cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disrecommending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrecommend
disrecommended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrecommend
disrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrate
disrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrate
disrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrate
disquisitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disquisitor
disquisitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disquisitorial
form: most disquisitorial
Etymology: From disquisitor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a disquisitor.
faminelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faminelike
form: most faminelike
Etymology: From famine + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The reflex can be prompted by a faminelike diet, known as caloric restriction, which extends the life of laboratory rodents by up to 30 percent but is far too hard for most people to keep to and in any case has not been proven to work in humans.
ref: 2008 June 4, Nicholas Wade, “New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of famine.
inedibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And it probably contributed to the inedibility of my mashed potatoes.
ref: 2008 June 4, Harold Mcgee, “What’s the Peppery Note in Those Shirazes?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being inedible.
pepperiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peppery + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The rotundone content and perceived pepperiness were generally higher in 2002 than in 2003, and consistently higher in some vineyards compared with others.
ref: 2008 June 4, Harold Mcgee, “What’s the Peppery Note in Those Shirazes?”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being peppery.
rotundone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Australian scientists may also have discovered how these highly spiced potatoes were allowed to leave the kitchen: they tested 49 people and found that about 20 percent of them could not detect rotundone at all, even at concentrations far above what’s found in white pepper.
ref: 2008 June 4, Harold Mcgee, “What’s the Peppery Note in Those Shirazes?”, in New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpene responsible for a peppery taste in wine.
poulticelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poulticelike
form: most poulticelike
Etymology: From poultice + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Thus he suggested beginning with Milton — “My own choice would tend to include the final scene of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ” he wrote, “with what is probably the most poignant moment in all our literature coming at lines 624-6” — before running through Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Eric Ambler and, finally, a poulticelike application of light comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Peter De Vries.
ref: 2008 June 4, Dwight Garner, “Toasting the Joys of Imbibing Properly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a poultice.
electeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elected
fortlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fortlike
form: most fortlike
Etymology: From fort + -like.
Senses: examples: text: You know things are not going to work out well for a petty criminal when, stranded in a fortlike compound occupied by three young women who look like American Girl versions of 19th-century psychiatric nurses and talk like the weird sisters in “Macbeth,” he innocently inquires about Internet access.
ref: 2008 June 5, Ginia Bellafante, “Horror Show’s Life Lessons ...Er, Maybe Death Lessons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
retelecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retelecasts
form: retelecasting
form: retelecast
form: retelecast
form: retelecasted
form: retelecasted
Etymology: From re- + telecast.
Senses: glosses: To telecast again.
retelecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retelecasts
Etymology: From re- + telecast.
Senses: synonyms: repeat
glosses: A repeated television broadcast.
retelecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retelecast
retelecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retelecast
retelecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retelecast
retelecasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retelecast
interfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + family.
Senses: examples: text: “Now that the interfamily squabble is done,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening at a Manhattan fund-raiser, “all of us can focus on what needs to be done in November.”
ref: 2008 June 5, Adam Nagourney, “Clinton Ready to End Bid and Endorse Obama”, in New York Times:
glosses: Between families.
resand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: resands
form: resanding
form: resanded
form: resanded
Etymology: From re- + sand.
Senses: examples: text: It takes three to five days to resand and refinish 1,000 to 1,200 square feet of flooring, he said.
ref: 2008 June 5, Jay Romano, “Refinishing Floors With Less Mess”, in New York Times:
glosses: To sand (a surface) again.
resanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resand
resanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resandings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent sanding of a surface.
resands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resand
resanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resand
cottagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottagey
form: most cottagey
Etymology: From cottage + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It just has that old, cottagey charm to it.”
ref: 2008 June 6, Beth Greenfield, “A Gulf Retreat for the Upscale but Unfussy”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cottage.
letterpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From letterpress + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the letterpressed look of the signage about the property, the tins of fennel pollen and lavender sold in a cafe store along with “jarred cukes,” visitors may find their conviction confirmed that supporting local farming isn’t just good for the environment; it’s a matter of good taste.
ref: 2008 June 6, Susan Dominus, “How About Slaughterhouse Tour Before Supper, Food Lover?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Printed by a letterpress.
prekindergartens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prekindergarten
Kleinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kleinian
form: most Kleinian
Etymology: From Klein + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Prove that if a Kleinian group G does not contain parabolic elements and is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed orientable surface, then G is either quasi-Fuchsian or degenerate[…]
ref: 1986, S. Samuil Leibovich Krushkal', B. Boris Nikolaevich Apanasov, N. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Gusevskii, Kleinian Groups and Uniformization in Examples and Problems, page 166:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.
