cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
satay stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satay sticks
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A skewer used for satay.
satay sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satay stick
satin flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satin flycatchers
Senses: glosses: An Australasian bird Myiagra cyanoleuca.
satin flycatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satin flycatcher
draining the swamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draining the
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drain the swamp
drained the swamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drained the
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drain the swamp
areligiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more areligiously
form: most areligiously
Etymology: From areligious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an areligious fashion.
assistings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assisting
Anyang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: änʹyängʹ
Forms: form: An-yang
form: An-Yang
Etymology: From the Mandarin 安陽 /安阳 (Ānyáng).
Senses: examples: text: Research on the oracle bones, scientific excavations at Anyang and elsewhere, and other investigations and discoveries have not served merely to thow light on the civilization of late Shang and early Chou times.
ref: 1936, Herrlee Glessner Creel, “Notes on Professors Karlgren's System for Dating Chinese Bronzes”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Stephen Austin and Sons, page 463:
text: The Hongkong-published magazine quoted "Chinese-speaking travelers" who witnessed part of the event in Anyang, a coal-mining center in Honan province, on Aug. 2.
ref: 1977 August 14, “HK magazine: pol. prisoners killed by Reds”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery^([sic – meaning discovery]) location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.
ref: 1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Today’s Guangming Daily also reports that in Anyang, Henan Province, the father of a student brought a gang to school to beat up a class teacher because their son was neither assessed as being a student of merit nor elected captain of his school’s Young Pioneers detachment. Reports like this, which have also appeared in the past, are shocking and have caused me to reflect deeply.
ref: 2012 [2000 February 1], Jiang Zemin, “Correctly Guide the Healthy Growth of Young People”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 579:
glosses: A prefecture-level city of Henan, China.
examples: text: In May 2002, a provincial-level legal investigation determined that Mr. Qin should be released. He was given a suite at a hotel. The Anyang County police organized a banquet.
ref: 2005 September 21, Joseph Kahn, “Deep Flaws, and Little Justice, in China's Court System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Asia Pacific:
glosses: A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
glosses: A town in Hubei, China.
bargoon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Weird Thing 1: just a dream I dreamt of being in a large bargoon shopping environment, like a Winners (a.k.a. Weiners) or a Ross's Dress for Less, pushing a shopping cart in which I had placed several outfits […]
ref: 2005, Michele Adams, Bright Objects of Desire, page 175:
text: […] thereby maintaining a social tone for these pursuits which challenges, to some degree at least, the consumerist message of the signs “Sale,” “Trade,” “Bargoon,” and “Shop” that hang on some of the tipis.
ref: 2012, Eva Gruber, Thomas King: Works and Impact, page 103:
glosses: cheap; discount
bealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beal
Thamesider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thamesiders
Etymology: From Thameside + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who lives beside the River Thames.
Thamesiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thamesider
bonkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonking
boobery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boob + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Others were acts of sheer boobery. The whole thing was called "the mess in Washington." Tom Dewey made a point that he was going to clean it up in his 1948 campaign.
ref: 1995, Dennis Merrill, Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, volume 28, page 474:
glosses: Folly; stupidity.
booby house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby houses
Senses: examples: text: As for taking the kinks out of weak backs, straightening them out and tightening them up around the waist, that's old stuff in all the booby houses where the keepers clap the patients in strait jackets.
ref: 1929, International Molders' and Foundry Workers' Journal:
glosses: booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
booby houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booby house
bumbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bumbly
form: most bumbly
Etymology: From bumble + -y.
Senses: glosses: bumbling; inept or clumsy
Buñuelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Buñuelian
form: most Buñuelian
Etymology: From Spanish Buñuel + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York, the devastating Buñuelian comedy of mortality that he also directed, can’t get a movie off the ground.
ref: 2025 September 12, Ryan Gilbey, “‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Relating to Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), Mexican-Spanish filmmaker who worked in many genres, including surrealism.
butt pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt pads
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A piece of padding placed on the butt of a gun for comfort and to absorb recoil.
butt pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butt pad
calamansis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calamansi
cannibalistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cannibalistical
form: most cannibalistical
Senses: glosses: cannibalistic
cannellinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannellini
carinderias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carinderia
destigmatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of destigmatization
ultrameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ultrametric.
ultrameric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ultramers
ultramicrocentrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicrocentrifuges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of microultracentrifuge.
synonyms: word: microultracentrifuge
eeny-weeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eeny-weeny
form: most eeny-weeny
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny.
microultracentrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microultracentrifuges
Etymology: From micro- + ultracentrifuge.
