cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bluff out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌf aʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: bluffs out
form: bluffing out
form: bluffed out
form: bluffed out
Senses: examples: text: He really thought, however, he had heard Col. Macy speak in high terms of young Mr. Ashley as a favored suitor; and Miss Adelaide always seemed pleased with his attentions; he wouldn't be bluffed out of that, any way.
ref: 1856, C[aroline] A. Hayden, chapter X, in Carrie Emerson; or, Life at Cliftonville, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: James French and Company, →OCLC, page 117:
text: There are games of cards known as "bluff" and "poker," played by the most rash and reckless gamblers, in which a player loses all his stake unless he can keep on increasing it as fast as his adversaries; and many a luckless wight has been "bluffed" out of his savings on the Stock Exchange in the same way, although his bet was really made on a winning hand.
ref: 1870 July, “Advice to People about to Speculate in Wall Street”, in William B. Dana, editor, The Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review, volume 63, New York, N.Y.: William B. Dana, […], →OCLC, pages 34–35:
text: The older man eyed him for a moment balefully. "I'm goin' to set 'em again," he replied, "and don't you touch 'em. I'm goin' to trap where I durn please. There's two of you, but you don't bluff me out, not any."
ref: 1922 November 25, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, in Western Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, chapter II, page 91, column 2:
text: The more sophisticated player has recently won a pot by drawing one card to a pair of face cards and then bluffing out his opposition.
ref: 1998 August, Mason Malmuth, “A Little More Sophistication”, in Winning Concepts in Draw and Lowball, 2nd edition, Las Vegas, Nev.: Two Plus Two Publishing, →ISBN, part 8 (Psychology), page 157:
text: Consistent predatory pricing makes the potential entrants believe that the predator is a low-cost firm. At least, they revise their beliefs and presume that the probability of the predator being a low-cost firm is very high. In this case, if the predator is not a low-cost firm, it successfully bluffs out the potential entrants through false signalling.
ref: 2016, Sumit Sarkar, “Business Poker: Playing Games with Limited Information”, in Out-think!: How to Use Game Theory to Outsmart Your Competition, New Delhi: SAGE Response; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up.
Related terms: word: bluff
word: bluffer
word: bluffing
earth-motherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earth-motherly
form: most earth-motherly
Senses: examples: text: She was possessed in an earth-motherly way, never out of control or raging, even when she was loud.
ref: 2013, Lauren Drain, Banished: Surviving My Years In The Westboro Baptist Church, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: In the manner of an earth mother.
Blajorism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Blair + Major + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He added: ‘Commentators say that the Tories and Labour have merged in the middle into Blajorism but that is far too kind to Labour. Blair is adrift in a sea of fudge.’
ref: 1994 September 23, John Arlidge, The Independent:
text: New Labour leader Tony Blair was described as an advocate of ‘Blajorism’ in recognition of Labour's policy similarities with Major's Conservatives.
ref: 2002, Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party, page 216:
text: In short, the characters played by Robert Carlyle had been disenfranchised by the political rush for the centre ground of Blajorism.
ref: 2013, Alwyn W. Turner, A Classless Society, Aurum Press, published 2014, page 449:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The policies of Conservative Prime Minister John Major and his successor, the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as representing one indistinguishable social and economic outlook.
my neck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɛk
Senses: examples: text: "This is what we get for burnin' Flint out!" whined Dobbs. "You shouldn't have did that, Bill. It's a judgment!"
"Aw, shut up!" growled his partner. "You make me sick. Judgment my neck! There ain't no such thing!"
ref: 1922, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
glosses: Alternative form of my foot.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
horsefeathers
pull the other one
bullshit
Mugabeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mugabe + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political philosophy of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe.
polynomial form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynomial forms
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A linear combination of powers of an indeterminate (or products of powers of more than one indeterminate), with coefficients belonging to an integral domain or a field. (The indeterminate is thought of as an element extraneous to the set of coefficients, instead of as a variable element of it (as in the case of polynomial functions), just as, say, the square root of negative one is an element extraneous to the set of integers when it is adjoined to them to form the domain of Gaussian integers. The indeterminate forms a free commutative monoid, to which all powers of it belong, and the unity of it can also show up implicitly in the constant term of a polynomial form.)
churchtown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchtowns
Etymology: From Middle English *chirchetoun, from Old English ċiriċtūn. Equivalent to church + town.
