cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fishhook theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish hook theory
Etymology: Referring to the curved shape of a fishhook, where the barbed end points toward the center.
Senses: examples: text: I don't quite understand what the fish hook theory is supposed to say. Are centrists the same as the far right, but the moderate right is something else? That makes no sense.
ref: 2021 June 21, u/MisterPyromaniac, “Fish hook theory is cringe”, in Reddit, r/PoliticalCompassMemes, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
text: Fishhook theory proven time and time again
ref: 2022 February 27, u/BaybarsElSaif, “"Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe"”, in Reddit, r/ShitLiberalsSay, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
text: If you want to hope the bourgeois state will defend us, you will be motivated towards Horseshoe Theory, arguing that anyone to the Left of Kamala Harris is a Red-Brown. If, conversely, you sincerely want to build a Red-Brown alliance, you take up the Fishhook Theory, arguing that fascism is a tool of the State and therefore your new friends in the MAGA hats can't be fascists since they're against the neoliberal order.
ref: 2024 September 5, Daphne Lawless, “Fascism: Neither Horseshoes Nor Fishhooks, But The Three-Way Fight”, in New Politics, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
text: Yeah the democratic party in the last 10 years has been the poster child for fish hook theory. The fact of the matter is that if they fought the republicans as hard as they fought progressives in their own party, they'd win.
ref: 2025 March 13, u/Ash_an_bun, “Not helpful”, in Reddit, r/EhBuddyHoser, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
text: Horseshoe theory is something liberals came up with to demonize communism and equate it with fascism. Fish hook theory more accurately describes fascism's appeal to moderates when they need to divide the working class.
ref: 2025 June 3, u/dontlosethegame, “Stalin on horseshoe theory”, in Reddit, r/LateStageCapitalism, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political theory, sometimes suggested by far-left activists, which asserts that centrists and the far right are politically allied.
Related terms: horseshoe theory
NazLib
scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist
fish hook theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fishhook theory
Lang-Exster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋɛksˈstɝ/
rhymes: -stɝ
Forms: form: Lang-Exsters
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Lang-Exster.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The star α Tucanae in the constellation Tucana.
Synonyms: Alpha Tucanae
Alpha Tuc
Abercarn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A town and community in Caerphilly borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2194).
mourza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian میرزا (mirzâ).
Senses: glosses: A title meaning a noble
Derived terms: sense: a surname
word: Mourza
Jobranis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jobrani
Moeinzadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Moeinzadeh
Pezeshkians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pezeshkian
Sanaees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanaee
Erfanians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Erfanian
Edalatis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Edalati
Oreizys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Oreizy
Sobhanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sobhani
Keshavarzis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Keshavarzi
Krumreys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Krumrey
Luedis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Luedi
Rangins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rangin
Khalilzadehs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Khalilzadeh
Jahanbakhshes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jahanbakhsh
Hardanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hardani
Chkhaidzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chkhaidze
Mostaghimis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mostaghimi
Peneva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Penevas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Penevas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Peneva
Pakzads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pakzad
Eyngorns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Eyngorn
Malufs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maluf
Niazmands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Niazmand
Cavalera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cavaleras
Senses: examples: text: Max Cavalera
glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Cavaleras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Cavalera
Odagiri effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Odagiri effect
Niyogis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Niyogi
Taremis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Taremi
Hekmatnejads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hekmatnejad
Sadegholvads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sadegholvad
Beiranvands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Beiranvand
Farhadis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Farhadi
Pirouzfars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pirouzfar
Hatamis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hatami
Firouzis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Firouzi
Fitenys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fiteny
non-renewal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-renewals
Etymology: From non- + renewal.
Senses: examples: text: The decline and eventual closing of the various industrial undertakings and the non-renewal of the L.N.W.R. lease led to the railway falling into disuse, and most of it has now been lifted.
ref: 1957 October 24, William J. Skillern, “The Brynmawr & Western Valleys Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 697:
glosses: Alternative form of nonrenewal.
non-renewals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Plural of non-renewal.
diacetylalizarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diacetyl + alizarin.
