cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
East Renfrewshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A council area of Scotland (one of 32); it was formed in 1996 on the abolition of Strathclyde Region.
Pile of Bones
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Cree Oskana kâ-asatêki (“the place where bones are piled”)
Senses: glosses: Former name of Regina (capital city of Saskatchewan, Canada).
Related terms: Many-bone Creek
donnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donny
Wascana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Corruption of Cree Oskana kâ-asatêki (“the place where bones are piled”).
Senses: glosses: A placename; the former name of Regina.
Ellipsis of Wascana Creek.
glosses: A placename; the former name of Regina.
Ellipsis of Wascana Lake.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Many-bone Creek
Derived terms: Wascana Creek
Wascana Lake
Related terms: Pile of Bones
Bone Creek
Many-bone Creek
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Blackfoot Estipah-skikikini-kots.
From being a location where Blackfoot hunters would send bison to fall off a cliff, dying in large numbers, and collect their dead prey.
Senses: glosses: A cliff in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta which is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Synonyms: word: Head-Smashed-In
Hypernyms: buffalo jump
Head-Smashed-In
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
gum-resin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum-resins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gum resin.
gum-resins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gum-resin
Lizi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Khuzestan province, Iran.
flesh glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flesh-glue
Etymology: A calque of Ancient Greek σαρκοκόλλα (sarkokólla), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue, adhesive”) from its traditional use sealing wounds. Compare meat glue and German Fleischleim.
Senses: examples: text: Frankincense, mastick, rosin, flesh-glue are the juices and gums of certain trees.
ref: 1659, Thomas Horne & al. translating Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius) as The Gate of Languages Unlocked, Ch. 11, §124
glosses: Synonym of sarcocolla as a resin.
synonyms: word: sarcocolla as a resin
flesh-glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flesh glue.
yeet hay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 熱氣 /热气 (jit6 hei3).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: internal heat
wenchiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wenchy: most wenchy
wenchier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wenchy: more wenchy
new wavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new wavish
form: most new wavish
Senses: examples: text: Some new music performers look and sound more punk, others more new wavish.
ref: 1989, Reynolds R. Ekstrom, Pop Culture, page 57:
text: The five-song Sample Credits Don't Pay Our Bills 12inch returns the group to longer dance tracks, with the same echoey percussion and vocals neatly placed under a soft layer of new wavish guitar.
ref: 1997, Ira A. Robbins, David Sprague, The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, page 241:
text: We were melodic, new wavish. But never punk.
ref: 2002, Deanna R. Adams, Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection, page 380:
glosses: Alternative form of new-wavish.
new-wavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more new-wavish
form: most new-wavish
Etymology: From new wave + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the really stupid name, this marginally new-wavish quartet has its moments: a silly slowed-down mess-around on "Rebel (She's A)," and some solid hooks in the originals, even a moderately interesting "Pictures of Lily" update, "Poster Girl."
ref: 1983, Dave Marsh, John Swenson, The new Rolling stone record guide, page 223:
text: Barbie has been painted by many young new-wavish artists who definitely project her as a symbol of their past.
ref: 1988, Outlet Book Company Staff, Barbie: Her Life and Times, page 127:
text: Many of the giants of the past seemed to lose their footing a bit as they tried to keep in step with a new era; sometimes they disappeared into new identities (the slick, new-wavish David Bowie of Let's Dance, for example), or, as in Morrison's case, they simply cleaned the slate and followed a new muse.
ref: 2009, Erik Hage, The Words and Music of Van Morrison, page 100:
text: Thing is, we're-all-in-this-together is not a particularly punk-rock concept, at least in the world's-forgotten-boy sense originally conceived by Iggy Pop, who in 1986 made a blah album called Blah-Blah-Blah (see Animal's jarring and lucrative 3OH!3 collaboration), and who calls Ms. Sebert a “wild child” (a few cuts after she calls herself the same) in Warrior's “Dirty Love”—which is, well, even more diverting than her adequately new-wavish duet on an Alice Cooper album last year.
ref: 2016, Chuck Eddy, Terminated for Reasons of Taste:
glosses: Characteristic of or similar to New Wave.
