cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Canastota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Lenox, Madison County, New York, United States.
qurut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kashk.
synonyms: word: kashk
NDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of nature-deficit disorder.
glosses: Initialism of neurodevelopmental disorder.
had bats in one's belfry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have bats in one's belfry
has bats in one's belfry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have bats in one's belfry
having bats in one's belfry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have bats in one's belfry
Maʽat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Egyptian mꜣꜥt, U2:mAa-a:t-H6-B1
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maat (an Ancient Egyptian goddess, the personification of truth, order, and righteousness, symbolized by a feather).
Ma'at
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Egyptian mꜣꜥt, U2:mAa-a:t-H6-B1
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Maat (an Ancient Egyptian goddess, the personification of truth, order, and righteousness, symbolized by a feather).
cormoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cormoid
form: most cormoid
Etymology: From corm + -oid, from Latin cornus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to corm or corms.
pension plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pension plans
Senses: synonyms: pension scheme
glosses: An employment benefit in which the employer pays money on a regular basis to an employee after retirement.
Related terms: pension funds
401(k)
Sophistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sophistic
form: most Sophistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”).
Sophistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of sophistic.
shrinkflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shrinkflates
form: shrinkflating
form: shrinkflated
form: shrinkflated
Etymology: Back-formation from shrinkflation. Equivalent to a blend of shrink + inflate.
Senses: examples: text: Lately, Mr. Dworsky has had his work cut out for him. With inflation at a 40-year high, business owners have been increasingly shrinkflating their products in an attempt to hide price increases.
ref: 2022 November 26, Clare Toeniskoetter, “Meet the Man on a Mission to Expose Sneaky Price Increases”, in The New York Times:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To make a product smaller while continuing to market it at the same price.
skeeter syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From slang skeeter (“a mosquito”).
Senses: examples: text: In the morning I am awakened by what I assume are ambulances but which are allegedly cicadas. My left ankle is swollen with two mosquito bites. I suffer from “skeeter syndrome,” which means mosquito bites on my skin distend to tumoral degrees and erupt in tiny welts.
ref: 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of localized severe allergic reaction to mosquito bites, caused by allergenic polypeptides in mosquito saliva, consisting of inflammation, peeling skin, hives, ulceration, and sometimes fever.
Dunkerton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Dunkerton and Tunley parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7159).
glosses: A minor city in Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Dunkerton and Tunley
Tunley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet near Oakridge, Bisley-with-Lypiatt parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO9304).
glosses: A village in Dunkerton and Tunley parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6959).
glosses: A surname.
tail grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail grapes
Senses: glosses: A climbing plant of the genus Artabotrys, which produces inedible grape-looking fruit.
idioculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiocultures
Etymology: From idio- (“individual, separate”) + culture.
Senses: glosses: The distinctive cultural norms and behaviour patterns of a group (such as a clique or friendship circle) within a community or subculture.
Related terms: idiolect
idiocultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idioculture
summer grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summer grapes
Senses: synonyms: Arkansas grape, bunch grape, chicken grape, Cynthiana grape, Norton grape, pigeon grape, rusty grape, swamp grape
glosses: A grape of species Vitis aestivalis, native to the Eastern U.S.
glosses: A grape of species Vitis labrusca, native to the Eastern U.S.; a fox grape.
rock grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock grapes
Senses: synonyms: sand grape
glosses: A species of grape native to the Ozarks, Vitis rupestris.
mountain grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain grapes
Senses: glosses: The rock grape, Vitis rupestris.
ramoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramoons
Senses: glosses: The ramoon-tree
shahtoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shahtoots
Senses: glosses: A type of Asian mulberry tree, Morus macroura.
glosses: The elongated fruit of this tree.
monkswort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monksworts
Senses: glosses: A hairy Old World plant of the borage family, genus Nonea.
collateralized fund obligation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collateralized fund obligations
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: a type of asset-backed security and structured credit product constructed from a portfolio of fund assets.