examples: text: The second three months of life, the critical era in the Kleinian narrative, are marked by a shift from the paranoid to the "depressive" position produced by the infant's growing ability to integrate contradictory perceptions.
ref: 1989, Elizabeth Abel, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, page 11:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.
fire in the belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire in one's belly
Senses: examples: text: Carlyle, indeed, had so much more depth and knowledge of the heart, his portraits of mankind are felt and rendered with so much more poetic comprehension, and he, like his favourite Ram Dass, had a fire in his belly so much more hotly burning than the patent reading lamp by which Macaulay studied.
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, Preface:
text: I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent.
ref: 1955 June 9, J. B. Priestley, “Billy Graham's Nothing New—In Fact, Perhaps, Below Par”, in Vancouver Sun, Canada, retrieved 20 Jun 2011:
text: “He has the fire in the belly to make this thing work,” said Mr. Emery.
ref: 1987 September 27, Sam Howe Vernovek, “Keeping Low Profile, Ethics Panel Chief Aims for Thoroughness”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Jun 2011:
text: In Washington, some Republicans are skeptical that Thune has the fire in the belly for the brutal campaign process.
ref: 2011 January 27, Michael Crowley, “Decision Time for Senator John Thune”, in Time:
text: Sent back out by Johnson with fire in their bellies, England at last began to threaten as Manu Tuilagi smashed Sean Lamont and then sent Delon Armitage racing down the left touchline.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The emotional stamina and vigor, passion, or inner drive to achieve something, to take action, etc.
Synonyms: ardor
drive
fervor
initiative
intestinal fortitude
moxie
spunk
zeal
fire in one's belly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At 71 (he really does not look it), he still has the fire in his belly for such a challenge.
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutaly committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of fire in the belly.
paranœacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The hereditary types, paranœa, etc., as a rule, decreased, but insane inventors were especially numerous, and this fact is readily explained ; for the time being the healthy idea of fighting the foreign foe dominated the insane conceptions of most paranœacs, but the insane idea of fighting him by inventions was directly suggested, so that this type of paranœacs found themselves out of accord with their surroundings, and were regarded as insane.
ref: 1884, Alienist and Neurologist, volume V, page 544:
glosses: plural of paranœac
cœnæstheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His cœnæstheses, or systemic sensations, continually inspire him with presentations of laughter, dancing, flying, buoyancy, generally of movement of the gayest and easiest kind—of rolling, flowing, plunging.
ref: 1895, Max Nordau, Degeneration (translated), D. Appleton and Company; Book III, Chapter V, pages 458–459
glosses: plural of cœnæsthesis
paleopalynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- (“ancient”) + palynology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of palynology concerned with the study of ancient pollens and spores, rather than with those still extant.
Coordinate terms: actuopalynology
Derived terms: paleopalynological
paleopalynologist
palæobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palæo- + bio- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: In the newer and broader field the facts of both the animal and the plant record must constitute a well‐founded palæobiology.
ref: 1920, G. R. Wieland, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Book №. 19, Institution of Washington, page 405:
glosses: Archaic spelling of paleobiology.
palæontologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palæontologic
form: most palæontologic
Etymology: From palæontology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In earlier reports, especially those for the years 1917–1919, the scope of the palæontologic investigations centering about the cycadeoids, their relatives, and their derivatives, is briefly brought into view.
ref: 1920, G. R. Wieland, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Book №. 19, Institution of Washington, page 404:
glosses: Dated spelling of palaeontologic.
paleontologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palaeontologic
form: palæontologic
Etymology: From paleontology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to paleontology; characteristic of paleontology.
Derived terms: micropaleontologic
palaeontologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeontology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleontologic.
plantæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: plural of plant
garigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garigues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of garrigue.
phrygana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phryganas
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek φρύγανα (frýgana).
Senses: glosses: A type of low brush or scrub found around the Mediterranean especially in Greece.
Synonyms: garrigue
SMG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SMGs
Senses: hypernyms: MG
machine gun
<
firearm
<
gun#Noun
<
weapon#Noun
coordinate_terms: LMG
light machine gun
MMG
medium machine gun
HMG
heavy machine gun
GPMG
general-purpose machine gun
glosses: Abbreviation of submachine gun.