Senses: glosses: A very small ultracentrifuge
unadherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adherable.
Senses: glosses: Not adherable
unentrammelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entrammelled.
Senses: glosses: Not entrammelled.
unentrammeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + entrammeled.
Senses: glosses: Not entrammeled.
unreactivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reactivated.
Senses: glosses: Not reactivated
heterophilous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterophilous
form: most heterophilous
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting heterophily.
Gropian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gropian
form: most Gropian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Walter Gropius (1883–1969), German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School.
vibroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vibrioid.
Indiana Joneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indiana Jones
vitrifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitrifiabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being vitrifiable
wordcloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordclouds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of word cloud.
wordclouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordcloud
yellow arsenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A soft and waxy allotrope of arsenic.
cinefluorographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinefluorography
cinefluorographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to cinefluorography.
Derived terms: cinefluorographically
cinefluorographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cinefluorographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of cinefluorography.
vocationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vocationalizes
form: vocationalizing
form: vocationalized
form: vocationalized
Etymology: From vocational + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The government is keen to vocationalize the academic curriculum in the hope of boosting employment among school-leavers.
glosses: To make vocational; to introduce career-related elements into.
vocationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vocationalizations
Etymology: From vocational + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something vocational.
vocationalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vocationalization
vocationalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vocationalize
vocationalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vocationalize
vocationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vocationalize
Dickensesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dickensesque
form: most Dickensesque
Etymology: From Dickens + -esque.
Senses: synonyms: Dickensian
glosses: Characteristic of the writings of the English author Charles Dickens.
Tatiesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tatiesque
form: most Tatiesque
Etymology: Tati + -esque
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff; 1907–1982), French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter.
recooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recool
recools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recool
go for gold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡəʊ fə ˈɡəʊld/
ipa: /ˌɡoʊ fəɹ ˈɡoʊld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: goes for gold
form: going for gold
form: went for gold
form: gone for gold
Senses: examples: text: For the first three-quarters of the essay, [Jesse] Owens introduced the leading American athletes who would be going for gold. Then he turned to "an unhappier aspect of the games this year": the specter of black athletes using the Olympics as a forum of protest against America's treatment of its black citizens.
ref: 1986, William J. Baker, “An Athlete Growing Old”, in Jesse Owens: An American Life, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Laszlo [i.e., László Cseh] was second, Ryan [Lochte] third. Both these guys went faster in Beijing than I went for gold in Athens; even so, I had touched more than two seconds ahead of each of them.
ref: 2008 December, Michael Phelps, with Alan Abrahamson, “Courage: The 200 Individual Medley”, in No Limits: The Will to Succeed, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Mr. President, in honor of Arnold Palmer, and the presentation of his [Congressional] Gold Medal to him on September 12, 2012, in the U.S. Capitol, for a lifetime of service to his Nation and contributions in the game of golf which has earned him the title of "The King", I ask that this poem penned in his honor on this occasion by Albert Caswell be printed in the Record. […] As this Gold Medal upon you we now so bestow / Because, on the fairways of life you've always gone for gold! / The Legend of Latrobe!
ref: 2012 September 19, Bob Casey Jr., quoting Albert Carey Caswell, “The Legend of Latrobe”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 112th Congress, Second Session (United States Senate), volume 158, part 10, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14444, column 3:
text: Beijing bureaucrats promote cricket for one pragmatic reason alone. China will feel obliged to go for gold if cricket ever becomes an Olympics game.