Synonyms: CFO
collateralized fund obligations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collateralized fund obligation
altricious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altricious
form: most altricious
Senses: examples: text: In considering the young we must distinguish between the altricious and precocious species, and remember that between such extremes every shade of difference exists. The cedar waxwing which is born blind and naked may be taken as a type of the altricious group.
ref: 1908 May 29, Francis H. Herrick, “The Relation of Instinct to Intelligence in Birds”, in Science, volume 27, number 700, →OCLC, page 848:
text: It was apparent even that in some lines of inquiry or of action a child might be altricious and in others precocious. The abilities to read well and to compute well, to remember geography and to do carpentry work do not develop synchronously.
ref: 1913 February, W. E. Chancellor, “Temperament and the Education of Foreigners […] ”, in Educational Foundations, volume 24, number 6, A.S. Barnes, →OCLC, page 339:
text: Some birds start hopping around and looking for food within seconds of hatching. Humans, in stark contrast, are the most altricious species known, and helpless for a very long time after birth. As evolutionary scholars Peter Richerson and Rob Boyd put it, “We are the largest brained, slowest developing member of the largest brained, slowest developing mammalian order.”
ref: 2014, Jim Davies, Riveted, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Synonym of altricial.
synonyms: word: altricial
minnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnək/
/ˈmɪnɪk/
Forms: form: minnocks
Etymology: From Middle English *minok, from Old English *mynoc, *mynuc, diminutive of myne (“minnow”), equivalent to minnow + -ock (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Scots minnock (“minnow”).
Senses: glosses: The minnow (genus Leuciscus or Phoxinus)
minnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnək/
/ˈmɪnɪk/
Forms: form: minnocks
form: minnick
form: minnik
Etymology: From Middle English *minnok, diminutive formed from Middle English min, minne (“small, lesser, lower”), from Old English min (“small”) and Old Norse minni (“lesser, smaller”). Equivalent to min + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who acts or speaks with affected nicety; a suck-up.
minnock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnək/
/ˈmɪnɪk/
Forms: form: minnocks
form: minnocking
form: minnocked
form: minnocked
form: minnick
form: minnik
Etymology: From Middle English *minnok, diminutive formed from Middle English min, minne (“small, lesser, lower”), from Old English min (“small”) and Old Norse minni (“lesser, smaller”). Equivalent to min + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: To act or speak with affected niceness.
glosses: To imitate or mimic the behaviour of one's superiors; to ape.
glosses: To fool or monkey around.
minnocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minnock
ant mimicry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ant + mimicry.
Senses: glosses: myrmecomorphy (the mimicry of ants by other animals)
greened-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greened-out
form: most greened-out
Etymology: See green out.
Senses: examples: text: Plus, if you've ever accidentally eaten an entire edible, completely greened out, and had a terrifying experience where you thought you time-traveled to the 1800s or something, rest assured that this dank beer won't disrespect you like that, because it’ll be available in three different strengths, so you'll have a pretty good idea of how high you're going to get.
ref: 2018 April 2, Zeynep Yenisey, “The Founder of Blue Moon Is Coming Out with a THC-Infused Craft Beer That Gets You High”, in Maxim:
text: (title)
ref: 2019 August 26, Sydney Perelmutter, “First aid for your greened-out pooch”, in The Growthop:
text: Anciients brings the riffs in a progressive way, while their vocals switch between death growls and soaring cleans – enough to disrupt you out of your greened-out trip for some serious headbanging.
ref: 2022 September 22, Ryan Dyer, “These 25 Canadian Stoner Bands Remind Us The Grass is Always Greener Where It’s Legal”, in MetalSucks:
synonyms: baked
glosses: Feeling unwell as a result of using excessive amounts of cannabis; extremely high.
green out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green outs
Etymology: From the association of marijuana with the color green.
Senses: examples: text: Alcohol's role as a diuretic increases the risk for dehydration. Throw in some pot and your risk of dehydration increases, especially if you vomit during a green out.
ref: 2022 October 7, Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, “Mixing Weed And Alcohol? Crossfading Does This To Your Body”, in Discover Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of greenout.
green out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greens out
form: greening out
form: greened out
form: greened out
Etymology: From the association of marijuana with the color green.
