cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Kpelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəˈpɛlə/
Senses: glosses: Their Mande language.
Kpelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kpelle
yellowman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowmen
Senses: examples: text: In the United States we see going on a commingling of types of mankind, of all nationalities, whitemen, blackmen, yellowmen, redmen, producing an amalgam […]
ref: 1878 February 11, “This Newfoundland of Ours: A lecture delivered by the Rev. M. Harvey”, in Across Newfoundland with the Governor, page 104:
text: That which the complaints of the ousted white labourers had been unable to effect — the expulsion of the yellowmen who undersold them in the labour-market […]
ref: 1891, Francis William Bain, Antichrist: A Short Examination of the Spirit of the Age, page 95:
text: [If they] hope to prospect peaceably and thus avoid trouble with the yellowmen they will be disappointed; I know the pigtails too well, and I also know they have found something good or they wouldn't have risked a fight with such a party as we were.
ref: 1909, Robert Maclauchlan Macdonald, Chillagoe Charlie, page 181:
glosses: Alternative form of yellow man.
SJW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SJWs
Senses: examples: text: Excellent read […] The patronising and angst-ridden logic of old conservatives has become mainstream, leftish and 'radical'.
ref: 2014, The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior, “SJWs and cultural colonialism”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
text: [name redacted], racist SJW, hates free speech. She thinks it's good when mobs of stupid left-wing racist students shout down speakers they don't like and prevent them from giving addresses they were invited to deliver.
ref: 2015, Rüdî Cânôzä, “Re: [name redacted], racist SJW, vs liberals”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: But politically correct universities and colleges, overrun by SJW liberals and angry geeds (read uninitiated and unaffiliated members of the university who have no wish to join Greek life or support it whatsoever) want to destroy the Greek system.
ref: 2012, Edward Masters, In Defense of Fraternity and Political Freedom, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Contemporary street scene New York City: […]
ref: 2015, Soetoros Hundefleisch Liebe, “SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS (SJWs) rule in 'Blue' AmeriKa”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet):
text: Some cyberfeminist activists, in particular radical feminists on Tumblr, have been labeled “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) and are often scrutinized by mainstream feminist movements and popular culture.
ref: 2015, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Theory and Pop Culture, page 125:
text: 2015, Stephen LeDrew (quoting Richard Dawkins from 2014), The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement
SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.
text: White differentiates her personal experiences as a trans woman from what she sees as the “victim mentality” of the groups she derogatorily calls “SJWs.” In contrast, she positions her own coming out and transitioning experiences in terms of the conservative ideals of individualism and personal betterment. She even says that before her transition, she was herself an SJW and adopted the victim mentality, but that through her personal experiences, she was able to take control of her life and eschew that “toxic” approach: […]
ref: 2018 September 18, Rebecca Lewis, “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube”, in Data & Society, page 26:
glosses: Initialism of social justice warrior.
examples: text: Phototherapy in a 63-year-old man taking SJW (six pills/day) resulted in follicular edema, urticarial edema, and burning pain.
ref: 2003, Adriane Fugh-Berman, The 5-minute Herb and Dietary Supplement Consult, page 173:
glosses: Initialism of St. John's wort.
Derived terms: anti-SJW
yellowmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellowman
SJWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SJW
gauzeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gauze + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without gauze.
neurodivergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊ.daɪˈvɜː.dʒənt/
ipa: /-dɪ-/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊ.dɪˈvɜɹ.dʒənt/
ipa: /-daɪ-/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more neurodivergent
form: most neurodivergent
Etymology: From neuro- + divergent. Coined by neurodiversity activist Kassiane Asasumasu in 2000.
Senses: examples: text: Interpreting text can be frustrating for anyone online, but is particularly so for users who are neurodivergent — a wide category that can refer to people with a range of neurological differences including autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia.
ref: 2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Neurodivergent people exist all over the world and in every class, gender, race and sexuality. On other planets there are probably neurodivergent aliens too […]
ref: 2022, Joe Wells, Wired Differently, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 169:
synonyms: ND
neuroatypical
aneurotypical
neurodiverse
neurospicy
antonyms: neurotypical
glosses: Having an atypical neurological configuration.
