt
autogratuities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autogratuity
grisard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grisards
Senses: glosses: Synonym of great black-backed gull
synonyms: word: great black-backed gull
grisards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grisard
national monuments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national monument
gumlah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumlahs
Senses: glosses: An earthen vessel or bottle.
gumlahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumlah
gumchewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumchewers
Etymology: gum + chewer
Senses: examples: text: Note the sign on the wall at upper right for benefit of gumchewers.
ref: 1937, LIFE, volume 2, number 25, page 92:
text: The two gumchewers, the fastest of the lot, were beating a path toward the river.
ref: 2020, Johnny D. Boggs, Matthew Johnson, US Marshal:
glosses: One who chews chewing gum.
gumchewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumchewer
Akebu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people of southern Togo and southeastern Ghana.
Akebu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kebu (“language”)
gulancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants of the genus Plumeria.
synonyms: heart-leaved moonseed
glosses: A plant of species Tinospora cordifolia.
gunlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gun-laying
gun-laying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunlaying
Senses: glosses: The work of aiming and firing a mounted machine gun such as that on the turret of a tank.
Related terms: gun-layer
gypsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsite
gyroceran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the nautiloid genus Gyroceras.
gyropilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyropilots
Senses: glosses: An autopilot system that operates from control signals received from a gyrocompass.
gyropilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyropilot
hairbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairbrain
hairbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairbrains
Senses: examples: text: And they that teach wisdom, patience, meekness, are the veriest dizzards, hairbrains, and most discontent.
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of harebrain
Dromahair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in County Leitrim, Ireland (Irish grid ref G 8031).
backberend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo-Saxon law; equivalent to back-bearing, i.e. carrying something on one's back.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: handhabend
glosses: Having goods that one has stolen in one's possession.
hawse-full
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having water flood in through the hawseholes in rough weather.
trivela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivelas
Etymology: Portuguese [Term?]
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The act of imparting a curling path to the ball using the outside of one's foot.
trivelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trivela
hectastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hexastyle
heliotropian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or made from, heliotrope or bloodstone.
hexaemeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hexameral
hierogrammat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierogrammats
Senses: glosses: A scribe who produces sacred writings.
Related terms: hierogram
hierogrammatic
hierogrammatical
hierogrammats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierogrammat
hillculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: hill + culture
Senses: examples: text: The economy of Alma in Israel is based on hillculture: vineyards, deciduous fruit, olives, and vegetables.
coordinate_terms: aquaculture
glosses: The cultivation of produce on a hillside.
hillcultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to hillculture.
hipberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hipberries
Etymology: hip + berry
Senses: glosses: The rosehip of the dog rose.
hipberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hipberry
histogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of histogenesis
synonyms: word: histogenesis
hiplength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: hip + length
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing a hiplength ivory nightie under an equally brief matching robe, with fluffy slippers on her feet and her hair scraped back into a French braid.
ref: 2011, Suzanne McMinn, The Billionaire and the Bassinet:
glosses: Extending approximately to the hips.
raw_tags: of clothing
honeyflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honeyflowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey flower
honeyflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeyflower
honorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to honors.
impressionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impressionary
form: most impressionary
Etymology: From impression + -ary.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Of or relating to impressionism; impressionistic.
FBN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The FBN maintained “close working relations with local police authorities which could be utilized to protect the activity in critical situations.”
ref: 2010 November 18, “Vietnam Veterans of America, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al.”, in Northern District of California, page 47:
text: In 1934, three years before Congress approved the Marihuana Tax Act (a de facto ban), the Times reported that Harry J. Anslinger, who was instrumental in stirring up cannaphobia as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), "is investigating the use by school children in Cleveland and other areas of marihuana, […]"
ref: 2014 August 4, Jacob Sullum, “'Mexican, Crazed by Marihuana, Runs Amuck With Butcher Knife': Highlights from the anti-pot files of The New York Times”, in Reason:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
examples: text: “Eric was an immensely gifted and aggressive booker and was renowned for booking the innumerable ‘gets’ we’ve seen on both FNC and FBN over the years,” they wrote.
ref: 2021 March 22, Oliver Darcy, “Top Fox producer dies from coronavirus”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of Fox Business Network.
