cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Botany Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The bay was named by explorer James Cook for the variety of plants observed near the shore.
(Worcester College): So called from its remote situation.
Senses: glosses: A bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
examples: text: "Do you come from West Lynne?" / Yes. "Horrid place. Mrs. Latimer took a house there soon after I went to live with her. I'd rather she'd taken it at Botany Bay."
ref: 1861, Ellen Wood, chapter 32, in East Lynne:
text: If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXI, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VII, page 149:
text: Christopher Coney was silenced, and as he could get no public sympathy, he mumbled his feelings to himself: "Be dazed, if I loved my country half as well as the young feller do, I'd live by claning my neighbour's pigsties afore I'd go away! For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay!"
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
glosses: Worcester College, Oxford.
Derived terms: Botany Bay dozen
Botany Bay fever
Botany Bay greens
Botany Bay gum
Botany Bay kino
Botany Bay oak
Botany Bay olive
Botany Bay resin
howness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From how + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Because every being is determined by the what and the how and is unveiled as a being in its whatness and howness, its being-what and being-how, the copula is necessarily ambiguous.
ref: 1988, Martin Heidegger, The basic problems of phenomenology:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of how a person, object, or thing is.
bepucker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepuckers
form: bepuckering
form: bepuckered
form: bepuckered
Etymology: From be- + pucker.
Senses: glosses: To pucker.
bepuzzlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bepuzzle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: He paused and regarded his listeners. The bepuzzlement in their faces was delicious. Also, there was awe in their faces.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 9, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Perplexity.
marketisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marketisations
Etymology: From market + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marketization.
aonach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aonachs
form: oenach
Etymology: From Irish aonach, from Old Irish óenach, from óen (“one”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor-worship practices.
wife-beating question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wife-beating questions
Etymology: From wife-beating + question, with reference to the oft-cited example "Have you stopped beating your wife?".
Senses: examples: text: Mr. [Tony] Banks: When the Leader of the House sees his right hon. friend the Prime Minister, will he ask her to come to the Dispatch Box and condemn picket line violence by the police?
Mr. [John] Biffen: That is the most obvious and plain wife-beating question that I have ever heard asked.
ref: 1984, British House of Commons debate, Hansard vol. 70, 20 Dec 1984
text: Amis also recounts some aggressive questions allegedly put by him to me and to James Fenton in our (James's and my) Trotskyist years, when all three of us were colleagues at the New Statesman. The questions are so plainly wife-beating questions, and the answers so clearly intended to pacify the aggressor by offering a mocking agreement [...].
ref: 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A question that presupposes some controversial premise, such that it cannot be directly answered without incriminating oneself or, at least, unintentionally conceding a point; a loaded question.
Related terms: trick question
leading question
Tobit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Τωβίτ (Tōbít), from Hebrew טוֹבִי (tovi, literally “my good”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
examples: text: I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 1:3:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Tobit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: a model where the dependent variable is censored.
polychotomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polychotomy + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Divisible or separable into multiple groups or pieces.
Related terms: dichotomous
manucodiata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manucodiatas
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore Scaliger admitting that the Manucodiata is perpetually on the wing in the Aire, he must of necessity admit also that manner of Incubation that Cardan describes; else how could their generations continue?
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 75
glosses: A bird of paradise (family Paradisaeidae).
ginnery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginneries
Etymology: From gin + -ery.
Senses: glosses: a place where ginning (removing the seeds from cotton) is done.
Related terms: ginner
parœcious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paroecious.
parœmiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˌɹiːmɪˈɒɡɹəfə/
Forms: form: parœmiographers
form: paremiographer
form: paroemiographer
Senses: glosses: A writer of proverbs.
parœmiographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parœmiographer
fetidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fetidly
form: most fetidly
form: foetidly
form: fœtidly
Etymology: From fetid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fetid manner.
filtring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of filtre
filtred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of filtre
goulden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goulden
form: most goulden
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of golden.
travelleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: travel + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of travel
Ostrogothic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒs.tɹəˈɡɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑ.stɹəˈɡɑ.θɪk/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
Etymology: From Ostrogoth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
sequestre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequestres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sequester.
sequestre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sequestres
form: sequestring
form: sequestred
form: sequestred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sequester.
sequestred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sequestred
form: most sequestred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sequestered.
sequestred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sequestre
profre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: profres
form: profring
form: profred
form: profred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of profer.
profred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of profre
prospre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prospres
form: prospring
form: prospred
form: prospred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of prosper.
kyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kytes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kite (“bird of prey”).
examples: text: "You know my father's name?" / "It would be strange if I didnae," he returned, "for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew. So give us the letter, and sit down and fill your kyte."