Related terms: neurodivergence
neurodiversity
neurodivergent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊ.daɪˈvɜː.dʒənt/
ipa: /-dɪ-/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊ.dɪˈvɜɹ.dʒənt/
ipa: /-daɪ-/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: neurodivergents
Etymology: From neuro- + divergent. Coined by neurodiversity activist Kassiane Asasumasu in 2000.
Senses: examples: text: A second input stream, like closed captions, gives neurodivergents at work a better understanding of the context.
ref: 2024 January 3, Shobhana, “7 ways for neurodivergents to succeed in customer support”, in Hiver:
glosses: One who is neurodivergent.
irritators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irritator
racecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From race + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: That same year he brought Bracadale up the stretch, to win by two lengths in the 1924 Withers. Both wins were credited to [Earl] Sande's racecraft. Sande's career is illuminated by many such victories. But it hasn't always been easy going for Sande.
ref: 1925 December, Earl Chapin May, “With Sande Up”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 53, number 6, New York, NY: The Ridgway Company, page 149:
text: Those boys just don't make any mistakes at all, and their flawless technique is so habitual, so ingrained, that they can concentrate all their effort on points of super-racecraft, little things that save a fifth of a second here and another there.
ref: 1947, Home Journal, volume 101, Hearst Corporation, page 1:
text: Here, in 1951, Ascari demonstrated the high order of racecraft he commanded when, with a small lead over his old rival Fangio, he calmly drew into the pits before his last lap. The Ferrari team was frantic. Ascari wanted the tires changed before committing himself to that long (14-mile) last lap rather than risk failure.
ref: 1964, William F. Nolan, Charles Beaumont, When engines roar, New York, NY: Bantam Books, page 126:
glosses: The total of a racer's skill (craft) along dimensions including: practicing, qualifying, starts, beginning, mid-race and end-race pace, passing, wear equipment usage, and pit strategy.
examples: text: Fitting actual humans to any such grid inevitably calls forth the busy repertoire of strange maneuvering that is part of what we call racecraft.
ref: 2012, Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Verso, published 2022, page 16:
text: Racecraft hijacks often minor human physical and cultural differences and weaponizes them into symptoms of race – an invisible substance that is held to account for inborn moral and physical disparities between racialized populations ...
ref: 2021, Stuart Earle Strange, chapter 6, in Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname, University of Toronto Press:
text: America’s contemporary racecraft is doubly pernicious as political traditions like “identity politics,” which originated in the context of class struggle as a recognition of real and dynamic differentials of experience structured by capitalist exploitation, have become counter-insurgent reifications of difference, and comfortably at home in the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, which uses its jargon to attach the left.
ref: 2022, Jarrod Shanahan, “Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help”, in Endnotes:
glosses: The process by which racist behaviour creates the belief that race is a biological reality.
Bright Young Thing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bright Young Things
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bright young thing.
citizenshiplessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From citizenshipless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than insist on a “universalist conception,” Bosniak seeks to buffer against “citizenshiplessness” by arguing for the need to disaggregate aspects of citizenship so as to identify mechanisms of subordination and to provide specific protection for those without citizenship.
ref: 2009, Seyla Benhabib, Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender, page 19:
glosses: Lack of citizenship.
rancherías
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchería
fire swatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire swatters
Senses: glosses: a fire beater
fire beater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire beaters
Senses: glosses: A simple tool for fighting wildfires, consisting of a piece of rubber at the end of a pole.
Synonyms: fire flapper
fire swatter
American wild plum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American wild plums
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Prunus americana, native to eastern North America, or its fruit.
Synonyms: sense: Prunus americana
word: American plum
sense: Prunus americana
word: wild plum
sense: Prunus americana
word: large yellow sweet plum
swamp chestnut oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp chestnut oaks
Senses: glosses: Quercus michauxii, native to piedmont and lowlands from New Jersey to northern Florida, Texas, and southern Indiana.
Synonyms: sense: Quercus michauxii
english: also and preferrably applied to the chestnut oak
translation: also and preferrably applied to the chestnut oak
word: Quercus prinus
black willow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black willows
Senses: glosses: A willow of species Salix nigra, native to much of the eastern United States, excluding Florida, and to parts of California and Arizona.
