cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
up and down
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: the tide goes up and down
text: my blood pressure goes up and down
text: She looked me up and down and hinted that I could do with losing some weight.
coordinate_terms: back and forth
glosses: upward and downward, alternately.
examples: walk up and down the corridor
glosses: alternately forwards and backwards along a path
examples: text: He swore up and down that he hadn't taken the money.
text: Christina is straight up and down fuckable.
ref: 2006, Stephen Baker, Bomb Ass Pussy:
glosses: staunchly, unwaveringly, obstinately
examples: text: There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in Rail, number 948, page 27:
glosses: In various places, e.g. in a country.
Related terms: ups and downs
up and down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Vertical; perpendicular; said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut.
examples: an up and down honest man
glosses: plain; downright
topics: architecture
glosses: having two stories
raw_tags: of a building
come and go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes and goes
form: coming and going
form: came and went
form: come and gone
Senses: examples: text: He comes and goes as he pleases.
text: Shepard: This isn't a station; it's a city.
Kaidan: There must be millions here. It can't be possible to track everyone coming and going.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
text: Moorgate itself was another story. Here, the area was humming with activity. The entire street had been cordoned off. Fire engines, police vehicles, and ambulances were coming and going, and emergency personnel were hurrying around.
ref: 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 57, about the Moorgate tube crash:
glosses: To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively).
examples: text: My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.
text: So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
ref: 1976 August 25, Tom Scholz, “More Than a Feeling”, in Boston, performed by Boston:
text: Opportunities came and went as Kuyt's deflected shot from an angle cannoned back off the woodwork and Carroll twice fired over after right-wing crosses from Kuyt and Johnson picked him out.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: He had discussed joining Atlanta United in MLS and following his retirement, there was an outside chance that Hugo Lloris’ current injury at Tottenham Hotspur would create an opening there. Other offers came and went, but it was YouTubing and podcasting that filled [Ben] Foster’s time, not football, albeit with the door to a comeback left slightly ajar.
ref: 2023 March 24, Adam Leventhal, “Ben Foster’s move to Wrexham: How a business and football deal was done”, in The Athletic:
text: Another chance came and went as Ryan Christie’s direct running allowed him to advance right to the edge of the Spanish box before toe-poking just wide, but as the half wore on, the Scottish midfield were more often than not playing the part of destroyers.
ref: 2023 March 28, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald:
glosses: To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
Related terms: coming and going
ebb and flow
here today, gone tomorrow
peanut butter and jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut butter and jellies
form: PB&J
form: PBJ
Senses: glosses: Peanut butter and jelly (or jam) that is spread on bread to make a sandwich.
examples: text: On your average march you'll find you get through a good two peanut butter and jellies before you even get to where you're supposed to demonstrate
ref: 1971, Michael Weller, Five Plays, published 1997, Moonchildren, page 19:
text: Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, […] .
ref: 1979, Donald Barthelme, "Aria", originally published in The New Yorker, republished in Sixty Stories (1981)
text: And by the end of the Apollo moon-landing program, NASA was allowing common grocery items like bread slices, canned meats, and peanut butter and jellies on lunar missions.
ref: 1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav, page 167:
text: I've got a peanut butter and jelly for your son.
ref: 1996, Sherman Alexie, “Indian Killer”, in Peter Donahue, John Trombold, editors, Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, published 2014, page 209:
text: Her mother stuffed a peanut butter and jelly into a bag and turned to look at Emily.
ref: 2002, W. Z. Nelson, Hurricane Summer, page 72:
text: They sat across from each other on the blanket eating peanut butter and jellies and drinking pop.
ref: 2015, Susan Behon, Made for Me:
related: word: peanut-butter-and-jelly
glosses: A sandwich consisting of bread spread with layers of peanut butter and jelly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peanut butter, jelly.
blood and guts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is a film for more mature audiences, but there is plenty of blood and guts to please the younger viewers too.
glosses: Gore; gruesome images.