new-coins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of new-coin
new-coining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of new-coin
new-coined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of new-coin
newspaporial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newspaporial
form: most newspaporial
Etymology: From newspaper + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: A vast proportion of them seem to have been christened in what 'Squire Western calls 'a spirit of contrary,' some few of which I will examine, premising at the same time that I feel neighter 'envy, hatred, malice, nor any uncharitableness' towards any of those who 'have lived long on the alms-basket of words,' having laboured myself not exactly in editorial harness, but merely by an occasional application of my shoulder to the 'newspaporial' wheel.
ref: 1832, Nathaniel Ames, Nautical Reminiscences, page 193:
text: But they had not joined the army to engage in the newspaporial business.
ref: 1866, Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, Iowa and the Rebellion, page 376:
text: He offered advice: "Recollect that for Newspaporial purposes, a broader treatment hits a broader mark; and keep bearing that way as much as you can with comfort.
ref: 1953, Leon Edel, Henry James: The conquest of London, 1870-1881, page 71:
text: “[I have] been led to neglect its utterances by their lack of 'terseness,' 'crispness,' 'raciness,' and other 'newspaporial' virtues, though I could discern that Dewey himself was laboring with a big freight, towards the light.
ref: 2011, Mark J. Porrovecchio, F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism:
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to newspapers.
oat-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oat-like
form: most oat-like
Senses: examples: text: This grass is very similar to the preceding in its economic characters, but it requires a more humid soil ; when it meets with such a soil, it yields a larger produce than common oat-like grass.
ref: 1844, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Agriculture - Volume 2, page 664:
text: Farm-yard manure, which increased the actual amount and proportion of total graminaceous herbage, gave a considerably increased proportion of rye-grass and of tall oat-like grass; a somewhat diminished proportion of the woolly soft-grass; scarcely any of the other grasses found on the unmanured plot; but a very large amount o fthe valuable smooth-stalked meadow-grass, which was not found at all in the produce without manure.
ref: 1860, Proceedings / New York State Agricultural Society, page 151:
text: The Chief told us they contained an oat-like meal, sweet potatoes, and kettle bread.
ref: 2012, Wayne Hunt, Zack and the Validators: Spirit Bridge, page 117:
glosses: Alternative form of oatlike.
oathlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oathlets
Etymology: From oath + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The visitors were prepared with a meek, uncomplaining, expected fourpenny fee to the janitor; no murmur, no half-vented oathlet at a verger, no smothered blessing—in italics—of the dean and chapter, but the hush-money was held out with a perfect quiet, as though it was indeed hushed by the breathing silence of the cathedral itself!
ref: 1847, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, New Monthly Magazine - Volume 79, page 162:
text: cock and pie: an obsolete oathlet, in which "cock" may be a corruption of God, and "pie" the Romish mass-book; but the reference may be merely to a cock and a magpie, which were coupled on tavern signs.
ref: 1901, Richard Grant White, Histories and poems, page 275:
text: Afore me is a mild protestation, — a sort of oath, or oathlet.
ref: 1908, Henry Norman Hudson, Romeo and Juliet, page 117:
glosses: A minced oath.
examples: text: At his restoration "fat Louis" was fully and sympathetically aware of his subjects' need to let bygones be bygones. The elderly M. de Barentin was stumblingly explaining to Louis how it was that he had not — strictly speaking —in actual fact — sworn an oath of allegiance to Napoleon Bonaparte. “I quite understand,” Louis broke in.“At our age one only does things by halves. You didn't swear an oath to Bonaparte, you swore an oathlet."
ref: 2000, Clifton Fadiman, Andre Bernard, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes:
glosses: A pledge or promise that does not carry the full level of commitment of an oath.
oathlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oathlet
optates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of optate
optating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of optate
optated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of optate
Shokot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shokots
Etymology: From Ukrainian Шокот (Šokot).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Шокот (Šokot).
USICH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Wusi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.
coomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkuːmə/
ipa: /ˈkumɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʉːmə/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coomers
Etymology: From the Coomer meme popularized on 4chan, blending coom, an altered pronunciation of cum, with the -oomer suffix used to name Wojak characters (originally derived from boomer).