Senses: examples: text: Zennor Churchtown
text: Attached to a house in the churchtown is a tablet inscribed thus:— […]
ref: 1872, Joseph Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall:
text: About half a mile Southwest of the churchtown is Tredrea, the seat of the Rev. Edward Giddy.
ref: 1791, Peter Barfoot, John Wilkes (of Milland House, Sussex), The Universal British Directory of Trade, Commerce, and Manufacture (volume 2, page 539)
text: Like many Cornish fishing villages, Gorran is in two parts: a cluster of cottages and houses built around the harbour, and higher inland a 'churchtown', where the streets are broader, the houses bigger and the smell of fish (in the past) less invasive.
ref: 2015, Kirsty Fergusson, Cornwall (Slow Travel), page 163:
glosses: In the southwest of England, a hamlet or village distinguished by being the location of a parish church.
Derived terms: Mylor Churchtown
Related terms: kirktown
arachnotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnotoxins
Etymology: From arachno- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any of several neurotoxins found in the venom of spiders
aromatogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromatograms
Senses: glosses: A test for the antibacterial activity of essential oils, especially those used in aromatherapy
arrhenogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arrhenogenic
form: most arrhenogenic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρρην (ắrrhēn, “male”) + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Producing mostly male offspring
sing a different tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings a different tune
form: singing a different tune
form: sang a different tune
form: sung a different tune
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Wait until you've walked a mile in their snowshoes...literally. You might be singing a different tune by then."
ref: 2016, Erica Vetsch, His Prairie Sweetheart:
glosses: To hold a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.
Related terms: sing the same tune
sing the same tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings the same tune
form: singing the same tune
form: sang the same tune
form: sung the same tune
Senses: glosses: To hold the same opinion or understanding as another; to be in agreement on a matter.
Related terms: sing a different tune
asporulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + sporulated.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not sporulated
athoracic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + thoracic.
Senses: examples: text: It was turned and delivered, and proved to be a hideous acephalic, acardiac, athoracic monster.
ref: 1889 December, Edward Winthrop Penney, “A CASE OF TRIPLETS, HYDRAMNION, AND MONSTROSITY, WITH REMARKS CONCERNING THESE THREE ABNORMALITIES”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, volume 22, number 11:
text: Dr. E. W. Penney read a paper on " Triplets, Hydraminion and Monstrosity," and exhibited a foetal monster of the acephalic, athoracic, acardiac type.
ref: 1889, Transactions of the Rhode Island Medical Society, page 15:
text: (see title)
ref: 1916, H.O. White, “Tetragenesis of a Human Athoracic, Acephalic, Acardiac triplet with Numerous Ageneses”, in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 23, page 38:
glosses: Lacking a thorax
Parisii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Parīsiī.
Senses: glosses: A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Lutetia; Paris, the capital of France, is named after them.
glosses: A British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single reference by Ptolemy, and possibly connected with the more widely known Parisii of Gaul.
cœliac plexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cœliac plexuses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of coeliac plexus
alacrima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪˈlækrᵻmə/
Etymology: Via New Latin; a- + lacrima + -a
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital inability to produce enough tears (absence or inadequacy of tear production).
Synonyms: alacrimia
blow this Popsicle stand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows this Popsicle stand
form: blowing this Popsicle stand
form: blew this Popsicle stand
form: blown this Popsicle stand
Senses: glosses: To leave a place, often with anger or anticipation of going somewhere more exciting.
Synonyms: blow this pop stand
Kuche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 庫車／库车 (Kùchē).