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kite (“the stomach; the belly”).
pilastre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilastres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pilaster.
psychrometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychrometres
Etymology: From psychro- + -metre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psychrometer.
pentametre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentametres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pentameter.
enquirest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: enquire + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of enquire
maneuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maneuvre
maneuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maneuvre
maneuvring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneuvrings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maneuvering.
maneuvring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maneuvre
maneuvred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maneuvre
insolencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insolency
sum-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sum-ups
Etymology: From sum + up, from the phrasal verb.
Senses: glosses: A summary.
subtidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: below the level of the tide
Derived terms: subtidally
Related terms: intertidal
peritidal
strip party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip parties
Etymology: From strip + party.
Senses: examples: text: He escapes Vultura, his would-be murderer, and attends a Hollywood strip party, but he turns up no leads.
ref: 1971, American Film Institute, Kenneth White Munden, "The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in: Issues 1921-1930", page 1049
text: Dre: "Let's go to that Halloween strip party right quick."
ref: 2007, Leandre Taylor, The Great Halloween Jacker, page 64:
text: One girl can set the stage for the type of interaction the people at a strip party expect.
ref: 2008, Crystal Magnum, Gail Magnum, The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story, page 34:
glosses: A party at which a stripper performs.
examples: text: I dumped my ex wife's PT Cruiser in the ghetto, hoping a spontaneous strip party would scrap that ugly car down to the wheels overnight.
text: She put an ad in an automotive magazine for a "VW Owners Strip Party!" and gave her father's address.
ref: 2001, Christine Gallagher, The woman's book of divorce: 101 ways to make him suffer forever, page 129:
glosses: An event in which the participants remove parts from vehicles and other heavy machinery.
Related terms: block party
sex party
chop shop
street fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street fighters
form: streetfighter
Etymology: From street + fighter.
Senses: glosses: A person who regularly fights in the streets.
sun lounge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun lounges
Senses: examples: text: Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
ref: 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
glosses: A sunroom.
Sunflower State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sunflower State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Kansas: a state of the United States.
DUMBELS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An acronym used to remember the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome: ("diaphoresis/diarrhea, urination, miosis, bronchospasm/bradycardia/bronchorrhea, emesis, lacrimation, salivation").
Synonyms: SLUDGE
up the kyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Times change, that's a fact, what the hell am I blethering about, it's been the same since the world began, men have always been getting lassies up the kyte.
ref: 1983, Clifford Hanley, Another Street, Another Dance, Mainstream, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: pregnant
Synonyms: pregnant
manor houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manor house
strip parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strip party
street fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of street fighter
Golden State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Golden State
Etymology: Alluding to its rich deposits of gold.
Senses: examples: text: A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy on to the court during the Dream’s 29 July game with the Golden State Valkyries, according to a police report. The report said he threw another sex toy during the Dream’s game on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury.
ref: 2025 August 8, “Another WNBA game disrupted by sex toy thrown on court in Chicago”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025:
glosses: Official nickname for California: a state of the United States.
Aloha State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Aloha State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Hawaii: a state of the United States.
committed suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commit suicide
committing suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commit suicide
commits suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commit suicide
Centennial State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Centennial State
Etymology: A nickname alluding to the fact that Colorado was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Colorado: a state of the United States.
Constitution State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Constitution State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Connecticut: a state of the United States.
First State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the First State
Etymology: So nicknamed because Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, although it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to establish itself as a state.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Delaware: a state of the United States.
wikipedia: Constitution of the United States
Thirteen Colonies
Sunshine State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sunshine State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Florida: a state of the United States.
glosses: Former nickname for South Dakota: a state of the United States, until 1992.
glosses: Nickname for Queensland: a state of Australia.
Peach State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Peach State
Senses: examples: text: According to the state of Georgia, I was clear to drive a vehicle for another six months. The Peach State also was under the impression that I lived at 1104 Lynn Valley Road.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 181:
glosses: Official nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.
Gem State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gem State
Etymology: So called because of its abundant natural resources.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Idaho: a state of the United States.
Prairie State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Prairie State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Illinois: a state of the United States.
Hoosier State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hoosier State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Indiana: a state of the United States.
