cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rouleau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈləʊ/
Forms: form: rouleaus
form: rouleaux
Etymology: From French rouleau.
Senses: examples: text: We always judge of others by ourselves; and his idea of Cupid's quiver is a rouleau.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith. Courtiers.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 260:
text: Early in the morning, the rouleau of gold was left at my door in a little box, with my name on the outside.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
text: […] he liked your philosophy, and hopes you'll accept of this, which from its weight I take to be a little rouleau of guineas.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
examples: rouleau turner
rouleau loop
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A decorative technique that involves creating patterns with piping, cording or bias tape. A rouleau loop uses the same cord or piping as a way of fastening buttons, most notably down the back of bridal gowns.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stack of aggregated red blood cells, as seen in certain haematological and other diseases.
topics: fortification
fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of a bundle of fascines to cover besiegers.
Ciskei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Afrikaans Ciskei, analyzable in English as cis- + Kei (in reference to the Great Kei River; hence literally “on this side of the Kei River”, as opposed to Transkei.
Senses: glosses: A former bantustan in the southeast of South Africa, formed in 1961, declared independent in 1981, and reintegrated in 1993.
wikipedia: Great Kei River
Related terms: Transkei
animal dentistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The field of dentistry applied to the care of animals.
cellomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of cell phenotypes and functions
Related terms: cellomic
pretty-faced wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretty-faced wallabies
Senses: glosses: A wallaby of species Macropus parryi. endemic to Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Synonyms: whiptail
agile wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agile wallabies
Senses: glosses: A wallaby, Macropus agilis, of northern Australia.
hoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒpi/
ipa: /ˈhɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Etymology: From hop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a hoppy beer
glosses: Having a taste of hops; heavily flavoured with hops.
Derived terms: hoppiness
hoppy glop
unhoppy
hoppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒpi/
ipa: /ˈhɑpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: hoppier
form: hoppiest
Etymology: From hop + -y.
Senses: examples: a hoppy bunny; a hoppy frog
glosses: Characterised by a hopping motion.
bogey man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogey men
Senses: examples: text: The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The bodgie soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about bodgie behaviour.
ref: 2001, Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music, page 223:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bogeyman.
hoppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hoppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being hoppy.
homegirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌɡɝl/
Forms: form: homegirls
Etymology: From home + girl; compare homeboy.
Senses: glosses: A female friend.
glosses: A female co-member of a gang.
product placement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: product placements
Senses: examples: text: I took my qualms to Reddit: had the show really become sponcon slop? I was not alone in this assessment. “The number of product placements this season is hilarious to the point that it’s basically a giant infomercial,” one user posted.
ref: 2025 October 29, Alaina Demopoulos, “What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A form of advertising where a brand or product is incorporated into non-advertising media such as films.
Related terms: sponcon
burn down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns down
form: burning down
form: burned down
form: burned down
form: burnt down
form: burnt down
Senses: examples: text: The police are hoping to find the people who burned down the cottage.
glosses: To cause (a structure) to burn to nothing.
examples: text: A fire which started in the bedroom caused the cottage to burn down.
text: The first Earl's Court station (1871) was a wooden hut in the middle of a market garden. It served a District connection between West Brompton and the West London Line. It managed to burn down in 1875, and the Earl's Court of today dates from 1878.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: To burn completely, so that nothing remains.
raw_tags: of a structure
glosses: To kill (someone), especially by shooting; to attack (someone).
Derived terms: word: burndown
word: burn one down
Related terms: burn off
burn out
burn up
drug addict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drug addicts
Senses: synonyms: word: addict
word: abuser
word: fiend
word: slave
word: wastoid
glosses: A person with a chemical or psychological dependency on a drug, especially one which is illegal or improperly procured.
Related terms: drug addiction
good heavens
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊd ˈhɛvənz/
Senses: qualifier: exclamation
glosses: An exclamation of surprise or shock.
Synonyms: wow
must not
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: must not
form: mustn't
Senses: examples: text: Pedestrians must not cross the road until the light goes green.
synonyms: must refrain from
be not to
glosses: Used to indicate that something is forbidden.
pulverulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pʌlˈvɛɹjələnt/
Forms: form: more pulverulent
form: most pulverulent
form: pulverulentous
form: pulverulous
Etymology: From Latin pulverulentus, from pulvis (“dust”).