Senses: examples: text: "I knew maybe four people who had 'greened out' in the cafeteria," said a recent graduate.
ref: 2013 September 30, Bridget Forbes, “Cocaine, pot used by Winnipeg kids at younger ages”, in CBC:
text: Grinspoon finishes with some sage advice on the best way to avoid greening out: "Keep the doses low and know yourself. If it happens to you, try to do a postmortem on what happened, like: 'Was there alcohol involved? Was there nicotine involved?' Was I overtired? Did I take five puffs when I usually take two puffs?'"
ref: 2022 April 20, Ross Buchanan, “Why You Sometimes Feel Sick or Vomit After Smoking Weed”, in Vice:
text: Either way, by the middle of our conversation, she knew about how I woke up crying the night before because I dreamed of a mischief of rats living under my bed, that I'm in my "I-love-men era," how I’m grateful that I greened out on edibles and dissociated for two weeks because I think that it was the catalyst for my ego death […]
ref: 2022 April 29, “Girls and their boobs — in that order”, in Yale Daily News:
glosses: To feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis.
Derived terms: word: greened-out
word: greenout
greens out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green out
greens out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of green out
greening out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of green out
greened out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more greened out
form: most greened out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of greened-out.
greened out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of green out
green outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green out
gooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of goon
phallophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallophiliac
form: most phallophiliac
form: phallophilic
Etymology: From phallophilia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: We and gay men are on opposite sides of this part of phallophilic orthodoxy. Let me interject that though I derogate and mock the worship of the penis, I do not despise its enjoyment.
ref: 1983, Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality, Crossing Press, page 134:
text: To be heterosexual is to be phallophiliac. Or so it would seem.
ref: 1987, International Association for Philosophy and Literature. Meeting, Power, Gender, Values, Academic Printing & Pub., →ISBN, page 56:
text: So pleasing and phallophiliac have women become in Arab countries that they have forgotten the feel of their own skin and the multiplicity of their tongues.
ref: 2014, Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Exhibiting phallophilia; being sexually attracted to or revering of penises.
Zolotonosha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Золотоно́ша (Zolotonóša).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.
phallophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallophilic
form: most phallophilic
Senses: examples: text: This suggests that gay men, like feminists, may oppose a homosocial patriarchy, and is not congruent with the kind of radical feminism represented by feminists like lesbian philosopher Marilyn Frye, who argues that all gay men are "phallophilic" and so no less sexist than straight men.
ref: 2013, Carol-Anne Tyler, Female Impersonation, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
text: The graphocentric, nationalist, phallophilic and gynophobic picture the anti-canonists paint of all known canons means that the days are numbered of English as a discipline organized around a relatively stable syllabus of traditionally stable syllabus of traditionally values works.
ref: 2014, Jan Gorak, The Making of the Modern Canon, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: Alternative form of phallophiliac (“being sexually attracted to penises”).
Zorynsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Зо́ринськ (Zórynsʹk)
Senses: glosses: A city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
phagism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The relation of the said groups of phagism to the life - forms of the plants they live on is shown in Table 9.
ref: 1969, Andrzej Samuel Kostrowicki, Geography of the Palaearctic Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera)., Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Oddział, page 71:
text: Finally, Brues' third prediction regarding the presence of regional and/or seasonal preferences (i.e., Brues' host races) appears fairly well documented for insects of all phagism categories ( Brues, 1923; 1946; Buxton, 1923; Brower, 1958b; Dowwney & Fuller, 1961; Neck, 1973).
ref: 1974, Frank Slansky, Energetic and Nutritional Interactions Between Larvae of the Imported Cabbage Butterfly, Pieris Rapae L., and Cruciferous Food-plants, page 241:
text: The most common mode of diet specialization among phytophagous insects seems to lie between the two extreme forms of phagism.
ref: 1985, Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology, page 476:
glosses: A trophic pattern (one of monophagy, oligophagy, or polyphagy).
examples: text: Precosmophobic phagism, or undifferentiated phagism, is phagism with no limits of space or time: the devouring mouth, as it were, unites the individual with the whole world for all time.
ref: 1972, Samy Mokhtar, Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia: The Psychopathology of Civilization, page 289:
text: In the scale of awareness, scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important than scatism.
ref: 1974, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Canadian Psychiatric Association., page 419:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A desire to eat that is not based on nutritional need.
cosmophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmophobic
form: most cosmophobic
Etymology: From cosmophobia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The cosmophobic equivalent of erotic phallophilia (male homosexuality) is erotic phallophobia, that is, the fear of homosexuality, specifically of passive homosexuality, which is closely related to androphobic shame in men.
ref: 1972, Samy Mokhtar Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia, Roseneath Scientific Publications, →ISBN, page 314:
text: This scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important that scatism.
ref: 1974, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Canadian Psychiatric Association., page 419:
glosses: Exhibiting cosmophobia; being afraid of outer space.