Senses: examples: text: Degradation of alizarin after 5-14C-mevalonic acid feeding was carried out as follows: acetylation of alizarin yielded 1,2-diacetylalizarin...
ref: 1973 February, Mode of incorporation of precursors into alizarin (1, 2-dihydroxy-9, 10-anthraquinone), “Mode of incorporation of precursors into alizarin (1, 2-dihydroxy-9, 10-anthraquinone)”, in Phytochemistry:
glosses: A synthetic organic compound derived from the natural dye alizarin that contains two acetyl functional groups have been added to the alizarin molecule through a process known as acetylation.
Mykolaieve
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭkŏlăyʹĕvā
enpr: mĭkŏlīʹĕvā
ipa: /mɪkɒlˈajɛveɪ/
ipa: /mɪkɒlˈaɪɛveɪ/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Микола́єве (Mykolájeve). Compare Mikałajeva, Mikałajova, Nikałajova, Nikolaevo, and Nikolayevo.
Senses: synonyms: Neudorf
glosses: A former village in Danylivka silrada, Krasnohvardiiske Raion, Crimea Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; it disappeared somewhen 1960–1968.
glosses: A former rural-type settlement in Podillia silrada, Veselynove Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, disincorporated in March 2013.
twenty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-three.
twenty three
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-three.
twenty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-nine.
twenty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-eight.
twenty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-seven.
twenty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-six.
twenty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-five.
twenty five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twenty-five.
thirty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-three.
thirty three
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirty threes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-three.
thirty two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-two.
thirty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-nine.
thirty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-eight.
thirty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-seven.
thirty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-six.
thirty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-five.
thirty four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thirty-four.
forty one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-one.
forty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-nine.
forty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-eight.
forty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forty eights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-eight.
forty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-seven.
forty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-six.
forty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-five.
forty five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forty fives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-five.
forty four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-four.
forty four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forty fours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-four.
forty four
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-four.
forty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forty-three.
sea box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: dysentery bush
glosses: Alyxia buxifolia, an Australian shrub.
fifty one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-one.
fifty two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-two.
fifty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-three.
fifty four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-four.
fifty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-five.
fifty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-seven.
fifty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-eight.
fifty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fifty-nine.
sixty one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-one.
sixty one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixty ones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-one.
sixty two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-two.
sixty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-three.
sixty four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-four.
sixty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-five.
sixty six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-six.
sixty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-seven.
sixty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sixty-eight.
dinnertini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnertinis
Etymology: Blend of dinner + martini.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese New Year's Dinnertini: Dinner and beverages to help you celebrate the coming of the New Lunar Year.
ref: 2009 January 23, Hanaiya Gholson, “What You're Doing Tonight: 1/26”, in WRC-TV, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2025:
text: A fellow colleague on extended TDY is staying at the mansion and set up a dinnertini party for our office. I have always heard about the mansion and now I had a reason to stay overnight!
ref: 2010 July 27, Biceman, ““Whimsy Abounds!!””, in Tripadvisor, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2015:
text: “Honeybee. Sorry. Breakfast beers turned into lunchtime lemon drops, and next thing you know, we were three dinner-tinis deep, and then we saw that stray cat again, so obviously we had to follow it and... Whoa!” “Hey, Wolf. [singsongy] Welcome home. [chuckles]” “I must be drunker than I thought. 'Cause there are two of you and it looks like we're missing an entire wall. Whoa! [grunts] I'm okay. This freezing, extremely hard ice broke my fall.”
ref: 2025 June 19, Matt Lawton, “Super Smash Lovers Adventure” (12:02 from the start), in The Great North, season 5, episode 16, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):
glosses: A martini served with dinner.
dinnertinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinnertini
seventy one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-one.
seventy two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-two.
seventy three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-three.
seventy four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-four.
seventy four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventy fours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-four.
seventy five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-five.
seventy six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-six.
seventy seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-seven.
seventy eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-eight.
seventy eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seventy eights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-eight.
seventy nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventy-nine.
eighty one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-one.
eighty two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-two.
eighty three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-three.
eighty four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-four.
eighty five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-five.
eighty seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-seven.
eighty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-eight.
eighty eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighty eights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-eight.
eighty nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eighty-nine.
ninety nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-nine.
ninety nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninety nines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-nine.
nanoslabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoslab
ninety eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-eight.
ninety seven
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-seven.
ninety six
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-six.
ninety five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-five.
ninety four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-four.
ninety three
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-three.
ninety two
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-two.
ninety one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ninety-one.
nanoslab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoslabs
Etymology: nano- + slab
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: A tiny slab of a material with dimensions in the order of nanometers
zeogrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeogrid
zeogrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeogrids
Senses: qualifier: materials science
glosses: Hierarchically constructed material based on zeolite
bryorias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryoria
Mykolaivske
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭkŏlăyʹivskā
enpr: mĭkŏlīʹivskā
ipa: /mɪkɒlˈajivskeɪ/
ipa: /mɪkɒlˈaɪivskeɪ/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Микола́ївське (Mykolájivsʹke). Compare Nikolayevskoye.