Senses: examples: text: The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
ref: 1900, H. G. Wells, chapter 15, in Love and Mr. Lewisham:
text: 2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, →ISBN, p. 120,
If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.
glosses: Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
Related terms: pulverulence
pulverulently
mezzotinto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzotintos
form: mezzotintoes
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mezzotint.
mezzotinto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mezzotintos
form: mezzotintoing
form: mezzotintoed
form: mezzotintoed
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mezzotint.
impetuosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impetuosity
pulverulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are rock varieties with different degrees of decomposition and pulverulence.
ref: 1982, G. Vitalis, I. Puskas-Hogyes, “Engineering geological and construction technological characteristics of triassic dolomites in Hungary”, in Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, volume 25, number 1, page 79:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being powdery or dusty.
glosses: Fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance.
Related terms: pulverulent
pulverulently
pulverulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pulverulently
form: most pulverulently
Etymology: From pulverulent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner characterized by powderiness or dustiness.
Related terms: pulverulence
pulverulentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulverulentous
form: most pulverulentous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulverulent.
pulverulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pulverulous
form: most pulverulous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulverulent.
powderiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From powdery + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Pollen powderiness: Anthers of Actinidia released their pollen as a cloud of individual separate grains.
ref: 1988, S. A. Corbet et al., “Vibratory Pollen Collection and Flower Form”, in Functional Ecology, volume 2, number 2, page 154:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being powdery
Synonyms: pulverulence
Satakunta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Finnish Satakunta.
Senses: glosses: A region of Finland.
Panter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panters
Etymology: An occupational surname, from Middle English panter (“manager of the pantry and food”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Panther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panthers
Senses: glosses: A member of the Black Panther Party, White Panther Party or Gray Panthers.
brasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brăzər
ipa: /ˈbɹæzəɹ/
Forms: form: brassers
form: brazzer
Etymology: From Cockney rhyming slang brass nail, or its reduced form brass, with the same meaning.
Senses: examples: text: 1. The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
2. Yeh know the way they're The Byrds an' Bird is another name for a girl, righ'? —Couldn't we be The Brassers? It was a great name.
ref: 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
text: Don't misunderstand me, compadre, he said. Not just women. All men are brassers as well.
ref: 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, Secker & Warburg, →ISBN:
text: Among the devices in the word formation morphology of Dublin English the most striking and productive must be the addition of -er /-ər/ (more rarely -ers) to stems...Examples: ...brasser 'prostitute, shameless female'...
ref: 2005, Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 138:
text: "Oh, and all the brassers knew Dolly Moran," he said. Quirke nodded. Brassers were whores, he assumed, but how? Brass nails, rhyming with tails, or was it something to do with screws?
ref: 2006, Benjamin Black, Christine Falls, Picador, page 174:
text: "Sex workers? Jesus, even the brassers have gone PC," I said to the screen.
ref: 2011, Tony Black, Paying For It, page 167:
glosses: Prostitute.
anhydrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhydrase
anhydrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydrases
Etymology: From an- + hydrase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the removal of water from a material.
Derived terms: carbonic anhydrase
hydrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrases
Etymology: From hydr- + -ase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the addition of water.
Synonyms: hydratase
Derived terms: anhydrase
breaststrokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breaststroker
ballabile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballabiles
form: ballabili
Etymology: From Italian ballabile.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A dance performed by the corps de ballet, or by the chorus in an opera.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music to accompany this dance.
breaststroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaststrokers
Etymology: From breaststroke + -er.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A person swimming using the breaststroke.
losange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: losanges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lozenge.
intergenerational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + generation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: intergenerational justice
text: In nearly 300 pages, the book delves into the history of white supremacy and racist systems that have led to intergenerational Black fatigue.
ref: 2021 May 19, Donna M. Owens, “Microaggressions and straight-up racism are exhausting Black people”, in Racial Reckoning, NBC News, retrieved 05 May 2025:
glosses: Between or across generations.
Derived terms: intergenerationally
Related terms: generational wealth
varicosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicosity
prettifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prettify
tradename
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradenames
Etymology: From trade + name.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trade name.
anyplace else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anywhere else.
synonyms: word: anywhere else
ballabili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballabile
smooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoosh
smooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoosh
hopback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopbacks
Etymology: From hop + back.