Zuhres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Зугре́с (Zuhrés)
Senses: glosses: A city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
studgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studguns
Etymology: From stud + gun.
Senses: examples: text: Eight shots per loading may be fired from this studgun with a one-eighth turn of the cylinder after each firing.
ref: 1966 11, M. J. Pedersen, “Better Mousetraps”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 126, number 3, →ISSN, page 73:
text: This combined studgun effectiveness and danger is nowhere more dramatically illustrated than in the two accidents that formed the subject of this analysis.
ref: 1991, Textual Dynamics of the Professions, University of Wisconsin Press, page 262:
glosses: Any gun which shoots studs ("a small object that protrudes from something").
studguns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studgun
Izmail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Ukrainian Ізмаї́л (Izmajíl)
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
Irmino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian І́рміно (Írmino).
Senses: glosses: A city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine.
corgipoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corgipoos
Etymology: From corgi + poodle. Compare cockapoo.
Senses: examples: text: We used to joke that we should get our dogs to breed because they’d make the cutest little corgipoos.
ref: 2020, Arianne Costner, My Life as a Potato, →ISBN, page 217:
text: A set of late teenaged twins with matching corgipoos settled at their feet, an elderly man with a cockatiel perched on his shoulder, a little girl curled into her mother's side with a rabbit in a cage on her lap, and a woman in her mid-thirties who's half-wrestling her giant mastiff.
ref: 2021, Wendy Meadows, Peril and a Peppermint Pig, Majestic Owl Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Pomapoo and corgipoo / corgipoo female 5 mo 9lb low shedding.
ref: 2021 January 14, “Marketplace”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 94, number 175, page D-9:
text: Farm Raised Corgipoos / F1B corgipoos. Mother is corgipoo family pet. Father/stud toy poodle.
ref: 2022 September 7, “Classified”, in Lee’s Summit Journal, page 13B:
glosses: A dog that is a cross between a corgi and a poodle.
corgipoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corgipoo
eSTOLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eSTOL
eSTOVLs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eSTOVL
Aussiedoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aussiedoodles
Etymology: From Aussie + doodle.
Senses: examples: text: The blue eyes associated with some Australian Shepherds won’t appear in first-generation Aussiedoodles although occasionally some will have partially blue eyes.
ref: 2006, Designer Dogs, Interpet Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Knucklehead was my Aussiedoodle, a “hybrid” the woman at the animal shelter said.
ref: 2010, David James, Three Bedrooms, Two Baths, One Very Dead Corpse, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Conran obviously had no idea he had just created the first designer hybrid—one that would go on to become wildly trendy and spawn dozens of spin-offs (including schnoodles, or schnauzer-poodles; cavoodles, or Cavalier King Charles–poodles; groodles, or golden retriever–poodles; and, of course, Aussiedoodles)—but he regrets it nonetheless.
ref: 2012, Josh Dean, “A Few Words on the Matter of Labradoodles”, in Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred, It Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 411:
text: Just as Davis makes sure to be home around 6 p.m. to see his two young daughters, Bette carves out time to spend with her pups, a Chesapeake Bay retriever and an Aussiedoodle.
ref: 2014 April 23, Alice Levitt, “A Taste for Growth”, in Seven Days, volume 19, number 34, page 47:
text: Panda, Lilli’s gray-and-white Aussiedoodle, wandered in and out of view.
ref: 2015 September 21, Reeves Wiedeman, “The Prom Queen of Instagram”, in New York, page 50:
text: Registered Aussiedoodle Pups!! Adorable aussiedoodles, we have female/male, black with white markings. Aussiedoodles are highly intelligent, easy to train and great with kids.
ref: 2020 March 19, “Classified Advertisements”, in The Wanderer, page 52:
glosses: A dog that is a cross between an Australian Shepherd and a poodle.
Aussiedoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aussiedoodle
muzzock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌzək/
/ˈmʌzɪk/
Forms: form: muzzocks
Etymology: From muzzle + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Senses: synonyms: mug
glosses: The mouth; muzzle; face, especially the lower part (mouth and chin).
muzzocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muzzock
pseudoliberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: False liberalism
approued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of approved.
unresinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresinated
form: most unresinated
Senses: glosses: not resinated, non-resinated
sortitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Chosen by sortition: selected by drawing lots.
octathlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octathletes
Senses: glosses: Competitor in an octathlon.
octathletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octathlete
arthralgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthralgies
Senses: synonyms: arthralgia
glosses: Pain in a joint
Related terms: sense: see
word: arthralgia
Combe Hay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7359).