Synonyms: sense: Salix nigra
word: swamp willow
intermediatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˈmiːdɪətəɹɪ/
ipa: /ɪntəˈmiːdɪətɹi/
Etymology: From intermediate (“to act between others, to mediate”, verb) + -ory (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Animosities are softened by the intermediatory offices of an unpremeditated libation.
ref: 1851, Fraser’s Magazine, XLIV, page 608:
text: There is no necessary, far less automatic, connection between intermediatory behaviour and the production of literature.
ref: 1992, Philip R. Davies, chapter VII, in In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’, page 124:
glosses: Having the function of intermediating; mediatory.
bald cypress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald cypresses
form: baldcypress
form: bald-cypress
Senses: glosses: Taxodium distichum, deciduous conifer trees native to often-flooded areas of the southeastern and south central parts of the United States.
Synonyms: sense: Taxodium distichum
word: cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: southern cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: white cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: tidewater red cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: Gulf cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: red cypress
sense: Taxodium distichum
word: swamp cypress
eastern hemlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern hemlocks
Senses: glosses: Tsuga canadensis, native to the northeastern United States, adjoining areas of Canada, extending to Minnesota and Northern Michigan, and the Appalachian mountains.
Synonyms: sense: Tsuga canadensis
word: Canadian hemlock
red elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red elms
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Ulmus rubra, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to northernmost Florida, and west to eastern Texas).
Synonyms: sense: Ulmus rubra
word: slippery elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: gray elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: soft elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: moose elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: Indian elm
soft elm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft elms
Senses: glosses: Any of species Ulmus rubra of elm trees, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to northernmost Florida, and west to eastern Texas).
Synonyms: sense: Ulmus rubra
word: slippery elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: gray elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: red elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: moose elm
sense: Ulmus rubra
word: Indian elm
Shumard oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shumard oaks
Etymology: Named after Benjamin Franklin Shumard, US scientist.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Quercus shumardii, native to much of southeastern and east south central United States.
Synonyms: sense: Quercus shumardii
word: spotted oak
sense: Quercus shumardii
word: Schneck oak
sense: Quercus shumardii
word: Shumard red oak
sense: Quercus shumardii
word: swamp red oak
sense: Quercus shumardii
word: Shumard's oak
manticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæntɪsɪzm/
ipa: /ˈmantɪsɪzm/
Forms: form: manticisms
Etymology: From mantic (“pertaining to divination or prophecy”) + -ism (“tendency of behaviour or action”).
Senses: examples: text: It is useless…to go to the manticism of the heathen to get light as to the nature of Hebrew prophecy.
ref: 1861, Alexander McCaul, “Prophecy”, essay iii in Aids to Faith, ed. William Thomson, § 1, page 81
glosses: The practice of divination.
frit fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frit flies
form: fritfly
Senses: glosses: Any fly in the family Chloropidae.
Synonyms: chloropid
grass fly
Taulant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Taulant.
Senses: examples: text: “Phytoestrogens are clinical components found in plants that are very similar to the female hormone, estrogen,” explained Dr. Taulant Muka, lead author of the new studyand^([sic]) a researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
ref: 2016 June 21, Susan Scutti, “Herbal remedies improve early menopause symptoms”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Albanian.
manticisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:manticism.
glosses: plural of manticism
black haw viburnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A shrub of species Viburnum prunifolium, native to eastern and east south central United States.
Synonyms: sense: Viburnum prunifolium
word: blackhaw
sense: Viburnum prunifolium
word: black haw
sense: Viburnum prunifolium
word: blackhaw viburnum
sense: Viburnum prunifolium
word: sweet haw
sense: Viburnum prunifolium
word: stag bush
black haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black haws
form: blackhaw
Senses: glosses: One of several woody plants of a few species, especially of Viburnum, all native to North America:
Sideroxylon lanuginosum, also native to Mexico.
glosses: One of several woody plants of a few species, especially of Viburnum, all native to North America:
Viburnum lentago.
glosses: One of several woody plants of a few species, especially of Viburnum, all native to North America:
Viburnum prunifolium.
glosses: One of several woody plants of a few species, especially of Viburnum, all native to North America:
Viburnum rufidulum (rusty blackhaw).