Senses: topics: beer
beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A sealed chamber between the brewing kettle and counter-flow wort chiller, into which hops are added.
radio-controlled car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio-controlled cars
Senses: glosses: a model car controlled by radio waves from a battery-powered remote control unit.
Synonyms: RC car
recording artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recording artists
Senses: glosses: A person who records music for distribution to the public.
churchplanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchplanters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of church planter.
church planter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church planters
form: churchplanter
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
qualifier: chiefly Evangelicalism Christianity
glosses: A minister or organization that starts new congregations where none existed previously.
razorbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razorback
repressurises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repressurise
repressurise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repressurises
form: repressurising
form: repressurised
form: repressurised
Etymology: From re- + pressurise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of repressurize.
repressurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repressurizes
form: repressurizing
form: repressurized
form: repressurized
form: repressurise
Etymology: From re- + pressurize.
Senses: examples: text: Once the lava erupts, the pressure is relieved and magma starts to fill into the shallow storage zone below -- repressurizing the system and setting the stage for the next eruption.
ref: 2025 July 16, Julia Jacobo, “Icelandic volcano erupts again, prompting evacuations at nearby town and Blue Lagoon”, in ABC News:
glosses: To return to a pressurized state, especially after being depressurized.
Related terms: repressurization
frown on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frowns on
form: frowning on
form: frowned on
form: frowned on
form: frown upon
Senses: examples: text: Coach frowns on smoking, even in the off-season.
text: The three "Greats" (Great Eastern, Great Central, and Great Northern) were prepared to amalgamate, but Parliament continued to frown on such proposals.
ref: 1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:
text: Is it because of her mother? said Lorraine. You think she'd frown on you?
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Days Later (April 2011)”, in Normal People:
glosses: To disapprove of (something or someone, often a behavior); to express disapproval of (something or someone).
pressurizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pressurises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pressurize
Related terms: pressure
pressurise
pressurizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pressurising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pressurize
Related terms: pressure
pressurise
speak of the devil and he appears
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speak of the devil.
synonyms: word: speak of the devil
talk of the devil
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speak of the devil.
speak of the devil and he shall appear
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: speak of the devil and he appears
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of speak of the devil.
knuckle under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knuckles under
form: knuckling under
form: knuckled under
form: knuckled under
Senses: examples: text: The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!
ref: 1907, John Galsworthy, “Acute Attack of—‘Pendycitis’”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part III, page 286:
synonyms: fall in line
glosses: To cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.
comorbidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comorbidity
aldermanries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldermanry
alienabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alienability
collision detection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collision detections
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: The process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mechanism in Ethernet to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen.
Related terms: hitbox
hitscan
hit test
truckloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truckload
collision detections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collision detection
white knuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white-knuckle.
hylomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hylomorphisms
Etymology: From hylo- (“matter”) + morphism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that every physical substance is the sum of its component matter and the form taken by that matter.
qualifier: functional programming
glosses: Composition of an anamorphism and a catamorphism.
Related terms: anamorphism
catamorphism
metamorphism
hylomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hylomorphic
form: most hylomorphic
Senses: examples: text: But this latter phrase should be construed in the objective genitive as well, to reveal Morrow's perhaps unwitting testimony to Plato's hylomorphic stance.
ref: 2001, John Protevi, Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida, and the Body Politic:
glosses: Pertaining to hylomorphism.
Derived terms: hylomorphically
tire kicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire kickers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tyre kicker.
light gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light guns
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A device resembling a gun that allows the player of a video game to target a point on the screen.
call stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call stacks
form: callstack
Senses: examples: text: The details of the call stack are hidden from general view. As a Lua programmer, you want to keep in mind that a stack is being used behind the scenes to make sure that function calls work as expected, but in general you won't need to be aware of its implementation or details.
ref: 2007, Kurt Jung, Aaron Brown, Beginning Lua Programming, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A stack that stores details of the functions called by a program in sequence, so that each function can return on completion to the code that called it.
Related terms: stack frame
cimar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cimars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of simar.
scrutineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrutineers
Etymology: From scrutiny + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”).
ref: 2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.
qualifier: elections
glosses: A poll-watcher.
glosses: A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight.
Derived terms: alt: n.
word: scrutineering
scrutineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrutineers
form: scrutineering
form: scrutineered
form: scrutineered
Etymology: From scrutiny + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.