NeRF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NeRFs
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of neural radiance field.
Related terms: MoRF
RF
MFer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFers
Senses: examples: text: Ed had to admit he wasn’t on any kind of schedule (this was a dream after all), but he sure as hell wasn’t going anywhere with this fried MF’er.
ref: 2007, Max West, Necrotown, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 222:
text: “When I hear these stories, I always ask myself, "Why am I working, when these lazy MFers are getting shelter for free?"”asked^([sic]) commenter Julie B.
ref: 2017 June 7, David F. Brand, ““I didn’t know finding an apartment would be impossible" – Data and Experience Refute the Homeless 'Magnet Theory' in New York City and Nationwide”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022:
text: I was raised to be afraid of the same things every other black person was pretty much raised to be afraid of, and it’s not like N word using MFer is going to come up to me and be like, oh, well, I see your shoes, I guess I’m going to spare you today, sir.
ref: 2017 August 24, Wesley Morris, “Still Processing: We Care for Ourselves and Others in Trump’s America”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2017:
text: “Aight MFers… it’s on TWITTER TOO! BI-DEN!” Hines said in a tweet sharing the video Saturday, the first day of early voting in New York.
ref: 2020 October 26, Emma Ockerman, “NYPD Cop Caught Saying 'Trump 2020!' on Squad Car's Loudspeaker Suspended Without Pay”, in Vice, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2020:
text: They were scary, smart, bad MFers.
ref: 2021, David Dominé, A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City, Pegasus Crime, →ISBN:
text: The average student is traumatized by bad apples kicking teachers, punching resource officers, calling administrators MFers and roaming the halls like bullies.
ref: 2021 September 29, John Kiley, “Board gives disruptive kids a pass”, in The Cap Times, page 39:
text: Not in terms of cursing, not in terms of calling guys ‘you dumb m-fers!’
ref: 2022 February 26, Tom Archdeacon, quoting Scott Nagy, “The stark wake-up call that forever changed Wright State’s head coach”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 145, number 136, page D4:
text: The thought of Malcolm needing to put any effort toward being seen as anything but one sexy, scary MFer tickled her.
ref: 2022, Kait Ballenger, Cowboy Wolf Outlaw, Sourcebooks, →ISBN:
text: These MFers won’t take us down without a fight.
ref: 2022, Susan Liberty, Ties That Bind, Diva Mountain Books & Baubles, →ISBN:
glosses: Abbreviation of motherfucker.
NeRFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NeRF
batted for the other team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bat for the other team
batting for the other team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bat for the other team
batted for the other side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bat for the other side
bats for the other side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bat for the other side
batting for the other side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bat for the other side
dumping day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumping days
form: Dumping Day
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The first day of lobster fishing season, when the first lobster traps are set, i.e. dumped into the water.
Coordinate terms: National Lobster Day
MFers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MFer
co-edit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-edits
form: co-editing
form: co-edited
form: co-edited
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coedit.
co-edits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-edit
co-editing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-edit
co-edited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-edit
co-editor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-editors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coeditor.
co-editors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-editor
sunshine roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunshine roofs
Senses: glosses: A sunroof.
sunshine roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunshine roof
MAYA principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by American industrial designer Raymond Loewy in 1951 to describe his own design methodology.
Senses: glosses: A principle stating that the most effective design for a product is one that is "Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable", or one that combines familiarity and novelty.
RPAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RPA
RPCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RPC
RSPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RSP
rts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rt
RXRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RXR
RWCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RWC
SA100s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA100
SA102s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA102
SA105s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA105
SA106s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA106
SA108s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA108
SA109s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SA109
SAKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAK
SABAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SABA
SAns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SAn
SBHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SBH
SBOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SBO
SCADAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCADA
scFvs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scFv
SCFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCF
electro-pneumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] Mr. Grierson remarks that on the L.P.T.B. tube stock in general the electro-pneumatic brake is in use, but that the new 1938 stock is fitted with the self-lapping electro-pneumatic brake, which is under the control of an automatic mercury-operated retardation controller when normal service stops are being made.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Bakerloo Tube Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
text: The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 661:
text: Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
glosses: Alternative form of electropneumatic.