SMG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Standard Modern Greek (the contemporary language, taught in Greek schools since 1982).
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Super Mario Galaxy.
SMGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SMG
Holm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, German (by way of Low German holm), Scandinavian (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) /North Germanic surname (from Old Norse holmr), from holm (“islet”), all from Proto-Germanic *hulmaz.
* Also as an English surname, from holm (“holly”). Compare Hollis.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish, Norwegian and Swedish Dahl. Doublet of Dale and Dell.
Senses: glosses: A surname of Scandinavian origin.
glosses: Roald Dahl, a British writer.
Derived terms: Dahl's law
Lind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lynds
Etymology: * As an English, North German, Dutch, and North Germanic surname, from lind (“lime tree”).
* As a South German and Jewish surname, from the adjective lind (“gentle”).
* As a Yiddish surname, variant of Linde.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Leia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: lā′ə
enpr: lē′ə
ipa: /ˈleɪ̯.ə/
ipa: /ˈliː.ə/
ipa: /ˈleɪ̯.ə/
ipa: /ˈli.ə/
ipa: /ˈlæɪ̯.ə/
ipa: /ˈliː.ə/
ipa: /ˈle.ə/
ipa: /ˈli.ə/
ipa: /ˈleː.a/
ipa: /ˈliː.a/
rhymes: -eɪə
rhymes: -iːə
homophone: layer (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From the name of a princess in the American fantasy film Star Wars (1977).
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Princess Leia
epiphyllum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphyllums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Epiphyllum.
Senses: glosses: A cactus of the genus Epiphyllum.
Derived terms: broad-leaved epiphyllum
epiphyllums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epiphyllum
saucer eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Big, round eyes, characteristic of astonishment.
Synonyms: banjo eyes
Derived terms: saucer-eyed
cerulescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more cerulescent
form: most cerulescent
Senses: glosses: Having a light-blue color.
color up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colors up
form: coloring up
form: colored up
form: colored up
form: colour up
Senses: examples: text: Alice had already begun to colour up and was beginning to speak, when her Ladyship perceiving her displeasure, continued thus.
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Jack and Alice”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: To blush (to go red).
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To exchange a high number of low-value chips (of one color) for a lower number of higher value (of a different color), but keeping the same overall value.
white as driven snow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: white as the driven snow
Etymology: According to Gary Martin, the term refers to "snow that has blown into drifts and is untrodden and clean" and is recorded as early as 1611.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: extremely white; totally white (of a color).
Related terms: pure as driven snow
white as snow
snow-white
sick as a parrot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: (very disappointed): Apparently of sporting (soccer) origin.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely sick; very ill.
examples: text: Bridge was over the moon and Terry sick as a parrot as the game ended 4-2 following a late Chelsea penalty.
ref: 2010 February 25, Chris Boffey, “John Terry left empty-handed as Wayne Bridge gives him cold shoulder”, in The Guardian:
text: 2010 December 7, Wirral Euro MP is sick as a parrot over England World Cup bid humiliation, Wirral Globe.
text: 2011 July 29, John Walsh, Ingalls awesome but Workington Comets edged out, News & Star,
Team manager Tony Jackson said: “I’m as sick as a parrot as I’ve ever been. There’s no doubt we should have won this one if it hadn’t been for the riders we have who suffered knocks.”
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very disappointed; miserable.
Synonyms: sick as a cat
sick as a dog
sick as a horse
bald as a coot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Totally bald; without any hair on one's head.
sweet as pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: this woman was a freaking saint. Okay?[…]after a lifetime of being sweet as pie, once Grandpa died, she got kinda ornery.
ref: 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke):
qualifier: simile
glosses: Extremely sweet (in the sense of cute, lovely).
leave nothing in the tank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves nothing in the tank
form: leaving nothing in the tank
form: left nothing in the tank
form: left nothing in the tank
Senses: examples: text: “Give it your all and leave nothing in the tank,” he said. “My dad told me this when he coached me.”
ref: 2011 May 27, Percy Hebert, “Gagnon drafted in WHL”, in Quesnel Cariboo Observer, Canada, retrieved 21 Jun 2011:
glosses: Alternative form of empty the tank.
branchiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæŋ.ki.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹæŋ.ki.ət/
Forms: form: more branchiate
form: most branchiate
Etymology: From New Latin branchiatus.
