cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shrew-faced squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrew-faced squirrels
Senses: glosses: Rhinosciurus laticaudatus, a sciurid rodent of Asia.
umbrella-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Diphylleia cymosa, an ornamental plant of the Berberidaceae family, native to the United States.
faintlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of faintly: more faintly
fairnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairness
magnanimities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnanimity
dry plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry plates
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening.
chimpkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chimp + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.
ref: 2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.
ref: 2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 83:
text: It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.
ref: 2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: animalkind
mammalkind
glosses: The chimpanzee species in its entirety.
Galați
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Galați.
Senses: glosses: A city in Galați County, Romania.
glosses: A county of Romania.
race cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race cloths
Senses: glosses: A cloth worn by a racehorse, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed.
silver owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver owls
Senses: glosses: barn owl
silver whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver whitings
Senses: glosses: A southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)
glosses: A northern whiting (Sillago sihama).
southern school whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coastal marine fish of species Sillago bassensis, in the smelt-whiting family that inhabits the south and south-west coasts of Australia.
trawl whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)
King George whiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coastal marine fish of species Sillaginodes punctatus.
sillago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillagos
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Sillago.
sillagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sillago
okinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of okina
hamzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamzahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hamza.
hamzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamzah
premouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premice
Etymology: From pre- + mouse.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A generalization of a mouse that is not necessarily iterable.
premice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premouse
canteen culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because of informal discussions between staff in the canteen.
Senses: glosses: Unofficial beliefs and values held by members of the police force, such as institutional racism.
until all hours
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: till all hours
Senses: examples: text: I used to stay up until all hours watching television.
glosses: Until very late; until the small hours.
seam lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges.
Synonyms: seaming lace
roller gin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller gins
Senses: glosses: A cotton gin in which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber.
rose fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rose cold
sail fine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sails fine
form: sailing fine
form: sailed fine
form: sailed fine
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To sail as close to the wind as possible.
time bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time bargains
form: time-bargain
Senses: glosses: A contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future.
rose ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose ears
Senses: glosses: A dog's ear that folds backward and shows part of the inside.
Related terms: button ear
button ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: button ears
Senses: glosses: A dog's ear that falls forward and completely hides the inside.
Related terms: rose ear
set up one's rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets up one's rest
form: setting up one's rest
form: set up one's rest
form: set up one's rest
form: set one's rest
Etymology: From an old card game in which the phrase described a player's intention to stand or rest upon his hand.
Senses: glosses: To have a settled determination.
fish beam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish beams
Senses: glosses: A beam one of whose sides (commonly the underside) swells out like the belly of a fish.
foot valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot valves
Senses: glosses: The valve of a steam engine that opens to the air pump from the condenser.
bowing stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowing stones
Senses: glosses: A cromlech.
seam set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seam sets
Senses: glosses: A set for flattening the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.
quaking grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quaking grasses
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Briza of annual and perennial grasses, whose flowers and seedheads shake on their stalks in the slightest breeze.
dinosaur plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinosaur plants
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Anastatica hierochuntica, native to deserts of North Africa.
glosses: A sunflower of species Pallenis hierochuntica, native to the Mediterranean.
glosses: A plant of species Selaginella lepidophylla, native to North America.
xerochasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dehiscence that occurs upon drying.
Related terms: xerochastic
hygrochasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dehiscence that occurs upon wetting
Derived terms: hygrochasic
hygrochasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hygrochasy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to hygrochasy.
xerochasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xerochasy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to xerochasy.
wyrmling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːm.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɝm.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: wyrmlings
Etymology: From wyrm + -ling.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A small wyrm or dragon.
wyrmlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyrmling
green dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green dragons
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants in the family Araceae:
in species Arisaema dracontium, of North America.
glosses: Any of several plants in the family Araceae:
in genus Pinellia of eastern Asia.
glosses: Pitaya or dragon fruit, of genus Stenocereus.
glosses: A tincture of cannabis, typically made by soaking the flowers, leaves, or stems in ethyl alcohol.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see green, dragon.
mountain green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of green earth (“a pigment from the minerals celadonite and glauconite”).
synonyms: word: green earth
extra: a pigment from the minerals celadonite and glauconite
glosses: Synonym of Paris green (“a pigment from copper(II) acetate and arsenic trioxide”).
synonyms: word: Paris green
extra: (“a pigment from copper(II) acetate and arsenic trioxide”)
Related terms: Green Mountains
green earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green earths
Senses: synonyms: mountain green
Verona green
terre-verte
glosses: A variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a green pigment by artists.
