cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Gunchester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of gun + Manchester.
Senses: examples: text: ″You hear people firing off guns all the time,″ she said. ″That’s why they call it Gunchester. I just thought some poor bugger’s got it again, and went on sudsing my hair.″
ref: 1993 November 15, Shawn Pogatchnik, “‘Gunchester’: A Dead Son and Shooting in the Street With AM-Guns Invade Britain, Bjt”, in Associated Press:
text: The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has said that the city has finally shrugged off its notorious Gunchester image thanks to their intensive efforts to combat gangs.
ref: 2011 April 11, Helen Carter, “Farewell to Gunchester”, in The Guardian:
text: Throughout the 1970s and 80s, gang violence increased, which earned the area [Moss Side] the nickname of "gunchester".
ref: 2018 August 13, Imran Rahman-Jones, “Moss Side: A history of the Manchester neighbourhood”, in BBC:
text: Manchester earned its name Gunchester in the 1980s and 1990s but violence came to a head when Benji Stanley, 14, was shot dead at a takeaway.
ref: 2021 March 21, Emily Retter, “Inside 'Gunchester': The brutal blowtorch-armed gangs running riot in Manchester”, in Daily Star:
glosses: The English city of Manchester, particularly Moss Side, referring to the city's historical high gun crime rate.
Related terms: Shottingham
snark-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snark-like
form: most snark-like
Senses: examples: text: I peeped fearfully through the open door, half-dreading to see some sinuous and snark-like conflict in progress on the mat; but all was still.
ref: 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 115:
glosses: Resembling a snark in appearance or behaviour.
thousand pardons
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: His figure was bent in apologetic protest. "I ask a thousand pardons, sir," he said; "I am really so very absent-minded."
ref: 1900, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, page 110:
glosses: A conventionally polite request to be pardoned or excused.
druidic sleep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The process of animal hypnosis has been called catatonia, catalepsy, thanatosis, akinesis, and action inhibition; in man it has been known as mesmerism, animal magnetism, somnambulism, reverie, and druidic sleep.
ref: 1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vii. 213:
glosses: The act or art of hypnosis as practised by ancient Druids.
multicells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicell
stone-ginger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "We'll have some stone-ginger," replied Stephanoff rising to go to the door.
ref: c. 1924, Lesbia Harford, The Invaluable Mystery, published 1987, page 156:
glosses: ginger beer
Anna Karenina principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Referring to Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Popularized by American scientist Jared Diamond (born 1937) in his 1997 non-fiction book Guns, Germs, and Steel, in which he uses it to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history.
Senses: examples: text: While there may be some truth in the Anna Karenina principle that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, we increasingly have a better understanding of what makes for unhappiness and stress in the workplace.
ref: 2011 July 15, Cary L Cooper, Stephen Wood, “Happiness at work: why it counts”, in The Guardian:
text: Japan is often convinced that its economic malaise since the 1980s is the root of its ills, but that link seems less than clear. […] It’s a variation on the Anna Karenina principle: All fertile societies are alike; each infertile society is infertile in its own way.
ref: 2022 June 22, Gearoid Reidy, “The Fertility Crisis Started in Japan, But It Won’t Stay There”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A notion stating that the success of an endeavor depends upon the fulfilment of several essential conditions, and a deficiency in any one of these factors dooms the endeavor to failure.
wikipedia: Anna Karenina
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Leo Tolstoy
Dunkwa-on-Offin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Central Region, in south Ghana.
kaishao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaishaos
form: kai shao
form: kai-shao
form: kaysiao
form: kaisiao
form: kaixiao
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 介紹 /介绍 (kài-siāu, “to introduce; to recommend”).
Senses: examples: text: "Should I be the one to bring up what happened in church? Should I even mention it? If I act like it wasn't a big deal, maybe Pa will tell Auntie Queenie that kaishaos don't work on me. But what if my silence signals to them that I was totally fine with it?
ref: 2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, page 80:
text: Her mother has already met two ladies specializing in the "介紹 kaishao business." They brought her custom bounded books with peoples' information on them.
ref: 2022, Casey Huang, Move on Quick: How to Get Your Life Back and Never Break Your Heart Again, page 111:
text: Our guest was a boy named Gary Cheng, and he met Achi through a kai-shao arranged by father and Gary's father. "Kai-shao" wasn't listed in the dictionary, but mother explained that it was like a blind date. I thought that meant Gary was blind, but mother said it meant that the people going on the date had never met each other before, because it was arranged by mutual friends or family instead.
ref: 2012, Erin Chupeco, “Ho-We”, in Charles Tan, editor, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology, Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, Inc., page 21:
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: matchmaking; a romantic arrangement to set up a date between two people
kaishao
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kaishaos
form: kaishaoing
form: kaishaoed
form: kaishaoed
form: kai shao
form: kai-shao
form: kaysiao
form: kaisiao
form: kaixiao
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 介紹 /介绍 (kài-siāu, “to introduce; to recommend”).