Derived terms: blood-and-gutsy
boys and girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: girls and boys
glosses: Used to address an audience of children, or (jocularly) of adults.
Related terms: ladies and gentlemen
boys and girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: girls and boys
word: Dutchman's breeches
extra: the plant Dicentra cucullaria
glosses: Synonym of Dutchman's breeches (“the plant Dicentra cucullaria”).
man and boy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæn n̩ ˈbɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Senses: examples: text: I’ve lived here forty years, man and boy.
glosses: During one's manhood and boyhood; since one's childhood; all one's life.
Related terms: woman and girl
masculist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masculist
form: most masculist
Etymology: From mascul(ine) + -ist, as opposed to feminist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to masculism.
masculist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculists
Etymology: From mascul(ine) + -ist, as opposed to feminist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent or supporter of masculism.
Related terms: masculinism
masculinist
masculism
masculists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masculist
man and wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I now declare you man and wife.
synonyms: husband and wife
glosses: An opposite-sex married couple.
supply and demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A capitalistic model of price determination in a market, according to which, holding all else equal in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will eventually settle at a point where the quantity demanded will equal the quantity supplied (at the current price).
meet and greet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meet and greets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meet-and-greet.
day or night
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: At any time; 24/7
salamanderlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salamanderlike
form: most salamanderlike
Etymology: From salamander + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a salamander
orangutanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orangutanlike
form: most orangutanlike
Senses: glosses: Resembling an orangutan
irony marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irony mark
roopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: roopier
form: more roopy
form: roopiest
form: most roopy
form: roupy
Etymology: From roop (“a shout”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But he said he had observed I was sometimes hoarse — a little roopy was his exact expression — and it should be, every drop, devoted to the purpose he had mentioned.
ref: 1863, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
text: It wasn't in its essentials a musical voice, being on the thick side and a shade roopy. If I'd been its owner, I'd have given more than a little thought to the subject of tonsils.
ref: 1934, P G Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves:
glosses: Hoarse.
Related terms: roop
roopit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roopit
form: most roopit
Etymology: From Scots roupit, roupet, past participle of Scots roup (“to shout”), equivalent to English roop + -ed. More at roop.
Senses: glosses: Hoarse; husky.
rooped up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rooped up
form: most rooped up
form: rouped up
Senses: examples: text: I am rooped up.
glosses: Suffering from any affection of the throat or chest which renders the voice hoarse.
Related terms: roop
roopit
rooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roop
encountre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encountres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of encounter.
encountre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encountres
form: encountring
form: encountred
form: encountred
Senses: examples: text: […]but also fournishe an other sorte, prepaired for the werres, to defende the Narrowe Sees for his sure passage and transpourting ; and by that tyme not oonely Your Grace, with your nobles, may be in arredinesse to encountre, salute, and welcomme the said Emperour, to boothe your honours, but also certain knowlege may be had of what towardnes or untowardenes the Frenshe King shalbe, in accepting or refusing the treux, or abstinence of werre ; whiche is right necessary to be knowen, before thEmperour departe from those his Lowe Countreis.
ref: 1830, Richard Wyngfeld, State Papers, Part I, page #95:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of encounter.
slumbre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumbres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of slumber.
slumbre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slumbres
form: slumbring
form: slumbred
form: slumbred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of slumber.
asundre
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asundre
form: most asundre
Senses: examples: text: Whan I from her should depart asundre,
Wyth her fayre head she dyd lowe enclyne,
And in lykewyse so dyd I wyth myne.
ref: 1846, Stephen Hawes, Early English Poetry, volume XVIII, page 93:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of asunder.
insulteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: insult + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insult
gonorrhœæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From this short review, it is clear that many chronic gonorrhœæ already represent the first stages of strictures, or, as Otis calls them, “large-sized strictures,” which naturally cannot be cured by astringent solutions, or even such as are fatal to gonococci.
ref: 1886, Leopold Casper, The Lancet, volume I, page 247:
glosses: plural of gonorrhœa
incontinence pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incontinence pads
Senses: glosses: A multi-layered, absorbent sheet designed to soak up urine released by wearers who suffer from incontinence.