Senses: examples: text: branchiate segments
text: a branchiate fish
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: pulmonate
pulmonary
pulmoniferous
pulmonated
glosses: Furnished with branchiae; gilled, having gills.
Derived terms: abranchial
abranchiate
abranchious
caducibranchiate
cryptobranchiate
cyclobranchiate
debranchiate
dendrobranchiate
dibranchiate
dorsibranchiate
elasmobranchiate
eulamellibranchiate
holobranchiate
inferobranchiate
lamellibranchiate
lophobranchiate
marsipobranchiate
multibranchiate
notobranchiate
opisthobranchiate
palliobranchiate
pectinibranchiate
perennibranchiate
prosobranchiate
protobranchiate
pulmobranchiate
scutibranchiate
siphonobranchiate
tectibranchiate
tetrabranchiate
unibranchiate
zygobranchiate
thalasso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: thalass-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”).
Senses: examples: text: thalasso- + therapy → thalassotherapy
glosses: sea
thalass-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thalasso-.
above one's paygrade
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Not suitable for one in one's current rank in an organization; suitable for someone more senior, implying that one is not competent enough or not paid well enough to deal with the problem.
bit nibbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit nibblers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that defeats some copy protection schemes by reading a disk one bit at a time, and directly interacting with the disk drive hardware.
Synonyms: nibbler
checkbox compliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Advisers are encouraged to engage with their clients on ESG issues rather than merely regard ESG matters as a discrete checkbox compliance requirement.
ref: 2013, Benjamin J. Richardson, Fiduciary Law and Responsible Investing: In Nature’s trust, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Compliance with a list of standards without regard for their spirit.
dojocho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dojochos
form: dojo-cho
form: dojo cho
Etymology: From Japanese 道場長 (dōjōchō, literally “dojo chief, dojo head”).
Senses: glosses: The head of a Japanese dōjō (“martial arts training facility”).
Related terms: dojo
McDojo
headmaster
dutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Etymology: According to one source, from the Twi Akan word dutty (“ground”). Probably reinforced by the English terms dirt, dirty.
Senses: examples: text: Rain a fall but dutty tough
ref: 1966, Miss Lou, Dutty Tough:
glosses: The ground.
dutty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: duttier
form: duttiest
Etymology: According to one source, from the Twi Akan word dutty (“ground”). Probably reinforced by the English terms dirt, dirty.
Senses: examples: text: Let that be a lesson to never take you dutty, stinking, ghetto self uptown again.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 10:
text: This nasty bitch is too dutty
Why is the bitch so on me?
ref: 2020, Lil Slipz of Hoxton, “EC1 Block Bully”, 2:35:
glosses: dirty
dutty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌti/
rhymes: -ʌti
Forms: form: dutties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhoti.
falsism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsisms
Etymology: From fals(e) + -ism, modelled after truism.
Senses: glosses: A claim that is self-evidently false, commonly used a rhetorical device.
Related terms: fallacy
main chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A venture which stands the best likelihood of success; a risk; fortune (of a person, country etc.).
examples: text: The idea is but too prevalent in almost every community, that a man has discharged his duties as a citizen, well enough, if he minds his own business and does not meddle with the affairs of his neighbours. "Look out for Number One," is a great fundamental maxim, which is in every body's mouth, and which every body takes credit to himself for acting upon. It is preached to us sometimes from the pulpit even, and Christians, as well as infidels, pride themselves upon the assiduity with which they can look out for "Number One." We do not intend to deny that this number one is a very important personage, and should be duly cared and provided for: neither shall we dispute that it is one of the highest virtues a man can possess, to act upon the good old motto of "mind your own business." But we must protest against making this the standing plea and excuse, for hanging back from every great and good work which is to be done for humanity, when there is so much need of all the help that can be got, to aid in the noble task, which every man is born to assist in fulfilling—that of blessing and elevating the race. / We are too apt to forget that we are moral, as well as animal beings; that we have souls, as well as bodies; that besides our individuality, we stand in the closest relationship to the whole family of man, all of whom are our brothers and our sisters, and towards whom, we are under obligations, the most solemn and binding. In short, we are too selfish altogether. The "Main Chance" is the popular idea; not the main chance that lies between heaven and hell; the hopes of the one and the fears of the other are but secondary to the main chance of getting rich and attaining popularity. […] This is a great mistake, and one which is productive of much evil […]
ref: 1846, “Moral Responsibilities”, in The British Friend: A Monthly Journal Chiefly Devoted to the Interests of the Society of Friends, volume 4, number 8, page 204:
text: Carneades, a worthy successor of Arcelisaus as head of the Academy, was one of three philosophers sent by Athens on a diplomatic mission to Rome in the year 156 BC. He saw no reason why his ambassadorial dignity should interfere with the main chance, so he announced a course of lectures in Rome.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, I.26:
text: They had to find a way of instructing the flood of new converts presenting themselves for baptism, some, doubtless, with an eye on the main chance.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 105:
glosses: One's primary interest in life; livelihood, especially an opportunity to benefit oneself.