Related terms: God's green earth
out of temper
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Not in good temper; irritated; angry.
arsenal of democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arsenal of Democracy
Etymology: Introduced to wide usage (although probably not first used) by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December, 1940.
Senses: examples: text: In a fireside shout Franklin Roosevelt this week told Business and Labor that they would have to speed up the job of making the U. S. the "arsenal of democracy".
ref: 1941 January 6, “Diplomacy v. Defense”, in Time, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
text: The United States, he contends, is no longer the arsenal of democracy. Nor does it have a clear technological advantage over the Soviet Union.
ref: 1985 July 6, Drew Middleton, "Books of the Times: Analysis of a Failure" (book review of The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam by Gen. Bruce Palmer Jr.), New York Times (retrieved 11 July 2014)
text: Newt Gingrich toured a metal plant in Cleveland last week, telling workers on the shop floor that manufacturing jobs are crucial to national security. “We have to have companies like this. You cannot be the arsenal of democracy if you don’t have an arsenal,” he said.
ref: 2012 February 15, Michael A. Fletcher, David Nakamura, “Obama, GOP candidates more hopeful about factory jobs”, in Washington Post, retrieved 11 Jul 2014:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending governments favouring the United States, mostly democracies.
Arsenal of Democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arsenal of democracy.
asshead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assheads
Etymology: From ass (“donkey”) + head.
Senses: examples: text: 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford, 9 October, 1550, in The Sermons and Life of Hugh Latimer, edited by John Watkins, London: Aylott & Son, Vol. I, p. 288,
But some will say, our curate is naught, an asshead, a dodipole, a lack-latin, and can do nothing: Shall I pay him my tithes, that doth us no good or none will do? Yea, I say, thou must pay him his due; and if he be such a one, complain to the bishop.
text: 1561, Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), translated by Thomas Hoby, London: David Nutt, 1900, Book One, pp. 41-42,
To disgrace therefore many untowardly asseheades, that through malepertnes thinke to purchase them the name of a good Courtyer, I would have suche a pastime for this night, that one of the company myght bee picked out who should take in hand to shape in woordes a good Courtyer, specifying all suche condicions and particuler qualities, as of necessitie must be in hym that deserveth this name.
text: 1565, Levinus Lemnius, The Touchstone of Complexions [De habitu et constitutione corporis, 1561], translated by Thomas Newton, in James Winny (ed.), Elizabethan Prose Translations, Cambridge University Press, 1960, pp. 22-23,
For where the spirits be gross, thick and cold, it happeneth the mind be overclouded, and as the dimmed sun not to shine broad out, and this is the reason that persons in this sort affected have duller wits and blunter capacities. For proof thereof we are to see and consider such as are born and bred near to the Pole Arctic and icy sea, who for the most part are very huge and strong-bodied, but for wit and learning mere dolts and assheads.
text: What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do you?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: an idiotic or undesirable person.
speeds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speed up
speeding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of speed up
speeded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speed up
sped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of speed up
carries away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carry away
carrying away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carry away
fly-blown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fly-blown
form: most fly-blown
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flyblown.
Buzău
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian Buzău.
Senses: glosses: A city in Buzău County, Romania.
glosses: A county of Romania.
glosses: A river in Romania.
Prahova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Prahova.