Hypernyms: pad
cophins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cophin
cophins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cophin
epick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epick
form: most epick
Senses: examples: text: He prefixed a very ample preface in the form of a dedication to lord Dorſet ; and there gives an account of the deſign which he had once formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince. He conſidered the epick as neceſſarily including ſome kind of ſupernatural agency, and had imaged a new kind of conteſt between the guardian angels of kingdoms, of whom he conceived that each might be repreſented zealous for his charge, without any intended oppoſition to the purpoſes of the Supreme Being, of which all created minds muſt in part be ignorant.
ref: 1779, Samuel Johnson, Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, pages 116–117:
glosses: Archaic spelling of epic.
epick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicks
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of epic.
budyonovka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budyonovkas
form: budenovka
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian будёновка f (budjónovka), after Semyon Budyonny, Семён Будённый (Semjón Budjónnyj).
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: a distinctive type of hat and an essential part of the Red Army uniform during the Russian Civil War and later
budyonovkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budyonovka
tyubeteikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyubeteika
suaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suakus
Etymology: From Hokkien 山龜／山龟 (soaⁿ-ku, “mountain turtle”), from 山 (soaⁿ, “mountain”) + 龜／龟 (ku, “turtle”).
Senses: examples: text: The suaku (literally "mountain tortoise" and figuratively "country bumpkin") sports a beer belly, fake brand-name apparel and oil-slick hair.
ref: 1986, “New Books”, in Asiaweek, volume 12, page 60:
glosses: Someone who is not well informed; a country bumpkin.
suaku
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suaku
form: most suaku
Etymology: From Hokkien 山龜／山龟 (soaⁿ-ku, “mountain turtle”), from 山 (soaⁿ, “mountain”) + 龜／龟 (ku, “turtle”).
Senses: examples: text: Ah Lian are not simply lowly educated, they also have supposedly 'pre-modern' or sua-ku (hill tortoise, metaphor for 'backward') modes of behaviour.
ref: 2003, Beng Huat Chua, Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Not well informed; backward.
slaughtre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughtres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of slaughter.
slaughtre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slaughtres
form: slaughtring
form: slaughtred
form: slaughtred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of slaughter.
loss leaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loss leader
loremaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loremasters
form: lore master
Etymology: From lore + master, possibly a learned borrowing from Middle English or calque of Middle English lore maistir (“teacher of knowledge”).
Senses: examples: text: The beginnings lie back in the Black Years, which only the lore-masters now remember.
ref: 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Shadow of the Past”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published September 1973, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Wizards, let's face it, are natural-born meddlers! Alchemists, inventors, king-makers, prophets, seers, spell-casters, loremasters, teachers, initiators, magicians, visionaries—Wizards are perpetually engaged in world-transformation, trying to make the world a better place for everyone.
ref: 2004, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, Book-mart Press, →ISBN, page 2:
text: “I’m a student of Labarnon’s, the great loremaster of the Higher Academy in the Capital, and I’m studying ancient ruins. Southern Datana has not been examined very much.”
ref: 2009, Brian Libby, Storm Approaching, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Zalaman’s eyes twinkled. “Though many loremasters dwell in Corsand, I desired written accounts. Loremasters hold much of their knowledge locked inside their blessed heads. ¶ […]”
ref: 2009, Kevin J. Herbst, The Stone of Zoral, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A wise person with knowledge of lore in any number of topics, such as history, genealogy, ancient poetry and possibly magic as well; A scholar.