Senses: examples: text: "There might be a small... slight chance that we're getting set up." I sigh. "But I didn't ask for this," I quickly clarify. "Auntie Queenie was weirded out that I didn't have guy friends for the roses in my debut, and she brought up wanting to kaishao me with someone. So you're, like, the kaishao boy." His judgy eyebrow is on full blast. "Kaishao boy?" "They basically used church as an excuse for ambush matchmaking."
ref: 2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, pages 74–75:
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: to matchmake; to set up; to introduce a possible romantic partner
equiproportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equiproportions
Etymology: From equi- + proportion.
Senses: examples: text: The three necessary obligations of man are set forth as suffering, change, and choice, and his equiproportions as Abred and Gwynvyd, necessity and liberty, evil and good[.]
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 179:
glosses: An equal proportion (as other proportions).
equiproportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equiproportion
culture god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture gods
form: culture-god
Senses: examples: text: That Hu was a culture-god symbolized by the bull [...] is therefore clear enough.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 178:
glosses: A god that is believed to have brought culture (arts, literature, technology, etc.) to a people.
culture gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture god
culture-god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture-gods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of culture god.
culture-gods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture-god
Obuasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Tarkwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Western Region, Ghana.
Nsawam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Eastern Region, Ghana.
to someone's face
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: to lie to someone's face
glosses: While looking into someone's eyes, in person; directly; brazenly, shamelessly.
Related terms: in someone's face
return the favour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: returns the favour
form: returning the favour
form: returned the favour
form: returned the favour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of return the favor.
Turkmán
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkmáns
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of Turkman.
cigarette-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cigarette-holders
Senses: examples: text: Pipes, cigars and cigarette-holders, amber goods in great variety, and all kinds of smokers’ articles cheaper than elsewhere, at Sig. Roescher’s, 296 Main street, next to City Ice-house.
ref: 1874 December 24, Public Ledger, volume XIX, number 99, Memphis, Tenn., page [3], column 5:
text: One moment he [Peter O’Toole] had the audience in the palm of his hand, hanging on to every move he made, from the flutter of an eyelid to the flicking of ash from a long cigarette-holder as he represented, with his serpent’s tongue, the thoughtful desolation of an alcoholic London journalist in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
ref: 2013 December 16, Eric Shorter, “[Obituaries] Peter O’Toole”, in The Independent, number 8483, page 48:
text: And he [Dalton Trumbo] remains dapper even in the most dire of circumstances — the hair, the moustache and the sleek cigarette-holder.
ref: 2015 November 27, Bill Brownstein, “Bryan Cranston helps bring Trumbo back to larger than life”, in Montreal Gazette, page B3, column 2:
text: But there are crucial advantages to smoking in films, which such campaigns can never concede: it gives actors a useful, subtle, nonverbal way to tell us something about their characters, from Michael Corleone’s dead-calm manipulation of a Zippo in The Godfather, to Norma Desmond’s talon-like cigarette-holder in Sunset Boulevard.
ref: 2016 April 7, Robbie Collin, “Smoking — film’s last taboo: Lawsuit alleges smoking in films has led 4.6 million youths to take up the habit”, in Vancouver Sun, page NP3, columns 4–5:
glosses: Alternative form of cigarette holder.
cigarette-holders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarette-holder
fairy hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy hills
Senses: examples: text: On this Hill [...] are the Remains of a CAMP, and where the Ground has suffered no Rupture are to be seen Tokens of circular Tents, called Fairy Hills, round which the vulgar report these Sylphes were wont to dance.
ref: 1754, Thomas Gardner, An Historical Account of Dunwich, Antiently a City, Now a Borough, page 189:
text: Their Fairy hills were called Tomhans and Shian, and were supposed to possess great internal comforts, with doors and windows that could only be discovered on dark evenings, by the bright light of the fairy fires shining through the artfully-constructed apertures.
ref: 1865, Cuthbert Bede, The White Wife: With Other Stories, Supernatural, Romantic and Legendary, page 189:
text: Finally, as regards the places in which these rites and mysteries may have been held, certain writers believe them to have been the "Fairy Hills" or "howes" in various parts of Scotland.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page v. 136:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A hill, barrow (tumulus), or other circular eminence, beneath which fairies live.
fairy hills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy hill
Kelticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Kelticizes
form: Kelticizing
form: Kelticized
form: Kelticized
Senses: examples: text: It was, in a word, the North African Cult of the Dead localized, and, later, Kelticized.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page xii. 236:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Celticize.
lustrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lustration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The use of such purificatory or lustrational water was not unknown in the mysteries of Greece and Rome.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page iii. 82:
glosses: Of or relating to lustration.
raw-head and bloody-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raw-head and Bloody-bones
Senses: examples: text: In his New View of London (1708), Hatton assures us that hackney coachmen in the City were wont to swear "by Gog and Magog" [...] Some apprentices, he tells us, were as "frighted at the names of Gog and Magog as little children are at the terrible sound of Raw-head and Bloody-bones"[.]