Senses: examples: text: Nobody looks like that and the last time some deranged anime coomer tried to claim they do, they posted a heavily photoshopped cosplayer
ref: 2020 April 29, None So Arch-Vile (@deportablediz), Twitter:
text: WHAT THE FUCK I WAS A PUBLIC COOMER IN THE YOUTUBE COMMENTS FOR THE OLD SPICE GUY TEN YEARS AGO
ref: 2020 August 30, heyimbee (@heyimbee), Twitter:
text: Lmao they saw the numbers drop and only coomers used the site. [quoting an article titled "OnlyFans Drops Planned Porn Ban, Will Continue to Allow Sexually Explicit Content"]
ref: 2021 August 25, Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers), Twitter:
glosses: A man who indulges in masturbation; by extension, anyone who is excessively horny.
wikipedia: 4chan
Wojak
Hypernyms: jerkoff
wanker
tosser
Derived terms: consoomer
deboonker
goomer
Related terms: gooner
e-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-girls
form: egirl
Etymology: From e- (“electronic”) + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: e-boy
text: Instagram is one main social media platform where e-girls post pictures or videos of themselves showing off their outfits and modeling them.
ref: 2019 May 20, Annaliese Olivo, “E-girl fashion develops into lifestyle from online jokes”, in The Eagle's Eye, W. Charles Akins High School, page 21:
text: Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.
ref: 2019 October, Claire Clements, “Claire's Corner: The VSCO Phenomenon”, in The Sidekick, page 9:
text: The popular 2019 #softgirlchallenge, in which teens edited their videos so they appeared to spontaneously transform from grungy e-girl to glimmering soft girl particularly conveys how lightly Gen Z wears its group affiliations.
ref: 2019 December 4, Andrienne Matei, “TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment?”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: e-kid
glosses: A female member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).
glosses: A female content creator who is physically attractive and/or dresses in alternative fashion.
egirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egirls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of e-girl.
White Horse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Former name of Whitehorse.
T'satsaot'ine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tsatsaotine
form: Tatsaotine
form: T'altsan Ottine
form: Tantsa-ut'dinne
form: T'attsan-otine
Etymology: From Dogrib T'satsąot'ınę (“Copper People”).
Senses: glosses: The Yellowknives, a First Nations tribe that lived in the region now occupied by the city of Yellowknife.
Synonyms: Yellowknives
Yellow Knives
Yellowknife Tribe
Yellow Knife Tribe
Yellowknife Indians
Yellow Knife Indians
Redknives
Red Knives
Redknife Tribe
Red Knife Tribe
Redknife Indians
Red Knife Indians
Copperknives
Copper Knives
Copperknife Tribe
Copper Knife Tribe
Copperknife Indians
Copper Knife Indians
Copper Tribe
Copper Indians
Copper People
Tsatsaotine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of T'satsaot'ine.
segwaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of segway
segwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of segway
5BX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: physical fitness
glosses: Initialism of Five Basic Exercises, a popular mid-20th-century exercise regime in Canada.
Related terms: english: 10 Basic Exercises
translation: 10 Basic Exercises
word: XBX
word: P90X
XBX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: physical fitness
glosses: Initialism of Ten Basic Exercises (A popular mid-20th-century exercise regime in Canada.)
Related terms: english: 5 Basic Exercises
translation: 5 Basic Exercises
word: 5BX
word: P90X
hazinedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazinedars
Senses: glosses: A treasurer in the Ottoman Empire.
a**
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a**es
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of ass.
beriberoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Related to beriberi
biocolonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + colonization.
Senses: examples: text: The shorter interval is likely because biocolonization becomes disfiguring more quickly once it has been established. The rate of recolonization may also have increased because horizontal surfaces of capstones were not cleaned […]
ref: 2018, Maria Koui, Fulvio Zezza, Dimitrios Kouis, 10th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin: Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards and Sustainable Preservation, Springer, →ISBN, page 183:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Colonization (typically of a surface) by biological organisms.
examples: text: The term "biocolonization" is used to describe the combined control of genetic and agricultural resources by a few multinational firms, which holds a powerful weapon for the invasion of cultures. Biocolonization is regarded as a real threat facing large sectors worldwide, particularly when it affects human food.
ref: 2016, Salah E. O. Mahgoub, Genetically Modified Foods: Basics, Applications, and Controversy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 276:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Colonization (and taking control) of populations or states by taking control of their agricultural resources and making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or agricultural (especially genetically-modified) supplies.