Related terms: look out for number one
low-hanging fruit
mind one's own business
prickly oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prickly oaks
Senses: glosses: An oak, Quercus coccifera, native to the western Mediterranean region and growing 1-6 meters tall.
Synonyms: kermes oak
pedunculate oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedunculate oaks
Senses: synonyms: English oak
French oak
glosses: A large deciduous tree, Quercus robur
Related terms: sessile oak
dumbphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌm.fəʊn/
ipa: /ˈdʌm.foʊn/
rhymes: -ʌmfoʊn
Forms: form: dumbphones
Etymology: From dumb + phone, constructed as an antonym to smartphone.
Senses: examples: text: The Boring Phone is part of a new dumbphone boom, built on the suspicion of gen Z towards the data- and attention-harvesting technologies they have grown up with.
ref: 2024 April 27, James Tapper, Aneesa Ahmed, “The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: But kids don’t really need an internet-enabled phone at the start of high school, [Jean] Twenge argues, because they can get a “dumbphone” (a term Twenge dislikes).
ref: 2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: basic phone
hypernyms: cell phone
mobile phone
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phone
glosses: A cell phone that does not have any functionality characteristic of a smartphone.
Related terms: flip phone
see the light of day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the light of day
form: seeing the light of day
form: saw the light of day
form: seen the light of day
Senses: examples: text: True, the "Kings" seem capable amply of performing all that is required of them, but as it is now 18 years since the class first saw the light of day, it is perhaps hardly premature to anticipate a new express design from the G.W.R. within a not too long period.
ref: 1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
glosses: To appear; to be published or disseminated.
examples: text: Many projects were planned and started, but none saw the light of day.
glosses: To be realised.
Related terms: daylight
the light
doodlesack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doodlesacks
Etymology: From German Dudelsack.
Senses: glosses: The bagpipes.
clear as a bell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Used in reference to the clarity of a bell's tone.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Totally clear; distinct and unmistakeable.
Related terms: clean as a whistle
sound as a bell
ear-piercing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ear + piercing.
Senses: glosses: Extremely loud (of sound).
Synonyms: deafening
ear-splitting
ear-piercing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear-piercings
form: ear piercing
Etymology: From ear + piercing.
Senses: glosses: A piercing in the ear.
inodorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inodorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The lack of odor.
hit the fan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the fan
form: hitting the fan
form: hit the fan
form: hit the fan
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly derived from an old joke:
A man in a crowded bar needed to defecate but couldn't find a bathroom, so he went upstairs and used a hole in the floor. Returning, he found everyone had gone except the bartender, who was cowering behind the bar. When the man asked what had happened, the bartender replied, 'Where were you when the shit hit the fan?' Other possible sources include American/Canadian military slang or agricultural manure spreaders.
Senses: examples: text: They were just clowning around, when suddenly it all hit the fan.
text: Then the shit really hit the fan.
text: Let me ask you, Congressman, the case of a lot of these corporate scandals, I followed enough of them to know how -- how it works out. Once everything starts hitting the fan, the CEO, the chairman or maybe a large share of the board of directors simply leaves, resigns
ref: 2004 December 2, Neil Cavuto, “Interview With Jeff Flake”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To have a dramatic, usually negative, effect.
Related terms: shit show
shitstorm
shower of shit
shit happens
bitterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bitter + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat bitter.
Derived terms: bitterishness
piquance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piquances
Senses: glosses: piquancy; having a piquant taste.
thermometrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermometrographs
Senses: glosses: A device that plots on a graph the measurements of a temperature over time.
locofoco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locofocos
Etymology: From Latin locus (“place”) and focus (“hearth”).
Senses: glosses: A match (used for making fire).
icebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icebags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice bag.
sun oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suns oneself
form: sunning oneself
form: sunned oneself
form: sunned oneself
Senses: glosses: To sunbathe.
didder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: didders
form: diddering
form: diddered
form: diddered
Etymology: From Middle English didderen (“to tremble”); see dither.