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page vii. 169:
glosses: A malicious bogeyman (or two bogeymen) formerly used to frighten children into good behaviour.
reedificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reedificates
form: reedificating
form: reedificated
form: reedificated
form: re-edificate
Senses: examples: text: Let them be unearthed, and the Temple of the British Secret Tradition be re-edificated.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 191:
glosses: To edificate again.
reedificates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reedificate
reedificating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reedificate
reedificated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reedificate
Serapic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Serapis + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat the Druids deliberately adopted Mithraic, Serapic or other exotic rituals is, to me, unthinkable.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page xii. 249:
glosses: Of or relating to Serapis or his cult.
hemocel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemocels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haemocoel.
hemocels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemocel
cochinille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From this Fiſh [purpura in Latin] the Tyrians drevv a Liquor, vvith vvhich they dy'd Purple, and therefore it vvas call'd Tyrius color. This vvas in thoſe Days, vvhen they knevv no other VVay of dying this Colour, and therefore it vvas exceſſive dear, and only fit for the greateſt Perſons. Aftervvards the Scarlet Berries vvere found upon the Scarlet Oak, vvhich exceeded the Bevvty of the former Colour, and ſince then the VVeſt India Cochinille, has put dovvn both.
ref: 1725, James Coats, “PURPURE”, in A New Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining the Terms Us’d in That Science, with Their Etymology, and Different Versions into Latin. […], revised edition, London: […] Jer. Batley […], →OCLC, pages 289–290:
text: There is a Grove of Tuna-Trees above fifty Leagues in Length, vvhere above an hundred Tun of Cochinille might be gather'd every Year.
ref: 1726, Antonio de Herrera [i.e., Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas], “The Remaining Actions of Nuño de Guzman, and Description of the Kingdom of New Galizia”, in John Stevens, transl., The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America, Commonly Call’d, the West-Indies, from the First Discovery Thereof: […], volume IV, London: […] Jer. Batley […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: Naples, the capital and court of that kingdom, has alſo a conſiderable trade, and vve may likevviſe find there a good market for many American commodities, ſuch as tobacco, cacao, ſugar, cochinille &c. by bartering them for linnens, ravv ſilk, and other things.
ref: 1751, Geronymo de Uztariz [i.e., Luis Jerónimo of Uztáriz and Hemiaga], “The Importance of Enforcing the Laws already Made in Spain in Favour of an Active Commerce. […]”, in John Kippax, transl., The Theory and Practice of Commerce and Maritime Affairs. […], volume II, London: […] John and James Rivington, […]; and John Crofts, […], →OCLC, page 404:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of cochineal.
revis'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Formerly made Engliſh by Thomas Shelton; now Revis’d, Corrected, and partly new Tranſlated from the Original.
ref: 1706, Michael de Cervantes Saavedra [i.e., Miguel de Cervantes], translated by John Stevens, The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. […], 2nd […] edition, volume II, London: […] R. Chiswell, S. and J. Sprint, R. Battersby, […], →OCLC, title page:
text: The Sixth Edition, Revis’d by the Paris Edition: […]
ref: 1713, [Jean] de la Bruyere, N[icholas] Rowe, The Works of Monsieur De La Bruyere. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], and J. Pemberton, […], →OCLC, title page:
text: Now Revis’d and Publiſh’d, with ſome Amendments.
ref: 1722, William Sewel, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers, Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences. […], rev. edition, London: […] [T]he Assigns of J. Sowle, […], →OCLC, title page:
text: Revis’d and Corrected, with a Letter to the Publiſher, By Mr. James Coats.
ref: 1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining the Terms Us’d in That Science, with Their Etymology, and Different Versions of Latin. […], London: […] Jer. Batley […], title page:
glosses: simple past and past participle of revise
threatned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue,[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 356:
text: [F]or Moody, on this Occaſion, took a large Glaſs from him, and threatned to blow his Brains out, (a favourite Phraſe with theſe Pyrates) if he muttered at it.
ref: 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 319:
text: [H]earing from Lady Bellaſton, that Mr. Weſtern was arrived in Town, ſhe went to pay her Duty to him, at his Lodgings in Piccadilly, when ſhe was received with many ſcurvy Compellations too coarſe to be repeated, and was even threatned to be kicked out of Doors.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which Jones Pays a Visit to Mrs. Fitzpatrick”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XVI, page 70:
glosses: simple past and past participle of threaten
cosentential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + sentential.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Within the same sentence.