City of Kilgore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Kilgore railroad station, itself named after the surname of Constantine Buckley Kilgore (1835–1897), U.S. Representative from Texas who sold land to the International-Great Northern Railroad in 1872 for depot construction. Establishing a new city that adopted Kilgore's name as a condition of the railroad investment.
Senses: examples: text: City of Kilgore transformed from quiet village to cultural crossroads during the oil rush, absorbing influences from migrant workers worldwide.
ref: 2000, James Anthony Clark, The Last Boom:
text: Today's City of Kilgore balances oil heritage with Shakespearean theatre, Hungarian cuisine, and precision dance.
ref: 2020 February 12, The New York Times, In Texas Oil Country, a City That Boomed and Then Burst:
text: Beyond derricks, City of Kilgore thrives with professional theatre, pipe organ festivals, and galleries spotlighting East Texas artists.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Arts & Culture”, in Visit Kilgore:
synonyms: word: Kilgore
english: common shorthand
translation: common shorthand
word: City of Stars
english: official motto
translation: official motto
word: Oil Capital of the World
word: The Dirty K
word: K-Town
word: Home of the Rangerettes
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gregg County, Texas, United States known for its diverse cultural scene, oil heritage, and vibrant community life.
Derived terms: Kilgoreite
Related terms: Rangerette
security architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security architectures
Senses: glosses: The comprehensive design and implementation of security measures within an organization's IT systems, networks, and data, aimed at protecting against threats and ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
synonyms: security framework
glosses: A specific instance or model of such a design, often tailored to a particular system or environment.
Hypernyms: architecture
security
Related terms: cybersecurity
information security
security by design
zero trust architecture
Lough Gill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A lake in County Sligo, with a small part in County Leitrim, Ireland.
glosses: A small lake near Castlegregory, County Kerry, Ireland.
Florencecourt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref H 1835).
phytoplanktivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoplanktivores
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that consumes phytoplankton
phytoplanktivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being phytoplanktivorous
paleoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + plankton.
Senses: glosses: prehistoric plankton
beheadment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From behead + -ment.
Word game sense attested since 1888.
Senses: examples: text: However, the ordinary beheadment, as this phenomenon is called, is so widespread that it creates little interest. There are beheadments, though, which do have some sort of distinction. For instance, both the words concerned may have approximately the same meaning. Thus, ALONE and LONE both mean ‘solitary’.
ref: 1981, Darryl Francis, Puzzles and Teasers for Everyone:
text: A famous story about a beheadment concerns a university professor who put up a notice that he ‘would meet his classes tomorrow’. Some joker beheaded ‘classes’ and made it into ‘lasses’, but the professor then got his own back by deleting the ‘I’.
ref: 2003, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games:
text: If you came up with bring and its beheadment, ring, you'd be right. Beheadments don't always rhyme, and sometimes one word is capitalized and the other is not, but the original word and its beheaded version will always fit into a sensible sentence.
ref: 2013, Corinne Gediman, X-Train Your Brain. Level 3: Increasing stamina:
antonyms: curtailment
glosses: In word games, the ability to form words by removing the initial letter.
examples: text: The chairs in this room are covered with tapestry work, said to be portions of the cloak worn by King Charles at the time of his beheadment.
ref: 1876, Chetham Society. cn, Chetham miscellanies:
text: […] the execution by beheadment taking place almost immediately.
ref: 1917, American Antiquarian Society, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society:
text: Some say the leaves show scarlet blotches upon the day ofthe year when Salome, it is said, demanded St. John’s beheadment.
ref: 1998, Dalkey, Kara, 1953-, Bhagavati:
glosses: Synonym of beheading.
synonyms: word: beheading
Pisar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pisars
Etymology: From Czech písař, Slovak pisár, Serbo-Croatian pìsār, Ukrainian писар (pysar) and Russian писарь (pisarʹ).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
dewpond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dewponds
form: dew pond
form: dew-pond
Etymology: From dew + pond.