Derived terms: word: black haw viburnum
taxonomic: Viburnum rufidulum
word: southern black haw
southern arrowwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Viburnum dentatum, native to eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Viburnum dentatum
word: arrowwood viburnum
sense: Viburnum dentatum
word: roughish arrowwood
inkberry holly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkberry hollies
Senses: glosses: Ilex glabra
Synonyms: sense: Ilex glabra
word: Appalachian tea
sense: Ilex glabra
word: dye-leaves
sense: Ilex glabra
word: evergreen winterberry
sense: Ilex glabra
word: gallberry
black chokeberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black chokeberries
Senses: glosses: Aronia melanocarpa, native to temperate and cool eastern North America.
red osier dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red osier dogwoods
Senses: glosses: A dogwood shrub of species Cornus sericea, native to northern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Cornus sericea
word: red willow
sense: Cornus sericea
word: redstem dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: redtwig dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: redtwig
sense: Cornus sericea
word: red-rood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: American dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: creek dogwood
sense: Cornus sericea
word: western dogwood
gray dogwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray dogwoods
Senses: glosses: Cornus racemosa, native to north central, northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
Synonyms: sense: Cornus racemosa
word: northern swamp dogwood
sense: Cornus racemosa
word: panicle dogwood
uitlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪtˌlæn dəɹ/
Forms: form: uitlanders
Etymology: Attested since 1890. From Afrikaans uitlander (“foreigner”), from Dutch uitlander (“foreigner”). Cognate and confluenced with outlander.
Senses: glosses: A foreigner; outlander.
Mellona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mellonia
Etymology: From Latin Mellōna from honey.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of bees, and honey.
northern maidenhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Adiantum pedatum, a fern native to temperate and cool eastern North America.
Synonyms: sense: Adiantum pedatum
word: five-fingered fern
ebony spleenwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebony spleenworts
Senses: glosses: Any of species Asplenium platyneuron of ferns.
Synonyms: sense: Asplenium platyneuron
word: brownstem spleenwort
northern lady fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern lady ferns
Senses: glosses: Athyrium filix-femina, native to the temperate northern hemisphere.
Synonyms: sense: Athyrium filix-femina
word: lady fern
sense: Athyrium filix-femina
word: common lady fern
hay-scented fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hay-scented ferns
Senses: glosses: Any fern of genus Dennstaetia, of many warm temperate to tropical regions, especially
glosses: Any fern of genus Dennstaetia, of many warm temperate to tropical regions, especially:
any fern of species Dennstaedtia punctilobula, native to cool-temperate eastern North America.
glosses: A hay-scented buckler-fern, of species Dryopteris aemula, native to western Europe and Macaronesia.
Synonyms: sense: Dennstaedtia punctilobula
word: eastern hay-scented fern
evergreen wood fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evergreen wood ferns
Senses: glosses: Any of two common species of fern native to cool-temperate eastern North America that remain green for much of the year
Dryopteris marginalis
glosses: Any of two common species of fern native to cool-temperate eastern North America that remain green for much of the year
Polystichum acrostichoides, the most common species of fern in its range.
Synonyms: sense: Dryopteris marginalis
word: marginal shield fern
sense: Dryopteris marginalis
word: marginal wood fern
sense: Polystichum acrostichoides
word: Christmas fern
Tae Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of taekwondo + boxing.
Senses: examples: text: That means I fly rough early, plus, I know Tae Bo / That means I'm new-school, pop pills and stay in beef
ref: 2001, “Girls, Girls, Girls”, in The Blueprint, performed by JAY-Z:
glosses: A martial art invented in the United States based on taekwondo.
head-trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-trips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of head trip.
aromanticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aromantic + -ism or a- + romanticism.