Senses: examples: text: Some oil continued to gurgle to the surface. In 1987, the government for Akesu district, which includes Kuche, complained to Xinjiang provincial authorities that oil from the wells threatened local drinking supplies.
ref: 2005 November 1, Peter S. Goodman, “Oil Investors Tapped Out Of Wells”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023:
glosses: Synonym of Kuqa: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
synonyms: word: Kuqa
extra: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
sonofabitch stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonofabitch stews
form: SOB stew
form: son of a bitch stew
form: son-of-a-bitch stew
form: son-of-a-gun stew
Senses: examples: text: “Hambone, how's for chuck?”
Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”
ref: 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: Neither you nor I might like a Son-of-a-Bitch stew made from the organ meats of a milk-fed calf, but the cowboys liked it.
ref: 1981 October 21, Linda West Eckhardt, “Texas Eating: Ethnic variety with a frontier spirit”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
text: He can cull choice young animals for the pot and create triumphs of cruel gastronomy, like the baby beef of the gauchos or the Wyoming cattleman's sonofabitch stew based on the organ meats and brains of an unweaned calf.
ref: 2002, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, →ISBN:
glosses: A cowboy dish of the Old West: a stew made with beef and offal.
cowboy coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Coffee made by heating coarse grounds with water in a pot, letting the grounds settle, and pouring off the liquid to drink.
son-of-a-gun stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sonofabitch stew
chuckwagon beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cowboy beans.
synonyms: word: cowboy beans
dancin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of dancing.
for the long haul
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I'm not in it for a season; I'm in it for the long haul.
synonyms: over the long haul
glosses: For a long time; for an extended period or duration; all the way.
ownship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ownships
Etymology: own + ship
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One's own aircraft, as represented in a flight training simulation or traffic collision avoidance system.
ownships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ownship
son of a bitch stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: son of a bitch stews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sonofabitch stew.
son-of-a-bitch stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: son-of-a-bitch stews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sonofabitch stew.
girocheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girocheques
Etymology: From giro + cheque.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A giro; a document representing a request to transfer funds from one's account.
girocheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girocheque
postgiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postgiros
Etymology: From post + giro.
Senses: glosses: A giro (financial instrument) sent through the post.
postgiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postgiro
go walkabout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes walkabout
form: going walkabout
form: went walkabout
form: gone walkabout
Senses: examples: text: The paper shredder seems to have gone walkabout.
synonyms: go walkies
glosses: To go missing from its usual place; to be lost or stolen.
raw_tags: of an object
examples: text: You could almost hear him shout 'Geronimo'. It was bound to end in tears. Sure enough when his owner had let him go walkabout on the kitchen table he had taken his chance, raced for the edge, and made his own giant leap for hamsterkind.
ref: 1995, Nigel Taylor, A vet called Nigel, page 58:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, walkabout.
Related terms: AWOL
mabbe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “Hambone, how's for chuck?”
Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”
ref: 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of mebbe.
whistleberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whistle + berries, a reference to the flatulence they cause.
Senses: examples: text: “Hambone, how's for chuck?”
Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”
ref: 1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN:
glosses: baked beans
go walkies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes walkies
form: going walkies
form: went walkies
form: gone walkies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of go walkabout (“to go missing; to be lost or stolen”).
synonyms: word: go walkabout
extra: to go missing; to be lost or stolen
glosses: To take a dog for a walk.
Lebbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lebbos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lebo.
Lebbo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lebbo
form: most Lebbo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lebo.
Lebbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lebbo
take-home vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take-home vehicles
Senses: glosses: A car, provided by an employer, that an employee may use on company business and for personal use.
Synonyms: company car
Parma hams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parma ham
Meleager
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μελέαγρος (Meléagros).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia, famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt, and mentioned as one of the Argonauts.
Derived terms: Meleagrian
jumping worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping worms
Senses: glosses: Any species of worms (Megascolecidae) that jump and thrash wildly when handled, especially:
Amynthas agrestis
glosses: Any species of worms (Megascolecidae) that jump and thrash wildly when handled, especially:
Amynthas tokioensis
glosses: Any species of worms (Megascolecidae) that jump and thrash wildly when handled, especially:
Metaphire hilgendorfi
Derived terms: Asian jumping worm
Calydonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælɪˈdoʊni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkælɪˈdəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Calydon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Calydon.