Derived terms: word: scrutineered
Biloxi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biloxi
form: Biloxis
Etymology: Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
Biloxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.
Senses: glosses: The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
glosses: A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A village in southeastern Texas.
plasma rifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma rifles
Senses: topics: engineering
government
literature
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
science-fiction
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An assault rifle-styled gun that shoots plasma.
Related terms: laser gun
pinscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinscreens
Etymology: From pin + screen.
Senses: glosses: A screen through which many closely spaces parallel pins have been inserted, used to make an impression of a three-dimensional object. Used as a novelty and in animated film entertainment.
electroconvulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + convulsive.
Senses: examples: text: Electroconvulsive therapy is virtually a last-resort technique.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Causing seizures or convulsions by means of strong electrical shocks.
Derived terms: electroconvulsively
electroconvulsive therapy
riverfront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverfronts
Etymology: From river + front.
Senses: glosses: The real estate located along the edge of a river.
power up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: powers up
form: powering up
form: powered up
form: powered up
Senses: examples: text: Every morning he powered up his electronic devices, even before making coffee.
glosses: To turn the electrical power on to a device as a precondition to making it operational.
examples: text: The office systems power up automatically at 7:30am on workdays.
glosses: To become ready for operation as a result of the provision of electrical power.
Synonyms: boot up
Related terms: fire up
warm up
rejig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɪɡ/
ipa: /ɹiˈd͡ʒɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: rejigs
form: rejigging
form: rejigged
form: rejigged
Etymology: The verb is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + jig (“to move briskly; to move with jerks or vibrations”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: The rejigged visiting defence was quickly under pressure, Dean Shiels played a neat one-two with Zdenek Kroca and only a brave Peter Enckelman save at the feet of the Northern Irishman prevented an opening goal.
ref: 2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 – 2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2023:
text: They simply cannot deliver what they promised. Nor will an affronted, alienated Brussels help them do so. Rejigged single market access? Forget it.
ref: 2017 March 25, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2023:
text: The DfT's help didn't extend beyond the train operating companies (TOCs) for which it is responsible. Open access operators were left apart, and this forced Hull Trains to suspend its entire service. In turn, LNER had to rejig its timetables to fill the void and keep Hull served.
ref: 2020 April 8, Philip Haigh, “Out of the Current Crisis We could See Meaningful Changes”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56:
synonyms: word: refashion
word: rejigger
word: rejiggle
coordinate_terms: refit
reorder
revise
rework
glosses: To rearrange or tweak (something), especially in order to improve it or make it suitable for some purpose.
glosses: To provide (a place, etc.) with new equipment or machinery; to reequip, to refit.
topics: business
mining
hypernyms: reseparate
resieve
resift
re-sort
glosses: To separate or sort (ore) again in a jigger or sieve.
Derived terms: word: rejigged
word: rejigger
word: rejigging
rejig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈd͡ʒɪɡ/
ipa: /ɹiˈd͡ʒɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: rejigs
Etymology: The verb is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + jig (“to move briskly; to move with jerks or vibrations”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: rejigging
reshuffle
restructuring
glosses: A rearrangement, a reorganization.
skewwhiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skewwhiff
form: most skewwhiff
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-whiff.
rebalance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebalances
form: rebalancing
form: rebalanced
form: rebalanced
Etymology: From re- + balance.
Senses: glosses: To balance again.
drift ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
Mentor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mentors
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility of raising Odysseus's son Telemachus while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
moon boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon boots
Senses: examples: text: I looked around. Ari in a green jacket with four inches of fore arm showing and trousers at half mast, Penny and I in mismatched padded jackets and ski trousers which were way too long; and all wearing the silver moon boots that had been the rage in the early eighties.
ref: 2016, Jeff Payne, Rider (page 142)
glosses: A type of footwear made popular in the 1970s, with a thin rubber outsole and no distinct left or right feet.
glosses: An orthopedic boot, a large hard plastic covering used to protect a broken foot or ankle while it heals.
ha'nts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ha'nt
ha-has
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ha-ha
thaumatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thaumato- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of miracles.
Related terms: thaumaturgy
brass farthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass farthings
Senses: examples: text: The man, as a matter of fact, under no circumstances, ever cared a brass farthing for what I or anybody else in his ship thought.
ref: 1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, “Rulers of East and West”, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC, page 148:
synonyms: plug nickel
plugged nickel
glosses: Something worthless or of small value.