Senses: glosses: To rattle or shiver.
Derived terms: dither
smoking hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smoking hot
form: most smoking hot
Senses: glosses: Very hot; having a very high temperature.
glosses: Very attractive; sexy.
sex goddess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex goddesses
Senses: examples: text: Yesssss! Yessssss! Daniel Cleaver wants my phone no. Am marvelous. Am irresistible Sex Goddess. Hurrah!
ref: 1998, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary, Viking, →ISBN, page 23:
coordinate_terms: sex god
glosses: A woman who is particularly sexually attractive or notably skilled at sex.
sex god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex gods
Senses: examples: text: His knees threatened to buckle as she stroked his cock from root to tip, her gaze so admiring he felt like a fucking sex god.
ref: 2007, Jami Alden, Private Party:
text: “There’s an obsessive quality in the way she describes him. He’s a sex god in this.”
ref: 2024 February 16, Minju Pak, quoting Bret Easton Ellis, “Ode to a Punk Rock ‘Sex God’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: sex goddess
glosses: A man with remarkable sex appeal or sexual prowess.
henhussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henhussies
form: hen hussy
form: hen-hussy
Etymology: From hen + hussy.
Senses: examples: text: "John," called Mr. Carter, "who'd ye think's going t' take care of the hens?"¶ Newsy's feet stopping more suddenly than his head, he was obliged to turn a rapid handspring in order to reestablish his equilibrium. He came up yelling, "What! Her?"¶ "Yes, her," boomed Mr. Carter. "She’s t’ be the hen hussy on these premises.”
ref: 1913, Alice Louise Lee, “The "Hen Hussy"”, in A Senior Co-ed, page 122:
glosses: A girl or woman who tends chickens.
examples: text: When I saw the family last, his second wife had built her nest, though not half so well as her predecessor. She was sitting on her eggs, and was most affectionately tended by her husband. Sophia complains that he has become somewhat of a hen-hussy, and had rather be cowering over the nest than abroad on the wing, with his gay flock.
ref: 1840 June 24, Miss Sedgewick, “The Canary Family”, in The Ladies' Pearl, volume 1, number 1, page 66:
text: Albert had arrived some time before, and though he had not dared to offer Mary any assistance, lest his grandmother should pronounce him a "henhussy," his eye had followed her from one place to another, as she fancied, with a more impatient expression than she had ever seen in them, when direct toward her.
ref: 1846 November 24, “One Fault in a Wife”, in The Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant, volume 11, number 11, page 342:
glosses: A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman.
examples: text: She came forward, a henhussy in her middle forties, shaped somewhat like a thick Letter S as a consequence of upper frontal stick-out and lower rear protrusion.
ref: 1967, Harry Allen Smith, Son of Rhubarb, Trident Press, page 71:
glosses: A housewife.
Synonyms: sense: man who performs a woman's tasks
word: betty
sense: man who performs a woman's tasks
word: cot-betty
sense: man who performs a woman's tasks
word: cot-quean
Hyponyms: sense: man who performs a woman's tasks
word: househusband
landscape gardening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: landscape architecture
glosses: The development and decoration of open spaces, especially gardens.
Related terms: landscape gardener
landscape gardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landscape gardeners
Senses: synonyms: landscape architect
glosses: Someone who does landscape gardening.
cowkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowkeepers
Etymology: From cow + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: Utilisation of sugarcane tops / Although some cane tops have always been used as a roughage feed, particularly in the past by smallholder cowkeepers, they are probably the most underutilised of all sugarcane by-products. Options for the use of cane tops are feeding as fresh material; ensiling fresh and/or wilted material for future feed use; and leaving in the field to dry followed by baling.
ref: 1982, Booker Agriculture International Limited, Mauritius Sugarcane By-products Study: Main Report, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 17:
text: During the last decade, the Ministry of Agriculture introduced a series of incentives in order to increase milk production at the smallholder level. One of these incentives was the Milk Productivity Bonus Scheme that was introduced in 1993. It had the twin objectives of encouraging dairy smallholders commonly known as cowkeepers to decrease calving interval and increase milk production on their farm.
ref: 2003, Geerjanand Saraye, Rafik Fakim, “Impact of the Milk Productivity Bonus Scheme (1993-1998) on Calving Interval”, in Agricultural Research and Extension Unit reports, Réduit, Mauritius: Food and Agricultural Research Council, retrieved 23 Dec 2023, page 1:
hypernyms: smallholder
coordinate_terms: cow cocky
dairy farmer
qualifier: especially Mauritius
glosses: A smallholder who keeps one or several milk cows to fulfill household needs and earn some sales but is not a dairyer in the sense of running a herd of dozens or hundreds.
glosses: A cowherd; a cowman; a dairyer.
vegetable kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the set of all plants.