Senses: examples: text: Advancing along the valley of the Prahova River, he delivered his first blows in the vicinity of Braşov, where he burned villages, forts, and towns, burned the crops to deprive the population of food, and killed men, women, and children as he progressed.
ref: 1989, Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNally, Dracula: Prince of Many Faces, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:
text: Braşov lies 106 miles north of Bucharest via Highway 1, which generally parallels the Prahova River north of the capital, following it as it flows off the slopes of the Carpathians.
ref: 1990, Lydle Brinkle, Hippocrene Companion Guide to Romania, New York: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:
text: Geographically, the Prahova River separates the Eastern Carpathians from the Southern range and, historically, the valley was an important passageway between the principalities of Wallachia and Transylvania.
ref: 2013, Lucy Mallows, Rudolf Abraham, Transylvania (Bradt Travel Guide), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:
synonyms: Prahova River
glosses: A river in Romania.
glosses: A county in southern Romania.
Derived terms: Prahova Valley
Prahovean
Maramureș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Maramureș.
Senses: glosses: A region and county of Romania.
Telega
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Telega.
Senses: glosses: A commune of Prahova County, Romania.
Cilibia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cilibia.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Buzău County, Romania.
maime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maimes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of maim.
maime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maimes
form: maiming
form: maimed
form: maimed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of maim.
Câmpina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Câmpina.
Senses: glosses: A city in Prahova County, Romania.
Mioveni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Mioveni.
Senses: glosses: A village in Argeș County, Romania.
sperg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
ipa: /spɜɹɡ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: spergs
Etymology: Clipping of Asperger's.
Senses: examples: text: No, spergs are compulsively self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any naysayers, if acknowledged at all, would simply be labelled "wrong". You see, lesser mammals are not worthy of debate, and we're ALL "lesser".
ref: 2009, Playa, “re: games workshop staff”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):
qualifier: sometimes reclaimed
glosses: A person with Asperger's syndrome; an Aspergerian.
glosses: A person who displays awkward, pedantic, or obsessive behavior stereotypically associated with Asperger's syndrome.
Synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergian
word: Aspergic
word: Aspie
word: sperglord
Hypernyms: word: autie
Derived terms: spergy
sperg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɜː(ɹ)ɡ/
ipa: /spɜɹɡ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ
Forms: form: spergs
form: sperging
form: sperged
form: sperged
Etymology: Clipping of Asperger's.
Senses: synonyms: spaz
glosses: To have a tantrum or fit of rage.
qualifier: sometimes reclaimed
glosses: To ramble in excessive detail, as someone with Asperger's syndrome would stereotypically do.
Related terms: sperg out
spergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sperg
seedhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedheads
Etymology: From seed + head.
Senses: examples: text: Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors.
ref: 1994 June, Australian Mammal Society, volume 17, page 61:
glosses: A part of certain plants that bears the seeds after flowering, as in the dandelion.
wikipedia: Clematis texensis
seedheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedhead
strandee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strandees
Etymology: From strand + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is stranded.
Synonyms: castaway
maroon
strandees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strandee
modellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modelling
mosesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mosesins
Etymology: From Moses + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of saponins obtained from the Moses sole (Pardachirus marmoratus) and acting as a shark repellent.
mosesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosesin
mockful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mockful
form: most mockful
Etymology: From mock + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Why dost thou phrase it thus / With that meek air of mockful ceremony? / Dost thou mistrust my love?
ref: a 1868, Robert Buchanan, Edburga, in Tragic Dramas from Scottish History, volume 2, 1868
text: For these are but mockful and treacherous things — / The thorns that "crackle" to sharpen their stings.
ref: 1847, William Thom, Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-loom Weaver, page 76:
glosses: mocking
Derived terms: mockfully
Reghin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Reghin.
Senses: glosses: A city in Mureș County, Romania.
Făgăraș
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Romanian Făgăraș.
Senses: glosses: A city in Brașov County, Romania.
aquashow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquashows
Etymology: From aqua- + show.