Prestea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Western Region, Ghana.
battelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Embattled.
Weija
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greater Accra Region, Ghana.
Greater Accra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Greater Accra Region, an administrative region in Ghana, which includes Accra, the capital city.
amberware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amber + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Owing to a press of orders the Clyde Glass Works will commence work on amberware on Thursday next.
ref: 1897 March 30, Democrat and Chronicle, volume 65, number 89, Rochester, N.Y., page 4, column 2:
text: And in addition to the ivory inlaid in gold figurings— / —are some of opalescent pearl, elegantly patterned in inlaid designs of silver and blue enamel! And the fashionable amberware, inlaid with gold.
ref: 1913 February 17, The Los Angeles Times, part II, page 7:
text: High-class cut amberware requires special processing. […] The export of amberware is in the hands of ”VARIMEX”, Polish Company for Foreign Trade, Wilcza 50/52, Warsaw.
ref: 1951 September–October, “Do You Know-About Amber?”, in Polish Foreign Trade, number 7, Warsaw: The Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, page 30:
text: Numerous examples of Polish amberware can be seen in museums in Malbork, Gdansk, Slupsk and elsewhere.
ref: 1985, Olgierd Budrewicz, Introduction to Poland, Miami, Fla.: The American Institute of Polish Culture, →LCCN, page 100:
text: Notice the amberware; Aquileia was famous for its amber, a tradition later exported to Venice to become the basis of its famous glass industry.
ref: 1985, Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., edited by Teresa Turvey and Denise Branch Wydra, Let’s Go: The Budget Guide to Italy, 1985, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 216:
text: It was once Vilnius’s commercial centre but today the street is popular with visitors hunting for amberware and other local products.
ref: 2009, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, DK, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Articles made from amber.
rubyware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ruby + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: “The best thing on such a day is a hot drink,” his mother stood close to him as she poured the black chocolate over the spoon that rested against the rim and bottom of the rubyware cup.
ref: 1953, Irving Shulman, The Square Trap, Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 349:
text: A Baptist deacon whom we met in church the next day, a factory foreman, salvaged for us virtually a full service of magnificent rubyware which we still treasure.
ref: 1986, Carl F[erdinand] H[oward] Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, Waco, Tex.: Word Books, →ISBN, page 97:
text: […] service for 6 Noritake china, several sterling silver pieces, rubyware, mantel clock, knick-knacks, brassware stemware, collection of Avon bottles, lot of TV and radio testing equipment, plus several truck loads of 1” and 2” lumber, and many other items.
ref: 1988 October 6, The Republican, volume 111, number 32, Oakland, Md., page C-16:
text: It could as easily have been a selection of copper, wood, or enamelware, or a pleasing arrangement of milk glass, rubyware, all-white porcelain, pickle containers, compotes, or pedestal banana boats in cut crystal.
ref: 2003, Denise McGann, Chic Country Style, New York, N.Y.: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Articles made from ruby.
pseudoconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pseudo-conscious
Etymology: From pseudo- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: investigating unconscious or pseudoconscious processes in psychology
text: The great problem with differentiating pseudoconscious from conscious machines is that operational definitions of criteria for "true" consciousness are elusively difficult to achieve, as Erik Hoel, one of various experts in that field, has explored expositorily for nonexperts.
text: "Are you all right?" I ask my pseudoconscious neighbor. He doesn't respond, and now he's not moving at all. I check to make sure he's breathing and give his shoulder a little shove. His head snaps up as if lever-operated. "Beeeautiful, man." He smiles at me with closed eyes. "Everyshing's good."
ref: 2000 July 26, Emma Trelles, “I want a new drug. Orlando area news”, in Orlando Weekly, retrieved 21 May 2023:
text: This fentanyl/N2O combination created a pseudoconscious level of metabolism (Åkeson et al, 1992). After approximately 30 mins on this anesthetic combination, three successive intravenous injections of pentobarbital (5, 10, and 30 mg/kg) were administered at 30 min intervals.
ref: 2006, KM Tichauer, JA Hadway, TY Lee, KS St Lawrence, “Measurement of cerebral oxidative metabolism with near-infrared spectroscopy: a validation study”, in J Cereb Blood Flow Metab, volume 26, number 5, →DOI, →PMID, pages 722–730:
text: This can be an unconscious or pseudoconscious process.
ref: 2008, William A. Hewlett, “Chapter 21: Obsessive–compulsive disorder”, in Michael H. Ebert, Peter T. Loosen, Barry Nurcombe, James F. Leckman, editors, Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Psychiatry (Current series), 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:
glosses: Seemingly or nearly conscious but not truly so; said of processes within the human mind, of people, of software, or of machines running software.