Coordinate terms: loremistress
perinæum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perinæa
Senses: examples: text: When there is no laceration of the perinæum, nor a dilatation of the vaginal outlet from rectocele, the operation described as applicable for the anterior wall may be of itself sufficient to cure a partial procidentia.
ref: 1884, Thomas Addis Emmet, The Principles and Practice of Gynæcology, Henry C. Lea’s Son & Co.; third edition, Chapter XIX, page 360
glosses: Obsolete typography of perinaeum.
perinæa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now the fact is that if one carefully observes a large number of lacerated perinæa, one is struck by the extreme complexity of form of many and the comparatively small number of bad median lacerations.
ref: 1896, Thos. G. Stevens, chapter VI, in Guy’s Hospital Reports, volume LII, J. & A. Churchill, page 94:
glosses: plural of perinæum
cærimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cærimonies
form: cærimonys
Senses: examples: text: To these irregularities in spelling must be added some peculiarities of inflection; (1). Plurals: cærimonys (p. 74), countrys, dignitys, enimys, ferrys, infirmitys, lifes, monys, pluralitys, themselfs. (2). Preterites: breed (p. 47), see (p. 35; foresee, p. 57). (3). Participles: acquitt (p. 69), committ (p. 68).
ref: ante''' 1694, Matthew Robinson [aut.] and John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor [ed.], Autobiography of Matthew Robinson (1856), page 86
glosses: Early Modern form of ceremony.
dæmonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dæmon + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This Spiritualism, or dæmonism, is a great and serious movement, which receives daily accessions, often from the most sceptical and unlikely quarters.
ref: 1890, Lewis Thornton, chapter VI, in Opposites, William Blackwood and Sons, page 183:
glosses: Alternative spelling of demonism.
anie
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of any.
acknowledg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acknowledges
form: acknowledging
form: acknowledged
form: acknowledged
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
text: We acknowledg and profess, as becometh good Christians and faithful Subjects, that his Majesty hath Authority, by his Prerogative Roial, to call Assemblies [...].
ref: 1638 November 21, Declinator and Protestation of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of the Church of Scotland:
text: Why ſhould we not acknowledg at the ſame time, that the over-curious Platoniſm of the ſame Fathers has led ’em into thoſe extravagant Deſcriptions, whereby they have made a ſecond God, a Perſon of the Word or Logos, a Son begotten before Ages, and incarnate in time?
ref: 1700, Matthieu Souverain, Platonism unveil'd: or, An essay concerning the notions and opinions of Plato, s.n., pages 89–90:
glosses: Obsolete form of acknowledge.
byshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byshops
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Bishops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bishop.
sufficiencie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sufficiency.
greuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greuous
form: most greuous
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of grievous.
synne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synnes
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sin.
trumpeter pigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌmpətɚ ˈpɪdʒən/
Forms: form: trumpeter pigeons
Etymology: From trumpeter + pigeon.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of breeds of domestic fancy pigeon, Columba livia domestica, descendants of the wild rock pigeon, Columba livia, of the family Columbidae (pigeons and doves) (originally bred for their peculiar gurgling voice, a prolonged coo called "trumpeting" or "drumming").
Synonyms: drummer
drummer pigeon
drum pigeon
drum-pigeon
trumpeter
Trumpeter
Related terms: word: Altenburg trumpeter
word: Arabian trumpeter
word: Bernburg trumpeter
word: Bokhara trumpeter
word: Czech trumpeter
word: Dresden trumpeter
word: English trumpeter
word: Franconian trumpeter
word: German beak-crested trumpeter
word: German double-crested trumpeter
word: German fork-tailed trumpeter
word: Harzburg trumpeter
word: Russian trumpeter
word: Saxon trumpeter
roman: Schmoelln trumpeter, Schmolln trumpeter
word: Schmölln trumpeter
word: Syrian trumpeter
word: Vogtland trumpeter
Strauss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /stɹaʊs/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Strauss.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Strauss-Howe generational theory
Straussian
wair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛɹ/
ipa: /wɛə/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: ware
homophone: wear
Forms: form: wairs
Senses: glosses: A plank six feet long and one foot across.