Iziaslav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Izyaslav
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ізя́слав (Izjáslav).
Senses: glosses: A city in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, in western Ukraine.
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ізясла́в (Izjasláv)
Trinitytide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪnɪtitaɪd/
Etymology: From Trinity + -tide.
Senses: examples: text: […] in 1779 he printed a Latin oration which he had delivered in the chapel of his college at Trinitytide.
ref: 1894, William Prideaux Courtney, “Mathias, Thomas James”, in Sidney Lee, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, volume 37, page 47:
text: Henry followed up these steps to build up his power in South Germany by planning a military campaign in Saxony against Rudolf. It was a concern of his Trinitytide court at Nuremberg, and of a subsequent visit to Mainz and the middle Rhineland.
ref: 1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, page 178:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Trinity Sunday, the Sunday after Pentecost, or the period around it.
examples: text: Whereas the Extraordinary Form counts Sundays after Pentecost, Divine Worship follows the traditional Anglican practice of numbering Sundays after Trinity Sunday. Trinitytide concludes with the celebration of Christ the King on the Sunday prior to the first Sunday of Advent.
ref: 2021, Steven J. Lopes, “The worship of God in the beauty of holiness: A presentation of Divine Worship”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, →ISBN, page 59:
topics: Christianity
qualifier: chiefly Anglicanism
glosses: The season of the liturgical year from Trinity Sunday to Advent.
SCNRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SCNR
scRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scRNA
SDLCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SDLC
SFDRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SFDR
SFRs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SFR
sgACCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgACC
SHFs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SHF
SHGCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SHGC
SIJs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of SIJ
grokkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: more grokkable
form: most grokkable
form: grokable
Etymology: From grok + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be grokked.
grokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grokable
form: most grokable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grokkable.
four-track
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Express Travel on Slow Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of four-tracked.
synonyms: word: four-tracked
RAship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RAships
Senses: examples: text: For the past seven months of my RAship, I've been studying the effects of different floor surfaces on dancers' bodies.
text: RAships provide opportunities for graduate students to acquire, practice, and enhance their research knowledge and skills
ref: 2017, Ewelina Kinga Niemczyk, “Doctoral Research Education in Canada: Full-Time and Part-Time Students' Access to Research Assistantships”, in Brock Education Journal, volume 26, number 1, →DOI, page 53:
text: Currently, he has two RAships and one TAship while doing some other small jobs to support himself.
ref: 2022 October 6, Nikoo Pajoom, “Concordia TAs Overworked And Underpaid”, in The Concordian, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2022:
glosses: Abbreviation of research assistantship.
RAships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RAship
yellow-jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-jackets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yellow jacket.
yellow-jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow-jacket
alexipyretics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexipyretic
Chilminar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chelminar
form: Tchelminar
form: Chihil Minar
form: Chil Minar
form: Chehel Menar
form: Chelmenar
form: Chel Menar
form: Cheminar
form: Techelminar
Etymology: From Spanish Chilminara in the French translation of De Silva Figueroa's account of his travels in Persia from 1617 to 1619, from Persian چهل منار (čehel menâr, “ruins of Persepolis”), from چهل (čehel, “forty”) + منار (menâr, “minarets”), from the appearance of the ruins.
Senses: examples: text: CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.
synonyms: word: Persepolis
word: particularly its modern ruins
Chelminar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſopolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
Tchelminar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Chilminar, the ruins of Persepolis.
enburdenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enburdenments
Etymology: From en- + burden + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: emburdenment
glosses: The process of placing a burden onto someone.
Related terms: burden
burdener
burdensome
emburden
emburdenment
reburden
unburden
unburdened
unburdensome
enburden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enburdens
form: enburdening
form: enburdened
form: enburdened
Etymology: From en- + burden.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of emburden.
synonyms: word: emburden
smashed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smash up
GLO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GLOs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of generic learning outcome.
examples: text: BIPOC students within GLOs at Vanderbilt, UPenn, Columbia University, Whitman College, to name a few, have written of their experiences of being tokenized within their respective GLO in university publications.
ref: 2021 September 13, “Is it Great to Go Greek?”, in The McGill Daily, Montreal, Que.: Daily Publications Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2023:
glosses: Initialism of Greek-letter organization.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of group litigation order.