Derived terms: not worth a brass farthing
dreep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: dreeps
form: dreeping
form: dreeped
form: dreeped
form: dreap
Etymology: From Scots dreep.
Senses: examples: text: If ye could not do the next jump ye just dreeped down and ran along the ground and up the next one.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 77:
glosses: To lower oneself from a height and drop the remaining distance.
credit transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit transfers
Senses: glosses: A method of payment in which an amount of money (credit) is transferred directly from one account to another, in the same or different bank
circle jerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle jerks
form: circle-jerk
form: circlejerk
Senses: examples: text: Three screaming queens, the Abbot, the Abbes an the Bishop, who hold circle jerks in their rooms for other students with similar proclivities.
ref: 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 11:
text: This is Melville's real heaven, an all-male platoon, each with his hand in someone's pocket. The circle jerk is another Romantic uroboros.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 587:
qualifier: literal
glosses: A group of people jerking off (“masturbating”) together (with or without interpersonal contact).
examples: text: When organisations celebrate their anniversaries you can usually expect a dull circle jerk of self-congratulation, so the BBC played a blinder in getting Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse to do it for them. Patting yourself on the back looks better when you send yourself up.
ref: 2022 October 27, Carol Midgley, “The Love Box in Your Living Room review — Harry and Paul toast the Beeb with a roast”, in The Times:
glosses: Any group or group activity indulging in excessive mutual praise.
glosses: An environment (especially an online community) in which people express or validate a narrow set of ideas and feelings.
examples: text: There is a long line of these types, some cleverer than others: Rod Liddle, Richard Littlejohn and Jeremy Clarkson, with Toby Young, James Delingpole and Martin Daubney on the subs’ bench. They present as dissenting voices, speaking truth to the elite. In reality, they just preach to people their age. To call this circle jerk of intolerance a culture war is to ennoble it.
ref: 2020 January 20, Suzanne Moore, “I’d never heard of Laurence Fox until he started lecturing us about racism”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A situation in which a group of people engage in self-indulgent or self-gratifying behavior, especially by reinforcing each other's views or attitudes.
qualifier: drug user slang
glosses: A person who shares syringes when injecting drugs.
Synonyms: sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: echo chamber
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: filter bubble
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: hugbox
sense: environment which validates a limited set of ideas and feelings
word: mutual admiration society
Derived terms: circle jerker
Related terms: intellectual masturbation
echo chamber
circle jerk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circle jerks
form: circle jerking
form: circle jerked
form: circle jerked
form: circle-jerk
form: circlejerk
Senses: glosses: to participate in a circle jerk
close-serried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more close-serried
form: most close-serried
Etymology: close + serried
Senses: glosses: crowded tightly together
daffadowndilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæfədaʊnˈdɪli/
Forms: form: daffadowndillies
form: daffydowndilly
Senses: glosses: daffodil
daffadowndillies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daffadowndilly
fag-end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag-ends
form: fag end
Senses: examples: text: And though the annals of the period do not shew us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 190:
text: He wanted to drop the gentleman and go down into the ranks, beginning on the lowest rung of the ladder, where no one would know of his disgrace or mind it if he did know; his father and mother on the other hand would wish him to clutch on to the fag-end of gentility at a starvation salary and with no prospect of advancement.
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXVII, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 300:
text: He was out of his mind, completely and for ever mad, with this sudden shock coming upon the fag-end of his endurance.
ref: 1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 315, column 1:
text: But spatchcocked into the proceedings at the fag-end of the morning was a crisp and useful debate on toxic substances.
ref: 1981, Tam Dalyell, New Scientist, 22nd Oct. issue, Fresh Air at Brighton, page 265
glosses: The last remnant.
glosses: The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope.
glosses: The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.
Synonyms: tag end
tail end
algophilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algophilists
Etymology: From algo- + -philist.
Senses: synonyms: algophile
glosses: A person who is subject to algophilia; one who derives sexual pleasure from feeling pain.
algophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algophilias
Etymology: From algo- + -philia.
Senses: synonyms: masochism
glosses: pleasure from experiencing pain, especially sexually.
Derived terms: algophilist
anacreontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌnakɹɪˈɒntɪk/
ipa: /əˌnækɹiˈɑntɪk/
Forms: form: more anacreontic
form: most anacreontic
Etymology: From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
examples: text: [T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous.