wair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛɹ/
ipa: /wɛə/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: ware
homophone: wear
Forms: form: wairs
form: wairing
form: waired
form: waired
Senses: examples: text: […]they find there was no lesion to the minor by setting the said tack, and that the money waired out by the defender, in building and reparations, viz not only the ₤1317 Scots first given out, but also the ₤326 last waired by the defender,[…]
ref: 1826, Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session, volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569:
text: We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.
ref: 1831, [1566], John Knox, edited by William McGavin, The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, page 94:
text: 1841, William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1424—1707, page 243,
[…] Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.
glosses: To spend.
wair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛɹ/
ipa: /wɛə/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: ware
homophone: wear
Senses: examples: text: We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.
ref: 1897, Henry Christopher McCook, The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794, published 2007, page 18:
glosses: Nonstandard form of were.
Magen David
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Magen Davids
form: Mogen David
Etymology: From Hebrew מָגֵן (“shield”).
Senses: glosses: Star of David
Shavuos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shavuot.
Tuapse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A resort town in southern Russia, on the Black Sea, in Krasnodar Krai.
to what do I owe the pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: At that moment the headmaster Mr Grave entered the classroom without knocking, his long coat flapping behind him like a cape. The naughty kids at the back of the class who had been texting throughout the lesson quickly hid their mobile phones under the desk. “Ah, Mr Grave, to what do I owe the pleasure?” said Miss Midge, smiling.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “The Midget”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 109:
synonyms: to what do I owe this honour
glosses: A question asked to know the reason for being visited by the interlocutor.
falling pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall pregnant
falls pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall pregnant
fell pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of fall pregnant
fallen pregnant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of fall pregnant
thump-thump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thump-thumps
Senses: glosses: The sound of a heart beating.
glosses: A heart.
thump-thumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thump-thump
gynæcologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gynæcologist
amœboids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These amœboid bodies develop by stages, in which an undulating membrane and a flagellum appear and the protoplasm gradually approaches the mature form, or they again undergo segmentation into a number of smaller amœboids, which go through a similar process of development and finally arrive at the mature flagellate organism.
ref: 1904, J. D. E. Holmes, Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics, volume XVII, W. & A. K. Johnston, page 213:
glosses: plural of amœboid
Palæstinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Palæstinian
form: most Palæstinian
Senses: examples: text: We therefore certainly rather have here a Palæstinian version before us, than one from the Assyrian Mountains.
ref: 1827, Daniel Guildford Wait, Johann Leonhard Hug, An Introduction to the Writings of the New Testament, volume I, II, Chapter VIII, § LXXIX, page #388:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Palestinian.
Palæstinian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palæstinians
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Palestinian.
hæmatorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hemorrhea.
true believers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of true believer
walloweth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: wallow + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wallow
Montano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romance; from Italian Montano and Spanish Montaño.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages, Italian, or Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain.
Related terms: Montaigne
Montana
Mountain
càneva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fancy woollen fabric made to resemble canvas
chelp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chelps
form: chelping
form: chelped
form: chelped
Etymology: Probably of imitative origin; perhaps from ch(irp) + (y)elp.
Senses: examples: text: He's not here so we are chelping in the staffroom and ignoring the to-do list on the board.
text: 1820, John Clare, “My Mary” in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, p. 87,
Who’s laugh’d at too by every whelp,
For failings which she cannot help?
But silly fools will laugh and chelp,
My Mary.
glosses: To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
examples: text: The teacher got angry at all her chelping.
glosses: To speak rudely or out of turn.
chelping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chelp
anecdotive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anecdotive
form: most anecdotive
Etymology: From anecdote + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Anecdotal.
examples: text: As the evening wore on, Quimby waxed anecdotive.
glosses: Producing anecdotes.
fits the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fit the bill
fitting the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fit the bill
filled the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fill the bill
fills the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fill the bill
filling the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fill the bill
uhuru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili uhuru.