Senses: glosses: A former village in Mykhalchyna-Sloboda silrada, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in the 1920s–30s, disincorporated in July 2016.
glosses: A village in Shevchenkove rural hromada, Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1957.
glosses: A village in Shevchenkove rural hromada, Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1957.
A former silrada of Vitovka Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, amalgamated into Shevchenkove rural hromada in September 2016; administrative centre and sole constituent settlement: Mykolaivske.
glosses: A village in Romny urban hromada, Romny Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
Cooray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sinhalese කුරේ (kurē).
Senses: examples: text: It wasn’t — at least, not if Ms. Cooray was in Melbourne in 2009, when the city hit its current record of 46.2 degrees Celsius.
ref: 2019 January 26, James Tarabay, “Across Australia, Yet Another Scorching Summer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2019:
glosses: A surname from Sinhalese.
leucoquinizarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leuco- + quinizarin.
Senses: examples: text: The amination mechanism of leucoquinizarin was investigated on the basis of the kinetics and structures of leuco compounds.
ref: 1982 April, Masashi Kikuchi, Takamichi Yamagishi, Mitsuhiko Hida, “Kinetic Studies on the Amination of Leucoquinizarin”, in Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan:
glosses: Colorless reduced form of quinizarin that is a chemical intermediate used in the synthesis of other anthraquinone-based dyes and pigments.
type C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type Cs
Senses: glosses: A sort of cable for electronics, especially smartphones.
Coordinate terms: type A
type B
overloquacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + loquacity.
Senses: examples: text: But no wants to let the habit of overloquacity grow on her. She makes herself appear stupid, lacking in tact and in reverse when she is too lavish with her conversation.
ref: 1906 January 7, Kate Masterson, “When Silence is Golden”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 65th year, number 7, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, Woman’s Magazine section, page 8, column 1:
text: I am not fully in the confidence of my clients, but I gathered in some way that the basis of this claim lies in a certain—what shall we say?—overloquacity on your part. Ah, how often we lawyers are forced to realize the truth of the old maxim: ‘Silence is golden’!
ref: 1923 August, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow [i.e., Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow], “[…] Thoroughbred […]”, in Sewell Haggard, editor, Everybody’s Magazine, volume XLIX, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Ridgway Company, →OCLC, page 95, column 1:
text: When doing business, they [linear-actives] are keen on punctual performance, quality, and reliable delivery dates. Mañana behavior and overloquacity are frowned upon.
ref: 2003, Richard D[onald] Lewis, “The Categorization of Cultures”, in The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21ˢᵗ Century, Yarmouth, Me.: Intercultural Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Cross-Century Worldviews), page 71:
synonyms: overloquaciousness
overtalkativeness
glosses: Excessive loquacity.
Related terms: overloquacious
overchatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overchatty
form: most overchatty
Etymology: From over- + chatty.
Senses: examples: text: To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
ref: 1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 7, page 5, columns 6–7:
text: [Leonard Jimmie] Savage: Does it suffice to maintain some inanimate acoustical contact or is actual talking preferable? [Joseph Carl Robnett] Licklider: I have heard that the pilots don’t like the operators to be overchatty. They would just as soon not have that.
ref: 1950 March 23–24, Claude E[lwood] Shannon, “The Redundancy of English”, in Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead, Hans Lukas Teuber, editors, Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems: Transactions of the Seventh Conference […], New York, N.Y.: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, published 1951, →OCLC, page 148:
text: The sunny quiet of Sag Harbor, and Bud’s own talent for tranquillity were a refuge to Father from too many overchatty elderly dames at the Algonk, and he sank into it like a tired child into a feather bed.
ref: 1956, Margaret Case Harriman, chapter 3, in Blessed Are the Debonair, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
synonyms: overloquacious
overtalkative
glosses: Excessively chatty.