Senses: examples: text: "If that thermometer keeps climbing, we can turn this rink into a swimming pool and hold an aquashow." He was talking about the snow castle and ice rink Dartmouth College students were building for their outdoor evening show.
ref: 1955 February, Boys' Life, volume 45, number 2, page 17:
text: Performances and concerts as used in this definition shall not include circuses, ice shows, aquashows or motion pictures […]
ref: 1962, Laws of the State of New York, page 360:
text: Today visitors gather in Cypress Gardens near Winterhaven for the aquashows and to watch long-limbed girls in bikinis.
ref: 1976, Eric Simms, Birds of the air, page 45:
text: During that summer the city was entertaining the residents by staging aquashows featuring many beautiful girls, displaying their talents and water prowess in the staged water ballets.
ref: 1996, The Pillar Monthly, volume 97, numbers 6-11, page 138:
glosses: A spectacle consisting of underwater dance and gymnastics.
aquashows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquashow
overguesstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overguesstimates
form: overguesstimating
form: overguesstimated
form: overguesstimated
Etymology: Blend of overestimate + guesstimate.
Senses: glosses: To overestimate.
overguesstimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overguesstimate
overguesstimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overguesstimate
overguesstimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overguesstimate
underguesstimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underguesstimates
form: underguesstimating
form: underguesstimated
form: underguesstimated
Etymology: Blend of underestimate + guesstimate.
Senses: glosses: To underestimate.
underguesstimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underguesstimate
underguesstimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underguesstimate
underguesstimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underguesstimate
hyah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ya
Etymology: Perhaps from a variant of Here!
Senses: examples: text: Hyah, mule! Hyah!
glosses: a call, often to horses, livestock, or cattle, to move forward or proceed
hyah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hi-yah
Etymology: Variation of kiai.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: a vocalisation used when performing a technique or striking a blow
Koasati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koasatis
form: Koasati
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coushatta.
Koasati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Coushatta.
Koasatis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Koasati
untrashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untrashy
form: most untrashy
Etymology: From un- + trashy.
Senses: glosses: Not trashy.
Britlish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of British + English.
Senses: glosses: British English.
Redditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.dɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɹɛ.dɪ.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Redditors
form: redditor
Etymology: From Reddit + -or, or as a blend of Reddit + editor.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that a feature can be valuable beyond the number of
times it is used is of interest beyond the confines of
c.l.l. I wonder what redditors will make of it?
ref: 2007 November 27, Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>, “The origins of CL conditions system”, in comp.lang.lisp (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025:
text: Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.
ref: 2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140:
text: /u/RemindMeBot can be invoked by a Redditor to remind them of a thread or comment after a certain period of time.
ref: 2016, Robert W. Gehl, Maria Bakardjieva, Socialbots and Their Friends:
text: The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.
ref: 2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A user of or contributor to Reddit.
Derived terms: Predditor
Redditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Redditor
Auld Alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Auld Alliance
Etymology: From the Scots for old + alliance.
Senses: examples: text: […] Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true, / They, by the Maiden's side, […]
ref: 1894, Andrew Lang, Ban and Arrière Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes, A Scot to Jeanne D'Arc, page 1, lines 3–4:
text: In any case, whatever the importance of such details, the relation of the two books is a further evidence of the literary side of the ‘auld alliance’.
ref: 1897, William Allan Neilson, “The Original of "The Complaynt of Scotlande"”, in The Journal of Germanic Philology, volume 1, number 4, →JSTOR, page 412:
text: Whether it is a consequence of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France or not, the French comparative lawyers have always been conspicuously more appreciative of the virtues of Scots law than have English scholars and judges […]
ref: 1955, David Maxwell Walker, “Some Characteristics of Scots Law”, in The Modern Law Review, volume 18, number 4, →JSTOR, page 326:
text: Therefore, if the French have decided that they wish to be difficult, which is not an unprecedented habit of the French, then that is a matter that the hon. Gentleman should take up with the auld alliance.
ref: 2021 July 22, Jacob Rees-Mogg, “Business of the House”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 1162:
glosses: The old alliance between Scotland and France against England.
whole shitting match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See whole shooting match.