Hawkeye State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hawkeye State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Iowa: a state of the United States.
sun lounges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sun lounge
Beaver State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beaver State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Oregon: a state of the United States.
Little Rhody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An unofficial nickname for Rhode Island, a state of the United States.
Palmetto State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Palmetto State
Etymology: A nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for South Carolina: a state of the United States.
Coyote State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Coyote State
Senses: glosses: An unofficial nickname for South Dakota, a state of the United States.
Garden State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Garden State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for New Jersey: a state of the United States.
Derived terms: Garbage State
Garden Stater
Volunteer State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Volunteer State
Etymology: Perhaps because of the prominent role of volunteer soldiers from Tennessee during the War of 1812; perhaps in reference to volunteers for the Mexican–American War.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Tennessee: a state of the United States.
Beehive State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Beehive State
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Utah: a state of the United States.
Green Mountain State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Green Mountain State
Etymology: Named after the Green Mountains mountain range, a prominent geographic feature of the state.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Vermont: a state of the United States.
wikipedia: Green Mountains
Old Dominion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Perhaps from the former designation of the colony as the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
Senses: examples: text: Attracted by better soils, cheap and properly surveyed land, and easier access to markets, hundreds of thousands fled Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century, causing the Old Dominion to cease to be the most populous state in the Union.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Official nickname for Virginia: a state of the United States; originally the nickname given by Charles II of England to the Colony of Virginia.
Related terms: Colony and Dominion of Virginia [c. 1700]
Badger State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Badger State
Etymology: In reference to the caves or tunnels dug and inhabited by early miners in the region, thought to resemble badgers' dens.
Senses: glosses: An unofficial nickname for Wisconsin, a state of the United States.
Related terms: America's Dairyland
Cowboy State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Cowboy State
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Wyoming: a state of the United States.
Copper State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Copper State
Senses: glosses: Nickname for Arizona: a state of the United States.
Pelican State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛl.ɪ.kən steɪt/
/ˈpɛl.ə.kən steɪt/
[ˈpʰɛl.ɪ.kn̩ steɪ̯t̚]
Forms: form: the Pelican State
Etymology: A tribute to Louisiana's official state bird, the brown pelican.
Senses: synonyms: Bayou State
Creole State
Sportsman's Paradise
The Boot
glosses: Official nickname for Louisiana: a state of the United States.
Bay State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bay State
Etymology: Massachusetts was originally known as the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Massachusetts: a state of the United States.
Derived terms: Bay Stater
sex parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex party
sex work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Many were initiated into sex work through friends who were already sex workers, but others took the initiative themselves.
ref: 1999. Peter Aggleton, "Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution", Page 44
text: Social Control, Policing, and Sex Work I think it was the first, no second, time I got arrested.
ref: 2006. Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Gayle Michelle MacDonald, "Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back", Page 105
text: Sex work involves the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation.
ref: 2010. Ronald John Weitzer, "Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry", Page 1
text: My mother distributes condoms and outreach materials to those that do sex work for a living in the Tenderloin and Mission.
glosses: Any job in which sex or eroticism is involved, especially prostitution or pornography.
Derived terms: sex worker
sex therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The treatment of sexual dysfunction.
Related terms: sex therapist
clusterfrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clusterfracks
Etymology: See frack (“euphemism for "fuck"”).
Senses: examples: text: All that said, Honeycomb tablets do support a wide variety of video codecs, and because they don't interface with the clusterfrack that is iTunes, it's much easier to rip DVDs and quickly place video files in your Android video folder.
ref: 2011 December, Jon Phillips, “Tackling the Tablet Conundrum”, in Maximum PC, Future US, page 26:
glosses: Clusterfuck.
job creator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job creators
Senses: examples: Candidate Nixon, in the final speech of his campaign swing, said tonight "job creators" would hold back on new investments if "they are confronted with the possibility of being sandbagged by a hostile Congress." (October 31, 1954)
glosses: A wealthy person; a person with control over sufficient resources to employ many other people.
examples: "The proposed civic auditorium center will fill a long-time void in Los Angeles' make-up, and at the same time will be a job creator and revenue producer." (May 30, 1954)
glosses: A business, organization, or other entity which employs an increasing number of people with time.
glosses: A politician who increases employment in their jurisdiction.
serving dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serving dishes
Senses: glosses: A plate or dish or platter used to hold food to be served during a meal, but not used in cooking.
mention'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mention
asham'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asham'd
form: most asham'd
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashamed.
asham'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ashame
rob'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rob
silenc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more silenc'd
form: most silenc'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of silenced.
silenc'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of silence
us'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of used.
us'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of use
delivr'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of delivered.
delivr'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delivre
deliver'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of delivered.
deliver'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliver
threatning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threatning
form: most threatning
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of threatening.
threatning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threatnings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of threatening.
extremest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: extreme + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of extreme: most extreme
crown'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crown
poppy head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poppy heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poppyhead.
poppy heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poppy head
abus'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abuse
apostatiz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] and when we are enter'd among Heathens here, we muſt yet expect the ſadder portion of Apoſtatiz’d Chriſtians hereafter.