Derived terms: anacreontically
anacronymic
anacronymically
anacreontic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌnakɹɪˈɒntɪk/
ipa: /əˌnækɹiˈɑntɪk/
Forms: form: anacreontics
Etymology: From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A short lyrical piece about love and wine.
birdish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more birdish
form: most birdish
Etymology: From bird + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Having similarities to a bird.
glosses: Applied to things relating to birds and bird behaviour.
Derived terms: birdishly
birdishness
warison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒɹɪsən/
ipa: /ˈwɒɹɪzən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹəsən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹəzən/
ipa: /ˈwɑɹ-/
Forms: form: warisons
form: warrison
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots warisoun, from Middle English warisoun (“reward, punishment”), from Old Northern French warison, variant garison, guarison. Doublet of garrison.
The change in sense from "reward" to "bugle call" arose from Walter Scott's apparent misinterpretation of a line in the Middle English text The Battle of Otterburn, equivalent to modern English "Minstrels, play up for your warison".
Senses: examples: text: Then since a lone and widowed Dame / These restless riders may not tame, / Either receive within thy towers / Two hundred of my master’s powers, / Or straight they sound their warison§, / And storm and spoil thy garrison; […]
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXI, page 112:
glosses: A war cry played to order the soldiers to attack (normally played on a bugle).
wikipedia: The Battle of Otterburn (ballad)
Walter Scott
birdishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From birdish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being birdish.
countlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From countless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being countless.
warisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warison
credit crunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of credit crunch
repugn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːn
Forms: form: repugns
form: repugning
form: repugned
form: repugned
Etymology: Latin repugno.
Senses: glosses: To oppose or resist
Derived terms: repugnance
repugnancy
repugnant
repugnor
Related terms: impugn
pugilism
pugnacious
rogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: rogations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rogātiō, from rogō (“request”).
Senses: examples: text: He perfecteth the rogations or litanies before in use.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A deeply serious and somber prayer or entreaty.
glosses: The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.
Related terms: interrogation
rogatory
subrogation
rogations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rogation
climb the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: climbs the walls
form: climbing the walls
form: climbed the walls
form: climbed the walls
Senses: examples: text: There are purists who climb the walls when German Conductor-Organist-Harpsichordist Karl Richter performs Bach. . . . To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.
ref: 1968 July 5, “Never Like Anyone Else”, in Time:
text: Or maybe we could locate a place to camp and fish that would be close to your mother. The area wouldn't be as nice, but we could still be outdoors and meet other needs as well. And the boys wouldn't be climbing the walls.
ref: 1989, Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Free Press:
glosses: To behave in a distressed or frantic manner; to exhibit great agitation.
climbing the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of climb the walls
impieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impiety
Russki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌs.ki/
ipa: /ˈɹus.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: more Russki
form: most Russki
form: Rusky
form: Ruskie
form: Russkie
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”). First attested in 1858.
Senses: glosses: Russian.
Russki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌs.ki/
ipa: /ˈɹus.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: Russkis
form: Russkies
form: Rusky
form: Ruskie
form: Russkie
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”). First attested in 1858.
Senses: examples: text: I scanned the front page. "The Russkies have put up another manned satellite."
"They have, eh? How big?"
"Several times bigger than anything we Americans have."
ref: 1960 December, Dallas McCord Reynolds, “I'm a Stranger Here Myself”, in Amazing Stories:
glosses: A Russian.
Synonyms: english: Ukrainian context
translation: Ukrainian context
word: katsap
chafing dishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chafing dish
General Packet Radio Service
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: mobile communication
glosses: A packet-oriented mobile data service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It provides data rates from 56 up to 114 kilobits per second.
Synonyms: GPRS
bada bing bada boom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑdəˈbɪŋ.bɑdəˌbuːm/
Forms: form: bada boom bada bing
form: bada bing, bada boom
form: ba da bing ba da boom
Etymology: Of ideophonic origin. First appears in the 1958 Pat Cooper routine The Italian Wedding. Popularized by 1972 film The Godfather and 1990s television series The Sopranos.