Senses: examples: text: You missed an apostrophe. You know, it's a sign of an utter fuckhead when he quotes the whole shitting match to add a single comment AT THE FUCKING TOP.
ref: 1999 February 5, in, “O'Neill, your material is worse than Palmjob's whole life, or ...”, in alt.flame (Usenet):
text: The whole shitting match went down the tubes when the religous fanatics like you put "In God We trust" on money, […]
ref: 2001 June 2, in, “Random Thoughts and Opinions from a Teenager, #2 (long)”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
text: The whole shitting match is coming down.
ref: 2001 October 28, in, “Post from 1/98 - Wise, Co$, IRS, RTC, disaster”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
text: And so the whole shitting match collapsed.
ref: 2003 August 4, in, “WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS...when its $#@! convenient”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: The whole thing; the whole affair or activity; everything.
Mormonness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mormon + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being Mormon.
stone age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Were it not that folk-lore has almost died out, more than one domestic rite might be traced back to the stone age.
ref: 1892, John Hunter-Duvar, The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, page 260:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Stone Age.
iron age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the iron age
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Iron Age.
bronze age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the bronze age
Senses: examples: text: In the first place in going back to the bronze age, we already find ourselves beyond the reach of history or even of tradition.
ref: 1883, Edwin Guest, Origines Celticae (a Fragment):
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Bronze Age.
ceramet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceramets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cermet.
ceramets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceramet
retrosexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + sexism.
Senses: examples: text: A great deal was made in the press of the supposedly ironic retrosexism of Gene Hunt and the apparent ease with which the show's producers felt able to play with the politics of gender […]
ref: 2012, Stephen Lacey, Ruth McElroy, Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, page 10:
glosses: The modern portrayal of traditional sexism, in film etc.
on it
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: —Jack, could you take a look at my computer? It won't boot up.
 —I'm on it!
synonyms: on the case
glosses: Actively doing something, or working to solve a (specified) problem.
Derived terms: on it like a car bonnet
cancellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canceller
bag of shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bags of shells
Etymology: Misconstruction of bagatelle (“trifle”).
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bag, shell.
examples: text: For an ordinary intellect, yes, but for me a mere bagatelle, or bag-of-shells, as the ancients have it.
ref: 1914, Matthew M. Colton, Frank Armstrong at college, page 39:
glosses: A trifle.
innocently divorced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Respondents were all kinds of people, Sikhs, South Indians or Hindus belonging to various other communities. She even got one response from the mother of a girl wherein she had mentioned that her daughter was innocently divorced only a few months back and was without any incumbency.
ref: 2006, Narendra K. Sinha, Stories on Kashmir & Others, →ISBN, page 137:
text: The ex-wife of Austrian gun maker Gaston Glock is entitled to alimony from her ex-husband regardless of her own wealth. . . . “The court . . . ruled that the alimony has to be calculated the same way as for lower incomes because the spouse that was innocently divorced is entitled to share the wealth of the other spouse.”
ref: 2013 August 8, Boris Groendahl, “Glock’s Ex-Wife Helga Wins Alimony Fight With Austrian Gun Maker”, in www.bloomberg.com, retrieved 12 Jul 2014:
text: Canadian Citizen, Brahim Hindu Boy 33 Years old, innocently divorced, with one girl child, well settled, looking for suitable girl.
ref: 2014 July 12, “Brahim Hindu Boy, 33 Years, innocently divorced, well settled”, in The Weekly Voice, Canada, retrieved 12 Jul 2014:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Divorced but not the party at fault.
glosses: Divorced from a marriage that was not consummated.
morphydite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Corruption of hermaphrodite.
despective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despective
form: most despective
Etymology: From despect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Pencil pusher’ is a despective term for ‘administrative clerk’.
glosses: Disparaging, derogatory; looking down upon.
despective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despectives
Etymology: From despect + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A disparaging/derogatory word or form of a word; a word or form indicative of the speaker's tendency to look down on the referent.
despectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despective
despection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A looking down upon.
biobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biobots
Etymology: From bio- + bot.