Senses: examples: text: We have no waters to delight / Our broad and brookless vales— / Only the dewpond on the height / Unfed, that never fails […].
ref: 1903, Rudyard Kipling, Five Nations, Sussex:
text: Her hair was loose and blew about her shoulders, she ran swiftly, wearing sandals when she set off on the long run to the dewpond.
ref: 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 431:
synonyms: mist-pond
fog-pond
glosses: A shallow (typically artificial) pond occurring in hills without any spring as source, originally thought to be fed by condensation (dew or mist), and now generally believed to be rainfed.
Related terms: rainpond
dewponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dewpond
sleeping suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeping suits
Etymology: Compare sleepsuit.
Senses: examples: text: So he went across to her, to get his sleeping suit.
ref: 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 422:
glosses: An outfit worn to sleep in; pyjamas, a nightdress.
Valea Morarului
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania.
laminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laminally
form: most laminally
Etymology: From laminal + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: in a laminal manner
raw_tags: of a sound
buy the big one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys the big one
form: buying the big one
form: bought the big one
form: bought the big one
Senses: examples: text: "but it was my partner, Porter Forge, who threw me his SIG so I could shoot him. Otherwise I would have died in the line of duty." "But it was Savich who bought the big one," Petty said.
ref: 1998, Catherine Coulter, The Maze, Penguin, →ISBN, page 14:
text: "Frita is dead!"
"Dead?" Despair whispered as his empty eyes fell open.
"Dead, died, defunct, over and out, bought the big one, kicked bucket, the last hurrah, regards to Broadway, pushing up daisies, renting dirt space, cashing in her chips and tuning up her harp."
ref: 2003, Dexter C. Herron, Knight of Chaos, Author House, →ISBN, page 194:
text: The impact threw the passengers "hard forward" and the cabin filled with choking, blinding smoke. "I thought I'd already bought the big one," he said. "I wished I'd been killed on impact so that I didn't have to go through that."
ref: 2015, Thomas Fensch, Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster: The Crash of Delta Flight 1141, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:
synonyms: word: bite the big one
word: assume room temperature
word: auger in
word: be called home
word: be gathered to one's fathers
word: be no more
word: be with Jesus
word: be with the Lord
word: bite the big one
word: bite the biscuit
word: bite the dust
word: buy the farm
word: buy it
word: cark it
word: cash in
word: cash in one's chips
word: check out
word: close one's eyes for the last time
word: code
word: conk out
word: croak
word: cross over
word: cross rainbow bridge
word: cross the Great Divide
word: cross the Styx
word: decease
word: decompose
word: dematerialize
word: depart
word: disincarnate
word: draw one's last breath
word: drop off the hooks
word: exit
word: expire
word: flatline
word: forfare
word: get to be like the one
word: give one's all
word: give up the ghost
word: go for a burton
word: go gentle into that good night
word: go out
word: go over to the majority
word: go the way of all flesh
word: go the way of the dinosaurs
word: go the way of the dodo
word: go the way of the dodo bird
word: go to glory
word: go to one's reward
word: go west
word: hand in one's checks
word: hand in one's dinner pail
word: hop the twig
word: join the choir invisible
word: keel over
word: kick the bucket
word: kick off
word: knock off
word: liquidate
word: lose my life for Jesus Christ
word: lose the number of one's mess
word: meet one's doom
word: meet one's end
word: meet one's maker
word: pass
word: pass away
word: pass in one's checks
word: pass in one's marble
word: pass on
word: pass over
word: pass the river
word: pay nature's debt
word: pay the debt of nature
word: peg out
word: perish
word: pop off
word: pop one's clogs
word: shuffle off this mortal coil
word: sink
word: sleep with one's fathers
word: slip away
word: snuff it
word: succumb
word: take a dirt nap
word: turn up one's toes
word: yield up the ghost
glosses: To die.
bought the big one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy the big one.