Coordinate terms: pseudosentient
pseudosentience
Related terms: pseudoconscience
pseudoconsciousness
unconscious
unconsciousness
pseudosentience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + sentience.
Senses: examples: text: It doesn't matter if they are information forms that have developed pseudosentience and taken on the identity of our cultural icons, or if they are aliens, or as you say just a hallucination tickling the old religious gene. All that matters is how we respond to them, what we choose to do with them.
ref: 2010, Gavin G. Smith, Veteran, Orion, →ISBN:
text: […] pseudosentience in human brains. First, there is the pseudosentience present in the right hemisphere.
ref: 2016, Steven Sevush, The Single-Neuron Theory: Closing in on the Neural Correlate of Consciousness, Palgrave Macmillan Cham, →DOI, →ISBN:
text: He had even tried to convince himself that the whispers weren't real, that he was imagining a pseudosentience in the artifacts he held.
ref: 2021, Justin Travis Call, Master Artificer (The Silent Gods Series), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A state or condition that is not sentience but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
Coordinate terms: pseudoconsciousness
Related terms: nonsentience
nonsentient
pseudoconscious
pseudosentient
ivoryware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ivory + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: What girl can resist an elaborate array of toiletries or the seductive qualities of ivoryware?
ref: 1926 May, “Store Success Linked With Display: Craving Inspired by Goods Appealingly Presented Contributes Heavily to Volume of Average Establishment”, in The Display World, volume VIII, number 5, page 25, column 1:
text: Merchandise which needs a Certificate of Origin to be permitted to be brought into the States includes: hardwood manufacture including furniture (which, incidentally, is a terrific bargain in Hong Kong), ivoryware, jade jewelry and unset jade stones, silk piece goods and silk garments, linen and cotton embroidered articles including handkerchiefs, blouses, tablecloths, Swatow work, and Chinese rugs made in Hong Kong.
ref: 1964, Harvey S[tuart] Olson, Olson’s Orient Guide, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, page 349:
text: Articles imported from the Indian provinces included ivoryware, precious stones, jewellery and other ornamental objects.
ref: 1994, B. A. Litvinsky, “Cities and urban life in the Kushan kingdom”, in János Harmatta, B. N. Puri, G. F. Etemadi, editors, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, volumes II (The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250), UNESCO Publishing, published 1996, →ISBN, page 312:
glosses: Articles made from ivory.
boneware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bone + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: By 2000 bc the Yi people had a kingdom here, making bronze vessels and filling them with wine, and by Confucius’s time Qufu’s craftspeople made glass decorations, boneware chopsticks, and incense.
ref: 1990, Fredric M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sobin, Arne J. de Keijzer, The China Guidebook, 11th edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row; Teaneck, N.J.: Eurasia Press, →ISBN, page 562:
text: “The Nazis took the paintings out of the home. They made use of the objects, they auctioned them off, whatever. What did the Nazis do with chinaware?” Moser asked in exasperation, evoking an image of Gestapo thugs holding up fine boneware like cavemen trying to make sense of a microwave oven.
ref: 2012, Anne-Marie O’Connor, The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 242:
text: Three frayed leashes, each metal clasp a question mark, dresser-and-a-closet’s-worth of clothes, weathered high-top shoes, a kitchen clock, transistor radio, a sparse but matching set of boneware dishes, pasteboard box of hair barrettes.
ref: 2015, Richard St. John, Each Perfected Name, Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: Articles made from bone.
pseudoconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + conscious + -ness.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
neurology
neuroscience
physical-sciences
psychology
science
sciences
glosses: A state or condition that is not consciousness but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
qualifier: political theory
glosses: Synonym of false consciousness (“faulty understanding of the true character of social processes”).
synonyms: word: false consciousness
extra: faulty understanding of the true character of social processes
Coordinate terms: pseudosentience
Related terms: nonsentience
nonsentient
pseudoconscience
pseudoconscious
pseudosentient
slitmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slitmouth
peacock chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacock chair
clockware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clock + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we find clockware, imitation jewellery, silk thread works of art and dried fruits enumerated as being supplied largely from the Continent to meet the Indian bazaar demands.
ref: 1895 January 4, “Finance and Trade”, in The Age, number 12,434, Melbourne, Vic., page 4, column 2:
text: Both incoming liners had large quantities of Christmas goods, such as laces and linens, clockware, nuts and grapes.
ref: 1909 December 10, “Cargoes Worth Millions; Brisk Morning Business in Shipping; Three Ocean Liners Arrive and Two Depart; […]”, in Boston Evening Transcript, eightieth year, number 288, page 1:
text: Anyway, the little alarm clock has everything over all other forms and fashions and designs in clockware right at this time.
ref: 1916 August 9, “When the Alarm Clock Goes Ting-a-ling in the Morning”, in The Evening Times, volume I, number 45, Tulsa, Okla.; Sand Springs, Okla., page five, column 5:
text: In his spare time he also repairs 19th- and 20th century clockware.
ref: 1980 February, Polish Perspectives, volume XXIII, number 2, →ISSN, page 72, column 2:
text: We sell other merchandise too—clockware, candles, clip-on lights, and things like that.
ref: 1996, Jim Fisher, Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Clocks collectively.
pseudoconscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoconsciences
form: pseudo-conscience
Etymology: From pseudo- + conscience.