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, chapter 2, in The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, page 34:
glosses: simple past and past participle of apostatize
TS girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TS girls
form: TSgirl
Senses: examples: text: ...and the sixteen year-old French TS girl I saw on TV probably twenty-five years ago, whose peasant parents treated her like just another one of their daughters.
ref: 2003, Erica Zander, TransActions, Periskop, published 2003, →ISBN, page 203:
text: There was a pause. For a moment I thought she had left the computer. But then she started typing again. She wanted to know if I knew she was a TS girl. A TS girl? What on earth was a TS girl?
ref: 2007, Stuart Cooke, "One Night with Chinta", Meanjin, Volume 66 (No.1), March 2007
text: I've also known TS girls that lacked the adequate training or job skills needed to perform as a woman, or to attain the degree or status of transition they seek merely because they can't pass or find meaningful employment in their chosen gender.
ref: 2009, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life…Pink Heart: What It's Like Being the Pink Sheep of the Family, The Mystery Girls Publishing, published 2009, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: A trans girl, a trans woman; a male-to-female transsexual person.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see TS, girl. (A girl who has a medical condition, such as Turner syndrome or Tourette syndrome, which is initialized "TS".)
Synonyms: sense: see trans woman
word: male-to-female transsexual
Java cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Java cat
reckon'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reckon
observin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of observing.
examinin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of examining.
contemn'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contemn
concern'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concern'd
form: most concern'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of concerned.
concern'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concern
aim'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aim
determin'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more determin'd
form: most determin'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of determined.
determin'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of determine
assign'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assign
entertain'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entertain
serving dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serving dish
unconcern'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconcern'd
form: most unconcern'd
Senses: examples: text: A N D ’tis to be fear’d, this is the ſtate of moſt of us, that all the convincing Logick, that demonſtration of the Spirit as St. Paul calls it : and all the perſwaſive Rhetorick of the Goſpel, find us ſo ſtupid and unconcern’d, that they can make no impreſſion :[…]
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, chapter 3, in The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, page 41:
glosses: Archaic form of unconcerned.
agua de jamaicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agua de jamaica
sex therapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex therapists
Senses: glosses: A therapist or sexologist licensed to providing sex therapy and other care for those with sexual dysfunctions or who are victims of sexual assault.
sex therapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex therapist
hold the ring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɔʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊld ðə ˌɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: holds the ring
form: holding the ring
form: held the ring
form: held the ring
Etymology: Probably from keep the ring. In days past when spectators would encircle participants in a prizefight or a performance, people would be employed to maintain order among them and keep them from coming too near the participants.
Senses: topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
theater
synonyms: keep the ring
glosses: To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the participants.
glosses: To be a spectator at a fight; (figuratively) to watch other people argue.
examples: text: Police held the ring during the protests.
text: In England a century earlier it had been a struggle between two warring houses, in France it was now a struggle between three: Guise, Montmorency and Bourbon, with the feeble government of Catherine de Medici vainly trying to hold the ring.
ref: 1968, J. Hurstfield, “Social Structure, Office-holding and Politics, Chiefly in Western Europe”, in R[ichard] B[ruce] Wernham, editor, The New Cambridge Modern History, volumes III (The Counter-Reformation and Price Revolution 1559–1610), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:
text: While this debate was going on in Nature another was being conduct in Archaeometry. This was between Betancourt – and his old colleague Michael – and Warren, with the English archaeometrist M. J. Aitken holding the ring.
ref: 1991, Martin [Gardiner] Bernal, “The Thera Eruption: From the Aegean to China”, in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, volumes II (The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence), New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
text: It is the great powers that create international upheavals. In 1912–13 the Balkan powers fought two bitter wars among themselves, while the great powers held the ring.