ref: 2014, Reshma Patil, “Prologue: Beijing: ‘Where is India?’”, in Strangers across the Border: Indian Encounters in Boomtown China, Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins Publishers India, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Several Paralympic Winter Games athletes will be swapping snowsuits and skis for summer clothing in Paris. Look out for Italy's Para snowboard athlete Veronica Plebani who goes for gold in Para triathlon.
ref: 2024 July 2, “50 Reasons Why You Can’t Miss the Paris 2024 Paralympics”, in Paralympic.org, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia: International Paralympic Committee, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2024:
glosses: Alternative form of go for the gold.
land with one's bum in the butter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lands with one's bum in the butter
form: landing with one's bum in the butter
form: landed with one's bum in the butter
form: landed with one's bum in the butter
Etymology: Likely a calque of Dutch met zijn gat in de boter vallen.
Senses: examples: text: Margaret and Eric, the brother and sister who moved out of our house really landed with their bum in the butter. They were fostered out to a family that had a car which meant they were rich, as only rich people had cars.
ref: 2011, Bill Green, Billy: One Boy's War, page 56:
text: Once again, we'd landed with our bums in the butter. We spent the next couple of months in New York at shows, listening to music and meeting a dazzling array of artists, musicians, playwrights, actors and others […]
ref: 2012, Roger Lucey, Back in from the Anger, page 151:
glosses: To find oneself in fortunate circumstances.
Related terms: word: avoir le cul dans le beurre
bomboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomboys
Senses: examples: text: Two Bomboys to take care [while] six Labourers work in the Garden and the Stockyard. Cudjoe, the Slaves' Bomboy went with ten Women to cut & carry Wood.
ref: a. 1980, quoted in A. van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana, 1980 (page 83)
text: Quey and his fellow company men’s official duties included meeting Badu and his men weekly to go over the inventory, overseeing the bomboys who loaded the canoes with cargo, and updating the Castle’s governor with news of Badu’s other trade partners.
ref: b. 2016, in Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, (chapter "Quey", page 62)
glosses: A native supervisor of native laborers in colonial Africa.
bomboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomboy
Aperol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, introduced in 1919. Its name comes from apero, a French slang word for 'apéritif'.
Senses: glosses: An Italian apéritif made with gentian, rhubarb, and cinchona.
Derived terms: Aperol spritz
baggataway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagataway
Senses: glosses: A Native American game resembling lacrosse.
chipmunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chipmunky
form: most chipmunky
Etymology: From chipmunk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chipmunk.
febrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more febrous
form: most febrous
Senses: glosses: febrile; feverish, or inducing fever
mobulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobula
sitooterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitooteries
Etymology: From sit + oot + -erie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sitootery.
situpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: situpas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chitupa.
situpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of situpa
Sơn Tây
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Sơn Tây.
Senses: glosses: A town in the municipality of Hanoi, Vietnam.
glosses: A district of Quảng Ngãi Province, Vietnam.
spritzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spritzier
form: spritziest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spritzig (“of wine: lightly sparkling”).
examples: text: The finale begins with one of Haydn's spritziest tunes, parsimoniously unharmonized, with only a single cello rocking back and forth on the keynote G.
ref: 1995, Michael Steinberg, The Symphony: A Listener's Guide, page 211:
glosses: Light and effervescent.
spritziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spritzy: most spritzy
spritzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spritzy: more spritzy
spritziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spritzy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being spritzy.
suffraged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suffrage + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having obtained suffrage; having the legal right to vote.
title card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title cards
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An intertitle.
glosses: A card bearing the title of a publication, used for filing purposes in a library etc.
title cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of title card
transitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transiting
translinguals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of translingual
transloadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transloading
LITA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Library and Information Technology Association.
Yanktons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yankton
akicita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akicitas
Senses: glosses: A group among the Sioux peoples, having military and police-like functions.
glosses: An individual belonging to such a group.
akicitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akicita
unnocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + nocked.
Senses: examples: an unnocked arrow
glosses: Not having been nocked.