Senses: examples: text: The mood was jubilant — but tense — as the crowd broke into echoing cries of “uhuru,” a Swahili word for “freedom” that the Proud Boys have appropriated as their battle cry, and they continually approached strangers who looked as though they did not belong.
ref: 2020 December 13, Peter Hermann, Marissa J. Lang and Clarence Williams, “Pro-Trump rally descends into chaos as Proud Boys roam D.C. looking to fight”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: freedom
go along to get along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes along to get along
form: going along to get along
form: went along to get along
form: gone along to get along
Senses: examples: text: He also had a talent for the truth. He would tell it, regardless, a gift that did him little political good in the Army, where you had to go along to get along.
ref: 1989, Stephen Hunter, The Day Before Midnight, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer.
ref: 2001 February 22, Andrew Finkel, Frank Pellegrini, “Can Turkey Be Plucked From Its Financial Meltdown?”, in Time:
text: Nobody wanted to speak out of turn. Nobody wanted to go against the prevailing wisdom. Everyone wanted to go along to get along. That’s how you got promoted in the IMF.
ref: 2011 May 18, Brett Arends, “Strauss-Kahn? Here’s the real IMF scandal”, in Wall Street Journal MarketWatch, retrieved 07 Jun 2011:
text: Don invented a myth of himself, then made it a reality, and he had the stupidity—or the intelligence—to never stop believing in the myth. Lane Pryce, a go-along-to-get-along guy if ever there was one, doesn’t have that myth. All he has is the ability to give and give and give until there’s nothing more to take.
ref: 2012 June 4, Emily VanDerWerff, “Mad Men: Commissions And Fees”, in AV Club, retrieved 27 Sep 2013:
glosses: To conform in order to have acceptance and security.
Related terms: fake it till one makes it
move out to move up
spetchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /speˈt͡ʃl/
Forms: form: spetchels
Senses: glosses: A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.
spetchels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spetchel
cost prices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cost price
trademark symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trademark symbol
trademark symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trademark symbols
Senses: glosses: The symbol "™", consisting of the letters TM in superscript, used to indicate that a term is a trademark (whether registered or not).
getting into someone's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get into someone's pants
got into someone's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get into someone's pants
gets into someone's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get into someone's pants
geresh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gershayim
Etymology: From Hebrew גֶּרֶשׁ (géresh).
Senses: glosses: The symbol "׳", that serves as a diacritical mark, or a punctuation mark, in Hebrew.
Related terms: gershayim
rocket salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket salads
Senses: glosses: rocket, arugula
glosses: a salad that uses the leaves of this plant as its main ingredient
lordling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːdlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɔɹdlɪŋ/
Forms: form: lordlings
Etymology: From Middle English lordlyng; equivalent to lord + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
ref: 1996 August 1, George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire; 1), HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: An unimportant or petty lord.
glosses: A young lord.
'verse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'verses
Etymology: Aphetic form of universe.
Senses: examples: text: How has the landscape of the 'verse changed? Was there a toppling of the Alliance government?
ref: 2006 August 22, “Life in the 'verse AFTER the BDM”, in alt.tv.firefly (Usenet):
text: In the dystopian Firefly ‘verse, the government itself is “antisocial.”
ref: 2007, Joy Davidson, The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, page 51:
text: Happily, it's a fun ‘verse for a journey. It's no accident that Joss Whedon built Firefly with the elements of a great MMOG.
ref: 2007, Corey Bridges, “The Virtual ‘Verse”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe:
text: In the Firefly/Serenity ‘verse (as in ours), unstable teenage girls are not supposed to be able to kill three men with three shots.
ref: 2008, K. Dale Koontz, Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon, page 160:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The (fictional) universe in which the TV series Firefly is set.
glosses: Clipping of universe.
Hypernyms: Whedonverse
'verses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 'verse
gnoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊl/
ipa: /noʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: knoll
Forms: form: gnolls
Etymology: According to A Brief History of Gnolls, by Paul Haynie, they were created by Lord Dunsany in "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles", and the name was likely derived from a playing field of the Welsh All Blacks known as the Gnoll, probably derived from English knoll.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A usually evil and hyena-like humanoid creature found in various forms in fantasy literature and video games.
wikipedia: Lord Dunsany
fafillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fafillions
Etymology: See -illion.