Senses: examples: text: a pseudoconscience that imposes unfairness while allegedly upholding fairness
glosses: A mindset or mental faculty that is mistaken for a conscience but lacks the truly ethical nature thereof.
glosses: Misconstruction of pseudoconsciousness.
chamberware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chamber + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: I am compelled, within five miles of Utica, to drive through patches of Canada thistles and burdocks, while piles of tin cans, broken chamberware, brush trimmed from neighboring orchards, and every imaginable sort of refuse fill up the street sides.
ref: 1891, E. P. Powell, “Roadside Gardens. […]”, in L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Elias A. Long, editors, The American Garden: An Illustrated Journal of Horticulture: […], volume XII, New York, N.Y.: The Rural Publishing Company, page 463, column 2:
text: He could ill afford to lose a friend like Frederick, let alone as pretty a set of Sèvres chamberware as I’ve seen this seven year.
ref: 1978, Joan Aiken, The Smile of the Stranger, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 139:
text: The “Presidents’ Bedroom,” where the presidents were put up when they came to visit, has an unusually complete set of chamberware, including slop bucket, chamber pot, shaving mug, basins, bowl, and soap dish.
ref: 1988, Harriet Webster, Trips for Those Over 50, Dublin, N.H.: Yankee Books, →ISBN, page 23:
text: The latter was properly furnished, with single bed, chamberware, chest, a swing glass, Windsor chair and ‘stuffed bird in case’ - although the heating stove was ‘outside door’.
ref: 1996, Nick Lyons, “A Country House Inventory: Hagnaby Priory, 1927-1930, Shortly Before Demolition”, in Christopher Sturman, editor, Lincolnshire People and Places: Essays in Memory of Terence R. Leach (1937-1994), Lincoln, Lincs: The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, →ISBN, page 67, column 2:
glosses: Toiletries that are designed for use in a bedroom, such as bowls with ewers, shaving mugs, chamber pots, soap dishes, etc.
stoveware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stove + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Two weeks ago it was copper-bottomed stoveware at Bertha’s, and I bought a Dutch oven, which I needed slightly less than I need a Dutch uncle.
ref: 1969, Margaret Laurence, The Fire-Dwellers, Macmillan, page 74:
text: Consumer demand for household items also seemed robust, as Potter sold items ranging from kitchenware (silverware, dishes, bottles, sifters, tinware, coffee mills, stoveware, and tea kettles) to general products for the household, like matches, washboards, lamp chimneys, string, buckets, and irons.
ref: 2000, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M[arie] Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 255:
text: When the non-stick stoveware was ruined, Janine and Steve Petry realized they needed a better way to treasure their possessions and each other.
ref: 2006 spring, “Pots and Plans”, in Marriage Partnership, page 16:
glosses: Utensils for use on a stovetop, such as pots, pans, griddles, etc.
Nkawkaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Eastern Region, Ghana.
Guibertine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Guibert + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Magninulph, an archpriest, was then elected by the Guibertine party, with the title of Sylvester IV., and died suddenly.
ref: 1847, George Townsend, Ecclesiastical and Civil History Philosophically Considered […], volume 2, page 332:
text: The cardinals had grown in importance during the course of the Guibertine schism, and both those who had rebelled against Gregory and those who remained loyal were anxious to enhance their prerogatives.
ref: 2000, G. A. Loud, Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History, page 106:
text: It might be a response to anti-pope Guibert of Ravenna’s encyclical of 1089, but it could also be a retort to the criticism of Pope Urban II and his supporters following the council of Piacenza at which the Pope favored the reinstatement in the clerical office of members of the Guibertine party.
ref: 2007, Leidulf Melve, Inventing the Public Sphere: The Public Debate during the Investiture Contest (c. 1030–1122), volume 1, →ISBN, page 95, note 220:
glosses: Relating to Guibert of Ravenna (c. 1029 – 1100), antipope as Clement III from 1080 to 1100, and his supporters.
Guibertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guibertines
Etymology: From Guibert + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Guibert of Ravenna.