🧀🍕
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A visual pun, combining two emoji: 🧀 (“cheese”) + 🍕 (“pizza”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cheese pizza (“child pornography”).
homework folder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homework folders
form: "homework" folder
Etymology: From homework + folder (“a virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other subfolders may be stored”), from the notion that a folder containing pornography would be hidden by disguising it under a generic false name.
Unrelated to homework (“(slang, euphemism) sexual intercourse”).
Senses: glosses: A personal digital collection of pornography, erotica and suggestive material, often images, hosted on a private folder, album, gallery, etc.
glosses: A hidden folder.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see homework, folder (a folder containing homework).
homework folders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homework folder
microretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microretirements
form: micro-retirement
Etymology: From micro- + retirement.
Senses: examples: text: Though a few workers have committed to the microretirement lifestyle, more and more young people say they are open to the idea of taking extended breaks from work to volunteer or focus on "personal projects," WSJ noted, citing data from Handshake, a job database for college students.
ref: 2024 September 7, Gabriel Hays, “Some young people plan ‘microretirements,’ borrow against goals of their future selves: Report”, in Fox Business:
text: Industries that enable employee microretirements typically share key characteristics: they offer flexible scheduling, remote work capabilities, project-based work structures and significant individual autonomy.
ref: 2024 December 16, Tony Case, “Need a break? Microretirement may be the answer”, in WorkLife:
text: Anaïs Felt, a 31-year-old content creator based in the San Francisco Bay area, has “never felt better” after taking a microretirement this year.
ref: 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:
glosses: An extended break from employment.
Synonyms: miniretirement
Related terms: microretiree
microretirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microretirement
micro-retirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-retirements
Senses: examples: text: Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it’s not just Gen-Z: According to a survey from Side Hustles, 10% of workers are considering taking a micro-retirement and 75% thought employers should offer micro-retirement policies such as unpaid sabbaticals. […] Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend.
ref: 2025 July 1, Kimanzi Constable, “What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend”, in Fast Company:
glosses: Alternative form of microretirement.
micro-retirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-retirement
microretiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microretirees
form: micro-retiree
Etymology: From micro- + retiree.
Senses: examples: text: “A long career gap can sometimes make it difficult to re-enter the workforce, especially in areas with rapidly changing technological advancements,” said Stephen Dwyer, president of the ASA. Microretirees may also lose out on retirement contributions and income they would have received had they chosen to stay in the workforce, he added.
ref: 2024 December 16, Tony Case, “Need a break? Microretirement may be the answer”, in WorkLife:
glosses: One who goes on a microretirement.
microretirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microretiree
micro-retiree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-retirees
Senses: examples: text: And the micro-retirees who Dr. Schabram interviewed said they had reaped benefits from their breaks, including increased confidence, clarity and better work boundaries.
ref: 2025 April 10, Isabella Kwai, “To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of microretiree.
micro-retirees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-retiree
TB/DL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TB/DLs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of TBDL.
miniretirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniretirements
form: mini-retirement
Etymology: From mini- + retirement.
Senses: examples: text: The distant cousin of a sabbatical, the miniretirement refers to young workers taking a chunk of time out of their careers to travel, focus on passions or pick up a new side gig while they’re young, rather than waiting until their 60s. […] “For example, we’re far more likely to freelance or do contract work than previous generations. I hope that as we become a bigger part of the workforce, miniretirements become more doable and more normalized.”
ref: 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:
glosses: Synonym of microretirement.
synonyms: word: microretirement
miniretirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniretirement
mini-retirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-retirements
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a mini-retirement may be a reaction to a culture in the United States that researchers say puts work in a central role.Credit...
ref: 2025 April 10, Isabella Kwai, “To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of miniretirement.
mini-retirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini-retirement
macroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmakɹɒnd/
ipa: /ˈmeɪkɹɒnd/
ipa: /ˈmeɪkɹɑnd/
ipa: /ˈmækɹɑnd/
Etymology: From macron + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The font's macroned vowels looked unattractive.
text: Thus o will represent all shades of sound of the o group, macroned "ō" being used when desirable, for the so-called "long o" of whatever shade, phonetic specialists using also other marked forms, “ŏ, ó, ò, ô, ö," etc., according to some accepted system.