Senses: glosses: A robot that is partly or wholly biological in nature, as for example an assemblage of plant cells or animal cells that can perform tasks such as moving and reacting.
Related terms: biorobot
biorobotics
bioroid
biot
cyborg
robot
congenital amputee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congenital amputees
Senses: glosses: A person who was born with a partial or complete amputation affecting one or more limbs.
intifadist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intifadists
Etymology: From intifada + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: There was a group of Palestinian intifadists there.
glosses: A proponent of an intifada.
pill reminder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pill reminders
Senses: glosses: A container with separate labeled compartments for a week's worth of pills.
varenye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varenyes
form: varenie
form: varenje
Etymology: From Russian варе́нье (varénʹje, “jam, fruit preserves”).
Senses: examples: text: [Alexander] Pushkin’s favourite varenye, or liquidy jam, was gooseberry, and indeed it would have been hard not to have liked such a varenye made in the traditional way.
ref: 1994, Sputnik, numbers 5–8, Moscow: Novosti Printing House, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 171, column 2:
text: There were nuns who, when receiving guests, put two varieties of jam [“varenye” in Russian] in their plates and poured vegetable oil onto it. When asked why they had done that, the nuns replied, “This is what the Church calendar says: two ‘varenyes’ with oil.”
ref: 2021 April 6, Tatiana Veselkina, quoting Nadezhda Mokhova, translated by Dmitry Lapa, “In the House of the Mother of God: Protodeacon Nikolai and Nadezhda Mokhov from New York: Meeting Each Other and Seeing Christ. Part 2”, in Orthodox Christianity, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2021:
glosses: A kind of sweet fruit preserve.
Synonyms: murabba
varenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varenye.
mahā
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Mahā
form: maha
Etymology: From Sanskrit महा (mahā́), form of महत् (mahát, “great, big, high”) used in compounds.
Senses: examples: text: The next step is to try them in some sitting posture such as mahā mudrā.
ref: 1980, T. K. V. Desikachar, Religiousness in Yoga: Lectures on Theory and Practice, page 197:
text: This is especially true because many Hindus are looking forward to the time of the coming "Kalki" (also known as Maha Avatara, an incarnation of Vishnu, who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction).
ref: 2012, N. N., 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect, p. 66
text: Believing the Buddha to have canceled out his power through a mastery of mahā (or “greater”) gandhāravijjā (the ability to read the minds of others and fly through the air), he entered the order to learn the Buddha's science.
ref: 2013, Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, page 645:
text: Among all the therīs, it is only her name that bears the prefix mahā- or “great”.
ref: 2014, Thea Mohr, Jampa Tsedroen, Dignity and Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns, page 45:
text: All are classed among the eighteen mahā or ‘great’ purāṇas.
ref: 2014, The Seduction of Shiva: Tales of Life and Love, →ISBN:
qualifier: applied to terms from Indian history or philosophy
glosses: great, eminent
examples: text: This force shall be employed for the defence of the Maha Raja's dominions, against all foreign or domestic enemies, and for the enlargement of his dominions, by conquest of the Murathas.
ref: 1779, Treaty between the Company and Maha Raja Lukindar, Bahadoor, Rana of Gohud, Article III
text: The main ancient sources of information with regard to these Hindu beliefs and practises are the two great epics, the "Rāmāyana" and the Mahā Bhārata.
ref: 1910, Charles William Eliot, Sacred Writings: With Introductions and Notes, page 800:
text: Of special significance is the beautiful doctrine of the Superman-so like the Chinese concept of the Superior Man, and the Indian Mahā Purusha, Bodhisattva and Jīvan-mukta.
ref: 1918, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Śiva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture, page 115:
text: The disturbed Mahā Yogi (Great Ascetic) looked around in anger for the source of his discomfort and, seeing Kāma, at once burned him to ashes with fire that issued from his third eye.
ref: 1991, Vatsayana, The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana:
glosses: as an honorific for Indian titles, usually capitalized
mahā
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahā
form: maha
Etymology: From Sanskrit महा (mahā́), form of महत् (mahát, “great, big, high”) used in compounds.