Guibertines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guibertine
Cadalan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Cadalo or Cadalus + -an
Senses: examples: text: Cencius had also actively supported the anti-pope Honorius II, and the Castel S. Angelo, which he controlled was a bastion of the Cadalan party.
ref: 1998, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Pope Gregory VII, 1073–1085, →ISBN, page 326:
text: It seems, then, that Matilda’s role in the Cadalan schism was more limited than has been supposed.
ref: 2008, David J. Hay, The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115, →ISBN, page 41:
text: The first of these interventions against the Normans was reported during the so-called Cadalan schism that pitted antipope Honorius II (Bishop Peter Cadalus of Parma) against Pope Alexander II (Bishop Anselm of Lucca).
ref: 2015, Elizabeth Lapina, Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Relating to Peter Cadalus (c. 1010 – 1072), antipope as Honorius II from 1061 to 1072.
Pittsford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Butler County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Hillsdale County, Michigan, named after Pittsford, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Monroe County, New York, named after Pittsford, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont, named after William Pitt.
Related terms: Pitsford
Koforidua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Eastern Region, Ghana.
mope around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mopes around
form: moping around
form: moped around
form: moped around
Senses: examples: text: Since her pet passed away, she has been moping around the house, feeling lonely and sad.
glosses: To wander or linger aimlessly with a sad or gloomy demeanor, displaying a lack of energy or motivation.
mope about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mopes about
form: moping about
form: moped about
form: moped about
Senses: examples: text: Since her pet passed away, she has been moping about the house, feeling lonely and sad.
glosses: To wander or linger aimlessly with a sad or gloomy demeanor, displaying a lack of energy or motivation.
Rosny-sur-Seine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France.
pre-parent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Much like Libby, I now live in the New Jersey suburbs near New York City and feel disconnected from the creative ambitions of my pre-parent life. But it turns out that I feel OK about this.
ref: 2023 February 9, Jean Hannah Edelstein, “Just because I moved to New Jersey doesn’t mean I’m dead”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of preparental.
synonyms: word: preparental
Sunday scaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: VON: Sunday scaries is that feeling when the weekend's over, Monday's coming, you got stuff due, but you try to ignore it, you just sit there. / SARAH: (Laughs.) Yeah, thanks, Von. Sarah thinks . . . Von's right, Sunday scaries.
ref: 2019 January 15, Richard Guare, Colin Guare, Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled, Guilford Publications, →ISBN, page 204:
text: ... with a heavy dose of rest, and Mondays consequently shifted to “do the bare minimum” days. As a result, I no longer experienced the so-called Sunday scaries on a regular basis. I looked forward to the week ahead with minimal stress.
ref: 2019 April 9, Julia Dellitt, Get Your Life Together(ish): A No-Pressure Guide for Real-Life Self-Growth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 24:
text: I had a friend who suffered from what she called the Sunday scaries. Maybe you can relate. The Sunday scaries are when you get to Sunday evening and start to realize that the weekend is over and you're about to go back to work.
ref: 2019 September 24, Clay Scroggins, How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 184:
text: He enjoys it because it helps him combat the “Sunday Scaries”—that feeling on Sunday night when the anxiety and anticipation about the week ahead overpower your ability to be a normal human. I used to work every single Sunday night[…]
ref: 2020 July 20, Marissa Finn, Golden Shit: The Biggest Mistakes I Made Starting My Business and What I Learned, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: During this particularly difficult bout of Sunday Scaries, I wondered if I could apply that same technique—to use the nerves of Sunday to remind myself that nothing was actually wrong, but just butterflies about the week ahead.
ref: 2020 December 8, Lauren Martin, The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Seventy-six percent of us report feeling the “Sunday Scaries” or “Sunday Night Blues,” a feeling of anticipatory stress that leads to the constant checking of email, messages, and calendars in an oftenfutile attempt to alleviate the[…]
ref: 2022 September 27, Ryan M. Panzer, The Holy and the Hybrid: Navigating the Church's Digital Reformation, Fortress Press, →ISBN:
text: But when I did, I fell victim to a phenomenon called the "Sunday scaries." Wherein a perfectly good Sunday was wasted by that sense of impending doom because Monday was right around the corner. When things were especially bad[…]
ref: 2022 December 6, Jen DeLuca, Well Traveled, Penguin, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Anxiety felt on Sunday evenings by people who have to return to work on Monday morning, about the weekend (and free time) being over and the pressures of the workweek resuming.
Related terms: blue Monday
scaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Plural of scary.
Senses: examples: text: She found she did not need to smoke dope to avoid bad dreams because she was no longer holding so many of her scaries down. She was able to completely stop taking Valium, which we had cautioned her was a dangerous and potentially[…]
ref: 1977, Hogie Wyckoff, Solving Women's Problems Through Awareness, Action, and Contact:
text: You can, during the day, offer ideas that may help the child conquer his “scaries.” You know your child best.
ref: 2001 January 1, Gail Reichlin, Caroline Winkler, The Pocket Parent, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:
text: EXPERIENCING THE SCARIES / Children at this age may get the scaries, conjuring up all sorts of gremlins and monsters at bedtime. The monsters might not be real, but your toddler's fears are very real to him. The scaries are an opportunity[…]
ref: 2020 March 10, Kim West, The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Without Leaving Them to Cry it Out, Hachette Go, →ISBN:
glosses: A feeling of anxiety or feeling, especially that felt by children at night.