Senses: examples: text: She had asked her dad, in her piping, childlike tones, if 'a million billion fafillion' people lived in the city. He had said 'not quite', but that she was 'pretty close' and this had made her smile.
ref: 2014, Jessica Thompson, Paper Swans: Tracing the path back to love:
text: The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
ref: 2016, Melissa Hartwig, Food Freedom Forever:
glosses: An indefinitely large number.
fafillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fafillion
tower crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tower cranes
Senses: glosses: A crane, consisting of a balanced beam erected on top of a tall metal (normally self-erecting) tower, used in the construction of tall buildings
sextortion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkˈstɔɹʃən/
Etymology: Blend of sex + extortion
Senses: examples: text: Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and “sextortion” on the site in a single month, according to a leaked document.
ref: 2017 May 22, Nick Hopkins, Olivia Solon, “Facebook flooded with ‘sextortion’ and ‘revenge porn’, files reveal”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A form of sexual extortion; the extortion of a person through the use of the history of their sexual conduct (such as saved sexting messages).
Related terms: word: sextort
word: sextortionist
word: revenge porn
vipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vippers
Etymology: From Japanese VIPPER (VIPPER), from /vip/ internet forum board.
Senses: glosses: A participant in the Japanese 2channel (ni-channeru) board /vip/.
glosses: By extension, a participant in Japanese online forums and imageboards.
Coordinate terms: /b/tard
vip
tard
anon
Bernd
chantard
group action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group actions
Senses: topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping of a mathematical group to the permutations of an object that is compatible with the group operation.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A situation in which a large number of agents take action simultaneously in order to achieve a common goal; their actions are usually coordinated.
Brady Bunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brady Bunch
deemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deemers
Etymology: From Middle English demere, from Old English dēmere (“a judge”), equivalent to deem + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The discomfort propelled many of us to shift from being the deemers and certifiers of Truth, to being the facilitators of inquiry processes for others to come to their own truths-for-the-purposes.
ref: 2006, Peter Reason, Hilary Bradbury, Handbook of Action Research, page 322:
glosses: One who deems or judges; a decider, decision maker.
Derived terms: deemer account
deemer provision
ill doers are ill deemers
Related terms: deem
deemster
oboeist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oboeists
Etymology: From oboe + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Here I could see, and not just in this oboeist, that this was not true at all, that at its best a great symphony orchestra plays with the same intensity and commitment that I had heard from the Herman band.
ref: 1991, John Caldwell Holt, Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story, page 91:
text: The problem can perhaps be seen if we consider the note produced by an oboeist to which other members of an orchestra tune.
ref: 1983, Catherine Z. Elgin, With Reference to Reference, page 74:
text: His father was an oboeist in the Guards.
ref: 1970, Robert Karplus, Physics and Man, page 77:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oboist.
oboeists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oboeist
zef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from the name of the Ford Zephyr automobile, clipping of Zephyr.
Senses: examples: text: My zef accent is very foreign / When I speak overseas they go "I beg your pardon?"
ref: 2013, “Cookie Thumper!”, performed by Die Antwoord:
glosses: A South African counterculture movement associated with the white lower middle class.
wikipedia: Ford Zephyr
Palæstinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The only practicable entrance into Egypt is by this road : from Phœnicia, down to the confines of the city of Cadytis, the land appertains to the people called Syrian Palæstinians : from Cadytis, which, in my opinion, is scarcely inferior in size to Sardis, the staples along the shore to Jenysus belong to the Arabian prince : from Jenysus, on to Lake Serbonis, the coast is again possessed by the Syrians.
ref: 1846, Herodotus, Thomas Gaisford and Peter Edmund Laurent, The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus, Henry Slatter; third edition, Volume I of II, Book III, page 199
glosses: plural of Palæstinian
taxi dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi dancers
form: taxi-dancer
Etymology: Refers to the fact that a taxi dancer is paid per dance, and thus proportionately to the time spent with a client, similarly to a taxi driver.