Senses: examples: text: The Tantra of Secret Essence is the ati of mahā, which is the same as the mahā of ati in terms of three divisions of the great perfection.
ref: 2009, Jamgon Mipham, Luminous Essence: A Guide to the Guhyagarbha Tantra, page 5:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: one of the three vehicles of mastery in means to achieve liberation
tuxedo cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuxedo cats
Etymology: From the similarity between the cat's coloration and a tuxedo.
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat with a white front and black fur elsewhere.
backarappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backarapper
Thorpes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorpe
Tilney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tilneys
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname.
Derived terms: Thorpe Tilney
Tilneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tilney
tuxedo cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuxedo cat
cornsalad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornsalads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corn salad; Valerianella locusta or similar plants in genus Valerianella.
fetticus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Dutch vette kost (“fat food”).
Senses: examples: text: Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.
ref: 1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm:
glosses: corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.
nut lettuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant used in salads, lamb's lettuce or mâche, Valerianella locusta
field salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field salads
Senses: glosses: A salad made of assorted greens such as one might find growing wild in fields
glosses: A plant used in salads, corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta
rover bellflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rover bellflowers
Senses: glosses: A species of bellflower formerly used as a vegetable, and also known for invasive growth; rampion, Campanula rapunculus.
nakbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nakba
make a move
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a move
form: making a move
form: made a move
form: made a move
form: make moves
Senses: glosses: To take action.
examples: text: He swallowed hard on his tea. —Well, ah must be making a move. Thanks again.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 149:
text: “We'll give you a lift, darling,” Lady Genevieve said languidly, rising. “It's time we made a move.”
ref: 2000, Carola Dunn, Rattle His Bones (2011 Macmillan ed.), p. 173 (Google preview)
text: "Do you want to stay for another or shall we make a move?"
He looks at his watch. "Yeah, let's go."
ref: 2006, Roberta Kray, The Debt, paperback edition, →ISBN:
text: “Should we make a move?” she asked over the music. “We could find a place to dance. or we could go back to our place.”
ref: 2009, Dan Katz, Dave the Detective: Book #2 Identity Crisis, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: To depart from a place; to set off.
examples: text: [T]he video how-to site Howcast . . . breaks from its more staid counterparts, such as Expert Village and eHow, by injecting a necessary dose of humor. Come here to learn "how to make a move on a girl while watching a movie on a couch".
ref: 2007, Anita Hamilton, “50 Best Websites 2008: Howcast”, in Time, retrieved 13 Jul 2014:
glosses: To initiate a conversation or perform an action intended to engage the willing attention of a person in whom one has a romantic or sexual interest; to approach someone of romantic or sexual appeal in hopes of escalating to a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship.
raw_tags: followed by on
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, move.
brick in one's hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: US, circa 1846. Presumably due to staggering walk when drunk; compare top-heavy with drink.
Senses: examples: text: Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’
ref: 1846 November 24, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:
text: Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it.
ref: 1849, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, pages 177–178:
glosses: Drunkenness.
Synonyms: drunkenness
Related terms: ants in one's pants
flea in one's ear
frog in one's throat
thorn in one's side
wolf in one's stomach
non-traumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nontraumatic
Etymology: From non- + traumatic.
Senses: examples: text: She was quite worried about her driving test, but overall it was a non-traumatic experience.
glosses: not caused by, or not causing, trauma or emotional distress
examples: text: The patient had a non-traumatic fracture of the femur.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: not produced by wounds or mechanical stress
Synonyms: untraumatic
nontraumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traumatic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-traumatic.
untraumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: un-traumatic
Etymology: From un- + traumatic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-traumatic.
un-traumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of untraumatic.
anti-Arabism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiarabism
form: antiArabism
Etymology: From anti- + Arab + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Racial prejudice, hostility or discrimination against Arabs.