ref: 2002, Martin Wight, “International Anarchy”, in Hedley Bull, Carsten Holbraad, editors, Power Politics, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Lieutenant-General Fry says that coalition forces will continue military operations "to separate the two sides of the sectarian conflict" but that such operations were meant to hold the ring until the politicians come up with a solution.
ref: 2006 August 31, “Holding the ring in the capital: Embedded with American troops in a volatile district, our correspondent asks how long they can prevent an all-out sectarian war”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
glosses: To oversee a situation while attempting to remain uninvolved in it.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a prizefighter: to hold one's own during a fight; to continue winning a series of fights.
plumb lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumb line
catch fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catch fences
Senses: examples: text: 1999, Tarik el-Bashir, The New York Times Safety Is at Issue As 3 Spectators Die at Car Race
In 1997, Lowe's Motor Speedway improved its catch fence by adding height and cable along walls down the front straightaway, which is often the stands' most crowded section. After last year's accident at Michigan, Lowe's increased the height of its fence and the overhang, bringing the total height to 17 feet. The spectators involved Saturday were sitting just past the exit of the fourth turn, not on the straightaway.
text: As a safety precaution to protect fans and competitors, Talladega Superspeedway extended the height of its frontstretch catch fence by eight feet, president Rick Humphrey told ESPN.com Monday.
ref: 2009, Marty Smith, ESPN, Talladega frontstretch fence 22 feet high:
text: 2011 John Marshall, Associated Press Indy 500 winner Wheldon dies after massive wreck
Video replays showed Wheldon's car turning over as it went airborne and sailed into what's called the catch fence, which sits over a barrier that's designed to give a bit when cars make contact.
text: According to Dr David Cheer, Rockfall Mitigation specialist for Maccaferri, catch fence design is now a sophisticated, high tech process with the development of ever-more efficient systems, capable of absorbing huge amounts of kinetic energy possessed by falling debris.
ref: 2011, Maccaferri Rockfall Catch Fences Protect Vulnerable Northern Ireland Infrastructure:
glosses: A fence designed to catch falling or flying debris, or otherwise absorb its impact
Related terms: crash barrier
ringfence
safety net
tone arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tone arm
consider'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consider
priapismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more priapismic
form: most priapismic
Etymology: From priapism + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a priapism.
dispell'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispel
arm'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arm'd
form: most arm'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of armed.
arm'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arm
robb'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rob
date rapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date rapist
sow'n
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But in this caſe there is yet a father concurrent towards it, Chriſts parable tells us of Fowles that devoured the Seed, which himſelf interprets to be the wicked one, which catcheth away the word ſow’n in means hearts : When that ſpiritual ſeed lies looſe and ſcatter’d upon the ſurface, and is not by deep and ſerious meditation, harrowed as it were into the ground, it offers it ſelf a ready prey to the devourer, and God knows the event is too ready to atteſt the truth of the obſervation :[…]
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, chapter 3, in The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, pages 44–45:
glosses: past participle of sow
scatter'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scatter'd
form: most scatter'd
Senses: examples: text: But in this caſe there is yet a father concurrent towards it, Chriſts parable tells us of Fowles that devoured the Seed, which himſelf interprets to be the wicked one, which catcheth away the word ſow’n in means hearts : When that ſpiritual ſeed lies looſe and ſcatter’d upon the ſurface, and is not by deep and ſerious meditation, harrowed as it were into the ground, it offers it ſelf a ready prey to the devourer, and God knows the event is too ready to atteſt the truth of the obſervation :[…]
ref: 1667, Richard Allestree, chapter 3, in The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, pages 44–45:
glosses: Archaic form of scatter.
scatter'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of scatter
consensuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consensualities
Etymology: * consensual + -ity
Senses: glosses: The state of being consensual.
consensualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consensuality
resign'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resign'd
form: most resign'd
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of resigned.
resign'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resign
seal'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sealed.
seal'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seal
lethargick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lethargick
form: most lethargick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lethargic.
propos'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propose
what in tarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: 2003. Judith Silverstein, Michael Lasky, "Online dating for dummies"
What in Tarnation to Write I still remember the first girl I called up for a date at age 15.
text: Other euphemisms of this type (and there are many) include what in tarnation for what in damnation and what the Sam Hill for what the damn hell.
ref: 2005. Charles Harrington Elster, "What in the word?", Page 35
text: 2007. Diane Stanley. "The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy" Page 141.
“What in tarnation do you think you're doing?”
text: What in tarnation have you done with my wallet!?
glosses: Used to add emphasis to "what" when beginning a question.