ref: 1883 April 28, Charles P. G. Scott, “O·ld-Leter Fo·notipi”, in Phonetic Journal, London: F. Pitman: Phonetic Depot, page 203:
text: Nor do I use macroned letters to convey long Arabic vowels. These omissions are made in order to facilitate the production of a lengthy text such as this one, and by no means reflect my negative attitude toward any transliteration system current in my field of specialization.
ref: 1999, Alexander D. Knysh, Ibn ʻArabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam, Albany: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page xvi:
text: Common Japanese words, such as the place name Tōkyō (東京), require macroned vowels to properly express long vowels when using the Hepburn system, which is the most widely accepted Japanese transliteration system.
ref: 2009, Karl Lunde, “Chapter 6: Font Formats, Glyph Sets, and Font Tools”, in CJKV information processing, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 411:
synonyms: macronized
glosses: Marked with a macron; bearing a macron.
adult baby syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adult baby + syndrome. First attested as early as 21 March 1994, but popularised in academia by a 2003 research paper (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: We cater to all sexual lifestyles. Women free, discounts for couples. Lesbian, gay, straight, bisexual, adult baby syndrome, water sports, slaves, masters, mistresses, TV, TS, cross dressers, kink, fetishes and more.
ref: 1994 March 21, “Alternate Lifestyles BBS”, in MicroTimes, number 121 (advertisement), page 181:
text: I believe it is called the "adult baby syndrome", and is a form of psychosis. One of my colleagues who is interested in the decay of Western society said that there is a paper on the Net about ABS. Apparently, one can use Alta Vista or some other text searcher to find such things.
ref: 1996 June 18, Mark S. Schmalz, “Something so outrageous I can't believe this one...”, in alt.culture.hawaii (Usenet):
text: These two cases were both characterized as antisocial behavior, with a predominant emphasis on the fetishistic or sexual aspects of wearing diapers and rubber pants. Unlike Mr. A, neither patient had all of the characteristics of adult baby syndrome.
ref: 2003 November 24, Jennifer E. Pate, Glen O. Gabbard, “Adult Baby Syndrome”, in American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 160, number 11, American Psychiatric Association, →DOI, page 1934:
text: Another variation at least sometimes associated with sexual arousal is adult baby syndrome, in which an adult is motivated to act like an infant, wearing diapers, drinking milk from a bottle, eating baby food, and doing other things associated with infants.
ref: 2008, Gary F. Kelly, Sexuality Today, 9 edition, →ISBN, pages 411–412:
text: Many such individuals experienced intimacy as dangerous or deadly during childhood, and avoid it for the rest of their lives. An example is infantilism, or adult baby syndrome (dressing as a baby, wearing diapers, and acting as a child), which is performed to coerce others into a quasi-maternal role that utterly negates their subjectivity.
ref: 2015, Robert A. Schug, Henry F. Fradella, Mental Illness and Crime, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 308:
text: While it is unknown if Eastwood’s condition has been clinically examined, people who identify as babies usually suffer from paraphilic infantilism, otherwise known as 'adult baby syndrome'. It is a sexual fetish that sees adults role-playing and regressing to a child-like state, often to help them deal with childhood trauma and abandonment issues.
ref: 2022 April 10, Gergana Krasteva, “Shoelace strangler now identifies as a baby who wears nappies in prison”, in Metro:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: ageplay
glosses: A condition or desire in which one takes on the role of an infant or toddler, usually by wearing diapers, engaging in child-like activities and engaging with childish paraphernalia, whether sexual (autonepiophilia) or non-sexual; infantilism, often believed to be the result of childhood trauma, neglect or abuse.
Related terms: ABDL
age regression
macronised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macronised
form: most macronised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of macronized.
"homework" folder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: "homework" folders
form: "homework" folders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homework folder.
"homework" folders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of "homework" folder
microballistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + ballistics.
Senses: examples: text: A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
ref: 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News:
glosses: The science of microscale ballistics.
Related terms: microballistic
microballistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + ballistic.
Senses: examples: text: Acoustically triggered microcannons, capable of loading and firing nanobullets (Nbs), are presented as powerful microballistic tools.
ref: 2015 December 21, Fernando Soto, Aida Martin, Stuart Ibsen, Mukanth Vaidyanathan, Victor Garcia-Gradilla, Yair Levin, Alberto Escarpa, Sadik C Esener, Joseph Wang, “Acoustic Microcannons: Toward Advanced Microballistics”, in ACS Nano, →DOI, →PMID:
glosses: Of or pertaining to microballistics.