Related terms: biocolonial
biocompability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of biocompatibility.
biotagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biotag
biotagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a biotag
blastematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blastematic.
synonyms: word: blastematic
blastocladiomycete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blastocladiomycetes
Senses: glosses: Any fungus of the division Blastocladiomycota or the class Blastocladiomycetes.
blastocladiomycetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blastocladiomycete
blochiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blochiids
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric fish of the family Blochiidae
blochiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blochiid
bothridial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to bothridia
bothridium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bothridia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βόθρος (bóthros, “a pit”) + -idium.
Senses: glosses: An outgrowth from the scolex of some tapeworms that is used for adhesion.
glosses: In chelicerates, a projecting cup constituting the trichobothrium.
Synonyms: phyllidium
Coordinate terms: bothrium
Derived terms: bothridial
bothridia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bothridium
bromoisatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromoisatins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bromo derivative of isatin
bromoisatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromoisatin
budsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budsites
form: bud site
form: bud-site
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The site on a plant at which a bud develops
budsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of budsite
folksonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folksonomic
form: most folksonomic
Senses: examples: text: Now folksonomies are moving into new realms. At the Art Museum Community Cataloging Project, officials from the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a half-dozen other establishments are taking a folksonomic approach to their online collections by allowing patrons to supplement the specialized lexicon of curators. And this fall, Amazon.com introduced a system that allows readers to classify books.
ref: 2005 December 11, Daniel H. Pink, “Folksonomy”, in New York Times, section 6, page 69:
text: The author uses information scent and foraging theory as a context to discuss how folksonomy is constructed through interactions among users, a folksonomic system, and a given domain that consists of a group of users who share the same interest or goals.
ref: 2011, Heejin Park, “A Conceptual Framework to Study Folksonomic Interaction”, in Knowledge Organization, volume 38, number 6, pages 515–529:
glosses: Of or pertaining to folksonomy.
New Cumnock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small town in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6113).
Related terms: Old Cumnock
Auchinleck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːxɪnˈlɛk/
other: /æfˈlɛk/
Senses: glosses: A village in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5521).
Whitbread
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Skerrett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Skerretts
Etymology: Variant of Skerritt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
breaker bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaker bar
Bolland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bollandism
Bollandist
gramogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gramograms
form: grammagram
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A letter or sequence of letters which resemble the sound of a word when the names of the letters are spoken in sequence.
Lancing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large village in Adur district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ1804).
pilotman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilotmen
Etymology: From pilot + -man.
Senses: examples: text: However, as soon as they are inside the dock territory, at the Canute Road crossing in the case of the Old Docks and Millbrook in the case of the New Docks, incoming main line trains must slow down to take on a pilotman, who directs the train on the instructions of Operational Control, either to one of the yard reception roads, or, if it is a boat train, to the appropriate quayside.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
text: These points will be padlocked, a green hand-signal will be shown and the keys handed to the pilotman, who will be expected to make a periodical examination of the points to see that they are secure and that the hand-signal is still properly displayed.
ref: 1963 September, “Change of single-line rules”, in Modern Railways, page 147:
text: Alongside its vital role of maintaining and reviewing each of the rail industry's 294 technical and safety standards, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is about to turn its attention to how to make the term 'pilotman' gender-neutral.
ref: 2022 April 20, “Network News: RSSB to explore new terms to replace 'pilotman'”, in RAIL, number 955, page 16:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway employee who directs operations over a section of railway line temporarily reduced to single track, e.g. during maintenance work, or within an unsignalled area.
pilotmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilotman
two-speed crossword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-speed crosswords
Senses: examples: text: I had been doing the cryptic version of the Star's two-speed crossword since my days as a junior proofreader in the Department of Posts and Telecommunications.
ref: 2006, Ivan Vladislavić, The Restless Supermarket, page 46:
text: A quantitative analysis performed on 20 puzzles (523 clue-answer pairs) from The Times (cryptic puzzles; Browne 2009), The Guardian (non-cryptic puzzles; Rusbridger 11.–16.05.2013) and The Sun (two-speed crosswords giving a non-cryptic and a cryptic clue for each answer; N.N. 2009) confirms the basic distinction between the two types […]
ref: 2016, Christoph Schubert, Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English, page 116:
glosses: A crossword puzzle allowing the solver to choose from two sets of clues: simple or cryptic.
two-speed crosswords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-speed crossword
reconstitutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reconstitute + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be reconstituted.