Senses: examples: text: They apparently remain taxi-dancers for only about a year or two[.]
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:
text: Historically taxi-dancers were considered immoral women by the reformers of the nineteen-teens and twenties both because they participated with strangers in an activity generally reserved for established couples and because some engaged in various forms of prostitution.
ref: 1990, Clinton Sanders, Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance, page 45:
text: Like waitresses, taxi dancers, women who danced with male customers for a small fee, created a cooperative atmosphere with each other both in the closed dance halls in which they worked and outside of the workplace.
ref: 1991, Joanne J. Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930, page 107:
text: At times, taxi dancers were observed arriving at the club in the front seat of the cab, which suggested a relationship with the hack man.
ref: 2007, Graham Russell Hodges, Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver, page 40:
glosses: A woman who works as a professional dance partner in a dancehall that charges customers a price per dance.
Related terms: word: taxi dance
word: taxi-dance
word: taxi dance hall
word: taxi dancing
taxi dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi dancer
parabolæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The two parabolæ which bound the profile have the same axis, which is horizontal and at the level of the top of the dam. The vertices of the parabolæ are respectively at the front and back edge of the top of the profile.
ref: 1905, Edward Wegmann, The Design and Construction of Dams, John Wiley & Sons, fourth edition, Chapter IX, page #68:
glosses: plural of parabola
taxi-dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxi-dancer
taxi-dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxi-dancers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of taxi dancer.
saphænous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of saphenous.
abuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abuys
form: abuying
form: abought
form: abought
Senses: examples: text: I am content to die, but ere I die yet, / She that did cauſe it, dearly ſhall abuy it.
ref: 1607 [1516], Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Iohn Haringtõ [i.e. John Harington], Orlando Furioso, page 301, column 1:
text: Reſiſting unto blood is little for that precious and never-enough evalted Redeemer, who, when ye are abuying, gave blood ſomewhat dearer than ye gave for him, even the blood of God, Acts xx. 28.
ref: 1651 January 7, S[amuel]. R[utherford]., “Epiſt. 60.”, in Joshua Redivivus, Or, Three Hundred and Fifty-Two Religious Letters, […], 9th edition, Glasgow: […] John Bryce, […], published 1765, page 415:
text: "Pale slave of Eblis!" said a man, in imperfect French, "are you robbing him you have murdered?—But we have you—and you shall abuy it."
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Bohemians”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Alternative form of aby.
Mills bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mills bombs
Etymology: Named after British inventor Sir William Mills (1856–1932).
Senses: examples: text: They made a rush forward again, the dust and smoke clearing a little, and they heard the elastic twang of Mills bombs as they reached an empty trench, very narrow where shelling had not wrecked or levelled it.
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 10:
text: He said when he pulled the pin out of the Mills bomb, he was always afraid it would go off before he got it out of his hand.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 118:
glosses: Any of a series of British fragmentation hand grenades.
year-long
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Life-long marriage-contracts: how much preferable were year-long or month-long—to the nomad or ape!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
glosses: Alternative spelling of yearlong.
year-long
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yearlong.
wit's end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wits' ends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wits' end.
catachism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of catechism.
hand cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand carts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handcart.
hand-cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-carts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handcart.
haliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halier
handwarmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handwarmers
Etymology: From hand + warmer.
Senses: hypernyms: warmer#Noun
coordinate_terms: footwarmer
glosses: A pocket-sized device for warming the hands, using chemicals, hot liquids, or an electrical heating element.
hat block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hat blocks
Senses: glosses: a block on which hats are formed or dressed
Related terms: wig block
hat blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hat block
hatch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hatches out
form: hatching out
form: hatched out
form: hatched out
Senses: glosses: To hatch from an egg.