Wubuy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We present two studies of native and non-native (English) perception of the acoustically and articulatorily similar four-way coronal stop contrast /t ʈ ȶ/ (apico-alveolar, apico-retroflex, lamino-dental, lamino-alveopalatal) of Wubuy, an indigenous language of Australia. […] In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).
ref: 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of Nunggubuyu.
synonyms: word: Nunggubuyu
bewifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewife
bewifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewife
bewifed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + wife (noun) + -ed (“having”).
Senses: examples: text: He fiercely denies that he is George Fitzamble, but there is a trial and the court finds him a married man and charges him with the support of a wife. […] Well, Simoni refuses to have anything to do with Mrs. George Fitzamble, and the newspapers lampoon, and denounce him as an arrant swindler, and an enemy of society. But by this time Edna had managed to interest and even fascinate the bewifed and bewildered bachelor, and he, like a fool, lingers about and and watches her, then falls in love with the syren, only to find that she dislikes him and will have none of his protestations.
ref: 1889 August 31, Jerome [pseudonym], “Lloyd Bryce’s New Book [Romance of an Alter Ego]. Its Occult Features and Literary Skill Create a Sensation.”, in The Dayton Daily Herald, volume XII, number 30, Dayton, Oh., →OCLC, part 2nd, page [3], column 4:
text: It is all right of course for the pure in heart to ship in carloads of protests against the seating in congress of the polygamous member from the home of the Saints, but if it is left to those members of the lower house who are without sin to cast the unseating ballots, the unduly bewifed Mr. [Brigham Henry] Roberts will remain seated by the largest majority on record.
ref: 1899 February 5, Jack Sawdorf, “Small Shot”, in Chester H[arvey] Rowell, editor, The Fresno Morning Republican, volume XVII, number 31, Fresno, Calif.: The Fresno Republican Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
text: To get back to our newest naval officer, Ensign Fiedler, who complains bitterly that he has yet to venture beyond the confines of Sheepshead Bay, we hasten to add—in case we’ve never mentioned it before—that he is engaged to Miss Agnes Grant of Warren, Ohio. That leaves only Happy Florea of the ill-fated Birdbrains neither bewifed nor betrothed. Which is fair enough, adds Happy.
ref: 1942, Robert Grahn, “1937”, in The Stevens Indicator, volume 59, Hoboken, N.J.: Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 32, column 1:
synonyms: wifed
glosses: Having a wife.
bewifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bewife + -ed (past-tense suffix).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewife
bewedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewed
bewedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewed
takes to wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take to wife
taking to wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take to wife
took to wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take to wife
taken to wife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take to wife
multi-institution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + institution.
Senses: examples: text: A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
ref: 2024 October 7, Stewart Wills, “A Deeper View of High-Speed Impacts”, in Optics & Photonics News:
glosses: Synonym of multi-institutional.
synonyms: word: multi-institutional
Vaishali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit वैशाली (vaiśālī).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Shivani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit शिवानी (śivānī).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
meowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Blend of meow + howdy.
Senses: glosses: Howdy, said especially in the context of cats or other felines.
cragside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: crag + -side
Senses: coordinate_terms: cliffside
hillside
glosses: Pertaining to the side of a crag or crags; the side of a rocky cliff
cragside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cragsides
Etymology: crag + -side
Senses: coordinate_terms: cliffside
hillside
glosses: The area around the side a crag or crags; or side of a rocky cliff
Etho hopper clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Etho hopper clocks
form: Etho's hopper clock
Etymology: Etho, from the name of the Minecraft YouTuber EthosLab who invented the contraption, and hopper + clock.
Senses: synonyms: Ethonian hopper clock
glosses: A type of redstone clock.
Nervian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜːrˈviːən/
rhymes: -ən
Etymology: From Nervia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Nervia.
glosses: Of, from or relating to the Nervians.
Nervian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜːrˈviːən/
rhymes: -ən
Forms: form: Nervians
Etymology: From Nervia + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Nervia.
glosses: A member of the Nervians.
Queteleta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kətlɛta/
Etymology: Borrowed from Contemporary Latin Queteleta.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The astroid 1239 Queteleta.
New Ghent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Dutch Nieuw Gent.
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium.