Related terms: reconstitutable
constitutability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From constitute + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ability to be constituted.
Related terms: constitutable
psionicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psionicists
Etymology: From psionic + -ist.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A person with psionic powers.
psionicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psionicist
Monktonhall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Musselburgh, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3371).
gramograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gramogram
Prestonpans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT3874).
Shildon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Thought to be from Old English sceld.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2326).
Drakelow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England.
glosses: A hamlet in Wolverley and Cookley parish, Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8180).
lullabye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lullabyes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lullaby.
lullabyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lullabye
West Burton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, location of the West Burton power stations (OS grid ref SK7985).
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Burton-cum-Walden parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SE0186).
glosses: A place in England:
A small village in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0014).
UCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UCTs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of uncorrelated target.
UCTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UCT
UFO nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UFO nests
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: A crop circle, regarded as a landing site for UFOs.
UFO nests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UFO nest
pseudostereo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + stereo.
Senses: examples: text: Phase shift techniques for pseudostereo: (a) The circuit arrangement resembles the comb filter except that an all-pass phase shift network is used instead of signal delay, […]
ref: 1996, John Eargle, Handbook of Recording Engineering, page 139:
text: We have also constructed pseudostereo images of scenes imaged by a single NICAM.
ref: 1998, 1998 IEEE and ATR Workshop on Computer Vision for Virtual Reality Based Human Communications: Proceedings, January 3, 1998, Bombay, India:
text: Was this vision “real” or an illusion? It was wholly different in quality from the pseudostereo, the confounding illusions of depth and distance I would sometimes have with lines on the ground, where there was not, in reality, any depth at all.
ref: 2010, Oliver Sacks, The Mind's Eye:
glosses: A technique or effect that simulates stereo, in sound or visual imagery.
packaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There's packaway space to make your eyes open!
ref: 1902, The Congregationalist and Christian World:
text: Packaway dance floors enable a room to be used for a dual purpose, such as dining and dancing.
ref: 1970, Board of Trade Journal - Volume 198, Issue 1, page 55:
text: Early cars had a “packaway” hood made from ICI Everflex.
ref: 2014, Quentin Willson, Cool Cars, page 372:
text: The second project, role play in packaway settings, was conducted over an extended period of time and moved the mosaic approach from a method, a way of collecting data, to an ethnographic methodology in which I was immersed in the setting and was able to understand the lived experiences of the children.
ref: 2019, Zeta Brown, Helen Perkins, Using Innovative Methods in Early Years Research:
glosses: Alternative form of pack-away (all senses)
pack-away
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: packaway
Senses: examples: text: The idea is for a pack-away theatre: a fully-equipped, two-hundred seater theatre building which can be dismantled and packed away, not quite into a suit-case, but into four freight-containers of the kind used for transport by road or rail — and which in this case can be used to convey our theatre.
ref: 1982, Theatre Ireland - Volumes 1-5, page 78:
text: I am so excited at matchmaking Ana with Colin Watts that I almost celebrate by making an impulse purchase of a “pack-away TV blanket,” which folds into a cushion with a handy pocket.
ref: 2009, Rachel Johnson, In a Good Place, page 37:
text: You can also buy pack-away tunnels that are large enough to walk in.
ref: 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies:
glosses: Capable of being folded up or disassembled for storage.
examples: text: In the good old Summer time you need pack-away space and plenty of it.
ref: 1903, The Unitarian Register - Volume 82, page 872:
text: Its pack-away space is enormous, and every cent of its cost has been put into its construction, the bureau being absolutely plain, without ornamentation of any kind.
ref: 1905, The Congregationalist and Christian World - Volume 90, page 203:
glosses: Available for storing items that are not in use.
examples: text: Pack-away settings raise particular challenges in creating enabling environments.