Derived terms: Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Hunt
out of one's gourd
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Crazy; unhinged; irrational.
Brysonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brysonesque
form: most Brysonesque
Etymology: From Bryson + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: So while during the writing process, I described my task as somewhat Brysonesque, it is a journey through Southern culture rather than a more conventional traveler's guide. Because, unlike Bryson, I actually got out of my car and chatted with folk.
ref: 2000, Angelia Wilson, Below the Belt: Religion, Sexuality and Politics in the Rural South:
text: This new symbiosis was also observable in more serious Cornish literature, for example in Alan M. Kent's Cousin Jack's Mouth Organ, which is a Brysonesque journey across Cornish-America […]
ref: 2005, The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's 'great Emigration':
text: There were signs warning about leeches, so we tried to explain to Cappucine what they were, but stopped when she seemed alarmed by yet another Brysonesque Australian hazard for unwary travellers.
ref: 2008, Tim Bowden, Down Under in the Top End: Penelope heads north, page 11:
glosses: Characteristic of William McGuire "Bill" Bryson (born 1951), Anglo-American author of light-hearted travelogues.
Brysonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /bɹaɪˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Brysonian
form: most Brysonian
Etymology: From Bryson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Norman Bryson (born 1949), Anglo-American art historian.
jumping worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumping worm
in someone's debt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You never wanted my friendship and you were afraid to be in my debt.
ref: 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), Paramount Pictures:
glosses: Very grateful for something (a favor) that someone has done for one.
counter-imperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterimperialism
Etymology: From counter- + imperialism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anti-imperialism.
synonyms: word: anti-imperialism
Copernicanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Copernicanist
counterimperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-imperialism.
thru-hiking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thru-hike
thru-hiked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thru-hike
nasi uduk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Indonesian dish of rice cooked in coconut milk with spices.
slametan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slametans
form: selamatan
form: selametan
form: slamatan
Senses: glosses: A Javanese communal feast, held to celebrate numerous types of event.
slametans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slametan
selamatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selamatans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slametan.
selametan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selametans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slametan.
slamatan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slamatans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slametan.
selamatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selamatan
selametans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of selametan
slamatans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slamatan
faffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæfi/
rhymes: -æfi
Forms: form: faffier
form: faffiest
Etymology: See faff (about).
Senses: examples: text: [...] three kinds of pickles, the tinned peaches ready in a bowl with a jug of fresh cream on the serving hatch, home-made cakes, tarts and chocolate biscuits. It was a faffy, time-consuming job […]
ref: 1986, Gwynneth Branfoot, Men have all the fun, page 125:
text: Maybe go nuts with a sprinkle of sea salt and a crack of black pepper. Other than that, I'd be an idiot to interrupt their perfection with a faffy recipe.
ref: 2017, Hollie Newton, How to Grow: A guide for gardeners who can't garden yet, →ISBN:
glosses: Time-consuming or awkward; too complicated or fancy.
keep the ball rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps the ball rolling
form: keeping the ball rolling
form: kept the ball rolling
form: kept the ball rolling
Senses: examples: text: Then there was a pause. Our new acquaintance had become involved in a vexatious difficulty with his pipe. . . . To keep the ball rolling I asked Marlow if this Powell was remarkable in any way.
ref: 1913, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Chance:
text: But the Gap has a long way to go before it climbs back to its high of $77. . . . Lately, it has been moving back up, closing yesterday at $26.375. On Wednesday, Donald G. Fisher, chairman and chief executive of the Gap, and Millard S. Drexler, president, will try to keep the ball rolling when they talk to New York securities analysts.
ref: 1988 June 10, Isadore Barmash, “Market Place; Can the Gap Be On the Rebound?”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
text: Few people thought the Federal Aviation Administration could, as it promised, solve the delay problem at New York's LaGuardia Airport in six months. . . . Plavin, and others, hope the FAA will keep the ball rolling at the other top ten delay-plagued airports in the country.
ref: 2001 June 14, Sally Donnelly, “A Smart FAA Plan to Reduce Airport Congestion”, in Time, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
text: The video accrued tens of thousands of views overnight. Four days later, inspired to keep the ball rolling, she made another about the same date. It’s since been viewed 4.2 million times.
ref: 2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To continue an action indicated in the context; to sustain a process.