Senses: examples: text: But do orientations like aromanticism deserve to be discussed to the same extent as other, more common non-heteronormative ones?
ref: 2012 November, anonymous author, “Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism”, in The Scripps Voice, volume 16, number 4,1, Scripps College, page 5:
text: In other words, the percentage Bogaert identified is not likely very reliable, accurate, or representative and it certainly does not account for the diversity of lived styles of asexuality, ranging from a preference for hugging and kissing to aromanticism […]
ref: 2013 May, Ela Przybylo, “Producing facts: Empirical asexuality and the scientific study of sex”, in Feminism & Psychology, volume 23, number 2:
text: Finally, asexuality is not the same as aromanticism; aromantics have little or no romantic attachment or attraction toward others while asexuals may experience romantic attraction and seek out romantic relationships.
ref: 2014, Joan McDonough, "Asexuality", Reporter (Rochester Institute of Technology), May 2014, page 14
synonyms: aromanticity
aroness
glosses: The state of experiencing little or no romantic attraction to others and/or desire.
Related terms: aromantic
aro
litter trays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litter tray
gerns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gern
gerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gern
willinger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The king was willinger to comply with anything than this […]
ref: 1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier:
glosses: comparative form of willing: more willing
willingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of willing: most willing
multiworkstation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + workstation.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple computer workstations.
multiplaintiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + plaintiff.
Senses: glosses: Involving multiple plaintiffs.
megalithism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From megalith + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The culture surrounding the building of megaliths.
uncorker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncorkers
Etymology: From uncork + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uncorks.
uncorkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncorker
braggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡ.əl/
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: braggles
form: braggling
form: braggled
form: braggled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of broggle.
sea vegetables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea vegetable
cucumber time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucumber times
Etymology: Cucumbers were in season at this time.
Senses: glosses: A period of the year when there was little work for tailors.
cucumber times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucumber time
silly seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silly season
Czecho-Slovakia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of Czechoslovakia.
superstylish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superstylish
form: most superstylish
Etymology: From super- + stylish.
Senses: examples: text: With a minimalist decor and generous use of white, this is a superstylish house, with purple heartwood floors.
ref: 2008, Christina Paulette Colón, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Darwin Porter, Frommer's Caribbean 2009, page 96:
glosses: Very stylish.
baguala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish baguala.
Senses: examples: text: The vidala is our form of the blues. The baguala and the vidala are our musical vanguard, even though they're thousands of years old. The youth of the world are searching for a cry and a Song with a cosmic force.
ref: 1978, Sing Out:
text: Thus, even today we can see the survival of these basic modes in the tritonic scale of the baguala musical genre of the Inca region, which uses only the major chord notes to generate its melodies.
ref: 2006, Goldberg: Early Music Magazine:
glosses: A genre of folk music of northeastern Argentina.
shishkebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shishkebabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shish kebab.
shish kabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shish kabobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shish kebab.
shishkebob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shishkebobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shish kebab.
shish kabab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shish kababs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shish kebab.
shish kababs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish kabab
shishkebobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shishkebob
shish kabobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish kabob
shish kebobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish kebob
shishkebabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shishkebab
kokoshnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokoshniks
form: kokoshniki
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian коко́шник (kokóšnik), meaning "like [the crest or comb of] a hen".
Senses: glosses: A traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan.
kokoshniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kokoshnik
sarafan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarafans
form: sarafany
Etymology: From Russian сарафа́н (sarafán), from Turkic, from Persian سراپا (sarâpâ, literally “from head to foot”). Doublet of sarapa.
Senses: glosses: A traditional long, trapeze-shaped Russian pinafore worn by women and girls.
sarafans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarafan
sheenless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sheen + -less.
Senses: antonyms: sheenful
glosses: Without a sheen; dull.
curtain-raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain-raisers
form: curtain raiser
Senses: examples: text: [H]e had tried all kinds: comedy, tragedy, prose and verse, the light curtain-raiser, the short sharp drama, the bourgeoisrealistic and the lyrical-romantic.
ref: 1910, Edith Wharton, “The Bolted Door”, in Tales of Men and Ghosts:
text: “Capricious Maneuvers,” the eight-minute romp of a curtain raiser that Mr. Peck made for City Ballet’s 2013 Fall Gala, was fun.
ref: 2014 February 20, Brian Seibert, “Dance: Next Step for Force in Ballet”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: In a theater, an initial play, musical performance, etc which precedes the main performance.
examples: text: It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.
ref: 1901, Harold MacGrath, chapter 7, in The Puppet Crown:
text: But the first foray by Russian strategic bombers into the Western hemisphere since the Cold War is simply the curtain raiser for joint naval maneuvers that will bring Russian warships into Venezuelan waters in November.
ref: 2008 September 11, Virginia Lopez, “Russia's Venezuela Foray: Tit for Tat”, in Time, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
text: When the Paris Olympics opening ceremony begins on Friday night, it will be the first time the theatrical curtain-raiser for the world’s biggest sporting event has taken place outside a stadium.
ref: 2024 July 25, Angelique Chrisafis, “Paris prepares for Olympics opening ceremony spectacle along River Seine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A prelude or introduction to an activity or thing.