Synonyms: plant kingdom
plant kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the set of all plants.
Synonyms: vegetable kingdom
muskelunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muskelunges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of muskellunge.
living thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living things
Senses: synonyms: word: organism
word: being
word: biont
glosses: An entity such as an animal, a plant, a fungus or a microorganism; something that lives, as opposed to being non-living or dead.
Related terms: organism
vegetability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being a vegetable
put to bed with a shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts to bed with a shovel
form: putting to bed with a shovel
form: put to bed with a shovel
form: put to bed with a shovel
Senses: glosses: To bury (someone).
graveclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grave + clothes.
Senses: glosses: The clothes in which a corpse is buried.
vaticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaticides
Etymology: From Latin; the first element is vātēs. Equivalent to + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The murder of a prophet.
glosses: A murderer of a prophet.
cut to pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts to pieces
form: cutting to pieces
form: cut to pieces
form: cut to pieces
Senses: glosses: To cut, chop, slice etc. so as to form smaller pieces.
examples: text: Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding.
ref: 2000, Papa Roach, Last Resort:
text: You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.
ref: 2008, Samuel John Hazo, This Part of the World: A Novel, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.
ref: 2010, Vice Magazine, The World According to Vice, →ISBN:
text: They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions.
ref: 2012, David Henry Montgomery, The Leading Facts of English History, →ISBN:
text: Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces.
ref: 2015, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards 18-20: The American Heroes Triad, →ISBN:
glosses: To utterly defeat or overwhelm.
turn to dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns to dust
form: turning to dust
form: turned to dust
form: turned to dust
Senses: examples: text: If I lost my dreams
Could I keep your trust
Promise that our love
Would not turn to dust
ref: 1996, Neil Diamond, If I Lost My Way:
text: Now he threatens to walk away from Ukraine altogether, impatient to get a deal in time for his 100th-day celebrations on Tuesday. That’s typical too: so often Trump’s grand plans turn to dust because, if he doesn’t get an instant reward, he gets bored and drifts away.
ref: 2025 April 25, Jonathan Freedland, “Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To die or disappear.
colour up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colours up
form: colouring up
form: coloured up
form: coloured up
form: color up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of color up.
boiling hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boiling-hot
Senses: glosses: Extremely hot (having a high temperature: of an object, the weather, a living creature)
R-coloured vowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: R-coloured vowels
form: R-colored vowel
Senses: examples: text: [ɚ] is an R-coloured vowel; its non-rhotacised form is [ə].
text: Words such as start, better, and turn, for example, are likely to be pronounced with a lengthened vowel instead of the r-coloured vowel. While this type of substitution may simply sound like a quaint accent, it may also cause[…]
ref: 2019 December 9, Graeme Ching, Teaching English: A Practical Guide for Language Teachers, Canadian Scholars, →ISBN, page 231:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: rhotacized vowel
vocalic R
glosses: A vowel modified so that the frequency of its third formant is lowered.
sex talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex talks
Senses: glosses: Flirtatious conversation, used as foreplay or for seduction.
examples: text: And although plenty of parents take the sex talk in stride, begin early, and are thorough, many other parents tremble at this part of their job.
ref: 2015, Donna Freitas, Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 238:
text: Yes, I realize most parents have attempted “the sex talk” at least once, usually when the school is about to teach sex ed or the neighbor girl gets pregnant.
ref: 2015, Jonathan McKee, More Than Just the Talk: Becoming Your Kids' Go-To Person About Sex, Baker Books, →ISBN:
text: The sex talk isn't about scaring your kids out of having sex. It is about making sure that they understand what sex is, what to expect, how to protect themselves, and where to find answers to their questions.
ref: 2010, Erin A. Munroe, When Big Issues Happen to Little Girls: How to Prepare, React, and Manage Your Emotions So You Can Best Support Your Daughter, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 93:
text: I suppose that if your sex talks are preachy and bossy, or your talks are void of any sense of involvement or connection with your child, then you can expect no positive returns and possibly even some negative ones.
ref: 2011, Dr. Fred Kaeser, What Your Child Needs to Know About Sex: A Straight-Talking Guide for Parents, Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 100:
text: year unknown, Bill Farrel, 10 Questions Kids Ask About Sex, ebooks want
If you make the place and experience a positive one each time you discuss sexual matters, your child will connect sex talks to feelings of closeness with you and/or your spouse.
glosses: An explanation of sex given to a child.
morningmare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morningmares
Etymology: Blend of morning + nightmare.