Related terms: get the ball rolling
enterparlances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterparlance
milkstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From milk + stone.
Senses: glosses: Any stone, such as galactite, thought to increase milk production in mammals.
glosses: Certain white stones.
glosses: A hard body that forms in a mammalian udder.
glosses: A layer of scale that forms on milk-processing equipment, mainly formed of cations of calcium and magnesium.
High Renaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the High Renaissance
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The period marked by the apogee of the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance, traditionally regarded as taking place from the 1490s until 1527.
SOB stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOB stews
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sonofabitch stew.
follow one's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows one's nose
form: following one's nose
form: followed one's nose
form: followed one's nose
Etymology: A person's nose always points in the direction they are facing.
Senses: glosses: To proceed straight ahead; to continue forward.
ganker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gankers
Etymology: From gank + -er.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: One who ganks in gameplay.
off-seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is the off-seasons I love the most; almost any naturalist does.
ref: 2006, Julie Zickefoose, Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods, page 45:
glosses: plural of off-season
lockdown browser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockdown browsers
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A software package, essentially a restricted web browser, that prevents users from navigating away from a particular online task, commonly used when holding tests, quizzes, etc.
lockdown browsers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockdown browser
Senses: glosses: plural of lockdown browser
reupgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reupgrades
form: reupgrading
form: reupgraded
form: reupgraded
Etymology: From re- + upgrade.
Senses: glosses: To upgrade again.
reupgrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reupgrades
Etymology: From re- + upgrade.
Senses: glosses: The process of upgrading something again.
reupgraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reupgrade
reupgrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reupgrade
reupgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reupgrade
reupgrades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reupgrade
affective labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affective labour
Senses: glosses: Work carried out in order to produce a specific emotional response in people.
psychomanipulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + manipulation.
Senses: glosses: The intentional manipulation of a person's psychological state.
psychomanipulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychomanipulative
form: most psychomanipulative
Etymology: From psycho- + manipulative.
Senses: glosses: Employing or relating to psychomanipulation.
grab-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The take at McDonald’s: $24 billion. But Pret a Manger — the name means “ready to eat” in French — is slowly expanding in New York and other American cities with its own brand of grab-and-go food and, more significantly, a fresh approach to fast-food service.
ref: 2011 August 6, Stephanie Clifford, “Would You Like a Smile With That?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That can be quickly prepared or acquired and taken away.
examples: text: A grab-and-go telescope is an appropriate choice. For example, if the previous telescope was a 12.5-in. Newtonian, 12-in. SCT or larger telescope, consider downsizing to a 90 mm refractor or a 6-in.
ref: 2017, James L. Chen, Astronomy for Older Eyes: A Guide for Aging Backyard Astronomers:
glosses: Easily portable.
Quiverfulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Quiverfull
valvocopular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the valvocopula.
valvometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvometer
Bungad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
unclinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclinical
form: most unclinical
Etymology: From un- + clinical.
Senses: glosses: Not clinical.
unclinically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unclinically
form: most unclinically
Etymology: From unclinical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is not clinical.
clinicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭnĭkăl'ĭtē
ipa: /ˌklɪnɪˈkælɪti/
Etymology: From clinical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being clinical.
clinicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clinicalizes
form: clinicalizing
form: clinicalized
form: clinicalized
Etymology: From clinical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make clinical.
clinicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Senses: glosses: The process of making something clinical.
clinicalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clinicalize
clinicalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clinicalize
clinicalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clinicalize
spot-reds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spot-red
nomotreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomo- + -treme.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having regular apertures.
atreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + -treme.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Lacking apertures.
zonotreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zono- + -treme.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having apertures on the equator of the grain.
Derived terms: dizonotreme
monozonotreme
tribochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tribo- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: The study of chemical reactions and friction.