Synonyms: sense: performing arts
word: warm-up act
sense: prelude or introduction
word: preamble
sense: prelude or introduction
word: prologue
Related terms: curtain-raise
sheek kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheek kebabs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seekh kebab.
curtain raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain raisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curtain-raiser.
hardbody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardbodies
Etymology: From hard + body.
Senses: examples: text: "This town's stuffed with A-list hardbody superbabes," he confided in me — "Idaho farm girls, preacher's daughters from Ohio, Alabama college girls — every last cute-assed one of them wants to be an actress.
ref: 2003, Phillip Oppenheim, Maggie to Margaritas:
text: No hardbody, Maria's was a soft, squishy middle, probably from a few too many whipped cream indulgences on shift.
ref: 2008, Laurie Channer, Godblog, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Certainly the action heroine is often filmed to accentuate her body, but this new hardbody is not offered up as a mere sexual commodity. While the well-toned muscular female body is obviously an ideal in this age of physical fitness, it is presented in these films as first and foremost a functional body, a weapon. ... Where once stood silicone-injected breasts and delicate shoulders, now stands ripped pecs and striated delts.
ref: 2011, Jeffrey A. Brown, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 25:
text: The “hardbody film,” a term that was first coined by Susan Jeffords, is defined by Drew Ayers as: ... What is unique to this cycle of films is the focus on the body of the male hero, a body that is fetishized for its hard and sculpted muscularity and/or its athletic skill and physical prowess.
ref: 2014, James Kendrick, Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: An attractive body enhanced through weightlifting.
hardbody
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + body.
Senses: glosses: Designating a kind of large, tough chicken with strong bones.
conscience money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscience-money
Senses: examples: text: The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain "a still and quiet conscience."
ref: 1865 November 23, “From Washington”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
text: "Whatever I've done, I've always been criticized. . . . If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly."
ref: 1918, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 1, in Oh, Money! Money!:
text: Other US companies, keen to be seen making the politically correct investment now, are bringing ‘conscience money’ to the new South Africa.
ref: 1994 May 3, Richard Dowden, “most-south-africans-will-not-see-newfound-wealth-overnight-says-richard-dowden-1433381.html Big Mac and Coke? Not so fast . . .: Most South Africans will not see new-found wealth overnight”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
text: He described the aid work done by religious missions as "conscience money" to make up for the harm they have done.
ref: 2010 November 28, Paul Harris, “Tony Blair v Christopher Hitchens: fight the good fight”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
glosses: Money which is voluntarily paid by a party who feels guilt, and seeks to provide compensation, for some past misdeed or negligence.
Related terms: blood money
conscience-money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conscience money.
hardbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardbody
money crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money crops
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cash crop.
synonyms: word: cash crop
fecundabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fecundability
get on someone's bad side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on someone's bad side
form: getting on someone's bad side
form: got on someone's bad side
form: got on someone's bad side
form: gotten on someone's bad side
form: get on someone's wrong side
Senses: examples: text: You don't want to get on that guy's bad side. He loses his temper very quickly and easily.
antonyms: get on someone's good side
glosses: To do something to upset or anger somebody.
Related terms: bad books
occation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of occasion.
resisting arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The crime of obstructing or opposing a police officer who is making an arrest.
hypocolius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocoliuses
Senses: glosses: The grey hypocolius (Hypocolius ampelinus), the sole member of the family Hypocoliidae.
unabiding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unabydyng; equivalent to un- + abiding.
Senses: glosses: Not abiding; impermanent.
rainstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rānstĭk
ipa: /ˈreɪnstɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: rainsticks
form: rain stick
Etymology: From rain + stick.