ref: 2013, Zenna Kingdon, Jan Gourd, Early Years Policy: The impact on practice:
text: If you're in a pack-away early years setting, where you have to put all your resources away at the end of each session, you need to think creatively about how you store and access resources.
ref: 2019, Sue Cowley, The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years, page 17:
glosses: That must be packed away between uses.
quadreble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrebles
Senses: examples: text: He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.
ref: 1959, The Musical quarterly - Volume 45, page xlvi:
text: The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.
ref: 1991, Blanche Gangwere, Music history during the Renaissance period, 1425-1520, page 25:
text: The counter involves transposition of the sighted note to the fifth below (for extremely low notes a twelfth), the mene and countertenor do not transpose, the treble transposes to the octave above, and the quadreble to the twelfth above.
ref: 2003, Willi Apel, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 780:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A voice in a musical composition (usually for male voices) above the treble; descant.
quadreble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quadrebles
form: quadrebling
form: quadrebled
form: quadrebled
Senses: examples: text: Not so: for if you observe it, you are to double, treble, or quadreble the length or breadth, as you have occasion.
ref: 1618, John Norden, The Surveyor's Dialogue:
text: There is going to be a tremendous rush into Mexico when normal conditions are restored, which must be soon, and now is the logical time to buy land there before it doubles, trebles or quadrebles in price, as it is bound to do.
ref: 1919 November 26, “A Word About Mexican Lands”, in The Morning Sun, volume 13, number 275:
text: I would estimate that these modest improvements, which cost lest than £20 in total, have quadrebled how good the guitar is.
ref: 2008 September 7, Nico Adie, “Anybody played the P90 Squier tele?”, in Electrical Audio (Usenet):
glosses: To quadruple.
quadrebles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadreble
quadrebles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quadreble
quadrebling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quadreble
quadrebled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadreble
Judyth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew; variant of Judith.
Gros Ventre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gros Ventres
form: Gros Ventre
Etymology: From French gros ventre (“big belly”).
Senses: synonyms: A'aninin
Aaniiih
Aaniinen
Atsina
White Clay
glosses: A member of a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in north central Montana.
Gros Ventres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gros Ventre
cumaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumarus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coumarou.
cumarus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumaru
splinkerettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinkerette
Splayd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Splayds
form: splade
form: splayd
Etymology: Brand name. Perhaps from splay (“to slant, slope or spread outwards”) or spoon and blade.
Senses: qualifier: trademark
glosses: An eating utensil combining the functions of spoon, knife, and fork.
Splayds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Splayd
pastry fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastry forks
Senses: synonyms: cake fork
dessert fork
pie fork
glosses: A three- or four-tined fork designed for eating pastries and similar desserts from a plate held in the other hand.
cake fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake forks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pastry fork.
synonyms: word: pastry fork
pie fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie forks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pastry fork.
synonyms: word: pastry fork
pastry forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastry fork
cake forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cake fork
pie forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie fork
spoon straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon straws
Senses: glosses: A drinking straw with a scoop at the end, intended for semisolid drinks such as milkshakes.
spoon straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon straw
spives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spife
sporf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporfs
Senses: examples: text: She wanted to shove a sporf through his eyeball and smash her Victorian slotted across his cheekbone.
ref: 2011, Daniel Staniforth, Diddle, page 79:
glosses: An eating utensil with opposite ends shaped respectively like a spoon and a fork.
sporfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporf
saringda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saringdas
Senses: examples: text: The stringed musical instruments like Pena, Ollobii Kada, Tingtila, Saringda, solid instruments like Gong, Cymbal, small Cymbals (locally known as Mandela) and Upum (Hollow wood) are used.
ref: 2011, Khomdan Singh Lisam, Encyclopaedia of Manipur (3 Vol.), p. 539
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of sarinda.
saringdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saringda (alternative spelling of sarindas).
paper bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper bags
Etymology: From paper + bag.
Senses: related: word: paper-bag
word: paperbag
hypernyms: bag#Noun
sack#Noun
poke#Noun
glosses: A bag made of paper, especially a firm brown kind intended for carrying groceries.