Eel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Cass County, Indiana, United States, probably named after the Eel River.
Laurentia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑˈɹɛn.ʃə/
ipa: /lɑˈɹɛn.ʃi.ə/
ipa: /lɑˈɹɪn.ʃə/
ipa: /lɑˈɹɪn.ʃi.ə/
ipa: /lɒˈɹɛn.ʃə/
ipa: /lɒˈɹɛn.ʃi.ə/
Etymology: A New Latin formation named after the Saint Lawrence River: Laurentius (“Lawrence”) + -ia (New Latin suffix for creating place names). Or, back-formed from Laurentian (from French laurentien), already in use to describe the Laurentian Mountains and their associated geologic complex (and by extension Canada as a whole).
Senses: examples: text: Laurentia includes most of North America, Scotland and Ireland north of the Caledonian suture, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Chukotsk peninsula of eastern Siberia.
ref: 2015, Kent C. Condie, Plate Tectonics & Crustal Evolution:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The craton that forms the geological core of North America, and that was a separate continent in the past (before merging into Laurasia).
glosses: Canada.
Derived terms: Laurasia
Laurentian
Kumari Kandam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tamil குமரிக்கண்டம் (kumarikkaṇṭam).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical lost continent in the Indian Ocean, home to an ancient Tamil civilisation.
brandy fruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brandy fruit
hit the high notes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the high notes
form: hitting the high notes
form: hit the high notes
form: hit the high notes
Senses: examples: text: The flavors of the food hit the high notes: the rightly famous Canlis salad, the signature Peter Canlis sweet prawns floating on a sea of butter, and a succulent Kobe-style steak.
ref: 2008 April 24, Leslie Kelly, “Sound and bites pair well at these places”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
text: If all that extra money isn't being used to shore up vital day-to-day Facebook operations, that's probably good news—but whatever the case, the site hasn't hit the high notes quite yet.
ref: 2009 September 16, Bobbie Johnson, “How exactly is Facebook making money?”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
text: During his public life, Obama has hit the high notes of poetic romance — his 2008 campaign.
ref: 2014 September 25, David Brooks, “Routine, Creativity and President Obama’s U.N. Speech”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Nov 2017:
glosses: To produce or attain, at least for a period of time, an especially satisfactory degree of achievement or fulfilment.
Related terms: end on a high note
taxitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taxite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or composed of taxite
taxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcanic rock that contains coloured streaks of different mineral composition
Derived terms: taxitic
atloidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the atlas bone
distributist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distributists
Etymology: From distributism.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of distributism.
distributist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distributist
form: most distributist
Etymology: From distributism.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating distributism.
distributists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distributist
axoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to an axe
topics: anatomy
mathematics
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to an axis
Derived terms: atloaxoid
axoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axoids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A helix surrounding an axis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: axis (bone)
know someone from Adam's off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows someone from Adam's off ox
form: knowing someone from Adam's off ox
form: knew someone from Adam's off ox
form: known someone from Adam's off ox
Senses: examples: text: You never saw the woman. You wouldn't know her from Adam's off ox.
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XXXIX, in Jennie Gerhardt:
glosses: Synonym of know someone from Adam.
synonyms: word: know someone from Adam
Related terms: off ox
counter-cultist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-cultists
form: countercultist
Etymology: From counter- + cultist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes cults from a conservative Christian background.
counter-cultist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-cultist
form: most counter-cultist
form: countercultist
Etymology: From counter- + cultist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to counter-cultists and conservative Christian opposition to cults.
ten-second car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ten-second cars
Senses: qualifier: drag racing
glosses: A car which can complete a quarter-mile from a standing start in 10.0 to 10.999 seconds.
Related terms: elapsed time
countercultist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercultists
Senses: examples: text: 2008, "New Religious Movements, Christian", in William A. Dyrness & Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, page 605.