Tetons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Teton
Tetons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Teton Range.
synonyms: word: Teton Range
pozzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poz
pozzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of poz
wanigan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanigans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wangan.
wangun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wanguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wangan.
wanguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wangun
wanigans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanigan
assistance animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assistance animals
Senses: glosses: service animal
assistance animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assistance animal
caucusdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From caucus + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Caucuses generally; the realm or sphere of caucuses.
common logarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common logarithms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Briggs logarithm
Briggsian logarithm
glosses: The logarithm in base 10.
Coordinate terms: natural logarithm
common logarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common logarithm
cut off more than one can chew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts off more than one can chew
form: cutting off more than one can chew
form: cut off more than one could chew
form: cut off more than one could chew
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bite off more than one can chew.
synonyms: word: bite off more than one can chew
etiopathophysiologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etiopathophysiology
exterior products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterior product
grasslessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grassless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of grass.
pony bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pony bottles
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A small diving cylinder fitted with an independent regulator, used as a backup in case of emergency.
pony bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pony bottle
squaw candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Salmon cut into strips, cured with salt and brown sugar, and cold-smoked; it has a tough consistency.
spritz cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spritz cookies
Etymology: Calque of German Spritzgebäck.
Senses: glosses: A buttery German Christmas cookie made in various shapes by squirting the mixture through a press or a piping bag.
spritz cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spritz cookie
WSPU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Women's Social and Political Union.
weed-and-feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A combined herbicide and fertilizer.
weed tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weed trees
Etymology: From weed + tree.
Senses: glosses: An unwanted and invasive tree.
weed trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weed tree
BEE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Black Economic Empowerment.
icteremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From icter + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: A condition of so-called icteremia or cholemia then becomes manifest.
ref: 1904, Western Surgical Association, Transactions of the Western Surgical Association. ...: Annual Meeting ..., page 283:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of bile in the blood.
examples: text: Lipemia and icteremia (elevated bilirubin) can inhibit optical readings and falsely decrease values. Reaction of picric acid with bilirubin can be minimized by treatment with ferricyanide or small amounts of surfactant.
ref: 2021 June 9, Richard A. McPherson, Matthew R. Pincus, Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 457:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of bilirubin in the blood.
Related terms: cholaemia
bilirubinemia
hyperbilirubinemia
epigonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epigone (“follower; disciple”) + -ality.
Senses: examples: text: Stifter's own commentary implies that the attempt to distance oneself from epigonality, to overcome it—as was the case with Immerman—collapses the novel, and he arrives at a conscious affirmation epigonic methods.
ref: 2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, →ISBN, page 325:
text: I would suggest that the weighting towards a male-authored tradition in Italy does cause female authors to feel a different kind of inhibition from that generic sense of epigonality associated with the post-modern period.
ref: 2007, Danielle E. Hipkins, Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space, MHRA, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Above all, two continuously encountered research perspectives stand in the way of an objective and open-ended textual investigation: teleology and, often in conjunction with it, the assumption of epigonality.
ref: 2019, Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: epigonism
imitation
glosses: Creative followership; imitation.
typographic apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographic apostrophes
Senses: synonyms: curly apostrophe
printer's apostrophe
typographical apostrophe
glosses: An apostrophe that has a curved, asymmetrical form, contrasted with the straight, vertically symmetrical typewriter apostrophe.
charty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charty
form: most charty
Etymology: From chart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Charty music and a fun-lovin' crowd keep it going till the small hours.
ref: 2018, Fionn Davenport, Lonely Planet Dublin:
glosses: Characteristic of chart music.
typographical apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typographical apostrophes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of typographic apostrophe.
curly apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curly apostrophes
Senses: glosses: A typographic apostrophe.
typewriter apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typewriter apostrophes
Senses: synonyms: straight apostrophe
vertical apostrophe
glosses: An apostrophe that has a straight, vertically symmetrical form, contrasted with the curved typographic apostrophe.
straight apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight apostrophes
Senses: glosses: A typewriter apostrophe.
vertical apostrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical apostrophes
Senses: glosses: A typewriter apostrophe.