Senses: examples: text: What a nightmare! Or morningmare, in this case.
ref: 1997, Anna Collins, Elliot Sullivan, Women Are from Bras, Men Are from Penus: A Survival Guide for Bypassing Communication and Getting Even in Your Relationships, page 27:
text: My skin had goosebumps and my hands were damp and cold. I prayed I would never again be troubled by that—morningmare.
ref: 2008, Gary Diehl, Those Were the Days: Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and.., page 124:
text: Talking of nightmares on the M1, we went to York this morning to see the St.Nik. fair. We caught the 8.08 from New Pudsey and had to stand in a packed carriage as far as Leeds. Do people actually do this every day? What a morningmare!
ref: 1999 November 25, Les Hellawell, “Re: Nightmare on the M1 - WARNING: thread convergence link to new thread drift”, in uk.local.yorkshire (Usenet), retrieved 08 Sep 2011:
glosses: A nightmare experienced in the morning.
midnightmare
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: mid-nightmare
Etymology: From mid- + nightmare.
Senses: examples: text: "Minnie — " I tried again, but what issued from my throat was that sound we all make, midnightmare, somewhere between a growl and a silent scream.
ref: 1991, Carol Muske-Dukes, Dear Digby, page 61:
text: Will tried to convince himself that he had the life he deserved. That it was restful not having to put up a front all the time. Knowing he wasn't disturbing Dinah's sleep when he woke midnightmare, shouting.
ref: 2007, Janice Kay Johnson, Christmas Presents and Past, page 230:
topics: temporal-location
time
glosses: During a nightmare.
sex goddesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex goddess
nonpenetrative sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: dry sex
glosses: Sexual activity that does not involve penetration of the vagina, mouth, or anus; masturbation, manual sex, mutual masturbation, frottage, dry humping, etc.
postsex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + sex.
Senses: examples: a nice postsex cigarette
glosses: Occurring after sexual intercourse
sex gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex god
midsex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + sex.
Senses: glosses: During sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: word: midfuck
Midsex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Middlesex.
sex party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex parties
Senses: glosses: An orgy.
dry sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sexual intercourse in which the vagina does not produce vaginal lubrication.
glosses: Nonpenetrative sex.
street party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street parties
Senses: glosses: A party, typically involving simple food, thrown in a cordoned-off street or road by its residents
Synonyms: word: block party
oecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oecologies
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of ecology.
cumulostratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumulostrati
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stratocumulus.
synonyms: word: stratocumulus
semiliquidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + liquidity.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a semiliquid.
ichthyocol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichthyocols
Senses: glosses: ichthyocolla
woodshifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodshifters
Etymology: From wood + shifter.
Senses: glosses: A chess player who is not good at the game.
Synonyms: english: current
translation: current
word: woodpusher
woodshifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodshifter
ichthyocolla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ichthyocolla, from Ancient Greek ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla, “fish-glue”), from ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Senses: examples: text: Several others of these drops I covered over with a thin but very tuff skin of Icthyocolla, which being very tough and very transparent, was the most convenient substance for these tryals that I could imagine […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section VII:
glosses: Fish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.
Synonyms: ichthyocol
venthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventholes
Etymology: From vent + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole through which gas or air can escape.
Eolus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aeolus.
sternutative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sternutative
form: most sternutative
Senses: glosses: That provokes sneezing.
Related terms: sternutate
sternutation
sternutative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternutatives
Senses: glosses: Anything that triggers sneezing.
streamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: streamier
form: streamiest
Etymology: From stream + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a stream; streamlike.
examples: a streamy area
glosses: Full of streams.
meandry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meandry
form: most meandry
Etymology: From meander + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The river Styx, with crooked and meandry turnings, encircleth the palace of the infernal Dis.
ref: 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
glosses: meandering; windy
hyetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪəˈtɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From hyeto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of precipitation.
Derived terms: hyetological