Related terms: Sunday scaries
blues
gamejack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gamejacks
form: gamejacking
form: gamejacked
form: gamejacked
Etymology: Blend of game + hijack.
Senses: qualifier: alternate reality game fandom slang
glosses: To create third-party material that disruptively presents itself as being part of an ARG.
Related terms: gamejacker
pseudo-conscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + conscious.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseudoconscious.
observatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observative
Ksp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of solubility product constant.
make it so that
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes it so that
form: making it so that
form: made it so that
form: made it so that
Senses: examples: text: They made it so that you can't visit another page until you exit the current page.
text: We need to make it so that people can afford housing.
glosses: To cause something to be the case; to have something be the case.
PIMO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of physically in, mentally out.
examples: text: I have been in your shoes and am just now returning after a decade of being "PIMO," or "physically in, mentally out." My husband has been the one who has been strong in his testimony, but mine has been non-existant^([sic]) for quite a while.
ref: 2023 October 29, u/beluga-farts, “How to deal with the "bubble bursting"”, in Reddit, r/lds:
glosses: Abbreviation of physically in, mentally out.
Identifying publicly or outwardly with an organization (religious group, etc.) while privately or inwardly disassociating from it.
PIMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIMOs
Senses: examples: text: Antagonists and PIMOs think they are sneaky and can mask faithfulness in order to gain the chance to damage the faith of others.
ref: 2024 January 12, u/KURPULIS, “"The Lord has said that all things are to be 'done in cleanliness' before Him”, in Reddit, r/lds:
glosses: A person who is PIMO.
glosses: The status of being PIMO.
order paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: order papers
Etymology: From order + paper.
Senses: glosses: the daily agenda of a Westminster system legislature
order papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of order paper
longboi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longbois
Etymology: From long + boi.
Senses: examples: text: [image of shoes] “They’re stronk they’re thicc they’re longboi.”
ref: 2018 April 3, “Inside Feet: The Shoes That Shoe Us: An Intimate Look at the Shoes of Rutgers”, in The Daily Medium, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, page 5:
text: Join the Greyhound Adoption League of New Mexico and Texas to meet their adoptable dogs. Scope out these longboi cuties at galtx.org.
ref: 2018 August 22–28, “The Calendar”, in Santa Fe Reporter, volume 45, number 34, page 29:
text: The new Sonic in Sonic the Hedgehog looks …. great! He looks like he probably should have looked in the first place. This has led to many memes (what a glow-up!), a second round of virality, and lots of goodwill for Paramount, which announced after fan backlash earlier this year that it would redesign Sonic from a longboi human bodysuit freak into the cute lovable hedgehog we remember from our childhoods.
ref: 2019 November 12, Motherboard Staff, “Was the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Redesign an Elaborate PR Stunt? Motherboard Discusses”, in Vice, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
text: [image by @mayas_mom19 of two dogs with text] Howmdy frend / henlo / i admire ur lenght^([sic]) / nothing like being a longboi on a sunday mornin
ref: 2020, Doing Things Media, Doggos Doing Things: The Hilarious World of Puppos, Borkers, and Other Good Bois, Running Press, →ISBN:
text: [image of Long Boi] Hi! I’m longboi, I’m not like your average duck boy who’s going to leave you on bread ha ha ha. Quack up.
ref: 2021 May 10, “Nexus Fake Dating”, in Nexus, volume 54, number 9, page 12:
text: So I’ve decided I’m going to tell them EVERYTHING – about the king, the invasion, and the longboi robot hunting us.
ref: 2022, Adam Colás, Matthew Braly, “Entry 99”, in Marcy’s Journal: A Guide to Amphibia, TOKYOPOP, →ISBN:
text: Thank you to my brother William for the provision of rare memes and longbois.
ref: 2022, Leon Craig, “Acknowledgements”, in Parallel Hells, Sceptre, →ISBN:
text: Gone are the days of college hoodies. Gone are the days of trendy longboi sweatshirts. Now the University shop ONLY offers ornate codpieces and ruffed shirts with intricate floor plans of the Minster printed on them.
ref: 2023 February 27, Eddie Atkinson, “New University Merch!”, in The Lemon Press, number 55, University of York, page 6, column 1:
glosses: Something long, especially a dog.
longbois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longboi
do oneself a mischief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does oneself a mischief
form: doing oneself a mischief
form: did oneself a mischief
form: done oneself a mischief
Senses: glosses: To get hurt; to hurt oneself
middle-grounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle-ground