SIRVA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2010, Atanasoff S, Ryan T, Lightfoot R, Johann-Liang R., Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA), Vaccine, 2010 Nov 29; 28(51):8049-52.
glosses: Acronym of shoulder injury related to vaccine administration.
hip-pocket client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip-pocket clients
Senses: examples: text: As a hip-pocket client, you'll receive a short burst of attention and your script will probably be sent out to a few places. If the script doesn't generate heat, the agency will quickly write you off.
ref: 2013, Mary Johnson, The New Scriptwriter's Journal, page 289:
topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: A person who is being provisionally represented by an agent but is not yet signed by the agency.
hip-pocket clients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hip-pocket client
teenagerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teenagese
Etymology: From teenager + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The slang used by teenagers.
teenagese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teenage + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teenagerese.
gremmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gremmies
form: gremmie
Etymology: grem or gremlin + -y
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: Synonym of gremlin (“a young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder”).
synonyms: word: gremlin
extra: a young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder
gremmie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gremmies
Etymology: grem or gremlin + -ie
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
surfing
glosses: Alternative form of gremmy (“a young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder”).
gremmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gremmie
glosses: plural of gremmy
singleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From singlet + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a singlet.
hotbunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotbunks
form: hotbunking
form: hotbunked
form: hotbunked
Etymology: From hot + bunk.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To share bunks on a submarine, one crewmember sleeping while another is out on duty.
hotbunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotbunk
hotbunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hotbunk
hotbunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotbunk
hotdesked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotdesk
hot-deskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot-desker
hot rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot rocks
Senses: examples: text: It is the privilege of every pilot to think of himself, privately at least, as a hot rock of the first magnitude. Whether he is or not is an evaluation that he is not altogether qualified to make for himself.
ref: 1949, Flying Magazine, volume 45, number 4, page 28:
text: If a hot rock racing plane pilot seems so calm, cool, collected, and nonchalant, it's because he's formed a habit pattern of making his flying routine. That's exactly how you want dangerous flying — or dangerous anything — to be. Routine.
ref: 2011, Dick Jonas, A Fighter Pilot Looks At the World Upside Down:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A daredevil pilot of great skill.
hot rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot rock
hot shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot shops
Senses: glosses: A glassblower's workroom containing the furnace etc.
glosses: A small, quirky advertising agency.
hot shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot shop
hotshotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hotshot
hotshotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hotshot
howgoesit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howgoesits
form: howgoezit
form: howgozit
Etymology: From the phrase how goes it, i.e. how are things going?
Senses: examples: text: He reports how much fuel has been consumed and how much remains. He shows me a plotted chart of the gas consumed and miles flown. We call it the "howgoesit" curve. The gas consumed curve is below the mileage curve. That's fine.
ref: 1939, Flying Magazine, volume 25, number 4, page 68:
text: Construct and use simple "Howgoesit" curves.
ref: 1951, United States. Naval Air Technical Training Command, Aircraft Engines, page 317:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chart or instrument indicating the remaining fuel and the remaining flight distance.
howgozit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howgozits
Senses: examples: text: Both were jet pilots basically and watched their howgozits carefully. They made an unscheduled fuel stop en route and arrived at their RON spot around 1900.
ref: 1961, Naval Aviation News, page 4:
glosses: Alternative form of howgoesit.
howgozits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howgozit
howgoesits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howgoesit
howgoezit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howgoezits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of howgoesit.
howgoezits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of howgoezit
nighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nightens
form: nightening
form: nightened
form: nightened
Etymology: From night + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The flame of these smudge pots was just the type which presented itself in my vision, fluttering like a flag and giving off enough dark smoke to nighten the wooden sculpture above and around the flame.
ref: 1996, Frederick Kiesler, Siegfried Gohr, Gunda Luyken, Frederick J. Kiesler: selected writings, page 60:
text: A flash of pretty fireworks in a nightening sky falling down, making the dry field catch fire.
ref: 2005, David White, The Hallucinogenic Rooster, page 163:
text: A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies.
ref: 2014, Harlan Ellison, Paingod:
glosses: To become night or grow dark, as night.
nightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nighten
nightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nighten
nightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nighten
common greenshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common greenshanks
Senses: glosses: A small wader, Tringa nebularia.