In the 1980s a cult controversy discussion arose between religion scholars, anticultists and countercultists. During this time some anticultists and countercultists came to regard religion scholars as adopting a pro-cult attitude in their shift away from using the church-cult-sect distinction.
glosses: Alternative form of counter-cultist.
countercultist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more countercultist
form: most countercultist
Senses: examples: text: 2016, Lawrence Kohlberg, "Revisions in the Theory and Practice of Moral Development", in Richard M. Lerner & Jasna Jovanovic, Cognitive and Moral Development, Academic Achievement in Adolescence.
It is my hope that these chapters will illustrate, as well as encourage, the movement of moral development research beyond either a cultist focus on moral judgment stages or a countercultist critique of them to an examination of the enduring problems of moral development and moral education.
glosses: Alternative form of counter-cultist.
counter-cultists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-cultist
countercultists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countercultist
off ox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off oxen
Senses: coordinate_terms: near ox
glosses: An ox on the right side of a team of oxen, farther away from a driver customarily walking on the left of the team than a near ox.
Derived terms: know someone from Adam's off ox
yeeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yeet
Grans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gran
shoot one's cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuːt wʌnz kʌfs/
Forms: form: shoots one's cuffs
form: shooting one's cuffs
form: shot one's cuffs
form: shot one's cuffs
Senses: examples: text: Take a pretty young man from behind the desk or the counter. He must be possessed of consummate vanity. Teach him to shoot his cuffs, square his elbows, and brandish his pocket handkerchief.
ref: 1875 July 3, “The Capitol’s Critic’s Cookery Book”, in The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News: A High-class Weekly Journal of Sports, Art, Literature, Music, and the Drama; Containing Numerous Engravings, from Drawings by Well-known Artists, of Sporting and Dramatic Subjects, volume III, number 71, London: Printed and published by Thomas Fox, at the office, 198, Strand, →OCLC, page 342, column 1:
text: The room filled with hesitancy as with a fog. People cleared their throats, tried to choke down yawns. The men shot their cuffs and the women stuck their combs more firmly into their back hair.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section IV, page 52:
text: Di, Di, in her collar and tie, / Quizzes the girls with a monocled eye, / Sipping her hock in a black satin stock, / Or shooting her cuffs over pernod or bock …
ref: 1957, Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly’s: A Novel, London: Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as At Lady Molly’s (A Dance to the Music of Time; 4), London: Arrow Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 186:
text: A visitor would immediately identify Sherwood [Blount] as the leader of the group by his strong, self-conscious stage presence. He cocks his head and shoots his cuffs and swaggers a little when he walks and winks and does double-takes, holding all these gestures for a long second to make sure they register on his audience.
ref: 1979 October, Nicholas Lemann, “Sherwood Blount’s First Million”, in Texas Monthly, Austin, Tx.: Mediatex Communications Corporation, →ISSN, page 148, column 2:
text: He was the king of stage presentation. When Duke [Ellington] would be playing he'd do a kind of jig, peckin' round the stage, and every time he'd shoot his cuffs he made his coat tail go up. Then he'd pull his coat down – and up went his cuffs!
ref: 2004 May, Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, quoting Jack Fallon, “Ray Nance”, in The Rough Guide to Jazz, 3rd expanded and completely revised edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 576, column 2:
glosses: To straighten one's arms with a sudden movement to make the cuffs of one's shirt appear beyond the sleeves of one's coat or jacket.
shoots one's cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot one's cuffs
shooting one's cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot one's cuffs.
shot one's cuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoot one's cuffs.
armable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arm + -able.
Senses: examples: an armable nuclear weapon
glosses: Able to be armed.
regot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reget
regetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reget
regets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reget
lituate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lituate
form: most lituate
Senses: glosses: Forked with the points turned outward.
Related terms: lituus
concat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concats
form: concatting
form: concatted
form: concatted
Etymology: Abbreviation; also used as a keyword or function name in some programming environments.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To concatenate.
OOM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: OOMs
Etymology: By initialism or acronymy.
Senses: examples: text: If you write infinitely recursive code, you might generate an OOM error.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of out of memory.
glosses: Initialism of order of magnitude.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of out of mana.
wicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wickens
form: wicky
form: witchen
Senses: glosses: The European rowan tree.
wickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wicken
Malthusians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malthusian
boracic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An acid obtained by dissolving borax, and also found in certain mineral springs.