Derived terms: paper bag party
brown paper bag party
paper bag test
paperbag waist
Related terms: kraft paper
paperboard
paperbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperbag
paperbag waist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperbag waists
Senses: glosses: A loose waist on a pair of trousers or pants that becomes ruched when worn.
paperbag waists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperbag waist
hornbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornbags
Etymology: From horn (“erection”) + bag.
Senses: glosses: A person who is very sexually attractive.
hornbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornbag
spoon rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon rests
Senses: glosses: A shallow spoon-shaped dish on which a cooking or serving spoon can be rested so as to avoid dirtying the bench, tabletop, tablecloth, etc.
Related terms: saucer
spoon rests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoon rest
pentalobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + lobular.
Senses: glosses: Having five lobules.
quadrilobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + lobular.
Senses: glosses: Having four lobules.
boomerang pillow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomerang pillows
Etymology: From boomerang + pillow.
Senses: glosses: A pillow with a right-angled bend in the middle, resembling the shape of a traditional returning boomerang.
boomerang pillows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomerang pillow
ecowalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecowalks
form: eco-walk
Etymology: From eco- + walk.
Senses: glosses: A walk, often guided, through a section of natural habitat; a walk that showcases the ecology of an area.
ecowalks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecowalk
turkey gobbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey gobblers
Senses: glosses: A turkey.
turkey gobblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey gobbler
riverdancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverdancers
Etymology: From riverdance + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who riverdances.
riverdancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riverdancer
Chek Hom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chekhom
Etymology: From Cantonese 赤坎 (cek3 ham3).
Senses: examples: text: Our last halting place was for the Sabbath at the town of Chek Hom in the district of Hoi Peng, where there is a small but flourishing, self-supporting church now started under the auspices of the Presbyterian Mission.
ref: 1884 April [1884 January 25], F. W. Damon, “Rambles in China No. 4”, in The Friend, volume 33, number 4, Honolulu, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: She tracked down the home village of every woman who came, she remembered every temple, every store, and every road in a place called Chek Hom, where they had brought the pigs to market.
ref: 1978, Eleanor Wong Telemaque, It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
text: As we entered Chek Hom—my mother's village—the portraits my parents had drawn vanished into the dusty air, replaced by actual people, deeply lined and tanned, going about their business in town.
ref: 1994, Ben Fong-Torres, The Rice Room: a Memoir of Growing up Chinese-American, Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 246:
glosses: Dated form of Chikan.
banana chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana chairs
Senses: glosses: A type of lightweight, low, full-length, folding chair, often of aluminium and plastic, for outdoor use, and having adjustable back and leg supports.
Synonyms: banana lounge
banana lounger
Hoi Ping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoiping
Etymology: From Cantonese 開平 /开平 (hoi¹ ping⁴).
Senses: examples: text: Chow Dong Hoy was born on August 16, 1883, in the village of Sui Soon Lee, Hoi Ping district, Guangdong province.
ref: 1999, Faith Moosang, First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: Synonym of Kaiping: the Cantonese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Kaiping
extra: the Cantonese-derived name
banana chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana chair
Hoi Peng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hoipeng
Etymology: From Cantonese 開平／开平 (hoi1 ping4).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kaiping.
side entrances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side entrance
Kaiping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: kīʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: K'ai-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 開平 /开平 (Kāipíng).
Senses: examples: text: A 24-year-old young man from Kaiping, Kwangtung was nearly drowned while swimming to Hongkong with his 23-year-old cousin last March 25.
ref: 1973 April 29, “More refugees from the mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The deal greatly strengthens Westfall’s geographic footprint by adding its first plants in the southeastern United States, specifically in Mocksville and Asheboro, NC, as well in Kaiping, China, in Guangdong Province.
ref: 2021 July 2, “Westfall Technik Acquires Multi-Site Consumer Packaging Molder CPP Global; Expands into North Carolina and China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 18 May 2022:
glosses: A county-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Hoi Ping
word: Hoiping
word: Hoi Peng
word: Hoipeng
banana lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana lounges
Senses: glosses: A banana chair.
banana lounges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana lounge
Chikan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: chûʹkänʹ
Forms: form: Ch'ih-k'an
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤坎 (Chìkǎn).
Senses: examples: text: Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.