calls a spade a shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls a
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call a spade a shovel
calling a spade a shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calling a
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call a spade a shovel
called a spade a shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: called a
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of call a spade a shovel
rubbing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbing machines
Senses: glosses: A machine used in bleaching linen.
rubbing post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊst
Forms: form: rubbing posts
Senses: glosses: A post set up for cattle to rub themselves against.
glosses: A portable post for domestic cats, for rubbing and scratching.
rubbing stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbing stones
Senses: glosses: A gritstone for erasing the marks on a stone.
rubbing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing machine
rubbing posts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing post
rubbing stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing stone
marsh sandpiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh sandpipers
Senses: glosses: A small wader, Tringa stagnatilis.
common redshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common redshanks
Senses: glosses: A small wader, Tringa totanus.
cream-colored courser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream-colored coursers
Senses: glosses: A wader, Cursorius cursor.
collared pratincole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collared pratincoles
Senses: glosses: A wader, Glareola pratincola.
oriental pratincole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental pratincoles
Senses: glosses: A wader, Glareola maldivarum.
black-winged pratincole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackwinged pratincole
form: black-winged pratincoles
Senses: glosses: A wader, Glareola nordmanni.
Marlise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
common murre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common murres
Senses: glosses: A large auk, Uria aalge.
thick-billed murre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thick-billed murres
Senses: glosses: A large auk, Uria lomvia.
Terracotta Warriors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Terracotta Warriors
Senses: glosses: The Terracotta Army.
pomp and circumstance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Complete with a ribbon cutting and plenty of pomp and circumstance, the opening was attended by 100 to 200 people, most of them Canadian mathematicians.
ref: 1992, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, page 565:
text: This was pomp and circumstance beyond anything she had expected and she knew she was up next.
ref: 2007, Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, page 194:
text: And you know that Gretchen is the woman I love and intend to marry, and she has her heart set on a big wedding with lots of pomp and circumstance.
ref: 2015, Jessica Clare, The Taming of the Billionaire, page 108:
glosses: A display of ceremonial grandeur.
nangcas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nangca
undershares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undershare
undersharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undershare
undershared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undershare
epidurographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidurography
rearticulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rearticulation
Chapman stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chapman sticks
Etymology: From the surname of its inventor, Emmett Chapman.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of electric guitar, resembling a wide fretboard with 8, 10 or 12 strings.
wikipedia: Emmett Chapman
Chapman sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chapman stick
unassimilatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassimilatable
form: most unassimilatable
Etymology: From un- + assimilatable.
Senses: glosses: unassimilable, capable of being assimilated
brandy bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandy bottles
Senses: glosses: A yellow waterlily (Nuphar lutea)
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brandy, bottle.
brandy bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandy bottle
stuck in the mud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuck in the mud
form: most stuck in the mud
Senses: examples: text: Gorbachev needed to end it because the cost of defence, rising blindly as the army ordered more and more missiles, was bankrupting the Soviet Union. Its economy, stuck in the mud and mired in congenital secrecy, couldn't cope anyway, but the burden of defence profligacy was forcing it to its knees.
ref: 2011 February 5, Peter Preston, “The Dead Hand by David E Hoffman – review”, in The Guardian:
text: The other studios joining the celebrations might crank up the volume, but perhaps it's the clouds louring overhead – stuck-in-the-mud creativity, uncertain revenue streams, growing global competition – that are responsible for the muted jubilation.
ref: 2012 October 2, Phil Hoad, “Bollywood centenary: make a song and dance about it”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Stuck, unable to progress.
Related terms: stick in the mud
stuck in the mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variant of the children's game of touch or tag in which a tagged player stands with arms and legs apart, and people crawling under such a player cannot be tagged.
ill-founded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-founded
form: most ill-founded
Senses: examples: text: ill-founded criticism
text: He said, the part of the sentence which stated that the court “having heard the evidence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are of opinion that the charge is malicious and ill-founded: […]”
ref: 1814, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803., page 1155:
text: Optimism rose to a third peak in 1846, when the eagerness of investors to take up shares in new companies precipitated a financial panic in which many ill-founded schemes perished.