Synonyms: Arabophobia
Hyponyms: anti-Palestinianism
Related terms: antiarabist
arabophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Arabophobia.
arabophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabophobes
form: Arabophobe
Senses: glosses: Someone who exhibits arabophobia
Arabophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arabophobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of arabophobe.
arabophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arabophobic
form: most arabophobic
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to Arabophobia
web applications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web application
mosque-goers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosque-goer
high-tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: high-tails
form: high-tailing
form: high-tailed
form: high-tailed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hightail.
mosquegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mosquegoer
poplit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑp.lɪt/
rhymes: -ɒplɪt
Forms: form: poplits
Etymology: An adaptation of poplit-, the oblique stem of the Latin poples (“the ham of the knee; the knee itself”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: popliteal fossa
;
hough
knee pit
glosses: The shallow depression (fossa) located at the back of the knee joint.
Related terms: popliteal
popliteus
poplitic
poplitical
poplit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒp.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑp.lɪt/
rhymes: -ɒplɪt
ipa: /ˌpɒpˈlɪt/
ipa: /ˌpɑpˈlɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ˈpɒp.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑp.lɪt/
rhymes: -ɒplɪt
Forms: form: Poplit
form: PopLit
form: pop-lit
form: Pop-Lit
Etymology: From pop (“popular”) + lit (“literature”).
Senses: glosses: popular literature
popliteal fossa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popliteal fossae
form: popliteal fossæ
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: poplit
glosses: The shallow depression (fossa) located at the back of the knee joint.
knee pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee pits
form: kneepit
Etymology: From knee + pit, presumably by analogy with armpit.
Senses: synonyms: hough
poplit
popliteal fossa
coordinate_terms: armpit
glosses: The shallow depression located at the back of the knee joint; the backside of the knee.
borospherene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borospherenes
Etymology: From boro- + sphere + -ene.
Senses: glosses: B₄₀, a hollow cage shaped molecule composed of 40 boron atoms, similar to C₆₀ buckyballs
glosses: by extension, the boron allotrope, the class of spheroidal boron allotropic molecules.
borospherenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borospherene
borophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borophenes
Etymology: From boro- + graphene. Blend of boron + graphene.
Senses: glosses: an allotrope of boron, the class of quasiplanar and planar one-atom-thick molecular sheets of boron atoms, similar to carbon's graphene structure
Hyponyms: alt: the first known (mini-)borophene
word: B36
borophenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borophene
OOO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Get them a blazer that’s chic enough to sport at their new job but trendy enough to wear with jeans or a mini skirt when they’re OOO. It’s an investment that’ll last ‘em years.
ref: 2024 May 10, Hannah Oh, Daisy Maldonado, “50 College Graduation Gifts That Say, “I’m So Effing Proud of You!””, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Abbreviation of out of office.
OOO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: OOO's way of addressing the issue is with the impossibility of exhausting any object through undermining, overmining, or their simultaneous employment in duomining.
ref: 2020, Graham Harman, Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, page 212:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Initialism of object-oriented ontology.
manpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌpæk/
Forms: form: manpacks
Etymology: From man + pack.
Senses: examples: text: We decide to stop in Chemainus for lunch, so we tie up at the public wharf, set security, grab the manpacks, and stroll into the pretty little town... enjoying the stretch.
ref: 2000, Steven K. Roberts, From Behemoth to Microship, Camano Island, WA, USA: Nomadic Research Labs, →ISBN, page 70:
text: The operating voltage for the manpack radio is 13.5 volts from the primary battery.
ref: 2007, U. S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army Ranger Handbook, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 123:
text: Modern tactical radios utilize a single receiver/transmitter for all manpack and vehicular configurations. Manpacks are limited to battery power and typically have a shorter transmission distance than the more powerful vehicular installations because of additional power amplifiers. Manpacks are typically employed in dismounted operations where vehicular systems are used in support of mounted or dismounted forces. Multiband manpack systems will generally shorten battery life quicker than single channel tactical radios, and perform better with stable or regulated power sources.
ref: 2013, November, Army Techniques Publication, numbers 6-02.72, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: An object meant to be carried by a single person.
manpacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manpack
totalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totalism