Senses: glosses: A hollow tube partially filled with pebbles or beans, and with small pins or thorns arranged helically on its inner surface, so that it produces a rain-like sound when upended.
rainsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainstick
direct report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct reports
Senses: examples: text: The revelation that boss of one year Laurent Freixe was conducting an undisclosed affair with a direct report has rocked a 159-year-old conglomerate that pioneered infant formula and milk chocolate before growing to become the world's largest food and beverage company.
ref: 2025 September 20, Madeleine Speed, Mercedes Ruehl, “The meltdown at Nestlé”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
topics: business
glosses: An employee who is directly under the supervision of a particular manager.
indirect report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indirect reports
Etymology: From indirect + report.
Senses: glosses: an employee who is indirectly under the supervision of a particular manager
hosho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hosho
Senses: examples: text: In the yard, unmarried uncles, cousins and aunts began on the drums and hosho in a circle, dancing and singing while individuals freestyled in the centre.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 68:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Either of a pair of gourds with seeds inside, used as musical instruments in Zimbabwe.
mulukhiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malukhiyah
form: mloukhiya
form: molohiya
form: molokhia
form: moroheiya
form: mulukhiya
form: mulukhiyya
form: mulukhiyyah
Etymology: From Arabic مُلُوخِيَّة (mulūḵiyya).
Senses: examples: text: Limya is preparing mulukhiyah this morning, something she ate nearly every day when she lived in Sudan. It's a stew made of lamb and the mulukhiyah leaf, also known as mallow, popular in Middle Eastern cooking.
ref: 2011, Lynne Christy Anderson, Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens:
synonyms: Egyptian spinach
nalita
glosses: Corchorus species, particularly jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius), used as a vegetable in Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, which can be boiled into a mucilaginous broth.
glosses: The mucilaginous broth made by boiling this plant.
molokhia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
malukhiyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
mulukhiyya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
moroheiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese モロヘイヤ (moroheiya), from Egyptian Arabic ملوخية.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
molohiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
mloukhiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulukhiyah.
kayamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kayambs
Senses: glosses: A flat musical instrument made of reeds or stems filled with seeds, used in the Mascarene Islands.
kayambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kayamb
cotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotypes
Etymology: From co- + type.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A syntype or paratype.
coordinate_terms: type
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: A Banach space (X,‖·‖), such that, given a sequence of independent random variables from a Rademacher distribution, (εᵢ), and a rank q in the range from 2 to infinity, there exists a finite constant C≥1 such that for all finite sequences (x_i)∈X, 𝔼_ε[‖∑ limits ᵢ₌₁ⁿεᵢx_i‖^q]≥1/(C^q)(∑ limits ᵢ₌₁ⁿ‖x_i‖^q), if;2≤q<∞ or 𝔼_ε[‖∑ limits ᵢ₌₁ⁿεᵢx_i‖]≥1/C sup ‖x_i‖, if;q=∞ .
cotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotype
metahistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metahistories
Etymology: From meta- + history.
Senses: examples: text: The fundamental perspective for conceiving “metahistory” can be found in largely German thinkers. The German historicism of Herder, followed by that of Kant—who took issue with Herder's “metahistorical” interpretations, and then Kant's own students who deepened the evidence for the generational history that is the foundation for “metahistory,” Friedrich Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Leopold von Ranke and finally Friedrich Meinecke.
ref: 2021, Mark E. Blum, The Metahistory of Western Knowledge in the Modern Era, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: It’s also a mega-depressing example of manufactured meta-history, where the slaughter of thirteen people was obscured by the need to impose a cogent narrative upon a scenario that had no cogent explanation.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The history of history itself.
Related terms: metahistorian
metahistorical
historicism
historiography
metahistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metahistory
idiochord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiochords
Etymology: From idio- + chord.
Senses: glosses: Any musical instrument whose "string" is made from the same material as its resonating body.
idiochords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idiochord
buccal pumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of ventilation used in respiration in which the animal moves the floor of its mouth in a rhythmic manner that is externally apparent. It is the sole means of inflating the lungs in amphibians.
braziery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brassware
brasiery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of braziery.
brasque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brasques
Etymology: From French brasque, from Vulgar Latin *brasica, from Proto-West Germanic *brasa, from Proto-Germanic *brasō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, crack”); Related to Proto-Germanic *brestaną. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to seethe, boil”).