GLO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of General Land Office.
GLOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of GLO
wero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wero
Etymology: From Maori [Term?] (literally “to cast a spear”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Māori challenge, performed to ensure that visitors come in peace.
shortcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shortcoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-coat.
shortcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shortcoats
form: shortcoating
form: shortcoated
form: shortcoated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-coat.
shortcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shortcoat
shortcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shortcoat
shortcoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shortcoat
shortcoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shortcoat
Deweyans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Deweyan
Arnoldians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arnoldian
Arnoldianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arnoldian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the ideas of Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), British poet and cultural critic.
e-donation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-donations
Etymology: From e- + donation.
Senses: glosses: A charitable donation (gift of money) made by means of computer technology.
e-philanthropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + philanthropy.
Senses: glosses: Philanthropy (charitable giving) facilitated by computer technology.
e-donations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-donation
chevron-wise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chevron-wise
form: most chevron-wise
Senses: examples: text: CHEVRONNE, or Chevronny, ſignifies the dividing of the ſhield ſeveral times chevron-wiſe.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Alternative form of chevronwise.
Barremian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An age in the geologic timescale (or a chronostratigraphic stage) between 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago) and 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma), a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous Epoch (or Lower Cretaceous Series).
Hauterivian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An age in the Early Cretaceous Epoch or a stage in the Lower Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 132.9 ± 2 Ma and 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago).
chewing-ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewing-balls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chewing ball.
chewing-balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewing-ball
chewing ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewing balls
form: chewing-ball
Senses: examples: text: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A medicinal ball attached to a horse's bit so that the chewing will improve its appetite.
juniper-wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of juniper wood.
chewing balls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewing ball
bay-wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baywood.
margenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of margent
margented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of margent
liver of antimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a supposed resemblance to the color of animals' livers.
Senses: examples: text: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
text: The crocus metallorum, or liver of antimony, was a violent cathartic and emetic.
ref: 1920 May 15, Lancet, No. 1047, p. 1
text: The Lexicon Technicum... refers to ‘Crocus Metallorum’ or Liver of Antimony made by firing equal parts of powder of antimony and saltpetre.
ref: 2000, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, number 90, page 31:
topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of antimony sulfide.
synonyms: word: antimony sulfide
Chiampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: CHIAMPA, the ſouth diviſion of Cochin-china, a country of the Eaſt-Indies.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Obsolete form of Champa.
Cochin-China
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: CHIAMPA, the ſouth diviſion of Cochin-china, a country of the Eaſt-Indies.
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
glosses: Alternative form of Cochin China.
matfelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matfelons
Senses: glosses: knapweed
matfelons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matfelon
East-Indies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Let it ſuffice to inform him, that in our Paſſage from thence to the Eaſt-Indies, we were driven by a violent Storm to the Northweſt of Van Diemen's Land.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 5:
glosses: Archaic spelling of East Indies.
mawpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare mopus.
Senses: glosses: Money.
Subsaharan Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa.
Austhorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburban area and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, east of the city centre (OS grid ref SE3733).
superirresistible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o′pər-ĭr′ĭ-zĭs′tə-bəl
ipa: /ˌsuː.pəˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌsu.pəɹˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉː.pəˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉː.pɐˌəɹ.əˈzəs.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌsʉ.pəɹˌɪɹ.ɪˈzɪs.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌsuː.pɜʳˌiɾ.iˈzis.ʈi.bel/
rhymes: -ɪstəbəl
Forms: form: more superirresistible
form: most superirresistible
Etymology: From super- + irresistible.
Senses: examples: text: 10 Superirresistible - France.
ref: 1999, John Buckland, The Pocket Guide to Trout & Salmon Flies, Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, page 113:
text: I’m not easy to live with. I’m funny and warm and devoted, but I can be obnoxious and condescending. Keith says I have a part of me that’s superirresistible and another part that’s superannoying, and the key is keeping the right ratio.
ref: 2011, Alexis Stewart, Whateverland: Learning to Live Here, Wiley, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Was she sending me to a place where I have to fight off the guys in my class? Were they going to be some sort of superirresistible type of guy...like Fiore?
ref: 2021, Amelia Shaw, The Legacy: Paranormal Fantasy Fae Slayer Aacademy, Tamsin Baker, page 85:
glosses: Extraordinarily irresistible; of particular irresistibility.