Synonyms: what the dickens
what on Earth
what the Devil
what the fuck
depriv'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more depriv'd
form: most depriv'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of deprived.
depriv'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprive
organiz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more organiz'd
form: most organiz'd
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of organized.
organiz'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of organize
Apollo's belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apollo's belts
Senses: examples: text: apollo's belt in a discussion about the key characteristics of models
ref: 2005. Thomas Alexander, "Academic Undress", Page 129
text: Apollo's belt, the iliac furrow, also known as an athlete's girdle, Apollo's Belt or an Adonis belt
ref: 2005, Henry Gray, Susan Standring, Harold Ellis, "Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice", Page 22
text: aficionados (or at least the more aesthetically minded among them) sometimes refer to this as an 'Apollo's belt' or 'Adonis girdle' – a classic case of reality mirroring art, rather than the other way round.
ref: 2011. Michael Squire, "The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy" Page 61
glosses: The iliac furrows
solecistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more solecistically
form: most solecistically
Etymology: From solecistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: 1819, Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons, Volume 5, page 143,
Accordingly, Dr. Young says forcibly, and justly, though solecistically,
" A shameless woman is the worst of men."
text: Several of the most individual players who had success in the fusion field, however, were originally jazzmen whose first love was the conventional piano, now frequently and solecistically known as the ‘acoustic piano’ (or, by those who strongly prefer it, by the ironic name of ‘steam piano’).
ref: 1998, Dr. David Rowland, The Cambridge Companion to the Piano, page 222:
text: The subtitle of his already solecistically entitled The Blind Watchmaker informs us that “the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design”:[…].
ref: 2008, David Bentley Hart, In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments, page 199:
topics: manner
glosses: In a solecistic way; in a way that involves solecism.
auntientest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: auntient + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of auntient: most auntient
auntienter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of auntient: more auntient
advauntages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advauntage
cubick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cubic.
THT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: SMT
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of through-hole technology.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of tetrahydrothiophene.
cynick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cynick
form: most cynick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cynic.
cynick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cynic.
through-hole technology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: through-hole technologies
form: THT
form: thru-hole technology
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: surface-mount technology
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Mounting scheme used for electronic components that involves the use of leads on the components that are inserted into holes drilled in printed circuit boards and soldered to pads on the opposite side.
through-hole technologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of through-hole technology
PTH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTHs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of plated through-hole.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of parathyroid hormone.
PTH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Putonghua.
diagnostick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diagnostick
form: most diagnostick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diagnostic.
diagnostick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagnosticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diagnostic.
dialectick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialecticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dialectic.
didactick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more didactick
form: most didactick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of didactic.
diuretick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diuretick
form: most diuretick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diuretic.
diuretick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diureticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of diuretic.
tonick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tonick
form: most tonick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tonic.
tonick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tonic.
drastick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drastick
form: most drastick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of drastic.
dynamick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dynamick
form: most dynamick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dynamic.
dynamick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dynamic.
eccentrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eccentrick
form: most eccentrick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eccentric.
eccentrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccentricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eccentric.
eclectick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eclectick
form: most eclectick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eclectic.
eclectick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclecticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of eclectic.
ecliptick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclipticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ecliptic.
elegiack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elegiack
form: most elegiack
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of elegiac.
elegiack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elegiacks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of elegiac.
emetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emetick
form: most emetick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emetic.
emetick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emeticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of emetic.
empirick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empiricks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of empiric.
endemick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of endemic.
endemick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endemicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of endemic.
energetick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more energetick
form: most energetick
Senses: examples: text: I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated;
ref: 1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Preface”, in A Dictionary of the English Language:
glosses: Obsolete form of energetic.
epileptick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epileptick
form: most epileptick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epileptic.
epileptick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epilepticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of epileptic.
escharotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more escharotick
form: most escharotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of escharotic.
escharotick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escharoticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of escharotic.
ethick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethick
form: most ethick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ethic.
ethick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ethic.
ethnick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnick
form: most ethnick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ethnic.
ethnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ethnic.
sex line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex lines
Senses: glosses: A phoneline reserved for phone sex.
diablery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diableries
Etymology: From French diablerie.
Senses: glosses: sorcery
qualifier: attempted
glosses: summoning of the Devil
spitting distances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spitting distance
tutulemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutulemmas
Etymology: Blend of Turkish tutulma (“eclipse”) + English analemma.
Senses: glosses: A photographed analemma that includes an image of a solar eclipse.