Senses: examples: text: That's how I work. A little slice of life here, a little piece of a different song there, and bada bing, bada boom, mix it all together and there it is.
ref: 2012, Cyndi Lauper, Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, page 114:
text: And then, bada bing bada boom, our germs are reunited.
ref: 2014, Tina Calabria, Surviving Me: An Outsider’s Story, page 123:
text: If you go to DHS, they contact the sheriff's department, and bada bing bada boom, there's Deputy Bad Dog on the scene, who has, apparently, been working some kind of scam with the poor kids' parents or guardians.
ref: 2008, Arthur Barry, The Fireproof Motel, page 163:
glosses: Expressing that something was easily completed, was simple to accomplish, or followed as a direct consequence.
examples: text: “I am not in any Mafia,” shouted Al. “There is no such thing as a Mafia.” “Yeah ... Bada bing, bada boom, fuggedaboudit. By the way, what is your campaign slogan — vote for me or else?"
ref: 2006, Brian Davis, Amusing Stories from the Royce Casket Company, page 91:
text: The gangster-announcer notes that although Baldacci says he's opposed to casinos, he voted in favor of them when he was in the Maine legislature. "If he can flip, he can flop, bada bing, bada boom, know what I mean?
ref: 2007, George De Stefano, An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America, page 39:
text: I knew that Demon couldn't predict what we were going to have, but I still liked to point out that he was wrong about Braxton. “That's because we had sex on a Tuesday with him. I figure we shoot for a Thursday, and bada bing bada boom, girl.
ref: 2019, Winter Travers, Devil's Knights, page 647v:
glosses: Used to euphemize what is said, sometimes to the extent that only the initiated will understand what is implied.
Synonyms: bada bing
bada boom
bish bash bosh
toolishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tool + -ish + -ness, influenced by foolishness.
Senses: examples: text: The simplest tool I can think of is a piece of gravel used for making a road. Nothing is done to it, it owes its being a tool to the fact that is subserves a purpose. A broken piece of granite used for macadamizing a road is a more complex instrument, about the toolishness of which no doubt can be entertained.
ref: a. 1902, Samuel Butler, Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill editors, Notebooks: Selections, 1951, page 122
glosses: The nature of being a tool.
examples: text: The walls and halls of Hechinger headquarters are bedizened with icons to tools and toolishness, ranging from classic photographs to a machine that makes […]
ref: 1989 September 22, “Touching Tools Of the Trade”, in Washington Post:
text: By now we should have learned that "toolishness" is foolishness. Showering fancy equipment and toys on classrooms without smart planning is unlikely to […]
ref: 2002 March 1, “Tech Smart: making discerning technology choices”, in Multimedia Schools:
ref: 2002, Jamie McKenzie, “Beyond Toolishness: The Best Way for Teachers To Learn and Put New Technologies to Good Use”, in MultiMedia Schools, v9 n4 p34-39 Sep 2002:
glosses: Excessive concern with tools rather than results.
informatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnfə(ɹ)mataɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: informatization
Etymology: Probably borrowed from French informatisation. By surface analysis, information + -isation or informatise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming based on information and information technology.
Related terms: computerisation
informisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of informatization.
informationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informationalizations
Etymology: From informational + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of informatization.
synonyms: word: informatization
informationalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informationalisations
Etymology: From informational + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of informatization.
synonyms: word: informatization
negawatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡ.ə.wɒt/
ipa: /ˈnɛɡ.ə.wɑt/
Forms: form: negawatts
Etymology: Coined by Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute as a contraction of negative watt on the model of similar compounds like megawatt, by surface analysis, nega- + watt. Lovins credited the term to a typo in a document by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission in which the word "megawatt" was misspelled.
Senses: examples: text: And he has suggested ways to help consumers buy the so-called time-of-use-meters […] so they can benefit from using energy at off-peak times and through "negawatts," or credits for not using power.
ref: 2000 December 24, Barbara Whitaker, “A Lightning Rod in California”, in The New York Times:
text: Three-fourths of U.S. electricity--69% of which is used in buildings, nearly all the rest in industry--can be saved for less than the price of just running a coal or nuclear plant. This "negawatt" potential is not just in smarter motors, lights, appliances, etc., but even more in their larger systems.
ref: 2008 July 7, Amory B. Lovins, “The Case For Efficiency”, in Forbes:
glosses: A unit of saved energy.
wikipedia: Amory Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute
negawatts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of negawatt
rehi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ReHi
Etymology: From re- + hi.
Senses: glosses: Hello again.
Synonyms: re
ReHi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: rehi
Senses: glosses: Hello again.