ref: 1946 September and October, “The Four Railway Manias”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
text: In fact, for all of Morgan’s game dopiness and genius timing, the biggest laugh might come from famed particle physicist Brian Cox, who—after having to listen to yet another misguided and meandering anecdote about Cunk’s mate Paul, an ill-informed fount of knowledge for our title star—finally asks: “So what does Paul do?”
ref: 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club:
synonyms: baseless
flimsy
groundless
unjustified
antonyms: well-founded
glosses: Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.
achyranthoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achyranthoids
Senses: glosses: Any amaranth of the clade Achyranthoids
Related terms: achyranthe
achyranthoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achyranthoid
adenoneuroendocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adeno- + neuroendocrine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: adenoid and neuroendocrine
adrenitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adrenalitis.
albaflavenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The antibiotic sesquiterpenoid (1R,2S,8S)-2,6,7,7-tetramethyltricyclo[6.2.1.0(1,5)]undec-5-en-4-one
albertosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albertosaurs
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the genus †Albertosaurus
albertosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albertosaur
allotetraploidized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + tetraploidized.
Senses: glosses: Converted to allotetraploid form
angioinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + inflammatory.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or causing inflammation of blood vessels
anterioinferior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anteroinferior.
apicolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From apico- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the tip of the tongue
archaellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to archaella
archaellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaellins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acetylated tetrasaccharide present in some archaea
archaellins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaellin
archaellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by archaellation
Derived terms: nonarchaellated
archaellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reaction with an archaellin
arenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arenizes
form: arenizing
form: arenized
form: arenized
Senses: glosses: To form sand by arenization
arenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arenize
arenized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted into sand by arenization
aspidorynchiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aspidorhynchiform.
autocleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocleaves
form: autocleaving
form: autocleaved
form: autocleaved
Etymology: From auto- + cleave.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cleave without the use of enzymes
Related terms: autocleavage
autoligate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoligates
form: autoligating
form: autoligated
form: autoligated
Etymology: From auto- + ligate.
Senses: glosses: To undergo autoligation
autoligated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoligate
how are things
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: how's things
Senses: glosses: How are you?
industrial accident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial accidents
Senses: glosses: An accident that occurs as the result of industrial work.
order book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: order books
Senses: examples: text: We are now ramping up production as Bombardier in Derby has a full order book and excellent prospects.
ref: 2020 June 17, “Network News: Bombardier back in business at UK sites after three-week closure”, in Rail, page 17:
glosses: A book or ledger that lists customer orders, especially orders that have not yet been filled.
L/NP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of Liberal / National parties (coalition).
Synonyms: COA
LNP
step-country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-countries
Etymology: From step- + country.
Senses: glosses: A person's adopted country.
step-countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step-country
Nationals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Nationals
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of National Party.
Nationals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of National
National
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nationals
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the National Party
topics: government
politics
glosses: Clipping of New Zealand National Party
Synonyms: Nat
stubble goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stubble geese
Senses: glosses: The greylag.
harvest goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest geese
Senses: glosses: The greylag.
stubble geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stubble goose
harvest geese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harvest goose
paper gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper gauges
Senses: glosses: A rule for measuring the typeface of matter to be printed, and the width of the margin.
paper gauges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper gauge
Chinese paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese papers
Senses: glosses: Rice paper (thin, fragile paper made from rice or bamboo, etc.)
Chinese papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese paper
paper reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper reeds
Senses: glosses: Cyperus papyrus, an aquatic flowering plant of the sedge family, papyrus.
paper reeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper reed
paper credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Credit extended to a person because they show by bills, promissory notes, etc. that money is owed to them.
Liberal Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Liberal Party
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Ellipsis of Liberal Party of Canada, or any of the provincial Liberal Parties.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Ellipsis of Liberal Party of Australia.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The predecessor of the Liberal Democrats
glosses: Liberal Party (Philippines)
Synonyms: word: LIB
word: Grits
word: The Grits
word: Whigs
word: The Whigs
Related terms: Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Democrat Party
Liberal-Conservative Party
Liberal National Party
Conservative Party
Libertarian Party
Labour Party