It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007.
ref: 2017 August 28, He Huifeng, “Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017, China:
glosses: A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Chek Hom
word: Chekhom
word: Chik Hom
word: Chikhom
shorty shorts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorty-shorts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of short shorts.
synonyms: word: short shorts
Enping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ǔnʹpǐngʹ
Forms: form: En-p'ing
Etymology: From Mandarin 恩平 (Ēnpíng).
Senses: examples: text: Kwangchow to Enping
It was an early spring morning in 1968 when we left Canton city and, cutting across the Pearl river delta, went west to visit the county town of Enping.
ref: 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 335:
english: Travels in China, 1966-71
translation: Travels in China, 1966-71
text: In fact, the Miss China contest nearly did not happen, after officials in the southern city of Enping raided the auditorium.[…]
To comply, he scheduled the Miss China pageant in the obscure city of Enping in Guangdong Province, without much publicity.
ref: 2002 July 16, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Beijing Journal; Here She Comes! (Will China Ever Be the Same?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
glosses: A county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Yan Ping
word: Yanping
maxi-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxi-pads
form: maxipad
Senses: glosses: A large-sized sanitary pad for use during heavy menstruation.
maxi-pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxi-pad
Heshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭʹshänʹ
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Ho-shan
Etymology: From Mandarin 鶴山／鹤山 (Hèshān).
Senses: examples: text: Local authorities in a southern Chinese city abandoned a plan to build a uranium-processing plant one day after hundreds of local residents protested against it because of safety concerns. The $6 billion project, proposed for the city of Heshan in Guangdong province, was part of national efforts to reduce China’s reliance on coal and boost the use of clean energy.
ref: 2013 July 13, “World Digest: July 13, 2013”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2018, World:
glosses: A county-level city and former county of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
glosses: A district of Hebi, Henan, China.
glosses: A town and former township in Ningyang, Tai'an, Shandong, China.
Synonyms: sense: city in Guangdong; from Cantonese
word: Hok Shan
sense: city in Guangdong
word: Hokshan
sense: city in Guangdong
word: Hok San
sense: city in Guangdong
word: Hoksan
nipple guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nipple guards
Senses: glosses: A protective covering for the nipple that can be used when breastfeeding with mastitis, etc.
nipple guards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nipple guard
Nanhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nänʹhīʹ
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Nam Hoi
form: Namhoi
form: Nan-hai
Etymology: From Mandarin 南海 (Nánhǎi).
Senses: examples: text: A big poster recently appeared in Nanhai County of Kwangtung Province condemning the unpardonable crimes committed by Mao Tse-tung during his notorious lifetime, according to an intelligence source from behind the Iron Curtain.
Entitled "Our debt of blood must be repaid in kind by pro-Mao reptiles," the poster was put on a "revolutionary martyrs' shrine" at Tali Park in Nanhai County on May 16.
ref: 1980 July 6, “Poster attack”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 26, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The Nanhai district of the Guangdong provincial city of Foshan in the GBA has ordered those Evergrande projects that are still under construction to be taken off the list as approved collaterals for mortgages and other loans.
ref: 2021 October 4, Iris Ouyang, “China’s local authorities take a hard look at Evergrande’s projects to ring fence any collapse from hurting their jurisdictions”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2021, Business:
glosses: A district of Foshan, Guangdong, China; a former county of Guangdong, China.
glosses: A town in Songzi, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
examples: text: Grouped around Chung Hai (Middle lake) and Nan Hai (South lake), just west of the Palace museum, are the government buildings of the Chinese Communist regime.
ref: [1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1:
glosses: A lake in Zhongnanhai, Xicheng district, Beijing, China.
Mount Florida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally Mount Floridon.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS5861).
Licius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Liezi.
synonyms: word: Liezi
sleeper hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleeper holds
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A chokehold from behind that restricts blood flow to the brain and can cause the recipient to become unconscious.
sleeper holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeper hold
Bichat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Derived terms: Bichat's fat pad
Bichatian
Shepherdswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Shepherdswell with Coldred parish, Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR2648).
Synonyms: Sibertswold
Shilton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP2608).
glosses: A village in Shilton and Barnacle parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4084).
glosses: A surname.
Chilliwack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in British Columbia, Canada.
Lutterworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5484).