Senses: glosses: A mixture of charcoal, clay, etc. used in smelting.
Synonyms: steep
cominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French cominal. Doublet of communal.
Senses: examples: text: And then they helped up their father, and so by their cominal assent promised to Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur […]
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: In common; communal; unanimous.
Cuntada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of cunt + Canada
Senses: glosses: Canada.
extensor hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extensor hoods
Senses: glosses: The dorsal hood.
extensor hoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extensor hood
dorsal hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dorsal hoods
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: extensor hood
lateral hood
glosses: The connective attachment by which the extensor tendons insert into the phalanges.
four-to-the-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four-on-the-floor.
fraud squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraud squads
Senses: glosses: A police section specializing in fraud.
Derived terms: Freud squad
grand opening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand openings
Senses: glosses: The official public opening ceremony of a new establishment.
rockjumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockjumpers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rock-jumper.
gross indecency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross indecencies
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any of various sexual criminal offences, including sex with a child and (formerly) male homosexuality.
genetic marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic markers
Senses: glosses: A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
Gahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gahans
form: Gagen
Etymology: Reduced form of McGahan.
Senses: examples: text: The book covers in detail lead singer Dave Gahan's near-fatal heroin addiction and his painful recovery.
ref: 2001, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode: A Biography:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
rockjumpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockjumper
geolocalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of geolocalise
geolocalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geolocalise
Gyrwas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Anglo-Saxon population of the Fens, divided into northern and southern groups.
Related terms: Jarrow
gore
home automation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The automation of housework and household management.
Related terms: healthcare robot
human capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The authors found that human capital, including learning skills, accounted for “61.2, 62.4, and 66.0 percent of the variation in lifetime earnings, lifetime wealth, and lifetime utility” — a measure of life satisfaction.
ref: 2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in New York Times:
topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: social capital
cultural capital
glosses: The stock of competencies, knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes, including creativity, cognitive abilities, embodied in the ability to perform labor so as to produce economic value.
Related terms: human development
human resources
knife control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Legal restriction on the carrying and use of knives.
Coordinate terms: arms control
gun control
LoL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of League of Legends.
logaoedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/
Forms: form: logaedic
form: logaœdic
Etymology: From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logăoidĭkós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”).
Senses: examples: text: Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.
ref: 1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Library of Useful Knowledge), volume I, London: printed by William Clowes and Sons for Baldwin and Cradock, page 171:
text: The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.
ref: 1844, Major, Guide Gr. Trag., second edition, page 159:
text: Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.
ref: 1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79:
text: The essential difference between choreic and logaoedic rhythm is that of ictus.
ref: 1883, Jebb, Œdipus Tyran., Introduction, page 72:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.
logaoedic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/
Forms: form: logaoedics
form: logaedic
form: logaœdic
Etymology: From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logăoidĭkós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”).
Senses: examples: text: Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.
ref: 1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79:
text: Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.
ref: 1879, J. W. White, transl., Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21, page 65:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Any logaoedic verse.
logaoedics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: logaoedic poetry
meat floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rousong.
neurocinematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + cinematic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neurocinematics.
neurocinematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + cinematics.
Senses: synonyms: neurocinema
glosses: The neuroscientific study of the effects of films on the viewer's brain.
podcatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The downloading of podcasts.
podcatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of podcatch
Related terms: podcatch
podcatcher
placemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From place + making.
Senses: examples: text: The positive rhetoric and branding of placemaking is that it transforms run-down areas into vibrant and economically successful parts of the city. The reality is that it creates sterile places, emptied of so many of the essential aspects of urban life, except the expensive activities.
ref: 2025 May 26, Anna Minton, “A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The planning, design and management of public spaces with regard to the communities that will inhabit them.
placeshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: placeshifts
form: placeshifting
form: placeshifted
form: placeshifted
Etymology: From place + shift.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast (media) from one device to another, by means of placeshifting.
placeshifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of placeshift
placeshifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of placeshift