NGED
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Grid Electricity Distribution.
heirmologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Greek εἱρμολόγιον + -ic
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to the irmologion
Friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place name:
A suburban settlement just west of Sowerby Bridge, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0524).
glosses: A place name:
A census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A surname.
elf-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elf-dances
Senses: examples: text: Just then, in the far distance, swept along a whirlwind which had caught up the dust of the plains into columns — two, three, four, all at once dancing some wild elf-dance, like weird spirits doomed to do penance for ever upon, those arid tracks.
ref: 1872 December 7, The Sydney Mail, page 729, column 4:
text: Many village musicians have been known, who have learned from him to play this elf-dance, and have sometimes played the first parts of it at Christmas parties and elsewhere.
ref: 1896, William A. Craigie, Scandinavian Folk-Lore, London: Alexander Gardner, page 242:
glosses: A dance performed by elves.
examples: text: The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans).
ref: 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 81:
text: This notion as to the cause of the rings being the dancing of the fairies was held by Drayton [...] In Wales, too, the same notion is prevalent, and it is to be found also in Sweden and Belgium, where they call these rings "elf-dances."
ref: 1880 April 23, The Burrowa News, NSW, page 3, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).
synonyms: word: fairy ring
extra: a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance
elf-dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elf-dance
S'Klallam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].
Senses: examples: text: Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.
ref: 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:
text: Hiding in a mist-wrapped trail at the S’Klallam-owned Heronswood Garden in Kingston, Kitsap County, you’ll find the black-tailed deer who stole fire for the people, hungry KeKaiax calling a stream of salmon to him, and the grasping claws of Slapu, the wild-haired woman who eats children who stay out after dark.
ref: 2023 October 3, Erica Browne Grivas, “Learn about S’Klallam culture at this unique Native-owned public garden”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
glosses: Synonym of Klallam.
synonyms: word: Klallam
S'Klallam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the North Straits Salish name for the Klallam people, [xʷsˈtɬæləm].
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Klallam.
synonyms: word: Klallam
Slave Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the fact that the place was used to hold African slaves by Portuguese colonizers.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s very difficult to live, even a loaf of bread is expensive,” said Pereira outside his modest home in Slave Island, a poor enclave of the capital Colombo. “If we take one meal, we skip another.”
ref: 2022 July 18, “In Sri Lanka capital’s Slave Island, shadows of a crisis”, in Al Jazeera:
text: Although, the name Slave Island was used during the colonial period, the name 'Kompannavidiya' was used in the languages of Sinhala and Tamil.
ref: 2023 February 3, Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama, “Slave Island changed to ’Kompannavidiya’”, in Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka):
synonyms: word: Kompagngna Veediya
english: official
translation: official
glosses: A suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
mystery boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery box
Attnang-Puchheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Vöcklabruck district, Upper Austria, Austria.
sportsballer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sportsball + -er. Based on footballer, basketballer, baseballer, etc.
Senses: examples: text: For a writer to be seen with the elite of the golfing worlds was a bad thing, a very bad thing. What will the other sportsballers, the footballers, the basketballers, the sex-ballers, think? He is pro-golfers or he wouldn't be there. He was aware of the con-flict—the bitter animosity—between the golfers and the other sportsballers. Seen smiling and laughing with the upper-crust golfers is a risk that could backfire.
ref: 2005, Thomas Morrison, Year 2040. An American Story: Liberty Or Death In 2040, iUniverse, →ISBN, page unnamed:
text: The police officer crumpled, her fall cushioned by the body armor she wore. If sportsballers could collide like human ordnance in that kind of getup, the policewoman ought to be fine.
ref: 2018, J. S. Morin, Mercy for Hire Mission Pack 1. Missions 1-4, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN, page unnamed:
text: Most of the men at these things did nothing more strenuous than click a mouse, and their hands were smoother than mine. Niall had to be an athlete. The foundation partnered with a few pro sportsballers.
ref: 2021, Michelle McCraw, Trip Me Up. An Opposites-Attract Road-Trip Romance, Lazy Dog Books, →ISBN, page unnamed:
text: “You have any plans tonight?”
The question puzzled the tall, statuesque sportsballer.
“Um. No. I guess not?”
ref: 2024, J. S. Morin, Mirth & Mayhem Mission Pack 4. Missions 13–16, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN, page unnamed:
glosses: Somone playing any sport, especially one involving a ball.
unikaryote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unikaryotes
Senses: glosses: A Singular Nucleus