Synonyms: boric acid
hydrogen borate
orthoboric acid
decemdentate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having ten points or teeth.
gipsey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gipseys
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gypsy.
gipsey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gipseys
form: gipseying
form: gipseyed
form: gipseyed
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of gypsy.
gipseying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gipsey
gipseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gipsey
gipseys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gipsey
faws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faw
omphalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omphal- + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Last Thursdayism is a response to omphalism which posits that, by the same logic, the world might have been created last Thursday (or, by implication, any given date and time), but with the appearance of age: people's memories, history books, fossils, light already on the way from distant stars, and so forth.
ref: 2009, William Powell, “Creation Theology”, in Philosophy of Scientific Creationism, New Delhi: Global Vision Publishing House, page 224:
glosses: A tendency to place the capital of a country at its geographical centre, or to increase the powers of central government at the expense of local government.
omphalites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalitis
omphalocoele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omphalocoeles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of omphalocele.
omphalocoeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalocoele
Fifth Monarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fifth Monarchists
Etymology: In reference to a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies (Babylonian, Persian, Macedonian, and Roman) would precede the kingdom of God.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660.
Related terms: Fifth Monarchism
Fifth Monarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The beliefs of the Fifth Monarchists.
Fifth Monarchists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fifth Monarchist
Fifth Monarchy Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fifth Monarchy Men
Senses: glosses: A male Fifth Monarchist.
Fifth Monarchy Men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fifth Monarchy Man
polytrichous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polytrichous
form: most polytrichous
Senses: glosses: Very hairy; densely ciliate.
overposter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overposters
Etymology: From over- + poster.
Senses: examples: text: I dislike the overposters as well.
ref: 1999 January 7, Jim Luftman, “reguarding an overposter!!!!! please read”, in rec.arts.comics.marketplace (Usenet):
text: I'm hardly an overposter.
ref: 2001 July 25, Aerogram, “Dickhead compilation”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet):
text: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:49:33 -0400, Huronia wrote about a certain overposter: If my family had no food, I think I'd be working on that problem instead of complaining to cyberbuddies all day that I'm running out.
ref: 2003 October 23, Charles Perrin, “Do you make alt.fashion related holiday gifts?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet):
text: He's a compulsive overposter, just like Kent Paul Dolan, over on talk.bizarre!
ref: 2008 May 23, Bob, “Senator Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):
text: It's hard to find the opinions of a variety of people when one overposter buries all the others.
ref: 2010 November 22, Freedom Man, “Obwon has alot^([sic]) of time on his hands again”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):
text: Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important. If you find yourself annoyed by an over-poster on Facebook, don't hesitate to unsubscribe. (They won't know that you did!)
ref: 2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It:
glosses: A person who makes too many posts, for example on social media or a forum.
Related terms: overpost
Wexis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a blend of the two names.
Senses: glosses: Westlaw and LexisNexis, two major legal research services.
desknote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desknotes
Etymology: From blend of desktop + notebook.
Senses: examples: text: With its eye-popping 17-inch display, superfast Intel Hyper-Threading CPU, and versatile DVD/CD burner, the HP Pavilion zd7001 is one of the best desknotes you can buy.
ref: 2003, Bedford's Tech Edge, page 132:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A notebook computer equipped with the greater power and features of a desktop computer.
desknotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desknote
truggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: truggies
Etymology: Blend of truck + buggy
Senses: examples: text: A truggy is a cross between a truck and a buggy. A truggy has many of the characteristics of an off-road truck.
ref: 2009, Jim Gigliotti, Off-Road Racing:
text: The most popular nitro cars by far are the 1/8 scale trucks, buggies, and truggies.
ref: 2006, Robert H. Schleicher, The R/C Car Bible, page 52:
glosses: A racing vehicle that combines the closed cab of a truck with the suspension of a buggy.
truggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truggy
Texoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Texas + Oklahoma
Senses: glosses: The area on either side of the border between the US states of Texas and Oklahoma.
Related terms: Texhoma